2023 Miscellany #11 — around the 4th of July

 

Second Fairport Harbor (Grand River) Lighthouse 1871 during Mardi Gras celebration (Independence Day weekend)

Karma (L), John, Argos, Tiberius 

The legend lives on from the graduates and faculty on down of the Chocolate Labrador they call Tiberius. Lake Erie College (Painesville O) was originally a women's school. Harriet Young was a dean, who had Tiberius. For years, he had the run of the campus. After he died, a statue was made in 1910. In 1957 two girls were awakened by some serious dog barking. The dormitory was on fire. The girls were safe, everything else was lost in the conflagration. No one could find a living dog. The story was settled that the spirit of Tiberius had protected the students. 

The current statue is Tiberius IV, 2008.  Frat rats from Case Western Reserve stole the original. The second was destroyed in situ in an act of vandalisation.

Young llama, without pajamas was also in Fairport Harbor.

Frederick Douglass in 1852 gave a speech in Rochester, “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”.

a scene from the Hungarian Cultural Garden

The first bi-lingual Ohio Historical Marker is in Little Italy where the stone was carved for the Lorain Carnegie Bridge. The other side is in inglese.