i'm sorry mr. jackson

HARRIET TUBMAN COME THROUGH!! Trendy Hamilton gets to stay on the $10 but slaveholder Andrew Jackson can go languish around in some ol hardback encyclopedias that no one buys from the Goodwill.

LADIE$$$$$

known native american murderer and the pride of tennessee, president andrew jackson, is being targeted by a bunch of ladies who think a lady should be on our paper money. i couldn't agree more!

According to Circa, the candidates for the spot are Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller. (via)

who would YOU choose?

snuffles wednesday!

sufjan stevens - jacksonville

brb : outside

one week ago today, joel and i were both in middle tennessee. i've been slowly but surely reading my way through pulitzer-prize-winning biography american lion: andrew jackson in the white house (taking the appropriate twilight breaks, oc), and thought we should seize the opportunity for a little early nineteenth century tourism and visit one of tennessee's most beloved landmarks: the hermitage.

we had an enchanting visit, and i'd love to share some sights and anecdotes, if i may.

joel with the jacksons themselves! we were waiting for our oversimplified history orientation video.

i most certainly will not! that guy in the back asked us where we were from. we were like 'from tennessee but live in new york' and he goes 'ooooh! defectors! well i guess that's better than them yankees comin' down here.' how 1828 of him!

dont be jelly.

joel in a slave cabin.

there was so much wildlife to behold. here is a tulip poplar, the tennessee state tree.

an oreo cow.

a baby oreo cow! looks like jazzy!

believe it or not, these are not chickens. they're guineahens!!

here we are in the garden.

joel broke the hermitage with his hustla shoes.

if you'd like to see more pictures from our visit to the hermitage, just click right here! hope you guys had fun! we sure did.

yessssssssssss!

there's a new musical on broadway! it's about one of my favorite presidents: tennessee's own, andrew 'old hickory' jackson.

Populism. Now there’s a word that makes you want to shout and strut and do something funky with your hips. Or that’s the effect this Latinate noun has on the young and restless residents of the young and restless country portrayed with zeal in “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: The Concert Version,” the raw but tasty new musical that opened Sunday night at the Public Theater. (nytimes)

which reminds me....i still owe you all a post.