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"Advent is the Time of Promise... (366/346, Dec. 11, 2020) by Irmeli Hasanen

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...it is not yet the time of fulfillment. We are still in the midst of everything and in the logical inexorability and relentlessness of destiny.…Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and helplessness. But round about the horizon the eternal realities stand silent in their age-old longing. There shines on them already the first mild light of the radiant fulfillment to come. From afar sound the first notes as of pipes and voices, not yet discernable as a song or melody. It is all far off still, and only just announced and foretold. But it is happening, today.”

― Alfred Delp, Advent of the Heart: Seasonal Sermons And Prison Writings 1941-1944 www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/advent

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"The Creature From Beyond Infinity" was the first novel published by Henry Kuttner, an author who was one of the half dozen or so pillars of the Golden Age of Sci-Fi. It first saw the light of day in a 1940 issue of "Startling Stories" magazine under the title "A Million Years to Conquer," and finally in book form in the 1968 Popular Library paperback... Although that original title may perhaps be a more accurate descriptor, the pulpier "Creature" title gives a truer feel for what this book is: pulpy as can be!

In it, we meet Ardath, the sole survivor when his Kyrian spaceship crash-lands on Earth while our planet is still in the throes of its infancy. Ardath is instructed by his dying captain to repair the ship, put it into orbit around Earth, go into hibernation stasis for several aeons, and await the coming of genius mentalities on the new Earth. Ardath follows his captain's orders, sleeping for ages and awakening every million or so years to see what's cooking down below. Ultimately, he is able to collect four comparative geniuses from various periods of Earth's history, with the intention of creating a eugenically superior strain of man. From the dawn of prehistory he selects Thordred, a Conan-type usurper; Jansaiya, a priestess of Atlantis; Li Yang, a Chinese advisor to a Genghis Khan type; and Scipio, a Carthaginian revolutionary. I've always been a sucker for a story with two ongoing parallel plots, and Kuttner here gives us a doozy. On modern-day Earth (well, the Earth of 1941, anyway), Stephen Court, one of the foremost scientists in the world, fights desperately to counteract the Plague, a scourge from space that turns its victims into radioactive, life-sucking zombies. Naturally, these two plot strands eventually intertwine, and that's when things really start humming, in this exciting and clever little tale. [From a review at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/223276.The_Creature_from_Beyo...

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Vicksburg National Military Park, v149, Vicksburg, MS, USA by Steve Minor

Vicksburg, Mississippi (est. 1825, pop. 23,542) • Facebook • MS Delta • The Town & the Battle —NY Times

Inscription:

John C. Pemberton

Lt. General C.S. Army

Commanding Department of

Miss. and East Lousianna

Cadet U.S. Military Academy 1833

2nd Lt. 4th Art. July First 1837

First Lt. Mar. Nineteenth 1842

Captain September Sixteenth 1850

Resigned April Twenty-Fourth 1861

Brig. Gen. C.S. Army June 17 1861

Major General February 13 1862

To Rank From Jan. Fourteenth 1862

Lt. General Oct. Thirteenth 1862

To Rank From October Tenth 1862

• Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton (1814-1881) • born in Philadelphia, PA • graduated 27th of 50 cadets in the U.S. Military Academy class of 1837 • fought in the Seminole Wars (1835-1842) • wounded & decorated for gallantry during the Mexican–American War (1846-1848)

• met & married Martha (Pattie) Thompson (1827-1907) of Norfolk, VA while in garrison at Ft. Monroe, 1848 • Patty owned a house slave, a gift from her father • she was a descendant of Elbridge Gerry, a signator of the Declaration of Independence, 5th Vice President of the U.S. & namesake of "gerrymandering," a manipulation of electoral district boundaries to gain political advantage

“To Pemberton's family a southern girl was a strange animal, and the visit to Martha's relatives, planned by his sister Anna, ‘was about like an excursion into darkest Africa.’” —Pemberton: Defender of Vicksburg, by John C Pemberton (the General’s grandson), 1942

• stationed in the South & married to a southern woman, Pemberton admired southern values & had long advocated states’ rights • at the outbreak of the American Civil War he was offered a colonelcy in the Union Army but, in concert with Pattie's wishes, Pemberton cast his lot with the Confederacy • appointed Lieutenant Colonel • rose to Lieutenant General —John C. Pemberton, by Michael B. Ballard

