Holly Witchey
Holly Witchey has a Ph.D. in European Painting and Sculpture and twenty-five years of experience as a museum professional. She teaches museum studies online for Johns Hopkins University, and traditional museum studies at CWRU where she is adjunct faculty in the Department of Art History and Art. In October 2016 she joined the EdFutures team as Senior Fellow for Museums. EdFutures is a US-based not-for-profit with a focus on education across the globe with a mission is to help education leaders, institutions, and ministries worldwide to understand the implications of these developments, and to apply that knowledge in four key areas: strategic leadership, research, policy, and practice.
Witchey served on the board of directors for MCN and as the AAM Board-appointed member of the National Committee for Archives, Libraries, and Museums (CALM). Other professional appointments include: (2004-2007) Chair of AAM's Media and Technology Standing Professional Committee (M&T), (2010-2014) Co-Principal Investigator for the NMC Horizon Report>Museum Edition and lead blogger for MIDEA (http://midea.nmc.org/author/holly/) a non-profit organization with the goal to provide practical knowledge about emerging technologies that museums can use to advance their missions (2011-2014).
From 1991-1999 she was Associate Curator of European Art and Manager of New Media at the San Diego Museum of Art, and from 2000-2009 she was Director of New Media at he Cleveland Museum of Art. Witchey is the author of “Progressive Vision the History of Downtown Cleveland (1986),” the co-author of “The Fine Arts in Cleveland: An Illustrated History (1994), “An Uncommon Mission” (2000), and, most recently, “Cocktail at the Museum” (http://amzn.to/1YsdN0I). She served as Director of The Wade Project, Ohio a multi-year collaborative project. In 2016 she was named as one of the most interesting people in Cleveland by Cleveland Magazine (http://bit.ly/1YOi15h)
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March 14, 2017 at 1:45 pm
Here Randall is referring to the controversial J. Marion Sims (1813-1883) sometimes referred to as the “Father of Modern Gynecology.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Marion_Sims
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March 14, 2017 at 1:41 pm
Just a couple of years later, in 1873, the peripatetic Mr. Peebles was in New Zealand, having visited Melbourne and Dunedin giving papers on spiritualism. An article reviewing his presentation “Spiritualism, What is It? Who Believes in It?” noted that 250 attended. MR PEEBLES ON SPIRITUALISM.,Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2358, 24 February 1873
(http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18730224.2.22)
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July 16, 2016 at 1:04 pm
Possibly the intent here is “bunkum,” the slang term referring to nonsense.
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July 9, 2016 at 5:06 pm
“Royal Ghosts Stalk Corridors and Kingly Knees Shake,” Chicago Tribune, October 9, 1898
White Lady of the Hohenzollern
The writer does not know the White Lady tradition at Schonnbrunn, nor has he ever been able to ascertain anything definite about her history. But there is plenty of documentary evidence, as well as a wonderful array of records concerning the White Lady of the Hohenzollerns who makes her appearance In the old palace at Berlin whenever death Is about to overtake a member of the reigning house of Prussia. The late Emperor Frederick In particular was greatly interested In the matter and collected all the evidence that he could upon the subject for the purpose of depositing it In the archives of his family; Perhaps the most Important piece of testimony in this connection are the sworn statements signed by Prince Frederick of Prussia and a number of his fellows, to all of whom the White Lady is declared to have appeared as they sat together on the eve of the Prince’s death at the battle of Saalfeld in 1806.
Moreover, Thomas Carlyle went to no little trouble to procure evidence when writing the history of Frederick the Great that the White Lady had appeared to that famous monarch on the eve of his death.
Indeed, It Is asserted that the King was on the road to recovery from his illness, when suddenly one morning he declared he had seen the white-clad specter during the night, that his hour had come, and that it was useless to try to avoid death any longer. So he refused to take any further medicine, turned his face to the wall, and died. It seems that this White Lady of the Hohenzollern was originally the Countess Agnes von Orlamunde, who murdered her First husband, as well as her two children, in order to be enabled to marry the Burgrave of Nuremberg, the ancestor of the Electors of Brandenburg and of the house of Hohenzollern. The triple murder Is asserted to have taken place within the precincts of this palace…
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July 9, 2016 at 1:30 pm
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July 7, 2016 at 9:40 pm
John Murray, A Hand-book for Travellers on the Continent: Being a Guide Through Holland, Belgium, Prussia, and Northern Germany (London: John Murray and Son, 1840), p 472
“Baron Rothschild’s Villa, outside the Bockenheim Gate, is fitted up with taste, elegance, and splendour; strangers applying at the Baron’s house in the town, are sometimes admitted to see it; the garden attached to it is richly stored with rare plants, and is very neatly kept.”
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July 7, 2016 at 9:28 pm
Visit to Natural History Museum in Frankfurt
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July 7, 2016 at 6:45 pm
Randall is referring to Tad Lincoln (1853-1871), the youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln.
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May 12, 2016 at 11:07 pm
Quentin Durward is Sir Walter Scott’s 1823 historical novel about a Scottish archer serving King Louis XI of France (1423-1483)
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February 20, 2016 at 4:24 pm
This question mark is inserted by Wade. He wondered, I bet, as I am, how the stairs got transported from Jerusalem to Rome although they are supposed to have been brought back by Emperor Constantine’s mother St. Helena in the 4th century.
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