This is the grave of Iron Eyes Cody and, uh, Mrs. Iron Eyes Cody. Espera Oscar de Corti was born in Kaplan, Louisiana in 1904. He was about as Native American as I am. His parents were Sicilian immigrants. He grew up poor. His parents...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Mary Pickford. Born in 1892 in Toronto, Gladys Smith grew up in a working class family. Her father was someone who just picked up whatever.
This is the grave of Tommy Ramone. Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949, Thomas Erdelyi was lucky to have been born at all. His parents were Jews who had survived.
This is the grave of Adrian. Born in 1903 in Naugatuck, Connecticut, Adrian Greenburg grew up in a Jewish immigrant household that was upwardly mobile. Interested in art from the time he was a kid, Greenburg went to the New York School for Fine and...
This is the grave of Jim Backus. Born in 1913 in Cleveland, Backus grew up in the upper middle class world of that city's eastern suburbs, which are still pretty.
This is the grave of Ray Charles. Born in Albany, Georgia in 1930, Ray Charles Robinson grew up very poor. His mother was an orphan a family had taken in.
Issues around zoning and building are more DJW's department than mine, but I wanted to note this interesting article about the burgeoning, if super awkward, alliance between left YIMBYs and right-wing think tank types who think that people should be able to divide up their...
Pennsylvania --- 1938-Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Steel workers in front of CIO Headquarters. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS As I stated some time ago now, I am part of the CIO podcast.
There is a bill before the Connecticut state legislature for the state to ratify the Child Labor Amendment. As this is something I have advocated for over a long period.
This is the grave of John Burroughs. Born in 1827 on a farm in the Catskill Mountains, Burroughs would be a boy rooted in the Catskills his whole life, at least emotionally. His parents were not wealthy; probably no one really was who farmed that...
This is the grave of Ernest John Moeran. Born in Heston, Middlsex, England in 1894, Moeran grew up well-off, the son of a prominent minister. His mother was a pianist.
This is the grave of Janet Leigh. Born in 1927 in Merced, California, Jeannette Morrison grew up in Stockton. I can see why she would want to move to Hollywood!.