That child with the bubble wand is really well done, especially the bubble itself.
Nice rainbow effect on the bubble top.
I hope these end up in the Smithsonian.
I like the one where the little girl is trying to molest the big tom, and heās looking back at her like āWTF, get away from meā.
She must be all hopped up on tryptophan.
Is this old enough to get excited about? 100 years is within a possible human lifetime, isnāt it?
Itās not the ageā¦itās the medium. These were meant to be erased, so they isnāt much of a physical history of what was on blackboards at the time.
Seems like nitpicking, but 1917 wasnāt 100 years agoā¦
Nearly, but not quite 
The actual article is an ace one though, nice snapshot of history 
This is pretty neat.
The thing about the Pilgrims not being allowed to āgo to their own churchesā is pretty much horseshit though. They left England because of too much religious tolerance; the failure to burn catholics was particularly displeasing to them. It was the Founding Parents who introduced the whole religious freedom thing, quite a bit later and literally over the Pilgrimsā dead bodies.
1917 is just the date found on two of the blackboards. Itās possible that some of the other boards might have been covered up prior to that year.
From Wikipedia:
āUnder the 1559 Act of Uniformity, it was illegal not to attend official Church of England services . . . The penalties for conducting unofficial services included imprisonment and larger fines. Under the policy of this time, (Separatist leaders) Barrowe and Greenwood were executed for sedition in 1593.ā
That pretty much sounds to me like ānot allowed to go to their own churchesā. The Church of England would not allow any other religion to be observed, to the point of capital punishment, so leaving the country in order to practice as they wished definitely falls under āfreedom of religionā. Holland was the only country within Europe that would allow them to continue, but they found the place to be too ālibertineā an environment. So yes, they came to America in order to practice their faith without the interference or threat of death they would have experienced anywhere else.
Was there stolen bank loot behind it?
The āCurrent Developments in Mathematicsā conference was started in the mid-ā90s, at a venue that had a big wall with projector screen that could slide sideways revealing blackboards to be used by the mathematicians. During the next year, the venue was used for innumerable other conferences. At the second CDiM conference a year later, they rolled back this wall and discovered that noone else had used the blackboards in the intervening year ā only mathematicians use them any more at conferences. (In particular, the first yearsā lectures were still up, unerased.)
I suppose the renovators were in a hurry to get the new boards up as soon as possible, so they could bill the school board appropriately rather than letting them keep their old, perfectly-serviceable boards.
I also suppose that if the same thing were to happen again, something much more obscene would probably be found by the renovation-bots of 2117.
Thatās because everyone else is doing it wrong.
They used more colored chalk in 1917 than when I went to school.
āThey belong to the museum!ā --Indy
Yes, they do - BUT FIRST I WILL DESTROY THE ENTIRE SCHOOL TO GET TO THEM. And then they will tell me about something better to get, elsewhere. Itās okay, Iām an archaeologist.
āIndy!!!ā
