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hfearing wrote a new post, Euclid Avenue Opera House, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year ago
The Euclid Avenue Opera House, located in Cleveland’s theater district on the southeast corner of Euclid Avenue and Sherriff Streeet (now East 4th Street), opened on 6 September 1875. There were more than fifty […] -
hfearing commented on the post, Observation Elementary School, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year ago
The opening sentence is super long. Could you add some commas or break it into two? I don’t think you need the “then” in brackets. You could say Malborough (now Stearns) Road. At least that is how I think you […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Rapid Transit in the Cleveland Area, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year ago
Lisa, this is so GREAT! I love it and really enjoyed reading it. The only two things I got confused over what the date that they started clearing all of the buildings for the train? Was it 1910 or earlier? I […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Dunham Tavern, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year ago
I think this sentence could use either a comma or rewording: “It consisted of two rooms downstairs and upstairs around a central hall with a one-story wing at the rear.” Could you explain what a clapboard is for […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company, C.E.I., on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year ago
Would you be able to do a comparison of the price of $38.50 (cost of wiring homes) with something valuable back then? Or maybe find out how much that would be today. For instance, you could say $38.50, the price […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Apr. 19: Heritage Seekers / Toward Inclusive Cultural Tourism, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 1 month ago
Events such as Vietnam and Watergate left baby boomer Americans seeking to find a heritage to replace the old assumptions of a “national purpose.” American society was becoming more individualistic, and with […]
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hfearing wrote a new post, Hippodrome, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 1 month ago
The theater, often called “the Hip,” opened as a vaudeville house on 30 December 1907. The $2,000,000, eleven-story Hippodrome was located at 720 Euclid Avenue and could hold an audience numbering 4,500. In […] -
hfearing wrote a new post, Colonial Theater, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 1 month ago
Before the Colonial Theater opened in 1903 and was located on Superior Street and East 9th Street, where the Superior Building now stands, vaudeville had emerged in America as a professionalized and more respected […] -
hfearing wrote a new post, Cleveland Play House, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 1 month ago
As the “oldest regional theater in the U. S.,” the lifespan of the Cleveland Play House has overlapped at one point or another with other prominent theaters in the city such as the Euclid Avenue Opera House, the […] -
hfearing wrote a new post, Changes to the Sea and the Seanerie: The Environmental Impact of Tourism and The Fishing Industry in Monterey, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 1 month ago
As Connie Chiang states in Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast, environmental histories typically place the blame of ecological deterioration upon commercial industry above or rather […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Apr. 5: The Postwar Mass Resort, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 1 month ago
According to Simon, it was fear of the larger urban areas that kept potential tourists and homeowners away from Atlantic City, because the “Other” could not be hidden. (p. 152) However, the Hamids’ and Pauline […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Mar. 22: Heritage Towns & Patriotic Shrines, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 2 months ago
As automobile tourism became increasingly popular, Gettysburg found itself needing to appease the short attention span of motorists, mass consumer culture, and families with children. Monuments and a grave-yard […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Mar. 20: Race, Public Space, & Tourism in the Interwar Period, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 2 months ago
During the first half of the 20th century, African Americans filled positions of service in Atlantic City, most notably as chair pullers along the Boardwalk. The status of African Americans as service workers and […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Feb. 21: Transcendant Tourism: Camp Meetings, Chautauquas, & Dude Ranches, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 3 months ago
Those who visited the dude ranches were typically wealthy and intellectual easterners who desired to find something more truth from their experience than tourist destinations such as the Grand Canyon and Santa Fe. […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Feb. 16: Building the National Parks / Indians & Tourists in the American Southwest, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 3 months ago
A few of the major changes Hewett made to Santa Fe that gave it the appearance of an authentic Indian and Hispanic town, untouched by the rapidly changing and industrialized American culture, were the changing of […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Feb. 14: Imagining the American West / Transcontinental Travel, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 3 months ago
Fred Harvey capitalized on the increased interest in western tourism, specifically in the Grand Canyon. His company set up restaurants along the railroad route, in the train, and at the canyon. The Harvey […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Expulsion of the Jews, on the site Golden Age Spain 1 year, 3 months ago
The charter states that some Christians in Isabella and Ferdinand’s kingdom have left the Catholic faith and become Jews. In order to stop this from continuing, they had ordered that the Jews be separated and […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Feb. 9: Tourism in the Civil War & Reconstruction, on the site U.S. Tourism 1 year, 3 months ago
Based on how Weeks forms his narrative of the genteel visitor’s expectations of Gettysburg, what they were most eager to experience between 1860 and 1880 was the the experience of the sublime landscape that also […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Collinwood High School – Heidi Fearing, on the site introduction to public history 1 year, 5 months ago
Dr. Souther,
I couldn’t find any mention of buses being the cause of any more tension or any specific incidents. Furthermore, I looked through as many articles as I could to find anything about reconciliation […]
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hfearing commented on the post, Preservation Purposes, Guidelines, and Controversy- Jessica Poiner, on the site introduction to public history 1 year, 5 months ago
I believe that to some extent Hurley does answer the question of what histories should be the focus of research in communities and what should be preserved. He suggests that great care should be taken in […]
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