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Sarah Bryan
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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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The one in my yard in NC, giving me the side-eye after I put a fence around the tomato plants.
May 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Thank you for standing Strom on his head. We love you here in the Carolinas!
April 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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In praise of Senator Booker!
April 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, land of paradox
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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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.
A small figurine representing a medieval Norse warrior, holding shield and sword, with a conical helmet and wide eyes. He is biting the top of his shield, in an attempt to control his rage.
December 27, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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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
December 27, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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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
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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.)
A circa-1900 image of an older white man and young white woman standing outside a board-and-batten house with an open window, posing with a fluffy medium-sized black-and-white dog sitting up right in a wooden chair. A circa-1930s photo of a dog and cat sitting outside in a wicker armchair on a sunny day, with planted ferns and shrubs behind them. The dog is small and brown with a collar, and the cat is small and white. Circa-1930 photo of a small, shaggy, dark-and-white terrier sitting in a wooden chair on a porch. Circa-late-1920s photo of a small jack russell-mix dog standing on his hind legs in a child's wooden chair, with a middle-aged white woman crouched next to him, wearing glasses and a white dress.
December 6, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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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
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It’s a roving band of carnyx players!
November 21, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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Hey Bluesky, meet Satchel.
A large tabby and white cat lying on a quilt in a window, with green foliage outside the window. The cat has a narrowed-eyes expression of triumphant contentment.
November 19, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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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
A gray slate grave marker with a smiling angel/soul effigy, and green saw palmetto leaves in the background. Top of a slate gravestone with a finely carved angel/soul effigy, with elaborate wings, curly hair, and a concerned expression. Headstone of Harriet Murray, who died in 1793. The top of the stone features an angel/soul effigy in the style of the Manning family of carvers, with wide alarmed eyes. A small marble tombstone, topped with an alarmed angel in the style of the Manning carvers, and the epitaph carved in large Hebrew lettering.
November 18, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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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 )
Front view of a small 18th-century brick church, with four brick columns supporting a wide triangular pediment. Interior view of Wambaw Church showoing large, enclosed cypress box pews, flagstone floor, arched windows, and dentile molding. Base of brick column, with several forms of custom-molded bricks. Close-up of large, corroded metal box-lock on interior of church doors, with the shadow markings of an earlier, larger lock behind it.
November 18, 2024 at 4:51 AM
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Well, so here’s a parrot enjoying 78s from Iran. (“Paradise.”)
November 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM