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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For the first time in my long dentist-going life my hygienist suggested I wear headphones during my cleaning and it changed the whole damn game. Also look at this cute radio they gave me.

A white hand with iridescent blue-green nail polish holds a black handheld radio from RadioShack with white corded headphones plugged in. Digital display shows the dial turned to 101.9 WDET FM baby

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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

get yourself a grump Husband who loves old graveyard

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Amazing thank you! My grump Husband (who was a coal miner in England starting at age 16. Guess he has reason to be grumpy) loves old graveyard.
So do l! I am going to plan activities for us, stuff I know husband will like (kid is happy if husband is) so l have my first thing which is the graveyard.
Thanks! Any good antique stores? Just to look?

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Pete Moran @pete-moran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My most centrist belief is you can like werewolves of london but also other warren zevon songs

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lake forever, problems for now. Seagulls also for now

A cloud-streaked sunset on Lake Michigan. There’s a seagull standing on the beach

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Will need a day or so to recover emotionally from these 2.5 mins

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh man the Arthur M. Anderson was a gateway freighter for me, RIP

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cicada spotting season isn‘t over yet!

Adult cicada chilling on the bark of a big beech tree in a cemetery

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Actually a pretty good (and very pretty) late summer day for cemetery wildlife watching: squirrel napping, hawk eating, cats slinking (not pictured)

Red-tailed hawk stands on the ground in front of a monument to John P. Cook, 1825-1898. You can’t see in the photo but the hawk has caught a squirrel

Black squirrel is taking a nap on the branch of a yew tree. In the background is the wall of a hillside mausoleum

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Marshall Fredericks on the move in Milwaukee! Been wondering about the fate of this work of art post-MPM.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No zooms! just typing and reading and posting and receiving (honest) feedback. Academics and the academic-esque are 100% welcome

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

RIP Annie, I’ll be rereading Tinker Creek forever

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Chicken bones from lunch used as ballast, butterflies glimpsed at 5,000 feet — Travels in the Air (1871 edition) gathers remarkable tales from the early days of ballooning, accompanied by more than 100 beautiful illustrations: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t…

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Things I have learned about Zach Chandler lately: He loved boxing. He chased fellow legislators down the streets of D.C. to harass them to impeach Andrew Johnson. He wanted to annex Canada! This guy. THIS guy. I'm talking about him tonight: www.eventbrite.com/e/stalwart-t...

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STALWART: The Life, Legacy and Memory of Senator Zachariah Chandler

Historian Amy Elliott Bragg digs into the history of the influential Michigan legislator.

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"a few oaks have fallen towering ancients elders the last of elders standing there while the wars drained away and slow-dancing with the ice when time had not discovered them" www.internationaloaksociety.org/content/oak-...

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"Oak Time" by W.S. Merwin | International Oak Society

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

my son asked me today what Dillon Dingler’s real name is

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Scenes from the cemetery: Tornado edition

Pile of tree debris and stones from where a tree fell on an obelisk. Column style marble monument in the background

Capital stone in a pile of tree branch reads “Henne.” This stone was knocked off its shaft and fell about six feet away.

Neoclassical “weeping woman” reaches one hand to the sky atop a pedestal that reads “Booth.” Fallen tree in the background

Capital of a shaft monument sits about five feet away from the base and shaft of the monument, toppled by a tree, which is on its side in the background

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Detroit Greenways Coalition @detroitgreenways.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Volunteers needed this morning (Friday) at 10:30am for Belle Isle storm cleanup. Meet at the Aquarium. "The park took a brutal hit." www.facebook.com/reel/2771868...

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The Aspinwall monument is a very handsome one and a great attraction to visitors. It is kept in beautiful order and at every stone the evidence of that love which is stronger than death, confronts the visitor. ...

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VeGOREpunk AuHORROR @vegapunk-aurora.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

*Mr Beast voice* I HELPED THIS WOMAN TURN A ROOM FULL OF STRAW INTO GOLD USING ONLY A SPINNING WHEEL! IF SHE CAN'T GUESS MY NAME IN THREE DAYS, I'M TAKING HER BABY!

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wasn’t sure whether to trust the many Michigan-made claims that Michigan was the epicenter of the 19th century hot air balloon craze until I found this headline from Milwaukee sort of scoffing at the whole scene

Newspaper headline reads “BALLON CRAZE NOT FELT HERE” deck “This city never had but one spasm of aerial navigation and that collapsed” subdeck “Michigan the home of high navigators”, Milwaukee Daily News, 1907

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’m not even researching zither players, they just keep finding me

Back and white photo clipped from the 50th anniversary program of the Detroit Turner Society shows members of the Turner Zither Club. The all-male ensemble wears suits with bow ties and they’re each holding a zither, with four seated at a long table, six standing behind them, and a conductor at their right. A standalone zither is propped up in front of the table.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Abraham Lincoln Burial Room, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois.

"The burial room features black and white marble walls and a ceiling of gold leaf. At its center stands the memorial monument, a 7-ton block of reddish marble inscribed with Lincoln's name and the years he lived. It marks the approximate location of the burial vault, which is 30 inches behind and 10 feet below." (Wikipedia)

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

a great read, but how did I miss this?? "Artists started appearing at venues like the Detroit Institute of Arts, where Paa Joe spent a month in 2018 building an astonishingly detailed coffin based on a 1910 Ford Model T International."

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starch mogul @posts-cards.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

large lumbering harmless the annual cicada might be my favorite insect

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

please join me in appreciating the visage, generally, and mustache, especially, of Frank T. Bannister, photographer and enthusiastic zither player of New Richmond, Wisc.

sepia-toned studio portrait of a gentleman, maybe in his 30s. his short hair is slicked back and side-parted and he wears a very formidable bushy mustache, a tweed jacket, and a striped tie. frame of photo readers "Bannister, New Richmond, Wisconsin."

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 25/08/2026

It’s fine, you can’t change the name of anything referenced in “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, it’s a legal document

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“His nerve was of iron. For the past few years Hogan had been sent for all over the country to clean out dangerous wells, and seemed to take especial delight in going down where others dared not go. …

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I love the backdrop the huge old George W. Young Post Office gives the huge new Ralph C. Wilson Park

Kid with her back to the camera sitting on grass, she’s wearing a pink shirt, a neon green string backpack and a frozen-themed helmet with sequins. Bikes in a pile on the grass next to her. On the other side of the sidewalk is a parked ice cream truck with hand painted lettering. across the street is a big modern tan brick post office building with a sign on top that reads UNITED STATES

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

did not wake up this morning expecting that I would be compelled by log flume ride history by mid-day

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell — who died #onthisday in 1922 — goes to kiss his wife Mabel while she stands in one of his spectacular tetrahedral kites. See more of these wonderful creations (and the kiss realised) in our post here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD

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Amy Elliott Bragg @amyelliottbragg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I don’t go camping most summers but I do look up historic collections about camps most summers

Brochure for YWCA Camp Norcom shows a black and white photograph of girls on a raft in a lake. One is diving into the water. Red banner at the bottom shows name of camp in bod letters and reads “School girls 10 to 18,” “July 7 to August 11,” “$14.00 per week”

Two brochures for Camp Norcom from the 1940s. One is off white with green lettering shows the camp’s name in a woodsy font. One is red with white lettering and shows a black and white photograph of a swimming area on a lake

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 29/07/2026

pearl of michigan strawberries, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1910

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