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Manhattan, NY (settled 1624, pop. 1.6MM) • East Village
• Grace Episcopal Church • French Gothic Revival design by 25 yr. old James Renwick, Jr. (1818-1895), his first major commission • cornerstone laid, 1843 • church consecrated, 1846 • church history
• built of “Sing Sing marble,” actually Tuckahoe Marble quarried from the Sing Sing Quarry [photo] by Sing Sing Correctional Facility prisoners
• spire, 226’ high, was among the tallest points on the early NYC skyline • originally wood, was replaced by a marble spire, 1883
• situated in one of the most visible locations in Manhattan, the corner of East 10th St. where Broadway bends S/SE, aligning w/ the city’s avenues [c. 1900 photo]
• for much of the mid/late 19th C., considered NYC’s most fashionable church & most prestigious site for marriage or burial • like many other churches, charged “pew rents,” an annual fee for the use of its seats • initial pew rents were $3/wk. (= $114 today), thus the congregation in the early years consisted largely of wealthy New Yorkers [1918 video]
“In his 1882 New York by Gaslight, author James, D. McCabe, Jr. would point out, “At the morning service a greater display of wealth and fashion is presented here than at any other city church. Grace Church has been the scene of more fashionable weddings and funerals than any other place of worship.” —Daytonian in Manhattan
• on 10 Feb, 1863, the American Civil War was raging, demonstrations, protesting the country’s first military draft were on the verge of becoming full-blown draft riots, and a widely anticipated event took place in Grace Church; Charles Sherwood Stratton (1838-1883) — a wealthy, international celebrity better known as General Tom Thumb — and Mercy Lavinia Warren (1841-1919) exchanged wedding vows • both were proportionate dwarfs in the employ of P.T. Barnum, performers at his American Museum
• Stratton was a gifted entertainer who sang, danced & performed physical comedy, stage name taken from “The History of Tom Thumbe,” a story first published in 1621, attributed to London romance writer Richard Johnson (1573–c.1659) • Lavinia began her career performing on a river boat, signed w/Barnum, age 21
“The church was comfortably filled by a highly select audience of ladies and gentlemen, none being admitted except those having cards of invitation. Among them were governors of several of the States, to whom I had sent cards, and such of those as could not be present in person were represented by friends, to whom they had given their cards. Members of Congress were present, also generals of the army, and many other prominent public men. Numerous applications were made from wealthy and distinguished persons, for tickets to witness the ceremony, and as high as sixty dollars [= $1,400 today] was offered for a single admission. But not a ticket was sold; and Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren were pronounced ‘man and wife’ before witnesses.” —P.T. Barnum, “Struggles and Triumphs”
• the Brooklyn Eagle editorialized, “We are surprised that the clergy, or representatives of so respectable a body as the Episcopal Church should, for a moment, allow themselves to be used by this Yankee showman to advertise his business”
• amid widespread criticism of the church for it’s complicity in what was widely viewed as another Barnum publicity stunt, Stratton responded, “It is true we are little but we are as God made us, perfect in our littleness. We are simply man and woman of like passions and infirmities with you and other mortals. The arrangements for our marriage are controlled by no showman.”
“The more than 2,000 invited wedding guests [photo] appeared to be a who’s who of American nobility, including a number of congressmen and high-ranking generals, in addition to the thousands of average New Yorkers who showed up hoping to catch a glimpse of the famous tiny couple.” —A General, a Queen and the President
“The wedding party’s arrival outside the church at half past noon touched off a stampede among combatants fighting for a close-up view. The police restrained them only with extreme exertion. Inside, ‘an instantaneous uprising ensued,’ The New York Times reported the following day. ‘All looked, few saw. Many stood upon the seats, others stood upon stools placed on the seats. By many, good breeding was forgotten. By very many the sanctity of the occasion and the sacredness of the ceremonies were entirely ignored. As the little party toddled up the aisle, a sense of the ludicrous seemed to hit many a bump of fun, and irrepressible and unpleasantly audible giggles ran through the church.’” —Boundary Stones
• the couple received wedding presents from wealthy Americans, including a miniature horse-drawn carriage fashioned by Tiffany & Co. • the ceremony, officiated by Stratton’s hometown minister, Junius Willey, was followed by a reception at the Metropolitan Hotel, attended by guests who had purchased tickets from Barnum
• the newlyweds [illustration] then traveled to Washington where Charles’s brother was stationed w/ the Union Army • checked in to Willard’s Hotel
• on 13 Feb, 1863, a well-publicized reception for the couple was held in the East Room of the Lincoln White House, hosted by First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln & America’s tallest president [illustration] —Andrew Martin
Livinia Warren: “[The] President took our hands and led us to the sofa, lifting the General up and placed him at his left hand, while Mrs. Lincoln did the same serve for me, placing me at her right… Tad, the favorite son, stood beside his mother and gazing at me… whispered to his mother, ‘Mother if you were a little woman like Mrs. Stratton you would look just like her.'”
“The marriage of Gen. Tom Thumb cannot be treated as an affair of no moment -- in some respects it is most momentous. Next to LOUIS NAPOLEON, there is no one person better known by reputation to high and low, rich and poor, than he…
“Those who did and those who did not attend the wedding of Gen. Thomas Thumb and Queen composed the population of this great Metropolis yesterday, and thenceforth religious and civil parties sink into comparative insignificance before this one arbitrating query of fate -- Did you or did you not see Tom Thumb married?” —NYT 22 Feb, 1863
• Stratton retired wealthy • couple lived in a Bridgeport, CT mansion, owned a yacht, a summer home in Massachusetts [photo] and a custom-built cottage on Cut in Two Island East in Connecticut’s Thimble Islands • in 1855, when bad investments forced Barnum to file for bankruptcy, Stratton provided financial assistance d& became Barnum’s business partner
• 28 yrs. later, Charles died of a stroke • the couple’s lavish lifestyle had reduced their wealth but enough remained to support Lavinia’s retirement • chose instead to return to the stage, used the stage name “Mrs. Tom Thumb” & assembled a troupe of touring “Liliputians”
• married Italian proportionate dwarf Count primo Magri (1849-1920), who, with his brother, joined the troupe • Count & Countess [photo] lived in Middleborough, MA, • summers, operated a roadside general store for auto tourists called Primo’s Pastime, where they posed for photos w/customers —Atlas Obscura
• the Mrs. Tom Thumb company toured the country [photo], garnering favorable reviews, e.g., “The entertainment given by the Mrs. Tom Thumb Company Saturday was really a fine thing. The little people cannot help being interesting and the tricks of magic were also good, as were the music and trained birds, but the suspension in mid- air of the little countess and change of character was the best thing of the kind ever seen here,” —Newburyport (MA) Herald following a 2 July, 1889 performance at the Exeter (NH) Opera House
• shortly after Stratton’s death, theaters began staging re-enactments of the couple's nuptials • “Tom Thumb weddings,” aka "miniature weddings, became a fad in the 1890s-1900s and continued to be staged by churches, community organizations and charities well into the late 20th C., mainly as fundraisers [photo]
• Grace Church is a National Historic Landmark designated for its architectural significance and place within the history of New York City, and the entire complex is a New York City landmark • one of seven New York City buildings designated by the Municipal Art Society as being of national importance, to be preserved at all costs
designations:
NY Landmarks Preservation Commission:
• church & rectory landmarked, 1966
• Fourth Avenue church houses landmarked, 1977
National Register of Historic Places:
• church & dependencies, # 74001270, 1974
• national historic landmark, 197
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GONE MISSING - Rumspringa is the time when Amish teens are allowed to experience life without the rules. It’s an exciting time of personal discovery and growth before committing to the church. But when a young teen disappears without a trace, the carefree fun comes to an abrupt and sinister end, and fear spreads through the community like a contagion.
A missing child is a nightmare to all parents, and never more so than in the Amish community, where family ties run deep. When the search for the presumed runaway turns up a dead body, the case quickly becomes a murder investigation. And chief of Police Kate Burkholder knows that in order to solve this case she will have to call upon everything she has to give not only as a cop, but as a woman whose own Amish roots run deep.
Kate and state agent, John Tomasetti, delve into the lives of the missing teen and discover links to cold cases that may go back years. But will Kate piece together all the parts of this sinister puzzle in time to save the missing teen and the Amish community from a devastating fate? Or will she find herself locked in a fight to the death with a merciless killer?
HER LAST BREATH - An extraordinarily beautiful Amish woman, a dangerous femme fatale, is the central figure in a story that reveals a dark side of Painters Mill and its seemingly perfect Amish world
A rainy night, an Amish father returning home with his three children, a speeding car hurtling toward them out of nowhere.
What at first seems like a tragic, but routine car accident suddenly takes on a more sinister cast as evidence emerges that nothing about the crash is accidental. But who would want to kill an Amish deacon and two of his children? He leaves behind a grieving widow and a young boy who clings to life in the intensive care wing of a hospital, unable to communicate. He may be the only one who knows what happened that night. Desperate to find out who killed her best friend’s husband and why, Kate begins to suspect she is not looking for a reckless drunk, but instead is on the trail of a cold blooded killer amid the residents of Painter’s Mill. It is a search that takes her on a chilling journey into the darkest reaches of the human heart and makes her question everything she has ever
believed about the Amish culture into which she was born
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MY REVIEW - I think I have learned a few things while reading Linda Castillo's Kate Burkholder series. They are as follows:
1. If Painters Mills is a real town, I don't want to go anywhere near it. There is way too much death and deceit going on there and I'm not sure if the police department would be able to keep my ass safe.
2. I think I have established an un-natural fear of the Amish. No seriously...
3. I will never pass by any abandoned farmhouse and not think of someone strung up in a dirty smelly room.
4. I will never look at the Underground Railway and tunnels the same way.
5. Everytime I pass a farm and smell manure I think of manure pits and how easily someone could be pushed into one.
6. Two words...Abandoned Silos
Now about the Book(s) - Kate has more baggage attached to her than a whorehouse full of ex nuns. WTF is wrong with this woman? As the books go on she seems to fall deeper and deeper into despair. She seems to be one of those people who does not learn from her mistakes. She figures out what went wrong at the end, but doesn't figure out how not to eff up the next case. She puts the Amish of Painters Mills on such a high pedestal that she seems to forget that they are people just like the rest of us who make mistakes and are capable of committing all kinds of heinous acts of crime. She may have physically left the faith, but mentally she never left. That is what she seems to struggle with in every book. Don't get me wrong, I love the flawed character. I think that is what makes these book so exciting. However, I'm hoping to see Kate grow a bit if more of these are to be written.
