Thursday, August 31, 2006
Corrections and Ephemera
Some corrections, amplifications, and other bits of information that have been pointed out along the way:
Thanks again for visiting my museum in late July. I understand that the visit DID make an impression on you!
I know so because you dedicated a few paragraphs and three pictures about me and my museum on your blog!
IF you are interested in learning more about the truth. You now have my email...
Best Wishes,
- The reservoir I crossed on the way into Ohio was the Pymatuning Reservoir, which flows out of and back into the Shenango River (referred to, obliquely, in a subsequent post).
- I wavered between "hub" and "epicenter" of the Chicago area in trying to remember how Elmhurst, Illinois, was described. Turns out it was "epicenter." The Wiener's Circle is restored to its former status as the hub. I've corrected the post for future generations of readers.
- I looked at the post "Big Shoulders" and discovered I'd used the word "profound" or "profoundly" four times in one paragraph. Apparently I thought I had something profound to say. Maybe I should get an editor, or at least read the damn thing before I hit the "publish" button. I will try to keep in mind henceforth my professor John Ward's advice, at another time when I guess I needed it, that adjectives tend to be an extra and unwanted strum of the guitar.
- The Quad Cities Swing, I have realized, are formally named "The Swing of the Quad Cities." That's what the announcer kept saying. Sort of like "The College of Wooster," only even more annoying. Not as annoying as "The Ohio State University," however. It turns out there is a swing connection, too. Bix Beiderbecke, whom you've probably never heard of but maybe ought to, was a notable cornet player and bandleader born in Davenport. According to Wikipedia, Louis Armstrong never played the tune "Singin' the Blues" because he thought Beiderbecke's classic recording of the song shouldn't be touched. "Lots of cats tried to play like Bix," said Satchmo; "ain't none of them play like him yet."
Dear Chris:
Thanks again for visiting my museum in late July. I understand that the visit DID make an impression on you!
I know so because you dedicated a few paragraphs and three pictures about me and my museum on your blog!
By reading your account of our encounter, I have the impression that you wish you didn't have it. I also understand that you never did find out why John Hanson is our first president!
But in your account on the blog, you stated exactly what I was trying to get across to you... one, that people are not willing to go out of their way to find the truth (hence, you kept complaining about not being kept to your schedule-- like your schedule is more important than the truth!)
two, that people are more afraid of what their friends and peers think about them and their actions are predicated on this weak supposition. Until people are willing to stand up for the truth! and there is only one truth! this country, this world is going to continue to be the way it is!
My quest for the country, the world to know that John Hanson is the first president is only the tip of the iceberg.
The more important thing is to understand that we as a nation, a world can easily be deceived if we put our own selfish interests first. We are put here for a reason, mainly to witness to the truth!
So as a teacher, you can either stand up and take a stand for your students or you can continue to usher them down the ``path of least resistence'' (i.e. the easy way) and send them to the ignorance and oblivion that many seem to be too satisfied with today.
IF you are interested in learning more about the truth. You now have my email...
please be safe on your journeys.
Best Wishes,
Nick Pahys Jr.
One and Only Presidential Museum
For different reasons, it may be a few days before the next post. So in the meantime here's some stuff I've wanted to send along but that just hasn't fit anywhere else.
Mennonite girls on the Tumble Bug at Conneaut Lake Park:
A bumper sticker in Louisville. Does this mean that when a man and a woman meet, they must marry each other and have two children? It's a bit elliptical. FYI, the Unitarians in Louisville had a big banner on their church reading "Civil marriage is a civil right."
I'm a little curious about the Triple X Family Restaurant in West Lafayette:
The sort of thing you find wandering around the U Chicago campus:
and driving around Chicago:
A couple details from the amazing Rookery Building in Chicago:
And the equally amazing exterior of the Carson Pirie Scott store in the loop. The interior was gutted long ago, unfortunately. At least it isn't suffering the indignity of being renamed Macy's like its neighbor Marshall Fields. Yet, anyway.
And the Carnegie Library in Sterling, Illinois:
It could be almost anywhere, really, but this is a fine example and apparently still in use as the public library. The vast majority of Mr. Carnegie's libraries, although their details differ, follow the same basic layout: children's reading room on one side; adult reading room on the other side; librarian as magistrate in the center, with stacks behind. There was some substantial theory behind it, promulgated by the Carnegie folks - you can read a good summary of the arrangement here. I'm a graduate of just such a library in Delaware, Ohio - no longer in use as the library unfortunately, but still standing and recently restored and expanded - and every time I walk into one of its cousins I feel like I'm back home.
For different reasons, it may be a few days before the next post. So in the meantime here's some stuff I've wanted to send along but that just hasn't fit anywhere else.
Mennonite girls on the Tumble Bug at Conneaut Lake Park:
A bumper sticker in Louisville. Does this mean that when a man and a woman meet, they must marry each other and have two children? It's a bit elliptical. FYI, the Unitarians in Louisville had a big banner on their church reading "Civil marriage is a civil right."
I'm a little curious about the Triple X Family Restaurant in West Lafayette:
The sort of thing you find wandering around the U Chicago campus:
and driving around Chicago:
A couple details from the amazing Rookery Building in Chicago:
And the equally amazing exterior of the Carson Pirie Scott store in the loop. The interior was gutted long ago, unfortunately. At least it isn't suffering the indignity of being renamed Macy's like its neighbor Marshall Fields. Yet, anyway.
And the Carnegie Library in Sterling, Illinois:
It could be almost anywhere, really, but this is a fine example and apparently still in use as the public library. The vast majority of Mr. Carnegie's libraries, although their details differ, follow the same basic layout: children's reading room on one side; adult reading room on the other side; librarian as magistrate in the center, with stacks behind. There was some substantial theory behind it, promulgated by the Carnegie folks - you can read a good summary of the arrangement here. I'm a graduate of just such a library in Delaware, Ohio - no longer in use as the library unfortunately, but still standing and recently restored and expanded - and every time I walk into one of its cousins I feel like I'm back home.
