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I have an uncomfortable confession to make: my perspective on history has changed dramatically since I was a kid. When I was just a tween, I read Gone with the Wind . I had already seen the movie and, like so many others, I was swept away by the colorful costumes, grand plantations, and the dramatic love story between Scarlett and Rhett. I still remember the moment I spotted the paperback in a store while visiting family in Ohio. The cover immediately caught my eye. So much

Every autumn, after summer has given up her fight and the leaves are falling all around, I lure individuals into a moonlit cemetery- led only by lantern light- with promises of an unsettling experience. And they do indeed come. Together, we walk through the ornate Victorian gates onto hallowed ground that has stood for over three centuries. We assemble in a crescent shape, around the lichen-covered gravestones. And I begin to speak… And the stories come to life amid those gra

I experience a particular kind of joy in encountering an artifact from the past. To realize that it once existed in someone’s very real, very complicated present provides a glimmer of understanding I find intoxicating. It might be a letter, a fragment of pottery, or a site or structure that has outlived generations of changing tastes and changing times. It makes my imagination run wild. History, for me, is not a static pageant of dates, locations, and famous names. It is a lo

I had this slightly wacky idea to start a business. The spark behind this endeavor came from my own experience working with a volunteer-driven organization, the Merchants and Drovers Tavern Museum in Rahway, NJ. Through my travels, research, and hands-on work, I kept noticing a pattern: it is often the smallest organizations that tell the most compelling stories… with the smallest budgets. My research has always centered on the people who truly experienced history. We know t