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"World War II is over but Hooper Taliafero is still in Africa, tying up Uncle Sam's loose ends. The latest end is in Cabinda, a tiny Portuguese colony with gaily painted buildings and a history of slave-trading. Hoop should have a pleasant stay at the home of the local administrator - the beer, after all, is cold, and the women beautiful - but the other guests are an unpleasant mix of hangers-on, including a shady lawyer and an overly chummy Brit on constant look-out for a loan. When one of them is murdered, Hoop calls in Dr. Mary Finney, the Miss Marple of the tropics. As usual, Hoop is a bit fuzzy on the details, but the formidable Dr. Finney has both stellar sleuthing skills and a .45 in her "necessaries bag." Both will come in handy if she's to sort through the tangled threads of the Cabinda Affair." [Summary at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/2372271.The_Cabinda_Affair_Fe...]
“Motivo y variación sobre el fortuito encuentro con Thomas Bernhard“.
ISBN: 978-1-4092-1550-9.
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Se trata de un cuadro teatral basado libremente en los peculiares textos de Thomas Bernhard.
Edición bilingüe (español-english).
Diseño: Estudi Prats
Imagen de la cubierta: Fernando Prats
Costante collaborazione importante: Rivera Valdez
Versión inglesa: Emilia Cavecedo
Additionalités: Alicia Pallas
Prólogo: Oriol Espinal
Wydrukowano w Hiszpania
Inregistrata in SUA
Skriving i Argentina
La primera versión del presente texto se representó en directo en buenos aires, julio 1999, de acuerdo a la siguiente ficha técnica:
actores: eleonora mónaco, alejo recalde, sony báez, fernando prats
música original: sony báez y fernando prats
una producción de ‘teatro del vértice’
asistencia de dirección: mónica castaño
dirección de actores: eleonora mónaco
dramaturgia y dirección general: fernando prats
La presente obra se ha basado libremente en los siguientes textos de Thomas Bernhard:
“En las alturas” (1959) Anagrama (1989)
“Sí” (1978) Anagrama (1985)
“Extinción” (1986) Alfaguara (1992)
“El sobrino de Wittgenstein” (1982) Anagrama (1988)
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It's about a drama scene freely based on Thomas Bernhard's peculiar texts.
A bilingual edition (español-english).
English version by Emilia Cavecedo, design by Estudi Prats, cover photo by Fernando Prats, prologue by Oriol Espinal, additionalités by Alicia Pallas and Rivera Valdez' costante collaborazione.
The present text’s first version was performed live in Buenos Aires, July 1999, according to the following cast:
actors: eleonora mónaco, alejo recalde, sony báez, fernando prats
original music: sony báez & fernando prats
a production of ‘teatro del vértice’
assistant director: mónica castaño
performing director: eleonora mónaco
general director and dramatist: fernando prats
The present play is freely based on the following thomas bernhard’s texts:
“On the mountain” (1959)
“Yes” (1978)
“Extinction” (1986)
“Wittgenstein’s nephew” (1982)
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Motivo y derivación
por Oriol Espinal
Sí, le digo sin mirarle el rostro, un rostro que por otra parte nunca he visto y a cuyo dueño le digo que sí a pesar de que la inexorable y cercana extinción de otro rostro que sí conozco (algo menos el alma que oculta) me empuja a decir que no, a recriminarme que cuando uno se encuentra atrapado en ciertas honduras emocionales no es recomendable refugiarse en las alturas de la palabra, y que para hablar de lo que no se puede hablar, mejor callarse, como por otra parte dejó escrito el famoso hermano de un no menos famoso pianista manco. Pero como a juicio de Aristóteles la amistad no puede considerarse como tal si uno no se comporta con el amigo como consigo mismo, hablaré, todavía no sé de qué, tal vez de fríos, de sótanos liberadores, tal vez de Thomas Bernhard, acaso de un tal Fernando Prats, ese amigo, artista y animador cultural cuyo rostro nunca he visto, o tal vez sí y yo no sepa que alguno de los rostros que he mirado a través del visor de mi cámara/máscara está asociado a la referencia onomástica con la que el susodicho firma sus heterogéneos pasos de baile: ayer una fotografía sostenida por una hermética peana textual, mañana un poemario antipoético de lo cotidiano, hoy el texto de un cuadro teatral estrenado en Buenos Aires, como el que me acaba de mandar por correo junto a una invitación a prologarlo, un texto acerca del cual que no puedo continuar hablando sin antes haber escuchado su verdadera dimensión mostrativa. En ello estoy. Callo, minimizo mi procesador de textos y me dispongo a descender los peldaños del motivo y variación sobre el fortuito encuentro con la bestia negra del católiconacionalsocialismo austriaco.
Tras un descenso un tanto precipitado, preludio suicida al que ha seguido una detenida y no-mística ascensión, regreso a las alturas de mi procesador de textos y me pregunto si resulta lícito hablar de aquello que ya habla y calla por sí mismo. En todo caso, diré que durante mi expedición me he preguntado si todo intento creativo (abocado irremediablemente al fracaso, como piensa Bernhard y muy probablemente Montaigne) justifica el sacrificio de una vida en estado puro, una vida sin una lógica que haga del trueno un silogismo, sin una música que desafíe el zumbido de una mosca, sin unos artilugios que traten de atrapar lo que ya dejó se ser, ofreciéndonos como triste trofeo un espejismo cuya contemplación nos arrebata la oportunidad de un nuevo instante de pureza, de rayos de luz y baile de polvo, de ausencia de mugre y de peste, de griterío de chusma de escuela secundaria ante las personalidades extraordinarias que adora. ¿Merece la pena renunciar a esa vida sin tiempo ni memoria y decantarse por las grietas y supresiones que dividen el mundo, aunque a través de ellas se haga difícil escuchar, sin que se desmorone como si fuera un montón de piedras, la voz ubicua de Julio Cortázar diciendo: “Toco tu boca, con un dedo toco el borde de tu boca”? No sé. ¿Acaso lo saben Ele y Ejo? ¿Y Hamm y Clov? Qué saben del mundo esas cuatro maneras de sentir y razonar que no supieran Bouvard y Pécuchet. La siempre irreductible realidad es una palabra hueca que torpemente define una exégesis neuronal a la cual no nos queda otro remedio que agarrarnos si no queremos que nuestra propia nada nos precipite a la nada de los otros, al infierno sartriano, al infierno urbano de Ejo, al infierno inacabado que las lumbreras del fascismo refinan de noche y maquillan de día.
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Motif and derivation
por Oriol Espinal
Yes, I tell him without looking at his face, by the way, a face I have never seen and to whose owner I say yes in spite of the inexorable and close extinction of another face I do know (a bit less the soul it hides) pushing me to say no, to reproach myself that when one is trapped within certain emotional depths it is not advisable to take shelter in the word’s heights, and that to talk about what cannot be talked about, better keep quiet, as the famous brother of a no less famous one-handed pianist left written.
But, as to Aristotle’s judgment, friendship cannot be considered as such if one doesn’t behave towards the friend as towards oneself, I’ll speak, I still don’t know what about, maybe of colds, of releasing cellars, maybe of Thomas Bernhard, perhaps of some Fernando Prats, that friend, artist and cultural host whose face I’ve never seen, or possibly I have and didn’t notice some of the faces I’ve seen through my camera/mask viewfinder are associated to the onomastic reference with which the aforesaid signs his heterogeneous dance steps: yesterday a picture supported by an hermetic textual stand, tomorrow an antipoetic collection of poems of everyday life, today the text of a drama scene premièred in Buenos Aires, such as the one he has just sent me by mail, together with an invitation to write its prologue; a text I cannot keep talking about before having heard its true demonstrative dimension. I’m working on it. I make silence, minimize my word processor and prepare myself to descend the motif and variation steps on the fortuitous encounter with the Austrian Catholicnationalsocialism’s bête noire.
After a somewhat hasty descent, suicidal prelude after which a detailed and non-mystic ascension has followed, I go back to the stage of my word processor and ask myself if it’s legitimate to talk about that which talks and silences by itself. In any case, I’ll say during my expedition I’ve asked myself if every creative attempt (inevitably doomed to failure, as Bernhard and probably Montaigne think) justifies the sacrifice of a life in pure state, a life with no logic making thunder a syllogism, without music defying a fly’s buzz, with no gadgets trying to catch that which already is no more, offering us as a sad trophy a mirage whose contemplation seizes our chance of a new instant of purity, of rays of light and dust dance, of absence of filth and stink, of high school rabble shouting faced to the extraordinary personalities they adore.
Is it worth renouncing that life without time or memory and pour off through the cracks and supressions dividing the world, even if it is difficult to listen through them, without crumbling as a stone pile, the ubiquitous voice of Julio Cortazar saying: “I touch your mouth, I touch the edge of your mouth with my finger”? I don’t know. Do Ele & Ejo know it? And Ham & Clove? What do those four ways of feeling and reasoning know about the world Bouvard & Pécuchet didn’t know already? The always irreducible reality it is a hollow word clumsily defining a neuronal exegesis we have no other remedy but holding on to, if we don’t want our nothingness to rush us into somebody else’s nothingness, to the sartrean hell, to Ejo’s urban hell, to the unfinished hell the fascism luminaries refine at night and make up by day.
Oriol Espinal,
Barcelona, july 2008
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...]
Love After Love - by Derek Walcott. The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door
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"This book leads the reader through the story of two young people of wealth and affluence who escape to a simpler way of life for a time. Their adventures in simplicity are watched over and guided by a wise pastor who has an almost messianic effect on his parishioners. At the end of the book they have not only found the joy of truly living, they have fallen in love with each other." -- Paul Whetten at www.goodreads.com/book/show/778664.Invitation_to_Live
"Perhaps death represents the severing of the living organism's connections with the orderly quantum realm , laving it powerless to resist the randomizing forces of thermodynamics". Jim Al-Khalili
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Let silence take you to the core of life.
Author : Rumi
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Education In Sindh: Role of the Government Madressah and High School Naushahro Feroze
While reviewing the historical role of Government Madressah and High School, Naushahro Feroze, one comes to realize that the educational history of the lands of Pakistan yet remains to be written. In our quest for modernism, we are likely to ignore the past achievements of our people.
The lower Indus Valley of Sindh has been, historically, a land of plenty, and of education and culture. The seals with script obtained at Moenjodaro show that this ancient civilization was created by a literate society. But then followed a dark period of two millennium during which no reference to conditions in Sindh is to be found even in the vast Brahmanical literature of the Subcontinent. Sindh stood excluded from the Hindu India down to the dawn of history; this was because it was the land saturated with Buddhism which had disseminated devotion to lord Budha and had its monasteries with a tradition of learning.
