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Communication, Arts, and the Humanities
The University of Maryland Global Campus
It’s Go For Broke Day! It’s also the first anniversary of Emmett’s book blog, “Tell My Story”! One year ago, I was thinking about how to get motivated towards writing Emmett’s book. I’d been in the data/information gathering mode for almost a year. I was feeling antsy. I wanted to […]
For those who have kept up with the activities surrounding the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s death, check this out: “The Library of Congress has acquired 540 rare and historic Civil War stereographs from the Robin G. Stanford Collection. The first 77 images are now online, including 12 stereographs of […]
In celebration of April Fool’s Day, here’s an article that made me realize how much things really have not changed in over 100 years of advertising. You can be sure that Emmett had a pretty good sense of humor. He used to tell jokes to the reporters on occasion when […]
Friends, I’m glad to see March come to an end. It has been a little rough here in Emmett Wilson Research Land. The data recovery drama is pretty much over. A great lesson for me in this gigantic research project has been with every setback comes a benefit. With the […]
In 21 years of teaching, I thought I’d seen it all. This was on a marketing project submitted by one of my graduating seniors:
Back in the mid-1980’s, when I was a year or so out of journalism school with some experience writing for daily newspapers under my belt, I got the itch to move on to a bigger newspaper market, with a more interesting beat, and more exciting stories to write. Columbus, Mississippi […]
Update on the research: The re-collection of lost images week has begun. I’ve reordered the film to rescan those images, and I’m almost finished going over my entire database. It has been a painstaking, image-by-image process. I’m double-checking every fact I have on Emmett that I intend to use in […]
Hello! I am back from the database rebuilding saga that has taken all frigging week. I feel refreshed and recharged, though, because I now have a better organized database. Ya know, if it had to happen, I’m glad it happened NOW, and not when I would be finishing the book. […]
Folks, I will be off the grid for at least several days. The problem: Several hundred images that I captured from microfilm have disappeared. The adjectives “anxious” and “frustrated” barely describe the feelings I’ve had for the past 48 hours. I discovered the images were missing by accident on Saturday. […]
I talk to dead people on a regular basis for Emmett’s story. Because the convo is mostly one-way, I don’t get a lot of sass back from my interview subjects. Also, I don’t have to worry about Emmett and his friends not liking what I had to write about them […]
Tell my story. 