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Amanda Knox stuff:
For Amanda Knox, Justice in Perugia - NY TImes link
metafilter discussion thread on same
Rolling Stone article on the case

I hardly have anything on it, but I have a Pinterest now. Might go the way of my Tumblr, who knows.

And...this was going to be longer, but I think my allergy medicines are doing something strange, because I feel dizzy and weird. Going to go drink some water.

Current Mood: groggy

A former curator of mine has been, for the past five years or so, researching a journal written by a woman named Sylvia Lewis Taylor. She began the journal at the age of fifteen, in 1801, and continued writing it until she was forty-six, in 1831. In the journal, she chronicles her life in Bristol, CT, and, later, Ohio. Alden has been transcribing the journal and researching Sylvia and her family, and has written a short article about it here at Common-Place.org. Taylor was particularly detailed in writing down the routine of her day, and there is a lot of information in the journal about her work with textiles - knitting, quilting, spinning, etc. (The journal remains unpublished but researchers can request a transcript, I believe.)