Rebecca Ragsdale Lallier

Historian, biographer, devoted Durhamite, 19th century United States, #writingcommunity, #twitterstorians

[Rebecca Ragsdale Lallier @LallierRebecca]

My neighbors have put stuffed animals in their windows and on their porches and then posted on the listserve, so kids know to look for them. From a distance. I love my neighborhood.

[Rebecca Ragsdale Lallier @LallierRebecca]

A young man, breaking his engagement in 1874: "I cannot think of inflicting upon your beloved daughter any of the trials and discomforts . . . especially as I am myself ill fitted for pecuniary difficulties.” Me, too. #twitterstorians

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@nhannahjones Good for her!

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How's this?

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Can someone please come over to my house and glare menacingly at me until I finish this article?

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@Janet_Reid Yes, that is exactly what it means.

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@Janet_Reid Sounds like they do need a literacy agent.

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@barb_avon Earlier than that. I remember it from the 60s.

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@ashleyrattner I would vote for that.

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@LibbaGenova @johnrobinson That's the problem with Carolina. You can never count on them really being down.

[Rebecca Ragsdale Lallier @LallierRebecca]

@PKBohan Me. Spell check and mapquest are two of the best things that every happened to me.

[Rebecca Ragsdale Lallier @LallierRebecca]

@LWestwoodAuthor Whatever it is in the horror movies. I watch those wanting to scream "Don't go in the basement! Bad things will happen there! Don't you watch these movies?" I feel that way reading what people thought in April 1861. I want to yell at them.

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Today, I am transcribing letter from April 1861. I keep wanting to yell "Don't go in the basement!"

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@arothmanhistory I'd like to.

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I love, love, love the Chronicles of Narnia, but I think one of the most influential for me as been Esther Forbes, (Paul Revere and the World He lived in). Or Barbara Tuchman. Or T. H. White. or . . . . .

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@TheNicoleNeuman Dear Annabelle

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Anybody know anything about Edgar Allan Poe visiting President John Tyler in 1843? I'm trying to picture it.#Twitterstorians

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@barb_avon I disagree. So we walked away implies that it was in response to something. We walked away does not. Depends on what tone you are going for. And it's a short word . . . ..🤔

[Rebecca Ragsdale Lallier @LallierRebecca]

@MarinaP63 Soap opera writer

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A thought for a Sunday night from James Redpath, 1854ish, "Christianity and slavery cannot live together; but churchianity and slavery are twins."

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@Randall_Stps Gerald Ford, Michigan or Wisconsin -- some place cold and I don't know.