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Saugatuck Chain Ferry in Saugatuck, Michigan

July 16, 2020

While chain ferries were popular in the past helping people and horses cross easy-flowing rivers, most of them were eventually upgraded to motor-driven cable ferries. Only in the city of Saugatuck, Michigan visitors have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be ferried by a hand-cranked chain ferry. This particular chain ferry is the last of its kind in the United States. Saugatuck’s Chain Ferry has been operational since 1857, although the present ferry “Diane” was constructed in the 1960s. Surprisingly beautiful...

Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri

July 16, 2020

Now an enormous media conglomerate, The Walt Disney Company began as a small animation studio in 1923. But years before Walt Disney and his brother Roy started the Hollywood-based company, they produced lesser-known cartoons out of a short-lived studio, Laugh-O-Gram, in their hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. Walt Disney founded Laugh-O-Gram when he was just 19 years old. He’d been commissioned to produce a series of short, animated clips called “Newman’s Laugh-O-Grams” that appeared in the newsreels played in...

Seurat at Saugatuck in Saugatuck, Michigan

July 16, 2020

In 1977, the head of the Wicks Park asked Carol Miron, who studied at the Art Institute in Chicago, to consider producing a “Saugatuck Seurat” on the walls of the restroom in the park. Saugatuck had just gained ownership of the park two years prior and wanted something memorable and artistic to reflect the creative character of its community. Miron recreated “Sunday Afternoon on the lie de La Grande-Jatte” by Georges Seurat, accommodating the windows and doors seamlessly of the...

Do These Tubes Hold the Oldest Known...

July 16, 2020

In the summer of 1901, the German anthropologist Berthold Laufer departed for China, having been assigned by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to gather cultural items for the museum’s collections. In 1904, he returned to the United States with the kinds of items one expects museums to collect, such as shadow puppets, manuscripts, and pottery. But he also came back with what might have been a historic first, and an accidental one at that: stereo recordings, which...

Why Do Marine Animals Love Gobbling Up...

July 15, 2020

The research vessel Polarfuchs, or Polar Fox, set out in March 2015 on a 20-month race against time. Filled with nets and biologists, the vessel wasn’t low on fuel or rushing to some far-off destination. Its hurry was a result of the cargo it carried: luminous moon jellyfish, or Aurelia aurita, which would expire if they took too long. So the Polarfuchs spent more than a year and a half speeding up and down Kiel Fjord, in northern Germany,...

The Internet’s Greatest Archive of Food History...

July 15, 2020

In 2015, New Jersey librarian Lynne Olver passed away at the age of 57 after a months-long battle with a rare form of leukemia. She left behind a husband, two children, several cats, and the internet’s largest repository of chronologized food history. The cats are taken care of, but the Food Timeline needs a steward. What the website lacks in pomp and flash is made up for in its legendary breadth. True to its name, Olver’s Food Timeline begins...

Wulff Castle in Viña del Mar, Chile

July 15, 2020

Gustav Wulff emigrated from Germany to Chile in 1881 and succeeded in building a fortune as a merchant. In the early 1900s, he acquired a piece of land in the growing resort community of Viña de Mar. By 1906, Wulff had constructed a home set in a dramatic location on a rocky, wave-battered promontory. Initially, the building was a somewhat ordinary home, designed with German and French influences and constructed mainly of wood. Later, Wulff began a long and...

Ayrton Senna Mural in Imola, Italy

July 15, 2020

The legend of Ayrton Senna has gotten much larger in the years since his passing. The Formula One driver, three times World Champion, lost his life in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix of Imola. To celebrate his memory, his compatriot street artist Eduardo Kobra, crafted this huge graffiti memorial on the wall of the Checco Costa Museo Multimediale Autodromo di Imola (MAICC). The mural was completed in 2019 and depicts Senna looking at the sky. An important detail...

Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau in Bologna, Italy

July 15, 2020

Every time a major fair or exhibition ends, its pavilions are usually dismantled and become nostalgia, imprinted in memories and photos only. There are, however, some notable exceptions—in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Queens, New York, for example. The Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris, should have been demolished, but instead became a symbol of the city known the world over. The 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, also in Paris, was dedicated to the...

Isle of Farquhar in Roche Caiman, Seychelles

July 15, 2020

Isle of Farquhar, not to be confused with the Farquhar Group, which is a group of islands, is a three-mast schooner moored at Les Mamelles on Mahé, the largest of the islands in Seychelles. Built in 1909 in the Netherlands and originally named Zeemeeuw, this schooner changed owners, routes, and purpose several times before Captain Robertson Durup brought it to Seychelles, where it was used to carry labor, supplies, and produce from island to island. From its base there, Isle...

Agawa Canyon Wilderness Park in Sault Ste....

July 15, 2020

Being the inspiration behind many of the Group of Seven’s famous paintings, the Agawa Canyon Wilderness Park is a remote wonder in one of Ontario‘s most rugged landscapes. The park is only accessible by a train that departs from Sault Ste. Marie every morning. During the train ride to the canyon, the train commentary details various points of interest across the vast landscape and shares some of the interesting history of the region. Once the train stops at the...

Why ‘Nature Is Healing’ Might Be the...

July 14, 2020

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nature has been showing up in places you never expected. Dinosaurs roaming Times Square? A bunch of Lime scooters abandoned in a lake? According to the internet, the appropriate response to these situations is “Nature is healing.” The memes started in earnestness. As the coronavirus pandemic tightened its grip on our lives earlier this year, people were suddenly stuck in their homes....

ROCC Mars Yard in Turin, Italy

July 14, 2020

Soil from Mount Vesuvius was used to turn a piece of Italy into Mars. This powdery reddish dirt, called pozzolana, has been known since antiquity for its unique properties. Romans used it to build their temples and monuments, and today scientists and engineers used it to simulate the surface of the Red Planet. Around 150 tons of pozzolana were brought from near Naples to fill the main arena of a new test facility commissioned by the European Space Agency...

Ricetto of Candelo in Candelo, Italy

July 14, 2020

During the Middle Ages, a ricetto was a common structure found in Italian villages. It’s deemed a fortified area used to store agricultural products, livestock, and working tools but was also often utilized as a fort for protection. The ricetto of Candelo, in Piedmont, is the best-preserved example of such a structure. Dating to the late Medieval period, the area is crossed by narrow roads that run between tightly packed buildings. It’s almost completely surrounded by its original walls,...

‘Ghost Houses’ Haunt a Rapidly Aging Japan

July 14, 2020

In municipalities across Japan sit an increasing number of forgotten, dilapidated homes known as “ghost houses.” Despite the name and oft-eerie appearance, however, these are not haunted houses in need of an exorcism. Rather, ghost houses, or akiya as they are known in Japanese, are abandoned homes that towns cannot get rid of through demolition or resale. Impacting rural towns the hardest as young residents flock to the country’s major cities, the glut of ghost homes has prompted some...

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