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Crossroads of the World is little more then an information stand that also sells a small selection of souvenirs, but I just love the way it looks! This was taken as we were leaving Disney's Hollywood Studios. Again, this is one of my "Just One More Shot" moments. I always hate when it's time to leave the parks, but what a great day we had!
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Mary Antin was an author and immigration rights activist. Born to a Jewish family in Polotsk in the Russian Pale of Settlement, she immigrated to the Boston area with her mother and siblings in 1894. Antin was heralded as a success story of what "free education and the European immigrant could make of each other," and in 1899 her letters to an uncle describing this journey were published as From Plotzk to Boston. Proceeds from the book allowed her to attend Girls' Latin School. During a field trip sponsored by Hale House, a settlement house in Boston's South End, she met geologist Amadeus William Grabau, a doctoral student at Harvard, whom she later married. They moved to New York where Grabau joined the faculty at Columbia University and where Antin attended college, at Columbia Teachers College (1901-1902) and at Barnard College (1902-1904). Antin was best known for her autobiography, The Promised Land (1912), for her lectures and writings advocating immigration, and for her support of Theodore Roosevelt and his Progressive Party.
Collection consists of a typed bound volume of 34 pages, entitled My Cuttyhunk Journal, May 27-30, 1899. It is interspersed with blank pages and includes 16 photographs, mostly of scenery (shorelines, boats, cliffs, docks) although several have people in them, including Antin. It is number one of a "Limited Edition of Four Signed copies." The text describes this excursion as "the first trip I took with Mr. Grabau and his class," but there is reference to an encounter with Mr. Grabau five years earlier. They sail from New Bedford and she mentions their study of the flora, fauna, and geology of Cuttyhunk Island; meeting Captain Fred Allen, who was known for inventing a number of life-saving devices for sailors; and sailing to Martha's Vineyard where she meets Native Americans John Vanderhoop and Mr. and Mrs. Cooper. The journal ends with a list of friends from whom she obtained autographs, including Ariel D. Savage, Myron E. Pierce, Frances Zirngiebel, and Helen M. Tower.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Mary Antin, My Cuttyhunk Journal
Call Number: A/A6315
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/012539399/catalog
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I've been using this desktop setup for a few months now. Removed most of the clutter (alot of the geektool scripts didn't survive the upgrade to SL).
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To Do list is a plain text doc that with quicksilver used to add items.
I've been thinking about getting dragthing to make the icons on the left an actual dock as opposed to simply alias icns. Anyone else use dragthing? Like? Dislike?
mamiya 6MF 75mm f/3.5. kodak portra 160NC. lab: A&I color, hollywood, ca. scan: epson V750. exif tags: filmtagger.
Ex allievo e amico amato.
Privato della libertà
eri l'uomo più libero che ho conosciuto.
Nella tua sofferenza più profonda
hai aiutato me a soffrire meno per la mia.
Te ne sei andato senza avvertirmi
quindi certamente una fatalità...
Ora è il mio dispiacere
non essere più pensato da te.
مبارك عليكم هذا الشهر الفضيل، وتقبل الله منا ومنكم صالح الأعمال والطاعات، وأعاد الله علينا بالصحة العافيه...
رمضان كريم
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This is awesome fun stuff to be part of the SteamPunk exhibit at the San Diego Automotive Museum. Hope to see you there! June 1 - Sept. 30, 2012
Cheers!
Based on Girl (without Hair Ribbon) Vector Pop Art
This is my version of Roy Lichtenstein's famous piece.
It's a contour piece made of laminated painted 3mm MDF to pay homage to the original. It is 83 x 63 cm and is a proof of concept piece to develop an idea I have to complete similar pieces based on my own redacted images some of which figure within my Flickr work. It is not for sale - it has already been bagged by eldest son (Jonathon) but later pieces might be if I'm satisfied with their quality and durability. I have also toyed with the idea of somehow incorporating the "Ben Day" dots into a piece more on that later if and when I get it to work
Infographic showing the traffic light monitoring system in place to monitor and regulate fracking-induced seismic activity.
"Why the hell is this guy taking a photo of us texting?"
"I don't know. Pretend he's not here and maybe he will go away."
:-P
BTW, I did check with Sandy (platinum blonde on the left) to make sure I really didn't bother or creep either one out. She said no, and thought that this was a cute and fun pic. *thumbs up*
Black Widow: unknown
Sharon Carter: Princess Sandy