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Author Archives: Ken Dowell
The Bloomers: Baseball’s Barnstorming Women
The Bloomer Girls didn’t always win, but they filled the ball parks wherever they played.
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Posted in Baseball, History, Sports
Tagged baseball, Bloomer Girls, Edith Houghton, history, New York Bloomer Girls, Philadelphia Bobbies, Western Bloomer Girls
7 Comments
Segregating Baseball: Little Giants and White Stockings
The 1887 exhibition game that defined race relations in baseball. Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, History, Sports
Tagged baseball, Cap Anson, Chicago White Stockings, Fleet Walker, George Stovey, International League, major leagues, Minor leagues, MLB, Newark, Newark Little Giants, racism, segregation
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One and Done: The Newark Peppers
A relocated team in an outlaw league playing in a city never considered major league. Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, History, Sports
Tagged baseball, Bill McKechnie, Edd Roush, Federal League, Harrison Park, Harry Sinclair, MLB, New Jersey, Newark, Newark Peppers, Rupert Mills
3 Comments
Palazzo Vecchio
The seat of power in Florence Continue reading
Posted in History, Travel
Tagged Florence, Hercules Fountain, Italy, Medici, Palazzo Vecchio, Salone dei Cinquecento, travel
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Tuscany Farm and Castle
Fattoria Poggio Alloro and Castello di Oliveto Continue reading
Posted in Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Castello di Oliveto, castle, farm, Fattoria Poggio Alloro, Italy, San Gimignano, travel, Tuscany, wine making
3 Comments
Orvieto
Home of the Etruscans Continue reading
Michelangelo
Sculpture and painting in Rome, Florence and the Vatican Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged art, David, Florence, michelangelo, Palazzo Vecchio, Pantheon, Pieta, Rome, sculpture, Sistine Chapel, statues, Vatican
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Venetian Time
The clocks of Venice Continue reading
Back in the Sculpture Park
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, N.J. Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged art, Grounds for Sculpture, sculpture, sculpture park, Seward Johnson
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Seeing America from the Second Floor in Newark
20th and 21st century American art at the Newark Museum Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged 20th century art, art, Frank Stella, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Modern Art, museums, Newark Museum, painting, Robert Motherwell, Seeing America
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