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It’s just after 12:30pm on Tuesday, June 27th as P&W 2006, one of two GP38-2s bracketing today’s PR-3 wobbles east down the degrading Providence Journal spur to retrieve a trio of empty paper boxcars. Upon easing further into greenery and pulling out the set of high-cube boxcars, 2006 will shove northwest back to Atwells interlocking on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, where they will join the remaining consist and P&W 2008.
Here is the wide frame of this scene with a bit of historical context. After their quick trip down to the receiving yard to grab the four empty gons, Providence and Worcester Railroad local freight PR-3's next order of business was a trip down the East Providence Running Track to switch out Teknor Apex and Baer Supply. Having completed their work down there, their final task for the day was to make a quick sprint 11 miles up the mainline to Woonsocket to work Ralco Industries in the small yard there.
Having made short order of their work halfway up the line they are sprinting back south to drop their cars in Valley Falls Yard, put their power back together, and head for the barn and a quit. They are seen here flying south at MP 8.7 just past the Martin Street crossing.
Standing at right is a classic brick New England mill now repurposed and beautifully restored. Here is an excerpt from the National Register of Historic Places nomination form from 1972 when it and the entire Berkeley Mill Village were added.
The original 4-story, 27-bay, 300 ft. x 90 ft., brick mill with a low pitch gable roof, built in 1872 by the Lonsdale Company, was enlarged by addition of a 20 ft. x 90 ft. ell on the south in 1891. The handsome projecting central tower, a simplified Romanesque design, retains original wood-paneled double freight doors on each level, and brick corbelling.
The mill village of Berkeley, Rhode Island, was established by the Berkeley Company, textile manufacturers, in the Blackstone River Valley in 1872. Except for one unit of workers’ housing, all of the original structures--including the mill, the schoolhouse, the superintendent’s residence, and a concentration of workers’ housing--are preserved today with little alteration.
And if you're interested here is a news article with some more interesting information:
www.providencejournal.com/story/business/real-estate/2015...
GP38-2s 2006 and 2008s are original to the road having been built new for the then only 7 year independent company by EMD in Dec. and Feb. 1980 respectively), and they still proudly wear their red and brown colors despite being a member of the Genesee and Wyoming family for more than six years already.
Cumberland, Rhode Island
Thursday October 26, 2023
Just one of the creepy stories that will be featured at the theatre event I am involved with this May. More info: www.legendtrips.com/new_england_legends_ghosts.shtml
October 15th, 2014
Chestnut Hill Cemetery behind the Baptist church on Victory Highway in Exeter, RI
There is a fantastic write-up on the legend by Jeff Belanger: www.ghostvillage.com/legends/2003/legends20_06142003.shtml
Some excerpts:
"'There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples,' said Dr. Seward's diary in Bram Stoker's Dracula. It was Bram Stoker who took the vampire of folklore and made him beautiful, powerful, and sexy. There were cases of vampires all over the world before, during, and even after Dracula both seduced and frightened us -- one of these cases was Mercy Brown, the Rhode Island vampire.
Mercy Brown has the distinction of being the last of the North American vampires -- at least in the traditional sense. Mercy Lena Brown was a farmer's daughter and an upstanding member of rural Exeter, Rhode Island. She was only 19 years old when she died of consumption on January 17, 1892. On March 17, 1892, Mercy's body would be exhumed from the cemetery because members of the community suspected the vampire Mercy Brown was attacking her dying brother, Edwin.
During the 1800s, consumption, or pulmonary tuberculosis, was credited with one out of four deaths. Consumption could kill you slowly over many years, or the disease could come quickly and end your life in a matter of weeks. The effects were devastating on families and communities. Dr. Bell explained that some of the symptoms of consumption are the gradual loss of strength and skin tone. The victim becomes pale, stops eating, and literally wastes away. At night, the condition worsens because the patient is lying on their back, and fluid and blood may collect in the lungs. During later stages, one might wake up to find blood on one's face, neck, and nightclothes, breathing is laborious, and the body is starved for oxygen.
Dr. Bell feels there is a direct connection between vampire cases and consumption. He said, 'The way you look personally is the way vampires have always been portrayed in folklore -- like walking corpses, which is what you are, at least in the later stages of consumption. Skin and bones, fingernails are long and curved, you look like the vampire from Nosferatu.'
Consumption took its first victim within the Brown family in December of 1883 when Mercy's mother, Mary Brown, died of the disease. Seven months later, the Browns' eldest daughter, Mary Olive, also died of consumption. The Browns' only son, Edwin, came down with consumption a few years after Mary Olive's death and was sent to live in the arid climate of Colorado to try and stop the disease. Late in 1891, Edwin returned home to Exeter because the disease was progressing -- he essentially came home to die. Mercy's battle with consumption was considerably shorter than her brother's. Mercy had the "galloping" variety of consumption -- her battle with the disease lasted only a few months. Mercy was laid to rest in Chestnut Hill Cemetery behind the Baptist church on Victory Highway.
After Mercy's funeral, her brother Edwin's condition worsened rapidly, and their father, George Brown, grew more frantic. Mr. Brown had lost his wife and two of his daughters, and now he was about to lose his only son. Science and medicine had no answers for George Brown, but folklore did. For centuries prior to Mercy Brown there have been vampires. The practice of slaying these "walking dead" began in Europe -- some of the ways people dealt with vampires was to exhume the body of the suspect, drive a stake through the heart, rearrange the skeletal remains, remove vital organs, or cremate the entire corpse. All of these rituals involve desecrating the mortal remains. The practice happened with enough regularity that the general population felt it could cure, or at the very least help, whatever evil was overwhelming them.
So much death had plagued the Brown family that poor George Brown probably felt he was cursed in some way. It wouldn't take too many chats with those empathizing with George's plight to come up with a radical idea to stop the death. Maybe the Brown family was under vampire attacks from beyond the grave. Was Mercy Brown the vampire, or was it Mercy's mother or sister? George Brown was willing to dig up the body of his recently deceased daughter, remove her heart, burn it, and feed the ashes to his son because he felt he had no other choice.
Mercy Brown died before embalming became a common practice. During decomposition, it is possible for bodies to sit up, jerk -- even sounds can emit from them because bloating can occur, and if wind escapes by passing over the vocal chords, there could be groans.
We don't know exactly what position her body was in on that day in March when George Brown, and some of his friends and family, came to examine Mercy's body. We do know that she looked "too well preserved."
'There's a suggestion in the newspaper that she wasn't actually interred in the ground," Dr. Bell said. "She was actually put in an above-ground crypt, because bodies were stored in the wintertime when the ground was frozen and they couldn't really dig. When the thaw came, they would bury them. So it's possible that she wasn't even really interred.'
Her visual condition prompted the group to cut open her chest cavity and examine her innards. Dr. Bell said, "They examined her organs. The newspaper said her heart and liver had blood in it. It was liquid blood, which they interpreted as fresh blood." Bell explained how forensics can clarify how blood can coagulate and become liquid again, but at the time, the liquid was taken as evidence that Mercy was indeed a vampire and the one draining the life from Edwin and possibly other consumption victims in the community.
Dr. Bell said, 'They cut her heart out, and as Everett said, they burned it on a nearby rock. Then according to the newspaper, they fed them [the ashes of the heart] to Edwin.' The folklore said that destroying the heart of a vampire would kill it, and by consuming the remains of the vampire's heart -- the spell would be broken and the victim would get well.
The community's vampire slaying had failed to save Edwin -- he died two months later, but maybe it helped others in the community? Dr. Bell's view on Mercy Brown is that she was the scapegoat author Paul Barber discussed. Dr. Bell said, 'She basically absorbs the ignorance, the fears, and in some cases the guilt that people have because their neighbors, friends, and family are dying, and they don't understand why and they can't stop it.'
Mercy Brown is arguably North America's most famous vampire because she is also the most recent. The event caused such a stir in 1892 because newspapers like the Providence Journal editorialized that the idea of exhuming a body to burn the heart is completely barbaric in those modern times.:
SOURCE: www.ghostvillage.com/legends/2003/legends20_06142003.shtml
www.providencejournal.com/article/20160217/NEWS/160219365
The world has lost a most amazing man.
During my sojourn in Singapore, meeting and spending time with Andrew Dickerman was one of the highlights of my trip.
His prowess behind the camera, with his ability to command people's attention and yet take the most magical, off the cuff moments, left me in awe.
His happy-go-lucky "why not?" attitude in life regarding his travels, his passion for photography, and his life in general has profoundly affected me.
I am a better man for having spent time (albeit too briefly) with you. I'm sad I won't be able to see and spend time with you in Martha's Vineyard anymore.
You will be missed, my friend.
Rest in peace.
"Wedding Cake House", an elaborate Italianate building at 514 Broadway, Providence. aka Kendrick-Prentice-Tirocchi House.
This one is not on the National Register, as far as I can tell, although it sure looks like it should be.
News story: www.providencejournal.com/article/20150923/NEWS/150929653
Give to the Indiegogo: igg.me/at/PreservePrenticePVD/x
Clarksdale est. 1848, pop. 17,962
• Ike Wister Turner (1931-2007) was born in this house • his father, Izear Luster Turner, was a Baptist minister, carpenter & RR worker • peering out of a front window, 3-yr-old Ike saw him beaten by a white posse led by the lover of one of Izear's girlfriends
• for years Ike thought his own name was Izear Luster Turner Jr • discovered legal name when he applied for a passport • has said first sex (age 6) was with a 45-year-old "Miss Boozie" • allegedly raped by 2 other women before age 12, said he wasn't traumatized: "In those days they didn't call it abuse. They called it fun!"
