Karen Packard Rhodes
@kprhodes.bsky.social
Retired historian and genealogist. Six college degrees! I love learning. I also love genealogy: New England, Canada (Stanstead Co., Que.), Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and California. Books, cats & dogs.
I bought a "ripple rug" for our cat, Gabriela. She had a ball with it. #Caturday
(Don't buy the one advertised on Facebook; it's a Chinese counterfeit. The original, real item is made in the USA.)
(Don't buy the one advertised on Facebook; it's a Chinese counterfeit. The original, real item is made in the USA.)
June 21, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I bought a "ripple rug" for our cat, Gabriela. She had a ball with it. #Caturday
(Don't buy the one advertised on Facebook; it's a Chinese counterfeit. The original, real item is made in the USA.)
(Don't buy the one advertised on Facebook; it's a Chinese counterfeit. The original, real item is made in the USA.)
May Book Challenge (catching up) - Day 15
#fiction #MayBookChallenge #plays
Fictional view of the "Monkey Trial" - John Scopes put on trial for teaching Evolution.
#fiction #MayBookChallenge #plays
Fictional view of the "Monkey Trial" - John Scopes put on trial for teaching Evolution.
May 22, 2025 at 3:15 AM
May Book Challenge (catching up) - Day 15
#fiction #MayBookChallenge #plays
Fictional view of the "Monkey Trial" - John Scopes put on trial for teaching Evolution.
#fiction #MayBookChallenge #plays
Fictional view of the "Monkey Trial" - John Scopes put on trial for teaching Evolution.
May Book Challenge (catching up) - Day 14
#fiction #MayBookChallenge
Justice in the Old West? Not so different from the New East, or anywhere else in too many places at too many times.
#fiction #MayBookChallenge
Justice in the Old West? Not so different from the New East, or anywhere else in too many places at too many times.
May 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
May Book Challenge (catching up) - Day 14
#fiction #MayBookChallenge
Justice in the Old West? Not so different from the New East, or anywhere else in too many places at too many times.
#fiction #MayBookChallenge
Justice in the Old West? Not so different from the New East, or anywhere else in too many places at too many times.
May Book Challenge (catching up) Day 13
#MayBookChallenge #fiction #play
Best book-to-play performance, theater-in-the-round, Hippodrome Theater, Gainesville, Florida. Excellent book, too, of course, about a time and place that was everywhere and everywhen.
#MayBookChallenge #fiction #play
Best book-to-play performance, theater-in-the-round, Hippodrome Theater, Gainesville, Florida. Excellent book, too, of course, about a time and place that was everywhere and everywhen.
May 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
May Book Challenge (catching up) Day 13
#MayBookChallenge #fiction #play
Best book-to-play performance, theater-in-the-round, Hippodrome Theater, Gainesville, Florida. Excellent book, too, of course, about a time and place that was everywhere and everywhen.
#MayBookChallenge #fiction #play
Best book-to-play performance, theater-in-the-round, Hippodrome Theater, Gainesville, Florida. Excellent book, too, of course, about a time and place that was everywhere and everywhen.
May Book Challenge (catching up) -- Day 12
The Great Migration was the influx of emigrants from England to colonial Massachusetts between 1620 and 1640. I have ancestors listed therein, with brief biographies.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
The Great Migration was the influx of emigrants from England to colonial Massachusetts between 1620 and 1640. I have ancestors listed therein, with brief biographies.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
May Book Challenge (catching up) -- Day 12
The Great Migration was the influx of emigrants from England to colonial Massachusetts between 1620 and 1640. I have ancestors listed therein, with brief biographies.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
The Great Migration was the influx of emigrants from England to colonial Massachusetts between 1620 and 1640. I have ancestors listed therein, with brief biographies.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 11
Jerks in Florida History -- bad actors get their stories told as an author speaks ill of the dead, the ill that they created.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
Jerks in Florida History -- bad actors get their stories told as an author speaks ill of the dead, the ill that they created.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 11
Jerks in Florida History -- bad actors get their stories told as an author speaks ill of the dead, the ill that they created.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
Jerks in Florida History -- bad actors get their stories told as an author speaks ill of the dead, the ill that they created.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 10
Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine: the People and Their Homes
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge #StAugustineFlorida
Fascinating look at life in Spanish Colonial Florida.
Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine: the People and Their Homes
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge #StAugustineFlorida
Fascinating look at life in Spanish Colonial Florida.
May 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 10
Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine: the People and Their Homes
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge #StAugustineFlorida
Fascinating look at life in Spanish Colonial Florida.
Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine: the People and Their Homes
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge #StAugustineFlorida
Fascinating look at life in Spanish Colonial Florida.
May 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 9
#alternatehistory #MayBookChallenge
World War II: young Navy lieutenant John F. Kennedy ends up on FDR's staff, and he must stop an assassination attempt.
#alternatehistory #MayBookChallenge
World War II: young Navy lieutenant John F. Kennedy ends up on FDR's staff, and he must stop an assassination attempt.
