tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34917991936724970272025-10-02T17:20:16.167-04:00Dude, Where Am I?a writer's outletLoren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.comBlogger307125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-27296843593813783352016-05-23T10:57:00.002-04:002020-03-17T12:36:15.879-04:00Appleton's Home Down SouthThis 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
Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-57122929769111018682015-07-02T08:51:00.000-04:002020-03-17T12:36:16.368-04:00Image of Elizabeth Oakes Smith
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!Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-22773424171388715182015-06-01T13:38:00.002-04:002020-03-17T12:36:15.742-04:00When Movie Stars Came to PatchogueHere'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
Here's the full article text:
It’s a July afternoon in 1929 and you step inside Patchogue
Theatre to see a premier showing of Clara Bow in “The Saturday Night Kid.” A
young man dressed in a crisp uniform Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-53443989377022494402014-02-06T12:22:00.000-05:002020-03-17T12:36:16.257-04:00Welcome!Thank you for visiting my blog today. Click on the labels above or on the sidebar to explore my posts. -LorenLoren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-31851759965469550962013-06-19T00:09:00.000-04:002020-03-17T12:36:15.932-04:00I Want to Be a Docent When I Grow Up
"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 summer Havens House will be establishing regular tour hours. Stop by and I just might be your tour guide because guess what? I'm a docent. That means I get to play a role in that big old house! Next thing you know&Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-55428846364926200162013-02-09T00:33:00.002-05:002020-03-17T12:36:16.312-04:00Thoreau and Oakes SmithSophia thoreau brothers impatience
Thoreaus thoughts
Carole Healy dallLoren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-64571032945278144722013-02-03T23:02:00.000-05:002020-03-17T12:36:16.532-04:00Here I Go AgainHere 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 Avenue, I think, and Lake Street. If the picture is pointing West, her home, The Willows, may be in the distance. Just a long shot ...
Also, the white church in the foreground could be the original Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-58579518298641417842013-01-28T21:26:00.000-05:002020-03-17T12:36:16.478-04:00They Wanted to Take the Martini out of TGIF
Above: The picture that may have killed a continental movement.
This image is credited to TUAC.CA.
Here's some local history pertaining to how people liked to party in the latter part of the 19th century written mostly for my own amusement.
In the mid- 1850's, the Temperance Movement, an effort to prohibit Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-23405744963621534252012-09-08T13:46:00.001-04:002020-03-17T12:36:15.825-04:00An Interesting Find!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. That would make sense, since her book of poems was published the same year. EOS would have been about 37 years old when she sat for this portrait. Hey, I know someone else who happens to be 37 right Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-52356555918325782842012-09-03T21:57:00.001-04:002020-03-17T12:36:16.149-04:00People are still walking in her footsteps
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 Victorian woman who got further, and ultimately, was credited as the first woman climber there.
http://bangordailynews.com/2010/06/25/outdoors/women-show-off-vintage-finery-on-mount-katahdin-ascent/Mr. Norman Whiskershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17855265901073359367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-53243779151278137742012-01-10T21:55:00.000-05:002020-03-17T12:36:16.203-04:00Historic Homes WebsiteIf you like old houses look here-
http://historichouses.wordpress.com/Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-38976531621816367062012-01-02T19:30:00.005-05:002020-03-17T12:36:16.095-04:00Notes on The Mayflower: a collection of poetry and prose
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, and being an antique book lover, I was pretty excited about that. There is nothing like reading a book that's over 150 years old in your sweats with your cat on your lap. That's my idea of relaxing. Norman Whiskers has Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-38315703309654313742011-12-01T21:53:00.002-05:002020-03-17T12:36:16.041-04:00A cool linkCivil War Women has biographical information for Elizabeth Oakes Smith and several other interesting people. Check it out.Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-57405747401395482832011-10-23T19:40:00.008-04:002020-03-17T12:36:16.423-04:00Elizabeth Oakes Smith Visits PatchogueToday 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 Patchogue Arts Council. In the first half I read a letter to Sarah Whitman. Marjorie and I combined real EOS diary entries from the early 1860's to create this letter. The second half is a fictitious lecture. Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-32299684191766629652011-10-21T17:56:00.004-04:002020-03-17T12:36:15.986-04:00America's Early Political HumoristRead 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 just last week. See here too.