• in the spring of 1863, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (once a slaveholder himself) launched the Union Army campaign to capture Vicksburg with a force that grew to 77,000 men • Pemberton, who had fought along side Grant in Mexico, commanded the 33,000-man Army of Vicksburg in defense of the city

"See what a lot of land these fellows hold, of which Vicksburg is the key! The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket... We can take all the northern ports of the Confederacy, and they can defy us from Vicksburg." —President Abraham Lincoln

the Siege of Vicksburg was a decisive battle in the American Civil War, fought over a bid for independence by slaveholding states in the agricultural South • a Northern view of slavery —Quora • a British view of the Rebellion —History Today

• the Federals under Gen. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman attacked 19 & 22 May • when repulsed with great loss, Grant decided to lay siege to the city, cutting off Confederate supply lines • Women Lived in Caves During the Siege of Vicksburg —Maggie MacLean

• the victory over Sherman aside, Pemberton, remained a "Yankee" in the eyes of many of his men, unable to restore their confidence in his leadership after their defeat at the Battle of Champion Hill:

"Today proved to the army and the country, the value of a General. Pemberton is either a traitor or the most incompetent officer in the Confederacy. Indecision, indecision, indecision ... Is he a traitor? Time will show. I cannot believe him such a villain. He is incompetent. Our soldiers and officers are determined not to be sold if they can possibly help it." —Cofederate Surgeon John A. Leavy, John Pemberton: The Wrong Man at the Wrong Place, Civil War Trust

• Pemberton's urgent requests for reinforcements were refused by Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, who had earlier urged the outmanned & outgunned Pemberton to abandon Vicksburg in spite of orders from Richmond to hold it at any cost • Johnston's 24,000-man "Army of Relief" remained on the sidelines while half-starved Confederate soldiers & Vicksburg citizens suffered the privations of siege warfare for 47 days —Civil War Trust

Marker: Debate and Decision

From his headquarters in this grand mansion, Confederate General Pemberton followed the movement of enemy troops during the siege. He watched his men suffering from lack of food and the relentless Union bombardment. After nearly 7 weeks, he gathered his commanders together. Did they have the will to keep fighting? Debating late into the night of July 2, 1863, Pemberton made the difficult decision to surrender.

At 10 AM to-morrow I propose to evacuate the works in and around Vicksburg, and to surrender the city and the Garrison under my command, by marching out with my colors and arms, stacking them in front of my present lines, after which you will take possession.

General John Pemberton

July 3, 1863

• Pemberton surrendered his forces on July 4, 1863, American Independence Day • the Mississippi River was now in Union hands & once again open to the North's commercial traffic • Rashomon at Vicksburg —NY Times • The Unconditional Surrender Continues —HistoryNet

• the humiliating defeat exacerbated the cross-cultural antipathy toward Yankees that had pervaded the South for generations & would continue to do so well into the future • the devastated City of Vicksburg did not officially celebrate the nation's birthday again until 1944 (though unofficial celebrations were not uncommon)

• the victorious Union (U.S.) Army, which sealed the fate of both the Confederacy & slavery in America, was desegregated — in 1948 —How Liberals Invented Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt

• blamed by many Southerners for the loss of Vicksburg, Pemberton was again accused of incompetence & because he was a Northerner, labeled a traitor • he accepted a reduction in rank & continued to serve the Confederacy as a colonel

"This brave officer has suffered more from traducers than any other in the Southern Confederacy. He happened to have been born in a Northern State, and although he had married in Virginia, had reared his children as Southern people, had resided many years among us, and had rejected the offer of a large fortune to cast in his lot with the North, there were not wanting men ungenerous enough to impute his Northern birth to him as a crime, and to 'foretell' that upon the first opportunity he would prove a traitor to the cause he had espoused at so great a cost." —Richmond Times Dispatch, June, 1863

"He was accused of being a traitor to Vicksburg. He was not a traitor to Vicksburg. He was a loyal man fighting a losing battle." —V. Blaine Russell (1890-1980), historian & columnist, "Vicksburgesque," Vicksburg Evening Post

• despite his refusal to come to Vicksburg's aid, Johnston retained his command in the Confederacy • after the war he became friends w/Union Gen. Sherman, later serving as an honorary pallbearer at his funeral

• Pemberton requested a court of inquiry into his controversial role at Vicksburg, but was refused • he & Joe Johnston continued blaming each other for decades —Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg, by Andrea Warren

