Chris Cantwell
@cdc29
Birding historian. Historian of birding. Associate Professor of History | Loyola University Chicago
Hat’s off to the curator of the John James Audubon Museum who installed this panel to the people Audubon enslaved while living in KY. It is the first post acknowledging this history, and the curator says it will not be the last.
Appreciate this curatorial nod to silence in the @kyhistsoc.bsky.social‘s exhibit on the state, and our nation’s founding.
Attending a Metro Milwaukee Sewage District rain barrel workshop that is put on by Fresh Coast Guardians. Hoping to divert some of our gutters into barrels. Solid WI joke in the title slide BTW.
And, well, here it is. It's a three column day planner built in HTML so it can run in the browser where I also have my email, calendar, and OneDrive open in. I've made several edits & additions to it as I've worked, such as adding the colors, standing activities, & notes. It's been great to use. /4
Ok. Here it is. The one pitch I’ll make for my book. “The Gospel According to Frank Wood” is an 80k word, 220 page book about one Sunday school teacher from Chicago. I know. Saying that out loud gives me pause too. But here’s the thing… /1
My department has a nice tradition of putting your book cover up outside of your office door. Was touched to see it up when I arrived to start the semester.
The highlight was getting a preview of a forthcoming dashboard made a team led by Yusuf Ransome made that visualizes congregation closings by county to inform local policy.
Very excited to be heading to Yale next week for this important interdisciplinary conversation on the social impacts of church closure. Yale's School of Public Health will be releasing a new dashboard that tracts the health disparities brought on by congregational decline.
Super cool (to me) find while thrifting with @secondhandsacred.bsky.social. A postcard sent by “A FRIEND” to a Princeton student in the midst of the ‘64 campaign.
🗃️ @ncph.bsky.social ‘s advocacy committee will be hosting a lunchtime “write in” tomorrow on Zoom to write our representatives to advocate for history funding. So if you need an outlet for action to a space to talk, join us! I’ll be cohosting! community.ncph.org/event/Postca...
It’s like having my own warbler observation deck right outside my office. So far have seen yellow rumped, palm, and chestnut sided warblers as well as an oven bird.
A pair of American Kestrels have built a nest where I charge my car on the way to campus.
I saw three bald eagles flying over Chicago’s northern suburbs on my way to work. Red wing blackbirds are currently singing outside my window. Spring has arrived.