May 5, 1867
Nellie Bly, American journalist, was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran to Irish immigrants in Pennsylvania. Born in Cochran Mill’s, an area named for her father Michael who began as a mill laborer and ended up owning the mill. Bly once faked insanity to expose inhumane practices in the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. In doing so she spawned a new form of “investigative” journalism. It was custom at the time for female writers to use pen names and Cochran’s first editor suggested Nelly Bly from the Stephen Foster song. At age 25, she took a trip around the world in 72 days, beating Phileas Fogg, the fictional hero of Jules Verne’s
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At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. “Casey at the Bat” is a baseball ballad that has sustained its fame since shortly after appearing as filler in the San Francisco Examiner in June 1888.
Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s poem’s concluding stanza laments “But there is no joy in Mudville – mighty Casey has struck out.”
Del Leonard Jones
The ballad portrays a fictional heroic Casey making the final out. His team, the Mudville Nine, loses the game it was favored to win. In his lively, imaginative historical novel “At the Bat: The Strikeout That Shamed America” Del Leonard Jones, a former Albuquerque resident, has Casey as one of a slew of fleshed out characters; most aren’t in the ballad.
When: Noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday
Details: Interactive map with details are on Google. Hard copies of the map and event details are available at the Apollo Area Historical Society s museum in the W.C.T.U. building, 317 N. Second St.
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After ballooning costs and lack of attendance killed Apollo’s Moon Landing festival some years ago, residents have rallied to present the first Apollo May Daze featuring a yard sale crawl, self-guided history tours, kids activities, food trucks, flea market and more this weekend.