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Frivolous Friday: Comforts of a Rumpford
A companion pl. to BMSat 9813. A pretty young woman wearing a décolleté négligé, stands with her back to the fire, her gown raised to leave her posterior naked. She holds a book: ‘The Monk – a Novel by...
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What Cheer Day Review
There will be more, and better, images Let’s begin with the easy part: pretty pictures of a pretty house. (It’s too easy, right? More on that later this week.) There are only a few for now– while our...
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Pushing Interpretation Forward
Dare I say progressing? That’s no ghost, that’s my kid In the past decade, museums, particularly historic house museums, have been challenged to refresh and reinvent their interpretations and...
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Preservation or Petrification?
For almost ten years, I’ve been working on the re-interpretation and re-presentation of the HHM that is part of my employer’s stable of properties. We’ve had mixed results: guides who refuse to look me...
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Glaciers in the House
I don’t mean the ice dams and icicles that plagued the house and streaked the service ell’s windows as they melted: I mean change. I’m reading The Half Has Never Been Told (it kept selling out, so I...
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Wolf Whistle
Thomas Cromwell, Hans Holbein the Younger. The Frick Collection,1915.1.76 At last it has arrived: Wolf Hall. I waited, and did not use a proxy server to watch it early. Just as well that I watch PBS...
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Experiencing Eastfield Village
The Young Mr on site. Mr Hiwell, the Young Mr and I ventured out to Nassau, New York this weekend to be part of Founders Day Celebration at Eastfield Village. The gents were part of the 1833 militia...
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Objectification
Corner chair. Mahogany with fabric-covered slip seat. John Goddard, 1763. RIHS 1990.36.1 RHix5136 I’ve had more alone time than usual at work, which is to say, I’ve been the only living creature in...
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Fashionable Furniture, or, The Glories of the Past
include window drapes. Ackermans’s Repository of Arts., etc. April, 1817. Every now and then, someone argues with me that the historic house where I work would not have had window curtains or drapes....
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Providence, After Dark
Yes, I like to burn my candle at both ends: let’s get that out of the way up front, as I admit that yes, I am recovering from strep throat contracted a mere week before the evening program, and that...
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