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"The New Nature Library" 1916 Doubleday, Page & Company New York
American food and game fishes : a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture / by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann ; with photos. from life by A. Radclyffe Dugmore
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I think this image must get nearly 100 views a day because I have the word "Naked" in the title! Weird! or maybe it is "Everywoman"...
Decided to delete the title with Naked, must be something else that attracts the views, then nobody comments!
deleted Naked to drop the search numbers.... The views keep coming, so I may as well return the title to its rightful place! ."Naked Came I"
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about a dozen books, some in a hurry, others taking it so easy it's been already years, but I hadn't been so comfortable with reading several books at the same time.
Not that having a baby gives you time to read... it makes you wish you had four (or more) prehensile hands, or developed extra pairs of arms. I set up for this shot in a couple of minutes, when Emma seemed to be sleeping, but after a handful shots there was a knock on the door, I knew the shoot was over...
So, how comes? Goodreads — best social network ever ;)
Precisely because my time to read has dropped significantly, I find it more efficient to read each time a bit of whichever book I feel like. Different mood, different book. Page by page, slowly but comfortably, I've gotten around to read 3 books in a month —January. I had never done that before!
If you enjoy reading books, even if you're not currently reading any, have a look at Goodreads and give it a go ;)
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unos doce libros, algunos con prisas, otros con tanta calma que llevan años ahí, but nunca me había sentido tan cómodo leyendo varios libros al mismo tiempo.
No es que tener un bebé te dé tiempo para leer... te hace desear que tuvieras cuatro (o más) manos prensiles, o que te salieran más pares de brazos. Preparé este montaje en un par de minutos, cuando parecía que Emma dormía, pero tras un puñado de tomas tocaban a la puerta, supe que se había terminado...
Entonces, ¿a qué viene esto? Goodreads — la mejor red social ;)
Precisamente porque mi tiempo para leer se ha reducido drásticamente, me resulta más eficiente leer en cada momento un trozo del libro que me me apetezca en ese momento. Distinto ánimo, distindo libro. Página a página, despacito pero cómodamente, me acabé leyendo 3 libros en un mes —enero. ¡No lo había conseguido nunca!
Si te gusta leer libros, aunque ahora mismo no estés leyendo ninguno, échale un vistazo a Goodreads y pruébalo ;)
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Camera Info: Nikon D700 | 85mm(ƒ/1.8) | ƒ/1.8 | 1/200s — Tripoded and tethered
Strobist info: SB-600 1/8 @14mm into white shoot-through 45" umbrella, 5' left and up from books, triggered with pop-up flash as commander.
Processed with Raw Therapee for slight crop, exposure and color temperature tweaks.
No GIMP to fake black background this time — it's a real black background, at last :)
Joe Servello's art is reminiscent of a classic paperback book cover:
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The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown (1906-1972) from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):
"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.
"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."
Vicksburg, Mississippi est. 1825, pop. (2013) 23,542 • MS Delta
• site crowns the highest hill in Vicksburg • land donated by the family of the city's founder, Newitt Vick • built by the Weldon Brothers, immigrants from County Antrim, Ireland • Greek Revival design attributed to William Weldon in collaboration with slave John Jackson, a noted draftsman & artist who "drew the plans for many of the public buildings erected by [the Weldon's], including the courthouses still standing at Raymond and Vicksburg." —"The Emergence of the Cotton Kingdom in the Old Southwest: Mississippi, 1770--1860," John Hebron Moore, 1988
"The Weldon Brothers... Well known in Mississippi as large building and bridge contractors, owned and educated to mechanic pursuits, 100 slaves, many of whom are now residing in the river counties of the State, and most of them are well-to-do. Their draughtsman, John Jackson, a natural genius in that line, lives now at Port Gibson, the scene of much of the work of the Weldons. He painted the handsome drop curtain at Odd Fellow’s Hall, Port Gibson, and assisted in drawing the plans of the handsome Court house at Vicksburg, which the Weldons built in 1858.
