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2017 Workshop Nude Art Light .Riders of Light( Ivan y javi). Realizaron un taller de Nude Art.
Carla como modelo que hizo un trabajo excelente y para completar la actividad un poco mas, contamos con la colaboración de El Taller de Nithael (Pedro y Aída) con su fabuloso atrezzo artesano de temática Steampunk. Como no nombrar a Ivan Barco de Herramientas light.Gracias a todos ellos.Ademas estuvieron el en taller Valentin Hernandez Gutierrez, Eneko casado Arreal, f jesus jesus, Albert Aumatell, Ivan Herrera Lopez y un servidor Pedro Perez Fernandez.
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The Postcard
A postcard published by Hartmann which shows the road leading up to Richmond Park. There is a milestone out of shot to the right which is in the same position to this day, even though the tree and the greenery of the triangle have long gone.
The card was posted in Mortlake on Friday the 10th. July 1908 to:
Miss Lucy Wright,
The Fort,
Bristol.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"The Gables.
I was so pleased to get
your card, dear. I have
often wondered if you
were at Bristol.
I hope you are both
well.
I am quite myself again
now & glad to say I hope
to go to Somerset early
in September. I wonder
if we can meet.
Love to both.
Yours as ever,
E. E."
Notable People Associated With East Sheen
Notable residents include:
-- Sir Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), computer scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web, grew up in East Sheen and attended Sheen Mount Primary School. A mosaic was placed at Sheen Lane Centre in June 2013 to commemorate his association with East Sheen.
-- Carol Cleveland (born 1942), actress and comedian, who worked with Monty Python, was born in East Sheen.
-- Abigail Cruttenden (born 1968), actress, lives in East Sheen.
-- Tom Hardy (born 1977), actor, lives in East Sheen.
-- Carrie Johnson (born 1988), conservationist and wife of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was brought up in East Sheen.
-- Sir Trevor McDonald (born 1939), broadcaster, lives in East Sheen.
-- The novelist Mary Anne Evans, better known as George Eliot (1819–1880), took rooms at 7 Clarence Row, East Sheen (now demolished) from May to September 1855.
-- Sir Arthur Blomfield (1829–1899), architect, one of whose early works was Christ Church, East Sheen, designed and lived in The Cottage, now divided into two as 53 and 55 Christ Church Road.
-- Ralph Knott (1879–1929), architect of County Hall, the former London County Council building on the South Bank, Westminster, lived and died in East Sheen.
-- Richard Dimbleby (1913–1965), radio broadcaster, was born in the borough and lived in a flat at Cedar Court, East Sheen. This has been commemorated by an English Heritage blue plaque.
-- Marc Bolan (1947–1977), musician, died at what is now the site of Bolan's Rock Shrine, a few miles from his home at 142 Upper Richmond Road West in East Sheen.
Reto Badrutt
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 10th. July 1908 marked the birth of the Swiss ski jumper Reto Badrutt. He competed in the individual event at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
Reto died in Arosa, Switzerland at the age of 65 in April 1974.
Donald Peers
The day also marked the birth in Ammanford, Wales of Donald Peers.
Donald Rhys Hubert Peers was a popular Welsh singer. His best remembered rendition and signature song was "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook".
Donald Peers - The Early Years
Donald Peers was born in the Welsh mining town of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. His father was a colliery worker, and a prominent member of the Plymouth Brethren who disapproved of the variety theatre, and never heard or saw his son work.
Peers' family were hoping that he would become a schoolteacher, but he had other ambitions, and left home at the age of sixteen.
Peers travelled around the country working as a house painter and, for a time, went to sea as a mess steward on ships. He met Gertrude Thomson whom he married in June 1930, and they had a daughter, Sheila, in 1931.
Donald joined a dance band as a singer and continued his day job as a painter. His first BBC Radio broadcast took place on the 17th. December 1927, with the London Radio Dance Band. One of the songs he sang was, "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook", which became his most requested song and, later, his signature tune. The song had been written by E. G. Nelson and Harry Pease in 1927.
Donald's London debut took place in a revue at the Bedford Theatre in 1929. He struggled on until 1933 when, after an appearance on the BBC Music Hall programme booked as The Laughing Cavalier of Song, he got a recording contract with HMV Records. During that year he made two television broadcasts.
Donald Peers in WWII and After
In 1940 Peers enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps as a clerk, where he served until D-Day in 1944, when he was invalided out. When in service, he entertained his fellow troops in shows.
In 1944 he recorded "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook." Other 1940's recordings included "I Can't Begin To Tell You", "Bow Bells", "Far Away Places", "On The 5.45" (a vocal version of "Twelfth Street Rag", with lyrics by Andy Razaf), "Powder Your Face With Sunshine" (one of his biggest successes), "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)", "A Strawberry Moon (In A Blueberry Sky)", "Everywhere You Go", "Clancy Lowered the Boom", "It Happened in Adano", "A Rose in a Garden of Weeds", "I'll String Along with You" and "Down in the Glen".
Peers found a favourable audience in Australia. In 1950 alone he placed the following 12 songs into Australia's Top 20: "Music! Music! Music! (Put Another Nickel In)", "I Told Them All About You", "(If I Knew You Were Comin') I'd Have Baked a Cake", "Harry Lime Theme", "Twenty Four Hours of Sunshine", "Dearie", "Tennessee Waltz", "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)", "Oh, You Sweet One", "Rolling 'Round the World", "My Golden Baby", and "Daddy's Little Girl".
Donald Peers' Touring and TV Appearances
Donald toured in variety, building up quite a following in the provinces, and, in 1948, after a big break on BBC Radio, became a West End star. Henry Hall booked him with Billy Russell and Norman Wisdom for a new show called Buttons & Bows in 1949 and, in the same year, he performed his one-man show at the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium.
Peers appeared in the 1950 Royal Variety Performance. He was given his own radio show, Cavalier of Song, and had hits with, "On a Slow Boat to China". In the early 1960's Peers was given his own television programme, Donald Peers Presents, and, in that programme, he introduced Tom Jones and also scientist and writer Brian J. Ford, this time playing boogie piano.
Donald Peers in Film
Donald appeared in several films including, The Balloon Goes Up (1942) and Sing Along with Me (1952), and continued recording with songs such as, "The Last Mile Home", "Dear Hearts and Gentle People", "Out of a Clear Blue Sky", "Music! Music! Music!", "Dearie", "I Remember the Cornfields", "Beloved, Be Faithful", "Me and My Imagination", "Mistakes", "In a Golden Coach" (a celebratory number for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II), "Is It Any Wonder" and "Changing Partners".
Donald Peers' Later Hits
After several years at the top, Peers left for Australia, where he stayed for two years. When he returned to the UK in 1968, his fans had all but forgotten him, and he had to work back to stardom via the club circuit, which had taken over from the variety theatres.
He made a comeback with "Please Don't Go" (a ballad set to the tune of Offenbach's "Barcarolle" from The Tales of Hoffmann), which reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1969. This was followed by a string of singles and albums by Peers, but it was not until 1972 that he had another hit record with "Give Me One More Chance", which reached the UK Top 40.
Donald Peers - The Later Years
Donald Peers often sat in the garden of his Surrey home playing ukulele and singing while his wife and daughter worked on the plants in the garden.
Peers died at the age of 65 in a Hove nursing home on the 9th. August 1973. The Brighton & Hove Gazette and Herald announced his demise.