It is with the advent of Islam in the 8th century A.D. that Sindh comes under the flood light of history, and we see the educational institutions of Mansura, Debal, Sehwan, Bakhar and Multan producing eminent scholars and authors. Refernce to their works and achievements abound in contemporary Arabic Sources. More specifically, the Holy Quran was translated for the first time in history at the capital city of Mansura; study of the Sanskrit astronomical works also began at mansura, three decades before the founding of Baghdad; the first edition of the letters written by the Holy Prophet was produced at Debal. Sindhi Language developed with the use of a new unified Arabic script. The main contribution of the Islamic system of education in Sindh was the development of the universal primary school, the Kuttab or Maktab, in which non-Muslim pupils studied together with the Muslim pupils. This tradition continued on up to the Talpur rule in the 19th century. The professional education of teachers including method of education, organization of curriculum and classroom instruction received attention as early as the 16th century when the great teacher Makhdoom Jaffar Bubak (now District Dadu) wrote his remarkable work `Nahj al-Taallum` (Method of education and learning) in 1550 A.D. This was the first book on the subject ever written in the subcontinent. Another important development which came early in the 17th century was the teaching of mother tongue Sindhi, instead of Persian, at Primary level. As many as thirty-nine Sindhi educational treatises and readers used in the 17th century (transcribed during the years 1067-69/1656-58) have come to light more recently. Though education of the people remained a community concern, there is evidence to show that before the British conquest, and during the Talpur Rule, it was liberally supported through waqf bequests, charitable endowments, specific land grants, and muafi Sanads. As such, only the elementary Maktabs became widespread but higher Madressah institutions developed simultaneously. Thus, as compared to many other parts of the subcontinent, education in Sindh during the per-British era excelled both in quantity and quality. The scholarly Englishman, Richard Burton, who studied the state of education during the Talpur period, singled out six educational establishments as “meritorious institutions”, comparable to those in England. These were at Sehwan, Trippat, Khuhra, Matiari, walhar and Chotiyari.
In 1856, the Sindh Commissioner in his `report on Education in Sindh` observed that a network of elementary maktab schools had been the backbone of education in Sindh and “that judicious efforts for its extension have every chance of being rewarded with success” (Report para-8). But, contrary to such recommendations, the colonial government totally rejected the Muslim educational tradition; wafs and endowments were no more to be recognized; the land-tax exemption Muafi grants were cancelled, a new type primary school replaced the Maktab; and control of new schools under the system was placed in the hands of non-Muslim officers even imported from Bombay. Thus, it was not on mere `religious grounds`, as is often argued, that the Muslim parents hesitated to send their children to new schools. Rather, the Muslims, from whom the country was conquered in 1843, were deliberately ignored so that they stood completely alienated from the new school system, not by choice but by compulsion.
It was after almost half a century that the Muslims were allowed to establish their own institutions which were a combination of the ideals of the Madressah and the objectives of the new High School. Their success, however, depended on whether they could withstand the very tough competition as well as strong opposition from the more resourceful and powerful Hindu community.
The `Sindh Madrsatul Islam` was the first Muslim institution to be found at Karachi in 1885, followed by a Madressah & High School at larkana in 1901, the former at the initiative of Hon. Hasan Ali Effendi and the latter by the elders of the Bhutto and the Khuhro families. The Madressah and High School Naushahro Feroze was the first institution to be established to the left bank side of the Indus where no other institution existed, right from the sea coast in the south to the Punjab in the north. Considering the facts commonly known, the efforts of the Muslim community at Naushahro Feroze seem to have preceded those of their compatriots at Larkana. For, the Madressah and High School Larkana was established on the 17th of April 1901, while the initial Anglo Vernacular Classes for Naushahra Madressah & High School were started much earlier in 1893, which received recognition as middle School in 1895.
The local Hindu community offered stiff resistance and the Town committee controlled by them would not give any suitable plot for the school. Therefore, a temporary mud-walled structure with thatched roof was quickly raised in an agricultural field about three furlongs to the south of the town. Eventually, the great leader Syed Allahando Shah of Derbela came out in full support of the Muslim community and managed to get land for the school adjacent to the town limits. This area became the present premises of the institution. The first modest building to accommodate the A.V. Classes was constructed in the north-western part of the newly acquired area, nearer to the present highway.
It was in 1908, that the construction of the High School building was completed and the Madressah & High School started functioning. The same year, the building complex of the Boarding House consisting of the House master’s Quarter, six spacious halls and eight double-bed rooms (the latter for senior students of Matric Class), was completed. A well was dug which, fortunately, yielded sweet water, of best quality; kitchen facilities were established and a spacious mosque was constructed. Two new halls were added later as admissions continued to increase. Boys of poor parents were granted free-boarder ships instituted by the District Local Board Nawabshah. Candidates for admission, however, came from all parts of the province. The number of boarders during the thirties had reached the maximum of one hundred and twenty. With its mosque institution, the tutorial system, regular games and the discipline of all students dinning together with the House Master attending, the Boarding House became an educative institution by itself. The reputation of the Madressah & High School Naushahro Feroze was enhanced to the extent that the Governor of Bombay, Sir Frederic Bra Bourne, while on official tour of Sindh paid a special visit to Madressah & High School Naushahro Feroze.
This premier institution of the province, and one of those in the country on the basis of whose work the educational history of the Muslim community of Pakistan can be written, has seen its ups and downs during the post independence era; and yet, with resilence, it has survived to make further contribution. As a landmark in our educational history, it needs substantial support.
In its role of honour, the pride of performance goes, indeed, to its founding father, the late Syed Allah Ando Shah, who was among the pioneers to promote modern education among Muslims in Sindh. His son, the late Mohammad Ali Shah, took a keen interest in the welfare of this institution. This praiseworthy tradition is now being continued on by his worthy son Zafar Ali Shah.
Among others, the Jatoi elders of the district played an important role in the institution’s development, both in their private capacity as well as in their official position as Chairmen of the District Local Board, Nawabshah. From amongst the elders of the town itself the late Pir Qurban Ali, advocate and Chairman of the Nawabshah District Local Board took a keen interest in the welfare of the institution.
Among its first Madressah’s administrators, all praise goes to its first Head Master, Qazi Abdul Kabir of Achhi Masjid (a village near Tharu Shah), who nursed it from its very humble beginnings of a `single classroom school` until the A.V. Classes were fully established and the fourth class of the High School was added. Qazi Abdul Kabir of Achhi masjid Stood as a rock against all intrigues, attacks and opposition in protecting and promoting the cause of the then fledgling institution. The other Head masters who followed him were also men of conscience and calibre, the more representative of them being Mr. G.N. Qazi, Mr. Osman Ali Ansari and Mr. B.K. Shaikh who all rose to become provincial Directors of Public Instruction.
Among those who played a leading role in making the Boarding House a truly educative institution, was the House Master Mr. A.M. Nizamani, an Aligarian, who later rose to the position of Director of Public Instruction. The greatest of All who moulded the conduct and character of the boarders for more than thirty years was Janab Akhund Karim Bakhsh Sahib, the Pesh Imam of the mosque. He served not for money, as he was getting a paltry sum of Rs. 30/= per month: he truly served God, the way he guided the young. Thus the institution produced a long line of the alumni who have had brilliant careers as advocates, engineers, doctors, educators, Vice Chancellors, Judges of the High Court, provincial and federal secretaries.
A galaxy of great teachers have served the Madresssah High School in its long history. Among those who influenced the young, both in the Class and on the playground, was Mr. Gul Mohammad Pathan, the great Drawing Teacher, almost a legend, who while helping the young to discover their artistic talents, inspired them to hitch their wagons to the stars and achieve their best in their future careers. The other legendary figure was Mr. Abdul Khaliq, the teacher of Class-1, who had developed expertise par excellence in teaching English to the fresh entrants. He had declined promotion to any other post and, by choice, spent his entire career in teaching English to the new comers. Among the teachers of higher classes, Mr. H.M. Khoja was a model of punctuality and preparedness. He later became a pioneer to develop educational institutions in Nawabshah.
This is a long recital of names, and yet only a few representative ones could be named. Many more served the Madressah & High School Naushahro Faroze with dedication, and have continued to serve to the present day. And today is the day to pay homage to them all from the noble founder of the institution Syed Allah Ando Shah to the humble teacher Mr. Abdul Khaliq May Allah rest their souls in peace.
Dr. Nabi Bakhsh Baloch
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Ok I'm done feeling like a fake reader. My friends were reading heavy duty stuff like Five T'ang Poets and The Living Mountain and all I was doing was reading a page a week of Count Zero and calling myself a book lover! I should be a book liker. A book glancer maybe.
Now I realize, I HAVE been reading books but at a slower pace, and I've been reading selectively and now I'm making lot of time for other things in life (real people, omg!) and it's not a bad thing. So no book pictures with big posts of the interesting bits but I look back, and I see I have finished Echopraxia, Dune, Neuromancer, some good sci-fi progress, started some manga exploration yay, and so I ain't no poser. And, I still have a backlog of Crichton to go through. I need to hunt down my copy of Dragon Teeth next.
Timeline was a really great fun read, that was a given since I love time travel stuff. Especially medieval time travel :P.
Some good bits from the book:
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He had a term for people like this: temporal provincials - people who were ignorant of the past, and proud of it. Temporal provincials were convinced that the present was the only time that mattered, and that anything that had occurred earlier could be safely ignored. The modern world was compelling and new, and the past had no bearing on it. Studying history was as pointless as learning Morse code, or how to drive a horse-drawn wagon. And the medieval period - all those knights in clanking armor and ladies in gowns and pointy hats - was so obviously irrelevant as to be beneath consideration. Yet the truth was that the modern world was invented in the Middle Ages. Everything from the legal system, to nation-states, to reliance on technology, to the concept of romantic love had first been established in medieval times. These stockbrokers owed the very notion of a market economy to the Middle Ages. And if they didn't know that, then they didn't know the basic facts of who they were. Why they did what they did. Where they had come from.
Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.
"Now, two things happen to quantum theory. The first is that it gets confirmed, over and over. It's the most proven theory in the history of science. Supermarket scanners, lasers and computer chips all rely on quantum mechanics. So there is absolutely no doubt that quantum theory is the correct mathematical description of the universe. "But the problem is, it's only a mathematical description. It's just a set of equations. And physicists couldn't visualize the world that was implied by those equations - it was too weird, too contradictory. Einstein, for one, didn't like that. He felt it meant the theory was flawed. But the theory kept getting confirmed, and the situation got worse and worse. Eventually, even scientists who won the Nobel Prize for contributions to quantum theory had to admit they didn't understand it.
