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Lt. Governor Rutherford visits Todd's Inheritance by Joe Andrucyk at Todds Inheritance Historic St, 9000 North Point Rd, Sparrows Point, MD 21219
Well, they assemble together, and it looks like a razor. Is it? I can't figure out where a blade would go.
chapter 4...
unfolding ourselves from “the car”, we’re confronted by the “hostess” who remains strangely silent toward me, but welcomes vanity with open arms...
“AUNTY!!” vanity screams...i don`t hear any of the resulting conversation but assume we’re ok with hangin’ here ‘til the smoke clears...
we’re given a small, non-descript room and vanity disappears for what appears to be hours...i have fallen asleep and wake up when she enters the room...there’s a new tattoo on her ankle, it’s a cute little heart with the name ‘diane’... of course I don’t question..she’s her own woman and from the looks of it, someone else’s too...
no hello, how are you, but...
“aunty has offered to put us up for a couple of days...and keep your shoes off the bed” she says and then leaves again...i fall asleep again...i feel safe...or so I think...
“WAKE UP!! WAKE UP!! THEY’RE HERE!!” i though i was dreaming when i hear vanity’s voice..i leap from the bed...
“WE GOTTA LEAVE...NOW!!”
rushing from the room, we’re running down the hall when I trip over the prone body of “aunty” the hostess...i stifle a scream not wanting to show weakness in front of vanity but she looks at me sternly...
“clumsy oaf! looks like I might have overstayed my welcome...you stay here and cover for me while I make my getaway in “the car”...
fearing for my life, i blurt out “but who’s gonna tell the story...err, YOUR story?” and then duck my head waiting for the worst...
“ok” she says “but don’t get in the way, or else”...she raises her hand, and then changes her mind...
“let’s go”...
Schwerin is the capital of the Land (State) of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It is the oldest city of that region, having gained city rights as early as 1160. From 1385 to 1918 it was residence city of the Dukes of Mecklenburg or the rulers of partial duchies following inheritance divisions (since 1701 Dukes and since 1815 Grand Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin).
Daylight Savings, about 4’ x 3’ x 7”, 2010
The quilted squares unravel a little more from row to row, pane to pane. They ultimately reveal a photograph of my great-great-grandparents. Through sentimental, though finite, materials, I wished to suggest the everlasting properties of home and its comforts.
Curled, for the warmth it
always promised to yield, in the quilt
You made the summer,
or maybe the winter,
after he went cold the last time, the fall before.
I wonder how—with the arthritis in your fingers—
You took up the task at once, a fell swoop
after much preparation for the pain the delicate
but exhaustive work was sure to beget.
It took you countless times to pierce the needle through the gentle, careworn fabric
You tried to avoid so long
for the weight of all the memories dragging down the innate density
of all his t-shirts and housecoats to be
knit together as one
new thing out of copious old.
Silently you mended what needed mending
And you cried, It is finished! when the new thing
had just begun.
I wrap the great blanket you made
around myself now to keep me—
when the cold is coming
to keep me—
from freezing
at last.
Branches, twine, fabric, photographs, raku-fired clay.
The piano I inherited from my grandma. My mom and her sisters used to practice on thing, and my grandma herself was a skilled pianist. I like that you can see the wear on the keys.
talking with deborah yesterday about how we really couldn't see any of the family likenesses our friends are always claiming for us - and then I took this picture of her and it leaps out at me - she looks exactly like young photographs I have of my mum
Burholme Park and the Robert W. Ryerss Museum and Library was a gift of the last descendant of the Ryerss family, a prominent Philadelphia family. Robert W. Ryerss, who died on Feb. 18, 1895 at the age of 65 and, left his estate to Mary Reed, his wife of eight months and the head house keeper of Burlhome for 27 years. He left everything to her under the condition that upon her death the best part of his land and much of his estate would be left to the “People of Philadelphia, forever” as a museum and public lending library. Mary Reed Ryerss spent the rest of her life traveling around the world collecting objects for the Museum and planning for the library and park.
History of the estate:
The Burholme estate was built in 1859 by Joseph Waln Ryerss, a wealthy importer of goods from Asia and president of the Tioga railroad company, to be the families’ summer home. The Waln family, who intermarried frequently with the Ryerss family, were descendants of Nicholas Waln, who sailed on “The Welcome” with William Penn in 1682. The Waln and Ryerss families were part of the Philadelphia social elite.
Today, The Burholme Estate still exists as a park, library and museum that is run by the Fairmount Park Commission. Residents of the Fox Chase area can sign up for a library card.
The Ryerss family
The Ryerss family were philanthropists and early animal rights activists. Robert’s stepmother, Anne Ryerss, would care for elderly and sick work horses on the Burlhome estate. When she died in 1888, she left $30,000 to care for “aged and infirmed” horses and an additional $40,000 to create and maintain a hospital. Robert W. Ryerss bought land an 80 acre farm in Bustleton and became the first president of the Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines until he retired in September 1894. The Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines was among the first societies in the United States to protect horses and large animals. Today the Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines still exists in Pottstown, PA.
In addition, to the Ryerss love of horses, Robert W. Ryerss was instrumental in helping create the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals and the Anti-Vivisectionist Society of Pennsylvania.
Visitors of the museum can see the family’s pet cemetery and the many portraits the Ryerss commissioned of their pets.
When Joseph W. Ryerss died in 1868 he left the estate to his only son Robert W. Ryerss. Robert W. Ryerss was educated at the University of Pennsylvania as an attorney, but because of the family’s wealth, he was able to live a life of leisure, while using much of his inheritance for philanthropic purposes. He traveled around the world and collected objects to display in the home. In addition, Robert W. Ryerss, was an avid reader. When he died he left his library of 11,000 books to be used as a public library. The Ryerss public library was one of the first public library’s in the city. On May 14, 1910 Burlhome Park and the Ryerss Museum and Library opened to the public and has stayed open ever since.
De oefenterreinen van de Waverse voetbalploeg SK Wavria met een gesponsord lingeriemodel en op de achtergrond de 16de-eeuwse Schranshoeve (hoogste stuk) met 19-de eeuwse bakstenen aanbouw (lagere delen vanvoor), de schuur (enkele jaren geleden volledig gerestaureerd en daardoor sterk "afgeborsteld" en rechts voor de schuur het 18de-eeuwse koetshuis). Fotomodel ken ik (nog) niet.