This Langston Hughes poem is relevant af.

I love this plaque because then I learn about a guy who built a concert hall above his coal warehouse that became the premier venue for chamber music in London, attracting musicians including Handel. interlude.hk/thomas-britt...

According to the historical marker, this is the eighth version of the floating bridge over Sunset Lake in Brookfield, Vermont. The bridge should have a name and a Roman numeral like a live animal college mascot. Floating Bridge VIII.

I’ve reposted this twice (now thrice) and have to concede that the world, even my part born in Alger County, Mich., isn’t excited to know of lumber baron Russell Alger. But if you go to Pictured Rocks in the UP, check out his legacy: the Kingston Plains stumpfield project.geo.msu.edu/geogmich/kin...

You can’t hurt me, I’m a Pacers fan

I’m trademarking HOO HOO HOO HOOVER

The two monuments to former Michigan governor, U.S. Secretary of War and clear-cutting lumber baron Russell Alger. One is in Detroit (placed in 1921) and the other in Munising (placed in 1909, 3 years after his death). Alger County, where Munising is located, was created while he was governor.

In 2014 a historical plaque went up in Grand Central Terminal to recognize Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ prominent role in saving the New York landmark from destruction in the 1970s. It’s in the Jacqueline Kennedy Foyer as you enter off of 42nd and Park. www.metro-magazine.com/10038127/n-y...

In 2014 a historical plaque went up in Grand Central Terminal to recognize Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ prominent role in saving the New York landmark from destruction in the 1970s. It’s in the Jacqueline Kennedy Foyer as you enter off of 42nd and Park. www.metro-magazine.com/10038127/n-y...

The two monuments to former Michigan governor, U.S. Secretary of War and clear-cutting lumber baron Russell Alger. One is in Detroit (placed in 1921) and the other in Munising (placed in 1909, 3 years after his death). Alger County, where Munising is located, was created while he was governor.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

This is the same tone my feckless rep @casten.house.gov struck. Stop waiting for the perfect victim! It doesn’t matter if Maduro is good or bad, just what Trump has done! If you’re saying Maduro is bad, then you open the door to saying we should have done something like what Trump did but different!

“I would announce that we have been victorious in Iraq and all the troops are coming home and let those people have their civil war. … Saddam Hussein is going to be like a nice guy compared to the one who’s taking over Iraq.” Hmmmm. www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

My rep, Congressman Weaksauce

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Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

The 12th Street site where the 1967 Detroit Uprising began is now a quiet park on the renamed Rosa Parks Boulevard. I won’t offer my pithy commentary about an event whose aftershocks still resonate locally and nationally. If you want more: policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/s/detroitund...

He’s gone

The 12th Street site where the 1967 Detroit Uprising began is now a quiet park on the renamed Rosa Parks Boulevard. I won’t offer my pithy commentary about an event whose aftershocks still resonate locally and nationally. If you want more: policing.umhistorylabs.lsa.umich.edu/s/detroitund...

"Because if you go on the Internet and Google, how did Two Egg get its name, there are 50 bazillion stories out there." #Florida historian puts up historical marker for town of Two Egg (birthplace of Faye Dunaway). www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

Pacers fan alert: Not surprised to see “Indiana’s youth” in here. Injuries and the tire fire at center have been big drags, but the fact not Mathurin, not Walker, not any young player has stepped up their game means when Hali comes back in 26-27 this team will, and should, look very different.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

This sentence hit differently from 1887 to 2023

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

I said as I started my account and will repeat here: historical markers reveal as much or more about the time and the people who erected them as they do about what they commemorate.

Go (puts on Indiana accent) Hyoosiers

Win one for Dave Schnell, IU

Birmingham Boer War memorial. Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, West Midlands. #LestWeForget

Long Dick Clark New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’s Journey Into Night

I thought this skeet would do better but maybe Olsen Twins jokes don’t land like they once did (assuming this landed)

One of my 2025 accomplishments was uploading a bunch of historical markers in my mom’s Upper Michigan hometown to the Historical Marker Database @hmdb.org. (I’m not done yet)

I hear the plaque a-comin', it's rolling 'round the bend And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when I'm stuck in Folsom prison, and time keeps draggin' on But that plaque keeps a-rollin' on down to San Antone folsomtimes.com/stolen-state...

Cheating because I saw this on USA’s “Night Flight,” usually in the dark as my dad slept on the couch behind me. Blew my mind as a young teen. youtu.be/RkfzXq0tA3c?...

This is a well-written marker that tells a story of how bikes inspired the influential Good Roads movement and how car culture stomped on cyclists in the earliest of days. And a great location along the Detroit River!

“You’re not making Christianity better, you’re just making rock and roll worse.” youtu.be/oPwaqaOcAyE?...

They were all separate moments that somehow all turned into one months long very special moment

As an historian, I’d say it’s pretty explicable, actually.

Food and beer with a side of historical marker tonight at J.W. Hollstein’s saloon in Tinley Park, Illinois, the first version of which opened on this site in 1890.

Food and beer with a side of historical marker tonight at J.W. Hollstein’s saloon in Tinley Park, Illinois, the first version of which opened on this site in 1890.

You can see this quite often in Kyiv. The message reads: “This square meter of Ukrainian land is under the protection of the Ground Forces. Like every other one.”

Sorry, it was the first thing I thought of

A historical marker just went up at a private pond used from the early 1900s to the mid-1970s as an immersion baptismal font for a Black Baptist church in Natchez, Mississippi. www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/washed-...

For you Edmund Fitzgerald-heads, the Mariners Church in Detroit. Or as Gordon Lightfoot sang, the “Maritime Sailors Cathedral” in “Dee-TROY-it.” It’s by the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and the Renaissance Center. The church wasn’t open when I stopped by a few days ago.

Despite his nice-guy Websterness, Karras was so hardcore, he (along with Paul Hornung) got a year-long gambling suspension from the NFL in 1963, without even needing a phone and a FanDuel account.

R and I biked 300 miles from traverse city to Kalamazoo over a few days and stumbled upon this historic gas station/cheese shop in the absolute middle of nowhere with the best backstory I've ever heard

For you Edmund Fitzgerald-heads, the Mariners Church in Detroit. Or as Gordon Lightfoot sang, the “Maritime Sailors Cathedral” in “Dee-TROY-it.” It’s by the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and the Renaissance Center. The church wasn’t open when I stopped by a few days ago.

The “historic” Kokomo, Ind., gas tower didn’t even make it 50 years. But like other tall local beacons such as water towers, its looming presence gave it an importance for locals beyond its function. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=214904