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At Beaufoy Merlin Lookout
"By the end of March 1872, the A. & A. Photographic Co. had established itself at Hill End. There Merlin met the German-born gold miner B. O. Holtermann and a studio was built for the A. & A. Co. on a block Holtermann owned. After three months of photographing at Hill End and Tambaroora, Merlin's company travelled to Gulgong where they set about making images of practically every building, with owners, tenants and passers-by, achieving an unrivalled documentation of a town of that time. At Hill End on 19 October Merlin, again photographing house-to-house, recorded the unearthing of 'Holtermann's nugget'. He wrote an account of Holtermann's life for the Town and Country Journal (2 November 1872)."
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One of the first class lounges in the Hikawa Maru.
In 1961 Hikawa Maru was permanently berthed at Yamashita Park, Naka-ku, Yokohama as a floating museum, hotel and restaurant.
In 2005 her owners announced that they had made substantial financial losses and were seeking to sell Hikawa Maru.
In December 2006 the museum was closed and doubts about her future were raised. However, NYK Line underwrote her restoration, which began in August 2007. She was renamed NYK Hikawamaru and was reopened to the public at Yamashita Park on 25 April 2008.
Taken on an evening walk on Cleeve Hill last weekend. The benches and dry stone wall around the tree are used for memorial plaques, a peaceful place to remember a loved one.
HBM!
This bronze on brick sculpture by Nancy Schon called "Tortoise and Hare" sits in Copley Square, Back Bay and was installed in 1995.
After watching the 1991 Marathon, Schon started thinking about what a sculpture might be like for the Boston Marathon, the oldest foot race in the United States.
She wanted to create a sculpture that would be attractive to children, yet be a meaningful metaphor for the race. She knew the marathon was based on a Greek warrior who in 490 B.C. ran approximately 25 miles to announce the news of a great military victory.
The Greek connection of using another kind of race, that of the fable of the Tortoise and the Hare created by Aesop ( ?620- 560 B.C.) came to mind.
She couldn’t show a man running, or a woman, or a person in a wheelchair. It would be impossible to portray all the people from all over the world who run.
The tortoise and the hare seemed a perfect metaphor to represent the wide variety of people who participate in the marathon - people of all ages, shapes and sizes, many of whom finish, but walk over the finish line.
Schon was also the sculptor for "Make Way For Ducklings" in Boston's Public Garden.
Our second day in Phnom Penh began with a visit to the Killing Fields of Choeung Ek.
Between 1975 and 1978, about 20,000 men, women, children and infants who had been detained and tortured at S-21 prison were transported to the extermination camp of Choeung Ek. It is a peaceful place today, where visitors learn of the horrors that unfolded here decades ago.
cold comfort
on your memorial bench …
this long winter
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sitting
on your memorial bench …
cold comfort
Stately inn in old Charlottetown.
Stately inn in old Charlottetown.
Fairholm National Historic Inn is a historic architectural masterpiece in downtown Charlottetown.
From their website:
When Fairholm was built, the times allowed for prominent families to live in a style we can only imagine. A home the size of Fairholm had staff to care for the house, the gardens, tend to the wishes of family and the many guests. It was a rarefied lifestyle.
Fairholm was built in 1838 as a private family home for Mr. Thomas Heath Haviland. Mr. Haviland was born in England and emigrated to Prince Edward Island in 1816. He soon gained the position of Provost Marshall and other positions of importance and influence followed: in 1823 he was named to the Executive Council, in 1824 he became assistant judge of the Supreme Court, the Colonial Secretary, the Registrar, and the Clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils.
Haviland also secured his personal fortune acting as land agent for Prince Edward Island’s absentee landlords and his own properties. Haviland was elected and reelected Mayor of Charlottetown starting in 1857. The house was ready for occupancy at just about the time that Haviland’s wife, Jane Rebecca Brecken, died. Mr. Haviland and his family of 8 lived at Fairholm for many years.
Haviland sold the house in 1855 to the Honourable Charles Young, LL.D., Q.C. Born in 1812 in Glasgow, he came to Nova Scotia as a child with his family. In 1838, Charles Young was called to the bar, and in the same year he left for the Island to seek his fortune. Just two years later, Young represented Queen’s County in the provincial legislature, a seat that he held until 1863.
Young was an advocate of political and social reform, and he energetically defended the move toward responsible government. He also supported the establishment of free schools. Once responsible government was granted in 1851, Young became the Attorney General, a position that he held for many years. In 1852 Young became a judge. Young and his wife Lucetia lived in the house until Young’s death in 1892.
Fairholm stood uninhabited for two years until acquired by Benjamin Rogers, a local hardware merchant. The Rogers family owned the house until 1999, and one of the last of the Rogers to live in it was the much respected and admired Irene Rogers. Mrs. Rogers was very active in the preservation movement in Prince Edward Island, and wrote and spoke extensively on the subject. She was also, until the time of her death, a member of The Prince Edward Island Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
It is quite an accomplishment that Fairholm was maintained as a private home until very recently. All the care given Fairholm over those 160 years secured its place in Charlottetown’s history. In 1999, after 100 years as the Rogers family residence, the Rogers descendants decided to sell the property to Gordon MacPherson and Brooke and Gina MacMillan.
is a historic architectural masterpiece in downtown Charlottetown.
