An Illustrated Museum Newsletter

I thought that on weekends sometimes I would write you a little newsletter, possibly with links to interesting things I've come across. This one is to update you on how the museum will be running for now.

Once or twice a week I'll be posting longer stories - the Only the Dead Know Brooklyn ghost stories, more Victorian true crime, and stories about New York City things and people that are too interesting and involved for a quick drive-by. I will probably split the long stories into two or more posts but they will still, of course, exist as one story.

The other days I'll do shorter posts. Some days that might be very short indeed - an old advertisement, or a video clip. But I promise they will be things that I found fun, striking, weird or fascinating (ideally all of these!). I like posting something every day. I guess the main thing I wanted to say was that if some days there are tiny posts, that will be balanced by other days.

Which isn't to say that on the longer days I'll hit you over the head with William Faulkneresque walls of words or anything...I'll also keep you apprised of other projects as they develop - a possible third blog (for odd news of the past and present). I might share a little bit of relevant creative writing, and talk about my NaNoWriMo Victorian mystery - especially the bits of fun research I've been doing for it, about everyday life in Brooklyn in the 1890s. And about the true crime case it's based on, from 1873 - which features a female detective, several oddball suspects, and a clairvoyant.

I'm planning some longer posts on old Hollywood gossip and old movies, too. And the odd family history moment too - I haven't told you all of those by any means.

This week's longer posts: certainly Dr. Gouraud, the mysterious medical man. And after we dissect Gouraud: the amazing world of Dime Museums (the real kind!).

The advertisement that illustrates this post is from Duke University's Emergence of Advertising in America.