Blog Roundup #51 | Abby Epplett, Historian
Abigail Epplett
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This week's roundup is light, as I have been enjoying the last nice days of the year instead of writing blog posts. In the last weekend in September, I went to Trails & Sails in Essex National Heritage Area, while just yesterday, I took a nature and heritage boat tour hosted by the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council . Posts on these fun events will appear in February 2025. Meanwhile, the roundup finishes my trip to Duxbury, MA and includes one new installment to my ongoing essays series Lord of the Rings: The Animated Musical, exploring the real-world history that inspired this franchise.
Duxbury, MA
Art Complex Museum is a small contemporary art museum combining unique architecture and internationally renowned artists with the work of local creators. Additionally, the museum is free to the public, well-lit, and fully wheelchair accessible. If you are in the Duxbury area, it is worth stopping by this unique and high quality museum.
Also called Old Burying Ground, this unique little cemetery claims to be the oldest maintained cemetery in the United States. The town of Duxbury has sporadically taken care of the area since the mid-17th century and named the grounds after colonial militant Myles Standish, who is said to have been buried on the grounds on October 1656.
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Like in other New England towns, I visited the church, town hall, a large cemetery, a monument, and forest trails.
Lord of the Rings: The Animated Musical
After an introduction delving into the quantum theory concept of multi-world theory and its fictionalized appearance in literature, I summarized the calendars of Middle-earth, presented a brief history of calendars in the real-world, compared Middle-earth and real-world holidays, and described how calendars will be incorporated into the hypothetical animated musical. As an added bonus, I created a few colorful charts to aid in understanding days of the week, months of the year, and seasons for the multiple languages of Middle-earth along with how they compared to durations of time in the real-world.