I am a recent graduate of the public history graduate program at Rutgers University. I currently serve as the digital media coordinator for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, where I wrangle bloggers and tackle our social media platforms.
In the last two years I've created an oral history database using StoriesMatter for the Salem County Historical Society, collected data on school group attendance for the education department at Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I've digitized the Balch Institute Ethnic Images in Advertising Collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. I volunteer at the Alice Paul Institute in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey and the Digital Center at HSP.
In my spare time I am often silly and irreverent.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
It just hit me today that I’m starting my internship at the Rock Hall in THREE weeks. I just have to get through this last course (Historical Archaeology) and then I can hightail it to Cleveland for six weeks of Music and History and Museum craziness.
I’m not sure I’ll make it.
This is me, pondering not making it. Yes, silly faces are necessary.
Cass’ dress (circa 1967) from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum’s ”Women Who Rock” exhibit.
Someone posted on the CassElliot.com forum (which even though it’s not that active lately, it still has a LOT of Cass and M&P information if anybody is interested) that they have another dress and some sheet music on display as well.
Here’s the link to the photos of some of the items in the exhibit (Grace Slick, Ruth Brown, Madonna, The Runaways, Mary Wilson, Wanda Jackson, Queen Latifah etc.)
Wild how this shows up on my dashboard on the 41st anniversary of Janis Joplin’s death. Or maybe it isn’t weird. At any rate:
How I feel about Mama Cass, Dream a Little Dream of Me can never get enough play time. Her voice demands attention, it reaches into your soul, pulls out what’s inside and shoves it in your face.
