99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer. Take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall… If one of those bottles should happen to fall, 98 bottles of beer on the wall… One of the side effects of having immersed myself in the Unpacking Manuel’s project has… Continue reading →
It’s not often that I stumble upon something that, as a historian, stops my breath for a few moments. It’s even more rare I stumble upon something that stops my breath as a person. Yet, here it was, sitting on a wall in Manuel’s Tavern, an image that made me stop dead in my workflow.… Continue reading →
Sometimes, researching an object becomes akin to following Alice’s white rabbit. I catch glimpses through the trees – a foot, an ear, a worried paw holding a shiny gold watch – and yet the whole picture scampers further away with each attempt to catch it. If this seems an odd metaphor to use, I think… Continue reading →
Tucked in a corner, near the narrow hallway leading from the second dining area and bar to the kitchen in Manuel’s Tavern is a framed copy of the front page of Creative Loafing, from April of 1999. To a passing observer unfamiliar with Inman Park, Virginia Highlands, and Morningside, the headline is nonsensical: “25 Years… Continue reading →
So, the topic of this month’s post comes to be because of half joking comment I made in passing to a friend a few weeks ago. We had been discussing regional pronunciation, and I pointed out the best way to start a fight between an Atlantan, a New Yorker, and a Chicagoan was to bring… Continue reading →
I grew up in the Morningside-Lenox Park neighborhood, here in Atlanta. I walked home from Inman and Grady, nearly every day of the combined seven years I attended the schools, through the heart of Virginia Highlands. When I started my undergrad work at Georgia State, my group of friends stayed fairly local as well, with… Continue reading →
Hello! Welcome to this new blog! I’m Ness Creighton, a new recipient of the Student Innovation Fellowship for the 2015-16 academic year. I am a PhD candidate from the Department of History, who specializes in the early modern silk trade. I consider myself a material culture historian with a strong background in economic, social, and… Continue reading →
