Dr. Todd Arrington

Thanks for the heads up! I’m looking forward to working with William and Mary! I’m used to humidity, thankfully.

Thanks very much!!!

Thank you!!!

Thanks!!!

Thanks! Been decades since I lived in Virginia, but it’s been an amazing homecoming so far.

Thank you!

It’s so incredible that’s it’s almost surreal to be here. Thank you!

Thanks!!! I’m cracking a whole case of Diet Pepsi to celebrate.

Still happy to talk Garfield and “Death by Lightning” anytime, though!

Thanks!!! I miss the NPS but this is gonna be great!

Thanks, @brewdude2112.bsky.social! I’m excited. Miss you all, though.

I hope you enjoyed/are enjoying/will enjoy it!

I'm excited to share great job news: I started this week as Executive Director of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation (a Preservation Virginia site)! Everyone has been very kind, welcoming, and, thankfully, patient this week.

Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America.

“Death by Lightning” fans on @netflix.com: James Garfield became President of the United States on 3/4/1881. Interested in how he came to the presidency?

If only there were some excellent, peer-reviewed book that explained it.
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700636037/

Image: Architect of the Capitol.

Wonderful human, wonderful parent, and had the potential to be a wonderful president.

Part of my “teams that no longer exist” collection. You’ll see a few others in there as well.

I went to graduate school at @unlincoln.bsky.social!

James A. Garfield National Historic Site reopens after weekslong closure After 53 days of closure, the James A. Garfield Historic Site in Mentor has officially reopened. Although the National Park Service unit’s Visitor Center remained open to the public, “Lawnfield” it…

I spent 15 years at James A. Garfield NHS in Ohio. I love that place, the history, & the people. Park Ranger Allison Powell (in this photo) is still one of my closest friends.

I'm so happy & proud they got this important project done! I visited last week and got a sneak peek...and it looks great!

Here’s me at the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone on May 7, 2023. I was working a temporary promotion as Acting Superintendent of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument at the time. And still repping the Pittsburgh @pirates.com, of course.

On this day 154 years ago-Mar. 1, 1872-President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation creating Yellowstone National Park. It was the world’s first national park. Today, over 100 countries have national parks or similarly protected areas.

Image: Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone by Grastel.

Hat addiction is real! Especially among bald men. I hear. I mean, I would have no way of knowing for sure. Obviously.

Literally dozens of people worldwide suffer from this affliction every year. Please give whatever you can to stop this scourge.

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

~Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union, New York City, Feb. 27, 1860. The speech (& press coverage of it) made many view Lincoln as a viable presidential candidate.

Image: LOC.

“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.”

~Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements,” 1893.

Image: Jane Addams Papers Project.

“Democracy means not ‘I am as good as you are,’ but ‘You are as good as I am.’”

~Rev. Theodore Parker.

Image: Public domain.

“It does not require many words to speak the truth.”

~Chief Joseph (Nez Perce), Jan. 14, 1879.

Image: Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

“The struggle of today, is not altogether for today—it is for a vast future also.”

~President Abraham Lincoln, Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 3, 1861.

Image: National Portrait Gallery.

“When I want to find the vanguard of the people, I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.”

~Wendell Phillips, in a speech entitled "On the Labor Question," 1871.

Image: Library of Congress.

Did not know that. Thanks for sharing!