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Ken Booth

@KenBooth

Publisher and merchant. Co-owner of Shorpy, Inc., a purveyor of fine things at http://t.co/bpcPuBbu and http://t.co/4VerItNV.

 Madison, Alabama
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Joined March 2007
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A little weather this morning @bonnaroo
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1901. "Washington Avenue and Post Office -- Ocean Springs, Mississippi." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. shorpy.com/node/26662
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Starting to hardcore prep for Bonnaroo next week. We've attended every year since '13 with our children and friends. It's a tradition we cherish. Honestly, if we had a vote to cancel Bonnaroo or Thanksgiving, I think Bonnaroo would win. Christmas should be nervous. #Bonnaroo
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RooHamm@RooHamm9 Jun 2022
For reference, can definitely see how Roo will be scaled down this year. 2022 Map 2019 Map – at Edina, MN
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I just published "Recent non-fiction recommendations" link.medium.com/UDote0imJpb
Recent non-fiction recommendations

Recent non-fiction recommendations

At the beginning of this year I scoured the best of 2021 non-fiction lists and began working reading several books that seemed appealing…

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For NYC food carts "the factory produces about 15,000 donuts on a typical day ..." annekadet.substack.com/p/don…
Found a tank trap at a roadblock in Kyiv today with a plaque indicating that it's a WW2 antique brought out from a museum exhibit.
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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary
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Shorpy@Shorpy28 Jan 2022
Visit 1901 Bar Harbor, Maine, in this Shorpy short video created from a panorama stitched together from two 8x10 glass negatives. youtube.com/watch?v=xelbP8gs…

Bar Harbor, Maine, 1901

This video was created from a panorama that we stitched together fr...

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Shorpy@Shorpy27 Jan 2022
"Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were 'killed'." publicdomainreview.org/essay…
The Kept and the Killed

The Kept and the Killed

Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”. Erica X Eisen examines the history behind this...

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Since we're in resolution season, here is a method for reading 100 books a year: 1. Always be reading a printed book and audiobook. 2. Read at least 50 pages every day in printed book and listen to the audiobook whenever you can. 3. Stop reading any book you’re not enjoying.
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This method worked for me for five years, until Covid threw me off of my groove. Point #3 is critical. Slogging through books you don’t like is a great method for reading about 10 books a year.
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I'm starting to get back into the groove, though I doubt I'll read 100 books this year.
I dig reading old public-domain books from the 19th/18th centuries. So I made a little search tool *specifically* for that You type a query, it finds you one book that matches it -- and presents it for instant reading Behold the "Weird Old Book Finder": clivethompson.medium.com/a-s…
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Have you Googled a recipe and found it reads like a short story? Well, here are 2 recipes from The Young Ladies' Society of First Baptist Church, Rochester, in 1887. Each is 2 sentences. The book is full of 1-paragraph recipes that could be made easily. archive.org/details/motherhu…
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We've had the cure all along. From Tried and Useful Recipes, 1877. There's a lot more where this came from: archive.org/details/recipes0…
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Bonnaroo lineup is out. There are 113 artists. I usually catch all or some of about 18 sets. I see 12 artists I’m excited about and I’m starting to explore and discover new ones. In the end there will be more acts I want to see than I will be able to see. I can’t wait. #bonnaroo
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There was an earthquake in Alabama: M 3.1 - 9 km SE of Maplesville, Alabama DYFI? - V Time 2021-12-22 06:20:50 UTC 2021-12-22 06:20:50 UTC at epicenter Location 32.737°N 86.794°W Depth 8.78 km (5.46 mi) More from USGS: zpr.io/kbRBCaTB3xL3
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A distillation of 80 album of the year lists: albumoftheyear.org/list/summ…

2021 Music Year End List Aggregate

The top albums for 2021 generated by compiling year end lists from major publications.

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Jazmine Sullivan's "Heaux Tales" and Olivia Rodrigo's "Sour" were each the top picks on two of the lists. But while "Heaux Tales" appears somewhere on all five lists, "Sour" doesn't appear at all on two of the lists. docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Best Albums of 2021 Sorted

Best Albums of 2021 Sorted

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