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Category Archives: History
Nancy E. Hatfield Memories, Part 1 (1974)
Howard B. Lee, former Attorney General of West Virginia, provided this account of Nancy Hatfield (widow of Cap) in the early 1970s: HATFIELD WOMEN. … Nancy E. Hatfield Memories, Part 1 (1974) From the blog of Brandon Ray Kirk, who … Continue reading
Posted in History
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Castoffs
Photo taken today on the south side of Wisconsin Avenue, somewhere between 35th and 12th Streets; can’t recall exactly where. This struck me as an interesting assortment of “forgotten” things, so I took the picture while stopped at a traffic … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life, Milwaukee, Photography
Tagged Cream City Brick, ghost sign, Milwaukee, pay phones
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A video to prompt playtime memories
WIRED (which styles itself with all capital letters) just posted this 40-minute video on its YouTube channel, featuring commentary from the chief curator at the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, about the most popular toys each year … Continue reading
In honor of Thanksgiving . . .
Here is a great article from Rolling Stone from five years ago (link HERE) celebrating the 50th anniversary of Arlo Guthrie’s hilarious 18-minute musical saga recounting the consequences of taking out the garbage after Thanksgiving dinner. And here is the … Continue reading
Gearing up for Great Books – Nazi VR and Man’s Search for Meaning
In between grading and meetings, today I’m also getting ready to lead the discussion of Viktor Frankl’s classic book, Man’s Search for Meaning, Wednesday night at MSOE’s Great Books Dinner & Discussion event. As part of my prep, I found … Continue reading
PA ST
Abandoned for years, the old Pabst Brewing complex on the west end of downtown Milwaukee was redeveloped over the past decade by the Zilber Property Group. The area contains many of the brewery’s original buildings, with their signature crenallated rooftop … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, History, Milwaukee
Tagged Fiserv Forum, history, Milwaukee, neon signs, Pabst Brewery Complex, Pabst Brewing Company
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What You Can Learn About The Danger Of Assumption From The Original Woodstock Festival …
Originally posted on The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]:
One of the things I do when I first get a brief is try to see the creative opportunity. Where we can make the biggest and most interesting…
Weeds on a Milwaukee sidewalk
Gray morning in Milwaukee, but these weeds in the 1900 block of West Vliet caught my eye as I was driving past, so I had to stop and get out in the drizzling rain to take a picture. Maybe I … Continue reading
Posted in History, Milwaukee, Photography
Tagged Milwaukee, urban landscape, urban photos, Vliet Street, Weeds, Wildflowers
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Eleanor Roosevelt on “What’s My Line” and other famous things
I stumbled across a reference to this while doing something else online and couldn’t resist watching. In October 1953 Eleanor Roosevelt appeared as a “mystery guest” on the stump-the-panel quiz show “What’s My Line?” This episode, posted in its entirety … Continue reading
Posted in History, Popular culture, Television
Tagged Bennett Cerf, Eleanor Roosevelt, What's My Line
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The individual vs. society – Joseph Campbell, Gandhi, and JFK weigh in
I’m cleaning out my office today, throwing out old student papers and old lecture notes from courses I no longer teach. One of the files I came across was from a one-off class on mythology that I taught in the … Continue reading