August 16, 2007
Listing of Southern California Historic Houses and Outdoor Museums
I have recently finished moving my long-standing listing of house museums and outdoor museums from the lahacal.org domain to the historicparks.org domain, where it seems far more appropriate.
http://historicparks.org/parks.html
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August 13, 2007
Just Launched - The Lanterman House Website
I have been working a lot with the Lanterman House lately, partly out of an appreciation for this wonderful local treasure, and partly out of a desire to ensure that the Lanteman Ragtime Tea Dance continues indefinitely.
In aid of this, I have just completed a website for the Lanterman House. It can be found at http://lantermanfoundation.org/
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April 12, 2007
The Merry Gamester Web Friendly Edition
Last year, I posted my self-published book on the history of games, the "Merry Gamester", on the web. This was just a PDF version of my old paper book.
I am taking a class in desktop publising, and I made it my class project for inDesign to remake it in a more web-friendly version.
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September 15, 2006
The Merry Gamester Online
Back in the early '90s, I looked with dismay on my fellow Renaissance Faire participants and Civil War re-enactors inventing card and dice games because they lacked the energy or research skills to find the rules to actual, historical games. To address this, I wrote and self-published "The Merry Gamester: A Practical Guide to the English Speaking World's Most Popular Card Games, Dice Games and Divers Amusements from Ancient TImes to 1900".
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July 22, 2006
American Textile History Museum Launches Online Catalog
The American Textile History Museum has announced the Chace Catalogue, an online collection of items from the museum. The catalog is currently in its "pilot" phase, but there are still over 500 items to view online (the eventual goal is to make all the Museum's collections available online--over 15,000 items. You can visit the catalog at http://www.athm.org/online_catalogue.htm.
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April 16, 2006
Places to Buy Vintage Recordings On Line
Here are a few places I know about where you can find vintage recordings from the first half of the 20th Century.
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April 14, 2006
Finding Historic Recordings Free Online
There are currently thousands of recordings, dating from the 1890s through the 1940s, which are available for free online.
Here are good vintage recording sites I know about. These are all "legit" sites, and do not include any sites where questionable filesharing might be taking place.
I will address where to buy vintage recordings in a later post.
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April 02, 2006
Places to get Victorian Dance Music Recordings
If any of you have ever purchased a CD with a title like "Strauss Waltzes" by, say, the Berlin Philharmonic, you may have discovered that bands focusing on the concert performance of dances don't really play in a way that is congenial for actual dancing. They are too slow or too fast or have muddy unclear tempi, or the tempi change suddenly.
While I am a firm believer in live music, no matter how humble, for your ball--if you are running a dance class, practising at home or listening for pleasure, you need a good recording.
Take heart! There is hope. There are a few bands out there whose CDs are made with dancers in mind.
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March 22, 2006
Vintage Dance Costume Suggestions
The Commonwealth Vintage Dancers have put together a helpful guide to what to wear at Vintage Dances.
It can be found at http://vintagedancers.org/costume.html
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