"The writer had large dealings with these brothers in the days of their activity, and knows that while they were strict and exacting with their slaves, they were yet kind in their treatment; feeding and clothing them well; and they were not unmindful of their proper enjoyment; the suppers and music at their Christmas balls costing sometimes as much as $600. Tom Weldon was a very passionate man, as well as powerful and brave. Sometimes he would strike the negroes with his fist, and if they showed fight, it was his boast that he always gave them a white man’s chance, and fought fairly with them to the end. He had a fine mind, and but for his profanity was an eloquent talker.
"He equipped a company for the war at Natchez – the Weldon rebels [Co. L, 44th Mississippi Reg., C.S.A.] – but was employed, himself, chiefly in the secret service of the Confederate Government. George, the oldest of the three brothers, was very loquacious, and a great reader. William was a milder mannered man than the others, and very intelligent." —"Random Recollections of Early Days in Mississippi", Horace Smith Fulkerson, 1885
• Thomas Weldon (1816-1865) is said to have been instrumental in developing an 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 • "USS Cairo gunboat sunk by an IED" —Standing Well Back
• the Weldons utilized ~100 highly skilled slave artisans at the job site to burn brick & erect the $100K courthouse • the Ionic capitals were cast by Baker Iron Company, Cincinnati & transported to the site by river boat • stucco finish applied to exterior, 1907 • bldg. retains original iron doors & shutters
• Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), a local planter who became president of the Confederacy, launched his political career on these grounds • bldg. targeted by Union warships on Mississippi River during the American Civil War's 47-day Siege of Vicksburg • became the symbol of Confederate resistance • following the city's surrender, 4 July, 1863, Union soldiers under Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant replaced the Confederate flag with the Union flag on the Courthouse cupola [photo]
• U.S. Presidents Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley & Theodore Roosevelt spoke here, as did woman's suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt & black American icon Booker T. Washington
• bldg. was neglected after the completion of the New Warren County Courthouse (1940) • damaged by the 1953 Vicksburg Tornado • demolition considered • aware of the building's historical significance, Eva ("Miss Eva") Whitaker Davis (1892-1974) established the Vicksburg & Warren County Historical Society in order to to preserve it • on 3 June, 1948, the courthouse reopened as the Old Courthouse Museum • exhibits reflect the heritage of the area from pre-historic Indians through the present day • has one of the largest Civil War collections in the U.S.A.
• named one of the 20 most outstanding courthouses in America by the American Institute of Architects • Old Courthouse History • Court House Lagniappe Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
• Historic Vicksburg District • HABS MS-119 • designated Mississippi Landmark, 1986 • National Register 68000029, 1968 • designated National Landmark, 1968
A small part of my collection. I am a fifth generation Texan. My g-g-grandfather founded the town of Comfort in 1851. I married a Hoosier whom I met in Washington, DC. Our first twenty years of marriage were spent in northern Virginia, Mexico City, and Costa Rica. I thought I needed to provide training material for my wife when we moved, with two kids still in high school, to Texas. Actually, the best instruction was found in "Being Dead is No Excuse", a book from a writer in Mississippi, who describes how southern women organize funerals. It is hysterical and absolutely true to life, and it includes recipes! By the way, my wife required no tutelage from me to master the delicate art of preparing seven layer avocado dip for social functions. Our Mexican and Californian and Texan friends would gather like locusts to consume this delicacy and they had very sharp elbows with which to contend with interlopers.
The following is a brief biography of Fredric Brown from the Goodreads website (at www.goodreads.com/author/show/51503.Fredric_Brown):
"Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was one of the boldest early writers in genre fiction in his use of narrative experimentation. While never in the front rank of popularity in his lifetime, Brown has developed a considerable cult following in the almost half century since he last wrote. His works have been periodically reprinted and he has a worldwide fan base, most notably in the U.S. and Europe, and especially in France, where there have been several recent movie adaptations of his work. He also remains popular in Japan.
