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Ran Away From The Subscriber: Appomattox at 150
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Ran Away From The Subscriber. By Tyler Rudd Putman. About the Blog and the Author. Sunday, April 19, 2015. I spent three days last week at Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. Entertaining some young visitors to Appomattox, April 2015. One older visitor stopped me in the street in front of the McLean house, where the surrender took place. "Are you a federal officer? Lee Win McNamee/Getty Images from here. And, as humorous as this seemed at the time, I have to admit that it was true. He wa...
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Ran Away From The Subscriber: Whalemen and Waterproofing V: Waterproof Hats
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Ran Away From The Subscriber. By Tyler Rudd Putman. About the Blog and the Author. Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Whalemen and Waterproofing V: Waterproof Hats. When I started thinking about historical waterproofing techniques as part of my participation in the Charles W. Morgan. Last year (and writing blog posts under this label. Detail of a sketch by Edward Haskell in his journal of the 1862 voyage of the merchant ship Tarquin, from Margaret S. Creighton,. Salem, MA: The Peabody Museum of Salem, 1982), 3.
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Ran Away From The Subscriber: Off to Sea (Again)
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Ran Away From The Subscriber. By Tyler Rudd Putman. About the Blog and the Author. Tuesday, November 11, 2014. Off to Sea (Again). Beginning on November 12, I'll be aboard the SSV (Sailing School Vessel) Corwith Cramer. As a guest "voyager" during the Cramer. A steel-hulled brigantine constructed in 1987. From SEA, here. It's rather hard to do traditional historical research aboard a ship, with no archives and no internet. But so what? In the 1830s. I mentioned these unique garments before. Check back he...
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Ran Away From The Subscriber: Flax to Linen, the 1765 Way, Part III: Gathering, Rippling, Retting
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Ran Away From The Subscriber. By Tyler Rudd Putman. About the Blog and the Author. Sunday, September 14, 2014. Flax to Linen, the 1765 Way, Part III: Gathering, Rippling, Retting. To know when your Flax is fit to gather," recommended John Wily of Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1765, "you must observe the Leaves turning yellow, and the lower Ones dropping off the Stalks." (33, Colonial Williamsburg reprint of John Wily's Treatise. And after a good growing season. And I went, on July 11th, to harvest the flax.
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Ran Away From The Subscriber: The Wonderful Things of My Driving Life
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Ran Away From The Subscriber. By Tyler Rudd Putman. About the Blog and the Author. Monday, October 13, 2014. The Wonderful Things of My Driving Life. I kept my minivan reasonably clean ( Nicole. The rear axle of my minivan took a beating during my move to Delaware, when the car was fully loaded. What was I thinking? Looking it over reminded me of the conversation between the two British Egyptologists who first peered into the dark sepulcher of King Tut. Can you see anything? Asked my inner Lord Carnarvon.
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Ran Away From The Subscriber: About the Blog and the Author
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Ran Away From The Subscriber. By Tyler Rudd Putman. About the Blog and the Author. About the Blog and the Author. Ran Away from the Subscriber:. In the eighteenth century, servants, apprentices, slaves, and seamen often fled their contractual employment or enslavement in search of a better life. Newspaper readers were familiar with the common announcements from frustrated masters that often began, "Ran Away from the Subscriber.". I hope you enjoy reading this blog as much as I enjoy writing it,. My last ...
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Ran Away From The Subscriber: Whalemen and Waterproofing VI: On Graceful Failure
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Ran Away From The Subscriber. By Tyler Rudd Putman. About the Blog and the Author. Monday, June 8, 2015. Whalemen and Waterproofing VI: On Graceful Failure. If I learned nothing else aboard the Corwith Cramer. It was how to fail gracefully. In everyday life, most of us have the luxury of stewing over our mistakes. You screw up at work, and it weighs on you for days. You get short-tempered with a friend, and you can't think about anything else. This past March, I discussed the potential of using the inacc...
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Ran Away From The Subscriber: Flax to Linen, the 1765 Way, Part IV: Breaking
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Ran Away From The Subscriber. By Tyler Rudd Putman. About the Blog and the Author. Saturday, July 25, 2015. Flax to Linen, the 1765 Way, Part IV: Breaking. You might remember that when we last left off. With my rather quixotic project to turn a handful of flax seeds into linen fabric, I had finished "retting" the flax, breaking down the gummy substances in each stalk. Since then, I've passed my Ph.D. exams, sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, and failed to recreate historical waterproofing. Also referred t...
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Ran Away From The Subscriber: Sailing and Sewing aboard the Corwith Cramer
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Ran Away From The Subscriber. By Tyler Rudd Putman. About the Blog and the Author. Wednesday, January 21, 2015. Sailing and Sewing aboard the Corwith Cramer. After spending six weeks aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer,. 23 days of which comprised our Atlantic crossing between Gran Canaria and Dominica, I've been finding it difficult to quantify all that I experienced and learned. I was aboard the Cramer. As a guest "voyager," a position that combined the roles of deckhand and visiting scholar. The Cramer.
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