2020-09-11 01:27
On September 12, 2001 I was driving to work in a daze, having been up most of the night haunted and worried about my husband's cousin, and thousands of other lost people at the site of the f… Read More
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2020-03-17 16:38
For those of you coming in on this topic for the first time, Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1806-1893), was a poet and the first woman to make a living as a lecturer on women's rights. She lived in… Read More
2020-03-17 16:38
“It is only when a woman has become utterly commonplace- mechanical and passive, that she loses the spirit of hope. Health, strength, beauty, all are the offspring of Hope.” -Eli… Read More
2020-03-17 16:38
I’ve read accounts that place the sale of The Willows in the year 1870. At this time EOS is said to have moved in with her son Alvin in Blue Point, Long Island. However, I came across… Read More
2020-03-17 16:38
I did a presentation called Finding Elizabeth: Uncovering the life of local poet, activist and lecturer Elizabeth Oakes Smith for The Greater Patchogue Historical Society on June 17th at 7 p… Read More
2020-03-17 16:38
A few weeks ago, during my presentation at the local library on the life of Elizabeth Oakes Smith I met a history buff and a reader of Dude, Where Am I? named Gary T. who is researching Patc… Read More
2020-03-17 16:38
Lunches in the newspaper morgue have (sort of) paid off handsomely. I think I found the only picture in public archives of the Elizabeth Oakes Smith and Seba Smith home, The Willows, but now… Read More
2020-03-17 16:38
Hi Visitors. Check out this new website about Long Island history by a fellow local history buff friend of mine. He gleans most of the information from old local newspapers. -LorenLong Islan… Read More
2020-03-17 16:38
One of the things that I find so interesting about EOS is that she saved just about every clipping of writing she ever published in scrapbooks. (I do this too.) There are also stories of her… Read More
2020-03-17 16:38
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and Marjorie Roe from the Greater Patchogue Historical Society has asked me to research Elizabeth Oakes Smith's activities during that… Read More
2020-03-17 16:36
Sophia thoreau brothers impatience
Thoreaus thoughts
Carole Healy dall Read More
2020-03-17 16:36
I came across this engraving by Henry Inman of Elizabeth Oakes Smith this morning. An announcement in The United States Magazine suggests that the artwork was completed sometime around 1843… Read More
2020-03-17 16:36
Here is an interesting article about a group of modern women climbing Mount Katahdin, following Elizabeth Oakes Smith's journey. The author mentions how far Smith traveled and names another… Read More
2020-03-17 16:36
If you like old houses look here-
http://historichouses.wordpress.com/ Read More
2020-03-17 16:36
The Mayflower is a collection of poetry and prose that was compiled and edited by Elizabeth Oakes Smith in 1848. I was lucky enough to get a copy of the original book… Read More
2020-03-17 16:36
Civil War Women has biographical information for Elizabeth Oakes Smith and several other interesting people. Check it out Read More
2020-03-17 16:36
Today was my first theatrical re-enactment of EOS thanks to Marjorie Roe of the Greater Patchogue Historical Society, Sister Grace Rowland of Clare Rose Playhouse and SJC, and the Patch… Read More
2020-03-17 16:36
Read Seba Smith's The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing here.
Here is a list of his works available in the public domain.
Though he died in 1868, Smith made news in Maine ju… Read More
2020-03-17 16:36
Greetings from the 19th century.
… Read More
2016-05-23 14:57
This blog post tells some of the history of Elizabeth Oakes Smith's son Appleton Oaksmith's southern home. Really interesting ...
http://kellenbergerroom.blogspot.com/2014/11/yo-ho-who.html Read More
2015-08-10 18:51
Ingredients:
1 pkg lady fingers
1 Angel food cake, sliced
1 box of instant
banana cream pudding, prepared according to box directions
1 8oz container reduced fat whipped cream
1 small pk… Read More
2015-07-06 13:55
Ketcham Inn Grand Opening in Newsday
My costume was custom made by Kathleen Johnson from Center Moriches, NY. She used a victorian pattern to create this three-layered, embroidered silk d… Read More
2015-07-02 12:51
A 19th century portrait of Elizabeth Oakes Smith, during her lecture years?.... taken by C.D. Fredricks in New York.
