Mark R. Stoneman (@markstoneman.org)

Newsletter: Snapshots, Great Depression, Siege Humor Posted Oct 7, 2025 ∞ ## Fall Foliage Seen in my neighborhood this morning. ## No Kings Protest in Mt. Washington Valley Posted Oct 18, 2025 ∞ Just saw a Maine lobster at the protest—along with many dogs, two dinosaurs, and many hundreds of humans of all ages, from babies to humans powering their own rollators. There is a group all in yellow, too. Posted Oct 18, 2025 ∞ ### A Few Snapshots from the Protest I'm guessing some 500 people were there, but it could have been more. Posted Oct 18, 2025 ∞ You get repeated turnouts like this in rural New Hampshire, and you know authoritarianism’s foundations are wobbly. Posted Oct 9, 2025 ∞ ## Photograph of Young Man on Relief in 1940 > Hayward, California [1940]. Youth on Relief. Looking in his pocket for his surplus commodities card. 'Not having a job is bad enough, but you keep goin' down and purty soon you're here and the spirit is gone. I turn my face when somebody I know real well comes along the sidewalk. It takes the spirit when you're in here and then you haven't anything left.' This image stems from a federal food aid program during the Great Depression. For me, the quoted recipient of aid represents a familiar story about pride, dignity, shame, and fear that the self-righteous who reject the provision of such aid fail to grasp. Photo and caption by Rondal Partridge for the National Youth Administration, April 17, 1940, from the series Study of Youth Photographs, Record Group 119: Records of the National Youth Administration, National Archives Catalog, NAID: 532121. Posted Oct 13, 1993 ∞ ## Sarajevo Siege Humor "Sarajevo siege humour, winter of 1992-1993: creamy leather gun holster displayed as a hot fashion item in the window of an erstwhile shoe shop." Photo and caption by Christian Maréchal, 1993, Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY 3.0. https://stoneman.page/2025/10/19/newsletter-snapshots-great-depression-siege.html