The Man Who Surrendered Vicksburg Dead —Harrisburg (PA) Patriot

• with negligible financial resources after the war, Pemberton worked a small farm in Warranton VA, a gift from his mother • returned to Philadelphia with his family, 1874 • after his death in 1881, Pattie moved to NYC where she lived at 226 W. 78th St. with their daughter, Patti Pemberton Berman (1850-1940) & grandson Leopold Clarence Berman (1882-1959) • Leopold legally changed his name to Pemberton Berman while a student at Yale (1899-1903) • became a prominent Wall Street broker & close friend of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles

• the General, Pattie & 3 of their 7 children are buried in Philadelphia's Laurel Hill Cemetery • in 1961, the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy installed a bronze memorial at his grave site

• bronze statue cost $2,880, paid for by the Federal Govt. after neither his home state of Pennsylvania nor Mississippi, which he defended, were willing to provide the funds • sculpted 1917 by Edmund T. Quinn (1868-1929) • studied painting at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins & trained as a sculptor at the studio of Jean Antoine Injalbert, Paris

• Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg (1863) • the 47-day Union siege ended in the Confederate surrender of the city • victory here & at Port Hudson, LA, gave the Union control of the Mississippi River • park includes 1,325 historic monuments & markers, 20 miles (32 km) of Civil War era trenches & earthworks, 144 cannons & the USS Cairo, a restored gunboat... read on

• originally established in 1899 • 5th national military park under the control of the U.S. War Department • ownership transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior & the National Park Service, 1933 • 8th oldest National Park • Facebook

• Vicksburg's State Memorials • the military leaders of the Battle of Vicksburg [photos]

• National Register # 66000100, 1966

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My contribution to the new craft special of 91Magazine, January 2014... a little Nordic pincushion pattern. x

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Vicksburg National Military Park, v113, Vicksburg, MS, USA by Steve Minor

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Vicksburg, Mississippi est. 1825, pop. (2013) 23,542 • MS Delta

• Captain Louis Guion (1838-1920), Company D, 26th Regiment, Louisiana Volunteer Infantry • born in Lafourche Parish, LA • attended U. of Mississippi, & law school at U. of Virginia & U. of Louisiana (now Tulane) entered Confederate army in 1861 • postwar resumed law practice • was at various times a sugar planter, melter & refiner at the New Orleans Mint & Confederate Commisioner of Vicksburg National Military Park • considered an authority on Southern history [photo]

“During the dark Reconstruction days he stood staunchly shoulder to shoulder with those fearless ones who helped to keep the honor of the Southland unblemished, for he loved the land of his birth with the passionate devotion of a true patriot.” —Obituary, Confederate Veteran Magazine, March, 1920

Lewis Guion Log (Vicksburg, 1863)

“Friday [May] 22nd. Enemy commenced with Artillery & musketry at daylight The cannoning terrific about 11 A.M. About 12 N. the enemy commenced massing in our front & charged our position about 3 P.M. & came within 30 steps of parapet, but were repulsed with heavy loss. Regmt behaved finely, men mounted on top of parapets to receive the enemy. This charge was led by the 9th Iowa Regmt which lost 40 percent of men engaged. This Regmt (9th Iowa) left home with 1100 men & now number 145. (this is the statement made by Adj. of the regiment while they were burying their dead under a flag of truce) The forces were from 5 Regmts, Gen. Steele was slightly wounded. Neither Genl. led the charge, a number of the enemy remained near the trenches, where they could not be enfilied [sic], & left under the cover of night. They were engaged all night removing their dead & wounded & not fired upon by us. 6 Killed & 3 wounded today” —The Defense of Vicksburg: A Louisiana Chronicle

monument cost: $270 for bronze, $280 pedestal, paid for by daughter Mary Guion Boatner • sculpted, 1920, by Massachusetts sculptor Tho. A.R. Kitson, aka Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson (1871-1932) [bio]

• Vicksburg National Military Park preserves the site of the American Civil War Battle of Vicksburg (1863) • the 47-day Union siege ended in the Confederate surrender of the city. Victory here & at Port Hudson, LA, gave the Union control of the Mississippi River • park includes 1,325 historic monuments & markers, 20 miles (32 km) of Civil War era trenches & earthworks, 144 cannons & the USS Cairo, a restored gunboat... read on

• originally established in 1899 • 5th national military park under the control of the U.S. War Department • ownership transferred to the U.S. Department of the Interior & the National Park Service, 1933 • 8th oldest National Park • Facebook

• the military leaders of the Battle of Vicksburg [photos]

• National Register # 66000100, 1966

books: three by Jen C

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This book is the first thing I've ever won in a goodreads giveaway! Usually the idea behind the giveaways is they send you a free copy in exchange for an honest review on the site. I've only just started but it is so far a pretty funny book of personal essays.

