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BOOK TITLE is the topic for Saturday, October 22, 2022
On the Waterfront
From goodreads:
"Schulberg’s acclaimed and bestselling novel, based on a classic of American cinema
In 1955, Budd Schulberg adapted his Academy Award–winning screenplay into an exhilarating novel. Suspenseful and emotional, the novel presents a more complex—and perhaps bleaker—portrait of ex-boxer Terry Malloy’s corrupt and stunted world on the docks of Hoboken. Narrated by Father Pete Barry, the novel shifts focus to the courageous priest who stands up to the Mob, as well as his own church, in order to redeem the souls of his hardscrabble and unloved constituents.
On the Waterfront is a potent retelling of an iconic American story that stands apart as an unforgettable vision of crime, politics, and class in the twentieth century."
Nordic Gods - Tales simplified and well told. Illustrated by Willy Pogany.
Lost Books - fascinating read for fans of classical mythology and philosophy.
Returning home from a lovely mini-vacation, re-reading one of my favourite serie for the hundred time 😋
Such a wonderful time seeing family y friends both old y new. 💞
And yes I always carry a towel... you never know when you may need it 😜
Looking forward to catching up with all of my amazingly beautiful friends 💞
Hope you all are having a wonderful relaxing weekend 😽 ~L
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Hi everyone! I'm hoping to get your help with nominations for my YA supernatural horror novel, Breath of Dreams. By clicking on this link: kindlescout.amazon.com/p/ZR4GZ20UP4U5 you can choose "Nominate Me" and if my book is chosen for publication by Kindle Scout at the end of the 30 day period, all nominators get a free e-copy of the book! Thanks for your help! Here's a description of the book:
A string of teen murders has Portland, Maine gripped in fear. When someone from their high school is abducted, 16 year old Max and his two friends decide to take action. Their quest puts all three teens in mortal danger as they uncover clues that point to a supernatural being, and follow leads to an ultimate showdown with the killer. To further complicate things, Max is worried because his father refuses to tell him why his mother is missing or where she has gone for the past six weeks.
Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height
"Normal at Any Cost" is the story, told decade by decade, of medical attempts to tinker with one inherited characteristic: height. It reveals the way drug companies redefined normal in order to expand markets, and how the best motives and worst motives combined to result in widespread experimentation on children. We think the temptations to tamper with heredity are just beginning.
Susan Cohen's book tells the horrible story of drug use to adjust the height of adolescent boys and girls who were threatening to be short, or tall, adults. DES was prescribed to prevent girls from growing “too tall.”
Sources and book reviews
* At What Height, Happiness? A Medical Tale, DES Action.
* Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry's Quest to Manipulate Height, N Engl J Med 2009.
* Read reviews on Amazon and GoodReads.
More DES DiEthylStilbestrol Resources
* All our posts tagged DES, the DES-exposed and DES victims.
* DES and cancer, breast cancer, CCA, vaginal cancer, screening.
* DES studies on fertility, gender identity, pregnancy.
* DES studies on in-utero exposure to DES and DES side-effects.
* DES articles on lawsuits and various studies.
* Watch DES videos, read more about DES Daughters and DES Sons.
Charleston est. 1670, pop. 127,999 (2013)
• this stucco double tenement is a larger 3-story version of William Hendrick's Tenements • retains its early 19th c. shop fronts, central passageway arch & late-18th c. wrought-iron lunette, w/scrollwork & central pendant -Roots & Recall
• for decades after the American Civil War the bldg. housed up to 100 impoverished Gullahs -- African-American families of freed slaves • because vegetables were grown in the courtyard & sold from street-facing sills & steps, this bldg. & nearby 83-85 Church St. became known as Cabbage Row, described as "Probably the vilest human habitations in a civilized land." -W.E.B. Du Bois, 1908
• by the 1920s, white neighbors were complaining of unsanitary conditions, knife & gunfights, prostitution & "the most vile, filthy, and offensive language" • this would become the setting for the critically acclaimed 1925 novel Porgy by DuBose Heyward (1885-1940)
• despite the notoriety conferred by a best-selling book, the building continued to deteriorate • in 1928, it was purchased & saved from demolition by Emily (Barker) Briggs (1893-1950) & her husband, landscape architect Loutrel Briggs (1893-1977)
• Mr. Briggs restored the exterior, added old woodwork to interiors for rental apts., renovated the gutted outbuildings as new units & named the bldg. Briggs Apartments -A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston, Stephanie E. Yuhl, 2005
• the restoration was criticized by a "shocked" Sons of Confederate Veterans historian, writer Clement Wood (1888-1950), who complained that -- typical of Charleston's commercialization -- the authentic "Catfish Row" bldg. had been transformed into a "high class residence" • Wood proposed that Negroes continue to live there to preserve the traditional atmosphere
• Briggs responded in the local paper: "DuBose Heyward, with an artistry, to which my unskilled pen cannot do justice, has preserved for posterity the picturesque life of 'Catfish Row,' and I have attempted to reclaim, with as little external change as possible, the building and restore it to semthing of its original state in revolutionary time." -Charleston News & Courier, 25 Dec, 1933 • Briggs bio -The Cultural Landscape Foundation
• "Porgy" author Heyward lived just a block away from Cabbage Row • he was a descendant of Thomas Heyward, Jr., a wealthy planter & signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence
• the author's mother, published poet Jane Screven DuBose Heyward (1864-1939), loved Gullah music & stories, which informed much of her work, e.g., "De Happy Lan"
Little Sonny, Little Gal
Trabblin down de road
War is you two gwin
Wid such a funny load?
We two is bound for Happy Land,
Kin tell we war it lies?
We darsn't leabe de goose behin
Cos Sah, she allus cries.
De Happy Lan is "Long Ago"
To dose who now am old.
So tun aroun, an trabble home
Befo de night gets cold.
"Once the Heywards were among the richest planters of South Carolina... It was good fortune for literature and for young Dubose Heyward that the family joined the ranks of the newly poor after the War Between the States," said the New York Times, which also hailed him as the chronicler of the "strange, various, primitive and passionate world" of the Negro -"Goat Cart Sam a.k.a. Porgy: Dubose Heyward's Icon of Southern 'Innocence'", Kendra Hamilton
• in Heyward's novel, the location of this Cabbage Row building is moved to the waterfront (possibly the location of today's Rainbow Row) & renamed "Catfish Row"...
"Catfish Row, in which Porgy lived, was not a row at all, but a great brick structure that lifted its three stories about the three sides of the court..... and pierced in its center by a wide entrance way. Over the entrance there still remained a massive grill of Itialian wrought iron, a battered capital of marble surmounted each of the lofty gate-posts." -"Porgy," DuBose, Heyward, 1925
• the story's protagonist is Goat Cart Sam, based on crippled Charleston street vendor Samuel Smalls • "World Knew him as Porgy — He died a Beggar", Tuscaloosa News, 1989 • "The Man Who Breathed Life Into 'Porgy and Bess'" -New York Times, 03/2000 Porgy & Bess, The Charleston Connection
• following up on the novel's success, DuBose & his wife, playwright Dorothy Heyward (1890-1961), wrote the non-musical play "Porgy," which opened on Broadway in 1927 • in 1934 Heyward & composer George Gershwin collaborated on the opera Porgy & Bess, first performed in NYC, 1935, with a cast of classically trained African-American singers • Gershwin's "Catfish Row Suite" premiered in Philadelphia, 1936 • the 1959 Porgy & Bess movie was directed by Otto Preminger • "Porgy & Bess at 80" -Wilson Quarterly
DuBose Heyward Epitaph, by DuBose Heyward
Here lies a spendthrift who believed
That only those who spend may keep;
Who scattered seeds, yet never grieved
Because a stranger came to reap;
A failure who might well have risen;
Yet, ragged, sang exultantly
That all success is but a prison,
And only those who fail are free;
Who took what little Earth had given,
And watched it blaze, and watched it die;
Who could not see a distant Heaven
Because of dazzling nearer sky;
Who never flinched till Earth had taken
The most of him back home again,
And the last silences were shaken
With songs too lovely for his pen.
