Downtown #EriePA. 1976. #rustbelt #pennsylvania

Valentine’s Day snippets from Penn State #EriePA’s Behrend Beacon. 2004. #ValentinesDay #history #skystorians

Valentine Love Lines. 1985. Dallas, PA. #history #ValentinesDay

Frogs. 2004. #EriePA.

Mystic Park. Titusville, PA. 1905.

Did you know that the legendary historian Samuel Eliot Morrison received a commission from FDR to join the WWII Navy & write its history from the inside, & that he narrowly escaped a kamikaze pilot among other episodes? That & more in today’s Valentine’s blog post! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️

January 28, 1939. When Philly discovered pizza: “What is pizza? Well, it’s just a big open-faced pie, filled with tomatoes, anchovies, muzzarella cheese, peppers, or what have you — and baked while you wait.” #history #NationalPizzaDay #skystorians

Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to #EriePA in 1825 as depicted in Erie: From Forest Trail to Port City by Margaret L. Tenpas. Published in 1976. #skystorians #history

A blacksmith in Spartansburg, #ErieCounty, PA. 1880s. #history

The Public Dock (and the USS Wolverine). Early 1900s. #EriePA

Here’s my latest: “Why read John Steinbeck talking about some trip he took with his dog when we can watch a celebrity eat increasingly spicy chicken wings on YouTube? To be fair, Sean Evans is a great interviewer.” #booksky #readsky #literature www.eriereader.com/article/do-p...

Here’s my latest story: “In 1772, while away from his home, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail of what he missed the most. ‘[A]bove all, except the wife and children, I want to see my books,’ he told her.” #booksky #skystorians #reading www.eriereader.com/article/do-p...

Peek’n Peak. Clymer, New York. 1973.

The old Union City High School. #UnionCityPA.

The Erie Zoo’s Glenwood Gulch Express. No date. Published by Lakeport Dist. Inc. #EriePA.

Children’s fashion in 1989 from the Sears #Christmas Wishbook. Who else loved looking through the Wishbook every year? #1980s #history

My latest, a recap of living through 1975, which came to an end fifty years ago: "We have always feared that there was one law and scale of punishment for the rich and powerful and a totally different [one] for the poor and deprived." #history #skystorians www.eriereader.com/article/erie...

Edinboro State Normal School football squad. #EdinboroPA. From the Edinboro Quarterly, December 1916. #history #skystorians

Aerial View of Erie Coast Guard Station, Pennsylvania. Presque Isle. #EriePA. 1967. (Source: National Archives)

EMTA Map. #EriePA. Erie Daily Times. February 16, 1975.

From Penn State Behrend’s #Thanksgiving edition of the student newspaper. November 22, 1955. #EriePA.

I call this genre “Humanity Needs to Figure Its Shit Out ASAP.” What third movie would you add to complete the trilogy? #FilmSky #Skystorians #HATM

Who remembers Forward Hall? From The Behrend Beacon. August 22, 2008. #EriePA.

The Downtowner. 205 West 10th Street. #EriePA. 1950s.

The Towne & Country Restaurant. West 12th Street. #EriePA. No date listed. Photo by Ken Schauble. Postcard published by Colourpicture Publishers.

Erie YMCA’s coffee shop. #EriePA. No date listed.

Lakeview on the Lake Motel, East Lake Road. #EriePA. No date listed. From a postcard published by AKD Printing.

Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

From Penn State Behrend’s student newspaper. March 18, 1955. #EriePA #EriePhilharmonic

Advertisements from the Erie Daily Times, #EriePA. April 27, 1955. #history #skystorians

David Harbour (Stranger Things) on the set of Courtney Cox’s adaptation of Evil Genius. Some outlets, including People, have incorrectly reported that he is playing Brian Wells — but us Erie folks know better. #EriePA #EvilGenius #PizzaBomber

Style Wear Inc., #EriePA. 1940. (Source: Newberry Library) #history #fashion

On this day in 1969, the greatest television show of all time, Sesame Street, premiered. Here’s a story that I wrote about the show (and public television) last year. Seems more relevant than ever: www.eriereader.com/article/how-... #history #skystorians #sesamestreet

Here's my latest story which includes a history of the Erie Playhouse in #EriePA. "For a town that they say is beer and bowling … the Playhouse is doing real well," executive director David Matthews said in 1983. #theatersky #history #skystorians www.eriereader.com/article/true...

I’m all for talking about my research & writing process when asked, but it’s, uh… a bit unconventional & chaotic & probably won’t make much sense even if it all makes perfect sense in my brain. Here’s a time-lapse that’ll give you a peek at how my latest story came together. #writersky #skystorians

"'Duped,' the Erie Daily Times wrote. 'Ring down the curtain.' A former Opera House manager said he had witnessed similar con artists come into Erie for a few days and split, but never one who brazenly duped the entire community for weeks." #history #skystorians www.eriereader.com/article/true...

Erie Daily Times. November 11, 1918. #ArmisticeDay #VeteransDay #WorldWar1 #history

On this day in 2004, Halo 2 was released on Xbox. Folks braved long lines outside of GameStop for its midnight release. From Penn State Behrend’s student newspaper review: “Do you remember many people being absent in your classes? It’s not wonder. Halo 2 was released at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday morning…”

March 1957. #EriePA. This is one record from the Air Force’s Project Blue Book Case Files on Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects made between 1947–1969. Erie had numerous reported UFO sightings during these years.

“Thousands of pounds of tin cans were collected in the city Thursday by city trucks which were overtaxed by the nearly unanimous response of Erieites to the tin can drive.” From the Erie Daily Times. January 8, 1943. #EriePA #WWII #history

United Oil Company vehicles. #EriePA. 1919.

Grief changed John Brown. "I find I am getting more and more unfit for everything," he wrote to a friend. "I have been growing numb for a good while." #history #skystorians #johnbrown #harpersferry www.eriereader.com/article/a-he...

Here it is, my 243rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Due to Lee’s increasing civil rights activism & connection to progressive causes, he soon found himself the target of anti-communist hysteria & with the FBI's investigation of him, he was blacklisted. When asked to identify a friend as a communist to drop the blacklisting, Lee refused. #history

After nearly 100 professional matches, Canada Lee hung up his gloves. He dabbled as a bandleader, traveling from club to club, before in 1934, stumbling upon something new: the stage. In 1936, he was cast by Orson Welles as Banquo in an extremely successful production of Macbeth. #acting #history

Canada Lee was an esteemed Broadway actor who, among other roles, was the lead in Orson Welles's Native Son adaptation. In Hollywood, he worked with Alfred Hitchcock & alongside Sidney Poitier. Before this though? A scrappy boxer. My latest. #history #skystorians www.eriereader.com/article/cana...

My latest: “This was the boxing scene in Erie when Canada Lee arrived in 1928. He was recruited by Carney alongside a cohort of other Harlem fighters. … He was soon hitting the gym with Bill Purdy, trainer for many of Erie's boxing greats.” #History #Skystorians www.eriereader.com/article/cana...

Without my editor, I get a little carried away. But here’s my perspective on the whole echo chambers discussion. I have a lot of thoughts. A.I. slop! Algorithms! Dead Internet Theory! The World Wide Web! RSS feeds! Journalistic codes of ethics! Read on: www.jonathanburdick.com/words/echo-c...

We can all agree that Arthur, airing for 25 seasons, is one of the greatest PBS Kids shows of all time. Arthur’s creator, Marc Brown, grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania. Advice on writing from Season 1, Episode 12. #writersky #writing #PBSKids

From the Erie Public Library Report 1913-1916. #EriePA. (Source: PA Power Library) #history #skystorians