September 16, 2013
Although the main focus of this photo is nautical, there are a few horses and wagons. This fascinating image shows payday for the dock workers in Baltimore, Maryland, c. 1905. I’ve been studying the photo to see if I can identify any of the buildings around the “edges” … I can’t help but wonder whether this is actually the Inner Harbor?
Needless to say, Baltimore’s harbors look rather different now!
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September 12, 2013
I saw a photo floating around on Facebook earlier today that featured two stagecoaches in Nevada, c. 1903. And that photo led me to an article from several years ago on a website called True West.
If you can stomach it, the article offers a rather nauseating look at stagecoach travel in the West. The vehicles themselves are beautiful, but … blech.
Enjoy! 😉
September 11, 2013
One of the reasons I love working on publications projects for the Carriage Association is that, when they come back from the printer, I can hold the finished project in my hands. And speaking of publications projects … much of my summer this year was taken up with the design and layout of the CAA’s newly re-envisioned and completely redesigned World on Wheels journal. From 2009 through 2011, we’d published a small (6×9 inches), black-and-white journal containing longer articles than we can typically feature in The Carriage Journal. Many of these were printed versions of lectures given at the International Carriage Symposia that the CAA hosts every other winter, with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
The content (long, in-depth articles, taken from symposium lectures) hasn’t changed much, but everything else has. In re-envisioning the World on Wheels, we decided to publish it every other year instead of annually but to make it bigger, longer, and much, much more colorful.
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As you’ve probably guessed by now, we’ve received our copies of this year’s World on Wheels from the printer. And, if I do say so myself, it’s gorgeous!!
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If you’d like to order a copy, you can find it in the CAA’s online shop, or you can call the CAA office at 859-231-0971. The books are $27.50 each, plus shipping, but current CAA members get a ten-percent discount on all orders.
September 10, 2013
Today’s post is slightly off-topic, but not quite as far off as you might think.
Here at the Kentucky Horse Park, the CAA office is next to the office and barn of the Horse Park’s mounted police. And, as of this week, the police-horse barn has two new employees.
Meet Otis (getting an ear rub in the second photo) and Madison …
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September 9, 2013
In honor of our remaining (last?) bit of summer — we’re expecting a high of ninety degrees tomorrow! — here’s a photo of what looks like a hot day at the harbor in Havana, Cuba, c. 1904. In addition to a number of ships (even a wrecked one in the middle of the harbor), there are several waiting wagons, most of which appear to be hitched to mules.
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The Slower Road 