Memories of a Death March

This image comes from Daniel Cohen's The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic. Observe the Wests' reaction to the venerable Plymouth Rock. This heartily reminded me of another reaction to the very same rock, documented during one of the infamous Winterthur class trips. Observe Amanda. She loves the ye olde (she's a curator of historic interiors at CW!). But we were tired... and well, it's a rock. It wasn't oozing with history as we had anticipated. Frankly, we were slightly more excited about this rock.