"Never financially secure, Brown - like many other pulp writers - often wrote at a furious pace in order to pay bills. This accounts, at least in part, for the uneven quality of his work. A newspaperman by profession, Brown was only able to devote 14 years of his life as a full-time fiction writer. Brown was also a heavy drinker, and this at times doubtless affected his productivity. A cultured man and omnivorous reader whose interests ranged far beyond those of most pulp writers, Brown had a lifelong interest in the flute, chess, poker, and the works of Lewis Carroll. Brown married twice and was the father of two sons."
Jackson, MS (est. 1821, pop. 165,000)
Trumpet Records
• in 1949 Lillian McMurry (1921-1999) & her husband Willard (both white) decided to open a furniture store in Jackson Mississippi's largest African American neighborhood • they chose this building to house it • while cleaning out the interior, Lillian found a pile of 78 rpm R&B "race records" left behind by the previous tenant • one of them, she later recalled, was "All She Wants to do is Rock" (2:32) by Wynonie Harris • Lillian played the records & fell in love:
"It was the most unusual, sincere and solid sound I'd ever heard. I'd never heard anything with such rhythm and freedom." —Lillian McMurry
• sometime later she decided to build a record counter to sell recordings by black artists • it eventually took over the entire store, which she renamed The Record Mart
• in 1950, Lillian established Trumpet Records, the first Mississippi record label to gain national exposure through distribution & radio airplay • she scouted talent at the nearby Alamo Theatre, her shop’s listening booths, where customers often sang along, & through word-of-mouth • produced hits like Elmore James' "Dust My Broom" (2:55), which made the April, '52 Billboard rhythm & blues charts • discovered Big Joe Williams [listen] & Willie Love [listen]
• after hearing about harmonica player Sonny Boy Williamson II, she tracked him down • Sonny recorded a number of songs for Trumpet from 1951 to 1955, including Eyesight to the Blind (3:03) • according to Marc Ryan, in his book Diamonds on Farish Street, Sonny Boy had such respect for Lillian that he obeyed her requests to leave all weapons outside the recording studio & avoid foul language on the Trumpet premises
• in 1953, McMurry installed recording equipment in the store, which operated as Diamond Recording Studio • Trumpet ceased operations in 1955 —Jackson Free Press
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 a hostile, vengeful & well-armed white community amid the ruins of a once flourishing society
• the antebellum South had been home to over 262,000 rights-restricted "free blacks" • post-emancipation, its 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 well over half the total population of many southern states • uneducated & penniless, most of the new black Americans depended on the Freedman's Bureau for food & clothing
• the social & political implications of the sudden shift in demographics fueled a violence-laced strain of conventional 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 the city & 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 former 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 played Farish Street venues —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
"But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy."
— Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
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Daughters of a Nation: A Black Suffragette Historical Romance Anthology *ahem* Amazon GoodReads SmartBitchesTrashyBooks Washington Post Pick of the Month
Happy Sliders Sunday!
I've been listening to Ken Burns' documentary Jazz and revisiting Pandora Internet Radio, listening to the Coleman Hawkins station. Life is good!
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"All women are bitches," I said. She smiled at me. Her eyes were deep and black. "All women are cheats and liars and bitches," I told her.
"I'm not," she said. "I'm a whore."
"You're different," I said. "I mean real women."
" CRISS-CROSS " By DON TRACY
N.Y.: Vanguard Press, 1934
London: Constable, 1935
N.Y.: Triangle Books 1948
Toronto: Harlequin Books #67, August 1950
N.Y.: Lion Books, 1951 & 1956 as "The Cheat'
" He'd been smarter than me.
All along I'd thought he was dumb and that I was giving him the big cross and now I was finding out that he knew all along and was just waiting to throw it into me.
I was the dumb one.
