User:Brooklinehistory

I'm a retired librarian and the head of my local historical society in Brookline, Massachusetts. I blog about Brookline history and contribute to Brookline- and Boston-related articles. I also blog about etymology and contribute to articles about word and phrase origins. My etymological explorations often lead me to interesting people in different fields and I have created or added to biographies of some of these people.

Articles I have created from scratch include:


 * Frances Taylor, music and film critic and lyricist
 * Richard Slater Jennings, journalist, artists, and creator of jazz album covers
 * Frank J. Wilstach, theatrical agent, writer, and compiler of A Dictionary of Similes

Other articles I have added significant content to include:


 * Jungle juice (etymology section)
 * First responder (etymology section)
 * Representative town meeting (history)
 * Single-stream recycling (history)
 * Ariel (American automobile)
 * Triple Crown (added info on changing meaning of term "Pitching Triple Crown")
 * Brehon B. Somervell (added information about Somervell's relations with unions and left-wing groups and with the WPA arts program in NYC )
 * Irazu Volcano (Corrected date eruption began to before Kennedy's arrival rather than the same day he arrived.)
 * George Wright (Added info about Wright's role in a baseball demonstration at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm)

Here are other topics I work on:


 * Jazz
 * Baseball
 * Architecture

I also work on "Citation needed" entries in these and other topics.