Sarah Bryan
Folklorist and writer specializing in the cultural heritage of the American South. Collector of 78 rpm records and old photos. Fiddler and banjo player. Researching folk gravestone art, Southern pottery history, ghost stories. Catscatscatscatscatscats
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- Reposted by Sarah BryanSORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement
- In praise of Senator Booker!
- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, land of paradox
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- Reposted by Sarah BryanNOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.
- Friends and colleagues beware! My mom gave me a replica of one of the 12th-cent. Lewis Chessmen. I've decided that the figure she chose for me is going to set the tone for my new year's resolutions and how I'll behave in 2025. She gave me a berserker. If you see me biting my planner or phone, run.
- I’d initially planned a year in goblin mode, but somehow a berserker year fits my mood even better.
- I have this book, it Knocks on walls in- siiiide my miiiind I know what I’m reading Neeeeexxxt…. (There just better not be any bothies in it is all.) #uncannyconmunity
- Christmas at our house always begins with the annual festooning of Mama Charo, my 4th great-grandmother. Her name was María del Rosario Pérez y Hernández de Sigarroa, and this portrait was made in Havana circa 1835, by an unknown artist.
- For years I've been collecting old snapshots of dogs posed sitting in chairs. It used to be a Thing. Here are the most recent additions to my collection. (Now and then if the stars align, there's a cat in the chair too.)
- Reposted by Sarah BryanReading about Rev. Thomas Prince, who set out to write a comprehensive chronological history of New England in 1728. Volume 1 covered the Creation of Adam to 1630. Volume 2 took 25 years to write and covered 1630-1633. There is no Volume 3.
- A cool artifact of record industry history... (A thread) So a family member of mine in Cuba very generously gave me her collection of LPs. Looking through them I noticed that the sleeve for this record by the group Los Meme, circa-1965, was printed on a re-used sleeve for a Beny Moré album...
- The Los Meme record is on the Areito imprint, which was founded in 1964 as part of the EGREM (Empresa de Grabaciones y Ediciones Musicales) label, after the commercial Cuban record company Panart was nationalized by the Castro regime...
- The Beny record was originally issued in 1958 -- the year before the Revolution -- by Discuba, which was owned by RCA-Victor (see screenshot of the original sleeve with RCA-Victor logo)...
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View full threadMeanwhile, between the release of the RCA-Victor album and the nationalizing of the industry, poor Beny had gone to the big guaguancó in the sky, so the recycled sleeve represents the passing of a musical as well as political era.
- Reposted by Sarah BryanHey everyone. I am a potter/historian/collector who was born and raised here in central North Carolina. I am currently co-writing a book with Sarah Bryan @considerjeoffry.bsky.social on the history of Southern folk pottery scheduled for pub. by UNC Press next year.
- For my fellow ghost story-lovers, a happy recommendation for this beautiful collection by Barendina Smedley. They're short stories about ghosts, but also about a sense of place, and belonging (or not) to that place -- in this case, East Anglia -- and the permeability of time. a.co/d/iJPrrTp
- I keep seeing comparisons between Smedley and M. R. James, which is totally apt. Their respective stories share a deep calm, which can be both comforting and terrifying; an unassuming historical and literary erudition; and a compassion for the grief that accompanies hauntings...
- But they're also really different from James -- in that tradition, but not in imitation. They also remind me of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, particularly "All Souls." That's part of why I'm so excited to discover her, because they're in that tradition I love so much, but also modern and new.
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View full threadI learned about Barendina Smedley from Edward Parnell's "Ghostland," which is also fabulous.
- Hey Bluesky, meet Satchel.
- Reposted by Sarah BryanSimpler times. Newspaper clipping from 1906.