HABS SC-447 • Charleston Historic District, National Register # 66000964, 1969 • declared National Historic Landmark District, 1973
"Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these," said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers. "I'm not putting them on," said old Archie in indignation. "I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4))
The Gerkhin in the City of London otherwise known as the Square Mile and full of Suits in Pinstripes :-)
From right to left: the Gerkhin (30 St Mary Axe), the Aviva Tower (St Helens Building), Tower 42 and the Willis Building (51 Lime Street) - The Lloyd's Building is hiding behind the Willis Building and partially reflected in the Aviva Tower and the Gerkhin.
*Samsung EX1 - 3 shot HDR (-1, 0, +1 EV)
A children's book winner...
Winner of the 2020 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal
A 2020 American Indian Youth Literature Picture Book Honor Winner
Look at these additional awards:
A 2020 Charlotte Huck Recommended Book
A Publishers Weekly Best Picture Book of 2019
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2019
A School Library Journal Best Picture Book of 2019
A Booklist 2019 Editor's Choice
A Shelf Awareness Best Children's Book of 2019
A Goodreads Choice Award 2019 Semifinalist
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of 2019
A National Public Radio (NPR) Best Book of 2019
An NCTE Notable Poetry Book
A 2020 NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
A 2020 ALA Notable Children's Book
A 2020 ILA Notable Book for a Global Society
Amazon.com Best Books of the Year, Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice, Robert F. Sibert Award - Medal, NPR Best Book of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year
Only counting books I read (or soon-ish will have read) in their entirety…
Faves: 13
Best: "Enlightenment now: The case for reason, science, humanism, and progress" by Steven Pinker! :D Even though I haven't finished it yet.
Below are starting dates, titles, authors, and some quotes / comments that I could think of. :p Hopefully I have not typo-ed up the quotes too badly.
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1-Feb-2019: 1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Fave! And a re-read.
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7-Feb-2019: 2. Becoming by Michelle Obama
Fave!
"If this were an American Dream story, Dandy, who arrived in Chicago in the early 1930s, would have found a good job and a pathway to college. But the reality was far different. Jobs were hard to come by, limited at least somewhat by the fact that managers at some of the big factories in Chicago regularly hired European immigrants over African American workers. Dandy took what work he could find, setting pins in a bowling alley and freelancing as a handyman. Gradually, he downgraded his hopes, letting go of the idea of college, thinking he'd train to become an electrician instead. But this, too, was quickly thwarted. If you wanted to work as an electrician (or as a steelworker, carpenter, or plumber, for that matter) on any of the big job sites in Chicago, you needed a union card. And if you were black, the overwhelming odds were that you weren't going to get one.
This particular form of discrimination altered the destinies of generations of African Americans, including many of the men in my family, limiting their income, their opportunity, and, eventually, their aspirations. As a carpenter, Southside wasn't allowed to work for the larger construction firms that offered steady pay on long-term projects, given that he couldn't join a labor union. My great-uncle Terry, Robbie's husband, had abandoned a career as a plumber for the same reason, instead becoming a Pullman porter. There was also Uncle Pete, on my mother's side, who'd been unable to join the taxi drivers' union and instead turned to driving an unlicensed jitney, picking up customers who lived in the less safe parts of the West Side, where normal cabs didn't like to go. These were highly intelligent, able-bodied men who were denied access to stable high-paying jobs, which in turn kept them from being able to buy homes, send their kids to college, or save for retirement. It pained them, I know, to be cast aside, to be stuck in jobs that they were overqualified for, to watch white people leapfrog past them at work, sometimes training new employees they knew might one day become their bosses. And it bred within each of them at least a basic level of resentment and mistrust: You never quite knew what other folks saw you to be."
"Exactly on cue, something massive came around the corner: a snaking, vehicular army that included a phalanx of police cars and motorcycles, a number of black SUVs, two armored limousines with American flags mounted on their hoods, a hazmat mitigation truck, a counterassault team riding with machine guns visible, an ambulance, a signals truck equipped to detect incoming projectiles, several passenger vans, and another group of police escorts. The presidential motorcade. It was at least twenty vehicles long, moving in orchestrated formation, car after car after car, before finally the whole fleet rolled to a quiet halt /. . ./
I took in the spectacle: thousands and thousands of pounds of metal, a squad of commandos, bulletproof everything. I had yet to grasp that Barack's protection was still only half-visible. I didn't know that he'd also, at all times, have a nearby helicopter ready to evacuate him, that sharpshooters would position themselves on rooftops along the routes he traveled, that a personal physician would always be with him in case of a medical problem, or that the vehicle he rode in contained a store of blood of the appropriate type in case he ever needed a transfusion. In a matter of weeks, just ahead of Barack's inauguration, the presidential limo would be upgraded to a newer model – aptly named the Beast – a seven-ton tank disguised as a luxury vehicle, tricked out with hidden tear-gas cannons, rupture-proof tires, and a sealed ventilation system meant to get him through a biological or chemical attack."
"Three times over the course of the fall of 2011, Barack proposed bills that would create thousands of jobs for Americans, in part by giving states money to hire more teachers and first responders. Three times the Republicans blocked them, never even allowing a vote.
'The single most important thing we want to achieve,' the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, had declared to a reporter a year earlier, laying out his party's goals, 'is for President Obama to be a one-term president.' It was that simple. The Republican Congress was devoted to Barack's failure above all else. It seemed they weren't prioritizing the governance of the country or the fact that people needed jobs. Their own power came first."
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26-Feb-2019: 3. The silkworm by Robert Galbraith (a pseudonym :D )
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24-Mar-2019: 4. The plains of passage by Jean M. Auel
A re-read, although this was the first time I read it in English.
"The entire vast delta was an extravagant, ostentatious demonstration of natural abundance; a wealth of life flaunted without shame. Unspoiled, undamaged, ruled by her own natural law and subject only to her own will – and the great void whence she sprang – the great Mother Earth took pleasure in creating and sustaining life in all its prolific diversity. But pillaged by a plundering dominion, raped of her resources, despoiled by unchecked pollution, and befouled by excess and corruption, her fecund ability to create and sustain could be undone.
Though rendered sterile by destructive subjugation, her great productive fertility exhausted, the final irony would still be hers. Even barren and stripped, the destitute mother possessed the power to destroy what she had wrought. Dominion cannot be imposed; her riches cannot be taken without seeking her consent, wooing her cooperation, and respecting her needs. Her will to life cannot be suppressed without paying the ultimate penalty. Without her, the presumptuous life she created could not survive."
Heehee. :B
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28-Apr-2019: 5. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Fave! And a re-read.
