This is from 1961 and while you'll see these tri-K puns all the time even now, and sometimes you have to wonder what is intended. In this case NYC ex-pats 30 years later still living the dream of white supremacy even through casual jokers. Like all of my stuff, I have receipts

I'm a big Find a Grave guy and would like to nominate this for an as-yet-to-be-determined award for "Best 1920s-era Klansman's grave". In this case, the remains of cremation were never claimed.

it's a long story but I came across Hiram Bingham's 1822 description of surfing in Hawaii in a Vermont newspaper and it was hard to read so I hunted it down in a book of his journals

I often think of this 2007 New York Times story. I spend a lot of time reading old newspapers from 1920s and more than you'd think was not preserved. I recently discovered not just a newspaper in Queens I didn't know but a whole newspaper chain from the 20s and 30s. www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/n...

Gwendolyn Brooks's later poetry is more directly political & social, but I love the sonnet sequence "Children of the Poor" from the 1949 book Annie Allen, especially this one. I like it so much I scraped the audio of the whole sequence from the 1961 LOC recording. link in comment

If ya wanna bring in younger fans to baseball, why stop with Banana Ball rule changes like the golden um whateverzz why stop there and just bring back Donkey Baseball? #MLB #Baseball #whatever

My sister was a month into a nine-month hospice stay when we took (long planned) weekend @ Pt. St. Lucie for practice and first game. It's hard to explain the intensity of this past year, how much the Amazins meant. It was dreamy to see pitchers at camp in late February, not knowing what would be-

The more I study the KKK in NYC, the more Philip Guston's Ku Klux Klan series resonates for me. LMAO when I saw "Driving Around" (1969) when it was last in New York. More sinister but no less cartoonish, "Bad Times" (1970) shows them as any other criminal enterprise in Ganglandia.

This is not the only church in Queens that owes its foundation, at least in part, to the Ku Klux Klan. For what it's worth, the Glendale-Ridgewood Klan met in the church community room at this location for a couple years.

A Mets fan but not Steve Cohen fan. This was a highlight of World's Borough exhibit at Flushing Town Hall (ends tomorrow). Only sketchy people, gross pols, and billionaires want his casino on public parkland. Credit: Cody Herrmann, Valley of Ashes: Steve Cohen. 2023. Book, Ink Jet print, adhesive

My pamphlet "When the Klan Cancelled Chaplin in Queens: How and Why and WTF" is included in a sampling from the "zine cart" project of the Southeast Queens Artist Alliance at the World's Borough Exhibition at Flushing Town Hall. I'm grateful to be included and look forward to seeing the exhibition.

100 years ago, the Klan held a state convention in Binghamton during the DNC in New York. It was no secret: they advertised in the Binghamton Press for help housing delegates and their families.

1892 Flushing looking down at the action in College Point, which has a rich history. though I’ve yet to see one, I’m sure there is an earlier report mentioning baseball in what is now a section of Queens but was once a remote village on Long Island.

Coaches texting parents about a Saturday batting cage workout - thus begins the 2024 little league season. May we aspire to novelty as well as tradition. This from 1913.

This illustration shows the Depression-era gate planned (and even budgeted) for Victory Field in Forest Park, Queens NYC, but never built. I could find no record of why it was not built or what happened to it if it was. No trace of it exists that I can find except this picture.