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Letter from James Bell Ashley (1842-1894) to Horace Yeomans (1820-1910), regarding his Wesleyan Methodist faith. Written in Belleville, Ontario on 19 February 1869.
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"...thought all my praying had availed me nothing.- that if what I experienced were answers from heaven, then the Being whom I worshipped was incomprehensible - and my religion was a delusion. Still I could not forget those direct manifestations of his divine presence which I had so often enjoyed, and a "small, still voice" seemed whispering *faith*. When almost discouraged I would go to my Father and ask for grace, earnestly pleading for that recognition which would enable me to say 'Abba Father, my Lord and my God", and, *glory be to his holy name*, I never was turned away unblessed. With hundreds, yes thousands of those experiences before me, I cannot forget my duty, and will avail myself of every chance to be strengthened.
Mr McKeown and myself have mutually agreed to strive after a greater degree of faith, and a more consistent Christian life. When conversing the other evening about our expectations in the future, and how often we had suffered disappointment, he remarked "it was only when he was conscious of not being a Christian that he was unhappy".
Our only desire is to do our duty faithfully in the sight of God and man - to discharge every responsibility with an eye single to the glory of God, and leave everything else in his hands - believing that "he doeth all this well".
We shall endeavor to attend Class more regularly in the future - While I remain in this country, which will be until I can arrange my engagements with Dr. Canniff, I shall make Belleville my home, and every Thursday night when here, and D.V. shall be with you.
Thanking you for expressed interest,
I remain yours etc.
J. Bell Ashley"
Church of St Cewydd , Disserth
Disserth Church is in the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon, in the community of Disserth and Trecoed in the county of Powys. It is located at Ordnance Survey national grid reference SO0344058360.
The church is recorded in the CPAT Historic Environment Record as number 16771 and this number should be quoted in all correspondence.
Disserth Church, CPAT copyright photo CS974923.JPG
Summary
St Cewydd's church at Disserth lies in a loop of the River Ithon less than 4km south-west of Llandrindod Wells. It is a fairly simple structure with nave and chancel in one and a west tower, but its importance lies in the fact that as Haslam notes 'it stands very much as a Victorian architect, called in for advice, might have found many of the Radnorshire churches'. The absence of 19thC restoration has left an interesting interior with box pews and decked pulpit of the early 18thC together with wall paintings and some monuments, and from an earlier age, the font and fragments of the rood screen. The churchyard is large and rectangular with some 18thC monuments, much overgrown.
Tower supposedly of c.1400, and of one build, though there is a blocked doorway on the north side; the battlements are thought to have been added within the last two hundred years or so.
No windows in body of church earlier than 16thC and wooden windows are probably later. However, the walls where not rebuilt, could be earlier, in keeping with the south doorway, and the single cell nave and chancel might be 14thC. Externally, it does appear that the tower butts up against the west wall of the nave though there are internal tower buttresses which RCAHMW thought were part of an earlier nave structure.
An in-depth analysis of the building sequence is required at Disserth.
Parts of the following description are quoted from the 1979 publication The Buildings of Wales: Powys by Richard Haslam
History
The church is dedicated to St Cewydd, one of the less commonly commemorated saints who is thought to have lived in the 6thC. The location is also suggestive of an early medieval origin, but as is normal in the rural churches of Powys there is no direct evidence of such an early beginning.
In the Taxatio of Pope Nicholas it is recorded as 'Ecclesia de Dysserch' at a value of 6 13s 4d. 'Disserthe' also appears in the Valor Ecclesiasticus, its value at 16 seeming excessive for a small parish church.
Glynne visited Disserth, probably in the mid-19thC. He thought that the tower windows had a Decorated look, and that beneath the wooden east window the wall contained a flat-arched recess. Most of the other windows were modern and of the 'worse kind' The nave was ceiled and the chancel had a coved roof with ribs, while at the west end the gallery had been built across the tower arch. No mention was made of exterior whitewash.
There was no Victorian restoration, although the roof was ceiled over by the churchwardens in 1839. Except for the section over the sanctuary, the roof timbers were re-exposed by F. E. Howard in the ?early 20thC. Restoration took place in 1979.
Architecture
Disserth church comprises a nave and chancel in one, a west tower and a south porch. The building is aligned west-south-west/east-north-east, but for descriptive purposes 'ecclesiastical east' is adopted here.
Fabrics: 'A' comprises medium to large blocks and slabs of light brown sedimentary stone; larger stones selected for quoins; some coursing. 'B' is of whitewashed masonry which appears to incorporate more rounded lumps than 'A', but more precise definition is not possible.
Roofs: slates, some newer than others; plain terracotta ridge tiles. No finials. Porch has large lozenge-shaped slates with lead flashing along the ridge. Tower has weathervane.
Drainage: none immediately obvious but there may be a filled-in trench, now bramble covered, along the north wall.
Exterior
Tower. General. Fabric A. Battered base topped by rectangular-sectioned string course. Second string course accompanied by waterspouts, just below battlemented parapet. Tower attributed to around c.1400 on the basis of ogee-headed windows, and one window reputedly contains a re-used piece of Decorated tracery. The battlements were added in the 18thC or early 19thC according to Howse.
North wall: tower stair in north-east corner revealed by swelling in wall, but only as high as belfry level. Lower string course stops at the point where the wall swell starts and there is a recess in the wall to a height of c.2.5m and some obvious infill in the plinth, indicating that there was originally an external door here. The stonework that forms this swelling abuts the nave and is evidently later in date. Above the recess is a simple slit window with single unchamfered stones for jambs - this lights the stair. Higher up the second stage are two centrally placed, belfry-like windows, one above the other, though it must be presumed that only the upper one lights the belfry. The lower is a rectangular window with a label, two two-centred arched lights with cinquefoil tracery and louvre boards. All the dressings are of creamy coloured freestone and look like 19thC/20thC renewals though there is no evidence of insertion in the masonry surround. Above is the second, larger, belfry window; it has a two-centred arch with hoodmould, two cusped lights with ogee-heads and a quatrefoil light above. If it is not possible to determine from ground level how much replacement of the dressings has occurred. Two waterspouts on upper string course.
East wall: nave roof apex rises to a level slightly lower than that of the lower of the two-light windows, and at the point where it abuts the tower is an arch of edge stones, indicative of another window. A wide slit window lights the stair just over half way up the wall face. Higher up is a standard belfry window, most of the dressings probably replaced.
