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The Attic of Gallimaufry

Things Left Behind
Things Found by the Way
Over the Temporal Horizon
Kindled Shades of Halcyon Days
What's the attic?
Benchmarks and Touchstones
Commments? We're listeing
This Day in History
History of the World
Library of Congress Image Files
Public Domain


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Jan 31, 2026

Attic Stuff
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Read the Book

The Blog

Gold and the War

Yeats

Vera Blue Raven

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Reality
Wonderment
The Sixties
A Hinge Moment
CHS NM Class of 1960
A twilight glimpse.
When Jazz Was Cool
In the Muffled Wayback of the 1950s
Perry's Vision
Oliver Perry and Rural Education
It's the Big One
The Cascadia Subduction Zone. Be afraid. Very afraid.
Crisis of 1894
A modern flim flam of history misremembered.
Glory Years
New Mexico A&M's Glory Years, he called them.
Magic in the Desert
Pervis Atkins called it Magic
White Rock Days
Limitless expectations
Green Pastures
Stagecraft and minstrelsy
Oldest Man?
The oldest man in the US, by his reckoning.
Into the 20th
The decade that normalized education for all.
J. Paul Emerson
Life was brighter than the sun, the future wide open with hope.
ChatGPT Whoppers
Poking around ChatGPT...uh oh.
Wipers Times
Tales from the Salient.
Herb Hickerson
Influence of a long-ago teacher.
Hayes in NM
Presidential mule train through NM's bodacious social cauldron
There's Still Hope
An almost-ghost town west of Artesia
Fabulous Fifties
When the fabulous fifties were still the fifties
Robert Sherrod Slander?
Misreading history, a class project
Shelley's Heart
Cor Cordium of bemused obsession.
Radio Days
Radio's Golden Age vanished in a vespers echo.
St. James Infirmary
Where did this dang song come from, anyway?
Hadacol
"I hadda call it something"
1892
It wasn't just the Ferris Wheel
Vassar Hill
A minor Civil War skirmish recalled imperfectly
1947
NMSU's Aggies when history hauled away the World Wars
American Bastile
Political hit job, elevated to historical primary source
No..Not that one.
Winston Churchill had a remarkable life...both of them
New Mexico
New Mexico, our paramnesic state
Incompleteness Theorem
Kurt Godel knew why something is always missing
Autumn
John Keats, Lou Gehrig, and Autumn
Eldred Trachta
He was the best of us
NM Lawmen: Tularosa
Fountain, Lee, et al
NM Lawmen: Pecos Valley
Garrett, Harkey, et al
Johnny Bill
Put the money on a horse
Steam Trains
Eternal truth of a lonesome whistle
Walt Whitman, Feedom's poet
Missing me one place, search another
Jim Gilliam
We went wild in Kansas living rooms
Absement! Absement!
Curiosity as societal consciousness
Fats Navarro
Great Price for Great Art
Harry Smith
World's first flight controller
Cubic Equation: Geronimo
Exploring the slipperiness of language

Have Pen Will Travel

Human Migrations

Independent Authors

Frances Kelsey

Big Boy

McCormick Deering

Quondam Rangely

Mole People?

Understand Better

1939 World's Fair

State of the Union

Motorized Skates

Sister Rosetta

Abel Con Man

Time Travel

Bohannon School

Fabulous Future-1870

Remembering WW I

Einstein and Shrodinger

Predicting the Future

The Roads West

The Third Man

Open The Books

Ariosa Coffee

Visuallizing

Vice Presidents

Before Flying Saucers

Civil War Statues

Pedestrianism

Leonhard Euler

Cartoons

Progress Report

The Golden Age of Radio

A Wise Man

Wizard's Tale

Free Speech

Remembering

Fort Selden

B. H. Fairchild

Ubiquitous Theorem

Videos of This and That

New York 1911

100 Years of Lincoln HiWay

Route66

San Francisco 1906

Victoria, BC 1907

Buffalo Bill Parade

Marionette in Manhattan

Forever Country

US States and Territories

Teddy Roosevelt, 1905 Preparedness

The Making of Forever Country

Teddy Roosevelt, 1910 Flight

Years and Eras

1953
1812
14th Century
1946
19th Century Slide Show
Time Machine-the farm days

High Bird

USS West Virginia

Calvin "Max" Maxwell

Big Box of Stuff


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