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9-May-2019: 6. Fire and fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
Fave! Juicy. Trump’s incompetence, ignorance, and incoherence reminds me of me. D: But then, I'm not trying to be president. -_-
"All were larger-than-life American characters doing battle with conformity and modernity, relishing ways to violate liberal sensibilities."
Me in margin: "I relish ways to violate right-wing sensibilities."
"Some seducers are preternaturally sensitive to the signals of those they try to seduce; others indiscriminately attempt to seduce, and, by the law of averages, often succeed (this latter group of men might now be regarded as harassers). That was Trump's approach to women – pleased when he scored, unconcerned when he didn't (and, often, despite the evidence, believing that he had). And so it was with Director Comey.
In their several meetings since he took office – when Comey received a presidential hug on January 22; at their dinner on January 27, during which Comey was asked to stay on as FBI director; at their Valentine's Day chat after emptying the office of everybody else, including Sessions, Comey's titular boss – Trump was confident that he had laid on the moves. The president was all but certain that Comey, understanding that he, Trump, had his back (i.e., had let him keep his job), would have Trump's back, too.
But now this testimony. It made no sense. What did make sense to Trump was that Comey wanted it to be about him. He was a media whore – this Trump understood. All right, then, he, too, could play it this way."
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20-Jun-2019: 7. The choice by Edith Eger
Fave!
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26-Jun-2019: 8. A brief history of everyone who ever lived: The stories in our genes by Adam Rutherford
Fave!
"All scientists think that their field is the one that is least well represented in the media, but I'm a scientist and a writer, and I believe that human genetics stands out above all else as one destined to be misunderstood, I think because we are culturally programmed to misunderstand it."
"Bones discovered in La Chapelle-aux-Saints in 1908 were the ones that gave rise to the stereotype of a hunched caveman oaf. In the 1980s, much more forensic analysis by Eric Trinkaus showed that this was a forty-year-old man hunched because of osteoarthritis, not because that's how they all stood."
"The amount of introgression from Neanderthals is proportionally lower on the modern X than on the rest of the chromosomes. X chromosomes are only passed on by males half of the time because we also have a Y, but all of the time by women, who have two Xs. The observation that there is less Neanderthal DNA on our Xs implies that the first encounters we had with them that resulted in procreation were male Neanderthals with female Homo sapiens."
Me in margin: "Maybe Neanderthal women were too strong for Homo sapiens men to rape! :O "
"[Joseph Chang] concluded in 2003 that the most recent common ancestor of everyone alive today on Earth lived only around 3,400 years ago. /. . ./ When Chang factored in new, highly conservative variables, such as reducing the number of migrants across the Bering Straits to one person every ten generations, the age of the most recent common ancestor of everyone alive went up to 3,600 years ago."
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15-Jul-2019: 9. Skinn Skerping, hemskast av alla spöken i Småland by Astrid Lindgren
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16-Jul-2019: 10. Spelar min lind sjunger min näktergal by Astrid Lindgren
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26-Jul-2019: 11. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Fave! And a re-read.
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23-Aug-2019: 12. Utopia for realists by Rutger Bregman
Fave! About basic income and stuff. I have been sporadically spamming the Internet with an article titled "Why we should give free money to everyone" – turns out it also became one of the chapters in this book! RTFA! :D
"Remember: those who called for the abolition of slavery, for suffrage of women, and for same-sex marriage were also once branded lunatics. Until history proved them right."
The book includes a quote by Oscar Wilde: "Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do."
:B
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19-Sep-2019: 13. Factfulness: Ten reasons we’re wrong about the world - and why things are better than you think by Hans Rosling
Fave!
"Think of the world as a premature baby in an incubator. The baby's health status is extremely bad and her breathing, heart rate, and other important signs are tracked constantly so that changes for better or worse can quickly be seen. After a week, she is getting a lot better. On all the main measures, she is improving, but she still has to stay in the incubator because her health is still critical. Does it make sense to say that the infant's situation is improving? Yes. Absolutely. Does it make sense to say it is bad? Yes, absolutely. Does saying "things are improving" imply that everything is fine, and we should all relax and not worry? No, not at all. Is it helpful to have to choose between bad and improving? Definitely not. It's both. It's both bad and better. Better, and bad, at the same time.
That is how we must think about the current state of the world."
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21-Sep-2019: 14. Badger’s parting gifts by Susan Varley
Fave! And a re-read. A fucking sad children's book about a badger who dies. D:
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9-Oct-2019: 15. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
Fave! And a re-read.
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1-Nov-2019: 16. Enlightenment now: The case for reason, science, humanism, and progress by Steven Pinker
Fave!
”The financial writer Morgan Hausel has observed that while pessimists sound like they’re trying to help you, optimists sound like they’re trying to sell you something. Whenever someone offers a solution to a problem, critics will be quick to point out that it is not a panacea, a silver bullet, a magic bullet, or a one-size-fits-all solution; it’s just a Band Aid or a quick technological fix that fails to get at the root causes and will blow back with side effects and unintended consequences. Of course, since nothing is a panacea and everything has side effects (you can’t do just one thing), these common tropes are little more than a refusal to entertain the possibility that anything can ever be improved.”
"The first fallacy is a confusion of intelligence with motivation – of beliefs with desires, inferences with goals, thinking with wanting. Even if we did invent superhumanly intelligent robots, why would they want to enslave their masters or take over the world? Intelligence is the ability to deploy novel means to attain a goal. But the goals are extraneous to the intelligence: being smart is not the same as wanting something. It just so happens that the intelligence in one system, Homo sapiens, is a product of Darwinian natural selection, an inherently competitive process. In the brains of that species, reasoning comes bundled (to varying degrees in different specimens) with goals such as dominating rivals and amassing resources. But it's a mistake to confuse a circuit in the limbic brain of a certain species of primate with the very nature of intelligence. An artificially intelligent system that was designed rather than evolved could just as easily think like shmoos, the blobby altruists in Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner, who deploy their considerable ingenuity to barbecue themselves for the benefit of human eaters. There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defect. They're called women."
*sips tea*
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Vegan FAQ! :)
The Web Site the Meat Industry Doesn't Want You to See.
Please watch Earthlings.
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”
- Paulo Coelho, The Zahir -
Jackson, MS (est. 1821, pop. 165,000)
Marker:
front
"On May 28, 1961, a Greyhound bus with nine Freedom Riders aboard arrived here, the third group of Riders into Jackson. The first two came on Trailways buses May 24. That summer 329 people were arrested in Jackson for integrating public transportation facilities. Convicted on "breach of peace" and jailed, most refused bail and were sent to the state penitentiary. Their protest worked. In September 1961, the federal government mandated that segregation in interstate transportation end."
back
"Greyhound Bus Station This former Greyhound bus station was the scene of many historic arrests in 1961, when Freedom Riders challenged racial segregation in Jackson’s bus and train stations and airport. The Freedom Riders, part of a campaign created by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), pressured the federal government to enforce the law regarding illegal racially separate waiting rooms, rest rooms, and restaurants—common in public transportation facilities across the South.
"On May 4, 1961, thirteen Riders—blacks and whites, men and women—left Washington, D.C., on two buses. Trained in nonviolent direct action, they planned to desegregate bus stations throughout the South. They integrated stations in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia with few incidents but were attacked by vicious mobs in Anniston, Birmingham, and Montgomery, Alabama. The Kennedy administration implored them to stop, a call echoed by the media and some civil rights leaders. The Riders, however, reinforced with new volunteers from the Nashville Student Movement, were determined to continue.