South wall: main upper windows as on north wall; most if not all of the dressings renewed. Two waterspouts.
West wall: a little over 2m above ground level is a west window, identical but for the louvre boards with the belfry windows. Above this the standard square-headed and belfry windows seen in the other walls. All the dressings renewed. At base of wall are three slabs that may give access to a heating chamber.
Nave and chancel. General. Nave and chancel undifferentiated externally. Whitewashed rubble masonry, Fabric 'B'. Walls bow inwards and are sometimes plumb, sometimes not.
North wall: wall plate visible for entire length and acts as lintel to three windows. All are rectangular with wooden frames, leaded lights, and tooled blocks for jambs. Just to west of second window, the wall face is suddenly inset to a depth of about 0.15m; this patch of walling, reaching almost to the third window and down to within about 0.4m of ground level, is certainly rebuilt, and has a flatter surface. The older, bulging wall continues east of the third window, but close to the north-east corner, may again be replaced by a newer wall.
East wall: tapers upwards. A rectangular four-light window in wood, the lights with trefoil heads and sunken spandrels above; painted in maroon with red on lintel, and comparable except in its material to the window in the south wall of the chancel; attributed to the 16thC or perhaps the 17thC. Beneath the window the masonry looks like an infill but it is not clear what this signifies.
South wall: wall bulges and is very rough with wall plate projecting beyond wall top. From the east is: i) a chancel window of stone with three trefoil-headed lights under a label with sunken square stops; ii) standard two-light window in wood. Possibly the wall to the west of this is rebuilt - it tapers here more than elsewhere, and there are differences in the appearance of the masonry on either side of the window; iii) porch; and iv) a smaller two-light window in wood. Brooksby (RCAHMW) refers to a blocked priest's door: this was not seen at the time of the field visit.
West wall: tower butts up against this wall which at the south-west angle, has large well-dressed quoins.
Porch. East wall: single slit window and gravestone of 1821 set against wall.
South wall: two-centred arch with modern dressed stone for voussoirs, and cusped barge-boards, again modern. No gate.
West wall: as east wall.
Interior
Porch. General. Floor of flagstones and cobbles. Walls rendered. Roof ceiled and plastered, reportedly hiding an early timber roof.
North wall: two-centred arched doorway, with large unchamfered monolithic jambs, though to be 14thC by Haslam and perhaps a survival of the earlier church; formerly limewashed.
East wall: one small splayed window; stone bench with wooden seat, backed by old pew panels.
South wall: door reveal has socket for hinges.
West wall: as east wall.
Tower. General. Not accessible. Haslam noted that the stair doorways have chamfered jambs, the bottom one also a shouldered head and straight lintel. Also dressed stone from earlier windows used as jambs.
Nave. General. One step down from porch. Flagged floor but no obvious re-use of graveslabs; some carpet at entrance. Box pews throughout. Walls plastered and whitewashed, except for west (tower) wall which has only a coating of whitewash. 15thC roof - though Brooksby of RCAHMW thought it could be as early as the 14thC - of five and a half bays, with arch-braced collars above tie beams (perhaps inserted), apart from the second bay from the west which has a cusped, scissor truss; two tiers of deeply foiled windbraces and some panelling along the wall-plate.
North wall: the wall slopes outwards and this is more pronounced where reconstruction has occurred. Two deeply splayed windows. Two fragmentary wall paintings, a coat-of-arms to the east and panel with text to the east.
East wall: upright wall posts and rood-screen beam only.
South wall: splayed window; a high reveal for the door, considerably higher than the external arch, and its soffit more four-centred than two-centred. Just to east of the doorway is a fragmentary wall painting, and irregularities around this indicate some rebuilding of the wall.
West wall: a large voussoired, pointed tower arch, largely blocked off except for a modern doorway with a segmental head. At the angles are stepped buttresses, which RCAHMW thought might be part of earlier nave walls. No convincing evidence of the blocked window, the upper part of which is visible externally and also, reputedly inside the tower.
Chancel. General. Flagged floor, with one graveslab of 1850, perhaps in situ. Altar and sanctuary raised, and box pews on either side of the former. Walls as nave. Roof of three bays, ceiled over, .
North wall: splayed window and one mural tablet of 1752.
East wall: wall face slopes outwards; the side of the window embrasure are only slightly splayed but it has a deep sloping sill. An alcove just south of the altar, found during restoration works in 1953/54, has a cusped head and is of unknown age, though presumably medieval; and there is also a recess in the wall behind the altar. Also to the south is another wall painting. On the north side of the altar a mural tablet of 1822.
South wall: deeply splayed window; mural tablet of 1826, and a weathered 17thC slab leans against the wall.
Churchyard
Disserth churchyard is rectilinear, though with three somewhat rounded corners. It occupies level ground on the valley floor of the River Ithon which bends round the northern and western sides of the enclosure less than one hundred metres away. Despite some irregularities in the ground surface to the north of the church there are no traces of an earlier boundary.
It is still used for burials but is overgrown in places.
Boundary: this is defined by a stone wall in variable condition, though usually mortared. In places it is reinforced by a hedge and/or fence. Earth etc has been banked up against the inside of the wall, but generally there is little evidence to indicate that the interior of the yard is raised.
Monuments: these are spread across the southern part of the yard, and around the west of the church but there are none to the north. Locally dense, many are overgrown and in poor condition. A reasonable number of 18thC monuments are spread around with a few chest tombs close to the southern boundary. Modern burials lie to the west of the church.
Furniture: none.
Earthworks: none.
Ancillary features: the main entrance in the north-east has a single long wooden gate and an adjacent kissing gate. Stile in south wall. Grass paths only.
Vegetation: four yews along eastern boundary, and three others to the west and south of the church: none of great age. Northern edge of the yard covered with mixed vegetation, some of it deliberately planted.
Information courtesy of www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/radnor/1677...
My Dad had ladies writing to him from about every place he stopped. I didn't think he had enough time to meet anyone while crossing the Panama Canal but he must have because he received a nice letter from a girl there. Dad had travel through a couple months earlier. What caught my eye with this envelope is that it was stamped in Ancon. I all ready knew that name well from researching it for the photo of my Dad on the USS Ancon, the second ship named after the location.
