2019

Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good story of the week: https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/40668153/replica-of-ship-sailed-by-christopher-columbus-coming-to-erie-for-tall-ships-2019?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_Erie_News_Now Have you heard of the “flat earther” movement? It’s a bunch of idiots that have banded together to insist the past 500 years of scientific knowledge regarding the shape of the Earth is wrong. These people really think the Earth is flat, insisting that […]

Colossal rubber ducks to join Tall Ships festival – Something good happened in Erie, 4/18/2019

The craziest thing on water is coming back with a friend, and we get to name it. | Image via Wikimedia. Without further ado, your Idiotville feel-good story of the week: https://www.goerie.com/news/20190416/mama-duck-baby-duck-to-make-tall-ships-erie-appearance Ever seen a six-story tall rubber duck? No? Well, you really should, and your chance is coming when “Mama Duck” comes back to […]

Erie’s Brig Niagara gets a new captain, lumberjack, and gold medal hammer thrower – in one man

Christopher Cusson – neither a lumberjack nor hammer thrower, but definitely the Brig Niagara Captain. If you’re from Erie, chances are you completely and immediately hate the unknown. If something is new it’s probably the worst, and if I don’t understand it I already hate it – with one exception. Sailing. Think this is an […]