Author: McFeats
Professor, writer, hiker.
Camping Off-Grid: Writing, Riding, Righting
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Week 1 of the Semester: Typewriters in the Classroom
Students completed their second day of using typewriters in the classroom. Although it’s taking some effort trucking twenty manual typewriters to the classroom, it’s been worth it. On day two, we watched about forty minutes of California Typewriter, and I challenged students to draw connections between its meditation on typewriters to other seemingly obsolete forms…
Prepping Typewriters for the Classroom (photos included)
I cleaned up twenty typewriters today. Most are in great shape. About half need new ink. Luckily my department ordered ribbons for me. My AMC has problems. The carriage lever, which always collided with the typewriter cover, broke off. I think a previous owner placed a heavy object on the machine. That said, what remains…
For Murphy
We shall always love you, Murphy. (3/17/14-2/6/26)
A Return to Boston
I’m in Boston for spring break, and today is Saint Patrick’s Day. I’m staying in Allston, which is between my two main destinations: Boston College and Downtown. (This is also the area in which my parents grew up, met, and wed–Brighton, really.) The hotel is a thirty-minute walk to Allston Station, so I’m still getting…
