Blog Roundup #52 | Abby Epplett, Historian
Abigail Epplett
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For this week's roundup of my blog, Abby Epplett, Historian, I started a new series covering my five-day Cape Cod Adventure back in August. The first stop on my trip was Heritage Museums & Gardens; I found the experience so incredible that I turned it into a six-part mini-series. Also in this installment, I added two more essays to my ongoing project Lord of the Rings: The Animated Musical covering "Appendix E: Pronunciation and Writing". Meanwhile, this is my birthday week, so expect the blog to be quiet for a few days as I relax.
Heritage Museums & Gardens
In part 1 of 6, I review the history of Heritage Museums & Gardens in Sandwich, MA, including the work of rhododendron grower Charles Owen Dexter and the founder Josiah Kirby Lilly III.
In part 2 of 6, I focus on J.K. Lilly III Automobile Gallery, a classic car collection displayed in a stone round barn, which was based on a historic building found at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, MA.
In part 3 of 6, I focus on small buildings -- a post-Medieval house, a windmill, a wetu, and a treehouse -- and one canoe, located throughout the grounds.
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Part 4 of 6, I focus on art installations on the grounds, including work by sculptor Alfred Glover, an award-winning flume fountain, and a giant sundial.
In part 5 of 6, I focus on the reproduction a Revolutionary War era fort building called the Temple of Virtue, along with the rotating art exhibit inside, this one focusing on American Impressionists.
In part 6 of 6, I focus on the 1908 Looff Carousel created by Charles I.D. Looff and open to unlimited rides.
Lord of the Rings: The Animated Musical
Languages in Middle-earth followed similar sound shift trends as real-world languages and can be written using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). Learn the history of the IPA, discover the field of historical linguistics, and gain understanding of how Tolkien's fictional languages are pronounced.
Tolkien mirrored the writing systems of real-world languages by creating histories and syllabaries for his fictional writing systems of Tengwar and Cirth. Learn about real-world systems including Egyptian hieroglyphs; variations on the Latin alphabet; East Asian systems based on Chinese characters; Indian and Southeast Asia systems based on the ancient Brahmi script; pre-Columbian languages from Mexico and Central America; and writing systems created by Indigenous Americans to preserve their own languages after European colonization.