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Taking photos of tagged trucks in Connecticut is like some crazy "catch & release" fishing deal....being close to NYC, we get a bunch crossing into CT...but you tend to see them while driving or as they're getting back onto the highway. I'd seen this truck two or three times this summer, and just happened to catch it while they were changing a flat at Bridgestone. Ten points for me!
A scene from the new Eddie Murphy movie was being filmed at the Statue of Liberty. (updated 06/22/08) Apparently the film has been renamed, "Meet Dave" is the title.
Skeletons Italian dime novel cover, Lord Lister (Raffles) No. 70, 1949, "Il Terremoto Distruttore" (The Earthquake Destroyer), anonymous (Kurt Matull), cover by Tancredi Scarpelli. Translation of German Lord Lister No. 21 (1908). "The distorted figures disappeared rushing headlong into the bowels of the earth."
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Source: Scan of the original item.
Date: April 11th 1868.
Repository: Local Studies at Swindon Central Library.
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St Botolph, Helpston, Cambridgeshire
I took the key to Maxey church back to the cheerful keyholder and cycled back past the church again on my way to a village that I had long wanted to visit. This was Helpston, birthplace, home and burial place of John Clare. Clare was 'the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet', but of course his home village has not been in Northamptonshire for half a century now. How would this be handled by his inevitable tourist industry? Clare is one of those writers like Tennyson or the Brontes who are inextricably linked with a particular location. They also have in common that people who have never read their work, and probably have no intention of ever reading it, still get a frisson over visiting their home village and picking over the bones, so to speak. (In music one might say the same of Benjamin Britten.) With Tennyson that's fair enough, with the possible exception of 'Crossing the Bar', but Clare was a lovely and accessible writer, much more lyrical and pleasing than George Crabbe with whom he is often compared. At this distance it is hard to say whether he suffered from depression or if it was full-blown schizophrenia, but the many years he spent in Northampton lunatic asylum certainly add a pathos to his simple, pastoral verses.
But was he still a Northamptonshire poet? After waiting an age to cross six lanes of East Coast Mainline I headed into the village. The churchyard is very secluded and only accessible through a wall with a grand gateway to the west, a curiously urban situation as if we were in the back streets of York or Bristol. Through the gateway, the church is imposing in such a small space, and difficult to photograph. It has one of those towers you find more commonly in south-east Cambridgeshire where the square tower becomes octagonal before dissolving into a dumpy spire. Clare is buried to the south of the nave under a lozenge shaped slab. Curiously, and most successfully, a smaller replica of this has been set end on at the head of it, so you can clearly read the text. It describes him as the 'Northamptonshire Peasant Poet', but of course it is a replica of the 19th Century original. On its top end has been added 'Here lie the hopes and ashes of John Clare'. On both original and replica, one side simply reads 'A Poet is Born and not Made', which may or may not be true (I suspect it is a little of both) but is most moving.
I stepped into the church. Maybe it was Clare's mood infecting me, but I loved this church. A perfectly poised Anglican country church interior which somehow transcended the lack of significant medieval survivals or unusual features. The whole piece had such a lovely feel to it, a prayerful space. There's a unobtrusive display about John Clare at the back of the church, including quotes from Ronald Blythe's memorable essay about him. I was pleased to see that he wasn't referred to as a Cambridgeshire poet - mind you, it didn't call him a Northamptonshire poet either. I had to go into the centre of the village for that, where the lumpy John Clare memorial reminds us of his birth county. I dare say that confuses visitors who know nothing about him except that he was famous, and nothing about the history of Cambridgeshire either. . You can visit Clare's house just off the high street, and there is a small amount of tourist-oriented commerce including a pottery and so on, as you'd expect. The village school is named after him. But it was all nicely done, I liked it a lot. However, as I left the village I did think they should put up a sign by the road that said 'now go home and READ him'.
1900.
Statues in the east wall. Extension of the old screen. Preparations for the Dedication.
Copyright © 2016, St Ambrose Parocial Church Council.
This is a page from Campbeltown Parochial Board's General Register of Poor. The Poor Law (Scotland) Act 1845 established parochial boards to deal with poor relief. Each parochial board had to keep a register of those paupers who received relief, whether outdoor relief (i.e. money, food, fuel, &c) or indoor relief (i.e. they were sent to the poorhouse). Very few of these registers survive, which is a great pity as they provide a lot of information about a person's life.
This entry records the application of Janet McNair (née Gilchrist) for poor relief in 1865 and give an insight into the life of a poor widower in Campbeltown. If you have any interesting stories about the Poor Law, Poorhouses or the life of Janet McNair, we'd love to hear from you. Please post your comments below.
Title: Cuban Missile Crisis Reading Copy October 22, 1962, 10/22/1962
Creator(s): President (1961-1963 : Kennedy). Office of the Personal Secretary. (1961 - 1963)
Persistent URL: arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=193899
President's Reading Copy, October 22, 1962 (ARC ID 193899); Speech Files; Radio and Televison Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Build Up in Cuba, 10/20/1962 - 10/22/1962; JFK-POF: Papers of John F. Kennedy: President's Office Files, 01/20/1961 - 11/22/1963; John F. Kennedy Library (NLJFK); National Archives and Records Administration.
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This receipt was found in a home on South 4th Street and donated to the Museum.
Date: December 5, 1856
CFM 1997.060.0061
Gift of Pat Coughlin
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A LEAF FROM THE FIRST EDITION | OF THE FIRST COMPLETE
BIBLE IN ENGLISH | THE COVERDALE BIBLE | 1535 | WITH AN
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notes 35–38, bibliography 39–40, census of copies 41–45, blank (46).
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The fragment of the rare Coverdale Bible used for this leaf book came from the
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and a milestone in the sequence of English language Bibles. The census was prepared
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