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The Cloisters, Part I
On the fifth day of Christmas, my husband and I took the A train the length of Manhattan up to one of my favorite spots in New York City — The Cloisters — home of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Medieval Art Collection. Even more than the art, I love the building, a medieval-style cloister…
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Loss
When a person dies, it’s as if a library of irreplaceable volumes has burned to the ground. My grandfather died this past Saturday. He was an extraordinary man who escaped Nazi Germany and survived the blitz in in London. He worked on antidotes to nerve gas, helped build the first production sites for antibiotics in…
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Maiden Voyage
Welcome to the Maiden Voyage of Packets: Musings on Information Exchange, Historical, Digital, and Otherwise. Here you will find posts on a range of issues, including: history, database design, digital history/digital humanities, and web/graphical design. I will do my best to post regularly (read: twice a month), but I am currently writing my dissertation, so…