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The hand holding a heart is a symbol used by the I.O.O.F (Independent Order of Odd Fellows) and Masons, both fraternal organizations. It symbolizes charity. The chain is also a symbol of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, a fraternal organization. Stands for Friendship, Love, and Truth.
I finally went back to Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland on 5-15-10 to cover the areas that I hadn’t visited before. It was still a huge sensory overload. I still have to go back! I had a list of residents I wanted to “visit” and I only found like 4 of them. Sheesh. Did I say the place is a bit overwhelming?
Green Mount Cemetery was one of the earliest rural or garden cemeteries in the United States. Samuel Walker, a Baltimore tobacco merchant, led the campaign to establish the Cemetery after visiting Mount Auburn Cemetery in 1834.
After a successful campaign, Walker, and a group of gentlemen drew up the plans for a public cemetery. The site they chose was the country estate of the late merchant Robert Oliver. Oliver's estate, known as “Green Mount”, was a hilly location at the then northern boundary of the city of Baltimore. During his life, Mr. Oliver spared no expense in beautifying his estate, and aided by its natural advantages, he left it, at his death, a picturesque and highly ornamented locale.
The Proprietors of Green Mount Cemetery purchased about sixty acres from the heirs of Robert Oliver and Green Mount Cemetery was officially established by an act of the General Assembly of Maryland on March 15, 1838.
Benjamin Latrobe, a civil engineer with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, laid out the early design of the Cemetery. His efforts produced a place for reflection with shady avenues and beautiful gardens.
Green Mount Cemetery was officially dedicated on July 13, 1839. Those involved with the service included the Reverend William Wyatt, Congressman John Pendleton Kennedy, and the Reverend J.G. Hamner. Special hymns were written for the occasion by Frances H. Davidge, Esq. and J.H.B. Latrobe, Esq. The Musical Association of Baltimore sung a chorale from the Oratorio of St. Paul by Felix Mendelssohn.
The first person laid to rest in these hallowed grounds was two year old Olivia Cushing. Since that time, Green Mount has become the final resting place of more than 65,000 individuals. Many have had a profound influence on our Nation's History. Within the walls of the Cemetery you will find Statesmen, Captains of Industry, Philanthropists, Artists, Authors, Military Leaders, and even a Presidential Assassin and his Co-conspirators. The Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Odd Future Wolf Gang - NYC Webster Hall 11/8/10 OFWGKTA Tyler Syd Domo Hodgy Left Brain Taco Mike Earl New Yrok City LA Cali
Pill bugs and slugs seem to hang out a lot. I thought this was a pretty good juxtaposition of the odd couple.
Odd Lenore:
Strong as a horse,
likes fast cars, smoky pool halls and beef jerky,
kindhearted and generous.
Made from red quilted fabric and vintage textile remnants including a bit of lace, a piece of linen, a small mother of pearl button and a cutting of flowered fabric. Details stitched and "drawn" with needle, thread and machine.
The International Order of Odd Fellows Temple No. 13 was erected in 1861. It was refaced with new brick and ornamentation in 1934. Until 1912, the post office operated out of this building. For almost 50 years, the Green Parrot Cafe was a Rochester landmark here. Today, downtown fixture Eagle Drug occupies part of the old Green Parrot space as one of the longest-lived businesses in town, having been located in the Odd Fellows building since its founding.
Odd Future Wolf Gang - NYC Webster Hall 11/8/10 OFWGKTA Tyler Syd Domo Hodgy Left Brain Taco Mike Earl New Yrok City LA Cali
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA), led by Tyler the Creator, play a sold out show at the Showbox Market in Seattle, WA. October 4th 2011. (Joshua Lewis)
I got some transparent light blue 1x3 bricks. They were never used in sets, but are not difficult to find. These must be modelbuilder leftovers.
Looking at them a bit more closely, I noticed odd diagonal bands on the inside top surface of these bricks. I can't think of any plausible reason why these would be there...
Does anyone have a suggestion? (Please comment below.) Or is this just one of those weird things that happen, when humans do work?
Cavity numbers 1 to 16, no mould number. All have these diagonal marks with a slight variation in their position. The number 11 is engraved in a different font.
Southwark Cathedral is unique among English Anglican cathedrals in being separated by little more than a mile and the River Thames from it's neighbouring diocesian church, St Paul's. This odd arrangement derives from Southwark being a young diocese, since despite being one of London's oldest churches, it has only had cathedral status since 1905. Surprisingly the new Southwark diocese wasn't even carved out of the London one, since everything south of the Thames had traditionally been part of the Diocese of Winchester.
The site goes back to Roman times, with remains of a villa beneath the present building. A church has probably existed here since the 10th century (first recorded in the Domesday book in 1086) though the present cruciform building is mostly the result of 13th century rebuilding. The church was then known as St Mary Overie ('over the river') and served a college of priests.
Following the Reformation it was stripped of it's collegiate function and redesignated as the parish church of St Saviour. For a while the parishoners rented the building from the Crown until they were able to buy it for their own use in 1614. Certain chapels ceased to be used and the building suffered a long decline, culminating in the early 19th century when neighbouring London Bridge was being rebuilt, and road enlargement encroached on the churchyard. There were calls to demolish the church but luckily preservationists won the day, though two projecting chapels were lost at this time.
Though the east end was repaired the neglect had taken it's toll on the nave and in 1832 it's roof was removed, leaving it open to the elements for seven years until it was tragically demolished and replaced with a cheap and nasty brick substitute. Happily this was itself replaced in 1890 by the present nave by Sir Arthur Blomfield, a very successful attempt to replicate the surviving medieval choir which restored harmonyt and dignity to the building in preparation for it's rise to cathedral rank in 1905.
Today the church is a haven of peace in one of the most unsympathetic settings of any English cathedral, hemmed in by roads, car parks and a railway viaduct that passes through the former churchyard! Somewhat choked by all this developement, the exterior looks mostly Victorian, thanks to the new nave and general refacing of the older parts, except for the 15th century central tower.The interior however is a delight, and transports the visitor back to the 1200s, despite the newness of the nave and it's aisles, which blend beautifully with the medieval choir and transepts. The focal point of the interior is the high altar screen of c1520, adorned with niches containing statues (all Victorian replacements).
There are many tombs and monuments in the cathedral spanning all periods and styles, and several have been recoloured (thanks to a slightly over enthusiastic campaign in the 1960s). The most notable tombs include that of the poet John Gower (14th century) in the north aisle, and 16th century Anglican divine, Bishop Lancelot Andrewes in the choir.There is a modern monument to Shakespeare bearing his effigy (he is believed to have worshipped here,being close to the Globe and Rose theatres, his brother Edmund is buried nearby). Further medieval and later monuments are in the choir aisles, and a rich collectionn of Baroque wall tablets adorn the transepts.
The furnishings are generally Victorian, whilst the stained glass is mostly later, the most prominent being Ninian Comper's 1950s east window of Christ in glory and Henry Holiday's superb Pre-Raphaelite west window on the theme of Creation. Most of the Victorian glass was lost to wartime bombing, in it's place we have some fine modern windows in the south choir aisle by Lawrence Lee and Alan Younger, and the Shakespeare window by Christopher Webb.
At the west end is a display of medieval wooden roof bosses from the old nave (more have been reintegrated into the tower ceiling, which has a modern design by George Pace). To the north a large suite of rooms has recently been constructed to serve the cathedral's administrative functions.
Detail shots for the jewelry line I will be selling on etsy beginning March 3. The initial collection of jewelry is inspired by secret societies: The Free Masons, Shriner's, and Odd Fellows. As well as sculptors of both marble and wood: Constantin Brancusi, Mark Lindquist, and Isamu Noguchi. All of the components in these pieces are recycled, dead-stock parts combined with small-scale artisan-crafted new materials. The shop is here: www.etsy.com/shop/wenvrsleep?ref=pr_shop
Photo Copyright: Laura Kicey
Ambitious mother enrolls her baby in swimming-soccer-social studies-horticultural program. Lessons go well for awhile until baby revolts and bolts.
I bought this card mostly because of how odd the whole image seemed, a most unlikely place for a petrol station as it appears from this view. However, looking at the same place and view in the present day it makes far more sense. This viewpoint must have been chosen very carefully to make it look as rural as possible whereas, if not then, certainly now, it's in the middle of a built up area. I think the biggest factor is the trees which appear to be in the peak of growth suggesting this photo was taken at the height of summer. One might just be able to make out a single pump in the distance but I'm not sure. The one thing that really stands out is the sign for petrol.
in the present day, where the petrol station was, is now a neat row of shops set back from the main road on its own access road and with the aforementioned row of trees in between. I say main road, it's clearly not now as it is marked as a dead end, which takes me back to my original point of it being an unlikely place for the petrol station to have ever existed.
Maybe it wasn't a dead end back then.
Here's the same view in the present day.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.7781634,-0.7164564,3a,75y,180.5...
An out-of-town INRD/DM&E duo finds itself among some very-Chicago billboards.
With a bread company whoring those lovable losers of the Northside on one side, and another hawking deep-dish pizza that to me tastes like the cardboard box it comes in on the other, the out-of-place pair from far-away and exotic lands called Indiana and the Dakotas have some landmarks to place them out of their normal element in Canadian Pacific's Bensenville Yard.