Discover the Heart of Art with Kim McCool – blog talk radio

Found this talk radio show on the net via a Twitter friend:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/KimMcCool

a couple of singing McCools

Natalie McCool is an indy/folk/alternative singer from the UK: http://www.myspace.com/nataliemccool

Beth McCool is an American soprano: http://www.bethmccool.com

Of course, there are many other musical McCools. Perhaps an entire list should be compiled. Send suggestions. Thanks!

McCools in historic newspapers

By now, you know that I am a fanatic about finding information about McCools. I do tons of family history research and lots of just messing around. Today, I revisited the Library of Congress’ website. I found an area where they have digitized old newspapers. This is the direct link: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/ You can also get to it by going to loc.gov, clicking on Historic Newspapers, then clicking on Search Pages.

Of course, my first search was for “McCool” in all of the newspapers. Wow, what a collection. It has 804 results; each result is an article or ad in a historic newspaper. Fantastic. Shall I say, very McCool. Just on the first page of 10 results, there are two McCool Typewriter ads and an article about a “high roller” named McCool. I wanted to post it here so that others know about it and so that I can easily find it again. My organization is not A++.

Here is the direct link to the results:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?lccn=&state=&dateFilterType=year&year=&date1=&date2=&ortext=mccool&andtext=&phrasetext=&proxtext=&proximityValue=5&submit=SEARCH

Stumbled upon a random blog by Donnie McCool of Nashville. My link goes directly to his awesome writeup and video links about Jimi Hendrix. Browse his other posts for some insight into the man, the myth, the legend of McCoolio:

http://mccoolio.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/jimi-was-the-man/

McCool Typewriter

McCool Typewriter

Jason McCool sent me a lovely ad from the Saturday Evening Post (1909). WordPress will not let me upload the file (PDF). I will figure it out. I may have to rescan it as an image. The above McCool Typewriter picture is from an eBay listing, I think. Do you own one of these? They are worth thousands of dollars. The inventor was William McCool. Even though he had a son named Charles, I am not directly related. William’s parents were named James and Rhoda. James was a native of Ireland. Much of the bio info is from http://www.typewritermuseum.org/history/inventors_mccool.html

Colin McCool, Australian cricket player

http://content.cricinfo.com/australia/content/player/6545.html