Donald was cremated in the Downs Crematorium, Brighton. His memorial tablet in the Garden of Remembrance, now weather-beaten, reads:
'Donald Peers, August 1973,
Loved by Kates, "In a Shady
Nook by a Babbling Brook"'.
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La quinta edizione del festival organizzato da Wired Italia. Due lunghi fine settimana in cui vivere l’innovazione nell’economia, nella scienza, nella politica, nell’intrattenimento, nella cultura. Milano e Firenze si trasformano per un fine settimana nel luna park della scienza e della tecnologia. Oltre 150 relatori, performance artistiche, laboratori di stampa 3D, droni in volo, videogame, film, documentari, speed date sul lavoro, maratone di coding e workshop per tutte le età. A Milano da venerdì 26 a domenica 28 maggio ai Giardini Indro Montanelli.
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ore 10:00
Come si combatte l’Isis (sui social)
Speaker
Abdalaziz Alhamza - Fondatore Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently
Abdalaziz Alhamza, nato a Raqqa nel 1991, è un giornalista e attivista siriano, che oggi vive a Berlino. È fondatore e portavoce del progetto Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), gruppo di citizen journalism fondato dall’esilio in Turchia, che informa sulle violenze compiute da Isis in Siria, grazie alle informazioni passate da cittadini rimasti all’interno della città. Nel gennaio 2016 l’International Business Times ha descritto RBSS come “la più credibile fonte di informazioni dall’interno di Raqqa”.
Alhamza è laureato in biologia e da studente ha organizzato numerose proteste contro il governo siriano. È stato arrestato varie volte dal regime e più volte ha ricevuto minacce per la sua attività da Isis. RBSS ha vinto nel 2015 l’International Press Freedom Award dal Committee to Protect Journalists e il premio del Foreign Policy Global Thinkers Award.
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ore 10:30
Tra calcio e futuro
Speaker
Diletta Leotta - Conduttrice Sky Sport
Giulia Diletta Leotta, 1991, è conduttrice a Sky Sport. Si è laureata in Giurisprudenza alla LUISS di Roma con una tesi dal titolo Il contratto di lavoro sportivo. Ha iniziato la sua carriera televisiva nel 2010, a diciannove anni, sulla rete locale Antenna Sicilia, affiancando Salvo La Rosa nella conduzione dell’11º Festival della nuova canzone siciliana e nel programma di intrattenimento Insieme. L’anno successivo è passata a Mediaset dove ha condotto la trasmissione Il Compleanno di La5 sull’omonima rete digitale. Nel 2012 diventa una delle conduttrici di Sky Meteo 24.
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ore 12:30
Serie internazionale
Speaker
Salvatore Esposito - Attore
Salvatore Esposito nasce a Napoli il 2 febbraio 1986. Sin da bambino nutre la passione per la recitazione. Raggiunta la maggiore età inizia i suoi studi di recitazione presso la Scuola di cinema di Napoli per poi trasferirsi a Roma dove studia con l’acting trainer Beatrice Bracco.
Ha fatto il suo esordio televisivo nel 2013 con Il clan dei camorristi, interpretando il ruolo di Domenico Ruggiero. Nel 2014 arriva il successo al grande pubblico con Gomorra – la serie, Salvatore interpreta Genny Savastano.
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ore 13:00
Lavoro e ricchezza nell’epoca dell’ Intelligenza Artificiale
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Jerry Kaplan - Esperto di Intelligenza Artificiale e Imprenditore
Jerry Kaplan è un esperto di Intelligenza Artificiale noto in tutto il mondo, un innovatore, seriael entrepreneur, educatore, futurista e autore di best sellers. Ha fondato quattro startup della Silicon Valley, due delle quali sono divenute società di fama, e insegnato alla Stanford University. Hanno parlato di lui tutti i principali quotidiani in lingua inglese e le riviste specializzate di tutto il mondo
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ore 14:00
La strada della musica
Speaker
Michele Bravi - Cantante
Michele Bravi esordisce nel 2013 con la vittoria di XFactor Italia.
Portato alla vittoria da Morgan e presentato al grande pubblico con un pezzo scritto per lui da Tiziano Ferro e Zibba, Michele pubblica il suo EP di debutto “La Vita e la Felicità”. A Gennaio 2014 il primo singolo “La Vita e la Felicità” viene certificato disco d’oro.
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ore 14:30
Il tocco vincente
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Mara Maionchi - Produttrice discografica
Mara Maionchi (Bologna, 22 aprile 1941) è una produttrice discografica e personaggio televisivo italiano.
Attualmente considerata la figura femminile di maggiore spicco nella discografia italiana, producendo sia per conto di major come Sony e Warner che come produttrice indipendente attraverso la sua etichetta, sostenendo tuttavia in numerose dichiarazioni che la vera scena musicale – intensa e multisfaccettata – è all’estero e che in Italia “si fa quel che si può”.
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ore 15:00
Maniaca di SerieTV
Speaker
Miriam Leone - Attrice
Nasce a Catania. Ha frequentato il Liceo Classico Gulli e Pennisi ad Acireale e la Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Catania. Studia contemporaneamente recitazione. Nel 2008 partecipa e vince sia la fascia di Miss Italia che quella di Miss Cinema.
Nel 2010 debutta come attrice sia sul grande schermo con il film Genitori & figli – Agitare bene prima dell’uso, di Giovanni Veronesi, con Silvia Orlando e Margherita Buy, sia sul piccolo schermo con il film TV Il ritmo della vita, diretto da Rossella Izzo e trasmesso su Canale 5.
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ore 15:30
Indie a chi?
Speaker
Lo Stato Sociale - Musicisti
Nel 2012 esce il loro primo album, Turisti della democrazia, al quale fa seguito un tour di 200 concerti in Italia ed in Europa. Nel 2013, ad un anno dalla prima pubblicazione, Turisti della democrazia viene ripubblicato in edizione deluxe, in formato doppio CD. Il primo CD presenta la tracklist originale mentre il secondo CD comprende tutti gli 11 brani del disco originale coverizzati da 11 artisti, oltre a tanti remix e inediti. Alla ripubblicazione dell’album, segue un lungo tour dello spettacolo di teatro-canzone Tronisti della democrazia, nel quale le canzoni dell’album d’esordio sono alternate a monologhi e sketch a formare “un minicorso in 5 atti di buone maniere”. Con Turisti della democrazia, tra i più discussi album usciti in ambito indie rock in Italia, la band bolognese ha ricevuto la Targa Giovani Mei e il Premio SIAE “Miglior Giovane Talento dell’Anno” e altri riconoscimenti.
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ore 16:00
L’uomo che ha dato forma al pc
Speaker
Mario Bellini - Architetto
Mario Bellini è un architetto e designer noto in tutto il mondo. Ha ricevuto il Premio Compasso d’Oro otto volte e 25 delle sue opere sono nella collezione permanente del MoMA di New York, che gli ha dedicato una retrospettiva nel 1987. È stato direttore della rivista Domus (1985-1991). Ha progettato numerose mostre d’arte e di architettura sia in Italia, sia all’estero, l’ultima a Palazzo Reale con i capolavori di Giotto (2015).
