SimcoeCurator

I visited 225 parks across Canada last year and received a World Record 🏆

There’s an article about it in my bio

📰 Link in bio

This is a court illustration from 1843.

It’s from the trial of Grace Marks and James McDermott, after a double murder that happened just outside Richmond Hill.

I’ll be talking about this case on February 17 at the Richmond Hill Historical Society.

The talk looks at the trial and institutional records themselves, and what they show about guilt, punishment, and how the story has been shaped since.

Tuesday, February 17
6:30 PM
Richmond Hill Central Library, Rooms A & B
Members free. Guests $5.

Photo courtesy of the Toronto Public Library, The Trials of James McDermott and Grace Marks, November 3–4, 1843.

On this day in 1931, Wilson Bentley passed away.

I have known his work for a long time, (I think we first learned about him in grade 3) but these past few years his work has really stayed with me.... & If you know me you know I've been going on about trying to capture snowflakes myself, preserving them in glue on slides. Hopefully it happens this holiday break!

Anyways, the photos in this article are lovely.

Wilson Bentley - Wikipedia Wilson Alwyn Bentley (February 9, 1865 – December 23, 1931), also known as Snowflake Bentley, was an American meteorologist and photographer, who was the first known person to take detailed photographs of snowflakes and record their features.[1] He perfected a process of catching flakes on black ...