Portraits of Native Americans This photograph is of Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill, 1885 taken by David Francis Barry photographer (1854-1934) Photograph originally taken by William Notman studios, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, during Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, August 1885. Later copyrighted by D.F. Barry in June 1897 Two photos (front and side) of Amos Little, […]
Author: Donna R Causey
Did you know the English Sparrow was imported to NY to eat caterpillars in Central Park?
“The English Sparrow was imported to North America to protect trees from a caterpillar which is the larva of the Geometrid Moth. About six inches long. Grayish brown, the back streaked with black. Brown wings with white bars. Buff white underside. Narrow white stripe over the eyes. White and chestnut cheek patches. White sides and […]
The way to a man’s heart – good pie-making? This author from 1886 thinks so..
This amusing story is from an 1886 newspaper and reveals much about how women were viewed in the day….. Treat the pie with respect The pie has sometimes been treated with disrespect. Its antiquity and high position on the bill of fare of this nation make the insult most atrocious. This sacriligious (sic) state of […]
The Condict House in Morristown is a very historic house in New Jersey – with many famous visitors
*Note: Some of the language below may be a little antiquated because its excerpts and transcriptions from a the book -Transcription from Historic Houses of New Jersey By Weymer Jay Mills .J. B. Lippincott Company – written in 1902 = The original words provide a unique glimpse of the people and early times in New […]
[Old film & pics of farm life in 1916] with home of Abraham Lincoln’s parents in Ky
This historic film below provides a wonderful sense of what life was like for settlers in 1869 Kentucky and the old photographs depict how much life changed by 1916. The people had a strong character to conquer such hardships. Samuel Haycraft Jr., in his 1869 History of Elizabethtown, wrote: “For who can tell what Elizabethtown […]
Time is running out -[films & pics] will future generations know the joys of pine forests?
I have fond memories of riding my bike as a child to my favorite spot, a Longleaf pine thicket near my house. There I would often spend hours reading, thinking or just daydreaming as I was at one with nature. The long pine needles made a soft cushion where I could rest comfortably. Today, we are in […]
These people found a unique way to advertise
Some people believed in engraving their trades on their tombstones. Epitaph to blind woodsawyer in Georgia: “While none ever saw him see thousands have seen him saw.” Elkhart, Indiana, epitaph on tombstone of teacher: “School is out Teacher has gone home.” Epitaph to fireman in Wilmington, North Carolina “William P. Monroe Died […]
DYK: ‘Without a clue’ once meant something different than it does today
Today without a clue means to have no knowledge of something, but it once had a different meaning. A clue (also spelled clew) was a globular ball formed from coiling worms or the like or, more specifically, a ball of thread. In Greek myth – the tale of Theseus and the Minotaur. Theseus entered the […]
Please put a heat-a-lator on the phone line – so funny!
In 1974, as an April Fool joke, a radio announcer told his audience that, since the community had experienced several nights of unusual below-zero temperature, the telephone company, at a specified time, would put “heat-a-lators” on all the lines to thaw them out. The disc jockey told his listeners to put their phone receivers in […]
First breaking news event covered by helicopter was in Baldwin Hills, Ca.
(KTLA, already a pioneer of live on-the-scene television coverage, used a helicopter to cover the disaster. Common today, this was perhaps the first such live aerial coverage of a breaking news event.) The Baldwin Hills Dam disaster occurred on December 14, 1963, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure and […]