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Something Fun for Post Number 600
It's alway great when more than one of my interests intersect, and it seemed to me that this particular post, the 600th on this blog, was the ideal time to share with you a picture that was posted by...
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Australian Heraldry in the News!
I've posted about the arms of Canberra in Australia before http://blog.appletonstudios.com/2012/09/heraldic-change-in-news.html and http://blog.appletonstudios.com/2013/04/heraldry-in-news.html), and...
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Canadian Heraldry in the News!
The Canadian city of Sault Ste. Marie turned 100 last year, and has decided as a part of that celebration to get itself a new coat of arms.And why wouldn't you want to change their current "logo"...
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Austin, Texas
Taking a little time out from the international news of heraldry, I thought I'd introduce to you the coat of arms of the capitol city of Texas, Austin.Named for the "Father of Texas" (so named because...
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What Not To Do
Or this post could be subtitled: "The Kitchen Sink School of Heraldry." (Because it seems like the designers have tried to include everything, including the kitchen sink.)Over the years I have...
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Something Else Not To Do
As a contrast to the "kitchen-sink" school of heraldry, which tries to incorporate everything, including the kitchen sink, from its history into its coat of arms, there are some very nice, simply,...
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Once Again Into The Breach, Dear Friends
In this case, the “breach” seems to be that Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), does not have its own coat of arms. (The City of Canberra does, as noted in a recent post here: April 8,...
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The More Things Change ...
... the more they stay the same.Take the apparent gridlock in the halls of the Congress of the United States. (Please!)Then I ran across the following humorous "coat of arms" of the Senate Park...
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And Speaking of Made Up Arms
In my last post I discussed the humorous "arms" made for the Senate Park Commission back in 1902. And it must be admitted that the history of attributing arms to historical persons is a long, if not...
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On the Road Again
We recently took a little trip to Fort Wayne, Indiana followed by a drive up to the little town of Charlotte, Michigan, where my family lived fifty years ago. We were attending the Federation of...
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More Faux Heraldry in Fort Wayne
The big achievements of "arms" with the blank oval shields on them that I discussed in my last post were not the only "heraldry" to be found on the facade of the Embassy Hotel in Fort Wayne. Also to...
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Real Heraldry in Fort Wayne
Lest you think that the only "heraldry" that I found in our trip to Fort Wayne, Indiana was not really heraldry at all, just across the street and around the corner from the Embassy Hotel with the...
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Is It Real, or Is It (Well, Not Memorex, but....)
Next door to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana, is the MacDougal Memorial Chapel. It's a large round building, that in a way rather reminded me of the...
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A Last Bit of Faux Heraldry in Fort Wayne
Finally, we ran across this sign (my fault, I'd made a wrong turn driving back to our hotel from the conference; a happy, I supposed, mistake) that is certainly trying to be heraldic.It isn't, exactly,...
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Heraldry, Even in a Small Town
So after the conference in Fort Wayne, Indiana, finished up, we drove to the small town in southern Michigan of Charlotte, almost exactly 50 years after my family had moved away from there. And while...
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More "Heraldry" in Charlotte, Michigan
In the two and a half days we spent in Charlotte, Michigan, a lot of our time was at the local library, looking through bound copies of old newspapers (1960-1963). And in keeping with my often-stated...
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Empty Shields Again!
So, having finished up my research at the library in Charlotte, Michigan, we had some time to drive around a bit and see how much the town had (or hadn't) changed in the half century since I lived...
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Oh, Dear.
We were at the movie theater the other day (catching the latest Riddick movie, if you must know) and on the way out I saw a somewhat ambiguous poster for a movie being released sometime next year....
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Heraldry in the News!
I know, I know! You've all seen one or another stories on this topic already. And it's been news, apparently, all over the world. (Just check out the links that I'm going to give you below, though I...
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Finding Heraldry
I keep on saying it, and it keeps on being true: You can find heraldry everywhere!I this specific instance, my wife and I were taking a day to ourselves and just spending some time with each other...
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