More Mass : Beverly, MA high school football team, 1901.
Look at those B’s! There’s never been a more attractive football uniform than thick knit turtleneck sweaters with a beautiful B handsomely displayed. See the little kitty cat mascot?!

side note : I used to live in Beverly Mass. It’s a wonderful little New England town complete with seashore, Victorian homes & art school.

via Digital Commonwealth

Connecticut. Girls, boys and infant dresses. Pretty young things.

1. Girl’s dress.
2. Girls’ dress owned by Mary Caroline Ogden Pierson.
3. Boy’s dress probably owned by a member of the Filley family.
4. Boy’s suit owned by Oliver Ormerod Jensen.
5. Infant’s dress owned by a member of the Brainard family.

via University of Connecticut

Early American toys that is. Kids just wanna have fun on the prairie.
via Homestead Toys

While we’re all stuck at work my friends Sarah, Jeff & Jenn are riding a train across the country to Portland, Oregon where they will be participating in a conference, Open Engagement. They have picked up more friends along the way in Chicago & Minneapolis and have made a mini train conference out of their travels—reading texts & hosting dance parties. Anyway, I am going crazy on this picture of Sarah jumping rope with two little Amish kids during a layover in Montana. Pure bliss! Take me to the mountains, please!

via their train ridin’ blog Empire Builders

& so long as I’m here : shout out to Matt Cassity who effortlessly designed me a new header & twitter bkgrd. Whoot! It’s inspired by weaving, Sol Lewitt & mountains.

Buffy from Sesame Street, not vampire slayer. Listen to some beautiful music, see some folk fashions. I always loved when TV shows traveled somewhere. The 3rd clip (Buffy’s Morning Song) intros with the Sesame Street gang boarding a plane for Hawaii to visit Buffy and her family. They all sleep in a teepee and Big Bird brings a wagon full of cabbages for Mr. Snffleupagus.

Buffy Sainte-Marie is an Academy Award-winning aboriginal Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, pacifist, educator, social activist, and philanthropist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Native Americans. She appeared on Sesame Street from 1975 to 1982.

UPDATE : Watch this short video of Buffy discussing her work and life.
Buffy by John Walker, 2010.
via National Film Board of Canada

Don’t Pollute! Woodsy Owl’s Give a Hoot – Don’t Pollute public service announcements of the 1970s.
In the city or in the woods, help keep America looking good!
Happy Earth Day!