Foodways Historian Julian Barrett Gooding is giving a talk at the Rice Museum right now on “The Foodways They Sustained,” a program on Gullah Geechee food traditions, a live cooking demonstrations, and small food tastings designed to highlight how African agricultural knowledge and traditional cooking techniques reshaped Southern cuisine and continue to sustain communities today.
Waste Not, Want Not has seen me making these small abstract collages from my hand-painted collage papers while preparing larger paintings. Working on a smaller scale has been such fun, giving me the freedom to experiment, trust my intuition and make something from papers that might otherwise have gone to waste. https://t.co/cQ3KbTmBWJ #AbstractArt #CollageArt #CreativeProcess
“What an old fashioned place it seems to be!” said Elizabeth-Jane while her silent mother mused on other things than topography.”
Thomas Hardy “The Mayor of Casterbridge”
📷Dorchester (Casterbridge) museum
The stone bay which doesn’t match the rest of the building believed to be added to Gainsborough Old Hall in 16th century. It is likely brought from elsewhere, probably from a dissolved monastery.
Lincolnshire
Beautiful - and massive - St. Mary’s Church, Ashwell, Hertfordshire. So big it doesn’t all fit in the photo 🤭 Mostly dating to the 14th century, although the impressive double-storey porch is 15th century 🤩
Blackburn Museum has a remarkably good, and large, collection of Greek and Russian icons. This triptych depicts Abraham and Sarah with the three angels, flanked by St George and St Dmitri. Greek, 1768.