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Hillary Loomis

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all things sheep~wool~tweed 🌞🌱🐑🧶🪡 environmental history agricultural/commodity/textile history PhD student SIU Edwardsville Historical Studies Mama, enviro ed pro, Wisconsin girl at heart

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Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Dec 10

A new personal holiday-cutting off the loom day!

white lady in front of a grey, pink and brown woven wool tweed

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Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · 15d

I can't escape this project! My breakfast placemat:

old timey European newspaper with man in suit and bowler hat

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · 17d

I am so excited to be at the most unique campus I have ever visited @UniversityofLuxembourg Belval for the Society for the History of Technology Meeting!

koi pond at University of Luxembourg-Belval

koi pond, trees red academix building in front of blast furnace

industrial landscape-huge elevated rusted pipes

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · 17d

Woohoo! Excited to learn more about all the corn I seem to forever be driving thru! (and Brazil, which I aspire to visit as well!)

Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 19d

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

www.oupress.com

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · 17d

plz let me know what you find out in this front 🫣

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · 18d

In honor of National 4-H Week I present a couple of fair kids and some tired parents.

pastoral with resting humans and livestock

vintage 4-H poster with kids holding sign "4-H is for us!"

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · 26d

100% Hollywood leading man...but those pants 😍

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Sep 12

as close to poetry as I get

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Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Sep 11

The proliferation of middle school boys on e-bikes and one-wheels crusing too fast with fishing poles adds to the apocalyptic vibes as of late.

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Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Sep 11

oh no!

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Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Sep 6

when you put it that way...!

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Sep 6

Summer finally feels over. I was too busy to post my "Eavesdropping on Rural America" series, but reading through my notes the best one was one of the first, way back on June 3, overheard in Highland, IL.

"I gotta get home, my "Old Country Road" tee shirt arrived from Temu today.

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Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Aug 31

BARF

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Aug 29

Maria Montessori is knowingly smiling down on all those notebooks. ✏️📓🫶

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Aug 23

Similar story for US textile weaving in Georgia, South Carolina...often the entire mill operation hinged on a single person's know how...usually on how to thread a semi-trailer sized frame.

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Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Summer 2025 Family Political Phenology Observation: The summer the MAGA relations openly accepted climate change is real and dangerous.

small brown and white bird with red cap on crest of head, aka a redpoll, sits on twig, compliments Alaska Fish and Game

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Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Aug 19

I agree 100%. Americans need to demand more...general decency? We were once proud of our pseudo public bathrooms and AC...which are starting to disappearor are going downhill quickly...atleast in the midwest 🫤

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Aug 9

While the top 1% of academic salaries live and love all the bougie bougie...🙄

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Aug 7

May I humbly recommend a good ole fashion felt board interpretive talk?

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Aug 3

This would be an easy sell to the Landman writers room...

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Jul 26

A beautiful, sobering piece for everyone beginning their syllabi and lesson plans for the fall...

www.gramercyreview.com/erasure/

Erasure – Gramercy Review

www.gramercyreview.com

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Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · Jun 10

IMO there is too much emphasis on answering questions, and not asking them in K-12 education.

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · May 17

I can think of about 101 worse ways to spend 2.4m. I'm excited to see how this goes-could be a powerful idea in rural communities too.

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · May 12

Agreed, great bus transport is common in so many other places. I think the "greatest gen" accepted buses as they aged out of long distance drives, and I'm curious to see if boomers
will follow suit. The memory of picking up my great aunt-high as a kite- at a Greyhound stop makes me laugh.

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · May 11

Glad you found a supportive public...dealing with the opposite here. 🥵

Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social · May 10

I think this disgusting rhetoric is yet another strategy to defund public education. As more families with neurodivergent kids are opting out/homeschooling-which the right wants -instead of facing the fact that all kids deserve an IEP, and public ed needs more 💵 to step up their game and provide it.