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ore 16:00
C’è risata e risata
Speaker
Saverio Raimondo - Stand Up Comedian e conduttore CCN
Saverio Raimondo, 33 anni, comico satirico, è stato definito sulle pagine di Repubblica “l’unico stand up comedian italiano che sembra vero” e “il comico più bravo in circolazione” da Aldo Grasso del Corriere della Sera. È il comico di punta di Comedy Central Italia (canale 124 di Sky) per il suo show CCN – Comedy Central News, striscia satirica di grande successo di pubblico e critica, giunta alla terza stagione – attualmente in corso, in onda tutti i mercoledì alle 22 – e per la quale ha vinto il Premio Satira Politica per la Tv Forte Dei Marmi.
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ore 16:30
Il suono dal caos
Speaker
Levante - Musicista
Levante nasce a Caltagirone e cresce a Palagonia (Catania) in una famiglia affollata da menti creative. A nove anni scrive le prime canzoni e soltanto ad undici inizia a suonare la chitarra, rubandola al fratello, per la pura esigenza di musicare i propri testi. Dopo la morte del padre, lei e la madre si trasferiscono nella magica città di Torino. Qui tante sono le collaborazioni, i contratti andati male, i dischi mai usciti e gli anni di manifestazioni musicali, provini e gavetta.
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ore 17:00
Non è bello ciò che è bello, ma che bello che bello che bello
Speaker
Maccio Capatonda - Attore e Regista
Nino Frassica - Comico e Presentatore
Maccio Capatonda, pseudonimo di Marcello Macchia, è un attore, regista e comico italiano. Ha partecipato ai programmi televisivi Mai dire Lunedì e Mai dire Martedì. Precedentemente aveva fondato a Milano la Shortcut Productions, insieme a Enrico Venti, suo storico amico, anche lui di Chieti. Ha lavorato per AllMusic e lavora stabilmente sul web, affianco all’attività televisiva. Nel 2013 è ideatore, regista e interprete principale della serie televisiva Mario. In un primo tempo si è dedicato (accompagnato dal suo inseparabile gruppo) alla produzione di finti reality televisivi, come il Divano Scomodo e il Gabinetto.
Nel 1985 Arbore coinvolge Nino Frassica nel varietà “Quelli della notte” nei panni di frate Antonino da Scasazza, organizzatore di un improbabile concorso a premi. Seguono “Indietro tutta” dove veste i panni del bravo presentatore e mette in scena una spassosa parodia del tipico conduttore televisivo. Partecipa successivamente a “Fantastico”, “Domenica In”, “Scommettiamo che…?”, “I Cervelloni”, “Acqua calda”, “Colorado Cafè” e “Markette” condotto da Piero Chiambretti. Nel 1999 inizia l’avventura della fiction televisiva “Don Matteo” con Terence Hill, Flavio Insinna e successivamente Simone Montedoro, giunta ormai alla decima serie. Nino interpreta il ruolo del maresciallo dei Carabinieri Nino Cecchini.
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ore 17:30
Comicità all’italiana
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Herbert Ballerina - Attore e Comico
Maccio Capatonda - Attore e Regista
Herbert Ballerina, pseudonimo di Luigi Luciano, nato a Campobasso il 7 marzo 1980, è un attore, comico, conduttore radiofonico e produttore cinematografico italiano. Dopo essersi laureato al DAMS di Bologna si trasferisce a Milano entrando a far parte della Shortcut Productions di Marcello Macchia ed Enrico Venti (in arte Maccio Capatonda e Ivo Avido), inizialmente come assistente e poi come attore e autore. Con Marcello Macchia è protagonista, con lo pseudonimo di Herbert Ballerina, di numerosi trailer umoristici trasmessi all’interno dei programmi televisivi Mai dire Lunedì e Mai dire Martedì.
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ore 18:00
La democrazia della rete
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Luigi Di Maio - Vicepresidente della Camera
Nato a Avellino il 6 luglio 1986, ha conseguito il diploma di liceo classico ed è giornalista pubblicista. Eletto nella circoscrizione XIX (CAMPANIA 1) nel 2013 alla Camera dei Deputati con il Movimento Cinque Stelle, diventa il più giovane Vicepresidente della Camera. È uno dei volti di punta del Movimento Cinque Stelle, per molti naturale candidato alle prossime elezioni.
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ore 18:30
Non smetto più
Speaker
Sydney Sibilia - Regista, Sceneggiatore e Produttore cinematografico
Luigi Di Capua - Regista, sceneggiatore e attore
Francesca Manieri - Sceneggiatrice
Sydney Sibilia, nato a Salerno nel 1981, è un regista, sceneggiatore e produttore cinematografico italiano. Sydney Sibilia inizia a realizzare cortometraggi insieme all’amico Fabio Ferro nella loro natìa Salerno. Nel 2007 si trasferisce a Roma e successivamente realizza un cortometraggio che ottiene numerosi riconoscimenti, Oggi gira così (2010), prodotto dalla Ascent Film e scritto insieme a Valerio Attanasio.
Sempre con Valerio Attanasio, scrive la sceneggiatura della sua opera prima Smetto quando voglio. Il film, prodotto dalla Fandango di Domenico Procacci, dalla Ascent FIlm di Matteo Rovere e da Rai Cinema, viene distribuito nelle sale cinematografiche nel febbraio 2014, riscuotendo un successo sorprendente e ottenendo 12 candidature ai David di Donatello 2014. Nel 2017 è nelle sale il seguito, Smetto quando voglio – Masterclass, in attesa del terzo episodio.
Regista, sceneggiatore e attore. Insieme a Matteo Corradini e Luca Vecchi è il fondatore del collettivo The Pills, nato nell’estate del 2011. Il collettivo è diventato celebre grazie alla web serie omonima che ha debuttato su YouTube nello stesso anno, diventando immediatamente fenomeno del web. Dopo il successo ottenuto anche con la seconda stagione, nel 2014 la serie approda su Italia 1. Nello stesso anno, The Pills sono autori insieme a Matteo Rovere, Luca Ravenna, Sydney Sibilia e Daniele Grassetti della serie tv Zio Gianni in onda su Rai2. Il 21 gennaio 2016 esce nelle sale il loro primo film, The Pills – Sempre meglio che lavorare.
Sceneggiatrice tra le più apprezzate in Italia, è laureata in filosofia.
Tra i suoi lavori: Zanzibar. Una storia daAmore, di cui ha curato anche la regia, Passione sinistra, Il rosso e il blu, La foresta di ghiaccio, Vergine giurata, Veloce come il vento, Nemiche per la pelle, il corto Era ieri, Come fai sbagli e il successo Smetto quando voglio.
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ore 19:00
L’identità della bellezza
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Samuel - Cantante e Musicista
Samuel Umberto Romano, conosciuto semplicemente come Samuel (Torino, 7 marzo 1972), è un cantautore e chitarrista italiano. È il frontman del gruppo dei Subsonica, in cui è anche compositore e autore dei testi delle canzoni insieme a Max Casacci e Davide Dileo, meglio conosciuto come Boosta.
Nel 2016 ha annunciato attraverso le proprie pagine Facebook e Instagram di essere al lavoro sul suo primo album da solista, anticipato il 9 settembre 2016 dal suo primo singolo da solista, La risposta, seguito tre mesi dopo da Rabbia.
I'm thrilled that my story "Better Late Than Never" will be published
in Best
Gay Erotica 2010, edited by Richard Labonte, published by Cleis Press.
I've been published several times in the Best Lesbian Erotica
and Best Women's Erotica series, but this is a first. Any time
I manage to sell gay erotica, it's an added thrill.
Here's the table of contents:
Foreword Richard Labonté
Introduction: Really, It’s All You, and All Natural Blair Mastbaum
Holiday from Love Hank Fenwick
The Hippie Down-Low Natty Soltesz
The Stray David May
I Wish Richard Hennebert
The Suburban Boy Simon Sheppard
“fifteen minutes naked” Jimmy Hamada
A Beautiful Face Robert Patrick
We Messed Around at the El Camino Motel Shane Allison
Cell 13 Tommy Lee “Doc” Boggs
Better Late Than Never Rachel Kramer Bussel
The Boy in the Middle Thom Wolf
Frazzled Trebor Healey
Under the Rushes David Holly
8 Beautiful Boys 8: The Follies Revisited Jamie Freeman
Smoke and Semen Jeff Mann
Colin and Gregory: 1956 Jonathan Kemp
The Bed from Craigslist Rob Wolfsham
The Stuffed Turkey Jan Vander Laenen
Introduction
It was very sad news indeed last Sunday to hear of the death of David R Smith, former Provost and Convenor. Our sympathies go to David’s wife and family.
As many of you will know, Margot Russell arranged for me to meet with David at the start of the Dalkeith Burns Monument Campaign – a meeting that helped a great deal with the research on the monument and its history. Indeed, it was a paper of David’s published in 1980 that helped inspire that campaign at the outset. He was a great support and inspiration to me with the work that followed and, despite his deteriorating health, he wrote to me on a number of occasions with further information and photographs. On the day before the unveiling of the restored and repositioned Burns fountain, he called me and offered he some last-minute and very welcome advice and encouragement. I will always be grateful to him for that.
From the start of the Burns Campaign through to the subsequent establishment of Dalkeith: Historic Town, it is actually David’s work on the town’s history that we return to time and time again. Without David, much of Dalkeith’s history would have gone untold and, in many ways, the Dalkeith: Historic Town page stands as a tribute to him and his work.
However, from what I know, David’s life seems in large part characterised by a devotion to Dalkeith and its people. On that point, I am pleased to record his story on this page. In what follows, I have recorded the highlights of his life, as he himself recorded them in biographical notes which Margot has passed to me. To these notes, I have added some detail from my own research on his life and career. I think you’ll see that, like Dalkeith, he had a full, fascinating and rich history.
David R Smith, thank you for all that you’ve given to the town in so many different ways.
Some Biographical Details
He was born in a farm cottage at Borthwick Mains on 11 April 1930 but lived in Dalkeith from infancy. He was educated at Dalkeith High School. After school, he took up employment as an office boy in a leading Edinburgh firm of Charted Accountants and was soon to be promoted into the audit staff. Between 1948 and 1950, he did National Service in the Royal Air Force. In 1950, he joined the internal audit staff of the Regional Hospital Board where he remained until 1958. From there, he was employed by the National Coal Board; firstly, in the Finance Department and then with the Marketing Department where he had special responsibilities for the promotion of good relations with local authorities.
Political Development
At school, David took a keen interest in the Second World War. This led to an interest in politics. During the 1945 election campaign he attended mass rallies in Edinburgh addressed by leading Labour politicians. He assisted in the North Midlothian Labour committee rooms. At 16 years of age, he joined the Labour Party. By the age of 20, he was chairman of the Dalkeith branch. At this time, David could be found sitting in the public benches of meetings of the Town Council. Unexpectedly, a vacancy on the council occurred in 1951 when Baillie A K Wilson resigned for health reasons. David was asked to accept it. It was the custom to fill vacancies by co-option at this time but David insisted that there be an election. It was the first by-election in the history of the town and he went on to win it in February 1952. At just 21 years, he had become the youngest councillor in Scotland. He was appointed the chairman of the Health Committee and played a leading part in the closure of insanitary lodging houses as well as a sub-standard slaughter-house.
Outwith the Council, he joined the Leith section of the Labour League of Youth and took part in political debates and social events. A keen intellect, he had interests in biology, philosophy and astronomy but also contributed to Socialist periodicals and was on the Editorial Board of a left-wing newspaper. His awareness of global politics was sharp and in 1951 he was reported to have “floored his opponent” in a public debate on the Khrushchev ‘anti-Stalin’ disclosures.
On the Council, he had a number of key positions before 1965 when he became the Provost. He served in that capacity until 1975 when the re-organisation of local government took place. He was then appointed the Convenor of the Midlothian District Council, a position he held for six years.
During his time as Provost, the town made remarkable progress. The municipal housing programme was very much expanded with an improvement in the quality, the shopping centre was transformed to present new opportunities, new social facilities such as a community centre, library and arts centre were introduced and many community organisations were established. The Saltire Society awarded the town the title of being the most lively small burgh in Scotland. Before the new shopping centre was opened, the centre of the town was congested with unfit and derelict properties.
County Council Conflict & Labour Party Expulsion
In 1959, David and a colleague on the Town Council were expelled from the Labour Party for publicly condemning the Council’s policy for the placing of building contracts. They alleged that a particular building form was being favoured in dubious circumstances. The two councillors called for a public inquiry and a police investigation. Despite great pressure, they refused to withdraw their allegations and were willing to face a libel charge if need be. As it turned out, their campaign spread into other areas as it became clear that in many parts of Scotland the contractor was using irregular methods for the gaining of contracts.
In Dalkeith, the expulsions caused a major upheaval in the ranks of Labour. There was a mass resignation from the local branch which led to the formation of the Dalkeith Independent Labour Party. The official branch of the Party was reformed by the Scottish Office of Labour and the local elections over the following few years were fought between the two parties. The local electorate gave overwhelming support to the rebels. Official Labour came to recognise that there was no future for it without the re-admission of the Independents. The expelled councillors had stated at the outset that they would seek a return to the Labour Party but on no account would they retreat from their allegations. They contended that persons in high places obstructed the efforts to investigate.
The position was different in the North-East of England where similar contracts arrangements were in operations involving the same builder. The Ministry of Housing intervened to cancel a contract. A few years later the Chairman of the Dundee Housing Committee went to prison for accepting bribes from the contractor - the subject of the Dalkeith allegations – who was heavily fined and the Lord Provost was placed under suspicion. Arising from findings arising from a Royal Commission into the standards of public life, the authorities became much more inclined to probe into questionable building practices. The Dalkeith allegations were ahead of their time.
Following readmission to the Labour Party, David entered into new fields. He became the Chairman of the Midlothian Constituency Labour Party – a position which he occupied for a few years. He also moved up the ladder as a member of the County Council. He was one of five members that the Town Council had on the County Council. He had entered the County Council to better conduct his campaign against suspect building contracts. He forced open debates with the result that a number of the other councillors began to realise that there was something not right with contract arrangements. After his rehabilitation he became the Chairman of the Planning Committee. Working closely with the more progressive officers, he urged the Committee to make full use of its powers. Until then it had been mainly a negative force, confining its operations to dealing with planning applications from outside parties. It now began to exercise a programme for change. A Country Park at Almondell was designated, and a lesser one at Roslin. Walks were created along the Union Canal and disused railway lines were put to a similar purpose. The Chairman of the Planning Committee insisted that the Committee members try them out themselves before expecting the public to use them. As Chairman, he also provided a lead in creating conservation areas in some of the older communities. Before the County Council was abolished in 1975, he was elected by his colleagues as Vice-Convenor of that body.
Potential Parliamentary Candidate
In 1966, delegates of the Midlothian Constituency Labour party met to adopt a parliamentary candidate. There were six nominees, including David. The successful candidate, Alex Eadie, had been sponsored by the Scottish Miners’ Union which had considerable voting power amongst the delegates. David came a close second.
