New Eden: A Journey through the Early Republic

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  • Whose Spirit Moves?

    The Constable brothers had an interesting relationship with organized religion. As a family they were dissenters—in short, they did not prescribe the idea of a state mandated religion. For them… Read more

  • Gentlemen Adventurers

    The brothers often found mischief, though they always acted the part of gentlemen even in the wilderness. They might turn burglar but paid for anything taken. 10 Wed. [Wednesday, 12… Read more

  • Falling for Niagara Falls

    The Constable brothers saw many locales on their long journey—they lingered only briefly or simply passed through many, but waterfalls consistently were something that appealed to William’s romantic sensibilities especially.… Read more

  • Resurrecting the Dead

    The site has had extensive updates on the About page. This is primarily to provide contextual flesh to the bones of the New Eden project description. Read more

  • Young Artists

    The Museum was pleased to welcome hundreds of children—from toddlers to high school students to our annual spring break programs. The library and archives hosted a sketching from the collection… Read more

  • Communities

    In the span of a single month, between 15 August and 14 September 1806—on the first leg of their epic 7,073¼ mile journey through the interior of the continent, the… Read more

  • Past Forward

    The Constable brothers were keenly aware of the uniqueness of what they had encountered on their journey through the United States. William outlived his older brother by twenty-eight years and… Read more

  • Chaos Chronology

    I am particularly fond of the literary technique of inverted narrative. Simply, this is to tell a story by starting at the end. The story of the paper’s arrival in… Read more

  • The Great and Small

    Historians are interested in the past and make the claim that as specialists they are uniquely situated to be able to parse and decipher this past and by doing so… Read more

  • Other Geographies

    I am enamored of the idea of maps. It is a delight to encounter older examples of maps from the time before everything has been logged in minute detail. A… Read more

Welcome to the journey

I am an archivist and historian who has been fascinated by the story of the Constable brothers since I first encountered them by chance in a library backlog.

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