Youngstown, OH – Steel Town Let’s spend this week on ISOA looking at one historical center. This is a picture of a picture found in the Youngstown Historical Center of the conditions in the shantytowns that were close to almost … Continue reading Steel Mills..
Madison, WI – Mustard Museum Who would have thought that mustard is very American. If you don’t believe me just visit the Mustard Museum in Madison to see how many companies there are in the U.S. that make mustard. There … Continue reading Mustard Museum??
Southern Indiana – Feed Mills Feed mills were once a very integral part of America. It is where farmers took their grain to be processed into something edible. There aren’t too many small ones around now, but the ghosts still … Continue reading Ghosts from the past…
To maybe entice you over to my pictorial blog site I am pulling another post from there for this Saturday’s picture day. Click on the mosaic map to the right to see some more entries… A nip is definitely in the air here in Indiana so that takes my thoughts to Pumpkins. Halloween is the first event related to pumpkins but since that is a pagan holiday I don’t celebrate that one :) so that leaves Thanksgiving. I can’t imagine a Thanksgiving meal with a healthy slice of pumpkin pie. Pumpkins are very American. They were grown by native Americans … Continue reading An Ode To Pumpkins
Pittsburgh PA – H.J. Heinz Company Museum It is unclear just who invented ketchup but as usual an American perfected the process. As shown in picture taken of a mural at the museum H.J. Heinz was making it on a large scale. Here is a little about it from Wikipedia: Tomato ketchup was sold locally by farmers. A man named Jonas Yerks (or Yerkes) is believed to have been the first man to make tomato ketchup a national phenomenon. By 1837, he had produced and distributed the condiment nationally. Shortly thereafter, other companies followed suit. F. & J. Heinz launched … Continue reading 57 Varieties…
Washington DC – Smithsonian Institute When John Kennedy started the mission to put a man on the moon he caused a technological revolution in America that still lingers today. The Space Shuttle as shown above was an important part of … Continue reading Man On The Moon
Mitchell SD – Corn Palace One thing America is known for is corn. Anyone who has ever driven through the middle of this country has seen acre after acre of it. Don’t ask me where we use all that corn … Continue reading All That Corn….
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