The First Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Mich., long closed, is kept up by a local nonprofit for a community center while raising money so the building, opened in 1853 and the oldest church structure in town, stands. Sorry for the shadows on the first marker. The whole thing is in alt text.

But I am on time in marking his death anniversary October 2, 1803 Samuel Adams Dies www.massmoments.org/moment-detai...

Do you know what “chucking” is? Do you want to know the talents of Priss Fotheringham, the Wand’ring Whore?

Spent the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at the Woodland Cultural Centre for the official unveiling of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School as an interpreted historic site. 1/2

The level of detail in this marker of President Taft’s visit to Falls Church, Va., is epic. He didn’t just have a drink. He “sipped” “lemonade.”

Make a plan to see the Eisenhower Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas, right off I-70, before it gets plundered. Conveniently located across the street from the Greyhound Hall of Fame.

It baaaaack. "Just like a toppled confederate general forced back onto a public square, the Donald Trump Jeffrey Epstein statue has risen from the rubble to stand gloriously on the National Mall once again," the group Secret Handshake tells @huffpost.com.

This is still true and the mods would do well to remember it

Congrats to the HS students at my alma mater who won a chance to work with Ken Burns for their National History video on Love Canal! What struck me in watching is much of the bad old days Project 2025 is trying to bring back are how life was only 20-50 years ago. www.ccs.k12.in.us/about/news/d...

Sorry, distinguished gentleman from Beloit, I hit the Lincoln historical marker in Janesville (he spoke there that night and stayed overnight in town on Oct 1, 1859, after a speech in nearby Beloit). Also, read the alt-text for the local paper’s wild, circus-freak description of Lincoln’s looks.

The importance of ceremonies like these is not merely in honoring those who fought for what was right when so many were wrong. It’s also to remind us, in this age, that determined people doing the right thing is never easy — and always worth it.

Safe to say that among the Equal Justice Initiative, state and local historical marker efforts, were easily in the triple digits on plaques at American lynching sites

A few years ago this 1966 Marinette, Wisc., monument to its logging days lost its fiberglass driver. When I stopped recently, the 10,000 board feet of logs on the sled, the centerpiece of the monument, were gone. I can’t find anything about where they went. So, see the horses while you still can.

Waterfall of the Night: Laughing Whitefish Falls, near Eben, Mich., in the Upper Peninsula. You come upon it at the top and can climb stairs along the 100-foot drop to the bottom. This is a 🧵 with a few different views. It’s the last of this bit. I’m out of waterfall videos.

Good advice for anyone putting together this year’s hit costume, Sexy Historical Marker

For historical markers I skeet, I reproduce the text (or as much as I can) in alt-text. I also use it to add more tidbits that I couldn’t fit in the skeet. Even if you don’t use a screen reader, I highly recommend you slow down and open the alt-text for the full Historical Marker Ahead experience.

A few years ago this 1966 Marinette, Wisc., monument to its logging days lost its fiberglass driver. When I stopped recently, the 10,000 board feet of logs on the sled, the centerpiece of the monument, were gone. I can’t find anything about where they went. So, see the horses while you still can.

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Semi-related: statue and marker for the “Nairn Fishwife” in Nairn, Scotland. It was put up in tribute to the women who kept the home fires burning, and sold some fish, as the men were off catching herring in the North Sea. The industry peaked in the late 19th Century and was gone by the 1930s.

Philly’s new historical markers are going hard. Even the one about the historic, opulent hotel, which also happened to be the site of the first U.S. recorded outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease, killing 29. whyy.org/articles/leg...

Waterfall of the Night: This is the next-to-last night for this bit. After tomorrow, I run out of waterfall videos. Here’s a little one on a creek that is heading to an even bigger waterfall I’ll show tomorrow. It’s near Eben, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula.

Aces needed OT to put away the shorthanded Fever, 107-98, to advance to the WNBA Finals v PHX. What a run by Indiana. This group won 24 games, the Commissioner's Cup, pushed the Aces to OT in G5 of the semis — and had to finish down EIGHT players.

Was one dynamic Indiana pro guard suffering a devastating injury in a deciding playoff game not enough for you, basketball gods?

Maybe I should have taken him on my road trips to stop at monuments and historical markers to see (in these pics) LGBTQ+, women, Black and Asian military who volunteered, fought and died for the Woke Department of their country.

Maybe I should have taken him on my road trips to stop at monuments and historical markers to see (in these pics) LGBTQ+, women, Black and Asian military who volunteered, fought and died for the Woke Department of their country.