And I was paying for being dumb. "
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" CRISS-CROSS " By DON TRACY
*ALL* Editions
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FIRST EDITION (1934)
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www.goodreads.com/book/show/6192947-criss-cross
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Don Tracy (20 August 1905 - 1976) @ openlibrary.org
>>ALL Book titles *Hyperlinked*
"...Don Tracy, was born in New Britain, Connecticut. He worked as a reporter for local newspapers in New Brittain from 1926-1928, then as editor of Radio News in New York from 1928-1934. In 1934, his first novel, All Sold!, and his second novel, Flash, were published. After World War II, he also taught summer courses at Syracuse University from 1955-1960, and become fairly well known for his historical novels, without abandoning the crime novel. Toward the end of his life, he met the president of the New Life Foundation, an anti-alcohol league. Under the pseudonym "Roger Fuller", he wrote novelizations of the films The Sign Of The Pagan (1954) and the television series The Defenders (1964, 1965), The Fugitive and Peyton Place. He died in Florida after a battle with cancer in 1976..."
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REVIEW: Criss-Cross -- Don Tracy
By Bill Crider
billcrider.blogspot.com/2007/12/criss-cross-don-tracy.html
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REVIEW: Criss-Cross -- Don Tracy
BY AUGUST WEST @ Vintage Hardboiled Reads
Well written and sharp. I really enjoyed the novel and it's atmosphere of the struggling times of 1930s Baltimore. If you read it, you'll enjoy the numerous boxing references in the story-the author uses them to help define the character of Johnny Thompson. And the novel contains one of the great lines that I read recently:
A big girl in a white evening dress came out and sang "For All We Know" in a voice like a dentist's drill.
vinpulp.blogspot.com/2008/08/criss-cross-by-don-tracy.html
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Friday's Forgotten Book: Don Tracy's Criss-Cross
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Tracy, Don (pulp fiction writer)
(1905-1976)
Also wrote as: Roger Fuller, Barnaby Ross
" A neglected figure (at least in his own country; his crime fiction has a cult following in France), Tracy was an amazingly fertile talent whose broad interests and experiences animated both hack assignments and more personal works through nearly 50 years of professional writing. Born in New Britain, Connecticut, he worked as a journalist as a young man, first at the New Britain Herald, then at the Baltimore Post in Maryland. The move south would prove significant, as much of Tracy's subsequent creative output would find inspiration in the people and places, the history, and current social mores of the South's eastern shore, from Maryland to Florida..."
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BOOKS by DON TRACY
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FILM NOIR
' Criss Cross " (1949) directed by Robert Siodmak from a novel by Don Tracy.
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DVD Review
Gary George @ Film Noir of the Week
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www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2010/06/criss-cross...
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filmjournal.net/clydefro/2007/04/17/criss-cross/
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filmsnoir.net/film_noir/criss-cross-1949.html
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DVD Review @ dvdbeaver.com
DETAILED -- COMPREHENSIVE: ALL REGIONS & EDITIONS
www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReview3/crisscross.htm
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Criss Cross (1949) - Film Locations
ROBBY CRESS@ Dear Old Hollywood
EXCELLENT Resource: Many Past/Present photos
"...There are some great Los Angeles locations used in the film.
Most notable are locations in what used to be the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles and Union Station. Here are a few of those locations:..."
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Burt Lancaster: The Brute Artisan
TRIBUTE >> GOOD ONE: Pics, clips, links
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"CRISS-CROSS"
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What is 'Noir'?
Excerpt from the book 'Film Noir' by Alain Silver and James Ursini
How did a cycle of the American cinema become one of the most influential movements in film history? During its classic period, which lasted from 1941 to 1958, noir films were derided by critics of the time...
...The publication of several essays in English on noir, most importantly Raymond Durgnat`s ‘Paint It Black: The Family Tree of Film Noir` (Cinema 6/7, August 1970) and Paul Schrader`s ‘Notes on Film Noir` (Film Comment 8, Spring 1972), followed in the early 1970s. Still, when the first comprehensive survey of film noir in English, Film Noir, An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, first appeared in 1979, the term ‘film noir` was still mostly unknown outside of film school circles. Finally, with the added impact of a burgeoning neo-noir movement in the 1980s, the mainstream press took up the term. By the time the Terminator blasted through a nightclub called Tech Noir in 1984, the debate over what constitutes film noir was in full swing.
