Cheryl Aruda

@dirtyblondesinger.bsky.social

Gravelicious soul/blues singer, great foodmaker, mighty decent songwriter, kinda funny, too! New England lesbian w/o a Subaru. https://www.reverbnation.com/dirtyblonde Download my ancient CD, Unrequited Love Songs, and stay tuned for the new one!

Before my 49th birthday ends, give me a fantastic present & share my latest #ScholarSunday thread to get all this great work to all the folks, thanks! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 3w ago

Traveling back to Massachusetts tomorrow, so once again y’all get #ScholarSunday on a Saturday! Here’s my 289th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

1/ let's talk utopia here's 95 fayerweather street in cambridge, one of the bases of a planned neighborhood-wide commune in the 70s. members lived in a number of other houses nearby, and rented a large garage in the field behind the houses as the base for an alternative school

a brown multi-fam house

"Oh, green and glorious! Oh, herbaceous treat! Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad-bowl! Serenely full, the epicure would say, `Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.'" –Sydney Smith, from Recipe for a #Salad 🍜

Botanical watercolour illustration of carrot, cauliflower, celery and celeriac with writing on top: Forty Varieties of Garden Vegetables, how to plant and cultivate explained elsewhere in this volume. 

Digitally enhanced from rawpixel's  own original copy of The Open Door to Independence (1915) by Thomas E. Hill.Another botanical illustration from the same illustrator with the same caption: Forty Varities of Garden Vegetables, how to plant and cultivate explained elsewhere in this volume.

The illustrations are all green, showing corn salad, cress, cucumber and dandelion leaves.

Garden vegetable watercolor illustration. Digitally enhanced from rawpixel's own original copy of The Open Door to Independence (1915) by Thomas E. Hill.