Work with Other Public Bodies
After becoming a town councillor, David was the means of setting up a Dalkeith Old People’s Welfare Committee with the primary object of building a centre for the exclusive use of the elderly. It was achieved within a new medical centre.
He was keen to promote an interest in the arts and thought that a building for that purpose should be erected. After the provision had been made, he played a leafing part in the formation of a lively Arts Guild.
He was a member of the Lothian Building Trust which saved a row of cottages on London Road from destruction.
He was also a founder-member of the St Nicholas Apse Trust which raised funds to enhance and protect part of the structure of the old parish church.
He was invited to serve on the Dalkeith Business Renewal Trust which assisted in the renovation of properties in the town’s conservation area.
For a period, he was Chairman of Voluntary Action which gave support to groups operating in the voluntary sector. A success story was its operation of the Woodburn Day Care Centre.
For some years he was also a Chairman of Midlothian Local Health Council which reviewed the quality and adequacy of local NHS services.
David was also a strong advocate of independent working-class education and was the driving force behind the formation of the Esk Valley branch of the Workers Education Association and was its chairman for the duration of its existence. The body ran a wide range of subjects such as foreign policy, economic issues, painting, music, the practice of government, the conservation of the countryside and threats to the environment.
In keeping with his thoughts on independent education, he became a Governor of Newbattle Abbey College and remained one for over 20 years, completing his service as chairman of the Finance Committee. He experienced the decision of the Secretary of State to withdraw funding, plunging the College into a critical situation. The Board was compelled to introduce many new ways to finance a continuation of study courses, made more difficult by the need to protect a building of outstanding historic importance. The College resumed its role with a new team of management personnel. In addition to his position as Governor, David did much to reveal the history of the building, giving many lectures to visitors.
Twinning
In 1960, the Town Council concluded a friendship agreement with Jarnac, a town in France. David supported the twinning arrangement from the outset and joined a Committee that was set up in order to further its aim of harmony between nations. As Provost in 1965, he presided over a ceremony to officially open Jarnac Court in the centre of Dalkeith. He took an active part in many subsequent activities.
The success of twinning between towns inspired in Midlothian County Council to consider the possibility of a similar union with counties in Europe. In due course, a charter of friendship was signed with a county of Germany and one in Hungary. As a means of promoting cultural exchanges, a Midlothian Twinning Association was formed. As chairman of the association for a number of years, David development many for the success of the partnerships, the principal one being the Festival of Friendship which every two years brought together the three counties in a display of music, dance and sport. In recognition of his personal contribution, Jarnac made him a Freeman of the town and the Hungarian county presented him with a special honour.
Dalkeith History Society
David founded the Dalkeith History Society in 1973 after enlisting the support of the Town Council. It was thought that the identity of the town would be weakened by its integration into a wider framework of local government. A Society would help to preserve Dalkeith’s historic background and character. The Council gave a substantial grant to the Society to encourage local research. A great deal has been done by the Society to justify its terms of reference.
In addition to municipal affairs, David devoted the bulk of his time to the research of the burgh’s past. Much of the Buccleuch papers had never been touched until David examined them. This enabled him to write various booklets on aspects of local history. He also produced numerous articles for the local newspaper and delivered lectures to local groups. In 2019, a selection of his articles originally published in the Advertiser was published entitled Dalkeith – Aspects of this history of a Scottish burgh.
Other Political Activities
David’s political involvement was not just confined to local government. In 1953, a freely elected government in British Guiana was overthrown by the British Government for wanting to nationalise the sugar industry. There was much protest and David became secretary of an Edinburgh Committee to present the facts. It arranged a public meeting which was addressed by the deposed Prime Minister and there was a large public attendance.
He was secretary of the Edinburgh branch of the Union of Democratic Control, a body set-up in the First World War to expose secret diplomacy and to campaign for an ethical foreign policy.
He was chairman of the Edinburgh branch of the Movement for Colonial Freedom which condemned colonial repression and injustice.
He was an active member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and Chairman of the Midlothian Peace Committee.
He also took part in the Anti-apartheid Group.
Honours
In 1976, Prime Minister James Callaghan proposed to David that he recommend him for an Order of the British Empire (OBE). David politely refused the offer. While agreeing that there be a method of recognising service, he did not approve of the current system. Nor did he want to be associated with any empire.
In 1996, he accepted a decision of Midlothian District Council that he, like Nelson Mandela shortly before, became a Freeman of Midlothian.
Family
David developed a keen interest in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. That year, he met refugees who came to Middleton Camp after the country’s revolt against the government. One of the refugees was a young girl called Kornelia. Two years later, he was able to enter the country as a tourist although the visit was tightly organised. At some risk, he visited Kornelia’s parents. There he met Edit who was later to become his wife. He made return visits which resulted in marriage in 1961. It was very difficult to get all the consents from the Hungarian government, some of the residents thinking it impossible. Much effort had its success. Edit and David have a son and a daughter.
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle 23 Aug 1916 p11
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
The Postcard
A Star Series postcard that was published by G. D. & D. of London. The card was printed in Bavaria.
The card was posted in Blackpool on Friday the 21st. June 1912 to:
Miss A. Ellis,
180, Cleveland Street,
Doncaster,
Yorks.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Ada,
Had a grand day
yesterday but showery
today.
We are having some
fun.
Love, Bert.
I will try and write that
letter on Sunday".
Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire on the northwest coast of England. The town is by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre rivers, and is 27 miles (43 km) north of Liverpool and 40 miles (64 km) northwest of Manchester.
At the 2011 census, Blackpool had a population of 139,720, making it the most populous settlement in Lancashire. It is home to the Blackpool Tower, which when built in 1894 was the tallest building in the British Empire.
Throughout the Medieval and Early Modern period, Blackpool was a coastal hamlet in Lancashire's Amounderness Hundred, and remained as such until the mid-18th. century, when it became fashionable in England to travel to the coast in the summer to improve well-being.
In 1781, visitors attracted to Blackpool's 7-mile (11 km) sandy beach were able to use a new private road, built by Thomas Clifton and Sir Henry Hoghton.
Stagecoaches began running to Blackpool from Manchester in the same year, and from Halifax in 1782. In the early 19th. century, Henry Banks and his son-in-law John Cocker erected new buildings in Blackpool, which increased its population from less than 500 in 1801 to over 2,500 in 1851. St John's Church in Blackpool was consecrated in 1821.
Blackpool rose to prominence as a major centre of tourism in England when a railway was built in the 1840's connecting it to the industrialised regions of northern England. The railway made it much easier and cheaper for visitors to reach Blackpool, triggering an influx of settlers.
By 1881, Blackpool was a booming resort with a population of 14,000 and a promenade complete with piers, fortune-tellers, public houses, trams, donkey rides, fish and chip shops, and theatres.
By 1901, the population of Blackpool was 47,000, by which time its place was cemented as the archetypal British seaside resort. By 1951, the town had grown to 147,000 people.
Shifts in tastes, combined with opportunities for British people to travel overseas, affected Blackpool's status as a leading resort in the late 20th. century. However its urban fabric and economy both remain relatively undiversified and firmly rooted in the tourism sector, and the borough's seafront continues to attract millions of visitors every year.