"So, this made a very odd situation. For most of the twentieth century, there's a theory of the universe that everyone uses, and everyone agrees is correct - but nobody can tell you what it is saying about the world."
"Eh?" Oliver said. "Wit? My Lady Claire, what wit is here?"
The woman shrugged. "Only the witless, my Lord, see wit where none is writ."
In the field below them, archers in maroon and gray were practicing. Ignoring the excitement of the nearby tournament, they patiently fired at targets, moved backward, fired again. It was just as the old texts said: the English archers were highly disciplined, and they practiced every day.
"Those men are the new military power," Marek said. "They decide battles now. Look at them."
Chris propped himself on his elbow. "You're kidding," he said. The archers were now more than two hundred yards from their circular targets - the length of two football fields. So far away, they were small figures, and yet they were confidently drawing their bows toward the sky. "Are they serious?"
The sky was black with whistling arrows. They struck the targets, or landed close by, sticking up in the grass.
"No kidding," Chris said.
Almost immediately, another thick volley filled the air. And another, and another. Marek was counting to himself. Three seconds between volleys. So it was true, he thought: English archers really could fire twenty rounds a minute. By now, the targets bristled with arrows. "Charging knights can't stand up under that kind of attack," Marek said. "It kills the riders, and it kills the horses. That's why the English knights dismount to fight. The French still charge in the traditional way - and they're just slaughtered, before they ever get close to the English. Four thousand knights dead at Crécy, even more in Poitiers. Large numbers for this time."
"Why don't the French change tactics? Can't they see what's happening?"
"They do, but it means the end of a whole way of life - a whole culture, really," Marek said. "Knights are all nobility; their way of life is too expensive for commoners. A knight has to buy his armor and at least three war- horses, and he has to support his retinue of pages and aides. And these noble knights have been the determining factor in warfare, until now. Now it's over."
He pointed to the archers in the field. "Those men are commoners. They win by coordination and discipline. There's no personal valor. They're paid a wage; they do a job. But they're the future of warfare - paid, disciplined, faceless troops. The knights are finished."
"And now the latest king, Edward III, has learned the lesson of his forebears - that he must perpetually lead a war, or risk death at the hands of his own subjects. Thus he and his dastard son, the Prince of Wales, bring their barbarian ways to France, a country that knew not savage war until they came to our soil with their chevauchées, murdered our commoners, raped our women, slaughtered our animals, ruined our crops, destroyed our cities and ended our trade. For what? So that bloodthirsty English spirits may be occupied abroad. So that they can steal fortunes from a more honorable land. So that every English Lady can serve her guests from French plates. So that they can claim to be honorable knights, when they do nothing more valiant than hack children to death."
It was, Stern thought, a classic real-world scientific problem. Weighing risks, weighing uncertainties. Most people never understood that the majority of scientific problems took this form. Acid rain, global warming, environmental cleanup, cancer risks - these complex questions were always a balancing act, a judgment call. How good was the research data? How trustworthy were the scientists who had done the work? How reliable was the computer simulation? How significant were the future projections? These questions arose again and again. Certainly the media never bothered with the complexities, since they made bad headlines. As a result, people thought science was cut and dried, in a way that it ever was. Even the most established concepts - like the idea that germs cause disease - were not as thoroughly proven as people believed.
"Today, everybody expects to be entertained, and they expect to be entertained all the time. Business meetings must be snappy, with bullet lists and animated graphics, so executives aren't bored. Malls and stores must be engaging, so they amuse as well as sell us.
Politicians must have pleasing video personalities and tell us only what we want to hear. Schools must be careful not to bore young minds that expect the speed and complexity of television. Students must be amused - everyone must be amused, or they will switch: switch brands, switch channels, switch parties, switch loyalties. This is the intellectual reality of Western society at the end of the century.
"In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused.
"But where will this mania for entertainment end? What will people do when they get tired of television? When they get tired of movies? We already know the answer - they go into participatory activities: sports, theme parks, amusement rides, roller coasters. Structured fun, planned thrills. And what will they do when they tire of theme parks and planned thrills? Sooner or later, the artifice becomes too noticeable. They begin to realize that an amusement park is really a kind of jail, in which you pay to be an inmate.
"This artifice will drive them to seek authenticity. Authenticity will be the buzzword of the twenty-first century. And what is authentic? Anything that is not devised and structured to make a profit. Anything that is not controlled by corporations. Anything that exists for its own sake, that assumes its own shape. But of course, nothing in the modern world is allowed to assume its own shape. The modern world is the corporate equivalent of a formal garden, where everything is planted and arranged for effect. Where nothing is untouched, where nothing is authentic.
...history is the most powerful intellectual tool society possesses. Let us be clear. History is not a dispassionate record of dead events. Nor is it a playground for scholars to
indulge their trivial disputes."The purpose of history is to explain the present - to say why the world around
us is the way it is. History tells us what is important in our world, and how it came to be. It tells us why the things we value are the things we should value. And it tells us what is to be ignored, or discarded. That is true power - profound power. The power to define a whole society. "The future lies in the past - in whoever controls the past.
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Sworn to Silence (Kate Burkholder #1)(Goodreads) - In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and “English” residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community. In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility, a loss of innocence. Kate Burkholder, a young Amish girl, survived the terror of the Slaughterhouse Killer but came away from its brutality with the realization that she no longer belonged with the Amish.
Now, a wealth of experience later, Kate has been asked to return to Painters Mill as Chief of Police. Her Amish roots and big city law enforcement background make her the perfect candidate. She’s certain she’s come to terms with her past—until the first body is discovered in a snowy field. Kate vows to stop the killer before he strikes again. But to do so, she must betray both her family and her Amish past—and expose a dark secret that could destroy her.
MY REVIEW - I really love the writing in this book. It's incredibly fast paced, interesting, and a bit scary. The subject matter is absolutely fantastic.
Kate Burkholder is The Police Chief in a town called Painters Mills in Ohio. The town is mostly made up of The Amish and English. Kate grew up Amish, but gave it up after an incident happened to her when she was a teenager. She left the town, but eventually she came back and is now the Police Chief. I was concerned because she seems to be a rather young and inexperienced in the chief department. I can see how it could be possible since the town is so small and the worse that usually happens is some cows get out and get in the road. However Kate ability is about to be tested in a way that she never thought would happen.
I have to agree with the town council when they claimed that Kate was mishandling the case. She was mishandling it and in a way I think she screwed up big time. She was so desperate to keep a secret buried that she chose to not have any outside agencies help with the murder case.
This is one character who could defiantly learn from her past mistakes. This huge character flaw is what I think makes the book and lets it play out so perfectly.
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Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder #2) ( Goodreads ) - New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo delivers an electrifying thriller in which Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family.
The Plank family moved from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to join the small Amish community of Painters Mill less than a year ago and seemed the model of the Plain Life—until on a cold October night, the entire family of seven was found slaughtered on their farm. Police Chief Kate Burkholder and her small force have few clues, no motive, and no suspect. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from the English—and each other—but this crime is horribly out of the ordinary.
State agent John Tomasetti arrives on the scene to assist. He and Kate worked together on a previous case during which they began a volatile relationship. They soon realize the disturbing details of this case will test their emotional limits and force them to face demons from their own troubled pasts—and for Kate, a personal connection that is particularly hard to bear.
When she discovers a diary that belonged to one of the teenaged daughters, Kate is shocked to learn the girl kept some very dark secrets and may have been living a lurid double life. Who is the charismatic stranger who stole the young Amish girl’s heart? Could the brother—a man with a violent past, rejected and shunned by his family and the Amish community, have come to seek out revenge? As Kate’s outrage grows so does her resolve to find the killer and bring him to justice—even if it means putting herself in the line of fire.
Topping her own bestselling debut, Linda Castillo once again immerses us in the world of the Amish with a chilling story that is both a fast-paced thriller and intriguing psychological puzzle
MY REVIEW - In the back of the book is a photograph of the author, Linda Castillo. She is such a beautiful lady that I find it hard to believe that her mind is what created this book..lol. When they say looks can be deceiving they were not kidding.
Once again Painters Mills is the scene of another gristly murder. I'm not sure if I would call this just a murder. It seemed to be more of a very gruesome slaughter of an entire Amish Family. Even I cringed when the scene was described. Kate Burkholder, the chief of police here, is once again hip deep in mystery that brings up the terrible incident she suffered in her childhood. She begins to draw parallels between herself as a teen and one of the murder victims.
Kate is once again carrying way too much baggage to be as useful as she should be. It's a good thing she has the help she is getting or else I believe this woman would thoroughly screw up her police career.
Kate's character flaws is why I gave the first book 5 stars. It was a way to start introducing the character into the series. Usually when we make a mistake and let down people we try and learn from our mistakes and not to repeat them. If you can't grow as a person then you become dull and just annoying. Kate does not seem to be working on her flaws in this book. In fact she seems to be making worse mistakes. At this rate the woman will be dead by book three.
I am looking forward to the 3rd book which I hold in my hands right now. I am hoping to see her grow and learn in this next book or else book three will just be redundant
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I was told the book was a 1 out of 5 rating until the end, and then received a 3 out of 5... But still wasn't great, just an easy read.
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David Lapp (from Promised to Another) survived a “code blue” when he was in a buggy/semi truck accident in Seymour, Missouri. Now after extensive therapy he has lingering mobility problems and is still struggling to find his place in the world. Lured away from Webster County by thoughts of closed buggies and a postcard friendship he’s developed with an Amish girl in Jamesport, he moves north, hoping for a fresh start. He finds work in the area tying flies and basket weaving, selling his products in the Amish markets in the Jamesport area. Rachel Miller dreams of travel, but feels tied to her Amish life. She is being courted by Obadiah Graber, but wonders if there’s more to life. When she sees David’s name mentioned in The Budget, she strikes up a pen pal friendship with David while he’s in the hospital and in therapy, consoling him when he and his girlfriend part ways. She never dreams that David will come north and move into her community. David is still fearful in the buggy, especially in high traffic areas. Feeling he’s called by God to preach, David spends hours in the Bible, but the Amish discourage him, believing their ministers should be drawn by lot. Will David follow his call, even if it takes him out of the Amish church? Will Rachel realize her dream to travel?
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- Today I’m going to present to you a true hidden gem.
But before I do that, I have to tell you that during the years 2007-2011 I myself had UN-affiliated assignments in the occupied West Bank. What I saw - and experienced - was for me very difficult to understand and comprehend and put into words at the time.
