Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History (60 page)

Special thanks to:
Paige Hogge and Karlee Steffey at the Virginia Cooperative Extension for Middlesex County; and Dannielle Traylor, the visitor relations specialist and tour guide at the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.
Publications:
Raymond Arsenault,
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2006); Catherine A. Barnes,
Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1983); Jim Carrier,
A Traveler’s Guide to the Civil Rights Movement
(New York: Harcourt, 2004); Larry Copeland, “Parks Not Seated Alone in History,”
USA Today
(November 38, 2005); Wayne Greenhaw, “Rosa Parks, ‘One of Many Who Would Fight for Freedom,’ ”
Alabama Heritage
(summer 2007); Katharine Greider, “The Schoolteacher on the Streetcar,”
New York Times
(November 13, 2005); Kermit L. Hall, ed.,
The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); Phillip Hoose,
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009); Russ Kick,
50 Things You’re
Not Supposed to Know
(New York: Disinformation Company, 2003); Yvonne Shinshoster Lamb, “Obituary: Irene M[organ] Kirkaldy; Case Spurred Freedom Ride,”
Washington Post
(August 13, 2007); Kimball Payne, “Woman Who Fought Bus Segregation Dies,”
Daily Press
(August 12, 2007); Lea Setegn, “Irene Morgan,”
Richmond Times-Dispatch
(February 13, 2002); and Jessie Carney Smith,
Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events
(Detroit: Visible Ink, Second Expedition, revised and expanded, 2003).

Special thanks to:
the Utah National Guard soldiers who, mercifully, did
not
arrest me at the Deseret Chemical Depot after they saw me taking pictures of the facility, which I thought had been shut down; and Ruth Bybee at the Springville police department.
Publications:
Patty Henetz, “Dugway Suit Takes New Twist: Appeals Court Overturns Whistle-Blower Discrimination Judgment,”
Salt Lake Tribune
(February 14, 2007); Bernie Rhodes, research by Russell P. Calame,
D.B. Cooper: The Real McCoy
(Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1991); “CRIME: The Real McCoy,”
Time
(April 24, 1972); and Robert E. Tomasson, “Jet Out of La Guardia Is Hijacked; Bomb Left in New York Goes Off,”
New York Times
(September 11, 1976).

Special thanks to:
Peter Fletcher, the former chairman of the Michigan State Highway Commission; Ellen Seibert at the Supreme Court of Ohio; and Billy Zavesky at Johnny Malloy’s Sports Pub.
Publications:
Henry Alford, “Not a Word,”
The New Yorker
(August 29, 2005); Peter Krouse, “Cleveland Heights Theater Recalls 1959 Nico Jacobellis Controversy over ‘The Lovers,’ ”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
(April 23, 2009); W. Ward Marsh, “Adventure in Filth: Full Condemnation for ‘The Lovers,’ ”
Cleveland Plain Dealer
(November 13, 1959); Mark Monmonier,
How to Lie with Maps
, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996); Richard Parker, ed.,
Free Speech on Trial: Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
(Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003); Jeffrey Rosen,
The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America
(New York: Times Books, 2006); George R. Stewart,
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
(New York:
New York Review of Books
, 1945); Jeffrey Toobin,
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
(New York: Doubleday, 2007); Michael G. Trachtman,
The Supremes Greatest Hits: The 34 Supreme Court Cases That Most Directly Affect Your Life
(New York: Sterling Publishing, 2006); and Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong,
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979).

