Author: Erik Loomis
Annie Lowrey has a pretty good essay on the housing shortage. She rightfully makes the point that the biggest issue is a lack of new building. I can certainly accept.
This is the grave of Andrew Jackson Hamilton. You can read the historical society biography above, but we'll go ahead and expand on this a bit. Hamilton was born in.
This week's musical highlight for me was seeing Patterson Hood play City Winery in Boston. This is exactly two weeks after his Drive By Truckers bandmate Mike Cooley played there.
Well, I have now never seen the Greatest Film of All Time(TM). I guess I need to fix that. I have seen one or two Akerman films and found them.
This is the grave of Carleton Beals. Born in 1893 in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, Beals came from an interesting background. His father was Carrie Nation's stepson. I wonder what that.
This is the grave of Claude Hudspeth. Born in 1877 in Medina, Texas, Hudspeth grew up as part of the white elite dominating Texas. This was an openly racist regime.
This is the grave of Rachel Carson. Born in 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Carson grew up outside of Pittsburgh, reading stories about animals and falling in love with the natural.
Born in Yangzhou in 1926, Jiang was one of the last Chinese leaders to remember the 1949 Revolution. His father died fighting the Japanese while Jiang himself was attending National.