David Belew

Culture, politics, and fundraising professional at the Maryland Center for History and Culture. New College of Florida and JHU Alum. Dad. My views are my own!

[Florida Panthers @FlaPanthers]

YOU GUYS.

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

This sea otter heard it was Friday, which actually means nothing to the sea otter. 🦦

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

In the 1850s, before it was denuded by archaeologists and the tourism industry, 420 species of flowers and plants grew on the Roman Colosseum — and every single one is catalogued in amateur botanist Richard Deakin's Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855): https://t.co/OEtpMfAJtM

[David Belew @DavidPBelew]

@aunigelles @creativalliance Nice seeing you. It was a great event!

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Joining the chorus here to say that being haunted by HL Mencken would undoubtedly be the worst.

[Noted Blacksauce Biscuit Consumer @notlikethecomet]

.@trustpunch and I were discussing today: who would be the WORST Baltimore ghost to be haunted by? Answers like “the fact that I dated a motorcycle mechanic” not allowed.

[Jennifer Schuessler @jennyschuessler]

A specter is haunting rare book libraries - WHITE GLOVES

I wrote about the myth that refuses to die, & why it drives so many librarians & bookfolk crazy

(Hate to say it, this is my best shot at a Pulitzer for public service)

https://t.co/AsZbbrUWkG

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

The hanging poster storage area in the Library's Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 100 super-oversize posters that are far too large to lay flat inside map case drawers. Some measure 9 feet tall. Others are 20 feet wide. 🧵

[David Belew @DavidPBelew]

Gonna go with the rocky, craggy beach of South Carolina in “The Notebook.”

[Joseph Fink, 👻🎃healthcare is a human right🎃👻 @PlanetofFinks]

in honor of "10 miles west of Boston", what is the funniest shot from a movie/tv in terms of CLEARLY not being the place it says it is. This cannot be an intentional joke.

[NCF Students for Educational Freedom @NCFEduFreedom]

Thank you Rep. Frost for bringing attn to our fight. DeSantis + his "lapdogs" are pushing their hateful, anti-intellectual agenda at New College and all FL schools, and the nation should be watching. What's happening here can happen anywhere. We won't back down until this ends!

[David Belew @DavidPBelew]

Producing “Olde Timey Bike Fest” where we talked a bit about this history and had a critical mass of penny farthings down Eutaw remains the pinnacle of my public history career TBH remember @elipousson !

[Jed Weeks @jedweeks]

Of course there's great irony here. Baltimore is one of the great birthplaces of American bicycling, and Eutaw Place is central to that history. Let's go back to the late 1890s, before cars ruled Eutaw, and see what was there:

[David Belew @DavidPBelew]

@FuckCarsReddit This just looks like an apartment complex in Georgia or Florida…external hallways in warm climates.

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@ElectEdelson Congratulations!

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@thecaitlinshow @BaltimoreBanner Welcome to Baltimore and our world class museums, arts, and music scene!

[David Belew @DavidPBelew]

I owe so much to the resilient weirdness and rigor of New College. Desantis’ effort to upend that culture overnight with a “family values curriculum” is a grim precedent. Care about the freedom of state schools and cultural orgs? Pay attention to Florida. https://t.co/5zKir0lFZu

[City Describer @CityDescriber]

a castle on a city street

[David Belew @DavidPBelew]

New book. I am about half way through and it’s a wonderful read.

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@musiciswavyair @the_transit_guy And no potable water as far as the eye can see.

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@JFKlopfenstein @the_transit_guy What about drinkable water though?

[David Belew @DavidPBelew]

@HeyRaChaCha @the_transit_guy This is Philly and Baltimore erasure.