Sarah Emily Duff
@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social
Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
Your grace I was too slow, but this is very good: I picked 14lb of sour cherries in Vermont. I recommend the activity to everyone near an orchard!
July 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Your grace I was too slow, but this is very good: I picked 14lb of sour cherries in Vermont. I recommend the activity to everyone near an orchard!
The Maine Solar System Model is on Route 1, between Houlton and Presque Isle. The earth, planets, and sun are arranged along the route. The sun is at the University of Maine’s campus at Presque Isle.
It is both bizarre and magnificent to encounter a planet on the edge of a potato field.
It is both bizarre and magnificent to encounter a planet on the edge of a potato field.
June 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The Maine Solar System Model is on Route 1, between Houlton and Presque Isle. The earth, planets, and sun are arranged along the route. The sun is at the University of Maine’s campus at Presque Isle.
It is both bizarre and magnificent to encounter a planet on the edge of a potato field.
It is both bizarre and magnificent to encounter a planet on the edge of a potato field.
Hello! And from May 2024! Isn’t Mexico City so lovely?
June 17, 2024 at 9:03 AM
Hello! And from May 2024! Isn’t Mexico City so lovely?
The Colby College Museum of Art’s Art Break series on Thursdays at 12.30pm gathers members of the community to talk about various works currently on display. They’re gently meandering discussions, and I love them.
I’m leading tomorrow’s on Milton William Hopkins’s portrait of Martha Ellen Connell:
I’m leading tomorrow’s on Milton William Hopkins’s portrait of Martha Ellen Connell:
February 7, 2024 at 5:47 PM
The Colby College Museum of Art’s Art Break series on Thursdays at 12.30pm gathers members of the community to talk about various works currently on display. They’re gently meandering discussions, and I love them.
I’m leading tomorrow’s on Milton William Hopkins’s portrait of Martha Ellen Connell:
I’m leading tomorrow’s on Milton William Hopkins’s portrait of Martha Ellen Connell:
I had no idea that they’re driving as well as swimming upstream.
February 3, 2024 at 6:12 PM
I had no idea that they’re driving as well as swimming upstream.
The Portland (Maine) lobster trap Christmas tree with decorative lobsters is up.
December 15, 2023 at 8:39 PM
The Portland (Maine) lobster trap Christmas tree with decorative lobsters is up.
A really excellent parrot at the National Gallery in DC.
November 18, 2023 at 4:40 PM
A really excellent parrot at the National Gallery in DC.
This is now a karaoke restaurant called Wok and Roll.
This gives me very deep joy.
This gives me very deep joy.
November 16, 2023 at 2:01 AM
This is now a karaoke restaurant called Wok and Roll.
This gives me very deep joy.
This gives me very deep joy.
At the vigil in Lewiston tonight.
October 30, 2023 at 12:37 AM
At the vigil in Lewiston tonight.
I think this sums up a lot of people’s feelings about the shooting in Lewiston:
October 26, 2023 at 3:56 AM
I think this sums up a lot of people’s feelings about the shooting in Lewiston:
Call for papers:
Histories of childhood and youth in southern Africa: From the Precolonial to the Present
An international workshop to be held at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein campus, 1-2 July 2024.
Histories of childhood and youth in southern Africa: From the Precolonial to the Present
An international workshop to be held at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein campus, 1-2 July 2024.
October 19, 2023 at 11:21 AM
Call for papers:
Histories of childhood and youth in southern Africa: From the Precolonial to the Present
An international workshop to be held at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein campus, 1-2 July 2024.
Histories of childhood and youth in southern Africa: From the Precolonial to the Present
An international workshop to be held at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein campus, 1-2 July 2024.
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social I hope you feel better soon! These are all three of my sister’s cats.
October 13, 2023 at 7:17 PM
@chrisbrooke.bsky.social I hope you feel better soon! These are all three of my sister’s cats.
Ah yes of course, a coyote. A normal morning teaching in Maine.
October 5, 2023 at 3:30 PM
Ah yes of course, a coyote. A normal morning teaching in Maine.
October 3, 2023 at 7:11 PM
Chicken first aid in the poultry and livestock tents—the Common Ground Fair is very much on this weekend.
September 23, 2023 at 1:20 AM
Chicken first aid in the poultry and livestock tents—the Common Ground Fair is very much on this weekend.
This is, in so many (very good) ways, extremely Maine.
September 23, 2023 at 1:19 AM
This is, in so many (very good) ways, extremely Maine.
I ordered a book that my institution’s (well-funded) library doesn’t have. The magic of ILL found it at WVU. The strength of the university system in the US depends on a network of institutions across the country. Without WVU and similar universities the quality of all our work and teaching suffers.
September 12, 2023 at 3:25 PM
I ordered a book that my institution’s (well-funded) library doesn’t have. The magic of ILL found it at WVU. The strength of the university system in the US depends on a network of institutions across the country. Without WVU and similar universities the quality of all our work and teaching suffers.
There aren’t a lot of historians of southern Africa here (yet, anyway), but fwiw, a really fantastic new book prize:
August 28, 2023 at 3:15 PM
There aren’t a lot of historians of southern Africa here (yet, anyway), but fwiw, a really fantastic new book prize:
Now this is range
August 12, 2023 at 9:04 PM
Now this is range
In Newfoundland, remember to tether your house.
August 10, 2023 at 3:39 PM
In Newfoundland, remember to tether your house.
A timely reminder! This is Sophie, learning how to breathe through her ears.
July 27, 2023 at 12:57 AM
A timely reminder! This is Sophie, learning how to breathe through her ears.
No Tolstoy for YOU at Wegmans
July 25, 2023 at 2:45 PM
No Tolstoy for YOU at Wegmans