Incidentally, during approximately the exact same timeframe as I was there, a truly remarkable investigative journalist named Max Blumenthal (b. 1977) was doing ground work in Israel and Palestine for his book ‘Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel’ (publ. 2013).
What I was not able to describe, Blumenthal did.
Please do read his book.
But let us go on. I just recently discovered a truly remarkable collection of insightful interviews in relation to this subject. These are interviews with leading academics at the time (2010) and revealed to the public for the first time now in 2025. These are incredibly important and valuable talks to take into consideration for any concerning human being who wants to understand and educate themselves on today’s very pressing issues of judaism, zionism and the fascist, genocidal, religious extremist apartheid State of Israel.
Presented here are truly compelling long-form interviews with eminent distinguished leading scholars and academics such as linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky (b. 1928), political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein (b. 1953), historian and author Norton Mezvinsky (1932-2022), historian and author Richard Lukas (b. 1937), linguist and political advocate Ian Hancock (b. 1942) and historian and author Albert Lindemann (b. 1938) - all presented by Ron Kelley in his recently established Youtube channel called ‘Is It Antisemitic to Tell the Truth?’.
And this seems to be just the beginning. More interviews are being published almost daily.
As it turns out, I have found that Kelley himself certainly is an accomplished photographer of note, as attested to in Sondra Hale’s article Out of Place: Israel in the Photography of Ron Kelley (2000 Al Jadid Magazine) as well as in his own article Israel’s Bedouin: The End of Poetry (1998 AMEU - The Link).
Here is Ron Kelley’s own introduction to his channel:
«The origin of this channel was when I had a year-long Fulbright Fellowship to Israel in 1992-1993. My project, as a visual ethnographer, was to document recent Ethiopian and Russian immigration to the Jewish state. Part of the project was also to document the indigenous Arab Muslim Bedouin. I lived in a desert kibbutz and it wasn't long before I began hearing disturbing stories about widespread state mistreatment of the Bedouin, legitimate citizens of the Jewish state. I then decided to tell their story by videotape, completely independently, as well as my other Fulbright tasks.
Returning to America with 100 hours of videotape material, I discovered only censorship, uninterest/avoidance of my documentary -- it had no platform and I gave up.
In 2010, in the U.S., I hoped to do a documentary about Jewish identity, the Holocaust, and Israel. I interviewed a few dozen scholars and others -- mostly Jewish -- and these interviews will be posted here at this site, for the first time seen.»
Ron Kelley’s first video presented is his own documentary Israel’s Destruction of Its Bedouin Citizens, filmed in 1992-1993. Kelley’s own introduction to his documentary is as follows:
«This documentary, an indictment of the "only democracy in the Middle East, " was recorded when I was a Fulbright Fellow -- for a year, as a visual ethnographer to investigate Ethiopian and Russian Jewish immigration to the Jewish state, as well as the indigenous Bedouin -- in Israel, 1992-93. It documents Israel’s destruction of its Bedouin (Arab Muslim) citizens. These people are formal CITIZENS of Israel, not outsiders of some kind.
The systemic Israeli mistreatment of the Bedouin was shocking, but it was equally shocking to discover that I could find no one to help me edit and finish the film when I returned to America. This movie cost me $25,000 out of my own pocket. No one, no grant organization, nor any other group, was willing to contribute a nickel to help complete the work from the 100 hours of material I had recorded.
I have no personal root to the Arab/Israeli conflict. My effort was purely a labor of moral conviction.
The most astounding shock, however, was when I returned to America after the year in Israel, created the movie, alone, as best I could, and discovered that there was no forum in America to show the movie. I went, physically, in person, to various Jewish organizations requesting them to view it. The only such person who was willing to give it a look was a rabbi at a Hillel group at a Midwest university. But he didn’t watch the whole film, only a little, and his sole response was that parts of it seemed “antisemitic.” No one, anywhere, wanted to see it. PBS and other TV venues had zero interest. The only forum this documentary ever had was through Americans for Middle East Understanding, a tiny, ignored organization critical of Israel. A few VHS copies that I created in my living room were sold through them. I even sent the documentary to an Arab film festival in Seattle. A guy from the festival eventually phoned me; he said they loved the film but were afraid to show it for fear that Jews would protest their festival. I am serious. I am not exaggerating. It was then that I realized that the walls of fear and censorship – including self-censorship in the Arab community – rendered my film project hopeless folly. No one dared to platform the ugly side of the Jewish state. I had no choice but to give up, years ago.
I present this movie now, recently digitalized from video -- still with help from no one -- with great sorrow that I failed to be able to aid those individuals within it who pleaded for help. But the injustices – to the Bedouin, and others – go on. The outrageous atrocities in Gaza, and the internet, however, have opened new opportunities for people to be afforded the truth about what Israel really is, beyond the Wall of Propaganda that has for decades enveloped us.
Welcome here, then, as is proclaimed, to the “only democracy” in the Middle East.»
The full interviews with the various scholars are the following (together with Kelley’s introductory notes below):
- Noam Chomsky: Antisemitism, Holocaust, Israel etc. (2010 Interview)
Interview with Noam Chomsky in his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010 (This interview has never been publicly seen until now – November 2025)
«In an interview recorded in 2010 (but never publicly presented until now), Professor Chomsky, famed as he is, was extremely generous in affording me time for an interview. I had a long list of questions for him, but was caught off guard when I discovered he could – understandably – only give me about a half an hour. I rummaged through my questions and edited them down, fast.
Subjects discussed include Norman Finkelstein, including Chomsky’s respect for his work, Finkelstein’s courage at DePaul University leading to destruction of his career (“exposing the American intellectual class”) as a university professor, Finkelstein’s meticulous criticism of the popular Joan Peters (1936-2015) pro-Israel book and the campaign to silence Finkelstein by pro-Israel ideologue Alan Dershowitz (b. 1938). This subject segued to how the Holocaust has become exploited as a political tool by the State of Israel and how, more generally, Gypsy/Roma decimation under the Nazis is not given much attention because the Jewish “Holocaust” – by those who run (as Finkelstein calls it, the “Holocaust Industry”) -- is widely considered to be “unique.”
Commentary further includes Chomsky’s perspective that Israel Shahak (1933-2001) (a Holocaust survivor, later resident of Israel, and activist for human rights, including Palestinian) and Finkelstein had/have been vilified by intellectual elites in both America and Israel. Chomsky also discusses how both the Holocaust and the accusation of antisemitism are used as tools to silence free speech dissent, how mainstream Jewish/Zionist interest in the Holocaust – and increased accusations of antisemitism -- took on special meaning and attention beginning with Israel’s 1967 war, and how mainstream American Jewry didn’t actually want Holocaust survivors to come to America (!) until that time.
Other topics explored by Chomsky include the accusation of “Jewish self-hatred”, sometimes – in Jewish mainstream circles -- the Jewish parallel to being a non-Jewish antisemite. Discussion also includes free speech issues around the loose subject of “Holocaust denial,” especially with laws regarding this subject in Europe.
Further discussion includes Jewish American activism in the Civil Rights movement and how it began to falter (and why), the Haredim (religious ultra-Orthodox Jews) who are largely anti-Zionist, The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and its abandonment of dedicated civil rights issues to become a shill for Israel, and Chomsky’s critique of Mearsheimer and Walt’s book THE ISRAEL LOBBY.»
- Norman Finkelstein: Israel, Holocaust, Antisemitism, ADL, etc. (2010 Interview)
«This interview – never publicly available until now -- with Finkelstein was in 2010. He was doing a tour, giving speeches at colleges, and he generously afforded me time for an interview in the midst of his road travel.
Noteworthy, and affording him extra credence in his world view, Finkelstein’s Jewish parents were survivors of Nazi concentration camps.
Much maligned – and censored -- by supporters of Israel, Professor Finkelstein has reached special prominence on the internet recently because of his studied expertise about Gaza and the recent genocide there. Among his many limited-circulation -- but influential books -- is THE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY (2000), a volume addressing the exploitation of Jewish suffering during World War II on behalf of modern Israel. Finkelstein has been a relentless critic of the Jewish state and its treatment of the Palestinians and, as such, has many ideological detractors.
Referenced at the beginning of this interview is the film AMERICAN RADICAL (released in 2009), which is a documentary about Mr. Finkelstein.
The interview here includes the subjects of:
The misinterpretation of an internet “viral” excerpt wherein Finkelstein passionately responds to a weeping woman about the Holocaust, the contradiction between how so many American Jews perceive social justice activism in America versus Israel, Jewish privilege and power in the United States, the “Jewish sense of superiority” (per secular achievement), the Holocaust’s “uniqueness doctrine” (wherein Jewish suffering is seen to transcend all others’ in World War II), the vendetta in academia against Finkelstein for his human rights activism (mainly regarding Palestinians), Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) and his “mystical” vision of the Holocaust, the weaponization of the accusation of antisemitism (including accusations of antisemitism against former President Jimmy Carter (1924-2024), Finkelstein’s disdain for “epithets” like “Zionism” or “anti-Zionism”, Jewish influence today (in the media, the publication world, and the arts), the use of Finkelstein’s work by antisemites, scholar John Murray Cuddihy (1922-2011) (wherein, in Finkelstein’s words – “You’re not allowed to find a rational explanation regarding Jewish conduct. That’s prohibited”), American Jewish claims to victim status despite being “an amazing success story,” mainstream reactions to Finkelstein’s books, Finkelstein’s rejecting of notions like “confronting Zionism,” etc.»
- Norton Mezvinsky: Israel, Jewish Supremacy, Judaism, Chabad Lubavitchers, Pt. 1 (Interview 2010)
- Norton Mezvinsky: Israel, Jewish Supremacy, Judaism, Chabad Lubavitchers, Pt. 2 (Interview 2010)
«Never seen before, I interviewed professor Mezvinsky in about 2010 at Central Connecticut State University where he was a teacher, eventually for over 40 years. He died in 2022. Ardent free speech activist, he was Jewish and, according to one Jewish journalist, was "an academic known for his anti-Israel views...who has been labeled as anti-Zionist [and who] holds strong views questioning the right of Jews to a homeland in Israel". In this regard, and because of his ardent criticism of traditional Jewish religious beliefs, he was typified by many in the mainstream Jewish world as a “self-hating Jew.”
Among his books was “Christian Zionism” and “Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel,” which he co-authored with Israel Shahak (1933-2001). (Shahak is famed as a Holocaust survivor, professor in Israel, prominent civil rights activist in Israel, and critic of Zionism and traditional Judaism, whose own book JEWISH HISTORY, JEWISH RELIGION (1994) was an exposé about troubling details of traditional Jewish religious faith). As one Jewish supporter of Israel, Asaf Romirowsky, noted, “Mezvinsky and Shahak are prime examples of Jewish academics who throughout their careers questioned their own religion and the legitimacy of the State of Israel.”
