Thoughts, links, and project updates

I’m watching “The Final Years Of Queen Victoria’s Reign | A Monarch UNveiled | Real Royalty” on YouTube. I learned some things I never knew about her. She wrote over 50 million words in her journal. She was also of German heritage (3/4) and spoke fluent German. When her husband and mother died the same year… She was devastated and spent a lot of time in Germany, where her husband Albert and her mother were born.. Of course, it wasn’t technically Germany at that point…. She also disregarded social constraints and lacked a sense of snobbery. I enjoyed hearing the stories of how she treated her staff…. She never called them servants and went out of her way to correct anyone who did… I could see queen Elizabeth being that way as well… I think Queen Elizabeth also journaled, but I don’t know if it was to the extent that Queen Victoria did…

I have been wanting to watch (again) “Christmas thru the Decades” on YouTube but couldn’t find it. I did find it on Amazon Prime for Free though… It goes from the 60’s to the 90’s but stops… It premiered in 2015…. I wonder why they didn’t include the early 2000’s? I would also like to see all decades of the 20th century…

I’m watching a documentary on YouTube about Hart Island in NYC. It’s an island where over a million people are buried in mass Graves. They talked about a book titled “How the Other Half Lived” It’s a book written over 100 years ago by Jacob Riis… I noticed that there are a few people who have republished the book on Amazon. I’ve heard of publishing books that are in the public domain, I need to revisit the idea..

I just got through watching the short story “The Berlin Wall Revisited” on HBO max…. they discussed a guy who did a lot of filming of the berlin wall in the 80’s… both sides of it… I couldn’t find much out about him.. But found a video on youtube that’s in Spanish with some of his work… It looks very interesting.

I saw a couple of books on the History of Huntington at CVS on 29th street. you can buy one of them at Amazon used a lot cheaper. The book “Images of America – Huntington” is cheaper at CVS… I added both to my reading list.

I didn’t realize that “Modern Marvels’ has twenty seasons and over 160 episodes. You have to have a cable subscription to watch most of them… But there are a lot of them online… Even on the history channels YouTube page.. I saw where you can buy seasons 18-21 on YouTube as well..

The History Channel also has several good playlists… I’ve been adding them.

This is what Huntington, WV may have looked like from 1873 to 1878… according to ChatGPT.

I was researching if there were any indians living in the Huntington WV area before it was settled by colonizers…. and there were several….. Some of the main groups connected to the area include: Shawnee, Mingo, Cherokee and the Iroquois Confederacy. I think asked if it could create an image of what the Indian settlements may have looked like on the Ohio River, and this is what it came up with… very interesting.

I want to do a custom wordpress theme for my history blog because I can’t find anything that really suits me… After I get this mini blog (feed) plugin perfected, I’m going to work on the theme for the hfbp site…. I’m going to incorporate this mini blog feed on all of my websites… I think it will help with pSEO by offering related, self (written) mini posts about anything related to the website’s subject… Anyway, I’m going to do something like this…

I just got through watching “Wonderland, 1997, Documentary about Levittown NY” It was about a community that was built in the 1950s after WW II in response to the housing shortage after the war. It was very interesting but sad to think most of the people in this documentary are no longer here, at least physically. Many of them were my grandparents’ age or older. I would love to know how it all turned out after this documentary in 1997?

I’ve watched this three times…