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Tag Archives: pigeons
More interesting stuff about pigeons and people
After my post on dovecotes ran a few days ago, my friend, colleague, and fellow blogger Sally Cissna published a really fascinating blog post about the relationship between humans and pigeons a century ago. Her post contains several old newspaper … Continue reading
Posted in Food, History, Popular culture, Technology
Tagged agricultural history, Commercial fishing history, homing pigeons, pigeons, texting, World War I
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Of dovecotes and pigeonholes and ortolans and extinction
In reading a novel set in England around 1815 this past week, I followed two characters into a “dovecote” that had fallen into disrepair. I’d heard that term before and vaguely associated it with some kind of architectural feature similar … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Food, History, Milwaukee
Tagged dovecote, ortolans, passenger pigeons, pigeonhole, pigeons
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