Special thanks to:
Herb Adams for taking me on a tour of Portland; Bill Barry at the Maine Historical Society; Wesley M. Oliver; and Rob Quatrano at the Neal Dow House.
Publications:
Donald W. Beattie, Rodney M. Cole, and Charles G. Waugh, eds.,
A Distant War Comes Home: Maine in the Civil War Era
(Camden, Me.: Down East Books, 1996); Frank L. Byrne,
Prophet of Prohibition: Neal Dow and His Crusade
(Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1969); Peter Carlson, “Uneasy About Alcohol,”
American History
(December 2008); Henry S. Clubb,
The Maine Liquor: Its Origin, History, and Results, Including a Life of Hon. Neal Dow
(New York: Maine Law Statistical Society, 1856); Betsy Hart, “Those Misunderstood
Puritans,”
San Francisco Chronicle
(November 22, 2001); Richard Higgins, “Puritans and Sex: Myths Debunked,”
Boston Globe
(April 21, 1987); Maine Writers’ Project,
Portland City Guide (American Guide Series) Compiled by Workers of the Writer’s Program of the Works Projects Administration in the State of Maine
(Portland, Me.: The Forest City Printing Company, 1940); Wesley M. Oliver, “Portland, Prohibition, and Probable Cause: Maine’s Role in Shaping Modern Criminal Procedure,”
Maine Bar Journal, The Quarterly Publication of the Maine State Bar Association;
(vol. 23, no.4, fall 2008); Thomas R. Pegram,
Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, 1800–1933
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1998); Charles Phillips, “A Day to Remember,”
American History
(February 2005); Neal Rolde,
Maine: A Narrative History
(Gardiner, Me.: Harpswell Press, 1990); W. J. Rorabaugh,
The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1979); Richard Shenkman and Kurt Reiger,
One-Night Stands with American History: Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents
(New York: Morrow, 1980); and Roger Thompson,
Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County 1649–1699
(Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986).

Special thanks to:
Joseph B. Cutchins Jr., who provided me with the location of where Jack Johnson died; Superintendent Grady Massey at Caledonia, who graciously approved my visit to the prison, and Daryl Williams for giving me a tour; James Zobel at the MacArthur Memorial.
Publications:
Ross E. Beard Jr.,
Carbine: The Story of David Marshall Williams
(Lexington, S.C.: Sandlapper Store, 1977); Alfred W. Cooke,
Caledonia: From Antebellum Plantation 1713–1892 to State Prison and Farm 1892–1988
(Raleigh, N.C.: Sparks Press, 1988); Jack Johnson,
The Autobiography of Jack Johnson—In the Ring and Out
(New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1992); Tracy Thompson, “Prison Inventor Wins Recognition; Court Rules Process in Helmet-Making Is His,”
Washington Post
(November 24, 1991); and Geoffrey C. Ward,
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
(New York: Knopf, 2004).

Special thanks to:
Jackie Calder and Paul Carnahan at the Vermont Historical Society; Ruth Ann Nyblod in the office of public affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office, who provided me with specific history about the office (there’s also a wealth of information on the department’s website:
www.uspto.gov
); Stephen Showers at the Otis Elevator Company, who provided me with dozens of press releases and two informative booklets published by the corporation; and, most of all, my wonderful “team” in Halifax: Connie Lancaster, Douglas Parkhurst, Bernice Barnett for Sally Pratt, Stephen Sanders, and Laura Sumner.
Publications: The First One Hundred Years
(New York: Otis Elevator Company, 1953); Arrol Gellner, “Laying the Foundation for Today’s Skyscrapers,”
San Francisco Chronicle
(August 23, 2008); Jason Goodwin,
Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City
(Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001); Charles Otis,
E. G. Otis: Inventor, Originator of Otis Safety Elevator Business 1811–1861
(New York: Otis Elevator Company, 1911); and Nick Paumgarten, “Up and Then Down: The Lives of Elevators,”
The New Yorker
(April 28, 2008).

Special thanks to:
my incredible guide Bill Jepsen; and Michael Smith and Bill Johnson at the State Historical Society of Iowa.
Publications:
Thomas Ayers,
That’s Not in My American History Book: A Compilation of Little-Known Events and Forgotten Heroes
(Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 2000); Neil Baldwin,
Edison: Inventing the Century
(New York: Hyperion,
1995); Ruth S. Beitz, “Whirlwind on Wheels,”
Iowan
(summer 1963); Margaret Cheney,
Tesla: Man Out of Time
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001); Jonathan Glancey,
The Car: A History of the Automobile
(London: Carlton Books, 2008); Sungook Hong,
Wireless: From Marconi’s Black-Box to the Audio
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001); Tom Longden, “Famous Iowans: William Morrison,”
Des Moines Register
(February 7, 2009); Keith McClellan, “The Morrison Electric: Iowa’s First Automobile,” Annals of Iowa (vol. XXXVI, no. 8, spring 1963); Clifford Pickover,
Strange Brains and Genius: The Secret Lives of Eccentric Scientists and Madmen
(New York: Harper Perennial, 1999); Ronald A. Stringer, “The Morrison Electric: America’s First Automobile!?!,”
Antique Automobile
(January/February 1984); and Steven Watts,
The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century
(New York: Random House, 2006).