"On May 24, two buses of Freedom Riders left Montgomery bound for Jackson, with highway patrolmen and National Guardsmen as armed guards. Instead of a protest mob, policemen met them in Jackson, urging them to “move on” when the Riders tried to use facilities denied them. When the Riders refused, they were arrested, charged with “breach of peace,” and quickly convicted.
"Embracing the "jail-no bail" tactic, they invited new Riders from around the country to join them in Jackson. Within three weeks the city’s jails were full, and the Riders were transferred to the state penitentiary at Parchman, where most served six weeks, suffering indignities and injustices with fortitude and resolve. Between May 24 and September 13, 329 people were arrested in Jackson—half black, half white, and a quarter of them women. Most were between the ages of eighteen and thirty. They came from thirty-nine states and ten other countries; forty-three were from Mississippi.
"On September 23, the Interstate Commerce Commission mandated an end to segregation in all bus and train stations and airports. The victorious Freedom Riders left a legacy of historic changes, proving the value of nonviolent direct action, providing a template for future campaigns, and helping jump-start the movement in Mississippi."
Old Greyhound Station History
• in the mid-1930s, as America struggled through Great Depression, Greyhound Lines adopted a Streamline Moderne design for their buses & terminals, echoing the speed lines of their Super Coaches which, like the Greyhound logo, promised a swift, state of the art ride • brought in engineer Dwight Austin (1897-1960) to create the new Super Coach design & Louisville architect William Strudwick Arrasmith (1898-1965) to reimagine Greyhound terminal design
• in 1937, Greyhound Lines contracted for a Streamline Moderne style terminal in Jackson, topped by a vertical, illuminated "Greyhound" sign • the bldg. was faced with blue Vitrolux structural glass panels and ivory Vitrolite trim • included a coffee shop with a horseshoe-shaped counter & bathing facilities for women (a bath tub) and men (a shower)
• the design is widely believed to be one of the ~60 Moderne Greyhound stations credited to Arrasmith, although photographic evidence suggests that Memphis architect William Nowland Van Powell (1904-1977) — working with George Mahan Jr. (1887-1967) — was responsible for the design, with or without Arrasmith as the consulting architect
• restoration architect Robert Parker Adams acquired the then threatened bldg. in 1988, moved in after restoration, retaining the original neon sign —Wikipedia
The Farish Street Historic District
“but out of the bitterness we wrought an ancient past here in this separate place and made our village here.” —African Village by Margaret Walker (1915-1998)
• during the Reconstruction era that followed the American Civil War, white Southerners struggled to reclaim their lives as millions of black Southerners sought new ones • with the stroke of a pen, the Emancipation Proclamation had transformed African slaves into African Americans & released them into hostile, vengeful & well-armed white communities amid the ruins of a once flourishing society
• the antebellum South had been home to over 262,000 rights-restricted "free blacks" • post-emancipation, the free black population soared to 4.1 million • given that the South had sacrificed 20% of it's white males to the war, blacks now comprised over half the total population of some southern states • uneducated & penniless, most of the new black Americans depended on the Freedman's Bureau for food & clothing
• the social & political implications of this disruptive shift in demographics fueled a violence-laced strain of American racism • in this toxic environment, de facto racial segregation was a given, ordained as Mississippi law in 1890 • with Yankees (the U.S. Army) patrolling Jackson & Maine-born Republican Adelbert Ames installed in the Governor's Mansion, the Farish Street neighborhood was safe haven for freedmen
• as homeless African American refugees poured into Jackson from all reaches of the devastated state, a black economy flickered to life in the form of a few Farish Street mom-and-pops • unwelcome at white churches, the liberated slaves built their own, together with an entire neighborhood's worth of buildings, most erected between 1890 & 1930
• by 1908 1/3 of the district was black-owned, & half of the black families were homeowners • the 1913-1914 business directory listed 11 African American attorneys, 4 doctors, 3 dentists, 2 jewelers, 2 loan companies & a bank, all in the Farish St. neighborhood • the community also had 2 hospitals & numerous retail & service stores —City Data
• by mid-20th c. Farish Street, the state's largest economically independent African American community, had become the cultural, political & business hub for central Mississippi's black citizens [photos] • on Saturdays, countryfolk would come to town on special busses to sell produce & enjoy BBQ while they listened to live street music • vendors sold catfish fried in large black kettles over open fires • hot tamales, a Mississippi staple, were also a popular street food —The Farish District, Its Architecture and Cultural Heritage
“I’ve seen pictures. You couldn’t even get up the street. It was a two-way street back then, and it was wall-to-wall folks. It was just jam-packed: people shopping, people going to clubs, people eating, people dancing.” — Geno Lee, owner of the Big Apple Inn
• as Jackson's black economy grew, Farish Street entertainment venues prospered, drawing crowds with live & juke blues music • the musicians found or first recorded in the Neighborhood include Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson II & Elmore James
• Farish Street was also home to talent scouts & record labels like H.C. Speir, & Trumpet Records, Ace Records • both Speir & Trumpet founder Lillian McMurry were white Farish St. business owners whose furniture stores also housed recording studios • both discovered & promoted local Blues musicians —The Mississippi Encyclopedia
• Richard Henry Beadle (1884-1971), a prominent Jackson photographer, had a studio at 199-1/2 N. Farish • he was the son of Samuel Alfred Beadle (1857-1932), African-American poet & attorney • born the son of a slave, he was the author of 3 published books of poetry & stories
• The Alamo Theatre was mainly a movie theater but periodically presented musical acts such as Nat King Cole, Elmore James & Otis Spann • Wednesday was talent show night • 12 year old Jackson native Dorothy Moore entered the contest, won & went on to a successful recording career, highlighted by her 1976 no. 1 R&B hit, "Misty Blue" [listen] (3:34)
• in their heyday, Farish Street venues featured African American star performers such as Bessie Smith & the Rabbit Foot Minstrels, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington & Dinah Washington —Farish Street Records
• on 28 May, 1963, John Salter, a mixed race (white/Am. Indian) professor at historically black Tougaloo College, staged a sit-in with 3 African American students at the "Whites Only" Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Jackson • they were refused service • an estimated 300 white onlookers & reporters filled the store
• police officers arrived but did not intercede as, in the words of student Anne Moody, "all hell broke loose" while she and the other black students at the counter prayed • "A man rushed forward, threw [student] Memphis from his seat and slapped my face. Then another man who worked in the store threw me against an adjoining counter." • this act of civil disobedience is remembered as the the signature event of Jackson's protest movement —L.A. Times