A local rabbi in Connecticut, Stephen Fuchs, once complained that Mezvinsky “has slanted the views of a whole generation of students about the Middle East. I am concerned that he has created a negative attitude towards Israel.” In later years, Mezvinsky was a co-founder and president of the International Council for Middle East Studies (ICMES).
In part 1 of the interview, professor Mezvinsky addresses:
Secular Jews versus Orthodox Jews in Israel, controversies about conversion to Judaism in Israel, Judaism is not a proselytizing faith, Reform and Conservative branches of Judaism aren’t considered legitimate by Orthodox rabbis, about a third of Soviet immigrants to Israel weren’t Jewish, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) and the Chabad Lubavitcher organization, Mezvinsky’s studies of Yiddish texts by Schneerson, the “complicated” variety of interpretation of religious texts by various Jewish strands, Mezvinsky’s discussion that he is a member of a Chabad congregation, Rabbi Schneerson’s assertion that Jews have a superior soul over non-Jews as willed by God (and the only people who can convert to Judaism have an innately Jewish soul), the general notion in broader, traditional Judaism of Jewish superiority over non-Jews -- including in traditional prayers, Chabad rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh’s “extremist” views, is Yitzchak Ginsburgh (b. 1944) in good standing in the Chabad group?, dangers of Jewish and other faith’s fundamentalism, does antisemitism hold the Jewish community together?, etc.
In part 2 of the interview, professor Mezvinsky addresses:
The threat of antisemitism as the major rationale for the existence of Israel; the Talmud; two versions of the Talmud; the Talmud explains the Bible; traditional Judaism built on Talmud commentary; Jewish dietary laws; Reform Judaism; the concept of “self-hating Jew” (“Apologists and propagandists” label Jews like Mezvinsky/Finkelstein/Chomsky “self-hating Jew”); Parallel types of criticism from those labeled “self-hating Jews” in America aren’t labelled “self-hating” in Israel; The book 'The Israel Lobby' by John Mearsheimer (b. 1947) and Stephen Walt (b. 1955); The Israel lobby is the major reason U.S. supports Israel (Mezvinsky disagrees here with Chomsky); Mezvinsky’s refusal to be silenced for his critical views of Israel and some aspects of traditional Judaism; Importance of personal advocacy; the widespread censorship/misrepresentation of Hebrew texts when translating to English; why so many American Jews support civil rights in the U.S. but are “blind” to similar issues in Israel; the “syndrome of the Holocaust”; the minority of Jews who are rising to criticize Israel – especially on college campuses; the Anti-Defamation League which has “become an organization whose major purpose is to silence criticism of Israel; religious reference to Amalek and Jacob and Esau; Gush Emunim group in the West Bank; Israel Shahak as a “human rights activist” against God; Biblical sanction of mass murder by Israelites; Israel is not a democracy for non-Jews; efforts to censor and intimidate Mezvinsky, etc.»
- Richard Lukas: The Forgotten Holocaust / Non-Jewish Polish Genocide Under the Nazis, Pt. 1 (Interview 2010)
- Richard Lukas: The Forgotten Holocaust / Non-Jewish Polish Genocide Under the Nazis, Pt. 2 (Interview 2010)
«Little known; Polish Catholics, as well as Jews and others, were slaughtered en masse by the Nazis, who considered Poles/Slavs as “Untermenschen” (subhumans).
This interview, seen for the first time here, was conducted in 2010 at Mr. Lukas’ home in Florida. Lukas has taught history at Tennessee Technological University, Wright University, and the University of South Florida. He began his career focused on military history. He has written a number of books, among them Did the Children Cry? Hitler’s War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-1945; Forgotten Survivors: Polish Christians Remember the Nazi Occupation; and, the best known, The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939-1944.
He is also the author of an article entitled “Jedwabne and the Selling of the Holocaust”, a response to a book, Neighbors, by Jewish author Jan Gross (b. 1947), which -- in Lukas’ view -- misrepresents facts and exaggerates Polish antisemitism.
Defender of the Polish people against smears of endemic antisemitism, struggling to present the story of non-Jewish Polish suffering under the Nazis, and daring to conflate both Jewish and non-Jewish children's stories under Nazi rule in Poland, Lukas eventually received the Janusz Korczak (1878-1942) Literary Award by the Anti-Defamation League (evaluated by a committee of Jewish and non-Jewish judges) in 1996. It had been granted and then rescinded (!) before it was quietly granted again by the organization’s “political leadership.”
Professor Lukas fought long for the Polish story under the Nazis to be heard, and was sometimes defamed, insulted, and/or ignored by monitors of the mainstream "unique" Jewish Holocaust narrative, and here he addresses, among other issues:
When starting his research, “there was very little I could get about the Polish tragedy unless I got it through the lens of Jewish Holocaust writers” (which Lukas believes is largely biased); how “World War 2 is mostly viewed -- thanks to mass media and popular culture -- by many as a “Jewish thing”;
Conflicts between mainstream Jewish historiography and Polish perspectives about the Nazi occupation of Poland; the difficulties of attaining free speech against the “traditional [Judeocentric] truth of the Holocaust”; the granting of a literary award to him by Jewish and non-Jewish judges for the Anti-Defamation League and its rescinding of his award by the ADL’s “political leadership” because, he believes, he didn’t focus on alleged Polish antisemitism; the eventual granting of the award without public fanfare;
Lukas’ irritation with Jewish author Jan Gross’ book NEIGHBORS, largely about an alleged endemic Polish antisemitism; mainstream Jewish historians and commentators about the Holocaust neglect or minimize too much about Nazi genocides of non-Jewish victims; Lukas’ critique of mainstream Holocaust scholars; media and other biases against Poles and Poland; enormous amount of “personal and professional animosity” against those who don’t accept the Jewish-centered genocide narrative;
How the mass media and popular culture focus on Jewish Holocaust suffering during World War II (an “inundation” of material that typically frames Poles in a pejorative "antisemitic" light), etc.
In part 2 of the interview, professor Lukas addresses:
Reasons for anti-Jewish hostility in Poland; exaggeration/misrepresentation by mostly Jewish historians about Polish antisemitism; Jewish monopoly in Poland in some trades; case of British historian Norman Davies (b. 1939) who (at odds with some historians about Poland) had an offered chairmanship in history at Stanford University rescinded, ostensibly for poor scholarship (but he was offered soon after to edit the Oxford History of Europe); Polish aid to Jews during World War II; passivity of Jews in Poland until Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943;
Jewish Orthodox non-assimilation in Poland and difficulties in aiding them; rising Polish nationalism in Poland versus widespread Jewish nationalism (towards the communist Soviet Union or Zionism); Polish non-Jews’ tragedy under Nazism subsumed beneath the Jewish Holocaust; “inundation” of literature, movies, etc. about the Jewish Holocaust; “We have some real problems with the historiography of this [World War II] period,” hope for younger historians to be more objective about the Holocaust era; etc.»
- Ian Hancock: The Nazi Genocide Against the Roma (Gypsies), Part of the ‘Holocaust’, Pt. 1 (Interview 2010)
- Ian Hancock: The Nazi Genocide Against the Roma (Gypsies), Part of the ‘Holocaust’, Pt. 2 (Interview 2010)
«This interview, never publicly seen before, was conducted in 2010 at the University of Texas.
Professor Hancock is of Romani (traditionally known in popular culture as “Gypsies”) heritage and has been both a scholar on various linguistic subjects and an advocate for his people, writing over 300 books and articles about the Romani language and community. He was the first Roma to acquire a PhD in Great Britain and is one of the best-known activists for Roma rights and heritage. He has headed the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at the University of Texas, has represented the Romani people at the United Nations, and has been a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council under president Bill Clinton (b. 1946). (Often ignored or minimized, the Nazi genocide against the Romani [“Gypsy”] community during World War II is called the Porajmos).
Professor Hancock retired from active teaching in 2018. In this interview he addresses:
Stereotypes of the Romani culture; overview of Romanis; Jewish culture is “exclusive,” like Roma; some in the Jewish community see the Holocaust as an exclusive – and unique – event; a similar percentage of Roma were murdered by the Nazis as Jewish victims; both Jews and Roma were subject to a parallel Nazi “final solution”; racism against -- and disrespect of -- Roma at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council; William Duna’s and Hancock’s struggles at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council wherein “we have been called all kinds of horrible things – that we’re trespassing [on the Jewish Holocaust], that it’s an insult to the Holocaust [for the Roma] to be associated with it,” the injustice of the Holocaust victimhood “ranking system”; with the change of U.S. presidents Roma were inexplicably not represented on the U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum council; no difference between Jewish and Roma fates under the Nazis; Norman Finkelstein’s work about the Holocaust; etc.
In part 2, professor Ian Hancock continues his comments, including Romani (Gypsy) difficulties in getting recognition for the genocide against them by the Nazis in World War II; Racism, ignorance, and bigotry against the Romani even by council members of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; Romani difficulties in penetrating the mainstream "exclusivity" of the mainstream Jewish Holocaust narrative, etc.
NOTE: William Duna, fellow Roma mentioned here by Professor Hancock and who served on the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum council before Hancock, was also interviewed and his comments about his experiences – including those on the Holocaust council --will be posted here soon.»
- Albert Lindemann: Do Jewish Beliefs and/or Actions Ever Cause Antisemitism?, Pt. 1 (Interview 2010)
- Albert Lindemann: Do Jewish Beliefs and/or Actions Ever Cause Antisemitism?, Pt. 2 (Interview 2010)
- Albert Lindemann: Do Jewish Beliefs and/or Actions Ever Cause Antisemitism?, Pt. 3 (Interview 2010)
«This interview was conducted in 2010 in professor Lindemann’s office at the University of California – Santa Barbara, a college where he eventually taught for nearly 50 years. (This interview has never been publicly seen until now). He is best known for his book ESAU’S TEARS: MODERN ANTISEMITISM AND THE RISE OF THE JEWS (Cambridge University Press). Among his other books, he was also the author of ANTI-SEMITISM BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST; THE JEW ACCUSED: THREE ANTI-SEMITIC AFFAIRS (DREYFUS, BEILIS, FRANK); and THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN SOCIALISM.
Professor Lindemann is not Jewish. This is a relevant point, as few non-Jewish scholars have risked an objectively detailed study of the subject of antisemitism to – while not defending any justification for such hostility -- examine actual historical reasons for it.