Cont...On Film Noir...Page Three
The Film Noir Directory...
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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:
Learn more about the Kachinas book:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/1966616.Kachinas
View photos of our related Wonderbots experiment:
Created for Marcus Ranum Challenge #127
Model with thanks to Marcus Ranum
I've been working my way through Philippa Gregory's Cousin's War
www.goodreads.com/series/55424-the-cousins-war
series after watching 'The White Queen'
Joan of Arc figures highly in the first two books of the series so I had her story rolling around in my subconscious while was making this
Fiction Week! Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho If you like MPoC, you’re probably going to like this novel. I consider it to be the second-best book of 2015. Why is that? Well, this is what happens when you take characters who are relentlessly marginalized in Alternate History genre novels and make them the center of the story, the Hinges of History, the Fate of the Universe resting in their hands, and a partridge in a pear tree. It’s A M A Z I N G. This book could have gone off the rails very easily at a few important plot points. Instead, it steers itself back to where it needs to be by introducing several painfully uncomfortable emotional questions and faces necessary moral quandaries, as well as showing how there really isn’t a difference to speak of between the two. Zacharias Wythe is the titular Sorcerer Royal, new-minted head of the Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, and inheritor of a very confounding problem. You see, there just isn’t as much magic around as there used to be, and it’s in the Society’s best interests if this problem is somehow fixed without anyone else ever finding out about it. Everyone around him is waiting for him to fail because he is Black and they are old, white racists with too much power. If he doesn’t ruin everything on his own, well, they’re ready, able and willing to ensure his failure by any means at their disposal. Zacharias is also in the very unfortunate position of having been named successor immediately after his benefactor/adopted “father”‘s death….death being not quite as final as most of us have been led to believe. Prunella Gentleman, meanwhile, is the mixed race and illegitimate daughter of a… well, a gentleman, and has grown up in a school of sorcery for women-in which the main objective is to make absolutely sure that none of the young ladies who graduate ever show the slightest hint of magical ability. Chafing under the restrictions she’s been living under and facing the reality of her own unprecedented magical abilities, she must uncover the secrets of her parentage and her inheritance before she can move forward to save her country, the world, and also fix racism and sexism while she’s at it. I’ve seen a lot of people comparing this book to Austen, Fforde, and Heyer because they’re fans of that type of work. I personally am not a fan of that type of work; I’m much more into Epic or Medieval Fantasy but let me tell you, I Loved. This. Story. If the whole Regency England Hoity Toity Drama of Manners thing puts you off, trust me, you still are going to want to read this. I don’t think it really comes off as that type of work at all, but I can still see how fans of that genre would find it very appealing. If you want that book that’s not too long or too short, not too wordy or too shallow, not overly ‘delightful’ and not too much of a downer; in short, if you want that novel that will be 100% just right, this is The One. Amazon | Goodreads | Barnes and Noble If you want to get into the content a little more, here are some other reviews: Magic, Murder, and Microaggressions in Zen Cho’s Sorcerer to the Crown by Alex Brown Sorcerer to the Crown Review at The Book Smugglers: thebooksmugglers.com/2015/09/book-review-sorcerer-to-the-...
I'm sooo close to being done with Camp NaNoWriMo. I have about 900 words left.
I learned a lot about my characters, and I enjoy my new method for writing.
I was inspired by George R R Martin, I read this quote
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And I have always thought I was the architect, but turns out I'm more gardener than I thought.
“42% of women voted for [the ugly apricot]. I just can’t comprehend the 42% of women thing. I still can’t really comprehend any of it. This is going to be one of those things I just have to be ok with not understanding.” ―Anonymous
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DONALD TRUMP’S FIRING OF JAMES COMEY IS AN ATTACK ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
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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. :)
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The world is visited by aliens, who turn out to be a race of amazonian sized women dressed like intergalactic cheerleaders, controlled by a Weird Sisters-style cabal of old crones. Their motives seem ambiguous and Madame President seeks appeasement, but the men of the Lone Star state take matters into their own hands, infiltrating the invaders and saving the planet, but more importantly freeing all men from the shame of emasculation in the process!
