#Durkee

[stone-cold-groove]

Now! Homogenized for better flavor! Ad for Durkee Foods’ margarine - 1955.

[roughridingrednecks]

Durkee

[shakespearenews]

And then, alas, and oh what a falling off is there, Durkee tumbles down the manhole that gapes wide for anyone with a conspiracy-led view of history: He falls prey to authorship twaddle. Having headed home to Mississippi, and having replaced Adderall with a greater quantity of booze, he moves from the vagaries of portraiture to the supposed unknowability of authorship. Though initially skeptic, he is soon seduced by spectral impostors. All the old skeletons, clothed in tatters of rotting silk, spill out of the closet — Marlowe, Fulke Greville, Mary Sidney and a lot of the Earl of Oxford.

[malheurwoman]

Wildfires

My part of the state of Oregon is on fire. I mean ON FIRE. Big fires. Cow Valley. Durkee. Falls. Owyhees. It’s on fire. I know the acres burned are in the millions. That’s the whole state so far. So. Waiting for the fire to come across the hills behind the house. There are get out now code red evac notices for nearby– Willowcreek, Brogan, Rye Valley. I know some folks in Brogan who’ve lost some…

[nenan]

f4iry4bby photographed by Alanna Durkee

[cookingitoldschool]

Durkee’s, 1948

[emmieexplores2]

1948

[cto10121]

Reading Stalking Shakespeare by Lee Durkee and it’s a gift that keeps on giving

[stone-cold-groove]

Taking the Mystery out of Margarine. Front cover of a Kraft Parkay Margarine booklet - 1947.

[roughridingrednecks]

Durkee

[fromthescrapbook]

Sweet Potato salad. Published in The American Home magazine in the 50s.

And the canned food saga goes on. It's like everything could come in a can in the 50s.

[spilladabalia]

Helen Keller — Surfin' With Steve And E.D. Amin

[its-suanneschafer-author]

BOOK REVIEW: Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir by Lee Durkee

Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint is fascinating. Author Durkee is honest about his abuse of Adderall and alcohol while consumed with his obsession with finding the definitive portrait of William Shakespeare. I enjoyed “watching” him collect images, tweak them on his computer, and harass art historians and librarians all while…

[thecoparoom]

Snowman cake

Durkee ad detail

1958

[metmuseum]

Drachm. ca. 57–38 BCE. Credit line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322354