Tag Archives: Romans

Graffiti at the Ladies Literary Club

By Mark | April 16, 2011

Walking by Ypsi’s historic Ladies Literary Club building this afternoon, I noticed that someone had tagged the front. As I hadn’t noticed it an hour or so earlier, when I’d first passed, I knocked on the door to see if everything was alright. I noticed a person peaking at me through the window, and I […]

Posted in Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 218 North Washington, 272, caretakers, Emperor Aurelian, gangs, graffiti, it takes a village, Ladies Literary Club, Marcus Aurelius Probus, North Washington Street, spray paint, tagging, Veracruz | 9 Comments

The kinky Roman roots of Valentine’s Day

By Mark | February 14, 2011

I wasn’t intending to have a Valentine’s Day post, but I just stumbled across the following on the NPR website and thought that you might enjoy it. …From Feb. 13 to 15, the Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the […]