So it's essentially cowboys vs. amazons, with all the chauvinism, ridiculousness and fun that implies. A terribly dated but amusing piece of hokum, tongue-in-cheek enough to forgive the appalling gender politics. [From a review at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/3234353-the-girls-from-planet...
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The recipe is available on my blog Jackie's Happy Plate.
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I met up with Michael Williams and Richard Cahan, co-authors of 'Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows' this weekend and had my copy of their fantastic book signed.
They were also cool enough to sign two more of their books for me...
'The Lost Panoramas' and 'Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America.'
I dig every one of these books and I really like how these guys think...
how they tell a story and how they put together a book.
Michael and Richard own CityFiles Press and they specialize in the publishing of art and photography books.
They've collaborated on seven books together so far I think.
Mostly I really like how they tell the stories that they publish.
Vivian Maier's work has always spoken for itself and few words are necessary to interpret it.
In fact... it's easy for the words to get in the way.
But they tell the story in a way that I can really relate to in 'Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows.'
They don't just look at her work and search for meaning within it...
they look at the timeline of the work and the way that her shots relate to her other shots in a linear way.
It's a fascinating way to look at Vivian Maier that any photographer will relate to instantly.
It's not about one shot or another...
they've written about Vivian's 'journeys' and looked at her work as such.
I save all the photographs I make... even the bad ones... the one's that don't come out... the ones no one will ever see.
Something happens when I look at them as a 'whole.'
They become an 'animation' of sorts and there in front of me I relive the day I took them...
I relive the journey down that particular street or in that place.
That's how these guys tell Vivian's story in words and pictures and it's a masterful piece of story telling indeed.
'The Lost Panoramas' is the story of a treasure trove of more than twenty thousand glass negatives found in storage detailing the construction and the changes brought about by the reversing of the Chicago River and the canals that had to be built to do it.
It's a captivating read.
These guys rock and I really enjoyed spending a few minutes talking to them on Sunday.
If you get a chance you gotta check these books out.
You'll dig their story tellin' too!
another Peter Cave biker book... lock up your sons (especially if they play the Sitar)
Review up on goodreads
I did intend to use just 5 items, but well, you know how it goes. ;)
loved the title latbaskets used on this LO
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I even use goodreads but never thought of that title!
I find that I take a lot of pics of my guys reading. For one, they're finally sitting still- a captive audience. But secondly, I just love to watch them read and to see what they choose. I just love libraries,too
I intend to have a companion page to this that highlights all the books I read in 2011.
No American president has been closer to the working life of the West than Theodore Roosevelt. From 1884 to 1886 he built up his ranch on the Little Missouri in Dakota Territory, accepting the inevitable toil and hardships. He met the unique characters of the Bad Lands—mountain men, degenerate buffalo hunters, Indians, and cowboys—and observed their changes as the West became more populated. "Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail" describes Roosevelt's routine labor and extraordinary adventures, including a stint as a deputy sheriff pursuing three horse thieves through the cold of winter. Whether recounting stories of cowboy fights or describing his hunting of elk, antelope, and bear, the book expresses his lifelong delight in physical hardihood and tests of nerve. [Source: Goodreads website at www.goodreads.com/book/show/1737273.Ranch_Life_and_the_Hu...]
Charleston est. 1670, pop. 127,999 (2013) • historic Broad Street
• bronze sculpture of poet Henry Timrod (1829-1867), Charleston native of German descent • aka "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy" • taught & tutored children at a SC plantation • poems published in literary magazines & a single volume, "The Poems of Henry Timrod" (1873)
• bust sculpted by Richmond, VA sculptor Edward Virginius Valentine (1838-1930) • Edward V. Valentine Sculpture Studio among only four 19th c. American sculptors' studios open to public
3 Inscriptions on sculpture base:
• This memorial has been erected with the proceeds of the/ recent sale of very large editions of the author's poems by/ the Timrod Memorial Association of South Carolina./ "Genius, like Egypt's monarch, timely wise,/ Erects its own memorial ere it dies."
