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Jonathan Burdick
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Are these the people I hear about who don’t eat for pleasure? #wtf
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History teacher. Writer.
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Jonathan Burdick
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Are these the people I hear about who don’t eat for pleasure? #wtf
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Jonathan Burdick
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I’m telling y’all, #EriePA is a pretty awesome place to live.
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Jonathan Burdick
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A description of “ready-sliced” bread from Popular Mechanics. November 1929. Pre-sliced bread hit the market in July 1928 using an invention by Otto Frederick Rohwedder. #history #bread
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She later reflected: “Each generation repeats its leaders. Each sees men endowed with superior inventiveness, energy, & genius for business, inspired by love of power & possession, launch selfish schemes… intent on persuading mankind that he had found the way, could lead men to the good life.”
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Jonathan Burdick
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The Economic Journal review stated: “[I]t is difficult to write about Miss Tarbell's remarkable achievement without using language approaching the edge of hyperbole. So careful is she in her facts, so sane in her judgements, that she seems to have reached the high-water mark of industrial history.”
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Jonathan Burdick
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Ida Tarbell: raised in Titusville, PA, the muckraking journalist took on one of the most powerful men in history, John D. Rockefeller. Her book The History of Standard Oil chronicled his shady business practices, which had crushed her hometown. #history #skystorians
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Jonathan Burdick
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Shoghi Effendi, the leader of Baháʼí at the time of her death and great-grandson of the founder, appointed her a Hand of the Cause upon her death. The last Hand appointed by Effendi died in 2007. #history #religion
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The Queen of Romania even converted. Countries that Root traveled & spread her message included Burma, China, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, & the UK. She died in Hawaii on Sept. 28, 1939. Today, over 5 million people follow the Baháʼí Faith.
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Jonathan Burdick
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Martha Root (1872-1939) was raised on a dairy farm in Cambridge Springs, PA. After graduating from high school, she attended Oberlin College. In 1909, she converted to the Baháʼí Faith & spent the next three decades traveling the world, sharing her beliefs. #history #skystorians
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Jonathan Burdick
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Always a good day for some Double-A baseball.
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The August 23, 1927 edition of Erie Daily Times, reporting on the controversial executions of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Boston. 🗃️ #history #skystorians
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Jonathan Burdick
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“We readers aren’t big on word salad” … lmfao
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum says that Lawrence "drew on the tales he heard in his community" & was "increasingly interested in producing images of historical figures like Brown because they were rarely included in standard history texts." #ushistory
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As described by the Washington State Arts Commission, these use "vibrant colors, story-telling precision, and powerful graphic images" to "reveal the white, abolitionist’s dramatic moral choices and life events." Lawrence's paintings portray John Brown as both heroic & reckless. #johnbrown #civilwar
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Jonathan Burdick
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While Curry's Tragic Prelude is the best known of John Brown paintings, I've always really enjoyed the 22-print series "The Legend of John Brown" by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). Lawrence called his style "dynamic cubism." #history #skystorians #art #arthistory
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A 1923 article in The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette described the dance to the Snuggle Pup song as "an exotic dance breathing the rhythm of Pharaohs."
"A sensation everywhere," another Chicago newspaper ad for Snuggle Pups countered.
