So there's a statute of Oliver Hazard Perry in a park across the way from Cleveland Browns Stadium. It reminded me, of course, of the statue of Perry at home, so I did a little research. Turns out, the Perrysburg Perry statue is a bronze casting of an original Cleveland Perry statue. This one, near the stadium in Cleveland, is itself a bronze casting of the original.
Ours is a hand-me-down!
tags: history perrysburg cleveland ohio
photo posted by matt in Saturday, June 15, 2024
I researched Kaiser-Frazer and the Kaiser Darrin a bit this morning, still jazzed a bit after seeing a Darrin at the Perrysburg car show last night. I figured it would be featured in this book I have about the history of industrial design in Toledo.
Nope! It's not even mentioned in a footnote. Hard to believe, considering the unique appearance and features of the car, and its history and tight connection to other key aspects of Toledo history (Willys, Jeep, etc.).
I guess the bottom line is the Darrin was a failure (an epic one, apparently). I guess the phrase "history is written by the victors" applies to more than just war. That's a shame, of course, because, as the Darrin shows us, there's fascinating history in the tales of those who lost.
postposted by matt in Saturday, June 1, 2024
This obituary of Evelyn de Rothschild, who died on Monday of this week, has an interesting mini-history of the Rothschild family and its banking businesses.
posted by matt in Thursday, November 10, 2022
This is fascinating, both for the history and for the science behind it.
posted by matt in Tuesday, July 26, 2022
The history on display in Boston is incredible. There's so much of it to go around that some of it, while probably noteworthy and interesting on some level, has yet to warrant attention beyond a simple marker with a date and an unremarkable description of an otherwise forgotten event. Take this ordinary house that sits a few blocks down the street from our Airbnb, for example. Apparently it sits on the site of a fort built "by order of General Washington" in 1775. That seems like a historically significant event and location to me. But the marker in the photo is truly the extent of it today. Weirdly, its incorporation into the white picket fence around the front yard doesn't feel strange at all. It feels natural, fits in. It's so...Boston.
tags: boston cambridge history
photo posted by matt in Saturday, November 6, 2021
"Here we provide evidence that the Vikings were present in Newfoundland in AD 1021."
Science sorting out history. Now the question becomes, how long will it take history to apply the science and teach this to children?
tags: science history education
posted by matt in Saturday, October 23, 2021
Howard Johnson's actually has a fascinating history. It was probably the first nationwide chain of restaurants. And those came before the hotels. I had no idea.
tags: history
posted by matt in Thursday, March 25, 2021
Just learned about Sir Ernest Shackleton and the story of his ill-fated Antarctic expedition on the Endurance. Incredible.
tags: history explorer leadership
posted by matt in Sunday, November 29, 2020