• Through clouds and through sunshine, in peace and in war,/ amid the stress of poverty and the storms of civil strife, his/ soul never faltered and his purpose never failed. To his/ poetic mission he was faithful to the end. In life and in/ death he was "not disobedient unto the Heavenly vision."
• Timrod's "Memorial Ode," composed Spring, 1867, sung at Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery in May on occasion of Confederate grave decoration
Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.
In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your flame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in the stone!
Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years
Which keep in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! Your sisters bring their tears,
And these memorial blooms.
• in 2006 Albuquerque DJ Scott Warmuth noticed a similarity between Timrod's poetry & some of Bob Dylan's lyrics in his new album, Modern Times, triggering a debate in the national media over plagiarism & Dylan as artist • "Did Timrod Influence Dylan?" -PBS • "The Ballad of Henry Timrod" -NY Times • "Bob Dylan: Henry Timrod Revisited" -Robert Polito, Poetry Foundation • Who's This Guy Dylan Who's Borrowing Lines From Henry Timrod? -NY Times
• Washington Square -Wikipedia • A Stroll Through Washington Park -Charleston Past • Charleston Historic District, National Register # 66000964, 1969 • declared National Historic Landmark District, 1973
Jackson, MS (est. 1821, pop. 165,000)
• Home Dining Room, owned by Mrs. Robinson • relocated here from across the street post-1954 • catered to churchgoing people & gospel quartets — Church Street: The Sugar Hill of Jackson, Mississippi
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 a hostile, vengeful & well-armed white community amid the ruins of a once flourishing society
• the antebellum South had been home to over 262,000 rights-restricted "free blacks" • post-emancipation, its 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 well over half the total population of many southern states • uneducated & penniless, most of the new black Americans depended on the Freedman's Bureau for food & clothing
• the social & political implications of the sudden shift in demographics fueled a violence-laced strain of conventional 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 the city & 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 former 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 played Farish Street venues —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
Taken a couple years ago. Got his eyes shut too! so cute.
Uncovering Ancient Australia by Billy Griffiths.
See an excellent TED Talk here on Deep Listening..
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Text: I want to tell a story about an invisible elephant.
Once upon a time, when I was in graduate school at UCSB, the department of religious studies held a symposium on diasporic religious communities in the United States. Our working definition for the religious diaspora that day was, “religious groups from elsewhere now residing as large, cohesive communities in the US.” It was a round table symposium, so any current scholar at the UC who wanted to speak could have a seat at the table. A hunch based on hundreds of years of solid evidence compelled me to show up, in my Badass Academic Indigenous Warrior Auntie finery.
There were around 15-20 scholars at the table, and the audience was maybe fifty people. There was one Black scholar at the table, and two Latinx scholars, one of whom was one of my dissertation advisors. The other was a visiting scholar from Florida, who spoke about the diasporic Santería community in Miami. But everyone else at the table were white scholars, all progressively liberal in their politics, many of whom were my friends. Since there was no pre-written agenda, I listened until everyone else had presented. I learned a tremendous amount about the Jewish diaspora in the US, and about the Yoruba/Orisha/Voudou, Tibetan Buddhist, Muslim, and Hindu communities, and even about a small enclave of Zoroastrians.
As they went on, I realized my hunch had been correct, and I listened to them ignore the elephant, invisible and silent, at that table.
So I decided to help her speak the hell up. “Hello, my name is Julie Cordero. I’m working on my PhD in Ethnobotany, Native American Religious Traditions, and the history of global medical traditions. I’d like to talk about the European Catholic and Protestant Christian religious diaspora in the United States, as these are the traditions that have had by far the greatest impact on both the converted and non-converted indigenous inhabitants of this land.”
Total silence. And then several “hot damns” from students and colleagues in the audience. I looked around the table at all the confused white faces. My Latinx advisor slapped his hand on the table and said, “Right!!?? Let’s talk about that, colleagues.”