Blackpool's major attractions and landmarks include the Blackpool Tower, Blackpool Illuminations, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool Zoo, Sandcastle Water Park, the Winter Gardens and Blackpool Tramway, which is the UK's only surviving first-generation tramway.
Mary McCarthy
So what else happened on the day that Bert posted the card?
Well, the 21st. June 1912 marked the birth in Seattle, Washington of Mary Therese McCarthy. Mary was an American novelist, critic and political activist.
-- Mary McCarthy - The Early Years
Mary was born to Roy Winfield McCarthy and his wife, the former Martha Therese Preston. Mary was orphaned at the age of six when both her parents died in the flu epidemic of 1918.
She and her brothers, Kevin, Preston, and Sheridan, were raised in very unhappy circumstances by her Catholic father's parents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, under the direct care of an uncle and aunt she remembered for harsh treatment and abuse.
When the situation became intolerable, she was taken in by her maternal grandparents in Seattle. Her maternal grandmother, Augusta Morganstern, was Jewish, and her maternal grandfather, Harold Preston, a prominent attorney and co-founder of the law firm Preston Gates & Ellis, was Presbyterian. Her brothers were sent to boarding school.
McCarthy credited her grandfather, who helped draft one of the nation's first Workmen's Compensation Acts, with helping form her liberal views. McCarthy explores the complex events of her early life in Minneapolis and her coming of age in Seattle in her memoir, 'Memories of a Catholic Girlhood'. Her younger brother, actor Kevin McCarthy, went on to star in such movies as 'Death of a Salesman' (1951) and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956).
Under the guardianship of the Prestons, McCarthy studied at the Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Seattle and Annie Wright Seminary in Tacoma, and went on to graduate in 1933 with an A.B. cum laude from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
-- Mary McCarthy's Literary Career
Her debut novel, 'The Company She Keeps', received critical acclaim as a succès de scandale, depicting the social milieu of New York intellectuals of the late 1930's with unreserved frankness.
After building a reputation as a satirist and critic, McCarthy enjoyed popular success when the 1963 edition of her novel 'The Group' remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for almost two years. Her work is noted for its precise prose and its complex mixture of autobiography and fiction.
Her feud with fellow writer Lillian Hellman formed the basis for the play 'Imaginary Friends' by Nora Ephron. The feud had simmered since the late 1930's over ideological differences, particularly the questions of the Moscow Trials and of Hellman's support for the 'Popular Front' with Stalin.
McCarthy provoked Hellman in 1979 when she famously said on The Dick Cavett Show: "Every word Hellman writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'."
Hellman responded by filing a $2.5 million libel suit against McCarthy, which ended shortly after Hellman died in 1984. Observers of the trial noted the resulting irony of Hellman's defamation suit is that it brought significant scrutiny, and decline of Hellman's reputation, by forcing McCarthy and her supporters to prove that she had lied.
-- Mary McCarthy's Beliefs as an Adult
McCarthy left the Catholic Church as a young woman when she became an atheist. In her contrarian fashion, McCarthy treasured her religious education for the classical foundation it provided her intellect, while at the same time she depicted her loss of faith and her contests with religious authority as essential to her character.
In New York, she moved in 'fellow-travelling' Communist circles early in the 1930's, but by the latter half of the decade she repudiated Soviet-style Communism, expressing solidarity with Leon Trotsky after the Moscow Trials, and vigorously countering playwrights and authors she considered to be sympathetic to Stalinism.
As part of the Partisan Review circle and as a contributor to The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Review of Books, she garnered attention as a cutting critic.
During the 1940's and 1950's she became a liberal critic of both McCarthyism and Communism. She maintained her commitment to liberal critiques of culture and power to the end of her life, opposing the Vietnam War in the 1960's and covering the Watergate scandal hearings in the 1970's.
-- Mary McCarthy's Opposition to the Vietnam War
In 1967 and 1968, McCarthy travelled to North and South Vietnam, to report on the war from an anti-war perspective. She documented her observations in two books, 'Vietnam', and 'Hanoi'.
Interviewed after her first trip, she declared on British television that there was not a single documented case of the Viet Cong deliberately killing a South Vietnamese woman or child. She wrote favourably about the Viet Cong.
McCarthy visited North Vietnam in March 1968, only a month after the Tet Offensive created havoc in South Vietnam. In her book, 'Hanoi', McCarthy provides a rare English-language description of life in North Vietnam during Vietnam's war with the United States. McCarthy describes an orderly society, in which everyone pitched in to help with the war effort. North Vietnam received advance warning of most bombing attacks, and McCarthy regularly had to take cover from American bombs.
McCarthy's visits to Vietnam generated some controversy. During her visit to North Vietnam, McCarthy met briefly with U.S. Air Force officer James Risner, who was being held as a prisoner of war by North Vietnam at the time.
Years later, after his release, Risner attacked McCarthy as not having recognized that he had been tortured by the North Vietnamese while in custody.
-- The Personal Life of Mary McCarthy
Mary married four times. In 1933 she married Harald Johnsrud, an actor and would-be playwright.
Her best-known spouse was the writer and critic Edmund Wilson, whom she married in 1938 after leaving her lover Philip Rahv, and with whom she had a son, Reuel Wilson.
In 1946 she married Bowden Broadwater, who worked for the New Yorker.
In 1961, McCarthy married career diplomat James R. West.
Although she broke ranks with some of her Partisan Review colleagues when they swerved toward conservative politics after World War II, she carried on lifelong friendships with Dwight Macdonald, Nicola Chiaromonte, Philip Rahv, F. W. Dupee and Elizabeth Hardwick.
Most prized of all was her close friendship with Hannah Arendt, with whom she maintained a sizeable correspondence widely regarded for its intellectual rigor.
After Arendt's passing, McCarthy became Arendt's literary executor from 1976 until her own death in 1989. McCarthy taught at Bard College from 1946 to 1947, and once again between 1986 and 1989.
-- The Death of Mary McCarthy
Mary died at the age of 77 of lung cancer on the 25th. October 1989, at New York–Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
-- Film Portrayal of Mary McCarthy
In the 2012 German movie Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy is portrayed by Janet McTeer.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 13th of October 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
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In the old days, the mill would have been turned around to get optimal wind by a horse hitched up to the wheel behind the mill. Today, the mill was turned by car power and man power. This was the first time they had the mill working for the season. Inside they will milling corn.
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Originally published in the Historic Nantucket, Vol 44, no. 1 (Spring 1996), p. 128-129
The Old Mill : What we know about it and what we don't....
Editorial commentary by Elizabeth Oldham
When was it built and who built it?
IT APPEARS THAT 1746 REALLY IS THE YEAR the Old Mill was erected, even though an account in the I&M on 15 September 1905 reads: "The old windmill is of very ancient origin, but the exact date cannot be given." We've found it harder to irrefutably confirm that Nathan Wilbur was the builder. His name appears in the 1913 Harry Turner article for the I&M, in which Wilbur is referred to as "a Nantucket sailor who had visited Holland . . . and gained a knowledge of the methods . . . of employing wind-power for grinding grain. ..." But an undated, unsigned manuscript fragment in the NHA collection states: "A company of gentlemen contracted with a man by the name of Wilbur to build the mill. Mr. Wilbur on leaving the island, with money obtained for the contract, and after reaching [the] mainland was waylaid robbed & murdered." Further to that incident, Jane G. Austin's Nantucket Scraps (Boston and New York, 1892) has a local character saying "They wanted a windmill and they didn't know how to make one, and they got an off-islander, name of Wilbur, to make it, and like fools gave him the money beforehand. He went back to the continent for something— nails maybe, or maybe idees—and carried the money with him; some pirate or other got wind of it, and the first they knew down here, the man was robbed and murdered there on Cape Cod...."
