Historical Marker Ahead

As someone who does a quirky thing for no discernible reward, I grieve at a society that doesn’t value doing quirky things for no discernible reward.

Very dirty and corroded historical marker in Chicago. It reads: Lake View High School Here in 1874, was built Lake View High School, one of the first township schools in Illinois. Erected in accordance with legislation enacted by General Assembly of 1872 Erected by Chicago’s Charter Jubilee Authenticated by Chicago Historical Society 1937 City of Chicago Incorporated 4th March 1837 Erected 1937 by Chicago’s Charter Jubilee

Entry to current Lake View High School building, which went up in 1898.

Hallway at Lake View High School, Chicago

Detail of murals at entry to Lake View High School, Chicago

Despite everything I’m staying on my shit so here’s historical marker and related pics from a visit to see one of my kids hoop at Lake View High School in Chicago

Very dirty and corroded historical marker in Chicago. It reads: Lake View High School Here in 1874, was built Lake View High School, one of the first township schools in Illinois. Erected in accordance with legislation enacted by General Assembly of 1872 Erected by Chicago’s Charter Jubilee Authenticated by Chicago Historical Society 1937 City of Chicago Incorporated 4th March 1837 Erected 1937 by Chicago’s Charter Jubilee

Entry to current Lake View High School building, which went up in 1898.

Hallway at Lake View High School, Chicago

Detail of murals at entry to Lake View High School, Chicago

Despite everything I’m staying on my shit so here’s historical marker and related pics from a visit to see one of my kids hoop at Lake View High School in Chicago

As someone who does a quirky thing for no discernible reward, I grieve at a society that doesn’t value doing quirky things for no discernible reward.

Sigh. My expertise on 250th planning AND the public memory of founding enslavers continues to be depressingly relevant.

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s

YouTube video by The Midnight Special My Old School - Steely Dan | The Midnight Special

For different reasons now, Donald Fagen is not going back to Annandale youtu.be/GCX635Z7_PE?...

(Also now applies to Milwaukee signing Myles Turner)

Sometimes the best moves your team makes are the ones where someone saves them from themselves (Phoenix matching DeAndre Ayton’s offer from Indiana)

I’ll always have a soft spot for the Eagle Scouts who make historical markers their passion. But Boy Scouts was one of the few things I actively discouraged my kids to do because after an intro meeting I was weirded out. Also, I might have to wear a uniform, too? Hard pass. bsky.app/profile/hist...

William Boyce founded the Boy Scouts in 1910, part of a Progressive trend to reconnect urban youth with American’s rural roots. In 1915 he broke off the Lone Scouts with similar aims but more “Indian” imagery. He merged back with the Boy Scouts in 1924. It’s paid $3B into a sex abuse survivors fund.

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'A crime scene': US researchers examine unmarked graves of dozens of Black children Mark Davis was just 13 years old when he perished in a juvenile detention facility for Black boys in the eastern US state of Maryland some 140 years ago.- 'A crime scene' -  In the 1930s, the state of...

Schindler has also identified dozens of similar sites across the United States, including one in Florida that inspired Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize–winning 2020 novel "The Nickel Boys."
But the Maryland site is believed to be the largest in the country.

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What I see in independent media isn't a waiting replacement for legacy media, but a thousand little experiments in how to make news sustainable.

And the good thing about a thousand little experiments is that you don't need them to all be successful.

Yes, I said Greenwood. 2/2 bsky.app/profile/hist...

I’ve yet to find a historical marker or story about a Black urban neighborhood that doesn’t exist anymore or is a shell of its former self that didn’t include “and then urban renewal happened.” And that includes Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood 1/2

YouTube video by TopPop Third World - Now That We Found Love (1979)• TopPop

Heavy D’s cover was the second version that hit the top 10 in the UK youtu.be/_5sA8WKxyjQ?...

This 1995 Postal Inspection Service softball tourney T-shirt from the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in DC (which itself opened in 1993)

One difference in many games seems the difference between lineups that regularly play together versus the Pacers’ night-by-night goulash. It’ll pay off next year that everyone’s getting a run but for now…

I’m encouraged that the Pacers are doing fairly well in the quarters where they’re trying trying.

Image of Donovan about to drink from the false grail as Ilsa looks on in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE

Warner Bros. has been a poisoned chalice for every company that’s acquired it in the past 30 years, and I fully expect it to continue to be so for any fools foolish enough to think themselves immune to its curse.

One of the best things you can do to fight fascism is to openly have fun being weird.

The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man - Appalshop Film Feature — West Virginia Mine Wars Museum 54 years ago, one of the most harrowing man-made disasters in West Virginia wreaked havoc in the coalfields, causing a devastating loss of life, homelessness and destruction. Director Mimi Pickering a...

More details on this site about the corruption that led to 125 deaths and the buck-passing response. The site includes “The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man,” which is in the National Film Registry. 2/2 wvminewars.org/news/2026/2/...

Buffalo Creek Disaster Historical Marker (A historical marker located in Man in Logan County, West Virginia.)

54 years ago today, a man-made disaster killed 125 people in West Virginia. More background in the next skeet 1/2 @hmdb.org
www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=49918

The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man - Appalshop Film Feature — West Virginia Mine Wars Museum 54 years ago, one of the most harrowing man-made disasters in West Virginia wreaked havoc in the coalfields, causing a devastating loss of life, homelessness and destruction. Director Mimi Pickering a...

More detail here on the corruption that led to loss of life in the man-made Buffalo Creek flood, and also led to buck-passing and a lack of accountability afterward. The film “The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man” is in the National Film Registry 2/2 wvminewars.org/news/2026/2/...

Buffalo Creek Disaster Historical Marker (A historical marker located in Man in Logan County, West Virginia.)

54 years ago today in West Virginia. See following skeet to learn where to get more detail 1/2 www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=49918

Made a recent pilgrimage bsky.app/profile/hist...

Samuel Winstead’s historical marker in Tennessee is a wild ride about a guy who maybe knew slavery was wrong but wasn’t going to do anything about it until he (and his wife, benefitting from it) was dead and gone, and certainly wasn’t planning to have them as neighbors.

Georgia O'Keeffe's Birthplace in Sun Prairie | Photograph | Wisconsin Historical Society Georgia O'Keeffe's birthplace on the corner of Townhall and County T. The original building was burned down sometime in the 1970's.

Unfortunately the original farmhouse burned down in the 70s but there is a historical marker where it used to be.

www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Imag...

a woman in a nurse 's uniform is standing in front of a mirror . ALT: a woman in a nurse 's uniform is standing in front of a mirror .

NBA medical staff showing up by surprise to inject Toradol into every member of every tanking team