"This was the most violently attacked sit-in during the 1960s and is the most publicized. A huge mob gathered, with open police support while the three of us sat there for three hours. I was attacked with fists, brass knuckles and the broken portions of glass sugar containers, and was burned with cigarettes. I'm covered with blood and we were all covered by salt, sugar, mustard, and various other things." —John Salter
• the Woolworth Sit-in was one of many non-violent protests by blacks against racial segregation in the South • in 1969 integration of Jackson's public schools began • this new era in Jackson history also marked the beginning of Farish Street's decline —The Farish Street Project
"Integration was a great thing for black people, but it was not a great thing for black business... Before integration, Farish Street was the black mecca of Mississippi.” — Geno Lee, Big Apple Inn
• for African Americans, integration offered the possibility to shop outside of the neighborhood at white owned stores • as increasing numbers of black shoppers did so, Farish Street traffic declined, businesses closed & the vacated buildings fell into disrepair
• in 1983, a Farish St. redevelopment plan was presented
• in 1995 the street was designated an endangered historic place by the National Trust for Historic Preservation
• in the 1990s, having redeveloped Memphis' Beale Street, Performa Entertainment Real Estate was selected to redevelop Farish St
• in 2008, The Farish Street Group took over the project with plans for a B.B. King's Blues Club to anchor the entertainment district
• in 2012, having spent $21 million, the redevelopment — limited to repaving of the street, stabilizating some abandoned buildings & demolishing many of the rest — was stuck in limbo —Michael Minn
• 2017 update:
"Six mayors and 20 years after the City of Jackson became involved in efforts to develop the Farish Street Historic District, in hopes of bringing it back to the bustling state of its heyday, the project sits at a standstill. Recent Mayor Tony Yarber has referred to the district as “an albatross.” In September of 2014, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sanctioned the City of Jackson, the Jackson Redevelopment Authority, and developers for misspending federal funds directed toward the development of the Farish Street Historic District. Work is at a halt and "not scheduled to resume until December 2018, when the City of Jackson repays HUD $1.5 million." —Mississippi Dept. of Archives & History
• Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District, National Register # 80002245, 1980
Chota Khoti, Ruth Bryan Owen House (1911), 3504 Royal Palm Ave, Miami, FL, USA
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM
• significantly altered & largely forgotten, this was the 1920s-30s home of notable Miamian Ruth Bryan Owen (1885-1954) [photo], daughter of 3-time Democratic Presidential candidate, William Jennings Bryan, a Populist Democrat known as "The Great Commoner" • she was the Old South’s 1st U.S. congresswoman, 1st woman to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee & as Minister to Denmark, 1st head of a U.S. diplomatic mission [photo], appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt • the journey that led her to this distinguished career began in Coconut Grove
"Ruth had been overseas in the war, sent to Egypt as a nurse with the British. There she had met a retired major, Reginald Owen, who had some kind of service-induced malady called Bright’s Disease and was told to live in a warm climate. The two of them got married and came back to Coconut Grove and bought a big house called Chota-Khoti — which in Burmese means 'little house.' The little house behind it was called Burra-Khoti, which means 'big house.' Reginald's family had had tea plantations in Burma." —Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Voice of the River
"The house is a two-story white stucco building with two wings connected by a semi-open-air living room enclosing a patio. It is a combination of Mexican and Spanish styles, set well back from the street and bordered with shrubbery." — Guide to Miami & Environs, 1941
"The great living room is filled with furniture which has seen service in many quarters of the globe, and carries its own mellow charm with it. The grand piano is open and often in use." —Arkansas Gazette, December 6, 1928
"The neighbourhood spends happy evenings at Chota Khoti, curled up on cushions, in the white paneled drawing room with Chinese cabinets of red. The Major and his pipe sit in the chimney corner. Ruth Bryan ruffles her auburn hair, leans against the piano and sings: "I am not fair, but that he thought me so." —The Whole World and Company, 1936, by Gretchen Green, whose La Cabana Tea Room occupied a small cabin next door to Chota Khoti • the Owens hosted many events, e.g., parties, recitals, cultural activities, meetings & various YWCA & Miami Woman’s Club affairs [photo]
• the Royal Palm Ave. address notwithstanding, Chota Khoti's location was usually described as "on the Ingraham Highway" (later Main Highway) where the property had an entrance at the corner of Hibiscus St. [photo] • this entrance shortened the 10 min. walk to Marymont mansion, home of Ruth's parents
• photos: family portrait at Chota Khoti • 1924 photo of daughter Helen Rudd Owen (1920-2015), a Democrat who ran for Congress in California as Rudd Brown, losing in 1958 and 1960 • Ruth Bryan Owen pruning shrubs c. 1931
• Ruth Bryan Owen ("Big Ruth" to her grandchildren) was born in Jacksonville, IL • she loved fast cars • competed in the high jump & was a champion distance runner at the U. Of Nebraska • excellent polo player • spoke 3 languages • praised for her singing (mezzo-soprano) • championed feminist causes, • sponsored the designation of the Florida Everglades as a national park [photo] • vice chairman of the University of Miami board of regents • president of the Miami Woman's Club
• never one to be intimidated by predominantly male domains, Ruth was attracted to the movie industry, c. 1920 • considered it as a possible career & thought about studying professional direction
• she envisioned Miami as a major motion picture production center & in fact, a few movie companies had already sprung up, including Brush Photoplay Co., with 2 stages at 966 S.W. 8th St. • Field Feature Film Co. on S. Miami Ave. at 25th St. (Rd.) • Miami Studios w/ a lab & 4 stages at W. 9th St. & 2nd Ave. in Hialeah [photo] • Biograph Studios veteran Wray Physioc at 151 N.E. 5th St. — he had directed The Gulf Between (1917), world's 1st Technicolor movie • Dudley Read at 330 Ft. Dallas Park, arrived in Miami c. New Year, 1921, soon became known as the "Miami Cameraman"
• Mrs. Owen decided to finance, produce, write, direct & perform in Once Upon a Time, a motion picture she based on One Thousand and One Nights • she hired Dudley Read as cameramaman, an actor & a costume designer from NY & a cast of local amateur actors, members of the Community Players of Cocoanut Grove • she approached the project believing that if a movie looks good, it is good, i.e., poetic imagery sans any of the usual hackneyed storylines could & would engage an audience
"You know the movies have always had a lure and just the atmoSpehre [sic] spoiled them for me. Well it struck me this winter that I might plunge in [and] direct movies of my own, with no objectionable atmoSpehre. I wrote scenario, raised finance for the photography, hired a camera, organized over two-hundred amateurs, played a five-reel film, direct[ed] all five hundred pictures [shots] myself, designed costumes, trained the actors."