What was used to build it?
TURNER ALSO REPEATS THE PERHAPS APOCRYPHAL record of the materials used to build the mill: "Oaken beams, washed ashore from wrecked vessels, furnished the material for the framework of the mill, while deck planking of white oak, still tough and as firm as when pinned into the vessel, was available for the exterior." [In a file copy of the Turner article, a penciled note beside this passage, in Edouard Stackpole's hand, reads "not accurate."]
A notice on a card issued by John F. Sylvia, owner of the mill from 1866 until the NHA acquired it in 1897, reads: "This Old Mill was built in 1746; the oak timber used in its construction grew at a short distance from its site, across Dead Horse Valley, at the southward from the mill." The 7 August 1897 I&M states: "Mr. Gardner (owner of the mill 1828-55) found the timbers substantial, as they were of native oak. Edward K. Godfrey's The Island of Nantucket: What It Was and What It Is (Boston, 1882) has it that "Eliakim Swain . . . tended it for many years. ... It was built of oak which grew just across Dead Horse Valley, to the southward of it."
Who paid for it?
The French Connection
IT HAS LONG BEEN RECORDED IN PRINT AND anecdote that Miss Caroline L. W. French purchased the mill at auction on 4 August 1897 and presented it to the NHA. But confusion arises here, both in the Proceedings of the NHA for the annual meeting of 25 July 1898 and in a letter written by Mary E. Starbuck, recording secretary, which suggests that Miss French only made up the $135 necessary to arrive at the purchase price of $885, the remaining funds having been contributed over a period of years by other interested parties. The Proceedings read: "With some difficulty but admirable management, the society had raised $750, and Miss Caroline L. French, who together with others interested had promised to help us out, generously gave the $135 necessary to make up the full amount." Miss Starbuck's letter of 5 April 1898 reads: "Our chief triumph last summer was the purchase of the Old Mill. . . . We had scraped up over seven hundred dollars and friends made up the required amount, eight hundred and eighty-five."
The only published account of the actual auction found to date is in the 8 August 1897 edition of the New York Herald ["By telegraph to the Herald"]: "The entire bidding was between the society and a private individual, who desired the mill for an investment. The land was bid up to $105; the mill itself brought out bids to $450; then the final bidding, starting at $550, ran up to $885. As the battle of the bids wavered between the contesting parties anxious looks passed to and fro, and when finally Mr. James H. Gibbs secured it at $885 for the historical society the pent up anxiety of the crowd burst into cheers. ... Dr. Mitchell, president of the historical society, stated that the mill would be sacredly preserved."
The 30 July 1892 I&M included an article about the Nantucket Improvement Association, which owned Mill Hill Park and had expressed interest in acquiring the adjacent property on which the mill stood. The Improvement Association had convened a meeting on 22 July 1892 to "raise a purchasing fund"; the article continues: "How tame would be the view of the town from the incoming boat without the towers of the North and Unitarian churches and the Old Mill. Contributions can be sent to Roland B. Hussey, of the Inquirer and Mirror, to W. H. C. Lawrence, of the subscription committee, or to Mss H. B. W. Worth, secretary of the Nantucket Improvement Association." And the NHA treasurer's report for 23 July 1896 includes, under the rubric "SINKING FUND," this item: "By Nantucket Improvement Association (Mill Fund)....... $175.01."
It was not until 1899, when the Minutes of the NHA Council meeting of 5 August tell us: "President Barnard read a letter from Miss C. L. W. French, saying that at the solicitation of friends, she has consented to have it made known that she was the donor of the $750 given to the NHA in 1895." A letter to Miss French, framed at the same meeting, reads: "It gave the members of the Council much satisfaction to be able to identify this 'unknown friend,' who has been so frequently referred to ... and it was with great pleasure that we found the 'unknown' to be also the known friend to whose kindness and generosity we have already openly testified." And it was voted at the meeting "That the Mill comm. be instructed to place a suitable tablet in the mill, stating that the mill was saved to the Assn. by the generosity of Miss C.LW. French of Boston."
So, she did not bid for the mill at the auction on 4 August 1897, and it took two years for her generosity to be publicly acknowledged; but it was only in reading those Minutes that our doubts were dispelled.
Who built the first millon Nantucket, and where?
THE 7 AUGUST 1897 ISSUE OF THE I&M (three days after the auction) claims (as do other accounts) that "The first mill at Nantucket was owned by Tristram Coffin, who assumed a contract to construct a windmill for grinding grain for the inhabitants after the person to whom a contract was first awarded had failed to comply with its terms."[Nat Philbrick's statement about the possibly combined identities of Richard Macy and Nathan Wilbur is certainly a valid conjecture.]
The Obed Macy work Nat cites is an old (undated, unsigned) copy book in the NHA manuscript collection, which begins thus: " Copied [italics added] from a book of Obed Macy's writing when he was an old man. 'If ever my History of Nantucket is republished, in a second edition some of the following anecdotes may be found useful.'" Among the anecdotes is the one Nat refers to: "A Short Memorial of Richard Macy, Grandfather of Obed Macy. He was grandson to Thomas Macy the first settler of Nantucket. ... In 1723 he [Richard] built the first wharf that was made here, now called the Strait Wharf." There follows the tale of the windmill dreamed up by his grandfather recounted in Nat's article.
The map reproduced in the original edition of Crevecoeur's Letters shows a cluster of mills (of the "post" type) situated at the original settlement on the north shore. But the town had moved in from Sherburn[e] by 1720, so perhaps the mapmaker sited the four mills a little too far north.
We are persuaded that the answers to these questions—either to confirm or refute tradition—may be found here in the Stackpole Research Library, in other repositories on the island, on Cape Cod (was Wilbur's murder recorded there?), or somewhere.
We hope others will join us in experiencing what Jean Weber calls "the excitement and rigor attached to the validation of our past."
About the Author: Elizabeth Oldham is a freelance editor, member of the NHA Editorial Board, and NHA Research Library associate.
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MOON WATCHING
November's full moon is sometimes called "the beaver moon" - a name NASA suggests may allude to the practice of setting beaver traps at this time of year, when beavers are especially active. This year the annual event, November 19th, featured the longest partial lunar eclipse in centuries.
Scanned and cleaned by Melora of historyofhyrule.com from the Japanese artbook, Hyrule Historia (Now published in multiple languages)
OK, it's just in a Legal Journal's "Fiction Edition" (legal fiction?), but it's still pretty cool. Unfortunately, the printing process did a number on the photo itself. It looks better here than in reality, since I did some post processing.
Published by O Globo, Brazil 1941
One of the rarest Timely Comics ever published in the world, and among the earliest Timely Publications Globally outside the US.
O Globo is among the earliest publishers of MLJ Comics, Smash Comics, National Comics and Timely Comics in our genres history.
Yes I took this a few min. Ago! The 48 year old me and the artwork I soon will publish here…
My teeth are bright yellow these days!!!
Peace and Noise!
MushroomBrain the face of an artist maniac
1987 Emmy Awards
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Scanned from the original 35MM film negative.
