Sarah Bryan
@considerjeoffry.bsky.social
Folklorist and writer specializing in the cultural heritage of the American South. Collector of 78 rpm records and old photos. Fiddler and banjo player. Researching folk gravestone art, Southern pottery history, ghost stories. Catscatscatscatscatscats
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
April 21, 2025 at 2:38 PM
SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
In praise of Senator Booker!
April 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
In praise of Senator Booker!
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, land of paradox
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, land of paradox
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if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
February 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
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NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.
February 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.
Friends and colleagues beware! My mom gave me a replica of one of the 12th-cent. Lewis Chessmen. I've decided that the figure she chose for me is going to set the tone for my new year's resolutions and how I'll behave in 2025. She gave me a berserker.
If you see me biting my planner or phone, run.
If you see me biting my planner or phone, run.
December 27, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Friends and colleagues beware! My mom gave me a replica of one of the 12th-cent. Lewis Chessmen. I've decided that the figure she chose for me is going to set the tone for my new year's resolutions and how I'll behave in 2025. She gave me a berserker.
If you see me biting my planner or phone, run.
If you see me biting my planner or phone, run.
I have this book, it
Knocks on walls in-
siiiide my miiiind
I know what I’m reading
Neeeeexxxt….
(There just better not be any bothies in it is all.)
#uncannyconmunity
Knocks on walls in-
siiiide my miiiind
I know what I’m reading
Neeeeexxxt….
(There just better not be any bothies in it is all.)
#uncannyconmunity
December 27, 2024 at 2:51 AM
I have this book, it
Knocks on walls in-
siiiide my miiiind
I know what I’m reading
Neeeeexxxt….
(There just better not be any bothies in it is all.)
#uncannyconmunity
Knocks on walls in-
siiiide my miiiind
I know what I’m reading
Neeeeexxxt….
(There just better not be any bothies in it is all.)
#uncannyconmunity
Christmas at our house always begins with the annual festooning of Mama Charo, my 4th great-grandmother. Her name was María del Rosario Pérez y Hernández de Sigarroa, and this portrait was made in Havana circa 1835, by an unknown artist.
December 15, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Christmas at our house always begins with the annual festooning of Mama Charo, my 4th great-grandmother. Her name was María del Rosario Pérez y Hernández de Sigarroa, and this portrait was made in Havana circa 1835, by an unknown artist.
For years I've been collecting old snapshots of dogs posed sitting in chairs. It used to be a Thing. Here are the most recent additions to my collection. (Now and then if the stars align, there's a cat in the chair too.)
December 6, 2024 at 6:42 PM
For years I've been collecting old snapshots of dogs posed sitting in chairs. It used to be a Thing. Here are the most recent additions to my collection. (Now and then if the stars align, there's a cat in the chair too.)
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Reading about Rev. Thomas Prince, who set out to write a comprehensive chronological history of New England in 1728.
Volume 1 covered the Creation of Adam to 1630.
Volume 2 took 25 years to write and covered 1630-1633.
There is no Volume 3.
Volume 1 covered the Creation of Adam to 1630.
Volume 2 took 25 years to write and covered 1630-1633.
There is no Volume 3.
December 2, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Reading about Rev. Thomas Prince, who set out to write a comprehensive chronological history of New England in 1728.
Volume 1 covered the Creation of Adam to 1630.
Volume 2 took 25 years to write and covered 1630-1633.
There is no Volume 3.
Volume 1 covered the Creation of Adam to 1630.
Volume 2 took 25 years to write and covered 1630-1633.
There is no Volume 3.
A cool artifact of record industry history... (A thread) So a family member of mine in Cuba very generously gave me her collection of LPs. Looking through them I noticed that the sleeve for this record by the group Los Meme, circa-1965, was printed on a re-used sleeve for a Beny Moré album...
November 30, 2024 at 5:47 PM
A cool artifact of record industry history... (A thread) So a family member of mine in Cuba very generously gave me her collection of LPs. Looking through them I noticed that the sleeve for this record by the group Los Meme, circa-1965, was printed on a re-used sleeve for a Beny Moré album...
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Hey everyone. I am a potter/historian/collector who was born and raised here in central North Carolina. I am currently co-writing a book with Sarah Bryan @considerjeoffry.bsky.social on the history of Southern folk pottery scheduled for pub. by UNC Press next year.
November 26, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Hey everyone. I am a potter/historian/collector who was born and raised here in central North Carolina. I am currently co-writing a book with Sarah Bryan @considerjeoffry.bsky.social on the history of Southern folk pottery scheduled for pub. by UNC Press next year.
For my fellow ghost story-lovers, a happy recommendation for this beautiful collection by Barendina Smedley. They're short stories about ghosts, but also about a sense of place, and belonging (or not) to that place -- in this case, East Anglia -- and the permeability of time.
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The Lammas Ghosts: Fifteen Norfolk Ghost Stories
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November 25, 2024 at 12:59 AM
For my fellow ghost story-lovers, a happy recommendation for this beautiful collection by Barendina Smedley. They're short stories about ghosts, but also about a sense of place, and belonging (or not) to that place -- in this case, East Anglia -- and the permeability of time.
a.co/d/iJPrrTp
a.co/d/iJPrrTp
Hey Bluesky, meet Satchel.
November 19, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Hey Bluesky, meet Satchel.
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Simpler times.
Newspaper clipping from 1906.
Newspaper clipping from 1906.
November 18, 2024 at 9:34 AM
Simpler times.
Newspaper clipping from 1906.
Newspaper clipping from 1906.
A sampling of late 18th-century New England-made gravestones in Georgetown, South Carolina. With @onpolecatcreek.bsky.social
Prince George Winyah Parish Church, and Beth Elohim Cemetery
Prince George Winyah Parish Church, and Beth Elohim Cemetery
November 18, 2024 at 10:37 PM
A sampling of late 18th-century New England-made gravestones in Georgetown, South Carolina. With @onpolecatcreek.bsky.social
Prince George Winyah Parish Church, and Beth Elohim Cemetery
Prince George Winyah Parish Church, and Beth Elohim Cemetery
Appreciation post for the brickmasons and carpenters -- presumably many of whom were enslaved -- who built the Wambaw Church (St. James Parish Santee) in northern Charleston County, South Carolina. Present structure dates to 1768. (with @onpolecatcreek.bsky.social )
November 18, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Appreciation post for the brickmasons and carpenters -- presumably many of whom were enslaved -- who built the Wambaw Church (St. James Parish Santee) in northern Charleston County, South Carolina. Present structure dates to 1768. (with @onpolecatcreek.bsky.social )
Well, so here’s a parrot enjoying 78s from Iran. (“Paradise.”)
November 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Well, so here’s a parrot enjoying 78s from Iran. (“Paradise.”)
Hey y’all, intro text for new friends on this platform. I’m a folklorist in North Carolina, USA; original hometown Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Cubanoamericana. Cowriting a history of Southern folk pottery with Hal Pugh @on-polecat-creek.bsky.social , scheduled for pub. next year by UNC Press.
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November 14, 2024 at 11:07 PM
Hey y’all, intro text for new friends on this platform. I’m a folklorist in North Carolina, USA; original hometown Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Cubanoamericana. Cowriting a history of Southern folk pottery with Hal Pugh @on-polecat-creek.bsky.social , scheduled for pub. next year by UNC Press.
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