Drag Cart Trek Part One By Keith H Burgess

Casanova’s Europe Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century.

The Charlatan (1756), Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Casanova’s Europe
Art, Pleasure, and Power in the 18th Century

July 8, 2018 – October 8, 2018
Ann and Graham Gund Gallery (Gallery LG31)

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https://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/casanovas-europe

These 18th-Century Paintings of Interracial Mexican Families Are Based on a Lie.

Miguel Cabrera, De español y negra, mulata (From male Spaniard and Black Female, Mulata), c. 1763. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-18th-century-paintings-interracial-mexican-families-based-lie

Frontier Art By David Wright. Beneath The Silent Canopy.

Beneath the Silent Canopy By David Wright.

www.lordnelsons.com

Maïna

Jamestown: The First English Colony in America

Learn the ropes in the ancient art of smuggling!

Coastal Exploration's converted whelker, Salford, off Norfolk. Picture: Peter Naylor.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/travel/shady-sailing-norfolk-smugglers-school-with-coastal-exploration-co/news-story/4433a7bdff9fcfb1c8015b1898dea482

Potlotek women create Model 18th century Mi’kmaq dress

A young Mi’kmaq woman, left, will stroll the streets of the national historic site attired in traditional dress. The dress was made by a group of women from Potlotek First Nation.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1579583-potlotek-women-create-model-18th-century-mi%E2%80%99kmaq-dress

To the stocks! Hanna's Town plans annual frontier court

Step back in time and visit the Revolutionary War-era village of Hanna's Town which served as the first English Court west of the Allegheny Mountains at the frontier court re-enactment June 23-24. Experience the excitement of the people as they gathered, between 1773-1786, to witness the trials of those who were accused, convicted and punished.

http://triblive.com/lifestyles/history/13757328-74/to-the-stocks-hannas-town-plans-annual-frontier-court

Diver recovers rare sandglass timer from 18th century warship Invincible sunk of Isle of Wight

Georgian warship Invincible sank after smashing into a sandbank shortly after leaving Portsmouth in February 1758.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6535275/diver-recovers-sand-timer-warship-invincible-isle-wight/

Not the one found, but an example of an 18th century sand hour glass.

https://www.aaawt.com/html/gallery36.html

Mystery of the Great Mary Rose : Documentary on the Mysterious Sinking o...

Firelock fire Lighting.

Fire Lighting Quotes.

Lov na race; čakališče na jezeru pri jami Lisišče (1759) by  Franz Anton von Steinberg which depicts waterfowl hunting.

"There happened to be an iron pot and an ax on board--- they cut off a piece of the boat rope, and picked it to oakum, and putting it in the pan of a gun, with some powder, catched it on fire, which with some thin pieces cut from the mast, they kindled in the pot, and then cut up their mast, seats, &c. for fuel, and making a tent of their sail, wrapt themselves as well as they could;"

From The Pennsylvania Gazette, 1765, 3 men trapped in the ice in their boat during a waterfowl hunt and likely to freeze to death:

The Surprising Practice of Binding Old Books With Scraps of Even Older Books.

The wood on this 1480 edition of the Vulgate bears the traces of a manuscript wrapped around it.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/book-waste-printed-garbage

The Most Valuable Treasure Ship found off the coast of Cornwall England. The President Merchant Ship-East India Company.

Isaac Sailmaker - Two Views of an East Indiaman of the Time of King William III.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6497046/britains-richest-shipwreck-worth-8million-today-is-found-off-cornwall/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5826637/Divers-discover-17th-century-anchors-330-year-old-remains-Britains-richest-shipwreck.html

Gone Fishing.

No Charcloth Flint & Steel Fire Lighting..wmv

Recognising/Identifying Punk Wood & More By Keith H. Burgess Part One..wmv

Very rare 17th century English doll turns heads to sell for £9500 at North Yorkshire auction.

17th Century Dolls.

https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2018/very-rare-17th-century-english-doll-turns-heads-to-sell-for-9500-at-north-yorkshire-auction/

Living history re-enactors at Maine Wildlife Park.

Maine Wildlife Park volunteer Miriam Bisbee throws the hatchet with Dave Bryant of Maine living history group The Ancient Ones.

http://www.sunjournal.com/living-history-re-enactors-at-maine-wildlife-park/

How freed African slaves in London in the 1700s helped abolish slave trade.

Slave ships in London --- Royal Museums Greenwich.

https://face2faceafrica.com/article/how-freed-african-slaves-in-london-in-the-1700s-helped-abolish-slave-trade

Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Its cold outside, let's spin some wool...

Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Its cold outside, let's spin some wool...: I’m spinning some black merino fleece I washed at Christmas. Not as soft and nice as the Polwarth I spun recently but I don’t want to leave ...

Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Woad in Canberra

Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Woad in Canberra: I planted some woad (Isatis tinctoria) in my garden in early March. It is still thriving, larger but staying low over the winter. I've ...

Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Inkle Loom & More.

Aylwen Gardiner-Garden: Inkle Loom: I received an Ashford Inkle Loom today that has been in storage for some time and needs a little bit of TLC. I'm sanding it back with a...

Portraying 18th-Century Black Men in Colonial Williamsburg.

Jeremy Morris, 30, an actor-interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/08/business/portraying-18th-century-black-men-in-colonial-williamsburg.html

Overmountain Victory Trail on National Trails Day.2

NEW FIRE LIGHTING BOOK PROMO

What self-help looked like in the 17th century! ‘Gentlewoman’s companion’ from 1673 offered women advice on handling everything from ‘lewd’ men to ‘windiness’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5808027/Self-help-book-17th-Century-sells-1-700-auction.html

Hands-on Mom: Coming alive with history.

http://www.sentinelsource.com/hub/children/hands_on_mom/hands-on-mom-coming-alive-with-history/article_578db4cc-5739-52a9-abc1-3e4fa19089c3.html

Making A Tomahawk Helve.

Reading Glass Fire Lighting..wmv

Area Students Explore Living History

http://weeklyvillager.com/area-students-explore-living-history/

A Woodsrunner's Day By Keith H Burgess Part Two

The Gunpowder Wallet By Keith H Burgess

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