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Shrine at a spring.

Wiltshire, England.

In 2017, American film researchers recovered “Something Good – Negro Kiss,” a short film depicting a playful kiss between a Black couple which had not seen the light of day for more than a century. A long-forgotten artifact from the earliest years of American film, the sweet, humanizing vignette, produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, makes a startling contrast to the overwhelmingly racist and blackface-ridden contempory portrayals of African Americans. Four years later in 2021, archivists in Norway, halfway across the world, identified a sister short in their collections—an extended alternate cut which reveals more of Chicago stage performers Gertie Brown and Saint Suttle’s vaudeville-like routine, a theatrical, hot-and-cold romantic dynamic between two lovers which parodies the popular and controversial short “The Kiss” (1896). Both films, which had previously been lost, were known from entries in old motion picture catalogs but had been assumed to be era-typical, anti-Black “race films” until their rediscovery in the 21st century. Together with its more famous sibling, which has since been inducted into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, this alternate version of “Something Good” represents the first-known instance of Black intimacy ever captured on-screen.

SOMETHING GOOD [Alternate Version] (1898) Directed by William Selig

Avebury Stones, England

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This was a home once - Part II

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The Soul selects her own Society —

Then — shuts the Door —

To her divine Majority —

Present no more —

by Emily Dickinson

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Joan Blaeu, Dobunos [The Rollright Stones]. from Nuevo Atlas del Reyno de Inglaterra. Gravure, between 1645 and 1662.

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𝖤𝗇𝖼𝗁𝖺𝗇𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖿𝗈𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗍 𝖻𝗒 𝖣𝖺𝗏𝗂𝖽 𝖣𝖾𝖺𝗇 & 𝗂𝖺𝗆𝖬𝗒𝗌𝗍𝗂𝖼𝖺𝗅

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Cottage life

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Going to a library with someone you love and sitting in a corner with your head propped up on their shoulder while you both are reading books in peace and calm is the most intimately wholesome thing ever.