Wikipedia:
SS Ancon was an American steamship that became the first ship to officially transit the Panama Canal in 1914. The steamer began life as the SS Shawmut, built for the Boston Steamship Line in 1902. About 1910 she was purchased by the Panama Railroad Company to provide shipping required for the construction of the Panama Canal. The name was changed to Ancon after Ancon Hill and Ancon township in Panama, home to the head of the Canal Commission.
Ancon and her sister ship Cristobal played a crucial role in building the canal, bringing workers and supplies, notably massive amounts of cement, from New York to Panama for the construction project.
On August 15, 1914 Ancon made the first official transit of the canal as part the canal's opening ceremonies. (Her sister ship Cristobal had made the first unofficial transit on August 3, delivering a load of cement, while an old French crane boat Alexandre La Valley had crossed the canal from the Atlantic in stages during construction, finally reaching the Pacific on January 7.)
Ancon was acquired by the United States Navy from the US Army just after the end of World War I and fitted out as USS Ancon (ID-1467), a troop transport to return Americans home.
The Panama Railroad Company replaced SS Ancon in 1938 with a second SS Ancon, a larger steam turbine cargo liner which later saw considerable action as US Navy Transport USS Ancon in World War II.
Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
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Source: Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwmorthin_Quarry
Cwmorthin Quarry is a slate quarry west of the village of Tanygrisiau, north Wales. Quarrying on the site started in 1810. In 1860 it was connected to the Ffestiniog Railway. In 1900 it was acquired by the nearby Oakeley Quarry and the two were connected underground. In 1970 it closed along with Oakeley. There was small scale working in the 1980s and 1990s, the mine finally closed in 1997.
Slate extraction began at Cwmorthin in 1810, when a small quarry was opened on the site[1] by the Casson family who were also working the Diphwys Casson Quarry, further to the east. Two of the five Blaenau Ffestiniog slate veins outcropped near where the quarry started, and it is not known whether the early workings were on the Old Vein or the Back Vein, as all evidence has been destroyed by later workings. The veins sloped downwards at angles of between 20 and 45 degrees, and to avoid the expense of removing large volumes of the overlying rock, the quarry soon became a mine, as the chambers followed the vein below ground. This early quarrying lasted for about twenty years, but had ceased by 1830.[2] In 1840, working began again, when John Edwards and his partner Magnes obtained a lease, which was transferred to W B Chorley from London later that year. Chorley's involvement with the quarry continued until about 1860. He employed Allen Searell (possibly Seale) as an Agent for the quarry in 1844, and correspondence between the two men is held by the library at Bangor University, formerly the University of North Wales. In the late 1850s, Chorley began to lose interest in the enterprise, and Searell moved on to the Hafon y Llan Quarry near Beddgelert.[3]
From about 1859, the quarry appears to have been worked by a group of men under an informal arrangement. They leased a wharf at Porthmadog harbour in 1860, until the Cwmorthin Slate Company was formed in January 1861. This had an authorised capital of £100,000, and the company bought the Cwmorthin Isaf estate and part of Tanygrisiau village on 25 July 1861.[4] Work began on underground mining.[5] At some point, the 1 ft 11 1⁄2 in (597 mm) Cwmorthin Tramway was constructed to connect the quarry with the nearby Ffestiniog Railway at Tanygrisiau. Isherwood states that it was soon after the new company took over in 1861[4] but Boyd suggests that a survey was carried out in the mid-1840s, and that it was completed in 1850. It was mentioned in the 1850 edition of Cliffe's The Book of North Wales, and the Ffestiniog Railway accounts recorded the first passage of loaded slate wagons down the line in that year. An existing siding at Tanygrisiau, which had served horse-drawn wagons from the quarry, was removed shortly afterwards.[6]
The first dressing mill, where the blocks of slate were split and dressed to form roofing slates, was situated on the eastern shore of Llyn Cwmorthin, and was known as Lake Mill. A second mill, the Cross Mill, was built a little further down the valley, as a result of which water from Llyn Cwmorthin could be used to feed a water wheel, which powered the dressing machinery. Two rope-worked inclined planes allowed the tramway to negotiate the difference in level between the mill and the Ffestiniog Railway.[4] The connection of the final incline to the railway was deemed to be dangerous by a Board of Trade inspector in 1864, as there were no trap points to prevent runaway wagons running onto the main line. As a result, the Ffestiniog Railway had to install distant signals and a telegraph connection to the winding house at the incline summit. Trains were not allowed to run along the main line while the incline was in use.[7]
Output from the quarry steadily increased, from 350 tons in 1862, to 12,500 tons of finished slate in 1876. Some 96,000 tons of slates left the quarry between 1861 and 1876. Based on typical figures for the region, that 1 ton of finished material was produced from 10 tons of quarried rock, this would indicate that around 1 million tons of rock were extracted during this period. The waste rock was initially tipped around the edge of the two surface workings, known as the North and South Sinks, but was later tipped in a series of terraces to the east of the workings, which eventually covered up the South Sink.[8] The quarry gained a reputation for poor working conditions and was known locally as "The Slaughterhouse".[9] Between 1875 and 1893 there were 21 deaths in Cwmorthin out of a workforce of around 550.[10]Following the passing of the Metalliferous Mines Act 1872, all mines were required to keep records of their operations, and to report fatal injuries, some details of the men and boys employed, and the output of the mine. Like many slate mines, Cwmorthin argued that it was a quarry, and that the law did not apply to them. Following a fatal accident in 1875, a test case was brought against them, and the enterprise was deemed to be a mine under the terms of the Act. The company went into liquidation shortly afterwards.[7][8]
New Cwmorthin Company[edit]
A new Cwmorthin Company was formed in 1876 following the collapse of the original company. To the north of the quarry, on the other side of the Allt-fawr ridge, the Welsh Slate Company, the Rhiwbryfdir Slate Company and Holland's Slate Company were all working the same veins. They were on land owned by the Oakeley family, and worked under leases, which placed restrictions on how they could be worked, and the royalties they had to pay. Cwmorthin was not restricted in this way, because they owned the freehold. The waste tips eventually covered Cwmorthin Isaf farmhouse, and the company and some of its workers built houses in Dolrhedyn, just above Tanygrisiau.[11] On the surface, the boundary between the Oakeley's Tan-y-Bwlch estate and the Cwmorthin Isaf estate was marked by cast iron markers, which can still be seen,[12] but below ground, the boundary was less clearly defined, and there were disputes over whether the companies were encroaching on each other's territory. This was resolved by an agreement in 1876, which survived several changes of ownership for the Oakeley Quarries, but following the death of Mary Oakeley in 1880, William Edward Oakeley got into financial difficulties, and the Oakeley Slate Quarries Company Limited was formed in 1884 to manage the quarries. Although a new agreement was drawn up between the Oakeley and Cwmorthin companies in 1884, Cwmorthin plans showed workings described as "encroachments", and Oakeley plans showed "trespass chambers ceded to Oakeley".[13]
