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Communication, Arts, and the Humanities
The University of Maryland Global Campus
In my everyday life, I say the Serenity Prayer a lot. Not just because I am a recovering alcoholic (and it is a fundamental tool in my everyday sobriety), but it has lots of application in my research life. And let’s face it: This book has pretty much become my […]
A friend who knows my anal retentivity about proofreading sent it to me. I had forgotten about this. Let’s hope someone in sports ticket production ran this year’s text through a spell check program that was not developed or produced in Alabama. === In Emmett’s book news: It has been […]
…you have to admit, no one expected my Alma Mater to sit atop Emmett’s Alma Mater for this long, either. But we’ll take it. Next week, MSU faces Alabama. Here’s hoping we can put them on the rack, too! Enjoy your weekend! Let’s Go Bulldogs!
One of the nice things about discussing the research on Emmett’s book in the blog is that I hear from folks now and then who also have an interest in research, especially as it pertains to West Florida archives. This past week, as you recall, I posted about finding Emmett’s […]
What you see is what I’m reading over the next week. No, of course, I don’t have to get it all done in seven days, but I’m on a roll and the research is getting interesting. Once I get into a book, I can’t put it down (unless it is […]
One hundred years ago today, Minnie Kehoe didn’t have the privilege of walking a few blocks down the road to her voting precinct and casting a ballot, as I do today. And so, in honor of Minnie, and the privilege she worked for, I took Minnie into the voting booth […]
I have a lot of papers to grade today, but before I can focus on them, I came across something in Emmett’s research that is quite enlightening. It is this: This is the wedding license of Emmett’s father, Dr. Francis C. Wilson and Kate Langley Jordan, Emmett’s stepmother. On the […]
I thought I was going to wear the grip out of my cowbell tonight, folks. Talk about a tense game! However… Back to nice, calm, blood-pressure lowering research.
A busy day at research central today: — Added about 100 new items into the Emmett Wilson database. Tedious, but part of the process. — Wrote three pages of the rough draft for chapter two. Going very slowly; driving me nuts because I’ve had to stop and start so much […]
In celebration of Halloween, I thought I’d share a little odd item I found a while back from Emmett’s college yearbook, The Argo, 1900: Rather appropriate for Halloween, isn’t it? I am curious about the Cemetery Club. What kind of club was it? When and where were their meetings […]
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