In 1995, professional skater Brewce Martin purchased (with the help of fifty friends) 88 acres of land in the Appalachian hills of Miegs county, Ohio.

Since then, Skatopia has been an ongoing and expanding skatepark/curious social experiment that was featured as the final level in the video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and in the 2011 documentary Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy.

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Portions of the emotionally overwrought dramedy Admission (2013) were filmed at the Hackley School, a college prep school in Tarrytown, NY.

The Hackley School was founded in 1899, and has graduated several interesting alumni, including sportscasters Chris Berman (1973) and news/sportscaster Keith Olberman (1975), and filmmakers Andrew Jarecki (1981, Capturing the Friedmans) and Eugene Jarecki (1987, Why We Fight).

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Commissioner of Public Safety for the city of Birmingham, Alabama and über-racist, Eugene "Bull" Connor, liked to spend his mornings at the Molton Hotel, drinking shots of Ol' Grand-Dad bourbon at the bar.

When Martin Luther King and his entourage decided to bring the civil rights struggle to Birmingham, the plan was to get Bull Connor to "tip his hand" as a reaction to peaceful protests.

Bull Connor did. His troops responded to a walk-out of students with fire hoses and snarling German Shepherds. This was captured in photos that landed on the cover the major papers in America the next day. The civil rights movement gained support from the shocked moderates of the country, and within a year a series of civil rights laws were passed.

The Molton was torn down in 1979, replaced by the Financial Center which stands there today.

*source: David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell.

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Henry and Cumie Barrow (parents of Clyde and Buck Barrow) owned and operated this location when it was a Star Service Station. The address at the time was 1620 Eagle Ford Road.

Clyde and Buck Barrow spent time living in the home attached to the station. Currently, the building is vacant.

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Although Bonnie and Clyde wanted to be buried together, Bonnie Parker's family would have nothing to do with it.

Funeral services were held separately for Bonnie Parker at McKamy-Campbell Funeral Home on May 26, 1934. It was a Saturday, and over 20,000 people attended the funeral. The funeral director's son recalls cards being sent by Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger.

Although originally buried in Fishtrap Cemetery, Bonnie Parker was moved to Crown Hill Memorial Park in 1945. She was 23 years old.

Her epitaph reads:
"As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you."

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