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"Happy Birthday Shakespeare and Happy St George's Day"!!
Brian Patten was commissioned to write a St George's day poem. He says it contains a line from Shakespeare too, as it's Shakespeare's birthday.
The True Dragon by Brian Patten
St George was out walking
He met a dragon on a hill,
It was wise and wonderful
Too glorious to kill
It slept amongst the wild thyme
Where the oxlips and violets grow
Its skin was a luminous fire
That made the English landscape glow
Its tears were England’s crystal rivers
Its breath the mist on England’s moors
Its larder was England’s orchards,
Its house was without doors
St George was in awe of it
It was a thing apart
He hid the sleeping dragon
Inside every English heart
So on this day let’s celebrate
England’s valleys full of light,
The green fire of the landscape
Lakes shivering with delight
Let’s celebrate St George’s Day,
The dragon in repose;
The brilliant lark ascending,
The yew, the oak, the rose....
(The lines "wild thyme
Where the oxslips and violets grow"
are from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
"Good Day My Friends" :)
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This bench is outside the Patten Free Library in Bath, Maine. On Saturday, the 4th annual Bath Book Bash! was held on its grounds featuring over thirty authors of books for young people. Among them was my daughter, Deva Fagan who has a new book out titled A Game of Noctis. A very well known author, Tui Sutherland was there and there was an almost endless line of young readers there to have their books autographed. I was impressed at the popularity of real books. HBM
WANNABE WARMER WEDNESDAY # 13
A long ago and faraway dreamy May morning. Just think, soon our (most of us anyway) world will be all green and bright and beautiful again. I'm sooo looking forward to the scenes and smells that spring has to offer.
I'm also looking forward to corned beef and cabbage and perhaps a Baileys Irish Cheesecake for dessert. No, I'm not cooking. We'll be dining out. Happy St Patricks' Day to all!!
Van Patten, a former Confederate soldier constructed a hotel at 6,000 feet elevation in the Organ Mountains in the 1870's. Guests were brought to the hotel by a 17 mile stage line from Las Cruces, New Mexico. The hotel was a success until 1915 when it was closed and sold but the new owner never re-opened it. Crumbling buildings in various stages of decay are all that is left of this once bustling operation on land that is now under the control of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The BLM has placed a rope fence around the ruins in a fruitless effort to keep out curious tourists who hike the three miles to get here.
Happy Fence Friday!
On the bridge over Manahassat Creak, looking west-northwest at the point where it feeds into Pleasure Bay (yes that is the name of it) which in turn feeds into the Shrewsbury River.
City of London; from this angle Wren's church from 1687 seems as tall as The Fenchurch Building (The Walkie-Talkie).
HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE
On July 7, 1880, Estisa and Patten Bartlett sold lot 10 of the E. M. Bartlett addition in Elgin to Francis Preston for $500. At that time, Francis resided at 271 (now numbered 421) Division, adjacent to this lot. He quickly improved the lot by building the home that is known as 429 Division Street.
Francis apparently used the new house at 429 Division Street as a rental property, never living there himself. The 1884 City directory lists tenant Charles Young at that address. Francis retained ownership of 429 Division until selling it in 1889 to Conrad and Lydia Buel for $3,500.
Francis was born in New Hampshire in November of 1832 to Paschal and Ruth Preston. Frank enlisted at the beginning of the civil war in his home state of New Hampshire and served as a commander throughout the war.
After he settled in Elgin in 1868, he was very active in the GAR, The Grand Army of the Republic. Francis was employed at Elgin National Watch Factory and was known to be a fine musician. For many years he was the leader of the Bluff City Band and a prominent member of the Elgin Watch Factory Band. Near the end of his life, he was elected town collector, but was unable to attend to his duties because of his health. The 1878-79 Elgin city directory lists Frank Preston as the assistant foreman of the screw and steel department of the Watch Factory and also the business manager of the Bluff City Band. His address was listed as “Division 2 east of Gifford” as there was no house numbering system in use at that time.
ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
429 Division Street was built as a substantial Free-Classic Queen Anne style home. The recent historic resources survey lists the home as a contributing structure to the historic significance of the area and in excellent condition.
The development of balloon framing, a construction methodology using smaller dimensions of lumber than previously, permitted the evolution of the exuberant Victorian architecture with its asymmetrical facades and irregularly shaped roofs. Previously, post-and-girt and braced-frame construction both used hewn and/or pegged joints and massive timbers. Since corners were thus hard to stabilize, architects and builders avoided unnecessary corners. Balloon framing construction, developed in Chicago in the 1830s, used two-inch framing boards that extended through two full stories. The joints were nailed, making construction faster and less costly. To the delight of Victorian architects, the small lumber dimensions allowed easy construction of irregular plans with many bays, extensions, turrets and towers. Queen Anne Style was developed in England by architect Richard Norman Shaw and associates. The style, popularized in plan books and magazines, became the predominant architecture in the United States, accounting for 50% of all homes constructed from 1880-1910.
Typical of Queen Anne Style, this house is a cross-gable configuration with a prominent front-facing gable. Like 50% of these homes, it has a steep hipped roof with lower cross-gables placed asymmetrically on the facades. The main roof has a flat deck crowning the hip, where the chimney is located. The Free Classic sub-type accounts for 35% of Queen Anne homes. The name derives from the use of round classical columns rather than turned posts as porch supports. Here, the columns extend the full height of the porch. The polygonal dining room bay features inset rectangular panels under the windows, and decorative brackets supporting the roof of the bay. Decorative woodwork graces the gable over the entry. A triangular window hood is present over the double window on the front-facing gable.
O'Reilly's, Green Mountains, Queensland.
There are several subspecies in Australia, with eastern races having a bolder facial patten and unstreaked breast, but there also seemed to be quite a bit of individual variation.
"An architectural competition was held in 1962 for an office tower to be placed behind the Old Treasury Building and on an axis with Collins Street. Despite not conforming to the brief, Barry Patten of Yuncken Freeman won the competition with a design for two buildings; a low scale building directly behind the Old Treasury Building to house government ministers and the Premier, and a taller tower to the north of matching design. A third building, to house the State Chemical Laboratories, was constructed to the east of the tower at the same time in the late 1960s, and all were placed within an elevated plaza, with a basement containing the State Film Centre, an auditorium, car parking and mechanical services located below. Completed by 1970, the buildings were designed in a modern and severe style, with proportions, window openings and materials used reflecting those of surrounding buildings in the precinct. Innovative load bearing precast panelling was used in construction."
See more at: vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/801#sthash.6A95b6Xm...
Marguerite Patten, still kicking along in the cookery world in her nineties. Screenshot from "Supersizers Go 1950s"
Sunday night closing session at Cape Town 2010: The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization.
nrhp # 78000207- The Patten Building is a historic commercial building on Main Street in Cherryfield, Maine. Built in 1865, it is a fine example of commercial Italianate architecture, and has long been a landmark retail site in the small community.
from Wikipedia