Scurvy Oaks

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If you like American furniture, neoclassical architecture, 18th and 19th century portraits, old churches, old cars, and occasional pieces of opinion, this is the place for you. “The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.” ― C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

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Oh good, they left a copy of The Watchtower.

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St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Photo by Andrea Moscato.

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St. Michael's Church at twilight, Charleston, South Carolina. Photo by Dawna Moore.

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croghansjewelbox.com Fort Moultrie is made up of a series of fortifications on Sullivan’s Island, SC, just across the harbour of Charleston. Fort Moultrie has served as a defensive system for the South Carolina coastline since the time of the American Revolution.

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Sorry, no easy punchline today. There is nothing funny about illness.

Please don’t think having money or shopping at Whole F’s somehow protects you from these pathogens. Why? ‘cause I’ll bet you a home cooked meal that the likelihood of being poisoned by salad greens increases dramatically when those greens are shipped and sold in plastic bags. Like the bagged and ahem, washed salad greens a fancy grocery retailer sells.

C’mon friends, we’re all smarter than this. If you can’t afford or don’t have a local farm market, you can still shop for salad greens safely. Buy a head of lettuce at the Stop and Shop, and then wash it and shred it when you get home. It’s an extra few minutes.

You are worth it.

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you cannot legislate the kingdom of heaven.

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On June 6, 1944, six Princeton University alumni joined the invasion of Normandy known as "D-Day." They'd just heard that their alma mater's gymnasium had burned down. Shortly after the mission, the group gathered a donation of 100 francs in Allied Military Currency to send to Princeton, along with a letter written on a paper towel. The donation was earmarked to repair the gymnasium and to build a new campus library (i.e., the future Firestone Library). Their letter said, "Both buildings represent much that we are fighting for."

University Librarian Julian P. Boyd wrote to thank them on July 24, 1944. Lt. Frederic "Freddie" E. Fox '39 kept the letter, it seems, and made this display when he came back, including a news clipping about the "invasion money" and some Allied Military francs.

Princeton University Library Records (AC123), Box 491.

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I remember Freddie Fox, who was around campus a lot in the early '80s.

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St. Philip's Church is a historic church at 142 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. It was formerly an Episcopal church, but it is currently a parish of the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina. It was built in 1836.

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Thomasville.

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We stand on the shoulders of giants.

Boston Public Library:The Muses of Inspiration Hail the Spirit, the Messenger of Light.

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, artist.

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We stand on the shoulders of giants

Grand Central Terminal, New York City.

Reed & Stem and Warren & Wetmore.

Years back I was in New York and meeting a couple I hadn’t seen in years.

I’m coming into Penn Station, I told the bride.

Penn Station? Oh. I heard the disappointment in her voice.

Something wrong? I asked.

No, it’s just we haven’t seen you in so long. Penn Station is like a shitty mall.

Tell you what. How about I walk the fifteen minutes and meet you at Grand Central?

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We stand on the shoulders of giants.

Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station. Interior by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White.

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Grace Kelly. Hollywood Hills, 1955. 📷 Howell Conant.

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Always reblog Grace!

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Wow!

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