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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
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
Thank you for standing Strom on his head. We love you here in the Carolinas!
April 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
In praise of Senator Booker!
April 2, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, land of paradox
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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.
December 27, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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
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
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
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
It’s a roving band of carnyx players!
November 21, 2024 at 3:50 AM
Hey Bluesky, meet Satchel.
November 19, 2024 at 5:28 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
November 18, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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
Well, so here’s a parrot enjoying 78s from Iran. (“Paradise.”)
November 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM