#id rather look at what some german immigrant decided to embroider on her home decor yknow?

[corvidaedream]

i cannot stress enough how little i knew or cared about the late colonial/revolutionary period in new england before getting this job, i don't care much about military history and id never really cared for what art id seen from the time & place, so i just had my 1690s knowledge from my childhood fixation w the salem witch trials and then my interest (as far as local history goes) picked back up again at, like, gardner & her social circle (so like 1860s at the earliest).

my main focus in art history at school was pretty much illustration & illustration-adjacent art around the late 19th and early 20th century and the mostly medieval works they were using as source material.

and after two and a half years i STILL do not really care about most of the american revolution or most of the people involved, but my god never underestimate the power of assigning me a couple of random people and going, "this is a blacksmith's daughter and her carpenter boyfriend, they used to live in the same town as you".

#messages from the ouija board #sadies day job #also i appreciate the art now but i still dont really like the academic paintings. theyre good as documentation of how people looked but #id rather look at what some german immigrant decided to embroider on her home decor yknow? #also lmao seth is BARELY a carpenter it turns out! he spends more time as a horse trainer im pretty sure