This is the grave of Ossie Schectman. Born in Queens in 1919, Oscar Schectman grew up in a Jewish immigrant family. His parents had come over from Russia. He was a very good athlete and starred in high school in both baseball and basketball. He...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Belle Moskowitz. Born in 1877 to German Jewish immigrants in Harlem, Belle Lindner grew up reasonably well off. Her father was a watchmaker. She attended.
This is the grave of Frank Borzage. Born in 1894 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Frank Borzaga was the son of a Italian immigrant miner and his Swiss wife. There's.
This is the grave of Sam Walton. Welp...this one should be something. Born in 1918 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Walton did not grow up that wealthy. His father was a poor farmer, typical of the Ozarks for that time, until he gave it up in the...
Two last shows I saw in 2023. Both were at the Columbus Theatre in Providence. The first was The Bad Plus. Oddly, I had never seen them before and I.
This is the grave of Dixie Haygood. Born in 1861 in Milledgeville, Georgia, Haygood became one of the most famous magicians of the late 19th and early 20th century. I.
As I've said many times, those who respond to the housing and homelessness crises by saying BUILD BUILD BUILD are just pushing a simplistic talking point that serves to diminish just how complex these issues are. Yes, build all you can. 100%, I completely support...
As CNN and the New York Times eat out of Chris Rufo's lap and move toward getting the president of Harvard fired for not throwing out students who care about.
It's time for something a bit more light hearted than usual. So here's this great story about how a bunch of teenagers who don't care about some old man named.
This is the grave of Phillips Brooks. Born in 1835 in Boston, Brooks was a man of Boston. Good family that had been there forever, great-grandson of the founder of Phillips Academy. Brooks went to Boston Latin and then Harvard. He taught for awhile upon...
Democrats just caving to Trumpism on immigration (at the same time that he uses the openly Nazi language Miller and Bannon are feeding him; no of course he hasn't read.
State flags are mostly pretty badly designed, but they do express values of the state, or at least they do when they are changed. See how various southern states added.