Photograph published in LA Medical Space (link below)
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Published by Gorrion, Brazil 1973
Thor No.1
Published by Ebal, Brazil 1967
Thor No.2
Published by Ebal, Brazil 1967
1st Appearance of Loki
The Postcard
A Real Photograph Series postcard published by Raphael Tuck and Sons. The photography was by Langfier. Waller's statement and signature have been printed over the photograph.
The card has an undivided back. The divided back for postcards was introduced in the UK in 1902, so it it likely that the card was published in 1901 or earlier.
Mr. Lewis Waller
William Waller Lewis (3rd. November 1860 – 1st. November 1915), known on stage as Lewis Waller, was an English actor and theatre manager, well known on the London stage and in the English provinces.
After early stage experience with J. L. Toole's and Helena Modjeska's companies from 1883, Waller became known, by the late 1880's, for romantic leads, both in Shakespeare and in popular costume dramas of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
He attracted a large number of female admirers, who formed themselves into a vocal and conspicuous fan club. He also tried his hand at management of tours in 1885 and 1893, and then became an actor-manager at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in the mid-1890's.
Waller remained an actor-manager for the rest of his career, both in London and on tour.
Despite his commercial success in Booth Tarkington's 'Monsieur Beaucaire' and Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Brigadier Gerard', Waller greatly preferred acting in Shakespeare, in which his roles ranged from Romeo to Othello.
Among the roles he created was Sir Robert Chiltern in Oscar Wilde's 1895 comedy 'An Ideal Husband'.
Lewis Waller - The Early Years
Waller was born in Bilbao, Spain, the eldest son of an English civil engineer, William James Lewis, and his wife, Carlotta née Vyse. He was educated at King's College School in south west London, after which, intending to pursue a commercial career, he studied languages on the Continent. From 1879 to 1883 he was a clerk in a London firm owned by his uncle.
After acting in amateur performances, Waller decided to make a career on the stage, and was engaged by J. L. Toole in 1883. His first role was the Hon. Claude Lorrimer in H. J. Byron's 'Uncle Dick's Darling', in which he was billed as "Waller Lewis".
By May of the same year, he had adopted the stage name Lewis Waller. In that month he appeared at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in a charity matinee for the Actors' Benevolent Fund with Toole's company and such contemporary stars as Rutland Barrington, Lionel Brough, Arthur Cecil, Nellie Farren, George Grossmith, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.
He remained in Toole's company for a year, playing light comedy and juvenile parts. During this year, he married a young actress, Florence West (1862–1912).
He joined a touring company, playing the central role, the blind Gilbert Vaughan, in 'Called Back' by Hugh Conway.
Waller returned to London in March 1885 to play at the Lyceum Theatre in Helena Modjeska's company, as the Abbé in 'Adrienne Lecouvreur', and then toured with her, playing such roles as Mortimer in 'Mary Stuart', and Orlando in 'As You Like It'.
The Manchester Guardian said of the latter:
"He kept Orlando properly ingenuous,
and made him a taking and gallant
young wooer."
Towards the end of 1885, Waller ventured into management for the first time, touring a production of 'Called Back', taking the role of Dr. Basil North, in which The Manchester Guardian thought him:
"A trifle too melodramatic".
The tour was modestly successful, but not such as to lead Waller to mount further productions for some time.
Waller returned to the West End, working for a succession of managements. At the Strand Theatre in early 1887, he played Roy Carlton in 'Jack-in-the-Box', which his biographer describes as his first substantial success in London.
At the Opera Comique he played Ernest Vane in 'Masks and Faces', and Captain Absolute in 'The Rivals'. At the Gaiety Theatre he played Jacques Rosney in 'Civil War'.
Waller then joined William Hunter Kendal and John Hare at the St. James's Theatre, where he played the Duc de Bligny in 'The Ironmaster', Sir George Barclay in 'Lady Clancarty', and Lord Arden in 'The Wife's Secret'.
When Rutland Barrington took over the management of the St. James's in 1888, Waller played George Sabine in 'The Dean's Daughter', and Ralph Crampton in 'Brantinghame Hall'.
Rudolph de Cordova, in a 1909 biographical sketch noted:
"During this period, few theatres
played regular afternoon performances,
so that the actors were, for the most part,
engaged only in the evening. Many
matinees were, however, given to introduce
new plays and new players; and in this way
Mr. Waller acted a large number of new parts,
all of an ephemeral character."
In particular he played several Ibsen roles in these matinees in the early 1890's, bringing him to the attention of people of influence in the theatre such as William Archer, Jacob Grein and Bernard Shaw.
Waller played Oswald in 'Ghosts', Lovborg in 'Hedda Gabler', Rosmer in 'Rosmersholm' and Solness in 'The Master Builder'. The ODNB commented that:
"Archer was delighted that an established
West End actor had contributed to the Ibsen
revival, but was aware that Waller could
overcome neither the play's inadequate
rehearsal period nor his background of
florid West End performances."
Lewis Waller - The Later Years
In October 1893, Waller returned to management, mounting a tour of Wilde's 'A Woman of No Importance', in which he played Lord Illingworth. The Manchester Guardian called it:
"A tolerable travelling company in
which nobody gains great distinction."
Returning to London, Waller, in partnership with H. H. Morrell, leased the Theatre Royal, Haymarket while its regular tenant, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was on tour in the US. He began with the premiere of Wilde's 'An Ideal Husband', playing Sir Robert Chiltern in a cast that included his wife as Mrs. Cheveley, Julia Neilson as Lady Chiltern and Charles Hawtrey as Lord Goring.
Waller and Morrell remained in management until 1897, when Tree invited Waller to join his company at the newly rebuilt Her Majesty's Theatre.
Waller remained with Tree for three years, playing a wide range of roles, including romantic leads in popular costume dramas and, in Tree's lavish Shakespeare productions, Laertes in 'Hamlet', Brutus in 'Julius Caesar', Faulconbridge in 'King John' and Lysander in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'.
After leaving Tree's company, Waller returned to management. Although he loved playing Shakespeare, adding the roles of Romeo, Othello and Henry V to his repertoire, for commercial reasons he was best known as the star of swashbuckling romances. He was particularly identified with the title roles in the stage versions of Booth Tarkington's 'Monsieur Beaucaire' and Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Brigadier Gerard'. He starred in a film of the latter in 1915.
The critic Hesketh Pearson praised Waller for:
"His good looks and virile acting,
and his vibrant voice which rang
through the theatre like a bell and
stirred like a trumpet".
Waller had a large following of enthusiastic women fans, who formed a club known as the K.O.W. [Keen On Waller] Brigade. Pearson lamented:
"The puerile nature of the plays he
usually put on, and the adolescent
behaviour of his female admirers,
prevented many people from
appreciating his superb gift as a
declaimer of Shakespeare's rhetoric,
and frequently exposed him to ridicule."
In 1911 and 1912, Waller made a tour of the US, Canada and Australia. In his absence his wife died. His last play was May Martindale's 'Gamblers All', which opened at Wyndham's Theatre, London in June 1915, with Gerald du Maurier and Madge Titheradge co-starring.
The Manchester Guardian called the production:
"A personal acting triumph
for Lewis Waller".
Death of Lewis Waller
After the West End run, Waller took the play on tour, during which he contracted pneumonia, from which he died in Nottingham two days short of his 55th birthday.
We figured it would be a nice synergy effect to play around a bit with the equipment in the EMT booth.
At the opening of (press release in Estonian only) the Estonian ICT Demo Center in Ülemiste City.
I was there to set up and demonstrate the Yoga Intelligent Building system which is represented in the Center.
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