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Sara Georgini
@sarageorgini.bsky.social
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Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. President, @susih.bsky.social. Views mine, history for all.
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🗃️ HUGE thanks to all who made the #USIH2025 conference such a great success! Lucky to find time in the #Detroit Institute of Arts between panels, go! @susih.bsky.social
Marble statue of a woman peers out over wooden floor at Jasper Cropsey’s “Indian Summer” painting of orange-gold-red trees in fiery autumn bloom Diego Rivera’s 1932-33 Detroit Industry Murals showcase workers straining at the metallic gears of factory work
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Savored hot coffee, harbor horizon, and a side of modern art at the ICA #Boston 💫
Hot glass mug of coffee and waves with boats at the ICA Boston
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Excellent idea, thanks for doing this 🙌
Donation receipt for greater Boston food bank
October 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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🎨 beauty for your TL! Rachel Ruysch, Still Life of Exotic Flowers on a Marble Ledge, ca. 1735. Excellent exhibit up at MFA all about this woman artist & naturalist, go! #Bloomscrolling www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...
Riotous color of natural and imported flowers tumble out of a vase in this early 18thc watercolor. Honeysuckle, devils trumpet, oleander, passionflower and much more jostle for attention.
October 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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🗃️ 🎨 Absolutely loved exploring the Saint Louis Art Museum and delightfully green surroundings of Forest Park 🌳, do visit & support the #arts! www.slam.org
Apotheosis of Louis IX equine statue charges into blue sky and stray clouds of St. Louis with trees and homes rising below Eastern white pine tree soars in forest park, craning out over the landscape and just doing its own thing #freedom
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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🗃️ Huzzah! We’re glad you’re joining us! #RoR friends, plenty o’coffee, breakfast, and scholarship awaits… @congrelib.bsky.social
Paintings, sculptures, and books adorn the Congregational Library’s historic reading room. A long desk centers the room for scholarly work, and lights glow over the hearth. An ornate mosaic tile ceiling in white and yellow rises above.
September 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Bonjour from Boston! 🇫🇷 📚 🇺🇸
Victor Hugo sits and thinks a lot in a wooden chair on the cover of his book of poems / Victor Hugo est assis et réfléchit beaucoup sur une chaise en bois sur la couverture de son livre de poèmes
September 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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A little calm from Fenway 🌳 🌞
Panorama of the emerald necklace in Boston with lush green trees over the muddy river and the victory gardens slightly in view
September 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Explored a fab record shop & stocked up on classics 🎺 🛒
Stack of multicolor jazz cassette tapes at Orpheus Records in Boston, including Miles Davis’ Sketches in Spain, anew (old) fave
August 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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🎨 Beauty for your TL (Monet’s “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows,” ca. 1916-1919) at the lovely #MFA in #Boston 🤩
Blue green red purple water lilies swirl in Monet’s impressionist art
August 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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🌳 🏃🏻‍♀️ 🌊 Enjoyed a delightful #harbor #hike today and here to say that NPS staff are awesome 🙌 Here’s a fabulous blue spruce for your timeline, friends! 🗃️
View of Boston harbor from spectacle island with beach, boats, and city in the distant horizon Blue spruce vamping over trail on spectacle island
August 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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🎭 Bravo to the absolutely incredible cast + crew + staff @commshakes.bsky.social who made As You Like It bloom on the Common! This is my favorite volunteer #arts gig for sure 🙌 Please check’em out! commshakes.org @universalhub.com @wutrain.bsky.social
Stage set of CSC’s As You Ike It in the Common features metal shipping container’s white and red graffiti that says Ideas Are Bullet Proof
August 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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🗃️ Busy writing book2 about the American Library in Paris, and all the ways that #library workers inform and shape democracy. Amazing #archives, fabulous heroines, and…oui! A few spies. Coming soon via #OUP. 🕵🏻‍♀️ 📚 ✍️ 🇫🇷 🇺🇸
ALA camp library interior from WWI France. A pair of male officers peruse shelves of books Archival record book titled American Library in Paris and tied with yellow and white gingham ribbon
August 8, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Hope Oscar finds his way home! 🐈 cc @universalhub.com
Oscar, lost cat in Boston: very friendly, fluffy gray tabby cat, has some outdoors experience, last seen at Mass Ave and Beacon ca. 4th of July. Please call with any sightings: 67-721-6619.
August 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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This vintage 💎
The Lemonheads’ It’s A Shame About Ray album cover features a frowny woman in a green shirt and brunette bob in front a vintage reddish-maroon car
August 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I loved Lincoln, Nebraska! Excellent #art #museum at the university, go! Safe travels 💫 Shown here: “How the West Is One,” by Will Wilson (North American Indian, Diné (Navajo), New Mexico), 2014 #HATM 🗃️
Two men face each other in black and white photographs
July 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Commuter beauty! 🌺
Pink flowers burst through fenced grass on city street
June 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Just #Boston in summer bloom 🤩
Pale pink rose after rain blooming against lush green garden and red cobblestone streets
June 7, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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🙌 Excellent choice. A Tate fave: “War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet,” 1842. How Napoleon haunted artists! 🗃️ @napwarspod.bsky.social
Turner’s stormy painting in golds, reds, earthy greens and blues memorializes Napoleon in exile, shadowed by his own history
June 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 20
One more favorite (for now!): Jan Porcellis’ ca. 1631 Seascape with a Rainbow depicts a diligent band of Dutch fishermen hard at work in a choppy brown, gray, green, and white froth of sea. Two ships bend in a high wind in the background. A foamy white cloud cover clears into soft blue, as the sailors eye a rich rainbow arcing from stern to sky.
June 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 19
Grandma Moses’ 1943 “Sugaring Off” is a busy scene set in a snow-blanketed valley with lush green mountains in the background. It depicts the stages of maple sugar production. A woman bends over a boiling cauldron of sap as children watch. A man with an ox-sled loads and feeds logs into the bright orange fire. Neighbors bustle around, going about chores as the work continues.
June 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 18
Gustave Courbet’s 1869 The Calm Sea is exactly that: a sandy beach layered with a flat turquoise-green expanse of sea, white foam barely lapping at the shore. At low tide, two brown sailboats are peacefully parked in the foreground, tranquility rolling in on thick curtains of white clouds overhead.
June 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 17
Gaia’s ca. 2018 street mural “Still Here” features a young Narragansett woman educator, Lynsea Montanari, holding a black and white photo of Princess Red Wing, a Narragansett/Pokanoket Wampanoag historian and educator. She’s surrounded by golden sunflowers, red strawberries, green cattails, and red-winged blackbirds. The mural rises along the east-facing wall of a building in Providence, with green trees, passing cars, and park benches in the foreground.
June 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 16
John La Farge’s 1899 The Dawn depicts morning as a mythic woman in petal-pink and cream flowing Grecian robes, tilting into break of day with streaks of turquoise sky + a yellow glimmer of sun. Free for all to enjoy at the lovely Harvard Fogg Museum. Onward!
June 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting
Day 15
Making a call: Winslow Homer’s 1885 “The Fog Warning” shows a weary fisherman oaring his way through choppy blue gray waves, large white halibut laden in his brown wooden dory. He turns back to spy a massive grey ghost of fog at his back, and maybe wonders if he should abandon the haul and race for safety, or ride out the coming storm.
May 31, 2025 at 7:31 PM