As a poor grad student in the UK, I admit to surviving on cheap food like sausage rolls, jacket potatoes and pasties. Did you know there is a museum dedicated to that last “delicacy”? But it’s not in Cornwall as you’d expect…no, the world’s first Cornish Pasty Museum is in...
A huge, three-headed elephant statue standing upon an equally gargantuan pedestal is the first, and last, thing you see when visiting Samut Prakan's Erawan Museum. The top floor represents the Travatimsa Heaven, which is located on top of Mount Meru in Buddhist cosmology.
That last post went over so well that I feel the need to redeem myself. How about something truly one of a kind? The One and Only Presidential Museum (yep, that is the actual name of the place) in Williamsburg, Ohio is the brainchild of the one and only Nick...
Have you ever heard of Emmett Till? On this date fifty-seven years ago, 14 year old Till was beaten, tortured and shot in the head for allegedly whistling and/or flirting at a white woman while visiting his uncle in Mississippi. The white men who killed him weighed down his body...
Although these presidential-related posts have not proved to be as popular as I thought they’d be (maybe I should have included a tax refund?), I might as well finish what I started. So let’s continue with the Presidents’ Day posts, you know, learning about the forty-four men who got to...
Yesterday was Presidents’ Day in the good ol’ United States of America, which means you’re supposed to learn a few things about the forty-four men who got to call themselves commander-in-chief. So let’s continue where we left off (check out Part 1 & Part 2 in case you missed them)!!!...
I forgot I had that Google Analytics thingy, which may not have been installed properly until just recently. Besides learning most of you use Chrome and spend just a minute looking at my blog (but I spend hours on it!), last month’s stats also tell me most of you are...
As teenagers my one friend and I were a little bit strange (actually we still are) in that we came up with a monthly holiday known as “Stabbage Day” to celebrate her growing collection of stolen restaurant knives (mostly collected at the various ‘Golden’ establishments across Chicago). It was always...
Hanukkah Lamp, Richard Meier, New York, United States, 1985, tin-coated copper “A Hanukkah Project: Line of Fire” exhibit, Jewish Museum, New York City
The Lorraine Motel in Memphis is the site of Martin Luther King’s assassination. Now part of a 4 acre complex of buildings that make up the National Civil Rights Museum, the motel is connected by underground tunnel to the Young and Morrow Buildings, where James Earl Ray initially confessed (and...
