Recent Activity

• September 21, 2010 John Pittman has been to Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History
  

  Massachusetts, US

  Glass Flowers at Harvard Museum of Natural History

  Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a German father and son

  Natural history museums opening in the mid 1800s had a problem. While dioramas could depict the mammals of the world, the marine and botanical were difficult to preserve and the papier-maché or... »

  Natural Wonders, Extraordinary Flora, Wonder Cabinets, Natural History, Unique Collections | Edited by Dylan, ack sed and others

• September 21, 2010 John Pittman added Smuttynose Island
  

  Maine, US

  Smuttynose Island

  Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873

  Six miles off the coast of New Hampshire, but actually belonging to the state of Maine, Smuttynose Island is one of the Isles of Shoals. Named by fishermen who thought all of the seaweed that... »

  Memento Mori, Intriguing Environs, Disaster Areas | Edited by John Pittman, Nicholas Jackson and 2 others

• September 21, 2010 John Pittman added Hannah Dustin Memorial Statue
  

  Hannah Dustin Memorial Statue

  Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings

  On March 16, 1697 a group of Abenaki Indians raided and attacked the Haverhill, Massachusetts home of Thomas and Hannah Dustin. Thomas and eight children escaped, but Hannah, neighbor Mary Neff,... »

  Unusual Monuments | Edited by John Pittman, Annetta and others

• September 30, 2009 John Pittman added Eagle Lake Tramway
  

  Maine, US

  Eagle Lake Tramway

  Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods

  If you were to stumble on the tracks, or rusted iron wrecks it would certainty be a mystery. But this railway running straight through the forest of Maine, are remnants of a once genius system.... »

  Inspired Inventions, Incredible Ruins | Edited by John Pittman and M Rebekah Otto

• August 31, 2009 John Pittman added The Wilhelm Reich Museum
  

  Maine, US

  The Wilhelm Reich Museum

  Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich

  Wilhelm Reich was an esteemed psychoanalyst who studied with Freud in the 1920s. He influenced many writers, such as Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer, as well as the famed psychotherapist Fritz Perls... »

  Strange Science, Medical Museums | Edited by John Pittman, M Rebekah Otto and others

• June 3, 2009 John Pittman added Sunken Forests of Rye, NH
  

  Sunken Forests of Rye, NH

  Stumps of an ice age forest - visible only at low tide.

  In two places along New Hampshire's coast, if the tide is right, you can see the remains of a forest drowned when the glaciers retreated. One of the stump fields - just to the north of Jenness... »

  Extraordinary Flora | Edited by John Pittman