T’aint No Sin, to Take off Your Skin, and Dance Around in Your Bones
One more for Halloween, from Jazz Age singer Lee Morse and the Blue Grass Boys:
Halloween Cakes at the Woodmere Art Museum
Dreadful Delights: a limited run exhibition (ending November 1) at the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania.
The Shovel is my Pick
Pick the right tool for the job: From Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) If the shovel is your…
Time Team at the Greenwich Park Roman Site
Here’s the Time Team episode from 2000, when the team excavated the Roman site in Greenwich Park. Surprisingly, they don’t…
Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled: the 1918 African American Silent Film
With Halloween approaching, here’s a shoutout to an early mummy movie. Mercy, the Mummy Mumbled, is an all-black silent film…
Camels in Blackheath
OK, so maybe there were no camels in Roman Greenwich, but that doesn’t mean there were never any camels around.…
A Camel at Greenwich? Zooarchaeology and Negative Evidence for Camels in Roman Britain
T. Cregg Madrigal ©2018 Abstract Reviews of the archaeological record of camels in Europe include one reported occurrence from a…
Members Only: There is No Excuse Not to Vote
Members Only, the makers of the now-classic 1980s racer jacket, encouraged Americans to vote in the 1988 elections using imagery…
“It takes a monster from outer space, to make my baby want my embrace”
The Diamonds sing about the positive effect of monster movies. The Canadian quartet recorded Batman, Wolfman, Frankenstein or Dracula in…
Archaeological Finds in WWI Trenches
Discovery in the Western Front Trenches has accounts from World War I soldiers of archaeological finds during wartime. Only a…