Relationships deteriorated later in 1884, when most of the Cwmorthin workings in the Back Vein collapsed. The ground above the workings was fractured, right up to the top of Allt-fawr, where Llyn Bach, which supplied water to Holland's workings, was drained as a result. The fall had disastrous consequences for Cwmorthin, with production falling from 11,600 tons in 1884 to 6,900 tons in 1886. About half of the mine became inaccessible. In order to develop the quarry further, they had to open new chambers below the level of Llyn Cwmorthin. This was costly, as development work produced little productive slate, and there were additional costs for pumping and for machinery to raise the rock up to the level of the mills. Between 1876 and 1888, 132,866 tons of slate were shipped, but the burden of development was too great, and led to the winding up of the company in 1888.[13]
During this period, another test case had been brought against the company in 1879. Again, the issue concerned whether the undertaking was a mine or a quarry, but in this instance, which related to the assessment of profits, it was deemed to be a quarry.[7] In 1882, the quarry employed over 500 men, and slates were produced in three mills, two of which were powered by water wheels and one by a steam engine. The mills contained around 50 rock saws and 50 dressing machines.[14]
New Welsh Slate Company[edit]
On the other side of Allt Fawr, the Welsh Slate Company workings were in a poor state in 1884, and a major fall, now called the Great Fall, occurred, when some 6.25 million tons of rock collapsed into the workings. A legal battle followed, to establish whether compensation was due to the Oakeley Estate or to the Oakeley Slate Quarries Company. Ultimately, the Welsh Slate Company lost the case, but rather than pay the compensation, they surrendered their lease, retaining their profits and quite a bit of their capital. When the Cwmorthin Company failed, they formed the New Welsh Slate Company in 1889 and bought the Cwmorthin freehold for £83,000.[15] Directors of the new company, which had an authorised capital of £65,000 included the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, formerly a director of the Welsh Slate Company, and the MP Joseph Howard.[7] The Agent was Robert Owen, who had held the same position in the previous company. This upset the Oakeley Company, as he had been blamed by them for the Great Fall, and his attempts to recruit workers from the old quarry to come to Cwmorthin did not help the relationship.[15]
The quarry was extended downwards, with five floors below the lake level. They finished building the inclines to serve them, started after the 1884 Cwmorthin fall, and used steam engines to power them and the pumps needs to keep the workings dry.[15] In 1897, the company employed 290 people, of which 153 worked underground.[7] However, the new company was soon in trouble. The long exit tramway pushed up the price of their finished slates, and by 1896, they were working as a co-operative. 10 per cent of the profits were shared amongst all workers who held £5 in shares, and a further 10 per cent was shared amongst those with £100 of shares. 77,367 tons of slates were produced under New Welsh Slate Company ownership, but debts gradually rose, and in 1900 the quarry was put up for auction, with a reserve price of £12,000. The peak demand for slate had passed and with the industry descending into recession, it did not reach its reserve.[16] The company went into voluntary liquidation, and was wound up in 1902.[7]
Oakeley ownership[edit]
The Oakeley Company had been concerned about the condition of the western end of their mine since 1889, as many of the pillars left between the chambers by the Cwmorthin workings were thinner than normal practice, and they feared another collapse, with the additional risk that the water from Llyn Cwmorthin might enter the workings, causing widespread flooding. In order to safeguard themselves, they bought the Cwmorthin operation for £10,000, with little intention of working it. The Lake Mill was demolished, and the others were shut up. In 1902 Oakeley stripped Cwmorthin of its machinery and allowed the workings to flood, despite the advice of its own consulting engineer. A connecting link was made between the two quarries on floor C in the South Vein. Water then drained into Oakeley's Middle Quarry. The workings in the North Vein flooded up to Lake level, and could no longer be inspected.[17]
After the First World War, Oakeley explored re-opening Cwmorthin. While the mine had been officially closed for over 20 years, local men had continued to remove slate from the upper workings, and an inspection in the 1920s revealed that much of this part of the mine had been wrecked by rock falls and was completely unsafe. The next plan was to remove the overburden covering the South Vein, so that the pillars could be quarried. In 1925 they renewed the tramway connecting the Ffestiniog Railway to the mill, and restored the surface inclines and the lower mills. A new magazine was built, but as the rock was removed, it became evident that there was little usable slate left.[17] The un-flooded underground levels were then investigated, and productive rock was found. Part of the South Vein incline and its connecting tramways was restored, and a previously unworked section of the North Vein was accessed by driving a new level to it.[18]
Although there were supplies of good rock, work in the Cwmorthin Quarry was hampered by the costs of transporting the finished slates, and by the lack of power. The Oakeley Quarries were powered by electricity and compressed air, and a plan to drain the flooded North Vein workings was drawn up in 1932, which would allow power supplies to be brought through from the Oakeley side. The Oakeley workings were by then underneath the lower Cwmorthin chambers, and so Cwmorthin could be drained in a controlled fashion. Surface work at Cwmorthin, which had stopped in 1932, resumed. The North Sink incline was electrified, and air compressors were installed. A new incline was constructed, descending below Cwmorthin's floor E, and one of the Oakeley inclines was extended to assist the extraction of quarried rock.[19]
During the Second World War the quarry was mothballed, with only the pumps kept running to prevent flooding. Afterwards, there was another attempt to remove the overburden from the upper workings, using earth moving machinery, but this was again unsuccessful. During the 1960s the machinery, where it was still accessible, was removed. In 1970 the main Oakeley Quarries closed, and Cwmorthin was sold off separately. Some local men worked it on a small scale, initially clearing the tunnels and getting rock from some of the falls.[20] They installed a saw in one of the chambers, and used a Land Rover for transport. Some outside capital enabled a mill to be rebuilt in the 1980s, but the scheme failed. A local company reopened the mine in 1995, but all work ceased in 1997
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Description: Professional correspondence between Dummer and W.I. Thomas, 1921.