Here is my latest find. Fascinating! Read More
2015-06-04 00:06
Check out my column AS SEEN IN the June 2015 issue of BOATING TIMES LONG ISLAND!
http://boatingtimesli.com/NY/my-personal-safety-officer/
By the time my father started
boating I was… Read More
2015-06-03 23:25
Here's a local history article I wrote on Patchogue's theatre heyday for the Long Island Advance, May 2015.
https://www.longislandadvance.net/229/When-movie-stars-came-to-Patchogue-theaters… Read More
2015-05-14 17:19
When my eldest was born I tried to do everything right as a
mom. I played Norah Jones music while he snoozed and I owned a baby wipe
heater. I placed his newborn pointer finger on every word… Read More
2015-05-14 17:02
As a media consultant for the newspaper I support businesses
by attending as many of their grand openings as possible. I had two this past
Saturday, so I brought my 8 year-old son Aidan with… Read More
2015-05-14 14:51
"There
are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as
if everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein
I was reading “Poems of Inspiration and C… Read More
2014-02-06 23:05
Thank you for visiting my blog today. Click on the labels above or on the sidebar to explore my posts. -Loren Read More
2013-08-25 19:34
BHS Antiques Road Show Event by Loren Russell-Christie Read More
2013-08-08 01:11
Do things happen randomly? My gut says no.
Since my dad's green house went up on my property, I've been getting gifts weekly of wildlife sightings. First it was Tiger Swallowtail butterflie… Read More
2013-07-25 18:40
Seba Smith, (husband of Elizabeth Oakes Smith), was really a very fascinating person, and a path-blazer when it came to political satire in the mid 1800's. I really don't understand wh… Read More
2013-07-23 00:35
Every once in a while a song comes along that really speaks to you. I love this one so much Read More
2013-07-14 01:03
Let's say you run out of junk mail, old credit cards, and copies of Eliot Spitzer’s new book on how to live a moral life, but you are still looking for more things to SHRED, then it&rs&hell…Read More
2013-07-13 21:58
"I wear your grandma's clothes" when I'm a docent.
Here is a recent article I wrote for The Tide of Moriches about a historic house museum in Center Moriches. This sum… Read More
2013-07-12 16:09
Dad, I wish you could see how great your hoop house turned out.
My new summer office is my dad's old hoop house rebuilt.
It started with a bunch of rusty ho… Read More
2013-02-26 19:57
(Read this recipe in your best Irish brogue)
Tis fair to say, Lads and Lassies, that Irish oatmeal generally tastes disgusting, except in cookies. This recipe util… Read More
2013-02-04 19:31
Here I go again, trying to find a picture of Elizabeth Oakes Smith's Patchogue house. Here is a link to a picture snapped in 1890 showing Pine Street, which later became North Ocean Av… Read More
2013-02-04 01:07
I made this soup while Indy, Norman Whiskers, my kids and I watched the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet. We had to send the husband out to the store in order to steal the remote control. This so… Read More
2013-01-31 04:06
Above: The picture that may have killed a continental movement.
This image is credited to TUAC.CA.
Here's som… Read More
2013-01-09 21:53
My dad passed away at my home on January 2, 2013. He departed peacefully during a blazing sunset that streamed through the windows onto his bed. My mom and… Read More
2012-12-08 01:56
I only knew one way to cook eggplant when my grandmother shared this recipe in 2003. I could already make her eggplant Parmesan. This recipe works if you don't have enough time to cook it in… Read More
2012-11-21 13:55
A squirrel taunts my dog with a jar of peanut butter.
The squirrels in my yard know I hate them, but that wasn't always… Read More
2012-11-12 23:33
My idea of porn is an image of my husband being handy and I'm making a calendar for myself. Some things fall out of the lines of home improvement, but still count as calendar-worthy. This mo… Read More
2012-10-29 21:14
The wind is raging outside, but as luck would have it, my gas oven could withstand the end of the world. So, it doesn't matter much that my neighbor's trampoline just flew past my wind… Read More
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