Historical Marker Ahead

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Yes, I’m pulling the car over to look at plaques. I’ll be just a minute. Not a historian, but did minor in history at Indiana University.

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San Diego — The marker and statue for Dr. Seuss at the University of California-San Diego sits in front of Geisel Library, renamed in the 1990s after his widow gave a bunch of money and papers to the school, perhaps because the library looks like it would be a contribution from the Thneed Corp.

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Dr. John Gram discusses the painful history of Native American boarding schools www.ksmu.org/podcast/talk...

Dr. John Gram discusses the painful history of Native American boarding schoolswww.ksmu.org In this episode of Talking History, Patrick and Djene talk to Dr. John Gram about the history of Native American education.

(Holds mic to mouth as Crosby Stills & Nash song plays at karaoke) “Woman’s ship, on the water/very free and easy” onmilwaukee.com/articles/joh...

Historic marker commemorates Bay View's only woman ship owneronmilwaukee.com Historic marker commemorates Bay View's only woman ship owner

Oklahoma City: Welcome to America’s only Capitol with a working oil well. There’s derricks across the state government complex and in many areas of town. Gas stations proudly announce NO ETHANOL. And yet OK is one of the nation’s leaders in renewable energy production www.energy.gov/articles/soo...

If you’ve ever wondered what the route is of the Blue Star Memorial Highway, and why every sign is near a bed of flowers (not that my pics from Wisconsin, Illinois and Nebraska show them), it’s the junction of honoring veterans and roadside beautification www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructu...

Nashville — While it would be great for the Grand Ole Opry to reserve the Roy Acuff house on its grounds for any chosen country legend in their dotage, second-best is the move of WSM — the creator and popularizer of the Opry — into new studios there this month. youtu.be/eubwMPrfYf4?...

One of the reminders coming with more markers focused on the African-American experience is how what Jim Crow didn’t kill, “urban renewal” tried to slaughter cardinalnews.org/2024/07/08/n...

New historic marker notes the legacy of Roanoke's Claytor familycardinalnews.org The Claytor family opened a medical clinic in Roanoke's Gainsboro neighborhood in 1948. It was one of the first Black-owned clinics in the region.

RFK Jr got on the Indiana ballot today, so a reminder one of his father’s most famous moments took place in Indianapolis during the D primary of 1968. He delivered the news to a shocked crowd of MLK’s assassination. The park where he spoke became the Kennedy-King National Commemorative Site in 2018.

Video of the RFK speech in Indianapolis, April 4, 1968, where you hear him ask, “Do they know about Martin Luther King?” His speech was widely credited as a reason Indy was not among the cities that had an urban uprising following MLK’s assassination youtu.be/A2kWIa8wSC0?...

Indianapolis, 1968: Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King and a historic call for peaceyoutu.be On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. to a majority-black crowd in an Indianapolis park. His impromptu speech is regarded as one of the most powerful and important addresses in American history. Kennedy's speech - equal parts eulogy and call for peace - came as America was erupting into violence. Because of his message of compassion, the crowd in Indianapolis returned home peacefully. As cities across America burned, Indianapolis remained peaceful.

Anpanman, a beloved children’s character in Japan who is an anthropomorphic piece of bread with red bean paste, was born out of the deprivation its creator felt in a WWII prison camp. So, why Anpanman’s superpower is others eating a slice of him to gain strength museum.anpanman-acm.co.jp/sphone/en/

OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?

Anpanman Children's Museummuseum.anpanman-acm.co.jp Play in the world of Anpanman! A museum filled with the world from the animated TV show 'Let's Go! Anpanman! See, feel, experience and play lots!

The Anpanman theme song sounds jaunty but the lyrics are pretty dark and existential for a kids show, like they were written by a POW, and they have me pondering a lot right now youtu.be/pErpuMHceL4?...

Anpanman's March- English and Japanese Translationyoutu.be Sing along to Anpanman's March- the English and Japanese Translation! 英語と日本語で一緒にアンパンマン・マーチを歌おう！ I've teamed up with Sega Toys on Amazon! Here are my affiliate links: English Language Shop: https://amzn.to/3UmrG31 セガ・ジャパンショップ: https://amzn.to/3GAuiVo Happy Shopping! お買い物をお楽しみください！

Indianapolis today celebrates the late mid-century modern architect Avriel Shull. She has a plaque for Ladywood Estates, but I knew her from Thornhurst addition in Carmel, because one of my best HS friends grew up there. You might know her from this Kokomo home www.coldwellbanker.com/in/kokomo/33...

Can we please stop saying — on historic markers and in media — that a school in the days of de jure segregation was built to “accommodate” Black students? www.wtok.com/2024/06/28/m...

Middleton Attendance Center unveils historic marker on grounds of Northeast Elementary Schoolwww.wtok.com A historical marker was unveiled Friday morning on the grounds of Northeast Middle School to represent the existence of Middleton Attendance Center.