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"Office of S. S. Young,
Importer and Wholesale Grocer
Trenton, Ont. May 14th 1887
Alex Robertson M.P.
Ottawa
My Dear Sir
Will you have the Kindness to let me know what day the Bill for Charter to bridge Bay of Quinte will be before Committee
& greatly oblige. I need scarcely say Trenton is up in arms with the thought that there is any seriousness in the proposition and while we feel confident the Govt will not permit the navigation of our fine Bay thus to be impeded and the usefulness of the Murray Canal to a very great extent interfered with our Town Council, Board of Trade and Citizens are preparing a Memorial and may want to appoint delegates to appear before the Committee. By replying early you will confer a favour.
I remain dear Sir,
Your obt Servant
S. S. Young"
Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
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Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Papers
Call Number: A-146
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Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Papers
Call Number: A-146
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Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
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Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Papers
Call Number: A-146
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The correspondence bias: the assumption that others’ behaviour reflects their inner characteristics when external factors explain them
(see Lord, Lepper & Preston, 1984)
CC image courtesy of: www.flickr.com/photos/haikara24/519684147/
"therein lies the tale. Ratings are given, not by the commanding officer, but by the top-sergeant and he dishes them out by seniority and not by merit. Can’t you pull a few political strings, such as [illegible], and get me a commission? It has been done.
Well even if I don’t get a commission it won’t be so bad. I have to stay in this detachment for two years before I can be transferred, but when my two years are up I know just where I’m going.
I’ve been in the Marine Corps long enough now to know my way around and I know now that I should have gone to"
From the Edward L. Parke Collection (COLL/5627) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division
OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
Queensland State Archives Item ID 510665, Correspondence file
Commonwealth Games protested
Source: Deadly Story
In 1982 the Commonwealth Games were held in Brisbane. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people used the international focus on the event to their benefit, bringing to light the injustices they faced every day by staging a protest.
Brisbane 1982 - Highlighting injustices
The Commonwealth Games is an international sporting event between current and former colonies of the British Empire held every 4 years. In 1982 they were held in Brisbane. The international attention the Games brought about provided an opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to highlight the injustices and discrimination they were facing.
The objectives of the protest were many and covered a range of different areas of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life but two of the significant issues raised were land rights and control of Aboriginal affairs. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community wanted complete ownership of their lands in Queensland and to be able to protect Country from mining.
Legalities of the marches
It became clear as early as January of 1982 that activists were planning some sort of action for the Games. As the supposed ‘threat’ of Indigenous activity grew closer, the then Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson declared a State of Emergency and proclaimed street marches illegal. Only two marches were approved by Queensland police making all other marches illegal. This meant that anyone who took part in unapproved marches could be arrested and charged under the new Games legislation. If a protestor was found guilty they faced a fine of up to $2,000 or two years in prison.
The protest
As the games drew near the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community began calling out for people to come and support the protests and demonstrations against the discrimination they were suffering.
Leaders of the Community had differing views what kind of action would get the best results. Some believed peaceful rallies and cultural festivities would best get the message across while others felt that it would make little impact and that they needed to be more forceful.
On September 26 around 2,000 people marched for land rights. Protesters carried placards and banners and walked peacefully from the city to a park across the Brisbane River. It was considered Queensland’s biggest Aboriginal march at the time.
On September 29 another 1,000 people marched peacefully across central Brisbane in support of land rights. Hey held placards, banners and wore badges that read:
Stop playing games: land rights now!
A demonstration was held during the opening ceremony and police were called to have protesters removed. As the police moved in and began arresting people, protestors chanted 'the whole world is watching.' Thirty-nine people were arrested in that demonstration.
A further 104 protesters were arrested on October 4 during a land rights sit-in near the athletics stadium. According to The Age newspaper those who were arrested were the first people to be charged under the Queensland Government's Games security laws. Most charges were dropped over the next year. On the same day around 20 spectators sat quietly in the stands of the athletics stadium holding Aboriginal flags for the duration of the program.
Another rally was held on October 7. Around 500 people attended. Brisbane activist, Ross Watson, spoke to the crowd saying that "we are going to march today…we have no permit…we will be breaking the law. If you march you are likely to be arrested." About 400 police descended on a group of protestors who broke off from the main and arrested around 260 protesters including the then Governor-General’s daughter Ann Stephen.
This was a stark example of police and government suppression of our people’s right to protest and free speech. Despite the harm caused by the authorities, the people involved fought hard to have their message heard.
Sources:
•Commonwealth Games Brisbane & Aboriginal Protest, 1982, Museums Victoria
•Commonwealth Games Demonstrations - Brisbane 1982, The Koori History Website
•Activists plan to protest during the 'Stolenwealth' games, NITV
•'The fight never left': Stolenwealth Games protesters draw on long tradition, The Guardian.
Angie and I are having a conversation. Every Thursday until the end of August 2010 one of us will post a response to the other.
The rear of the postcard shown on the next photo shows a correspondence dated June 23, 1909, with the Post Office placing the Cancel stamp on it the following day. The handwriting is typical for the era and rather hard to read; please let us know if it can be translated so we can place it in the caption here. (Photo by Brandon Torrice)
Classic Thunderbird Club International
Vic Take, of Clayton, Missouri, began the idea of an international club for classic T'Bird owners by running a classified ad in a magazine now called Car and Driver. A correspondence newsletter began in May of 1961 raised some interest in starting a club, which Vic referred to at that time as a "shoestring organization" operating on a $1.00 donation from each correspondent.
Later, in Ford Times Magazine, a short paragraph mentioned the fledgling T'Bird Club. Then the letters of inquiry poured in and membership boomed to over 230 the first year. As the task became too large to handle, Vic now suggested that the Bay Area Thunderbird Owners Club (BATOC), which had organized in 1958, might be interested in mothering his fledgling group. BATOC called a special meeting, brought in their lawyer, then turned down the idea. At this juncture, "Birdland's" editor, Roger Neiss, decided to assume the responsibility on his own. Roger was in the type composition business working with local printers, so he was off to a good start. A CTCI office was established in his Oakland, California, home and, in addition to Roger's wife Edna, several members offered their help to keep up with the ever-increasing load of paper work. These early volunteers were Phyl Brantley of Dixon, Illinois, and Ruth Larsen of Wheaton, Illinois. Assisting, as Directors were Anne Kvilhang of Des Moines and Skip Riggs of Concord, California.
