Ever heard of bauxite? Apparently it’s the main source of aluminum. And there’s actually a town in Arkansas named after it, which is appropriate considering that’s also the state where you can find the Gann Museum. Built in 1896 as the medical offices for Dr. Dewell Gann Sr., it is...
Tonight is the 85th Academy Awards aka The Oscars aka The Big Night For The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences aka These Are The Stupid People Who Gave An Oscar To Gwyneth Freakin’ Paltrow. Anyway, long before Hollywood was Hollywood, it was a citrus ranch. In 1895, a...
If you find yourself either attending Michigan State University in East Lansing or paying a visit to the Abrams Planetarium on the campus, make sure to stop by the office of the Planetarium’s production coordinator, John French. Two of his big bookshelves are officially known as the Moist Towelette Museum....
Although today can be a great day full of memories for those who had loving fathers, it is also a triggering day for some people. Family-focused holidays can be depressing, anxiety-filled, and just plain awful. Let’s not forget that in the U.S. 1 out of 3 children live in biological...
If you dismiss the thimble as just one of the game tokens in Monopoly, think again. Even though most thimble makers have now gone out of business, this sewing tool is important enough to get its own museum. The Fingerhut Museum in Creglingen, Germany displays thimbles and other sewing tools...
I had to go out and see a movie and eat Chinese food with my family, but don’t think I forgot about Christmas Museum Week. I mean, come on, I know what’s important in life. Right about now I know some of you are probably watching 24 hours of A...
I really want to go to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in Whitefish Point, Michigan. Since 1679, there have been nearly 5,000 shipwrecks in the Great Lakes. Part of the exhibit includes these water-proof matches from the infamous Edmund Fitzgerald, which were brought up by a deep-sea submersible in the...
A pizzeria and pastry shop in Redford, Michigan has more than just calzones and cannoli, it’s also home to Italian immigrant Silvio Barile’s Italian American Artistic Museum. A sculptor for over five decades, the museum combines his birthplace and new home with not just statuary but strange and somewhat confusing...
I didn’t intend for this to be Presidents Week, but it just sort of happened, so let’s finish this freakin’ thing! Believe it or not, there is an actual Presidents Museum in a high school in San Diego. Yeah, talk about random. Started by one of the history teachers, Jim...
For whatever reason, between the years of 1964 and 1966, there were two television shows that featured comical Gothic horror-movie-type families living in old scary-looking mansions who were trying to adapt with their mainstream suburban communities: The Munsters and The Addams Family. But the two shows were quite different in...
