R. Mark Melville

R. Mark Melville

@rmarkmel.bsky.social

Assistant editor of Utah Historical Quarterly. Holiday enthusiast, casual trail runner, cat dad. Views are my own. 🏳️‍🌈

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

When I saw this postcard, I wondered if there really were Halloween lanterns like that in the 1920s, or if it was just the fanciful idea of the artist. Then I watched "Toby the Pup Hallowe'en" from 1931, and it also has these Halloween lanterns!

R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

When I was fifteen years old, I heard about "thon" and tried to use it. I even wrote a short story for English class about a person of unknown gender, using "thon" throughout the story. (I had never heard of nonbinary or intersex people at the time.) Now I just gladly use "they."

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com

In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person. ‘Thon’ was short for “that one.” It didn’t catch on.

R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

Fewer power outages, less queerphobia, cleaner air, chickenpox vaccine, individual movies on planes

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

Accurate. 🎶🕛♥️☘️🐣🇺🇸🐝🎃🦃🎄

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social

Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"

R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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R. Mark Melville
@rmarkmel.bsky.social

I started collecting vintage holiday postcards this year, and my neighbor gave me all of her collection. Here's a thread of all of the Halloween (or Hallowe'en) cards she gave me! 🧵🎃🦇🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️🌛🪞🕯️🦉 First: undated (looks circa 1910)

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History:Nevada
@historynevada.bsky.social

The Feb 12, 1904 Courier out of Genoa, NV, via the Reno Journal, reminds us of an unusual marriage that occurred in Tuscarora, NV on Sep 28, 1877. Sam Pollard married Marancy Hughes. But, Sam was actually Sarah. The first same-sex marriage in Nevada. t.co/zN9brPqYcj