Birmingham Depending on whether you are looking east or west, Birmingham is either the Chicago of the United Kingdom or Chicago is the Birmingham of the United States. Carrying the analogy too far, Manchester is Cleveland to Birmingham’s Chicago. I better stop. The key point is that these are amazing, bustling cities with deep, historical …
Month: July 2018
We Need More People’s History Museums!
Manchester “The Organizer” was screening at the Friends Meeting House today, and the members and leaders of the newly organized ACORN branch in Manchester were working, so I had the opportunity to not only visit, but also observe and work from the People’s History Museum and The Left Bank café and bar. What a great …
Bits Along the Road
Manchester Two words heard regularly in the UK are “sorted” and “bits.” Sorted makes sense in a way. Get organized, straighten out, arrange in place, whatever, to sort something is to put it right, and the term is ubiquitous. Almost as common is a reference to “bits” with is a catchall for a miscellaneous everything …