The response to yesterday’s post about my familial connection to the Swedish expatriate community of Galesburg was so overwhelmingly positive that I thought I’d spend a little more time in the archives this evening and share a few more facts about my immigrant family’s past in Illinois. First, I should correct something that I said […]
Tag Archives: eels
Back to Galesburg
Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged 1870, 1891, 1897, Anna Gustafa Nilsson, CB&Q, Chicago, Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad, coffee, Dahlsland, Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, Galesburg, Galesburg railroad museum, genealogy, geneology, Hump, hump yard, immigration, Johann August Jakobsson, John Lambie, Leif Jakobsson, Marilyn Ruth Lambie Tercek, Mark's ancestors, Mimi Dorothy, Öland, Ovra Wannborga, railroad, strikes, Sweden, trains, Violet Jacobson Lambie, Zephyr 6 Comments
Milwaukee part two… fish fries, public art and swooning tweens
A week or so ago, when I told you about my recent trip to Milwaukee, I promised that there would be a follow-up post, in which I’d talk about fish fries, public art, and the like. Well, I’m afraid that I’ve put it off so long now that I can’t quite remember what it was […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized Also tagged alewife, Calvin Black, door-to-door eel salesman, Dorothy Avery, experimental film, fish, fish fry, folk art, folk art environments, Frank Sinatra, fried fish, Galesburg, Howard Finster, Illinois, invasive species, kids today, Lake Michigan, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Mimi Dorothy, native species, perch, pollution, Possum Trot, public art, salmon, sculpture, street lights, Sweden, Water Street, Water Street Commons, wheatpasting, Wisconsin, zebra mussels 10 Comments
Stuffing the electronic ballot box
Tonight, when you’re sitting around, looking for something to do after getting drunk on moonshine, instead of doing something naughty, like killing a friend by forcing an Asian swamp eel into his rectum, get online and cast your ballot in the new AnnArbor.com Community Choice Awards. As it would be unethical for me to do […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Food, Other, Shadow Art Fair Also tagged Asian swamp eels, bad friends, Best Place for Seafood, Community Choice Awards, drunken pranks, fish, Huffington Post journalism, Monahan's Seafood Market, moonshine, Shadow Art Fair, swamp eels, vote rigging, weird ways to kill people 10 Comments