The Hermitage Hotel in Nashville has a plaque for its men’s restroom claiming it’s been the site of “several music videos and numerous legislative deals.” Alas, while the hotel’s site lists videos filmed there, it doesn’t categorize them by potty location: thehermitagehotel.com/historic-hot...

The original sign said they met one block north. Also, no one contacted the church about the original marker. The church spoke up, and now the metal record has been fixed.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Live you life as such performance art people think you faked your own death as a bit people.com/andy-kaufman...

Waterfall of the Night: this fall near Munising, Michigan, along the North Country Trail doesn’t look like much. But in the winter it solidifies and becomes one of the many falls that attract ice climbers to the area, particularly for February’s Michigan Ice Fest michiganicefest.com

You ask most people what year Silicon Valley took root, I doubt you’d get anywhere close to 1938

As a reminder, historical markers at lynching sites have popped up all over the US, most of them as a result of work by the Equal Justice Initiative eji.org/projects/com...

Except for those who start it with “The Funky” youtu.be/bZJzw7LSXc0?...

After 140 years, and as archeologists dig to research details, Rock Springs, Wyoming, puts up a monument to recognize the tragedy of a mob burning down the city’s Chinatown, killing 28 Chinese people and injuring another 14.

Interestingly, 100 years after the boom times @upjohninstitute.bsky.social finds mining and wood product manufacturing still huge contributors to Upper Michigan’s GDP. Combined they employ 3,100, or 100 less than accommodation (tourism has grown a lot)

Of course, “coal” is symbolism. Plenty of places were born of resource extraction. It was exhausted, yet towns remain, struggling to find another identity. The culture’s still based on the boom days. My family’s in the UP of Michigan. Its population peaked in 1920 as copper and logging booms ended.

"God is Change, And in the end, God prevails. But meanwhile… Kindness eases Change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us In the greatest, The most intense Of our chosen struggles" — Octavia E. Butler, 'Parable of the Sower'

Torre and his team, with the support of @meadowlarkmedia.bsky.social, have done incredible reporting peeling the onion on how it appears Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and a now-bankrupt “green” company worked together to pay Kawhi Leonard to (allegedly) circumvent the NBA salary cap.

Frank E. Noyes, as editor of the Daily Eagle in Marinette, Wisc., loved being pedantic and putting up plaques. A 1938 marker at the 45N parallel near Peshtigo satisfied both. It notes you’re actually 9 miles S of halfway between the Equator and the North Pole. www.mnmuseumofthems.org/45th/Oconto....

Waterfall of the Night: Rapid River Falls, Michigan. It’s about halfway between the Upper Peninsiula towns of Rapid River and Trenary, as if that’s meaningful to you. As you approach the falls there’s a helpful sign explaining the rocks that make them happen. See next skeet! 1/🧵

Frank E. Noyes, as editor of the Daily Eagle in Marinette, Wisc., loved being pedantic and putting up plaques. A 1938 marker at the 45N parallel near Peshtigo satisfied both. It notes you’re actually 9 miles S of halfway between the Equator and the North Pole. www.mnmuseumofthems.org/45th/Oconto....

As the NFL takes the field in Dublin, learn more about Archbishop Thomas Croke, whom the stadium is named after. He was an ardent fighter for Irish identity under UK rule. He promoted Irish sport, including as founding patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1884. www.dib.ie/biography/cr...

As the NFL takes the field in Dublin, learn more about Archbishop Thomas Croke, whom the stadium is named after. He was an ardent fighter for Irish identity under UK rule. He promoted Irish sport, including as founding patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association in 1884. www.dib.ie/biography/cr...

Waterfall of the Night: Whitefish Falls, west fork of the Whitefish River, a few miles northwest of Trenary, Michigan, taken today. It flows south to Lake Michigan rather than north to Lake Superior. Why? Click here to learn your Great Lakes basins! www.scirp.org/journal/pape...

Here’s how old I am: I went to the first one, and Jerry Rice was playing in it. (My dad’s company was a sponsor so he dropped my brother and I off at the Hoosier Dome with his tickets) indianapolisrecorder.com/4e411db4-1c7...

Hello, and greetings from Lake Superior near Au Train, Michigan! According to this marker, the world’s largest freshwater lake was only discovered in 1622 by a Frenchman! Even as another sign says the area had an ancient Ojibwe portage trail! (It’s because the Lake Superior marker went up in 1957.)

Hello, and greetings from Lake Superior near Au Train, Michigan! According to this marker, the world’s largest freshwater lake was only discovered in 1622 by a Frenchman! Even as another sign says the area had an ancient Ojibwe portage trail! (It’s because the Lake Superior marker went up in 1957.)

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