His book ESAU’S TEARS (1997) attracted considerable animosity in some Jewish quarters. Responding to one such scholarly critic in Commentary magazine, Lindemann wrote “I make no apologies about writing a provocative book, one that questions many familiar interpretations and will raise hackles in some quarters—is this not what scholarship is supposed to be about?”
Among Lindemann’s defenders was Jewish scholar Richard Levy (1940-2021) who wrote that “Lindemann, in the company of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), Jacob Katz (1904-1998), and many others, does not accept the comforting but fallacious notion that Jews have had nothing to do with the generation of anti-Semitism.”
In part 1 of this interview, professor Lindemann addresses:
The subject of antisemitism is extremely emotional for some; there are “sacred cows” in the examination of this field of academic study and research; “If you say certain things you will get people very angry with you”; antisemitism in the Arab world and radical Left; “being hated” as part of Jewish identity (younger Jews are less connected to that); there is more migration OUT of Israel to America than into it; “Jews are certainly very penetrating observers of non-Jewish society, but there aren’t many non-Jews who are penetrating observers of Jewish society”; most “scolding” of Lindemann by (mostly Jewish) critics comes from “far right neo-cons”; the subject of Norman Finkelstein (b. 1953); Lindemann was attacked constantly in the American Historical Review journal; Lindemann has seen a commentary called by some “the Lindemann Thesis” (that Jews are responsible for antisemitism) which Lindemann does not endorse;
Jewish rise in power and position is obvious, and sometimes part of anti-Jewish animosity; widespread belief – even in academia – that “you dare not blame the victim”; traditional Jewish beliefs, per Exodus/Genesis and Jewish holidays like Purim, Hannukah, etc. wherein Jews are brought up -- according to such texts -- that they are “unfairly hated”; “some Jewish texts take pride in the fact that they killed the Jewish dissident (Jesus)”; traditionally, “Jews celebrated the death of Christ” (“Modern Jews have pretty much suppressed that”); most non-Jews don’t know much about Judaism or the Arab-Israeli conflict (and in conversations with Jewish friends and such “most non-Jews become quiet – they are intimidated”);
Discussion of the issue of “race” (for some Jews, especially in Orthodox communities, this is a component of Jewish identity; complications of the question what is “the Jewish people?”; converts to Judaism are not recognized by many Jews as being authentically Jewish; discussion of Orthodox Chabad Lubavitchers and their famous rabbi Menachem Schneerson (1902-1994) (Lindemann believes that some of Schneerson’s teaching, per the Jewish soul, “is an expression of racism”); Jewish author Stephen Bloom’s book about Postville, Iowa, and the Chabad community and its “corrupt rabbis” that caused such problems in that town, etc.
In part 2, professor Lindemann addresses:
The word “antisemitism” as a “whistle blower blown way too much,” is it antisemitism when people don’t like Jews or want to live with Jews? -- those two things describe some Jews’ attitude towards Gentiles; Jews in the U.S. are among the most liberal-minded; limits of free speech; in places like Europe you can be put in jail for years for saying the Holocaust doesn’t exist;
“My responsibility is to say what I think is actually true and not play the game of ‘How will this go down?’”; people of many different perspectives have praised his book ESAU’S TEARS but “some respected scholars have reviewed the book and completely misrepresented it”; there is broad opinion in the Jewish community but there are some who “try to keep debate limited”;
“The defense of Israel has been cruder, the demonization of Arabs cruder …”, some things said in defense of Israel aren’t true; the influential book and movie EXODUS (1960) is “nonsense”; Lindemann’s book ESAU’S TEARS makes issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict more ambiguous; explanation of Lindemann’s title for his book ESAU’S TEARS (in traditional religious lore, Esau – the ‘archetypical Gentile’ – and Jacob – the “father of the Jews’ – are twins. Jacob and his mother trick Esau and the title “Esau’s Tears refers to the tears of indignation when he finds out he had been tricked”;
‘Self-hating Jew’ is a term used “by many Jews to describe someone they don’t like”; discussion of the necessity of generalizations in describing any people, culture, or country, Jewish “dual morality” (yes, but virtually any group has such a thing), etc.
In part 3, professor Lindemann addresses:
Jews in Eastern Europe included religious Ultra-Orthodox Jews, the Socialist Bund, and communists; many Jews, worldwide, had an admiration for Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), who was Jewish; at one point in time there was a death penalty in the Soviet Union for antisemitism; Jews were overrepresented in both the capitalist and communist worlds (Who spoke for the Jews?);
Karl Marx (1818-1883) (fulfilling the notion of the “self-hating Jew”) wrote an article denouncing Jews, saying that, in essence, “the selfish principle is the Jewish principle”; Jews have had the opportunity to tell their history of suffering wherein the history of illiterate peasants in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, etc.) wasn’t often told; Jews were relatively poor in Eastern Europe, but “for most of history Jews were better off than the people around them”;
Many Jews “are persuaded that there is something unique about their suffering” (ultimately a religious concept); increased attention to the Holocaust over the years; many “young people today are historically illiterate”; German and Hungarian Jews had a low opinion of Eastern European Jews; Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the founder of Zionism, “did not like most Jews he came into contact with”; Christianity;
Jews themselves have recognized that some Biblical texts are dangerous; for some Jews, in a religious context, you can look at antisemitism as bad Gentiles -- God using them to punish Jews, etc.»
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Vicksburg, Mississippi est. 1825, pop. (2013) 23,542 • MS Delta
Patent Mark: Dec 9th, 1862
Marker:
U.S. Three-Inch Ordnance Rifle,
Made in 1863 by the Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenixville, Penn.
The original carriages were made of white oak and iron.
These, made around 1915, are of iron and concrete.
• 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
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اوندهه انڌڪار، ڄڀون وڍيل، ڪڇڻ ڏوهه بڻيل. سنڌ: هڪ تاريخي سچائي. سنڌ تنهنجو نانءُ ورتم، ڄڻ ڪاريهر تي پير پيم- (اياز) مڃيل سچائين/ حقيقتن کان انڪار، ٻئي پاسي سڄي ڌرتيءَ تي واڙيل انسان گيس چيمبر ۾ بند، وڏا واڪا، تن ۾ هڪ ئي پڙاڏو، جو اسين چئون ٿا/ ٻاڪاريون ٿا، سو ساڀيان آهي! ۽ ٻيو گهڻو ڪجهه هن ڏس ۾...
جنهن دور مان اسين گذري رهيا آهيون، جڏهن تاريخ جي ڦيٿن کي، تاريخ جي قاعدن ۽ انسان جي تخليقي سوچ بدران اُرهه زورائيءَ سان پوئتي ڌڪيو پيو وڃي. انهن حالتن ۾ قومي ادب وسيلي اظهار وڏي اهميت ته رکي ٿو، پر جيڪڏهن وڌاءَ کان ڪم نه وٺون ته، جن حالتن مان اسان گذري رهيا آهيون، تن ۾ ادب، ٺلهو ادب پيدا ڪرڻ ئي سڀ ڪجهه نه آهي، پر هڪ ساهه پساهه کڻندڙ، سرت رکندڙ ۽ ساڃهه ڀريو ذهن رکندڙ جي حيثيت سان اسان تي ٻيون به گهڻيون ذميواريون پون ٿيون. اهي ذميواريون جيڪي ڪنهن واڙيل خاص طور نسل ڪشيءَ جو شڪار ٿيل ساڃهه وارن انسانن تي ٻڌل قوم تي پون ٿيون. هن ڏس ۾ ادب جي اهميت ۽ ان جي ڪردار کان انڪار ڪرڻ ناممڪن آهي، ڇاڪاڻ ته تاريخ ۾ اهڙين حالتن هيٺ، جن مان اسين گذرون پيا، ادب نهايت نمايان ۽ ڀرپور ڀاڱو ورتو آهي ۽ نه رڳو پاڻ- سجاڳي يا ساڃهه، جيڪا پنهنجي ئي کل ۾ بند ٿيل هجي، ڪو نتيجو نه ٿي ڪڍي، جيستائين ان کي ڦرندڙ ۽ تاريخي گهرجن پٽاندڙ عملي روپ نه ٿو ڏجي. ادب يا اديب به هن کان آجو ڪونه آهي، ڀلا ٻيو ڪجهه به نه ٺلهو ذڪر ته ڪري سگهجي ٿو، ڇاڪاڻ ته اديب/ قوم جي ذميدار ڪردارن مان هڪ آهي.
ڪنهن به قوم جي وجود جي ناتي سان گڏ، تخليقي ادب کان انڪار ڪرڻ- ته سچائيءَ کان منهن موڙڻ آهي، پر اکيون بند ڪرڻ پڻ. جو ڪجهه وس ۾ آهي ۽ قاعدن قانونن جي زنجيرن ۾ ڦاٿل، پر اتساهه سان ڀريل ۽ جيئري جاڳندي احساس سان ٽٻ ٽار ٿيل. جيڪڏهن اها ڳالهه کليل لفظن ۾ چئجي ته قومي ڏوهه جي احساس- ٽياس تي ٽنگيل نوجوان، پنهنجي ذاتي، قومي ۽ مانَ واري جياپي لاءِ اوسر ۽ اڳتي وڌڻ لاءِ، ڪنهن نه ڪنهن شڪل ۾ پاڻ پتوڙيندا رهن ٿا. ادب جي تخليق انهن روين مان هڪ آهي. ڄڻڪ گهاٽي ڪاري ڪڪريءَ ۾ ڦاٿل، سج مان نڪتل هڪ ترورو. جيئري جاڳندي، پر وڪڙ ۾ آيل، ڦاٿل، پساهه جي هڪ انساني ناتي، سماجي طور قومي وجود رکندڙ ساڃهه ۽ حساس، انسان جي پنهنجي سڃاڻپ ۽ قومي آئڊنٽي جي بقا لاءِ، پاڻ کي جيئرو رکڻ ۽ اڳتي وڌائڻ لاءِ، اوسر لاءِ، آڪاش سان پاڻ ملائڻ لاءِ ۽ دنيا جي قومن سان ڪلهو ڪلهي ۾ ملائڻ لاءِ.
