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Comment on Boy Scouts in America: Or, Scrutiny in the Archive by The color of Scouting during World War II « Brian J. Distelberg

The color of Scouting during World War II « Brian J. Distelberg — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:14:43 +0000

[...] year marks the one-hundredth birthday of the Boy Scouts of America. In a new guest post up today over at The Lazy Scholar, I discuss my nagging interest in the Scouts’ history [...]

Comment on Divided States #3: Connecticut Connections by Boy Scouts in America: Or, Scrutiny in the Archive « The Lazy Scholar

Boy Scouts in America: Or, Scrutiny in the Archive « The Lazy Scholar — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:21:15 +0000

[...] in history at Yale, returns today to these pages. In case you missed it, check out his musings on Connecticut. And check out his own website, where he writes about his research, contemporary politics and [...]

Comment on Q & A: Tania Modleski, Feminist Film Critic by Curtis Brooks

Curtis Brooks — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:32:03 +0000

To Tania Modleski

Greetings!
I’m a fan, have read all your books, some of them more than once. One of my favorites pieces is “My Mother’s Vagina”, much wisdom there, and a great piece of writing.
Was also amused by your analyis of Pee Wee Herman and others of his ilk. Your books on Hitchcock have, over the years, deepened my consciousness of his subtext. I am also amazed at your use of Freud and Marx in fathoming modern pop culture and film. Marxism is a humanism; you have made me see feminism a a humanism.

All the best,

Curtis
(757)-423-1098

Comment on The Divided States #1: Pennsylvania Mania! by Divided States #3: Connecticut Connections « The Lazy Scholar

Divided States #3: Connecticut Connections « The Lazy Scholar — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:06:01 +0000

[...] Its Roads, Lore, and People (1938), the Nutmeg State’s entry in the sequence of guidebooks that inspired the “Divided States” posts. Today, Connecticut is perhaps even more “diversified and [...]

Comment on Back to the Land, Now and Then by Patrick McCray

Patrick McCray — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:25:06 +0000

A more direct study of WEC, etc. is:

Andrew Kirk, Counterculture Green: The Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2007).

Comment on Q & A: Michael Robertson, Transatlantic Culture Scholar by Deborah Barlow

Deborah Barlow — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:53:47 +0000

What a thoughtful and informative interview. Thank you so much for posting this. I am a big fan of Michael Robertson’s work, but anyone could find value in this exchange. Good questions, good answers–a job well done all ’round.

Comment on Getting to Home Plate With Sheet Music and Tobacco Cards by Sports Fashion Victims « The Lazy Scholar

Sports Fashion Victims « The Lazy Scholar — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:17:13 +0000

[...] welcomes back Matthew Mugmon, a graduate student in music at Harvard. Last heard ruminating on some surprisingly suggestive baseball tunes, Mugmon returns today to tackle another side of sports [...]

Comment on Cal Coolidge’s Go Kart and Other Wonders of Western MA by New England roundup #3 « Brian J. Distelberg

New England roundup #3 « Brian J. Distelberg — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:17:52 +0000

[...] The Lazy Scholar, summering in Northampton, has dug up a some digital archives of Western Massachusetts’ past. [...]

Comment on The Divided States #2: South Dakota Sojourn by lazyscholar

lazyscholar — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:08:42 +0000

Thanks a lot Jim for your comments! I looked at your website and your performances sound great!

all best, stephen

Comment on The Divided States #2: South Dakota Sojourn by Jim Cooke

Jim Cooke — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:05:37 +0000

Very interesting! I liked the first season of Deadwood but parted company in the following seasons. The performances were wonderful but I couldn’t believe the language. There were oaths and curses & they seemed quite contemporary. In fact, too contemporary. Never, was “the Lord’s Name” taken in vane. Why was that? Now, that would have been a curse of power but we never heard it.
Today, I posted something relative to President Calvin Coolidge on your site. “Silent Cal” has taken me out to South Dakota several times to recycle his address of dedication of the work about to begin on Rushmore Mountain in 1927. Coolidge was our first president to acknowledge that he had “Indian Blood.” Today, we laugh at newsreels showing a solemn President Coolidge in a ceremony – perhaps smoking a sacred pipe with his “Indian brothers.” Back then, his respectful demeanor was much appreciated by Native Americans.