Patrick Leary

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Historian of 19th-c British print and oral culture, esp obscure Victorian scribblers, editors, periodicals, talkers. Enthusiast, battered optimist. #VictorianStudies #Victodon #Histodon #BookHistory #BookHistodon #LitStudies #DigitalHumanities #PublicHistory #Tennis #Ebikes #OldTimeRadio #nobot
Patrick LearyNov 19, 2022

Books encountered by chance - 1st in a series

Period Piece by Gwen Raverat, an artist who happened to be one of Darwin's grandchildren. Her illustrations are one of the many delights of this brillianrly warm, funny account of her childhood in 1890s Cambridge.

One evening in 1985 or so I came upon this tattered copy at a Half-Price Books in Houston, Texas and knew at once that it had to come home with me. We're both even more tattered now, but still together. #Victodons #Books #Darwin

Patrick LearyNov 6, 2022
When a warmish, sunny day turns up on the weekly forecast, my first thought is “the ebike!” Thursday was just such a day in the upper Midwest. The trails that meander among the lakes of Independence Grove are some of my favorite rides, and best of all the Des Plaines River Trail, which runs north-south through the Grove, takes you through some lovely forestland. It’s cold, rainy, and windy here now, but Thursday’s memories linger.