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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,748

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 10, 2024

This is the grave of Bob Howsam. Born in 1918 in Denver, Robert Howsam, but always Bob, grew up pretty well off. His father ran a bee-keeping business, which I assume is an earlier version of using traveling trucks of honeybees to fertilize crops as...

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,115

By Erik Loomis

On June 8, 2022

This is the grave of Powel Crosley. Born in 1886 in Cincinnati, Crosley grew up in a well-off suburban household. He was one in a long line of American tinkerers.

Lurking Canadian Our local theater festival used to do one every year. They were always a hit, measured by box office, but they don’t run them anymore. I think, though no one has ever said so out loud where I...
Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,098 · March 11, 2026
DJ My guess is that the reason an academic called this a "great paper" is mostly lost on the journalist, who is focused on a big picture issue — they traded live birds! — and not whatever...
The Ancient Bird Trade · March 11, 2026
Will Smirk 4 Food I subit that Gilbert & Sullivan were the first to introduce meta into popular entertainment. After "The Mikado" G&S wrote "Ruddigore," which included a character called...
Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,098 · March 11, 2026
piglet42 I wonder whether Arendt's "banality of evil" is still applicable to this version of fascist evil. If ever there is an equivalent of the Nuremberg or Auschwitz or Jerusalem trial, there...
Ain’t That America · March 11, 2026
David Carson Is that Hugh Parry on the left? He wrote the music to Blake’s poem Jerusalem.
Erik Visits a (Non) American Grave, Part 2,098 · March 11, 2026