let’s do thisIt has been a busy day, so I am late to getting a Sunday diversion up on the blog. Last year I did the obvious (linked to the Gettysburg Address). Remarkably, the Second Inaugural Address, delivered on March…
Tag: History
a super weekend diversion / getting lost in Manhattan maps
hours of fun! (this should come with a warning)Note to self: collect links to cool Manhattan stuff like old maps. Let’s begin! I tweeted a week ago a link to a source for an 1807 map of Manhattan that you…
Sunday diversion / Lady Liberty birthday edition
my country, ’tis of theeYou may have seen that this week marked the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. (Stuff on that is all over the inter-tubes, including here; that h/t goes…
Saturday diversion / Soho as “Hell's Hundred Acres” (Tribeca too!)
(pre-A.I.R., no less)Did you know that the New York Public Library staff blogs? I didn’t, either. This is from an April 22, 2011 post, A Helluva Town: The Origins of New York’s Hellish Place Names: (h/t @NabeWise on Twittter; someone…
mystery loft sale at 39 Crosby Street leads to burning silk hats + pianos
serendipitous unsuccessful searchTomorrow’s news today! The New York Times Sunday real estate feature, Residential Sales Around the Region, has a mysterious loft sale that caught my eye even though it is a little out of my usual price range (the…
Saturday diversion / 50 years ago today at Yankee Stadium
not with a bang, certainlyWith a h/t to Hall of Famer @DWinfield_ESPN, here is a story about the final game played by the Negro Leagues, an All-Star game the year after the last season ended. On a related note, I…
45 Lispenard loft sale meets the past from the other direction
score one for The New York ObserverNetiquette requires that I note a factually correct Manhattan loft sale catch by The New York Observer, having snarked on their sorry ass ‘fact-checking’ only yesterday. Whatever ACRIS filters they use, they again beat…
a Tuesday diversion / vintage Manhattan photos 1941, 1942
driving me crazy, and you?Don’t click here if you don’t have a few minutes, because you will be late to your next appointment or call. It is a collection of 63 color photographs taken by a visiting businessman, nearly all…
“that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states …”
they were writing for the agesI don’t mean to go all Bachmann on ya, but if I ever learned that some signers of the Declaration of Independence signed on and after August 2, 1776, I had forgotten that. Per the…
a sacred secular day of memory
we cannot remember what we do not knowWe all have individual family, friends and others to remember today, which is good. Good, too, is a lesson about how this holiday came to be, some of which was familiar to me…
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