The basement looks like the last scene in the Blair Witch Project.
Trying something new. Post a picture having something to do with a historical topic NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO MODERN POP CULTURE and then yak about it for a few lines. I'm going to start with something from my hometown.
What we have here is the McPike Mansion in Alton, Illinois, listed in the National Registry of Historic Places. Alton is known as one of the most Haunted small towns in the country, and this building is the most storied of them all.
This is a look at the mansion as it appeared in 1869, built for Henry Guest McPike.
And this is the Mansion as it looks today. It is on it's last legs. Makes me wonder where the ghosts of the family purported to haunt it will go once it falls down.
A painting of the mansion. This painting, and the building itself, remind me strongly of Homecoming, a short story from Ray Bradbury's The October Country.
The basement of McPike Mansion. Many basements in Alton were stops on the underground railroad before and during the civil war, thanks to bordering on Missouri, a slave state. It was here that Elijah P. Lovejoy, an abolotionist newspaper publisher, became the first white man to die over slavery in the U.S., shot to death by an angry mob. The publicity over the subsequent aquittal of both Lovejoy's defenders and the members of the mob almost doomed Alton to becoming a ghost town.
To be continued...
The basement looks like the last scene in the Blair Witch Project.
I wouldn't know.Originally Posted by icemanx62
See? When I start a joke thread, people go to it and participate. But when I start a serious thread, nothin' but crickets chirping. And yet people wonder why I usually stick to joking.
This topic is not the sexy.
Talk about Tecumseh and the Prophet, such is infintely more sexy.
I could talk about hypocrites Johnny Z and Mike Hasselhoff. I'm sure there's pages of ground to cover there.
JonnyZ and Hasselhoff are not Tecumseh and The Prophet.
Who are they anyway?
Tecumseh was the leader of the Shawnee. Made the first real concerted effort to unify multiple Native American groups to rally against white invaders. Managed to form some alliances. Was defeated at the Battle of Tippecanoe by William Henry Harrison. Later allied with the British in The War of 1812.
His brother was a blind man, simply called "The Prophet."
William Tecumseh Sherman, the great General of the Civil War was named after him. Sherman was originally named Tecumseh Sherman, but the Minister would not baptize him for his was not a proper Christian name and his father randomly picked the name William so he could be baptized, but he was always called Tecumseh.
I'd beat the hell out of the preacher.
It was 1820. What'd you expect?
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