Italien / Toskana - Monte Argentario
Riserva naturale Duna Feniglia
Monte Argentario is a comune (municipality) and a peninsula belonging to the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 150 kilometres (93 mi) south of Florence and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Grosseto. The peninsula is connected with the mainland by three spits of land which form two lagoons, the Laguna di Ponente on the west side and the Laguna di Levante on the east side of the middle dam. The two main villages on Monte Argentario are Porto Santo Stefano, chief town, facing north, and Porto Ercole facing south.
The panoramic road Strada panoramica starts in Porto Santo Stefano allowing splendid views of the coast and the Tuscan Archipelago.
Monte Argentario borders the comune of Orbetello, which is located on the middle dam between the two lagoons.
Geography
Monte Argentario is a promontory stretching towards the Tyrrhenian Sea in correspondence of the two southernmost islands of the Tuscan Archipelago, Giglio and Giannutri. The promontory was an island in the past, but the sea currents and the Albegna river joined it with the mainland through two so-called tomboli (stretches of land), the Tombolo of Giannella and the Tombolo of the Feniglia.
The highest peak of Monte Argentario is the Punta Telegrafo at 635 metres (2,083 ft) above sea level. The landscape and the coast are mainly rocky, with numerous harbors, usually with rock beaches. The municipal seat is in the northern settlement, Porto Santo Stefano. The other main settlement in the township is Porto Ercole.
Argentarola cave lies close to Argentario promontory. The high quality speleothems that have been collected from this cave have allowed scientists to study the 215,000 year history of sea-level oscillations in this region.
History
The promontory, probably already inhabited by the Etruscans, was a personal property of the Domitii Ahenobarbi family, who obtained it in return for the money they lent to the Roman Republic in the Punic Wars. The current name probably finds its origin here, since Argentarii was the name of money lenders in ancient Rome.
Later an imperial possession, it was ceded to the church by Constantine the Great in the 4th century AD. In the Middle Ages, due to the reduced traffic passing on the nearby Via Aurelia, the area was sparsely settled. In the heart of the Middle Ages, the promontory became a possession of the Monastery of San Paolo in Rome. It represented in the so-called Carolingian Gate at the Monastery of St. Anastius outside Rome. Following the history of Orbetello, the promontory was a possession of the Aldobrandeschi, the Orsini, King Ladislaus of Naples and Siena, until Spain acquired it in the late 16th century. The Spaniards heavily fortified the two ports, as the main stronghold of the State of Presidi. In 1815, after Napoleon's defeat, the Argentario was handed over to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, to which it belonged until 1860, when it became part of the newly united Kingdom of Italy.
The painter Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, died of a fever at Porto Ercole in 1610.
During World War II, the settlements of Argentario were heavily bombed, with numerous losses. The port of Santo Stefano was destroyed, and was rebuilt only in the 1950s. The railway that connected Orbetello to the mainland was never rebuilt.
Main sights
Monastery of the Presentation and Punta Telegrafo.
Rocca Spagnola (Spanish Fortress), in Porto Santo Stefano.
Forte Filippo and Forte Stella, in Porto Ercole.
The church of St. Erasmus, in the historical centre of Porto Ercole, not far from the Porta Pisana.
The Via panoramica (Panoramic Road), running alongside the coast.
Argentario Aquarium
(Wikipedia)
A protected area that separates the open sea from Lake Orbetello: the Duna di Feniglia Nature Reserve is ideal for a day of immersion in nature, with family, alone or as a couple! It is free of charge and open all year round.
Whether on foot or by bike (rental is available) you can take long walks in the shade of the pine trees, and meet local inhabitants, starting with the fellow deer. If you then walk silently into the pine forest you can also see wild boars and foxes and, looking up at the treetops, also the nests of gray herons.
Every kilometer there is a path leading to the sea with its sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters, where you can spend the day. Lovers of outdoor sports, in addition to being able to walk 6km of pine forest on an unpaved road, will also have a path of wooden gymnastic equipment available.
On the side overlooking the lagoon there are paths equipped with huts to observe animals. There is also the “nature” trail, organized by the WWF, also suitable for people with a visual impairment: these are fifteen stages, equipped with handrails and descriptions in Braille, where are explained the characteristics of the flora and fauna living in the Dunes. It is a unique experience, because it gives everyone the opportunity to immerse themselves and discover nature with all their senses, perceiving what surrounds us with smell and hearing.
In the past the Feniglia Dune belonged to private owners who intensively exploited its territory leading to deforestation, resulting in health problems due to the formation of swampy areas that favored the proliferation of the malaria-carrying mosquito. In 1910 the Dune was expropriated and entrusted to the management of the State Forestry Corps which encouraged the rebirth of vegetation by reforesting about 450 hectares.
Today the Feniglia Dune is a Forest Reserve: visiting and enjoying this place therefore requires the utmost respect for nature and the environment.
(destinationcapalbio.com)
Monte Argentario ist eine italienische Gemeinde mit 12.040 Einwohnern (Stand 31. Dezember 2022) in der Provinz Grosseto am Südrand der Toskana. Sie umfasst die namensgebende Halbinsel Monte Argentario an der Küste des Tyrrhenischen Meeres.
Geografie
Der Monte Argentario ist ein annähernd kreisrundes felsiges Vorgebirge, dessen höchste Erhebung (der Monte Telegrafo) 635 m aufweist. Er war in der Antike eine vom offenen Meer umgebene Insel, an der sich später durch den von dem Fluss Albegna mitgebrachten Schlamm, Sand und Schutt drei Landzungen zum Festland bildeten, die heute das Wasser in der so genannten Lagune von Orbetello umschließen.
Der Zugang zum Monte Argentario vom Festland erfolgt entweder, von Albinia kommend, über die nördliche Nehrung (Tombolo di Giannella) oder über die mittlere, als Damm artifiziell verstärkte Landzunge von Orbetello. Die südliche Nehrung Tombolo di Feniglia ist für PKW gesperrt, Teile davon haben den Status einer 'Riserva naturale' mit entsprechenden Zugangsbeschränkungen.
Zwischen den zerklüfteten Felsen des Felsgebirges wachsen Pinien und die charakteristische Macchie-Vegetation. Kleine sandige Strände erstrecken sich schwer zugänglich tief unterhalb der Steilküsten. Weite Teile der Landschaft außerhalb der beiden Küstenorte auf der „Insel“ sind naturbelassen.
