We’re in the #dog days of #summer here in central VA.
Montpelier was home to 🐎 &🐕 during the duPont’s ownership of the former #plantation.
These #photos, spanning the 20th c., are from the #duPont Family #Scrapbooks, a part of the #NationalTrust Collection at Montpelier.

#sschat #histodons #HistoryTeacher #apgov #ushistory @academicchatter

Ok, I should be working on a tenure review today, but instead am going down internet rabbit-holes. The latest involves a collection of #scrapbooks kept by the students of #AmherstCollege in the late #19c, a young man named William Belcher Whitney included. Here is an esp strange & imho creepy page, on which he's arranged into a heart shape the hairpins he's collected from his acquaintance at #MtHolyoke. There's a great discussion of this book on the Amherst Special Collections blog, ca 2012.

Time to introduce myself since there are now some others in this breakout room !
I was not long on the other app, but while I was there appreciated the remedy to pandemic loneliness it offered. The interests I hope to share with others here include: #bookhistory, #18thcentury, #romanticism, #novels, #victorian poetry (new obsession), #scrapbooks, #pedagogy , #Clarissa, #TristramShandy.