(no subject)

You know, I've never been to a pride gathering. I didn't know there was one in Chicago this weekend until, when I called my dad at the theatre festival out in Nebraksa, he asked me if I was at it.

"Are you down in Chicago today?"

"No; should I be?"

Oh well. moiracoon told me that she could have been convinced to go too, and I'd have loved to take pictures. One of these days I'll get to one.

I did at least get some much needed cleaning done, and am much pleased with the state of the house.

And this morning, its off to Chicago again. I type this on the Metra rolling southbound out of Kenosha. This week, I have Rosetta Stone Japanese to keep me company. Moira and I started watching Big Dreams, Little Tokyo last night. It's a highly amusing movie, and brought my interest in learning Nihongo to a peak once more.

(no subject)

I just came upon this while Google-earthing and Wikipediaing around Chicago.

Who's buried in Couch's tomb?.

I am now fascinated by this building and want to go visit. Maybe that'll be one of my photography targets some evening when I stay late in Chicago after work.

I so love a good unsolvable historical curiosity. Kind of hits me with the same feelings those numbers stations that laureth introduced me to bring up.

-------

Oooh! How cool!

Hidden Truths: The Chicago City Cemetary and Lincoln Park. Lost graves have been found through Lincoln Park's history, and some probably still remain.

Wow; this gets more interesting (and kind of creepy) the more I read. Undertakers, at the time that disinterments were happening prior to the cemetery closing down and being converted to a park (the 1850s), were buying recently vacated plots with graves and burying new bodies in them. City documents indicate that undertakers refused to provide the city with figures about how many deaths and burials there had been. Things were pretty fast and loose back then, it sounds like. Just fascinating to imagine what's down there under Lincoln Park.

Leftover tombstones for unclaimed bodies were used to build a waterfall(?!) in the park, and then just disappeared prior to the turn of the century. The researcher who put this site together theorized that they were used in the construction of a park wall. I'm just so floored by all this. I never would have guessed any of this stuff. I want to be a researcher so I can find shit like this out!