Relationships & Going Places

This except is from a Yale lecture by Prof. Paul Bloom of Yale lecture entitled What Motivates Us: Sex. This lecture is one in a series and part of Academic Earth, a website that presents lectures by recognized (and usually talented) academics. The lecture can be accessed through a video and a transcript.

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Julia Sneden reprises: My great grandmother Abby dyed her wedding dress black, and proceeded to wear it for the rest of her life. When fashions changed, she remade it to suit the mode, from hoop to bustle to whatever the current style commanded. Despite bearing nine children, she remained tall and slender and able to fit into the dress.

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Rochelle Schwab writes: I'm continually astonished to read letters-to-the-editor, blogs and op-eds attacking my nephew's family as a threat to every other family in America. How could anyone call these two loving people and their little boy a threat to the well-being of other families?

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Julia Sneden writes: These letters from the mid-1800s are from and to my great grandparents and were saved by relatives who passed them along. They give a vivid glimpse into how different a woman's life was, in the mid-nineteenth century, but they are also testimony to the universality of human relations.

The company of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Stowell and daughter is respectfully solicited at the house of C.S. Kelsey to attend a social visit...

There may be music and running of children. Talking of the old folks to be held under consideration. Riding on land and perhaps water. Looking into the woods and not seeing anything but woods, going to the grist-mill, saw mill, and such like places, will form a part of the entertainment...It won’t be best for the company to offer excuses for not coming, as no such thing is allowable....

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