Travel by Design: Manhole Covers

Barcelona, 2008.

For a while, I collected photos of manhole covers during my travels. A manhole cover that says “Acquedotto” looks way more beautiful to me than one that says “Sewer.”

 

 

About Becky Fifield

Starting her museum career at age 13, Becky Fifield is a museum collections manager at a New York City organization. She is the Chair for Alliance for Response NYC and Vice Chair for the American Institute for Conservation's Collections Care Network. There's a bit of pun in the title The Still Room, delineating a quiet space brimming with the ingredients of memory, where consideration, analysis, and wordcraft can take place. Ms. Fifield’s interests include museum practice, dress history, historic preservation, transit, social and women’s history, food, current events, geneaology, roadtrips, and considerations on general sense of place. Becky and her husband, Dr. V, live in New York City.