Louisville KY & Other Stuff,

June 08

Street Scenes in Louisville . . .

Slavery Laws in Old Kentucky, prominent public history display on First Street downtown.

Main & First, abandoned buildings & street scene.

Birth of Truth in Advertising public history display with street scene, Main & First.

Riverfront Park, looking along concrete path, under interstate & across to Indiana.

Downtown skyline, river & bridge.

The controlled flow, with plastic detritus.

Warning:  Stay Out of the Water After Rain Events!

Joe's Crab Shack beneath downtown skyline.

Louisvillers waiting to get into the 4th Street Live Music Night!

Live outdoor music!

Tons o' people!

Tons & tons!

Feasting!

Yee-hah!

The 4th Street Live! structure, looking north.

Pedestrians entering from Muhammad Ali Blvd. 

Outside Louisville Slugger Museum, Main St.

Reading the AP History Exams . . .

Section of one quadrant of the US History AP Reading Room . . . this year nearly 350,000 high school students took the Advance Placement US History exam . . . and it's our job -- all 1,300 of us historians gathered together in this cavernous hall -- to "rank" those essays . . . 

Historians hard at work.

A fraction of The Day's Doosies & Howlers!  Every day the wall by the door would fill up with these little yellow post-it notes, each one inscribed with a real humdinger!

An endless stream of howlers!

TableMates Suzanne & John.

TableMate Michael & TableLeader Aileen.

Our table . . .

Yours truly hard at work . . .

Historians on break.

Really sweet little grassy park just outside the door . . .

Just outside the Convention Center.

View from my hotel parking lot.

Just outside the Convention Center.

Mike & Robert on the shuttle to the airport.

Cropped.  Hey Robert!

Visit to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH

The exterior of the museum . . . a magnificent structure sitting right between the two ball stadiums along the Ohio River.

The front door.

Dedicatory plaques.

Another shot, with the Ohio River just outside the window.

Frederick Douglass Society plaque.

Freedom Seekers Society plaque.

Harriet Tubman Society plaque.

Explanatory text for "Journeys I and II," a giant quilt / textile created by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson.

Shots of the textile . . .

A humungous tapestry . . .

and very moving . . .

The whole thing . . . hard to get in just one photo.

Detail.

One more shot of the whole thing.

The African-American experience -- a mural by Tom Feelings and Tyrone Geter . . .

Explanatory plaque for the mural.

"The Slave Pen Map" adjacent to a restored slave pen -- very moving.

Display:  "Economic Impact: The Internal Slave Trade"

"The Internal Slave Trade"

"The Internal Slave Trade:  Cincinnati Connections"

"The Internal Slave Trade:  Up and Down Route 68"

Interactive map of the African American migration to Canada, from the British Empire's abolition of slavery in 1834 to the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1865.

Background:  timeline of slavery in the Americas.  Foreground:  directional sign from Louisville KY to London, Ontario, Canada.

Says Canada abolished slavery in 1796 -- the only factually questionable assertion I could find in the whole museum.

Display:  "Mexicanos, Tejanos, Californios, Hispanos."

Detail of "Mexicanos" display, left side.

Detail of "Mexicanos" display, middle.

Detail of "Mexicanos" display, right side.

Map of North America, 1830s?

North America after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848).

Display:  "New Nations, New Borders"  (left side detail).

"New Nations, New Borders" (right side detail).

Display:  "The California Gold Rush of 1849."

Display:  "The Old Northwest:  Wars, Treaties, Removals."

A Civil War surgeon's kit  (think Frank Lang).

Display:  "What was Reconstruction?"  And that's all for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Museum!

Back in Ann Arbor . . . Steve Meyer, Margot Anderson, Nora & Mike at Top o' the Park . . .

Steve, Nora & Margot on a lovely evening at Top of the Park.

That's a good one!

Nice!  And that's all for this batch!