— letter from close friend Carrie Dunlap, June 13,1921, quoted in Women Film Pioneers Project, Columbia University
• following multiple rejections, she secured a distribution deal • the film (now lost) was released in 1922 • at least one review approved of a few of the visuals but beyond that found little to like: "amateurish attempt; society folk act out serious Arabian night drama with little regard to screen technique; story: told mainly through long Biblical titles, presents Sunday school ethics; direction: some fair effects, but as a whole very uneven; star: not the type for the role, often photographed to disadvantage; support: actors have a good time playing in pictures, but can't keep their eyes off the camera; exteriors: some pretty effects" —Film Daily, Jan-Jun 1922
• in spite of several unfavorable reviews and, apparently, disappointing revenues, Ruth was already thinking about her next project • with her father's decision to write screenplays, she planned to provide the "picturing" (produce) • when nothing came of this, she decided to go into the "family business"
"The community as well as the home needs a woman's viewpoint and it would be a good thing if Uncle Sam had a wife to help him with the national economy and national housekeeping." —Ruth Bryan Owen
"I've never asked a woman to vote for me because I was a woman, but I always ask men not to vote against me because I am a woman." —Ruth Bryan Owen
• Mrs. Owen lost her 1st election in Florida's 4th Congressional District, then won on her 2nd try after logging ~8,000 mi. at the wheel of her campaign car — a flivver she christened The Spirit of Florida • during the tour, she delivered about 500 stump speeches, a tactic her father invented for his presidential campaigns • like her “silver-tongued” dad, she was a gifted speaker who, represented by the Coit-Alber Lyceum Bureau or the Redpath Bureau, periodically incremented her wealth & fame by touring the Chautauqua Circuit, her appearances promoted with material such as this 1920s brochure that called her "one of the world's few great women"
• although Chota Khoti remained Congresswoman Owen's Miami residence well into the 1930s, in 1927 & '28 — the year of her 1st her successful campaign for Congress — she listed the address of this Coral Gables house on Avenue Altara as her residence, & received guests there • the house is said to have been built for her, possibly facilitated by her father who was a stellar salesman for the developers of Coral Gables until his death in 1925, annually earning $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in property, equivalent to about $1.36 million in 2016 dollars • Mrs. Owen built another of her houses, Golden Clouds, on 6 oceanfront acres at Oracabessa, Jamaica • there, as at her other residences, she entertained celebrity friends such as Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Noel Coward Ian Fleming & Charlie Chaplin
• Chota Khoti was eventually purchased by native Miamians who continued to refer to it by its given name, as did local tour guides in the 1970s-80s • over the years, rooms were enlarged & its facade altered • by the beginning of the 21st c., immigration had transformed the city around it from a racially segregated tourist Mecca to a dynamic Latin American metropolis which still happens to be located in the U.S. • with the passage of time, the location of Ruth Bryan Owen's Chota Khoti has nearly vanished from memory
"Dark clouds are smouldering into red
While down the craters morning burns.
The dying soldier shifts his head
To watch the glory that returns:
He lifts his fingers toward the skies
Where holy brightness breaks in flame;
Radiance reflected in his eyes,
And on his lips a whispered name."
— Siegfried Sassoon (The War Poems)
Otaki Beach, Kapiti Island and the Tasman Sea, New Zealand
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* Pentax K20D + Pentax 18-55mm Lens - Single Shot
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The Electrical Experimenter was published by Hugo Gernsback from 1913 to 1920. He was a Luxembourgian-American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher.
Hugo Gernsback (1884 – 1967) is sometimes popularly called "The Father of Science Fiction." In his honor, the annual Science Fiction Achievement awards are named the "Hugos."
-- Goodreads. Com
Manhattan, NY (settled 1624, pop. 16MM) • SoHo
• St. Denis Hotel (1853), designed by James Renwick (1818-1895) • named after its first proprietor, noted chess player Denis Julien (1806-1868) • owned by the Renwick family, gifted to them by relative, Henry Brevoort (1747-1841), successful farmer & prominent late 18thC. landowner • one of NYC's most fashionable hotels, 1853-1917 • 1st NYC bldg. w/exterior terra cotta ornamentation • billed as the most centrally located hotel in the city in what was then “the most fashionable part of Broadway”
Miller’s 1866 “Stranger’s Guide to the City of New York”: “It is architecturally one of the handsomest buildings on Broadway, occupying seventy-six feet on that thoroughfare, and one hundred and twenty on Eleventh Street. Besides parlors, reception-rooms, and reading-rooms, the St. Denis contains over one hundred and fifty well lighted and ventilated apartments. The hotel is… the frequent resort of wealthy and distinguished foreigners. The ‘up town’ location of the St. Denis is on the most fashionable part of Broadway.” —Daytonian in Manhattan
• on 1 JUL, 1913, "The NY Times" published an article lauding the St. Denis: “It was at the St. Denis that General [Ulysses S.] Grant began his famous memoirs. The General had some difficulty in getting a start, and to coach him, Mark Twain, whose company published the book, took a room at the hotel for more than three months.”
• the Grant/Twain story has persisted as part of St. Denis history despite an abundance of countervailing evidence found in, e.g., Mark Twain’s Autobiography & the Grant Foundation website • more in Grant’s Greatest Battle
• nevertheless, the hotel was patronized by countless other military officers, wealthy businessmen, entertainers, & politicians • celebrity guests included P.T. Barnum, Buffalo Bill, Sarah Bernhardt & Abraham & Mary Todd Lincoln (1818-1882)
• the First Lady, traveling alone, made frequent visits devoted to shopping sprees, incurring massive debt, which she concealed from the President • on On September 17, 1867, 2 yrs. a financially struggling widow out of the limelight, she checked in to the St. Denis as a “Mrs. Clarke,” on a secret mission to pay off her debt • plan was to find a discreet auction house & have "Mrs. Clarke's" clothing & jewelry quietly auctioned off • her assistant in making arrangements for the auction was her erstwhile White House seamstress & confidant, Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave [photos] who, upon Mary Lincoln's request, traveled to New York from her home in Washington
• prohibited from occupying a room near other hotel guests, Mrs. Keckley was given cramped quarters in the little used 5th floor attic, an example of Civil War era racial discrimination that prompted Mrs. Lincoln to demand that she, "Mrs. Clarke," be moved to an attic room adjacent to Lizzie's • later, when Mrs. Keckley was refused service in the hotel restaurant, she retired for the evening “without a mouthful to eat.”
“Come, Elizabeth, get up, I know you must be hungry. Dress yourself quickly and we will go out and get some breakfast. I was unable to sleep last night for thinking of you being forced to go to bed without anything to eat.
“I dressed myself as quickly as I could, and together we went out and took breakfast, at a restaurant on Broadway, some place between 609 and the St. Denis Hotel. I do not give the number, as I prefer leaving it to conjecture. Of one thing I am certain—the proprietor of the restaurant little dreamed who one of his guests was that morning.” —"Behind the Scenes”, by Elizabeth Keckley
• the auction was a failure, resulting in a humiliating national scandal
• following an 1873 fire, hotel leased by William Taylor, member of a family of hotel & saloon magnates (in the 19thC. “saloon” = fine dining establishment), e.g., the Taylor family's Saloon & International Hotel [illustration], considered among best dining establishments in the city, served 3,000 people most weekends • the Taylors had opened a restaurant in the St. Denis c.1863 [menu] & their Taylor’s Epicurean Palace was, by one account, “the most spacious and elegant restaurant in the world” • in 1875, under Taylor management, hotel was renovated & expanded w/a large new addition
Ad: Taylor's Restaurant.
Cor. Broadway and Eleventh Street,
NEW YORK.
EUROPEAN PLAN.
Rooms $1.00 per Day and Upward.
“During the past year, the St. Denis has been en-
larged by a new and handsome addition which
about doubles its capacity. All the latest improve-
ments have been placed in the new building, with
a large and very attractive new Restaurant con-
necting with the old one, to provide for the
increase of patronage.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, Proprietor.