Gemeindegliederung
Porto Santo Stefano, capoluogo (Hauptort)
Porto Ercole, frazione (Ortsteil)
Beide Hafenorte zeichnen sich durch umfangreiche Befestigungen aus spanischer Zeit aus.
Weitere Ortsteile (frazioni) sind Cala Moresca, Cala Piccola, Carrubo, Pozzarello, Santa Liberata, Sbarcatello und Terrarossa.
Die einzige Nachbargemeinde ist Orbetello auf dem mittleren Damm, der als Zufahrtsstraße dient.
Geschichte
Ob das Vorgebirge bereits von den Etruskern besiedelt war, kann nicht einwandfrei verifiziert werden. Jedenfalls wurden zum Bau des Hafendamms von Orbetello etruskische Polygonalquader verwendet. Strabon gibt Zeugnis von einem Hafen Portus Cosanus; möglicherweise besteht eine Verbindung zu Cosa, einem 273 v. Chr. südlich der Lagune bei dem heutigen Ansedonia von den Römern gegründeten Hafen mit etruskischer Vorbesiedlung. Eindeutig dokumentiert ist der spätere Besitz durch die römische Familie der Domitii Ahenobarbi, die das Gebiet als Entschädigung für Darlehen an die römische Republik während des Zweiten Punischen Krieges erhielt. Bei dieser Familie handelte es sich um Argentarii (Silber/Geld Besitzende = Darlehensgeber); von dieser Berufsbezeichnung rührt nach herrschender Meinung der Name des Gebirgszuges.
Verschiedene römische Kaiser hatten das Territorium in Besitz, ehe Konstantin es im 4. Jahrhundert der Kirche schenkte. Im Mittelalter verlor das Gebiet an Bedeutung, mutmaßlich bedingt durch die verfallende Infrastruktur in der zunehmend versumpfenden Maremma des Umlands.
Grundsätzlich teilte die Insel die Geschichte von Orbetello: Nach wechselndem Besitz durch die Feudalherren der Aldobrandeschi, der Orsini und durch Ladislaus von Neapel fiel es schließlich an Siena. Als Cosimo I. de’ Medici Siena 1555 eroberte, das die spanischen Habsburger zu jenem Zeitpunkt schon drei Jahre besetzt hielten, gehörte der Monte Argentario zu den wenigen Gebieten, die Florenz nicht für das neu zu etablierende Großherzogtum Toskana behalten durfte. Im Vertrag vom 3. Juli 1557 mit Philipp II. verlangte der König es zusammen mit Piombino, Talamone und Teilen von Elba für sich zurück.
Der Stato dei Presidi (spanisch bis 1708, österreichisch bis 1737, danach bourbonisch) bestand bis 1801, danach eroberte ihn Napoleon Bonaparte. Im Wiener Kongress 1815 fiel er an das Großherzogtum Toskana, das 1860 im Nationalstaat Italien aufging.
1824 wurde eine Straße von Orbetello über die Lagune zum Monte Argentario gebaut.
Der Ausbau des Monte Argentario zu einem Ferienzentrum setzte nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ein. Hotels, Appartements und Gaststätten werden sowohl in den beiden Küstenorten Porto Santo Stefano und Porto Ercole als auch an schwerer zugänglichen Felskaps an der Panoramastraße rund um den Gebirgsstock angeboten. Im Binnenland wird auch Agrotourismus betrieben. Obwohl die Region im Sommer gut besucht ist, gibt es keinen Massentourismus. Einerseits haben Umweltschützer eine großflächige Bauspekulation verhindert und andererseits sind weite Teile der zerklüfteten Küste als weiträumig eingezäunte und geschützte Residenzen vermögender Privatiers und internationaler Prominenz eigengenutzt.
Panoramastraßen
Fährt man den Monte Argentario von Norden (Orbetello) über den Lagunendamm an, lässt sich die Panoramastraße (Strada Panoramica) sowohl nach Südwesten über Porto Santo Stefano hinaus als auch nach Südosten über Porto Ercole hinaus ein Stück befahren. Eine Umrundung des gesamten Gebirgsmassivs ist mit einem normalen PKW nicht zu empfehlen, da beide Enden der asphaltierten Straße nur von einer schmalen Schlagloch-Piste verbunden werden.
Die Panoramastraße verläuft durch die Steineichen-, Baumheide-, Ginster- und Zistrosen-Macchia hoch über den Buchten und kleinen Stränden mit bizarren Felsformationen, Kaps und kleinen Felseninseln, Wachttürmen auf den Spitzen im Binnenland und weiten Ausblicken auf die Nachbarinseln Giglio und Giannutri, bei klarem Wetter auch auf Elba und Montecristo, bei besonders guter Sicht sogar bis Korsika. Der Zugang zum Meer ist für die Öffentlichkeit wegen vieler weitgehend in Privatbesitz befindlicher, abgezäunter Grundstücke nur an wenigen Stellen möglich.
Eine asphaltierte Querverbindung durch das Binnenland sichert vor dem südwestlichen Straßenende eine verkürzte Rückkehrmöglichkeit nach Porto Santo Stefano.
Außerdem führt vom Osten her eine Straße auf den Monte Telegrafo. Hier passiert man das Passionistenkloster (Convento dei Frati Passionisti) auf einem Hügel, von dem sich bei gutem Wetter eine Fernsicht nördlich über die Lagune von Orbetello hinaus bis nach Talamone am Südrand des Parco Naturale della Maremma öffnet. Auch von weiteren Aussichtspunkten an dieser Straße, z. B. von einem riesigen Kreuz, das nachts beleuchtet wird, bieten sich weite Ausblicke. Auf dem Gipfel befinden sich Sendeanlagen der RAI und auf dem höchsten Punkt eine militärische Anlage (daher nicht zugänglich).
Wirtschaft
Im 20. Jahrhundert hat der Tourismus den Fischfang als Haupteinnahmequelle abgelöst. Die Fischbestände wurden dezimiert und die Fischer müssen in immer weiter entfernt gelegene Fanggründe Richtung Sardinien ausgreifen.
In geringem Umfang wird das Binnenland im Bereich von Porto Santo Stefano auf Flächen zum Zuckerrohr-, Gemüse- und Weinanbau in Terrassenfeldkultur genutzt.
