History Nerd
July 29th, 2008 -- Posted in Look, Love, Remember | 5 Comments »
The Newlywedded Lewises, July 6, 1990, Martha-Mary Chapel, Greenfield Village
I’m such a history nerd. I get all giddy inside when I’m at a living history museum. I practically grew up in Williamsburg, was married in Greenfield Village, and spent every weekend in grad school at Connor Prairie. I’m never happier than when I’m reading a history — especially domestic histories. Wars and presidencies and dates are so dull! I want to know what people ate, how they slept, how they washed their clothes, and what they read to their children. I want to smell the past!
The Kaminskis in a Model-T
So . . . I’m going to indulge that around here. I’ve been splurging over at Mona Faye’s Kitchen off and on. I am feeling sentimental, I guess. I just finished My Fundamentalist Education: A Memoir of a Divine Girlhood and felt like I was reading my own memoir it was so . . . vivid. So I thought I’d rehearse some of those memories. Telling the stories we tell at family gatherings. Like a family slide show! Hope you’ll stick around!
