Leighton Quarles

Public historian, gearhead, shameless partisan of the West and the Far North. Tweets are my own and do not represent my employer.

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@AdamMSowards “Archives were necessary but insufficient.” YES.

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@melnickjeffrey1 You never know. There’s one in my town with a “Justice for LaVoy [Finicum] sticker

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@dfedman @nytopinion @CaryKaracas This is fantastic!

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@Phrozen_ Bring back the Nomad!

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@DrJSchramm Studebaker, or maybe AMC. Who needs another watered down subsidiary of one of the big 3?

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@ANC_Historian Love it! You’re probably aware but the Fountainhead auto museum in Fairbanks has what is reportedly the first car in Alaska, this weird little contraption from 1905 or so in Skagway

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@Matt_Stefon @melnickjeffrey1 What, you didn’t buy the delivery on “that Plymouth had a hemi with a Torqueflite”?
How I love that movie

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@erin_bartram But still wrong 😂

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@erin_bartram 1778

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@Lady_Historian Did you tell them that you’d answer one of every 16 questions?

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@sarahmpicks What a great panel. Wish I could be at ASEH!

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@melnickjeffrey1 YES. toddler and I drove around listening to blondie for like an hour and a half. She didn’t even mind me singing along—horribly—to union city blue

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@labrcq I’m a husband and I have also made this critical error. Miraculously I am still alive—for now

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@HendrixKomoto Absolutely. A lot of things make religion look bad. Whitewashing does not improve the view

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@HendrixKomoto Similar dustup in the late 90s over James Welch’s Fools Crow

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@HendrixKomoto @KlineRacheld thought this was you for a minute 😂

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@DrDanielleTW ¡Sí, mi madre y mi hija son vulgares! Ellas aman las sardinas, pero yo se que las sardinas son la obra del diablo. 🤢 I apologize for my horrible Spanish

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@PhDhurtBrain Used to sit and watch traffic with my old man while listening to car talk. A favorite childhood memory

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@ElenaWicker @SMH_Historians @SHAFRhistorians Welcome to the dark side!

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@melnickjeffrey1 just remembering how my advisor would walk into my and my fellow TA's office, lie on the floor, and rock back and forth trying to stretch his back while briefing us on the next topic for class. he was so casual about it but he must have been in agony. hang in there!