• site of Alexander Graham Bell’s 1st public demonstration of the telephone in New York • attended by 200 guests, event took place 11 May, 1877 in the 2nd floor Gentlemen’s Parlor
• in the 20thC., amid changes in the surrounding neighborhood [photos], plans made to replace the aging St. Denis with a loft bldg. • hotel, sold at auction, Feb., 1920, escaped demolition • renovation stripped façade ornamentation, converted the structure to a mixed use store & office bldg., [photos] where numerous artists including Marcel Duchamp maintained their studios • received a coat of orange lacquer, 1927, described by owners as a “jazz touch”
• demolished 2019 [photo] to make way for a 10 story boutique office building • The Death and Life of a Great American Building
• this b\uilding, built in 1920, is not listed on the NRHP
• aka Hindu Palace, a private residence designed by Miami Beach architect August Geiger (1887-1968) • known for his Mediterranean Revival-style buildings & his projects w/ "Mr. Miami Beach," Carl Fisher • later the Dade County School Board architect
• the building's design was loosely based on a temporary set built for the motion picture Lucky Charm • the film, said to be one of the first shot in Miami, was produced by Fox, directed by Richard Stanton & starred William Farnum & Anna Luther
• part of the movie was shot at Spring Garden, a new residential development on the north bank of the Miami River • advertised as "the most exclusive subdivision in Miami" (and now the oldest on the river) • lot sales continued during the filming
• Spring Garden developer John Seybold (1872-1940), an immigrant from Germany, was a prominent Miami baker & businessman • knowing the publicity value of a Hollywood movie shooting in a small town of ~30,000 residents, he ran an ad in the Miami Metropolis inviting the public to visit the shoot (and hopefully check out the lots for sale) • a large crowd arrived & was horrified as the leading man, Farnum, narrowly escaped immolation when a grass hut collapsed in flames • the movie, now considered lost, was released in 1919 as The Jungle Trail
• after the shoot, with the film's large temple set still fresh in the town's collective memory, Seybold built this permanent version beside the Seybold Canal turning basin, where the temporary one had stood • the exotic new residence became a Spring Garden landmark, its signature cupolas soon echoed by the nearby 12th Ave. bridge tender houses
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• When Seybold purchased the Spring Garden property in 1913, it already had a colorful history • from the late 1890s to the early yrs. of the 20th c., the point at the junction of the Miami River & Wagner Creek – now Spring Garden Point Park — was the site of Alligator Joe's Crocodile and Alligator Farm, a tourist attraction owned by Warren Frazee (1873-1915), aka Alligator Joe • his main business was shipping animal hides & eggs to U.S. markets, e.g., 600 alligator hides & 2,892 alligator eggs shipped in 1898 • won $200 staging an alligator vs. crocodile fight (the gator won) —Florida's Warren Frazee — The Original Alligator Joe, Jim Broton, Tequesta, Issue 68, 2008
• when the Hindu Temple was completed, Seybold immediately sold it to Lillian and Charles O. Richardson, who had lived in Miami since 1897 • their new residence was close to a cluster of popular attractions on the north fork of the Miami River, one owned by Richardson • successive generations of the family occupied the house until 1990
• Charles O. Richardson (1868-1935), actor & theater operator, is said to have exhibited the state's first motion picture • his Miami tourist venue began as Richardson Grove (aka Richardson Plantation), founded in 1896 by his father, Otis Richardson (c. 1819-1901) • located on the S. bank of the river, close to today's 25th Ave. • in the renamed Musa Isle Fruit Farm, the word Musa being the botanical genus of bananas • became a favorite stop on river tours
• in 1907 Richardson sold the farm to John A. Roop (1866-1962), who dropped "Fruit Farm" from Musa Isle's name • Richardson returned to the theater business • purchased the Alcazar Theater & attempted to provide Miami's 1st air-conditioning by raising the floor & installing a fan to blow air, cooled by ice blocks, through holes under the seats —The Early Years Upriver by Donald C. Gaby, Tequesta 48 (1988)
• Musa Isle's new owner, erected an observation tower at what is now NW 22nd Ave • in 1919, he leased a section of the grove to a Seminole named Willie Willie (c. 1886-1929), presumably to compensate for reduced income following a 1917 hard freeze that wiped out the the crop & damaged his fruit trees • the move was also a response to a Coppinger's, a competitor on the river who had opened a Seminole village that was attracting the tourist boats • in 1921, on his newly leased land, Willie Willie established the Musa Isle Seminole Village & Trading Post, where trappers brought their bounty for sale to wholesalers
• Willie Willie was unique in that he was comfortable among whites & in fact married to a non-Indian • outside of the village he wore stylish clothes • his frequent speeding tickets warranted notices in the Miami Herald • profits from his various enterprises were an estimated $50K annually, equal to about $600K in 2016 dollars • “[He] had more money than he could use. He married outside his tribe and burned up the highways in his high priced car. However, Alan W. Davis, a hunter who became the foreman of the Musa Isle Indian Vilage, and Lucien A. Spencer, the special commissioner of the Seminole Agency, identified the sale of egret plumes as the business in which Willie Willie made his real money." —The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism, Patsy West
• in 1911-12, Cardale Resort, with a skating rink, dance floor & the ~90 foot observation tower, opened in Cardale Grove (formerly Richardson Grove) at Musa Isle • the telescope-equipped tower offered expansive views of Miami & the adjacent Everglades • guests arrived at Cardale Landing via the Cardale boat (aka Car' dale, Car Dale)
• horticulturist & landscape designer Henry Coppinger Sr. (1848-1924), an Irish immigrant, arrived in S. Florida c. 1898 • in 1911 he purchased 10 acres of south bank riverfront property near Musa Isle • after trading for an adjacent, less rocky parcel at S.W. 19th Ave., he created a botanical garden to grow, hybridize & sell exotic plants • named the venture Coppinger's Tropical Gardens • Henry Coppinger hybrids soon decorated homes throughout the city
• in 1914 the attraction opened to tourists, featuring a Seminole camp that was already on the property when it was purchased • in the early 1900s, canals built to drain the Everglades had decimated hunting areas, diminishing the Seminoles' main source of income: animal hides & pelts • remaining as an exhibit at Coppinger's offered the Indians a decent living —Memories of Old South Florida, Don Boyd • —The Florida Anthropologist, Dec. 1981, Dorothy Downs
• the attraction expanded, becoming Coppinger's Tropical Gardens, Seminole Indian Village and Alligator Farm • Coppinger's Pirate's Cove added alligator wrestling in 1919, introduced by "The Alligator Boy," Henry Coppinger Jr. (1898-1976) • said to have been the second white child born in Miami —Henry Coppinger Jr." By Chris Mayhew, Palmpedia • video: Seminole Alligator Wrestling (2:28)
• "Chief" Jack Tigertail (1872-1922), a winter resident at Coppinger's, was murdered there in 1922 • this was big news in Miami because Jack was well known there, especially after leading a rescue team into the Everglades To find a missing surveying party • after a sensational trial, a white man was convicted of the crime, then acquitted on appeal • although the case was never solved, Indians at Coppinger's suspected Tigertail's cousin, Charlie Billie • the "Chief" was the first Miami Seminole buried in a white cemetery —The Enduring Seminoles: From Alligator Wrestling to Ecotourism, Patsy West
• after his death, the camp's name was changed to Tigertail Indian Village, & advertised as "home of the late Chief Tigertail," at least until 1926 • a towering image of Jack Tigertail soon greeted motorists entering the young city of Hialeah —The Long Sleep of Jack Tigertail, Stuart McIver, Sun Sentinel, August, 1993
• Hindu Temple designated a City of Miami Historic Site, 1991 • Spring Garden designated a City of Miami Historic District, 1997
Lari! Lari! Lari!
#diambil dari dalam bis yang sedang jalan ke arah berlawanan#
Karena...
