2009 April - Trunkations

Archive for April, 2009

Dig that Doo Wop

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

This Friday kicks off the fourth annual Sensational Sixties Weekend in Wildwood, New Jersey. Visitors and Chamber of Commerce officials alike celebrate a formidable decade sans dirty hippies and social unrest (don’t be misled by the trippy peacenik van in the event’s logo).
Instead, there’s a classic car show, a concert by The Turtles, Herman’s [...]

Four Corners Monument: Miles Off?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

The Four Corners Monument, the only place in America where you can spread yourself into four states at one time, is in the wrong spot, if you believe the flurry of stories in the media this week.
Modern techniques of geodetic survey and measurement are being used to nitpick the work of a surveyor in the [...]

Polaroid Instant Film Reborn?

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

When the Polaroid Corporation announced that they would no longer be making “analog” film for their once ubiquitous non-digital cameras, snap-happy fans of the process instantly flipped out. They started hoarding and trading the remaining film stock and mourning the disappearance of supplies for their beloved SX-70s and other potentially useless cameras.

The late King of [...]

Victory! Lincoln Log Cabin Wins The Blago War

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Defying the wrath of Illinois’ once most powerful politician, the Lincoln Log Cabin in Lerna, Illinois, is back in business on April 22.

Lincoln Log Cabin.
The Lincoln Log Cabin is actually the cabin of Abe Lincoln’s parents, not of Abe himself. Perhaps this slightly misleading advertising — which turns a log lemon into Lincoln lemonade — [...]

Old Baldy In Limbo, Governor To Blame

Monday, April 20th, 2009

We reported last July that the mounted head of Old Baldy, hero horse of the Union Army, was about to go into storage. A swank new home was being built for him in Philadelphia, where the new Civil War and Underground Railroad Museum would open by 2010, or at the latest by 2011, the 150th [...]