![](https://i0.wp.com/www.janneken.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ppcover-scaled.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
On Teaching
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.janneken.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/goinnorth_post-1.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
How we went North…
When Charlie Hardy suggested I collaborate with him on a class using old oral history interviews he recorded with African Americans who had migrated to Philadelphia during the Great Migration, I was … [Read More]
On Quilts
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.janneken.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/5.7_Esprit_tumbling_block_Risedorph.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
Doug Tompkins, Quilt Collector
Sadly, I never met Doug Tompkins. By the time I was deep into my research into Amish quilts, he was deep into ecology, living in a remote area of Chile, where by 1995 he was one of the largest private … [Read More]
On Personal History
![](https://i0.wp.com/www.janneken.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/800px-Obama_inaugural_address-2.jpg?resize=531%2C531&ssl=1)
Inaugurations
I was snuggled up under an afghan, home sick from school. That happened sometimes when I was in kindergarten—my daughter’s age now—when I just didn’t want to go, my stomach would … [Read More]