Special thanks to:
Mike Miller, who went out of his way to find the old Farnsworth property.
Publications:
R. W. Burns,
Television: An International Story of the Formative Years
(London: Institution of Electrical Engineers in association with the Science Museum, 1998); George Everson,
The Story of Television, The Life of Philo T. Farnsworth
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1949); Elma G. Farnsworth,
Distant Vision: Romance and Discovery on an Invisible Frontier
(Salt Lake City: Pemberly Kent Publishers, 1989); Donald G. Godfrey,
Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television
(Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001); Andrew F. Inglis,
Behind the Tube: A History of Broadcasting Technology and Business
(London: Focal Press, 1990); Evan I. Schwartz,
The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television
(New York: Harper Perennial, 2002); and Daniel Stashower,
The Boy Genius and the Mogul: The Untold Story of Television
(New York: Broadway Books, 2002).

Special thanks to:
Barbara Berka, who showed me Goddard’s boyhood home in Massachusetts and generously gave me the bulk of information about Goddard; and Guy Webster at NASA, who provided me with details about the
Voyager
records.
Publications:
Robert H. Goddard,
The Autobiography of Robert Hutchings Goddard
(Worcester, Mass.: Achille J. St. Onge, 1966); Milton Lehman,
This High Man: The Life of Robert H. Goddard
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1963); Jim Mann, “The Story of a Tragedy That Was Not to Be,”
Los Angeles Times
(July 7, 1999); Michael J. Neufeld,
Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War
(New York: Knopf/Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, 2007); Jeanne Nuss, “Goddard Foresaw Apollo 11: Father of American Rocketry Made Space Program Possible,” Associated Press (July 19, 2009); Carl Sagan,
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record
(New York: Random House, 1997); A. Bowdoin Van Riper,
Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007); and Andrew Walker, “Project Paperclip: Dark Side of the Moon,” BBC News (November 21, 2005).

Special thanks to:
Jack Eckert at Harvard University’s Center for the History of Medicine; and Cynthia Harbeson and Diana McCain at the Connecticut State Historical Society.
Publications:
W. Harry Archer, B.S., D.D.S., “Life and Letters of Horace Wells, Discoverer of Anesthesia,”
Journal of the American College of Dentists
(vol. 11, no. 2, June 1944); Henry K. Beecher and Charlotte Ford, “Some New Letters of Horace Wells Concerning an Historic Partnership,”
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
(vol. IX, no. 1, 1954); John Carey,
Eyewitness to History
(New York: Avon Books, 1987); Julie M. Fenster,
Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America’s Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It
(New York: HarperCollins, 2001); “Dr. Horace Wells Discovered Anesthesia, Not Morton,”
Hartford Daily Courant
(November 28, 1920); “Dispelling the Curse of Cain: Hartford Dentist Frees Mankind from Age-Old Torture by Discovery of Anaesthesia,”
Hartford Courant
(December 7, 1924); M. A. DeWolfe Howe,
Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields
(Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922); Peter H. Jacobson, “Horace Wells: Discoverer of Anesthesia,”
Anesth Prog
, published by the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (issue 42, 1995); Craig Lambert, “An Aristocrat’s Killing,”
Harvard Magazine
(July/August 2003); James McManus,
Notes on the History of Anaesthesia
(Hartford: Clark & Smith, 1896); Max E. Soifer, “Discoverers (?) of Anesthesia: The Claimants,”
Journal of the American Dental Association
(September 1942); Max E. Soifer, “Dr. Horace Wells the Discoverer of Anesthesia,’ ”
Dental Items of Interest
(December 1939); Max E. Soifer, “Horace Wells ‘Rediscovered,’ ”
Dental Items of Interest
(November 1941); and Helen Thomson,
Murder at Harvard
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971).