Tag Archives: 1863

Michigan Musicians on Vacation: Matt Jones at Gettysburg, with Sarah Campbell

By Mark | November 17, 2013

Occasionally, I get good ideas. I’m not sure if this is one of those times, but it occurred to me a few days ago that I should have a regular feature on the site in which I talk with local musicians about their vacations. Our first guest is Matt Jones, of Matt Jones and the […]

Posted in History, Special Projects | Also tagged 1972, 19th Indiana, 66th Ohio, Abraham Lincoln, Adam Juday, Big Round Top, blood, bonnets, boxers, Cafe Du Monde, Carol Gray, cemeteries, Cemetery Hill, Cemetery Ridge, Civil War, Confederates in the Attic, Culp’s Hill, Dobbin House, dog shows, Doug Coombe, Eisenhower Convention Center Hotel, England, Erin Morris & Her Ragdolls, Evergreen Cemetery Gatehouse, farb, France, geneology, Gettysburg, government shutdown, grandmother gold, historic reenactment, hoop skirts, Lindy Hop, Little Round Top, maps, Matt Jones, Matt Jones and the Reconstruction, McPherson Ridge, Michigan Musicians on Vacation, Mimi’s on the Marigny, Misty Lyn, monuments, musicians, musicians breaking the law, New Orleans, park rangers, Pennsylvania, petticoats, Pickett's Charge, pink, Pittsburgh, porta-potties, rain, Robert E. Lee, Sarah Campbell, Schoolhouse Rock, Shelby Foote, slavery, Stevens Knoll, Stonewall Jackson, tattoos, The Angle, The Bountymen, The Clump of Trees, The Spotted Cat, The Valley Of Death, Tony Horwitz, tour guides, trudge, Twin Peaks, Ulysses S. Grant, vacations, Vicksburg, Virginia | 19 Comments

As much fun as you can have in San Antonio without pissing on the Alamo

By Mark | March 3, 2013

In spite of what I may have told you, I didn’t just fly into San Antonio a few days ago to piss on the Alamo, and then immediately return home. As much as I like the idea of zipping into a city, pissing all over their most sacred public artifact, and then zipping right back […]

Posted in Mark's Life | Also tagged 1919, abandonment, Abraham Lincoln, Alamo, Alex Rattray, Arlo, barbecue, Blue Star Arts Complex, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, cocktails, coonskin caps, FDR, fertility, Gary Sweeney, Gillian Fassel, goat gland, goat testicles, goats, Great Depression, Greg Hischak, infertility, Jennifer Albaum, John R. Brinkley, Lindsay Martin, Linette, Meat Loaf, morphine, musicals, Ozzy, Pee Wee Herman, pissing on things, plays, quackery, R. Kelly, Roads Courageous, San Antonio, San Pedro Playhouse, Santa Anna, slavery, sloppy joes, snake oil, speakeasy, testicles, Texas, The Granary ‘Cue & Brew, theater, Tim Rattray, Trapped in the Closet, travel, travel tips, William Barret Travis, Wolfman Jack | 13 Comments

Connect

Recent Comments

BUY LOCAL... or shop at Amazon through this link

Banner Initiative

coal mining kids

Elsewhere

Shop at Amazon