Still working on the same annoying order at work, but yin afterwards left me feeling much more chill & happy. Came home and made tomato soup with tortellini, and a little BLT with leftover tempeh bacon from the cookoff. Jeff & I watched a couple episodes of Bojack Horseman, cleaned the kitchen, and suddenly it was almost bedtime? Why does this keep happening?

52/365.

UK - Oxford - Last Enchantments novel cover by Darrell Godliman

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Ridiculous as it sounds I feel personally 'invested' in Charles Finch's new novel, 'The Last Enchantments' as the novel, published yesterday, features a photo-montage of two of my photos. That old adage 'you shouldn't judge a book by its cover' always makes me nervous when I get a license request for such a use but I think the Designer at St Martins Press has done a wonderful job and I wish Charles the very best for his new novel.

For those intrigued by the book, you can read some reviews here : www.goodreads.com/book/show/17910101-the-last-enchantments

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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 No lip. Something I'd read over (and over...) again. #thehenchmenmc #jessicagadziala #series #book #books #bookworm #reader #fan #fivestars #mustread #goodreads #hot by Meryl Richards

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Title Page & Frontispiece in “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition, with 39 full-page illustrations by H. K. Browne by Leo Boudreau

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“Bleak House” opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of “Jarndyce and Jarndyce,” in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. “Bleak House,” in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A “great Victorian novel,” it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.

[Source: www.goodreads.com/book/show/31242.Bleak_House]

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Aerial Mono-Flyer -- 1918 by Jim Griffin

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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."

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Omar Tyree by Alexandra Jones

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Kachinas by Fabrice Florin

Kachinas are spirit beings in western Pueblo religious beliefs, often represented through masks and dolls, as shown here. This snapshot is from a wonderful book by Barton Wright entitled ‘Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary’, which Adam got for me in a recent trip to New Mexico. I devoured it from cover to cover — and it’s given me a vision for my next art project: an interactive Kachina World with animatronics dolls. Each of the kachinas depicted in these pictures could be characters in that interactive play, dancing to the music and giving you inspiration about the spirits they represent. It was so nice of Adam to give me this marvelous book — he immediately thought of me and thought I should have it. :)

Learn more about Kachinas:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kachina

Learn more about the Kachinas book:

www.goodreads.com/book/show/1966616.Kachinas

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A fabulous new craft book featuring a project from my dear friend Kirsty Anderson of Wooden Tree, reviewed on my blog today. x

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Willis-Cowan House (1835), 1018 Crawford St, v03, Vicksburg, MS, USA by Steve Minor

Vicksburg, Mississippi (est. 1825, pop. 23,542) • Facebook • MS Delta • The Town & the Battle —NY Times

• aka Pemberton House, Mrs. Willis's House • 2-story Greek Revival brick residence • double-tiered portico added later • built by wealthy businessman William Bobb (1802-1871) • newly widowed Martha Patience Vick Willis (1796-1856) purchased the house in 1823, moved in w/son John • Mrs. Willis was the niece of Vicksburg founder, Newit Vick

• bldg. served as one of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's two Vicksburg headquarters during the 1863 Siege of Vicksburg, a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1861-1865), fought over a bid for independence by slaveholding states in the agricultural South • the North’s attitude toward slavery —Quora

• by the 1860s, the Mississippi River had become crucial to the U.S. economy • to strangle northern commercial interests, Confederate forces closed the waterway to navigation • the blockade was enforced at Vicksburg, called the "Gibraltar of the West" because of it's strategic location on bluffs overlooking the river —National Park Service

"See what a lot of land these fellows hold, of which Vicksburg is the key! The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket... We can take all the northern ports of the Confederacy, and they can defy us from Vicksburg." —President Abraham Lincoln

• in the spring of 1863, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, a former slaveholder, launched the Union Army campaign to capture Vicksburg, with a force that grew to 77,000 men

• Confederate Gen. Pemberton, a Northerner (Pennsylvania) who had fought along side Grant in Mexico, commanded the 33,000-man Army of Vicksburg in defense of the city