By 1925, their popularity had faded away. #history #skystorian
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Jonathan Burdick
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Parents were afraid that Snuggle Pup parties and dances being held were full of flappers who were "dangerous vamps" (i.e. flirts) with a "guile for the innocent young male flappers." #toys #flappers
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Jonathan Burdick
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There was some pushback on these toys though, particularly with fears over boys playing with them. “PARENTS SEEK TO PROTECT SONS FROM ‘SNUGGLE-PUPPING’ AND THOSE ‘PETTING PARTIES,’” one headline read. #1920s #roaring20s
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Jonathan Burdick
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Advertisements for "Snuggle Pups" were common in newspapers between 1923-24. An article from 1922 in the New York Tribune called them “present-day teddy bears” that were the “latest fad with Chicago flappers.” Another newspaper claimed, "No flapper [is] complete without one." #history #skystorians
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Jonathan Burdick
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On July 1, 1863, as the Battle of Gettysburg began 300 miles away, a stray red cow wandered away from its home outside of #EriePA in Millcreek. A traveling circus also came to town that week. (Source: Erie Observer) #history #civilwar
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Jonathan Burdick
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The Battle of Gettysburg took place July 1-3, 1863. This is reporting on the battle from the Erie Observer. #CivilWar #battleofgettysburg #history #skystorians
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“Burning Oil Tank.” Published by Cohn & Oakleaf out of Titusville, PA. No date. #history #skystorians
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Jonathan Burdick
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Yes! I actually wrote a story about the tournament a few years ago. I always thought it’d make a very compelling movie! www.eriereader.com/article/pers...
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Jonathan Burdick
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An old spring water house and the Riverside Inn’s herd in my hometown of Cambridge, Springs, PA. Early 1900s. #history #skystorians
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Jonathan Burdick
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Gotta keep up with inflation!
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Jonathan Burdick
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LOL. It’s never even crossed my mind. But the brand is even endorsing it!
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Jonathan Burdick
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Butter on Pop-Tarts? Is this a thing? I’ve definitely never heard of this.
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Jonathan Burdick
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Love them all, but I’m especially here for the Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers love.
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Jonathan Burdick
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Cliff Notes as seen in 1995. From a Ren & Stimpy comic. #education #english #history
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Jonathan Burdick
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While I never owned it, I remember playing this at a friend’s house and thinking gaming had peaked. There was no was it was getting any better than this. 😆 #gaming #sega #nintendo
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Jonathan Burdick
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How to have fun in 1990. An advertisement in a Marvel comic. How many parents were upset by seeing these charges? #fantasy #gaming #nostalgia
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Jonathan Burdick
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I feel like I’m losing my mind. #ai #technology
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My favorite book sale find from today. I actually own a copy of this, but now I’m excited to gift this one to somebody. #history #skystorians #clarencedarrow
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Jonathan Burdick
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“O’Doyle rules!”
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Jonathan Burdick
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It was a great book and show. My dream, back before he retired, was a more subdued version from Daniel Day-Lewis. I think Michael Shannon would nail it too!
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Jonathan Burdick
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I’m cackling. 😆
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Jonathan Burdick
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A nice $1 find at Erie’s big summer book sale. #history #skystorians
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Jonathan Burdick
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I fear by slowing my feed to screenshot some of these, this nightmare fuel is forever in my algorithm. #AI
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There’s also this. Which I can only assume is A.I. learning about symbolism.
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Jonathan Burdick
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Also WTF 😭
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Jonathan Burdick
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Just took the boys to see Inside Out 2. Pixar knocked it out of the park again. It’s also a movie I really could have used at 13. #Pixar #InsideOut2
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Jonathan Burdick
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A.I. is absolutely breaking brains with complete nonsense.
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Jonathan Burdick
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World Series 1923 coverage out of #EriePa. Erie Daily Times. #history #baseball
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Jonathan Burdick
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Found the first ever mention of Adolf Hitler in the Erie Daily Times. November 10, 1923. #history #wwii
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Jonathan Burdick
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Beats the McDonald’s bathroom on Forbes, I bet!
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Jonathan Burdick
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Took the boys 36 stories up in the Cathedral of Learning. #pittsburgh #pittuniversity
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Jonathan Burdick
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As always, digging that Thaddeus Stevens energy. #history #ushistory #thaddeusstevens
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Jonathan Burdick
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The things one finds while researching. Erie Daily Times, January 7, 1922. #history #skystorians
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Both brothers enlisted during the Civil War. Alanson was killed at Chickamauga in 1863. Thaddeus was honorably discharged as lieutenant colonel of the 50th PA Militia Infantry that same year. He then practiced law. He was by his uncle’s bedside when he died in 1868. #lettersoflove #parenting
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