Almanac for January 16th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for January 16th: https://ko-fi.com/post/January-16th-X8X1ZOPZW

Bummer January 16th

January 16, 1862: A coal mining accident in Northumberland, England, kills 204 workers, some of them children as young as ten, and the pit pony. Most of them die of asphyxiation when the ventilation system breaks down, allowing the mine to fill with carbon monoxide.

January 16, 1942: TWA Flight 3 crashes into Potosi Mountain, Nevada, due to pilot error, killing all 22 people on board, including the actress Carole Lombard.

January 16, 1979: Ted Cassidy, the 6'9", deep-voiced actor who played Lurch on The Addams Family tv series, dies at age 46 from complications of surgery to remove a tumor from his heart. The tumor is a symptom of his acromegaly, the health condition responsible for his unusual height.

Carole Lombard at Dorothy Surrenders: https://dorothysurrenders.blogspot.com/search/label/Carole%20Lombard

What was Diane Meyer grateful for on January 16, 2024?

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pesto pasta
new books
packages
French press coffee
saying what I want to say
hugs
motivation
how far I've come
bagels with cream cheese
birthday cake
banana bread
being proud of others
short stories
making plans -- keep making them! Life is too short to want to see people and not follow through.

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Being Midwestern Rules! Pt. 2 ~ Indiana

On Mondays I hook up with Pinning! at A Night Owl Blog/Baxtron{Life}. 

On Wednesday, it's Oh, How Pinteresting! at The Vintage Apple. 

Being from the Midwestern United States is hella cool - I think I proved that with my Nebraska post. I'm not from Nebraska; I'm from Indiana. We've got some pretty cool people, too. If you lived through the '80s, you might think of him when you think of Indiana.

http://cheers.wikia.com/wiki/Woody_Boyd

No, this is not young Haymitch; it's the character Woody Boyd from Cheers. Woody Harrelson? Not actually from Indiana. Or even Midwestern - he's a native Texan.

But these people are actually from Indiana.

Probably the coolest, most sophisticated, urbane individual to come from the Hoosier state? Cole Porter. The moment you realize you're from Indiana and so is Cole Porter is a very good moment indeed.

James Dean was from Indiana. Here he's reading The Complete Poetical Writings by James Whitcomb Riley, a 19th century poet also from Indiana.

When I say I hope to die and ascend to bisexual heaven and sit at the right hand of James Dean, amen, you may think I'm being facetious. I'm not. (Religion - it's complicated.) This is Photoshopped, but still - James Dean kissing Marlon Brandon. 

Old Hollywood screwball comedy queen - and lost love of Clark Gable's life - Carole Lombard was from Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Fun Fort Wayne fact: its library system has the world's second-largest collection of genealogical records, after the Mormon collection in Salt Lake City, Utah. I visited FW's main downtown library once and had a bagel in its coffee shop.

Steve McQueen, so cool there's a Sheryl Crow song about him, was from Indianapolis. His grandson, Steven R. McQueen, plays Jeremy on The Vampire Diaries.

McQueen's hometown is also the hometown of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. If you can find a greater 20th century American writer, read him or her or them.

Other writers from Indiana include Phillip Jose Farmer (who sometimes wrote as "Kilgore Trout," a fictional writer invented by Kurt Vonnegut), Meg Cabot (The Princess Diaries), and Theodore Drieser. Drieser wrote An American Tragedy, the basis for the movie A Place in the Sun.

Adam Lambert was born in Indianapolis. Probably the most well-known family to come out of Indiana, though? The Jacksons. Michael, Janet and their siblings were raised in Gary, a large city just to the east of Chicago.

See? Being Midwestern is awesome.