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lauradi7dwDr. Samuel Prescott, the 3rd of the three famous midnight riders on the original Patriot's Day eve (he started in Lexington, and kept going after Revere & Dawes were stopped), was 24 at the time. What kind of training did physicians have then? His father Abel was also a doctor, so maybe there was some sort of apprenticeship system. His brother Abel was one of the many non-famous riders also out announcing that night.
The docent/park ranger/whatever her job title is who was sitting sewing at the Hartwell Tavern in the Minuteman National park yesterday said that stitch rippers are a modern invention. I was skeptical, but the patent that seems most like the one I use is from 1902. There were some other patents from the 1870s, but those devices looked awkward to use. She told me other stuff that I hadn't heard before, like the colonial era gowns being basically tacked together - the amount of structural stitching for the over-gowns was limited. She used the expression "fashion fabric," which I realized I have only heard in the context of re-creating historical garments, to distinguish it from the lining fabric or the sloper fabric or the mock-up fabric, in that context. I did a web search and found it mostly used to distinguish it from upholstery fabric and such.
The docent/park ranger/whatever her job title is who was sitting sewing at the Hartwell Tavern in the Minuteman National park yesterday said that stitch rippers are a modern invention. I was skeptical, but the patent that seems most like the one I use is from 1902. There were some other patents from the 1870s, but those devices looked awkward to use. She told me other stuff that I hadn't heard before, like the colonial era gowns being basically tacked together - the amount of structural stitching for the over-gowns was limited. She used the expression "fashion fabric," which I realized I have only heard in the context of re-creating historical garments, to distinguish it from the lining fabric or the sloper fabric or the mock-up fabric, in that context. I did a web search and found it mostly used to distinguish it from upholstery fabric and such.