May 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 9
#alternatehistory #MayBookChallenge
World War II: young Navy lieutenant John F. Kennedy ends up on FDR's staff, and he must stop an assassination attempt.
#alternatehistory #MayBookChallenge
World War II: young Navy lieutenant John F. Kennedy ends up on FDR's staff, and he must stop an assassination attempt.
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 8
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
Speaking of the Devil . . . True account of an early case taken by Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights matter in mid-20th-century Florida.
Yes, I read a lot of nonfiction. I write it, too.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
Speaking of the Devil . . . True account of an early case taken by Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights matter in mid-20th-century Florida.
Yes, I read a lot of nonfiction. I write it, too.
May 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 8
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
Speaking of the Devil . . . True account of an early case taken by Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights matter in mid-20th-century Florida.
Yes, I read a lot of nonfiction. I write it, too.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
Speaking of the Devil . . . True account of an early case taken by Thurgood Marshall, a civil rights matter in mid-20th-century Florida.
Yes, I read a lot of nonfiction. I write it, too.
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 7
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
The Devil in the White City -- a true tale of an early serial killer, and he was a doozy.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
The Devil in the White City -- a true tale of an early serial killer, and he was a doozy.
May 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 7
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
The Devil in the White City -- a true tale of an early serial killer, and he was a doozy.
#nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
The Devil in the White City -- a true tale of an early serial killer, and he was a doozy.
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 6
One of the best books on the subject of FDR and Eleanor, and one of my favorite books. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
One of the best books on the subject of FDR and Eleanor, and one of my favorite books. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 6
One of the best books on the subject of FDR and Eleanor, and one of my favorite books. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
One of the best books on the subject of FDR and Eleanor, and one of my favorite books. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 5
A New York Times reporter goes home to Birmingham, examines a horrific past event, and makes a stunning discovery. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
A New York Times reporter goes home to Birmingham, examines a horrific past event, and makes a stunning discovery. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 5
A New York Times reporter goes home to Birmingham, examines a horrific past event, and makes a stunning discovery. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
A New York Times reporter goes home to Birmingham, examines a horrific past event, and makes a stunning discovery. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 4
History, poetry, and reflections by one of Florida's greatest governors. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge #LeRoyCollins
History, poetry, and reflections by one of Florida's greatest governors. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge #LeRoyCollins
May 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 4
History, poetry, and reflections by one of Florida's greatest governors. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge #LeRoyCollins
History, poetry, and reflections by one of Florida's greatest governors. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge #LeRoyCollins
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 3
Two mysterious and unidentified artist's sketchbooks change the lives of two women. Written by my late cousin, an art historian and curator. #fiction #MayBookChallenge
Two mysterious and unidentified artist's sketchbooks change the lives of two women. Written by my late cousin, an art historian and curator. #fiction #MayBookChallenge
May 16, 2025 at 6:00 AM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 3
Two mysterious and unidentified artist's sketchbooks change the lives of two women. Written by my late cousin, an art historian and curator. #fiction #MayBookChallenge
Two mysterious and unidentified artist's sketchbooks change the lives of two women. Written by my late cousin, an art historian and curator. #fiction #MayBookChallenge
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 2
One of my favorite books of all time. The curator of The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, pursues a fabulous objet d'art into a James Bond-like adventure. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
One of my favorite books of all time. The curator of The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, pursues a fabulous objet d'art into a James Bond-like adventure. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May 16, 2025 at 5:49 AM
May Book Challenge - (catching up) Day 2
One of my favorite books of all time. The curator of The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, pursues a fabulous objet d'art into a James Bond-like adventure. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
One of my favorite books of all time. The curator of The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, pursues a fabulous objet d'art into a James Bond-like adventure. #nonfiction #MayBookChallenge
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 1
Rommel and the Rebel -- the German combat general and the tactics of Nathan Bedford Forrest. #alternatehistory #MayBookChallenge
Rommel and the Rebel -- the German combat general and the tactics of Nathan Bedford Forrest. #alternatehistory #MayBookChallenge
May 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
May Book Challenge -- (catching up) Day 1
Rommel and the Rebel -- the German combat general and the tactics of Nathan Bedford Forrest. #alternatehistory #MayBookChallenge
Rommel and the Rebel -- the German combat general and the tactics of Nathan Bedford Forrest. #alternatehistory #MayBookChallenge
Miracles Department: 450 grams = 0.9920802 lbs.
May 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Miracles Department: 450 grams = 0.9920802 lbs.
Yeah, well, if all I did was slowly creep around in trees and just hang out, I'd be smiling, too.
May 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Yeah, well, if all I did was slowly creep around in trees and just hang out, I'd be smiling, too.
It's CANADA goose, but otherwise this is funny.
May 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It's CANADA goose, but otherwise this is funny.
Day 20 of 20 books that have affected me, influenced me, etc. No explanation, just the cover.
February 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Day 20 of 20 books that have affected me, influenced me, etc. No explanation, just the cover.