Leighton Quarles

@AdamMSowards “Archives were necessary but insufficient.” YES.

@melnickjeffrey1 You never know. There’s one in my town with a “Justice for LaVoy [Finicum] sticker

Don Henley might’ve seen a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac but I just saw a Blue Lives Matter sticker on a Prius

@dfedman @nytopinion @CaryKaracas This is fantastic!

@Phrozen_ Bring back the Nomad!

@DrJSchramm Studebaker, or maybe AMC. Who needs another watered down subsidiary of one of the big 3?

@ANC_Historian Love it! You’re probably aware but the Fountainhead auto museum in Fairbanks has what is reportedly the first car in Alaska, this weird little contraption from 1905 or so in Skagway

May 22, 1916, Fourth Avenue, Anchorage. The first car in town reportedly an unspecified REO Motor Cars model brought here in Sep 1915. Joe Spenard also arrived in town around this time with an REO Speedwagon truck. #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory

@Matt_Stefon @melnickjeffrey1 What, you didn’t buy the delivery on “that Plymouth had a hemi with a Torqueflite”? How I love that movie

@melnickjeffrey1 did you ever see his co-starring role in “two-lane blacktop”? terrible delivery, but exuding charisma and presence, man. dennis wilson too, but he could actually deliver lines.

Imagine being a dude like James Taylor in the 70s coming up with phrases like “moonlight ladies” and getting lots of play. Grotesquely simpler tines

@erin_bartram But still wrong 😂

@erin_bartram 1778

@Lady_Historian Did you tell them that you’d answer one of every 16 questions?

@sarahmpicks What a great panel. Wish I could be at ASEH!

Going to my first ASEH in Boston in a few weeks. Who else will be there? (Also come to “Lofty imaginings: Histories of mountain lands” on Thursday afternoon!)

@melnickjeffrey1 YES. toddler and I drove around listening to blondie for like an hour and a half. She didn’t even mind me singing along—horribly—to union city blue

You ever just stop for a second and think about what a goddam miracle Blondie is?

@labrcq I’m a husband and I have also made this critical error. Miraculously I am still alive—for now

@HendrixKomoto Absolutely. A lot of things make religion look bad. Whitewashing does not improve the view

@HendrixKomoto Similar dustup in the late 90s over James Welch’s Fools Crow

@HendrixKomoto @KlineRacheld thought this was you for a minute 😂

@DrDanielleTW ¡Sí, mi madre y mi hija son vulgares! Ellas aman las sardinas, pero yo se que las sardinas son la obra del diablo. 🤢 I apologize for my horrible Spanish

If you're thinking about enjoying some sardines, please remember these words from a 16th-century Jesuit...😅🐟

@PhDhurtBrain Used to sit and watch traffic with my old man while listening to car talk. A favorite childhood memory

@ElenaWicker @SMH_Historians @SHAFRhistorians Welcome to the dark side!

So this political scientist is only going to history conferences this year. 😂 Presenting my DoD dictionary civ-mil battle book chapter at @SMH_Historians and NATO terminology chapter at @SHAFRhistorians! Very excited to have infiltrated the historian club…

@melnickjeffrey1 just remembering how my advisor would walk into my and my fellow TA's office, lie on the floor, and rock back and forth trying to stretch his back while briefing us on the next topic for class. he was so casual about it but he must have been in agony. hang in there!

I know I'm a big whiny baby but I'm telling everyone I know that I'm having some lower back/tight hips issues b/c I really appreciate when people ride in with stuff like "omg tell me about it. I spent most of [some period of time] living mostly on a mat on my living room floor"