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Quarry Girl

@quarrygirlri.bsky.social

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Academic librarian with a love for music, art, history, archaeology, gardening, movies, books. Anglophile New Englander. Mostly avoiding politics these days for my mental health.

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 26m

A colleague just told me of a way to search Google without the AI results. Hooray! Bookmark this URL: www.google.com/search?q=%s&...

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely. My street ended at an embankment for the railroad tracks, so we also had tons of open land to explore (on our own, all day long). A good time to be a kid.

Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 3h

Of course!

Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 3h

I don't think we quite hit freezing but my heat did come on this morning and my phone says it's 38 outside.

Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 3h

Reminds me of growing up on a dead end street in the late 60s and 70s. It was our "play street."

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 3h

Exactly!

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 7h

Here are three wonderfully preserved Roman shoes that were discovered at Bar Hill Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland in the early 1900s. Shoes made for men, women and children have been found there, reminding us that frontier zones were not an exclusively military environment. #FindsFriday

Three ancient roman shoes with pierced decoration displayed on dummy feet.

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 3h

Papa Gene's Blues is my favorite Monkees song. This is a great collection. Also really like Saturday's Child, Sweet Young Thing, I Wanna Be Free. And I'm Gonna Buy Me a Dog is very funny. You know they were just having fun, goofing around.

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 17h

Respect to George Harrison. If my guitar gently wept I would freak out.

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 17h

"Brother" by the Kinks.

Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 17h

One of those songs I remember hearing on the radio when I was very young.

Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 17h

Possible frost tonight! House plants taken safely indoors. Heat set to kick on if necessary. Drapes drawn. I'm ready!

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 22h

I'm trying to figure out why Autocorrect inserted "future" into this post

Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 22h

Beatles, Kinks, Zombies, Simon and Garfunkel.

Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 1d

Gorgeous photo.

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Michelle M. @michellemabelle.bsky.social · 1d

64 years ago today, in Paris. Little did they know.

Happy Birthday, Johnny.

#HappyBirthdayJohn #JohnLennon #JohnLennon85
#TheBeatles

John Lennon & Paul McCartney in Paris on 9th October 1961

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 1d

In My Life
I Should Have Known Better
Ticket to Ride
Julia
You're Going to Lose that Girl
Jealous Guy
Strawberry Fields
I could go on and on... (greatly preferring his Beatles songs to his solo career)

Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 1d

His bass playing stands out on nearly every Who song. The future that comes to mind is "The Real Me." Stunning. And the songs he wrote are fun: My Wife, Success Story, Boris the Spider.

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 1d

A little bit of every day history coming alive in this essay (also I recognize a couple of my own ancestors' names in there -- not the ones involved in the dispute).

Patrick Lacroix @querythepast.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 New on the QTP 🚨

"Answering an age-old question, Françoise Grossejambe let the dogs out."

On the blog this week, Joseph de la Croix's first encounter with the law, circa 1683 (or the threat of a winter without pea soup). #ancestry @genealogyalacarte.bsky.social

querythepast.com/lacroix-bois...

A Brawl in Saint-Michel

A Lacroix immigrant ancestor faced the innumerable challenges of settling in New France, one being getting along with neighbors.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 1d

The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

#Archaeology

British Museum photo showing a two-player board game with gaming counters known as the Royal Game of Ur. Dated c. 2,500 BC.

The game board is composed of a hollow box made of wood adorned with shell plaques. There is a drawer at one end for storing game pieces and dice. The top of the board is covered with twenty square-shaped off-white shell plaques, each bordered with dark-blue lapis lazuli. The shell squares are intricately decorated with blue inlaid patterns including dots inside circles and eye-shapes. Five squares are inlaid with flower-shaped rosettes with red limestone and blue lapis lazuli petals.

The game board is roughly rectangular in shape. Viewed from above in the photo, on the left side of the board is a block of 12 squares made up of 4 across by 3 down. On the right side of the board is a block of 6 squares made up of 2 across by 3 down. The two blocks are joined by two squares extending between the second square down on the end row of the left block and the second square down on the first row of the second block.

Dimensions H: 2.40 cm, L: 30.10 cm, W: 11 cm, (W 5.70 cm at narrowest part)

Beneath the board are 14 disc-shaped gaming counters. On the left are 7 white pieces, inlaid with 5 spots of blue lapis lazuli. On the right are 7 black pieces inlaid with five white spots.

Between the game pieces are three tetrahedron-shaped dice. L to R: Dark blue, brown, cream.

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 1d

#LookAndSee #MusicChallenge

Palisades Park -- Freddy Cannon

youtu.be/dnLCvpgPD_s?...

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 1d

Always appreciated! 🙂

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Quarry Girl @quarrygirlri.bsky.social · 1d

Also exhausting for us librarians setting up classes in Archives and Special Collections -- but we love it, too!

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 1d

It's World Octopus Day! These magnificent creatures have 9 brains, 8 arms, 3 hearts, and they hunt sharks. What are you even doing with your life?

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

Cat beating a drum: one of a motley crew of anthropomorphic animals to be found adorning the lower margins of a finely illuminated "book of hours" produced in late 13th-century England. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

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