This is a new program that is available through the Delaware Humanities Forum —————- Delaware, a state with many densely packed communities filled with old, wooden structures, has seen its share of tragic fires and conflagrations. This grave threat to public safety, from the beginning of colonization, caused people to enact regulations and form fire…
Meeting With the President of American Heritage to Discuss New Digital Age Products
Last week I meet with the president and editor-in-chief of American Heritage Magazine, Edwin S. Grosvenor. This venerable old publication was created by the American Association for State and Local History in 1949 and its long time editor was the award winning historian, Bruce Catton. When it was launched it sought to apply the methods…
Helping Cab Calloway Summer School Students Explore Mass Media
I just finished working with an engaged group of young people at the Cab Calloway Summer School for the Arts. The progra was designed to introduce these scholars to old media, which was largley new to them. “This Just In: When Radio & Television Came of Age” was fun to do as they listened to and analyzed old radio…
19th Century Firefighting Article Published in Maryland Life
I had an article on firefighting in the early 19th century published in the June edition of Maryland Life Magazine. The piece examines how a rural Eastern Shore Town, Elkton used two old hand pumpers to fight blazes until those veterans of many a struggle with flames were retired after a steam engine arrived. The…