Markers last, too, and the current environment makes it even more critical they capture the truth of what they’re memorializing

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

If you go to your local park, you’ll probably find a historical marker dedicated to someone who died young, or visited the park a lot, or both. Here’s a sample of plaques on benches around the pond at Fort Lowell Park in Tucson, Arizona, that can make you imagine them still sitting there.

I went to Fort Lowell Park to document the historical markers of what was, naturally, Fort Lowell. I’ll get to that, but I want to spotlight that one of Tucson’s neighborhoods is named after a guy who pissed off the Army because he sold booze at extra hours, at high prices, to the fort’s soldiers.

As legislators work to remove or suppress Black history in schools, it is appearing with frequency on historical markers. Here is a thread of new markers from the past few weeks: 🧵

In Georgia, a marker for Tunis Campbell, elected to state Senate after the Civil War, and ousted and sent to jail on false charges as Reconstruction was undone www.fox5atlanta.com/news/histori...

Historical marker to honor influential early African-American Georgia politicianwww.fox5atlanta.com

In Palatka, Fla., a marker for Central Academy, a segregated school that closed after area schools integrated. Points off for the marker saying “it was built to serve” Black students www.palatkadailynews.com/local-news/h...

Historical marker unveiled at ‘Dear Old C.A.’ | Palatka Daily News, Palatka, Floridawww.palatkadailynews.com In front of an aged building left to crumble sits a brand new historical marker honoring a piece of Putnam County’s Black history.

In Amarillo, Texas, a marker and a park for Bones Hooks, a National Cowboy Hall of Fame member inducted 70 years after his death in 1951, who established Black mentorship and community systems as he became a champion cowboy www.amarillo.com/story/news/2...

Historical marker at Bones Hooks Park honors iconic cowboy, community founder, leaderwww.amarillo.com Along with his cowboy fame, Hooks was pivotal to establishing the North Heights community, where he established a general store and mentored youths.

In Arlington, Va., a marker for Evelyn Reid Syphax, a local teacher who fought to integrate Arlington’s schools, and who in 1963 founded a day care because no center would accept her son because he was Black wjla.com/amp/news/loc...

Woman who fought for desegregating Arlington schools honored with new historical markerwjla.com

In Bloomington, Ind., a marker for Black Underground Railroad conductors, who generally get written out of the story of those who helped Blacks escape slavery www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

Marker honors Bloomington's nearly forgotten Black Underground Railroad conductorswww.heraldtimesonline.com Historian Liz Mitchell and curator Erin Carter say the project showed the difficulty in researching U.S. Black history.

In Dallas, a marker for four Black victims of lynching, part of a remembrance of all racial violence in the city www.dallasnews.com/news/2024/06...

‘We give them a voice’: Victims of racial violence in Dallas memorialized at Martyrs Parkwww.dallasnews.com two Texas Historical Commission Markers unveiled tell the stories of four Black people who were lynched in Dallas in the mid-1800s. The markers are only the...

In Montgomery County, Texas, a marker for a cemetery in the Freedman settlement of Tamina, a town eventually whittled away by white Texans www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood...

Historic marker dedication kicks off Juneteenth week in Montgomery Countywww.yourconroenews.com Tamina residents and members of the Montgomery County Historical Commission dedicated a new historic marker for Tamina Sweet Rest Cemetery.

In Tallahassee, Fla., a marker for Father James Page, born into slavery, who founded Black churches throughout the South news.wfsu.org/wfsu-local-n...

An historical marker now recognizes the founder of Tallahassee's Bethel Missionary Baptist Churchnews.wfsu.org Father James Page founded dozens of Black churches from Florida to Virginia during the mid-nineteenth Century.

In Springfield, Ohio, a park and marker for Sully Jaymes, an attorney and activist in the first half of the 20th century who represented Black clients after two separate “race riots,” and who in 1921 tried to stop a showing of “Birth of a Nation” www.wyso.org/news/2024-06...

Black lawyer, civil rights activist Sully Jaymes honored with Springfield historical markerwww.wyso.org Clark County's 10th historical marker commemorates the life of African American Springfield lawyer and equal rights activist Sully Jaymes.

There are more, and of course the number of new markers centered on Black History was high recently because some unveilings were times for Juneteenth. But it’s still true that markers are going where schools fear to tread. /end

“Most bridges over the Chicago River are trunnion bascule bridges known throughout the world as ‘Chicago Style’” because if you put ketchup on one the locals yell at you and call you a jagoff

Stevens Point, Wisc.: Took a walk through the local UW campus tonight and found in front of Old Main an anodyne rock marker to a governor’s swearing-in. A little ways behind that building is a note the school was built on a burial ground for relocated indigenous people that also was a garbage dump.