Welcome to my blog, A Thing for Things! This is a space where every now and then I write about things from then and now.

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The Stamp Act Crisis, captured on paper 1765, Collections of the New-York Historical Society; me outside one of my favorite museum collections (and research haunts)--the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; excellent signage, Spitalfields, London; a tart letter and fabric samples from Mary Alexander, textile merchant in colonial New York, Collections of the New-York Historical Society; standing behind colossal George Washington, at Federal Hall, looking out on Wall Street.