Each quarter, as I type up my latest column for Western Pennsylvania History magazine, I check the handy dandy word count tool in Microsoft Word…and swear just a little. I’m over my limit, again. I do what I can to rein in the narrative to under 800 words, again. I send my apologies to the editorial team,… Continue reading Word Count: Elizabeth Hequembourg
A new item coming to a Free-Range Historian blog near you – a series, Word Count! Each quarter, as I type up my latest column for Western Pennsylvania History magazine, I check the handy dandy word count tool in Microsoft Word…and swear just a little. I’m over my limit, again. I do what I can to rein in… Continue reading Word Count: Julien Bryan
Sometimes things just come together so beautifully. I've been eagerly awaiting my research trip to the Hagen History Center/Erie County Historical Society today. My goal: to study the Blair sampler. Research Library, Hagen History Center/Erie County Historical Society. Ready to get to work! The sampler, predominately done in cross stitch, was made by Jane Blair… Continue reading ❤ Jane Blair
Historians are often accused of having their noses stuck in a book. Guilty. As. Charged. It’s hard to find something better than a good book, unless perhaps it’s a book you’ve designed and written yourself! That’s been my project this summer: creating an art catalog from scratch and managing its production from initial photography to… Continue reading Hot Off the Presses
When I told my Alabama-born, SEC-loving loving history professor (who delighted in looking down on “Yankee” college football) that John Heisman was from my Northwestern Pennsylvania town, he almost didn’t believe me. He certainly laughed at my willingness to trash talk right back to him, young freshman that I was. But yes, world, John Heisman is one… Continue reading That Heisman?
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