He even has a Facebook page with biographical information.
Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-77646231053135833422011-10-08T00:35:00.008-04:002020-03-17T12:36:16.586-04:00I Look Awesome for 205 Years Old With No Botox
Greetings from the 19th century.
I will be appearing in New York at the Patchogue Theatre Lobby Sunday, October 23, at 1 p.m. to tell modern people about my life in Patchogue Village during the horrible war. One of the residents has been so kind as to let me speak through her. As you know, I have been dead since 1893, but Ms. Christie bares a&Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-73597328473808365552011-09-11T20:08:00.009-04:002020-09-10T21:27:14.431-04:00Remembering 9-11
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 fallen Twin Towers. On a bridge across the eastbound Long Island Expressway, somewhere near East Moriches, there was a banner made from a ripped white bed sheet. On it was written "Pray for Us" in black spray Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-87843431348141828172011-07-19T16:24:00.011-04:002020-03-17T12:38:22.430-04:00Can You Find The Willows?
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 I'm not sure now which building is the Smith home. I thought it was the large white house in the distance, but two fellow history buffs have told me that can't be the house. Now I think it mayLoren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-47396156393509747612011-06-12T08:50:00.004-04:002020-03-17T12:38:21.904-04:00Awesome New Long Island History WebsiteHi 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 Island StoriesLoren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-28922479327619820512011-03-12T10:03:00.035-05:002020-03-17T12:38:21.682-04:00Elizabeth Oakes Smith's Life in Patchogue During the Civil War
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 burning pages of writing. Perhaps she didn’t want me reading those papers 200 + years later. I can understand that. In the margins of the scrapbook, she scribbled notes and sometimes the paper she used was Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-29334296020575633562011-02-06T13:28:00.007-05:002020-03-17T12:38:21.737-04:00Coming Up: Elizabeth Oakes Smith and the Civil WarThis 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 time, and tie in that information to what was happening in Patchogue then.Look for a post next weekend on the subject of Elizabeth Oakes Smith and the Civil War period, here on Dude, Where Am I?. I might be Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-37372110179658011312011-01-27T16:33:00.017-05:002020-03-17T12:38:21.793-04:00Family Feud 1870's StyleFor 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 New York and is buried in Patchogue alongside her husband, Seba Smith, an early newspaper editor and political humorist. This picture shows her in her later years and is scanned from Mary Alice Wyman's book, Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-58024492450216641852010-07-18T22:53:00.018-04:002020-03-17T12:38:22.015-04:00What Happened to Rolvin?“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.” -Elizabeth Oakes Smith (1-207)
Since I read about Rolvin, the second of the two children of Elizabeth Oakes Smith and Seba Smith who died in childhood, I have been trying to discover what happened to him. At first I looked Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-58671489339297917512010-07-18T15:22:00.006-04:002020-03-17T12:38:22.071-04:00About The Willows (The Oakes Smith Patchogue Residence)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 a fascinating article printed in the September 10, 1873 issue of The Brooklyn Eagle that chronicles a reporter’s interview of Madame Oakes Smith still in her home, The Willows, while the building is practically Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3491799193672497027.post-67252832176766058482010-07-03T22:34:00.011-04:002020-03-17T12:38:22.127-04:00"All the Lonely People, Where Do They All Belong?"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 Patchogue. He shared some information about the Smith family that he gathered through newspaper articles which is fascinating. One thing he uncovered, that no one else has caught yet, is that the graves of Loren http://www.blogger.com/profile/05917946376600583050noreply@blogger.com3