Pam Mack

@pammack.bsky.social

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Just moved from St. Louis to Portland ME! Widow, weaver, United Church of Christ, COVID cautious, fountain pens. Was a history professor: science, technology and society; digital history; gender. She/hers at present--historically a butch straight cis woman

A white woman with pulled-back grey hair wearing a shirt printed with realistic fish and a plastic realistic duck on her head. Her left hand holds a phone to take a selfie in a mirror. The photo has been photoshopped to make the duck more visible by increasing the brightness only of the duck.
A cartoon showing a tombstone for Tom Lehrer with the dates 1928-2025 and three pigeons among breadcrumbs, one dead with its feet in the air.
Poster with a gold hand that reads: You need 5 hobbies: -one to make you money -one to keep you in shape -one to keep you creative -one to build knowledge -one to evolve your mindset
A cake in the shape of a smooth cylinder. Along the bottom of the side is a skyline with a church, with purple, yellow and blue swirls above it. The top has a white cloud and "day to dawn"
A photo of a stage set with a youngish African American man painting a canvas on an easel. Around him is a somewhat Victorian house and clutter
A curved narrow cone of small white flowers most open towards the base, with narrow green leaves and several other cones in the background. Tentatively identified as a native plant known as Lizard's Tail
a map of northern St. Louis (Forest Park is in the lower left corner, the Mississippi river in the upper right) that shows income levels by census tract. Superimposed on that is the track of the tornado with triangles showing its strength (yellow is EF2, orange EF3). On this map many of the areas of greatest damage are dark brown on the income map, meaning median annual income less than $35,000
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A map of St. Louis from a little west of Forest Park into The Ville neighborhood. An orange diagonal line shows the path of the tornado and mostly green and yellow triangles show damage assessments. The yellow and a few orange are clustered in the upper right quadrant of the map, in Fountain Park, Kingsway East and Greater Ville
a white woman with pulled-back grey hair, no makeup, wearing the roll-up sunglasses you get after having your eyes dilated. In an off-white shirt with a variety of fish, sitting in a blue chair with a bookcase in one corner of the background
a tall gate post (no gate) with a green statue of a reclining deer with very impressive antlers. Above the deer to the left are dogwood blossoms, below the gatepost the grass is heavily scattered with purple violets
Two large buds going in opposite directions from a diagonal branch. One is pink and yellow and closed, the other has opened enough to show fuzzy green leaves that are still tightly folded
Two opossums on a fairly small tree branch. The one facing the camera has its eyes open looking wary, the one facing away has its eyes closed and is hanging its head. New leaves and blue sky in the background
In the shadows behind some daffodils, a bird with a white head and some white wing feathers
A barrel shaped cactus seen from above with a circle of small red blooms around the top. Fairly jagged rocks in the background
Green and black drips and feathering around pink orange and yellow concentric shapes (with an off center black dot). Dark orange and orange tan streaks above drip down, mostly around the pink but one into the concentric shapes
A long rectangular shawl hanging over a hanger. It has a wide variety of irregular stripes, mostly black, grey and dark blue, a little orange and purple
a steeple over brick houses and bare trees. The sunrise clouds are orange and grey and one line of clouds has a repeating pattern of grey cloud shapes leaning to the right against an orange background
a woven shawl about 20 inches wide and 5 feet long with stripes mostly of green, blue, yellow and orange. Some stripes are variegated or have two colors divided in the middle or diagonally. The vertical warp has two prominent yellow lines in the middle and thin lines in bright colors on either side
an early sunrise sky with corduroy-like orange clouds along the horizon, darker clouds above, a church steeple, and smoke (water vapor) rising from the brewery
A fountain putting up a single stream of water in a pond frozen except for an asymmetrical area of open water on one side of the fountain. Snow on trees in the background
Close set brick houses with snow under an pinkish-orange sky before sunrise. There is a faint but clear orange vertical line above a band of clouds where the sun is just below the horizon. That atmospheric phenomenon is called a sun pillar or light pillar
Cover of a book: The Melancholy of Untold History by Minsoo Kang, with a cover illustration showing a purple cloud over green mountains
A curved section of a pond with stone edges, a bush with dried plumes, and trees and geese in the background
a shawl over a hanger, with wide stripes of grey tweed and narrower stripes of red and black on alternating sides with a diagonal join (technique is clasped weft)
two bare trees with snow on parts of the trunks, a bench with an inch or so of snow, and a curved road and more trees in the background
A weather vane in the shape of a hog with a curled tail. Metal, somewhat 3d rather than completely flat, indoors against a cream colored wall
Cover of a book, Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities, edited by Gabriel Hankins, Anouk Lang, and Simon Appleford. An orange cover with purple lines connecting nodes.
A brown pie in a pyrex pie plate, with some cracking towards the outside and graham cracker crumbs visible inside the rim. On a stove top with a burner and cutting board visible.
a hawk standing on a thick branch next to the trunk of the tree, looking over its shoulder at the viewer. Its body is brown with some white, legs are more white
A table listing three articles: "What Difference Has Feminism Made to Engineering in the 20th Century?" " Laboratory Work at Rensselaer, 1824-1835: A Missing Link in the Evolution of Academic Science in America", "Women in Astronomy in the United States 1875-1920"
costume of a blue tunic, brown hat, cardboard knife in my belt, walking stick, knee socks