The Black scholar, who was sitting next to me, started softly laughing. As I went on, detailing the myriad denominations of this European Christian Diaspora, including the Catholic diocese in which I’d been raised and educated, and the brutal and genocidal Catholic and Protestant boarding schools that had horribly traumatized generations of First Nations children, and especially as I touched on how Christians had twisted the message of Christ to try and force people stolen from Africa to accept that their biblically-ordained role was to serve the White Race, her laughs grew more and more bitter.
The Religious Studies department chair, who’d given a brilliant talk on the interplay between Jewish and Muslim communities in Michigan, stopped me at one point, and said, “Julie, I see the point you are so eloquently making, but you’re discussing American religions, not religious diasporic communities.” I referred to the definition of the diaspora we had discussed at the start of the discussion and then said, “No, Clark. If I were here to discuss religions that were not from elsewhere, I’d be discussing the Choctaw Green Corn ceremony, the Karuk Brush Dance, the Big Head ceremonial complex in Northern California, the Lakota Sun Dance, or the Chumash and Tongva Chingichnich ritual complex.”
It got a bit heated for a few moments, as several scholars-without-a-damn-clue tried to argue that we were here to discuss CURRENT religious traditions, not ancient.
Well. I’ll let you use your imagination as to the response from the POC present, which was vigorously backed by the three young First Nations students who were present in the audience (all of whom practice their CURRENT ceremonial traditions). It got the kind of ugly that only happens with people whose self-perception is that they, as liberal scholars of world cultures with lots of POC friends and colleagues, couldn’t possibly be racist.
Our Black colleague stood and left without a word. I very nearly did. But I stayed because of my Auntie role to the Native students in the audience.
I looked around at that circle of hostile faces, and waited for one single white scholar to see how unbelievably racist was this discursive erasure of entire peoples - including my people, on whose homeland UCSB is situated.
Finally, a friend spoke up. “If we are going to adhere to the definition of diaspora outlined here, she is technically correct.”
And then my dear friend, a white scholar of Buddhism: “In the Buddhist tradition, the Second Form of Ignorance is the superimposition of that which is false over that which is true. In this case, all of us white scholars are assuming that every people but white Americans are ‘other,’ and that we have no culture when the underlying fact is that our culture is so dominant that we’ve deluded ourselves into thinking it’s the neutral state of human culture against which all others are foreign. Even the Black people our ancestors abducted and enslaved we treat as somehow more foreign than ourselves. And, most absurdly, the peoples who are indigenous to this land are told that we belong here more than they do.”
People stared at their hands and doodled. The audience was dead quiet.
And you know what happened then? The elephant was no longer invisible, and my colleagues and I were able to have a conversation based on the truths about colonialism and diaspora. We were THEN able to name and discuss the distinctions between colonial settlements and immigrant settlements, and how colonial religious projects have sought to overtake, control, and own land, people, and resources, while immigrant and especially refugee diasporic communities simply seek a home free from persecution.
As we continue this national discussion, it is absolutely key to never, ever let that elephant be invisible or silent. You are on Native Land. Black descendants of human beings abducted from their African homelands are not immigrants. European cultures are just human cultures, among many. And the assignation of moral, cultural, racial superiority of European world views overall non-Euro human cultures is a profound delusion, one that continues to threaten and exterminate all people who oppose it, and even nature itself.
I hope that this story has comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable.
From a Facebook post
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:
Learn more about the Kachinas book:
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Wealthy industrialist P. L. Storrs has never approved of lady detectives, and he normally would not have made an exception of Theodolina "Dol" Bonner. But faced with a very delicate problem and surprisingly impressed, he hires her instantly. It seems that Storrs’ bird-witted wife has fallen under the spell of a smooth-talking religious charlatan, and now Storrs wants Dol to get the goods on him. But when the gorgeous gumshoe arrives at Storrs’ picturesque country estate, Birchhaven, to meet the scoundrel, she finds more than she bargained for – namely, the corpse of her client and a garden party teeming with suspects! [Source: www.goodreads.com/book/show/148960.The_Hand_in_the_Glove]