Have you guys ever typed the word "causeway"? It's a bad experience.
when will my Internet Archive return from the war
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in a loving and fulfilling relationship with a beautiful and kind woman named internet archive
The settee madness diminisheth not. . . nay, it even increases ) :
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Also just read the injunction "the cullering of the body of our meeting house shall be like Pomfret, and the Roff shall be cullered Read," confusedly Google Imaged pomfrets, and found them, as I had recollected them, to be a two-toned fish to neither of whose tones I could hope to give an identifiable name. Then I finally remembered that there's such a place as Pomfret, Connecticut. O for a historical preservation society bold enough to paint an eighteenth-century meetinghouse red again! Or pumpkin, which I see in records quite a bit.
@tzintzuntzan2 said: What does cullered mean here? I assume you work with 17th century texts
"Colored," as in "painted." I'm actually a nineteenth-centuryist, but this particular quotation was from church minutes from the 1760s.
Buddy, I'll die before I spell 'exegetical' correctly on the first try.
Also just read the injunction "the cullering of the body of our meeting house shall be like Pomfret, and the Roff shall be cullered Read," confusedly Google Imaged pomfrets, and found them, as I had recollected them, to be a two-toned fish to neither of whose tones I could hope to give an identifiable name. Then I finally remembered that there's such a place as Pomfret, Connecticut. O for a historical preservation society bold enough to paint an eighteenth-century meetinghouse red again! Or pumpkin, which I see in records quite a bit.
Important news! After more than a decade of searching the secondary literature, I have finally found a prior discussion of nineteenth-century church basements! Thanks due to J. Frederick Kelly, Early Connecticut Meetinghouses (New York: Columbia University Press, 1948), 1:xl-xli.
currently typing a list of all of the Thursdays in 1842. . .
Just forgot the word "pulpit" and called it a "sermon box." Meanwhile, remembered that the sounding board goes on top of the sermon box ( ;
MS Paint, don't fail me now!
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"Blorbo from my shows" no. Blorbo from my BA. Blorbo from my major. Blorbo from my primary source document.
My boys <3
Sure, Street View is more convenient. . . but does it accurately depict the mill buildings hanging upside-down like bats off of the Androscoggin?
(C. J. Noyes's 1846 Plan of Brunswick Village)
I swear Massachusetts has got the least effective public library system of any state I've ever lived
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I desperately need somebody to talk to me about settees ) :
Noooooooo don't complicate things further--!
@wordsaredelicious said: This problem is impressively niche, and I respect that!
It's so niche of a problem that the primary reference work, a book so exhaustive that I couldn't bear to return it to ILL without fat-shaming it first--
--contains only four (4) references to it. Nancy Goyne Evans, if you are alive out there, please e-mail me! I'm getting desperate!
@sweetdreamspootypie said: Posts which make me realize that the word setee has been completely eroded out of my normal vocabulary, despite it being the main term I used as a child in england. Now I'm 100% sofa
Oh, interesting! Did 'sofa' map one-to-one onto 'settee' over that period? Historically they've been different things, with 'sofa seat' meaning a fully upholstered piece of furniture and 'settee' at best a cushioned one but overwhelmingly referring to pieces with plank seats. I think. Maybe woven-bottom, sometimes. Nancy Goyne Evans, if you are alive out there. . .
'Whereas, our brother David Pond, as several of our brethren [. . .] struck into a pitch of the tune on Feb. 18 [1739], in public worship on the forenoon raised above what was set, after most of the Congregation as is thought, kept the pitch for three lines and after our Pastor had desired them that raised it to fall to the pitch that was set to be suitable, decent, or to that purpose: The question was put, whether the church apprehends this our brother David Pond's so doing to be disorderly, and it passed in the affirmative and David Pond is suspended until satisfaction is given.' Pond afterwards applied to the Church of Christ, in Medway, for admission. Letters, which well illustrate the characteristics of the times, were exchanged by the two churches in regard to the case of Mr. Pond. It was suggested that because of his uncommon height and muscular strength he pitched the tune too high. Whether this, or because of his willfulness, others must determine; at any rate he was excommunicated from the church.
E. O. Jameson, The History of Medway, Mass., 1713 to 1885 [Medway, Mass.]: published by the Town, 1886), 107.
Despite what this tortuous sentence may suggest, the "puzzle" Clarke is setting out to solve is not how many Aaron Smiths there are, how many nephews the Aaron Smithses have got, or even how large half of one (or possibly two) hundred acres is once you haven't divided it. Nice job fixing it, historian!