Happy National Hot Dog Day! 🌭 In Erie we have the Greek dog made with Smith’s. If you call them a chili dog or Coney Island, locals will likely take offense. What’s your favorite style & brand of hot dogs?
Here’s a story that I wrote about its #history in 2022: www.eriereader.com/article/erie...
The song “I’m My Own Grandpa” was first recorded in the early-1900s, but variations of the story circulated in newspapers throughout the 1800s before it was put to music. This is an 1869 example from the Petroleum Centre Daily Record (published near Oil City/Titusville, PA). #history#skystorians
One of my favorite finds ever. 598 clams. An absolute legend. “Condiments? Condiments spoil clams." (Source: The Fargo Daily Republican, September 3, 1908) #history#skystorians
What’s your favorite font? 🗃️ I like Bookman Old Style. Developed in the 1860s. The Printing Art (1923) describes it as “broadminded, “jovial,” and “frank almost to offense.” They add that it has “rustic simplicity” and it is “unbending, unsmiling, but sunny and cheerful.”
Blast into the political past. Celebrity presidential endorsements from April 2008. As seen in Penn State Behrend’s student newspaper. #history#skystorians#politics
Ida Tarbell: raised in Titusville, PA, the muckraking journalist took on one of the most powerful men in history, John D. Rockefeller. Her book The History of Standard Oil chronicled his shady business practices, which had crushed her hometown. #history#skystorians
Martha Root (1872-1939) was raised on a dairy farm in Cambridge Springs, PA. After graduating from high school, she attended Oberlin College. In 1909, she converted to the Baháʼí Faith & spent the next three decades traveling the world, sharing her beliefs. #history#skystorians
The August 23, 1927 edition of Erie Daily Times, reporting on the controversial executions of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Boston. 🗃️ #history#skystorians
While Curry's Tragic Prelude is the best known of John Brown paintings, I've always really enjoyed the 22-print series "The Legend of John Brown" by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). Lawrence called his style "dynamic cubism." #history#skystorians#art#arthistory
On July 1, 1863, as the Battle of Gettysburg began 300 miles away, a stray red cow wandered away from its home outside of #EriePA in Millcreek. A traveling circus also came to town that week. (Source: Erie Observer) #history#civilwar
While I never owned it, I remember playing this at a friend’s house and thinking gaming had peaked. There was no was it was getting any better than this. 😆 #gaming#sega#nintendo
My favorite book sale find from today. I actually own a copy of this, but now I’m excited to gift this one to somebody. #history#skystorians#clarencedarrow
After the death of his brother and sister-in-law, Pennsylvania Rep. Thaddeus Stevens took in his nephews Thaddeus and Alanson. Alanson worked at the family iron works, while young Thaddeus, studying law, struggled for some time, as demonstrated by this letter from his uncle. #history#skystorians
In the archives and came across this historical echo from an #EriePA diner owner in 1984: "Older workers are steady and more reliable. The young stuff just doesn't want to work anymore." #history
These are all of the classes/courses I’ve taught in my 15 years in the classroom. This reminds me that being public school teacher is a very strange and unique job.
