I’ve figured it out. Apologies in advance to whatever editor is on the receiving end of this later this week.

Was abolitionist John Brown a hero or a menace? In Kansas, the question still matters In Kansas, the name John Brown is shorthand for a violent period of the state’s history in the lead-up to the Civil War. One hundred and seventy years later, some modern day activists and educators ar...

"More than half of K-12 teachers who participated in a September 2025 survey said they had modified curriculum or class conversation topics in the previous year due to political pressure." www.kcur.org/politics-ele...

Later in the movie he mentions the chief conservator would be taking a look at some other letters they found, so maybe he got reprimanded

Some topics are evergreen

some of the big questions—how does an archive capture public and donor attention? How does the small historical society prove it’s engaged in legit historical work? How does this get funded—are very much real questions in the field!

Lots of great moments for historians, archivists, and museum folks.

Not exactly sure how to write a review of this but I’m certainly going to try.

Now I see there’s podcasts dedicated to this. Apparently I pre-empted @girlsgonehallmark.bsky.social by one day. Not even on the @deckthehallmark.bsky.social radar yet. Get at me guys.

Is Hallmark on bluesky? They owe me.

There were many costumed interpreters at the exhibit opening. They went to the Betsy Ross house. Got engaged in front of the liberty bell. But no time travel or anything, this was a Serious Film.

Enjoy!

if you can believe it there is even more that I didn’t mention. I recommend this very stupid movie.

“Our engagement is the perfect example of how history can inform the present!” she tells a student at the recently-saved grandma’s house which has been turned into a historic house museum. The end.

Really making heavy use of a fog machine at this donor preview event.

Ok coming in for a landing here, historian woman is pissed at archivist man for using her grandma’s letters for his blockbuster exhibit at the archives. Will they make up at the big exhibit opening???

Like me, the couple in these Rev War letters got engaged in front of Independence Hall. Wonder if they ate at Zahav afterwards.

There’s like Sex and the City-style voice over while she writes a grant application

Lmao the most implausible thing in this whole movie is that she’s going to save her grandmas house because the city preservation agency is gonna buy her grandmas historic house and the money will go to restoring it and turning it into an education center.

Honestly there’s so much Philly scene setting in this thing I’m surprised he hasn’t showed up. We did see a Kohls-looking eagles jersey knock off.

I won’t spoil how but guys they may have found the secret letters if you can believe it.

A truly evil director would be meddling in the exhibit content.

Amid all this the chief archivist is blowing off his assignment to create an exhibit within a week. Also they try to make the director guy seem like a villain for always talking about donors but like, this just seems very much like what a director should be doing.

Lol she’s looking for a way to do history that will let her reach more than just one class! Hmmm where could this be going. Archivists‘ sister-in-law is a nonprofit lawyer, perhaps an expert in defending nonprofits at Nonprofit Review Hearings ™

Even in this fictional world the history teacher talks about how burned out she is god damnit

“The backdrop of their love story is literally the story of the founding of our nation!” WOW they might have an exhibit idea AND save the nonprofit status of the historical society!

Amid this conversation they have water ice, “sorry, I mean wooder ice”

Microfilm machine!

Ok back to the main event: figuring out these revolutionary era love letters together is really heating things up between these two.

The historical society is getting evicted from their historic home now. Central to this story is a “nonprofit review” they have coming up which is.. not a thing?

“It‘s amazing to think the Declaration of Independence was adopted here! Imagine standing in a crowd of patriots as those words were read out for the first time. It gives me chills!”

They’re laying it on pretty thick here guys

Ooooh the secret cache of Rev War letters has a secret code. And they don’t have the other side of the correspondence!