"Sayang sekali kalau hidup bagimu hanya sekedar untuk menghirup oksigen"
Pidi Baiq on Drunken Mama
Sibuk... hikzz...
Sepanjang bulan ini sampai pertengahan bulan depan sungguh terlalu banyak kerjaan!
5 tugas selesai, 5 lagi masih jalan.
Sebetulnya saya kepingin cerita or ngobrol-ngobrol, tapi tidak sempat nulisnya.
Jadi maafkan saya karena belum sempat membalas comment, kiriman foto, mail, dll *boro-boro e-mail, sms saja saya sering gak sempat balas, hehe..^^;;* dari kawan-kawan tersayang.
Sungguh, semuanya saya terima dan saya baca dengan hati gembira.
Tapi apa daya, tangan saya cuma dua~
Tambahan lagi, kalau pas saya agak ada waktu luang, net-nya pas lelet banget!! Jelas saya kurang sabar!
Ya sudah lah.. apa boleh buat..
Saya pelan-pelan saja boleh, ya? ;p
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Run! Run! Run!
#taken inside a bus which moves to the opposite direction#
Because ...
"It's too bad, if life for you only to breathe an oxygen"
Pidi Baiq on Drunken Mama
Busy ... hikzz ...
Through this month 'till the middle of next month is much work to do!
5 task are completed, 5 more to go.
Actually, I want to share a story or just chat with all of you here, but sometimes I was too tired to write it.
So forgive me my dearest friend, not yet able to reply your mail, comment, send photos back to you personally, etc. * even an sms, I often not reply back ^^::*
Really, all things that you send, I receive it happily.
But alas, my hand just two ~
Plus, if I have a little spare time, its the net work too slow! Obviously, I lack patience! ;p
Yeah.. what can I say?
Can I just being slow? May I? hehe...^^;;
These are all the apps currently on my iPhone. There are many, many notes with links. If there isn’t a note on an app leave a comment and I’ll add one. I just did my favorites at the moment. To get a closer look, see the original size.
Tip: to get an idea for what I added notes to see tags at the right.
Here’s a guide:
* I use MobileMe to keep my calendar, contacts, preferences, and other data in sync. I went without it for 6 months… it is worth the cost.
* Screens 1-3 contain my general use apps.
* Screens 3-4 contain music creation apps
* Screens 5-6 contain my video game apps
* Screen 6-7 board game apps (some of which are video games)
* The end of screen 7 is trial apps and apps I’m trying out.
* I arrange each section alphabetically. I tried one large alpha index but found that the categories help.
* The only app I have liked that I do not have installed (because I beat it!) is Flight of The Amazon Queen. If you like Monkey Island or Maniac Mansion try it out.
* Some of these will get deleted next time I clean up. I keep games around because my taste and time available to play them changes.
* I’ve been making music with just the iPhone, and sometimes using Ableton Live to record and overlay tracks.
* I prefer music instrument apps over ones that sequence.
* I keep plenty of different music apps on there in case the desire to make that kind of sound strikes me.
* I misaligned the last screenshot in Photoshop before closing out and didn’t save my progress. It is driving me crazy.
Photo notes: Eleanor Dark AO (26 August 1901 – 11 September 1985) was an Australian author whose novels included Prelude to Christopher (1934) and Return to Coolami (1936), both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature, and her best known work The Timeless Land (1941).
Format: B&W photograph December 1947
Repository: Blue Mountains Library bmcc.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/default/
Part of: Local Studies Collection PF 1531
Provenance: Michael Dark
Links:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/536952.Storm_Of_Time
adb.anu.edu.au/biography/dark-eric-payten-12401
A clip from "PS I love You"
maybe this one... www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2742631-ps-i-love-you
or Mary thinks it is one by the daughters of a lady who wrote quotes in the margins...
here are some more.. www.allthelikes.com/application.php?app=131393112793
And more sent from an email.. ownquotes.com/blog/top-albert-einstein-quotes-famous-albe...
I have some listed on my Facebook page... I collected them for years from the desk diary at work! Can't find them at the moment!
Here are a few from an ACE email...
Musings for an approaching Election.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame; two is a law firm and three or more is a government.
John Adams
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of government. But then I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul .
George Bernard Shaw
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
P.J. O'Rourke
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
Pericles (430 B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
Mark Twain (1866)
Talk is cheap...except when government does it.
Anonymous
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark Twain
There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save government.
Mark Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
I used to collect Quotes...
I have a Word doc from years ago with all the desk calender quote for the day.
I used to add a few each day or week, 100s of pages somewhere on the PC
Here are some more I just found...
"Shoot any scene at the time of realization of the highest emotional stress coupled with sense of pictorial form - is a decisive moment". Henri Cartier-Bresson
“I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.”-Ansel Adams
“True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values.”- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Buildings should keep you dry and feed the soul.” - Zaha Hadid .
"Each project is a challenge."- Norman Foster.
"As swift as the wind, quiet as a forest, furious as fire, immovable as a mountain." - Takeda family
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."- Kurt Cobain
"A friend is nothing but a known enemy."- Kurt Cobain
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."- Kurt Cobain
"There's nothing better than having a baby. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world." - Kurt Cobain
"We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves."- Kurt Cobain
"The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye."- Jimi Hendrix
"Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't."- Alexander Lee McQueen
"You can only go forward by making mistakes." - Alexander Lee McQueen
"I want to empower women. "- Alexander Lee McQueen
"Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion."- Vitruvius
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls." - Pablo Picasso
"I am still learning." - Michelangelo
"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." - Salvador Dali
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. Vincent Van Gogh
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed. Vincent Van Gogh
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent Van Gogh
When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars. Vincent Van Gogh
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. Vincent Van Gogh
Do something worth remembering. Elvis Presley
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. Elvis Presley
I'am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I'am just entertainer. Elvis Presley
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts. Elvis Presley
People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand. Elvis Presley
You only pass through this life once. You don't come back for an encore. Elvis Presley
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. Elvis Presley
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. Elvis Presley
I believe the key to happiness is : someone to love , something to do , and something to look forward to. Elvis Presley
When things go wrong don't go with them. Elvis Presley
"Be as you wish to seem." Socrates
"Wisdom begins in wonder. " Socrates
"Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live." Socrates
"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true." Socrates
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant." Socrates
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." Socrates
"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior." Socrates
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." Socrates
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. " Socrates
"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. " Socrates
"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy." Socrates
"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." Socrates
"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. " Socrates
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." Socrates
"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us." Socrates
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." Socrates
"I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up." Johnny Depp
"The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants." Johnny Depp
"When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit."
Johnny Depp
"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. " Johnny Depp
"Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing."Johnny Depp
"I'm not sure I'm adult yet." Johnny Depp
"There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy. " Johnny Depp
"The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'airplane food.' " Johnny Depp
"As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too." Johnny Depp
"I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something."Johnny Depp
"People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people." Johnny Depp
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." Francis of Assisi
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love." Francis of Assisi
"For it is in giving that we receive." Francis of Assisi
from the Profile of www.flickr.com/people/masahiro21/
see more quotes below.. I have a 1000!
"Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?"
— Eugene O'Neill (Beyond The Horizon)
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Looks excellent, read the last chapter and gave it to a 30yo for his birthday. He loved it!
He had it on his Kindle, half read, and was so pleased to get a hardcopy!
"A counterintuitive Approach to living a Good Life"
Mark Manson