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March 19th, beginning at 12 noon!
We have for you an opportunity that is not to be missed by any respectable adventurer, anachronologist or temporal voyager. Count Marcus Dumas and The Oneiroi Society will be unveiling the latest advance in temporal exploration, with the goal of bringing your favorite moments in time directly to you!
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I live in Waltham, so I've been going to the planning meetings for this year's steampunk festival at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation, now called International Steampunk City. This means I was inevitably going to be given a job to do. ;) I have been asked to look for authors who might like to come do book signings at the festival ( Read more... )

ENSMB has a very busy calendar this winter/spring, and we'd especially love to see as many people as possible come out to see us at these great upcoming Steampunk events!

3/26 Industrial Revolution - Nashua, NH
http://www.steamrevolution.com/

4/3 Anachronism II - NYC
http://theanachronismnyc.com/

5/6-8 International Steampunk City - Waltham, MA
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Good Day to you. I am desperately in search of a coat for myself. I have this wonderful image in my mind of something that is a cross between a Prince Charlie and a Tail coat. I have scoured the tubes until they shine. And yet, I find nothing that comes close for less than a queens fortune. As I am going to do a significant amount of rework to this ( Read more... )

I recently saw a note that the Nemo Gallery gala opening with 20,000 Leagues by 5Wits at Patriot Place was in fact scheduled for 2/12/2011.

Is that date confirmed, does anyone know?

I was just contacted by a producer of an IFC TV that is coming to Boston to do some filming Mar 22-24, and they are hoping to catch some local steampunk action. Anyone know of anything going on? Anyone want to make something happen ( Read more... )

"ABC has greenlit a historical cop show starring Edgar Allan Poe, world-famous poet and pioneer of science fiction and horror, as the world's first detective. It will be set during the 1840s in Boston."

http://io9.com/5745324/what-were-dying-to-see-from-abcs-edgar-allan-poe-crime-procedural-tv-series

This could be fun if they do it right!

From http://bostonography.com/2011/conquering-eagles-and-geese/

"In 1860, from a balloon tethered on the Boston Common, James Wallace Black took the first aerial photograph of a city in the U.S."

See also http://www.boston.com/ae/specials/aerialboston/ for a comparison of the old photo with the same area today.