Haupteinnahmequelle ist jedoch der Tourismus, wobei weniger Touristen aus Deutschland zu finden sind, als Italiener, insbesondere aus Rom und Florenz, die hier ihre Sommervillen haben.
(Wikipedia)
Ein Naturschutzgebiet, das das offene Meer von dem Orbetello-See trennt: Duna di Feniglia ist das Ideal für einen Tag in der Natur mit der Familie, allein oder zur zweit! Es ist kostenlos und ganzjährig geöffnet.
Zu Fuß oder mit dem Fahrrad (Verleih ermöglicht) können Sie im Schatten der Kiefern lang spazieren gehen und den Einheimischen, wie den Damhirschen, begegnen. Wenn Sie dann ruhig in den Kieferwald vorstoßen, können Sie auch Wildschweine und Füchse erblicken und, wenn Sie zu den Baumkronen hinaufschauen, die Nester von Graureiher.
Jeder Kilometer finden Sie Pfade, die zu dem Meer, zu seinen Sandstränden und seinem kristallklaren Wasser führen. Hier können Sie den ganzen Tag verbringen!
Liebhaber von Freiluftsporten können 6 Kilometer Kieferwald auf einem ausgehobenen Weg sowie hölzerne Trimm-dich-Pfade genießen.
Auf der Seite vor der Lagune befinden sich Wege mit Hütten zur Tierbeobachtung. Es gibt auch einen vom WWF organisierten Naturlehrpfad für Sehbehinderte: es handelt sich um fünfzehn Punkte mit Handläufen und Blindenschrift-Schildern, die die Besonderheiten der Flora und der Fauna der Düne erklären.
Dies ist ein einzigartiges Erlebnis, weil es jedem die Möglichkeit gibt, in die Natur einzutauchen und sie mit allen Sinnen zu entdecken, indem man die Umgebung mit dem Geruch und dem Gehör wahrnimmt.
In der Vergangenheit gehörte die Duna di Feniglia zu Privateigentürmen, die das Land so intensiv ausgenutzte, dass es Entwaldung verursachte. Die Bildung von Sumpfgebieten begünstigt die Verbreitung der malariaübertragenden Stechmücke, ist Grund von verschiedenen Gesundheitsprobleme wegen
In der Vergangenheit gehörte die Duna di Feniglia zu Privateigentürmen, die das Land so intensiv ausgenutzte, dass es zur Entwaldung und damit zu Gesundheitsprobleme führte, da das Entstehen der Sumpfgebiete hat die Verbreitung der malariaübertragenden Stechmücke begünstigt.
1910 wurde die Düne enteignet und der Verwaltung des staatlichen Forstkorps anvertraut, das die Neugeburt der Vegetation durch Aufforstung von etwa 450 Hektare förderte.
Heutzutage ist die Duna di Feniglia ein Waldschutzgebiet: der Besuch und der Genuss dieses Ortes erfordern daher den größtmöglichen Respekt der Natur und der Umwelt.
(destinationcapalbio.com)
From A9020 (xiii) Album of Dungog Postcards by George Kelly Photographer Dungog (c1905-1915), with correspondence on verso of postcards from Edie Kelly (Dungog) – daughter of the photographer George Kelly to Miss Gertie Alder (Hamilton) 1908-1914.
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Letter written on H. Corby Distiller and Importer letterhead, with drawing of the Corbyville distillery and the Corbys' shop and office premises at 34 Bridge Street East in Belleville, Ontario (built in 1884).
The letter is addressed to Colonel William Nisbet Ponton and originally enclosed a letter from Frederick William Borden, Minister of Militia. It was signed by Harry Corby (1851-1917) and was dated June 7th, 1898.
Charcoal on paper
Although Hopper later discounted his illustrations as "potboilers," he thrived as a commercial artist. He produced hundreds of drawings, and occasionally oil sketches, for magazines and advertisements between 1906 and 1925.
[Whitney Museum of American Art]
Taken in the exhibition
Edward Hopper’s New York
(October 2022 – March 2023)
For Edward Hopper, New York was a city that existed in the mind as well as on the map, a place that took shape through lived experience, memory, and the collective imagination. It was, he reflected late in life, “the American city that I know best and like most.”
The city of New York was Hopper’s home for nearly six decades (1908–67), a period that spans his entire mature career. Hopper’s New York was not an exacting portrait of the twentieth-century metropolis. During his lifetime, the city underwent tremendous development—skyscrapers reached record-breaking heights, construction sites roared across the five boroughs, and an increasingly diverse population boomed—yet his depictions of New York remained human-scale and largely unpopulated. Eschewing the city’s iconic skyline and picturesque landmarks, such as the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building, Hopper instead turned his attention to its unsung utilitarian structures and out-of-the-way corners, drawn to the awkward collisions of new and old, civic and residential, public and private that captured the paradoxes of the changing city. Edward Hopper’s New York charts the artist’s enduring fascination with the city, revealing a vision of New York that is as much a manifestation of Hopper himself as it is a record of the city around him.
Edward Hopper’s New York takes a comprehensive look at Hopper’s life and work, from his early impressions of New York in sketches, prints, and illustrations, to his late paintings, in which the city served as a backdrop for his evocative distillations of urban experience. Drawing from the Whitney’s extensive holdings and amplified by key loans, the exhibition brings together many of Hopper’s iconic city pictures as well as several lesser-known yet critically important examples. The presentation is significantly informed by a variety of materials from the Museum’s recently acquired Sanborn Hopper Archive—printed ephemera, correspondence, photographs, and journals that together inspire new insights into Hopper’s life in the city. By exploring the artist’s work through the lens of New York, the exhibition offers a fresh take on this formidable figure and considers the city itself as a lead actor.
[Whitney Museum of American Art]
Taken in Manhattan
From A9020 (xiii) Album of Dungog Postcards by George Kelly Photographer Dungog (c1905-1915), with correspondence on verso of postcards from Edie Kelly (Dungog) – daughter of the photographer George Kelly to Miss Gertie Alder (Hamilton) 1908-1914.
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In the bindery at the SFCB. Background art is from the Steamroller Print Festival they hold every Fall. This was just before some one arrived with all the cup-cakes! We are already adding artistamps to our passports. ----------------------------------------------------------------------Jennie was collecting SFCC stories to read to the group. I gave her a SFCC haiku ------------------------------------------------------------------- Late summer meeting ---- James made a Sharpie tattoo ------- On my sun-burnt arm