پر اسان لاءِ بنياد سوال آهي، سڀ کان پهريون پنهنجو جياپو، قومي سڃاڻپ سان. هن وقت جن حالتن مان اسين گذريون پيا، انهن پٽاندر جيڪڏهن اسين ٺلهو ۽ ٺلهو رڳو ادب تي ڀاڙينداسين (ادب جي اهميت کان انڪاري نه ٿيندي) ته اها تاريخ سان پنهنجي وجود سان ويساهه گهاتي، دغا ۽ پاڻ ٺڳڻ جي برابر ٿيندو. هن مامري ۾ هيءَ حقيقت ڪنهن به حالت ۾ اسان کي ذهن ۾ رکڻ گهرجي ته اسين نه روسي آهيون، نه ويٽنامي، نه ڪيوبائي ۽ نه وري آفريڪي. بنيادي تبديلين جي ڏس ۾ ٻين جي تجربن مان سکي ۽ پرائي ته سگهجي ٿو، جو اهي تجربا، پوءِ سماجي تبديلين جا هجن يا سائنسي اوسر جا، ڪنهن خاص ملڪ جي، قوم جي ميراث نه هوندا آهن، پر پوري انسانذات جي ملڪيت هوندا آهن. ان مان مطلب نه وٺڻ گهرجي ته، اسان جيئن جو تيئن انهن جي ڪاپي ڪيون. قومي بقا ۽ اوسر جي بنيادي تبديلين ۾ تخليقي سوچ ته بنيادي عنصر آهي، پر تاريخ مان پرائيندي، قوم جي نفسيات، مزاج، حالتن، ڦيرن ڦارين ۽ ويرن جي اٽڪلن، چالن کي به آڏو رکڻو پوي ٿو ۽ ان کان پوءِ ئي پنهنجي سرجڻ، بقا ۽ اوسر لاءِ پتوڙڻ جي حڪمت عملي ۽ ٽلن ۽ اٽڪلين جي جوڙجڪ ڪرڻي پوي ٿي، وقت ۽ موقعي مطابق ڦير ڦار ٿي پوي ٿي. اڳواٽ گهڙيل ۽ ٿاڦيل نظرين (Degmes) جي پوئواري، انڌي جي لٺ آهي، جيڪا گهڻو ڪري پنهنجن کي ئي ٿِڙي لڳندي آهي. هن ڏس ۾ گهڻو ڪجهه لکي سگهجي ٿو پر...
ادب ۽ حياتيءَ ڄڻ ڪو هڪ ٻئي لاءِ ئي جنم ورتو آهي. جتي ادب زندگيءَ مان تخليق ٿئي ٿو. اتي، ادب به زندگيءَ کي تخليق ڪري ٿو. اسان وٽ اڄڪلهه جيڪو ڪجهه ماٺي ماحول جي باوجود ادب / شاعري سرجي ٿي پئي، ان ۾ وقت جي اولڙي سان گڏ، خاص طور فارم ۾ ڪيترائي سٺا ۽ ڪامياب تجربا ڪيا ويا آهن. ادبي لحاظ کان اسان جي آڏو انهن جي اهميت آهي، جو اسين پنهنجي فني اظهار جا ڪيترائي روپ پڌرا پيا ڪيون. البت هن ڏس ۾ لاڙي جي خيال کان، ڪيترن ئي ادبي-فني اختلافي مسئلن منهن ڪڍيو آهي. مثال طور ڀاڄوڪڙائپ (Escepiam) فراريت، نراسائي، رجعت پسندي، اُبهام، تجريت، ذهني مونجهارا وغيره. اُن کي ليکڪن ۾ پيدا ٿيل نراسائي چئي سگهجي ٿو، پر ٻئي سري سان ڏٺو وڃي ته تاريخ جي سچائيءَ کي پيش ڪيو ويو آهي. ڇاڪاڻ ته جنهن دور مان اسين گذري رهيا آهيون، ان ۾ هڪ بي وس ماڻهو حياتيءَ کان بُڇان ڪري سگهي ٿو. البت جيتري قدر نراسائي يا بي مقصديت جو لاڳاپو آهي، سا هڪ عام فضا آهي. ڪارڻ پڌرا آهن. سڀڪو ڄاڻي ٿو اڄ جي ليکڪن جو ڏوهه اهو آهي ته اهي تاريخ سان سچا آهن، جڏهن ان جو اهڙو اظهار ڪن ٿا، جيڪو اظهار، اسان جي هلندڙ تاريخ جو ڀاڱو آهي. هن حقيقت کان انڪار ڪرڻ اکيون پورڻ برابر ٿيندو ته سماجي/ قومي گهوٽالي ۾ جيڪڏهن مثبت سگهه (Positive Force) سگهاري نه آهي ته ذات جو بحران، هڪ منطقي نتيجو ٿئي ٿو.
اها نراسائيءَ جي فضا هوندي به ائين چوڻ ڪونه جڳائي، ڇاڪاڻ ته اديب جو ذهني معيار عام ماڻهوءَ جي ذهني معيار کان پختو هوندو آهي. (جيئن ته اديب ساڳي ئي ماحول ۾ رهندي به عام ماڻهوءَ کان شعوري طرح اڳڀرو هوندو آهي.) پر سماج ۾ لاشعوري ڪيفيت مان سرجيل نراسائيءَ جي رنجهه- ڪنجهه ڀوڳيندي، ليکڪ کي گهرجي ته پنهنجي لکڻين ۾ اتساهه جاڳائيندڙ آئيڊيل ڪردار تخليق ڪري. جيئن ”نراسائي اميد جو وڳو پهري.“
مايوسي ليکڪ جي ذهن تي ڪڏهن، ڪڏهن ته گهڙيءَ کن لاءِ ايندي به آهي. جيئن شاهه جي من تي ”ڪڏهن، ڪڏهن هينئڙا وڻين نٿو مون.“
بس نراسائيءَ ۽ مايوسي ليکڪ جي من تي ڌرڻو ماري ويهي نه رهي. اُها مايوسي به سونهين جيڪا اُميد جي آسري ۾ هوندي آهي. منهنجي ليکڪ لاءِ ڏنل هنن لفظن تائين راءِ، منهنجي نظر ۾ اڄ جي سچار ليکڪ لاءِ آهي.
ڪن کان رڳو انڪساريءَ سان اهو سوال آهي ته: انقلاب جي بنيادي گهرجن پٽاندڙ، ٻين لفظن ۾ (Objective and Subjective) حالتن ڇا ڪيو آهي. ماڻهن سان لاڳاپي جا ڪيترائي روپ آهن، گهرجن پٽاندڙ انهن منجهان اُتساهه پيدا ڪرڻ لاءِ ڇا ڪيو آهي!؟ هاڻي فرض ڪيون ته رڳو ليکڪ جو مامرو آهي ته: ٺلهو الزام هڻندڙن، هٿ ٺوڪين بزرگن ۽ پنهنجي تجربي جون لٻاڙون هڻندڙ ليکڪن ڪهڙيون مثبت ۽ تعميري وکون کنيون آهن، ٻڌي يا تنظيمي ڏس ۾ مڙني کي هڪ هنڌ گڏ ڪرڻ لاءِ؟ هي ڪنهن جو فرياد يا سوال ناهي، پر تاريخ جو سوال آهي.
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Anna Dressed in Blood - Cas Lowood, armed with his late father's athame knife, kills ghosts. In Thunder Bay, Anna, forever 16, drips blood on her white dress from throat slit in 1958, and rips apart anyone who enters her house - except Cas. He makes new friends - high school queen Carmel, jock Will, admiring nerd Thomas and Tom's voodoo grandpa Morfran - to fight this demon.
My Review: I found Anna in Blood to have a very interesting plot. I like the idea of a ghost slayer and I like it being told from a male POV. However I was not entirely convinced that Cas was written like he could have been. I sometimes get all up in arms when a male author tries to write a female character and fails miserably. I get the same way when a female author tries to write a male character and either fails or is not entirely convincing. In my opinion Cas should have been a bit more of a bad ass considering what he was. Instead I think he was a bit too soft around the edges.
I like the fact that a 2nd book was written to explore more of Anna and Cas's "relationship". I'm curious if it's possible for them to have one and if so how the author is going to play it out.
As for the other characters I really do like them and how they are written. I hope the 2nd book explores more of Gideon and what role he plays.
All in all it's a fun read and it's quick.
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From Goodreads Girl of Nighmares: It's been months since the ghost of Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell in her basement and disappeared into it, but ghost-hunter Cas Lowood can't move on.
His friends remind him that Anna sacrificed herself so that Cas could live—not walk around half dead. He knows they're right, but in Cas's eyes, no living girl he meets can compare to the dead girl he fell in love with.
Now he's seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he's asleep and sometimes in waking nightmares. But something is very wrong...these aren't just daydreams. Anna seems tortured, torn apart in new and ever more gruesome ways every time she appears.
Cas doesn't know what happened to Anna when she disappeared into Hell, but he knows she doesn't deserve whatever is happening to her now. Anna saved Cas more than once, and it's time for him to return the favor.
My Review: I like this one much better than the first book. I swear if they made this a movie it would be downright creepy and I would be watching from behind a movie seat. Anything Voodoo related scares the bejebus out of me. Whether it's real or not I personally don't want to hang around and find out. Yes, I am just that paranoid.
On that note, In this book we find Cas and his friends trying to find a way to get Anna out of hell. In the previous book Anna saved Cas and his friends by dragging the Voodoo man down into what one could call a hell realm. While down there the Voodoo man tortures Anna on a regular basis. Cas, who strangely is very much in love with Anna, is trying to find a way to get her out of there. In the process of doing this Cas learns some interesting history in regards to his athame and how it's connected to a Secret Order located in the Highlands of Scotland. He then travels to Scotland to try and save Anna.
In this book I think Cas was written much better than the first book. In fact all the characters were expanded on and more fully explained. My favorite is Thomas. He seems to have grown the most. He started out as shy and kind of hidden behind Cas, but in this book he shows how strong he really can be.
I would love to see a 3rd book written
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Psychological Thriller The Stalking Monster read by Tressa Graves
The Stalking Monster read by Stephen Roberts
The Stalking Monster Hep C Meth Whore read by Sam Hamilton
The Stalking Monster Basement Tomb read by Sam Hamilton
Blackwater of Cassadaga read by Stephen Roberts
The Sawgrass Footpath read by Mike Shaver
The Sawgrass Footpath read by Stephen Roberts
The Lady in the Backyard read by Justin Assenmacher
Blackwater of Cassadaga read by Stephen Roberts
The Sawgrass Footpath read by Tressa Graves animated
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The tale of 'Blackwater of Cassadaga' takes you into the swampy murkiness of Florida, as Hoyt and Darcy try to escape the legend of 50 Shades of Graves. As the two battle Sandorsa who transforms into a serpent they get the help from a gator who dwells in the black water below and the Indian Seminole Chief Osceola.
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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (via GoodReads)
Walking through Pinnacles National Park, I was treated with this dreamy Central California Winter Landscape.
"In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
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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."