In Montgomery, Alabama, a beautiful house that F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in for just six months between 1931-32 is now a museum. The house was saved from demolition in 1986. In 1999 it became the Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, which is divided into four main areas covering...
Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Even though he was born in a log cabin in Kentucky, Illinois is known as the “Land of Lincoln” because the President lived in the state for over thirty years. Visiting the Lincoln sites in the capital city of Springfield and nearby village of Salem...
Over a hundred years ago a maniac axed to death Josiah Moore, his wife Sarah, and their six children aged 5 to 12 in their home in southwestern Iowa. The murders were so horrifying that it supposedly took the Titanic sinking, which occurred two months earlier, off the front page...
We have covered a lot of random collections on the blog over the years. White’s Metal Detectors Collection in Oregon comes to mind, so does the Porter Thermometer Museum in Massachusetts. I could go on. But I won’t. Instead I have another odd assortment of items to add to the...
In its two-and-a-half year existence, this blog has covered a random teapot museum in Tennessee, a tea museum no longer with us and even a Hitler teapot…so one more tea related thing can’t hurt. Everybody loves a cuppa. Open since last summer, J’s Tea-rific Teapot Museum in teeny tiny Elloree,...
It looks like Edgar’s Closet had some competition for the “World’s Smallest Museum” title with a dead French composer named Erik. Not much bigger than Edgar Allan Poe’s closet, Erik Satie’s teeny tiny one room apartment in Paris was once a museum (it now appears to be closed…or at least...
Most people agree…nothing is scarier than a clown. Just imagine living with Ortud Kastaun, “Orty” to friends, who has a collection of over 2,000 clown-related items. It look fifteen years, but she now holds the the Guinness World Record for “Largest Collection of Clowns”. It all started when Kastaun was...
On display at The Stickley Museum we have a Gustav Stickley screen no. 1091 that was once owned by Barbra Streisand. You can see it here on her album cover “Greatest Hits…and More”. Barbra is part of the Stickley Story- it was her record-breaking purchase of a Gustav Stickley sideboard...
Whoever wins the election tonight, it’s not a hopeless case for the loser. Because they can still move into the White House. No, not that one in Washington, D.C. I’m talking about the replica in Atlanta, Georgia. Fred Milani, an Irani businessman who made his riches in the building boom...
This might come as a surprise but the Accordion Museum in Canada I once told you about is not the world’s only accordion museum. There are actually several in existence. Because apparently the world needs as many accordion museums as humanly possible. Or should I say musically possible? The New...