• the Federals under Gen. Wm. Tecumseh Sherman attacked 19 & 22 May • when repulsed with great loss, Grant decided to lay siege to the city

• Pemberton's urgent requests for reinforcements were refused by Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston • had earlier urged the outmanned & outgunned Pemberton to abandon Vicksburg in spite of his orders to hold it at any cost • Johnston's 24,000-man "Army of Relief" remained on the sidelines while half-starved Confederate soldiers & Vicksburg citizens suffered the privations of siege warfare for 47 days —Civil War Trust

Marker:

Debate and Decision

From his headquarters in this grand mansion, Confederate General Pemberton followed the movement of enemy troops during the siege. He watched his men suffering from lack of food and the relentless Union bombardment. After nearly 7 weeks, he gathered his commanders together. Did they have the will to keep fighting? Debating late into the night of July 2, 1863, Pemberton made the difficult decision to surrender.

At 10 AM to-morrow I propose to evacuate the works in and around Vicksburg, and to surrender the city and the Garrison under my command, by marching out with my colors and arms, stacking them in front of my present lines, after which you will take possession.

General John Pemberton

July 3, 1863

• Pemberton surrendered his forces on July 4, 1863, American Independence Day • the Mississippi River was now in Union hands & once again open to the North's commercial traffic • Rashomon at Vicksburg —NY Times • The Unconditional Surrender Continues —HistoryNet

• the humiliating defeat exacerbated the cross-cultural antipathy toward Yankees that had pervaded the South for generations & would continue to do so well into the future • the devastated City of Vicksburg did not officially celebrate the nation's birthday again until 1944 (though unofficial celebrations were not uncommon)

• the victorious Union (U.S.) Army, which sealed the fate of both the Confederacy & slavery in America, was desegregated — in 1948 —How Liberals Invented Segregation by Nicholas Guyatt

• blamed by many Southerners for the loss of Vicksburg, Pemberton was accused of incompetence & because he was a Northerner, labeled a traitor • he accepted a reduction in rank & continued to serve the Confederacy as a colonel

"This brave officer has suffered more from traducers than any other in the Southern Confederacy. He happened to have been born in a Northern State, and although he had married in Virginia, had reared his children as Southern people, had resided many years among us, and had rejected the offer of a large fortune to cast in his lot with the North, there were not wanting men ungenerous enough to impute his Northern birth to him as a crime, and to 'foretell' that upon the first opportunity he would prove a traitor to the cause he had espoused at so great a cost." —Richmond Times Dispatch, June, 1863

"He was accused of being a traitor to Vicksburg. He was not a traitor to Vicksburg. He was a loyal man fighting a losing battle." —V. Blaine Russell (1890-1980), historian & columnist, "Vicksburgesque," Vicksburg Evening Post

• despite his refusal to come to Vicksburg's aid, Johnston retained his command in the Confederacy • after the war he became friends w/Union Gen. Sherman, later serving as an honorary pallbearer at his funeral

• Pemberton requested a court of inquiry into his controversial role at Vicksburg, but was refused • he & Joe Johnston continued blaming each other for decades —Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg, by Andrea Warren

• the house was purchased in 1890 by Mary Frances Harris Cowan (1849-1914), whose husband, Confederate Lt. Ludwell Blackstone Cowan (1828-1892) is said to have participated in the building of the electric spark underwater torpedo (naval mine) • on 12 Dec, 1862 it sank the USS Cairo, the first US warship ever destroyed by this type of weapon

• the building later housed Sisters of Mercy Catholic boarding school St. Anthony's Hall, then a tour home/B&B • acquired by the National Park Service as part of the Vickburg National Military Park, August, 2003

• Pemberton's Headquarters —National Park Service • Historic Structure Report —National Park Service

• HABS: MS-266 (1972) • National Register 70000319, 1970 • Uptown Vicksburg Historic District, National Register 93000850, 1993 • designated National Historic Landmark, 1976

"Come and Go" by Jayson Esguerra

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"People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past." - Nicholas Sparks,

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Book 31 of my #tbr2016 challenge, just added to the stacks yesterday, Diary of a Man in Despair by Friedrich Reck. I only discovered this book after seeing it on @bondimanche_ 's wonderful Instagram account. After a quick lookup on Goodreads, I immediatel by Jack Davidson

Little Finland Pano by Jeff Clay

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Nevada | Gold Butte National Monument

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