If you're anywhere near #Philadelphia on the evening of Friday, July 19, it would be great to see you at Big Blue Marble bookstore for the VERY FIRST A Misfortune of Lake Monsters event! Hang out with me and Lemon Ziegler (okay, Stephanie Willing--but she's the VOICE of Lemon Ziegler for the audiobook!) to chat about my book, cryptids, horror, & who knows what else! A book signing will follow, & YES--I will have those awesome ferry ticket bookmarks to give out!!
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be moving to #Philadelphia for a fellowship at the American Philosophical Society, where I will continue working on locating, building, and analyzing a corpus of #Tunica language documentation, as well as gathering all information I can on the history and culture of the Tunica-Biloxi people.
Hey, #Philly: maybe put this event on your calendar! I'll be talking to Sal Goldenberg on May 3 at A Novel Idea on Passyunk Avenue about her new book The Last Phi Hunter, asking her questions about bookcraft (including Thai folklore and ghosts) and publishing. I'd love to see you there!
In the early 1970s, before the Pride flag even existed, three friends opened an LGBTQ+ bookstore in Philadelphia. Remarkably, Giovanni's Room is still around today. @LGBTQNation talked to some of the people who've owned it and shopped there through the years about how it's survived, and its continued significance to the queer community.
FINDING CEREMONY FOR OUR ANCESTORS HELD IN PENN MUSEUM’S “MORTON CRANIAL COLLECTION” by Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad & Dr. Lyra D. Monteiro.
"Barely one year after we learned that the Penn Museum had the remains of two children murdered in the 1985 MOVE bombing, the University of Pennsylvania tried to quickly and quietly bury the remains of over a dozen other Black Philadelphians whose bones they had kept in the basement of the Penn Museum for decades. Recently, the museum acknowledged that their research showed they actually have the remains of 20 Black Philadelphians in the Morton Cranial Collection."
A MUSEUM’S HISTORIC HUMAN REMAINS ARE NOW THE CENTER OF AN ETHICS CLASH by Maura Judkis.
"The bone of contention: While some of the bodies in the museum come from contemporary donors, many had been acquired in an era before medical consent was codified. In the 19th century, doctors who wanted to learn with real bodies would claim the remains of prisoners, suicide victims, poor people, prostitutes, enslaved people, Native Americans and other underprivileged groups — or they would pay off gravediggers and steal from cemeteries. These are some of the Mütter’s “residents,” as staff members call them."
#OTD 1805 #DolleyMadison went to #Philadelphia for an ulcerated tumor on her knee: “Doct. Physick has seen it, & says he will cure me in a month.” Dr. Philip Syng Physick immobilized the knee with splints and used caustics to destroy the tumor, avoiding surgery.
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