From their website:
When Fairholm was built, the times allowed for prominent families to live in a style we can only imagine. A home the size of Fairholm had staff to care for the house, the gardens, tend to the wishes of family and the many guests. It was a rarefied lifestyle.
Fairholm was built in 1838 as a private family home for Mr. Thomas Heath Haviland. Mr. Haviland was born in England and emigrated to Prince Edward Island in 1816. He soon gained the position of Provost Marshall and other positions of importance and influence followed: in 1823 he was named to the Executive Council, in 1824 he became assistant judge of the Supreme Court, the Colonial Secretary, the Registrar, and the Clerk of the Executive and Legislative Councils.
Haviland also secured his personal fortune acting as land agent for Prince Edward Island’s absentee landlords and his own properties. Haviland was elected and reelected Mayor of Charlottetown starting in 1857. The house was ready for occupancy at just about the time that Haviland’s wife, Jane Rebecca Brecken, died. Mr. Haviland and his family of 8 lived at Fairholm for many years.
Haviland sold the house in 1855 to the Honourable Charles Young, LL.D., Q.C. Born in 1812 in Glasgow, he came to Nova Scotia as a child with his family. In 1838, Charles Young was called to the bar, and in the same year he left for the Island to seek his fortune. Just two years later, Young represented Queen’s County in the provincial legislature, a seat that he held until 1863.
Young was an advocate of political and social reform, and he energetically defended the move toward responsible government. He also supported the establishment of free schools. Once responsible government was granted in 1851, Young became the Attorney General, a position that he held for many years. In 1852 Young became a judge. Young and his wife Lucetia lived in the house until Young’s death in 1892.
Fairholm stood uninhabited for two years until acquired by Benjamin Rogers, a local hardware merchant. The Rogers family owned the house until 1999, and one of the last of the Rogers to live in it was the much respected and admired Irene Rogers. Mrs. Rogers was very active in the preservation movement in Prince Edward Island, and wrote and spoke extensively on the subject. She was also, until the time of her death, a member of The Prince Edward Island Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
It is quite an accomplishment that Fairholm was maintained as a private home until very recently. All the care given Fairholm over those 160 years secured its place in Charlottetown’s history. In 1999, after 100 years as the Rogers family residence, the Rogers descendants decided to sell the property to Gordon MacPherson and Brooke and Gina MacMillan.
A bench overlooking the Blackwater estuary at Heybridge Basin, Essex. More of an experimental pic with my new graduated ND filter, already I'm liking the results...
Flying on a relatively empty Vanilla air flight from Naha to Ishigaki, Okinawa, Japan. I was a little surprised at the relaxed procedures on this flight, I hardly remember anyone checking my passport and maybe not even the boarding pass :D
We took a Fenway Park tour on the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park, on our last day in Boston. Fenway Park is a baseball park in Boston, Massachusetts, located at 4 Yawkey Way near Kenmore Square. It has been the home of the Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball team since it opened in 1912 and it is the oldest ballpark in MLB.
Because of its age and constrained location in Boston's dense Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood, the park has been renovated or expanded many times, resulting in unique, quirky features including "The Triangle", "Pesky's Pole", and most notably the famous Green Monster in left field. It is the fourth smallest among MLB ballparks by seating capacity, second smallest by total capacity, and one of seven that cannot accommodate at least 40,000 spectators.
Fenway has hosted ten World Series, first the 1912 World Series in its inaugural season and most recently the 2013 World Series.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
September 8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, taken here.
~ Johnny Giles
The empty auditorium of the historic Landmark center.
September 21, 2008, St.Paul, Minnesota. Landmark Center.
You might think this bench is facing the wrong way with that wonderful countryside view behind it, but it is facing towards the garden, filled with flowering magnolias when we were there. HBM and HTMT too
After buying knives in Osaka, it was time for lunch. The Namba area is a maze of narrow streets with dozens of tiny restaurants.
This one is typical. Narrow space with a counter and maybe a few small booths. We arrived just as the cafe was opening. We each had a bowl of noodle soup - it was way to big and very spicy but tasty.
In the entrance to St Fagans Museum of History in South Wales. It's a bit strange walking into 60's or 70's inspired reception area when the properties in site are so traditional. Having given said that the Museum is superb and FREE to enter. Buildings from different historical periods are taken down and re assembled on site. Complete with contents in most cases. And very helpful and knowledgeable volunteers to explain the properties history etc. We spent just over half a day there and only saw less than half of it. Workers cottages, school room, farmhouses, shops etc etc. You get the picture. We'll be back.
Will drip feed mores shots from St Fagans over the next few weeks.
Better than waiting have a look at: