What things say

Bringing the past (and present) to light one quote at a time

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Our southern highlanders / by Horace Kephart. Outing Publishing Company, 1913.

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Cottolene: shortens your food, lengthens your life

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From: The dong with the luminous nose by Edward Lear.

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Inscription in the back of The philanthropist, or, Political peace-maker between all honest men of both parties / by M.L. Weems printed in 1809.

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"Sometimes the only thing we can control with confidence is what we know." Carr, D. (2002) A community mind. Public Libraries, p. 286.

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I love seeing primary documents on historical events. This is a run down on the events that occurred pertaining to the Greensboro Sit-in in 1960. This document was written on February 10, 1960 (the events too place between February 2-9) so it was still very fresh in people’s minds when this timeline was created. 

http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/2209

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George Washington’s will specifically left any “liquors and groceries” in the house at the time of his death to his wife, Martha. I feel like that shouldn’t have had to be spelled out... And a little morbid information about who carried Washington's casket

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I love old handwriting ❤️ inscription dated 1819 in a book printed in 1800.

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"Museums have the responsibility to compensate for the failure of other institutions, such as schools, to show members of minority groups their stake in society." -Edmund Barry Gaither

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Oh, Dove chocolate, how did you know that I would be filled with regret as I opened your beautiful shiny wrapping to eat your insides? Thank you for providing the encouragement I needed to eat the dark chocolate morsel that was patiently waiting for me to complete it’s journey into my stomach.

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Because men just like different things... 

Nothing says manly like raw beef, dontcha know..

The new hostess of to-day by Linda Hull Larned. New York : Scribner's Sons, 1931. Page 383

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“Is your library a slacker?”

Book and libraries in camps and battle : the Civil War experience by David Kaser. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.

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UNC Chapel Hill's library was used as a horse stable during the Civil War. Now that's a little uncalled for... Book and libraries in camps and battle : the Civil War experience by David Kaser. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984. Page 90.

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"Who's your hatter?" Get it? “Who’s your daddy?”/“Who’s your hatter?” Ok, I’ll go back to my corner now.

Hints on hats adapted to the heads of people by Henry Melton. London : John Camden Hotten, 1865.

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“Some choose their ladies for ease or for grace, Or a pretty turn’d foot as they’re walking ;                                                        Some choose them for figure, and some for face,                                           But none of them choose them for talking ; --

As long as they have a “pretty turn’d foot as they walk”, that’s all that matters, right?

Hints on hats adapted to the heads of people by Henry Melton. London : John Camden Hotten, 1865.