• Izear Turner died three years later, either from injuries suffered during the beating or, according to writer/blues historian Ted Drozdowski, in an industrial accident
• at age 11 Ike's mom – Beatrice – gave him 25¢/wk for piano lessons from blues pianist & future recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, Pinetop Perkins (1913-2011) • boogie-woogie lessons in a pool hall: Ike played piano while Pinetop played pool • after an hour, Pinetop would play something for Ike to practice before his next lesson • learned guitar from Robert Nighthawk (1909-1967)
• as teenager operated elevator at Alcazar Hotel • assisted deejay Early Wright (1915-1999) at WROX studio located in hotel • in late 40s formed band Kings of Rhythm • their landmark 1951 song, "Rocket 88", credited to Jackie Brenston & his Delta Cats, who were actually the Kings of Rhythm with Turner on piano
• versions of song's origins have Brenston (1930-1979) as writer or, a 19-year-old Ike Turner writing the song with or without Brenston, either at the Riverside Hotel and/or on the road: We started writing the song in the car. By the time we got to Memphis, we was almost finished writing it, and we finished writing it in the studio. It took me 10 or 15 minutes to put the music together. -Ike Turner, We Like Ike • No. 1 on R&B charts, earned Ike $20 and no credit
• produced by 28-year-old Sam Phillips (1923-2003), Memphis Recording Service • released by Chess Records, Chicago • Phillips claimed "Rocket 88" first ever rock 'n roll record • others hold differing opinions • Brenston said song is based on 1947 Jimmy Liggins hit, Cadillac Boogie (2:39): If you listen to the two songs, you'll find out they're both basically the same. The words are just changed. • original recording of "Rocket 88" (02:54) • also influenced by Pete Johnson's 1949 Rocket Boogie 88 (2:32), named for newly launched Oldsmobile Rocket 88 automobile
• Turner became Philips' production assistant, commuting Clarksdale-Memphis • played piano on B. B. King's You Know I Love You • as a result, Modern Records' Joe Bihari requested Turner for King's 3 O'Clock Blues session, then hired him as talent scout • Bobby Bland, Howlin' Wolf, Rosco Gordon, Little Milton among artists sourced by Turner
• became in-house producer, cut Howlin' Wolf tracks, also Sonny Boy Williamson II, Elmore James, others • wrote new material which Bihari Brothers copyrighted for themselves without his knowledge • though not Jewish, Turner wore silver-dollar-sized star of David for good luck after being gifted one by Bihari brothers -We Like Ike, Daniel Durchholz, Riverfront Times
• moved to St. Louis, 1954 • met Anna Mae Bullock (b. 1939), a teenager from Nutbush, TN • hired her as singer for his band, naming her "Little Ann" • recorded A Fool in Love, 1960 • producer Juggy Murray of Sue Records (NY), offered $25K advance
• Ike asked Anna to use his surname to discourage her former lover — saxophonist Raymond Hill (1933-1996) — from trying to steal her for his band • Ike changed her first name to Tina (without her permission, she says), renamed backup trio the Ikettes • A Fool in Love (Sue 765) released 1960 under billing Ike & Tina Turner, sold 1MM copies, No. 2 R&B charts, No 27 pop • video (2:40) • duo became national stars • 1972 Grammy for Proud Mary • video (6:02)
• Turner one of the first black musicians to keep control of his music • owned booking agency, publishing & management company, designed band's uniforms & Ikettes' costumes including wigs and makeup, choreographed dance steps, directed lighting sound and stage effects.
• a former lover said, Once you go to bed with him, you wanted to stick around. -Ebony, Oct, 2008 • Ike married at least 5 times, claimed it was 14 – insisted the 1962 Tijuana marriage to Tina Turner never happened • had 6 children including Tina's son Craig — fathered by Raymond Hill but carries Turner's name — and also their own son, Ronald "Ronnie" Renelle Turner (b. 1960)
• Ike's infidelity & addiction to cocaine put a strain on the marriage • when he was getting on with housekeeper Ann Cain, Tina allegedly threatened her with a hammer, threw a table, beat her up • Ike: If I owe anybody an apology, that would be Tina. I put her through hell with other women. I regret it today, but I can't undo it. -Jet Magazine, 2006 • Tina failed in suicide attempt, 1968 • 16 yr. marriage ended in 1976 divorce, finalized 1978, never in contact again • Tina allowed to retain her name because Ike failed to copyright it
• Ike's career & personal life suffered following allegations of domestic abuse in Tina's 1986 autobiography, I Tina: My Life Story, co-written by Kurt Loder • the Disney/Touchstone 1993 "biopic" What's Love Got To Do With It was even more devastating
• movie was based on the book but "fictionalized for dramatic purposes" • public outraged by Ike as portrayed in movie • made "Ike Turner" byword for "domestic violence" & Tina a feminist icon • Ike claimed he never pulled gun on Tina as portrayed in movie; both Turners denied that Ike raped Tina • episode in book where Tina was served cake she didn't order & Ike tells her to eat it became film's famous eat cake scene (2:18), referenced in Beyoncé's controversial Drunk in Love • partial list of innacuracies
• Tina occasionally visited movie set, made corrections to script • regarding the movie, she said, I would have liked for them to have had more truth, but according to Disney, they said, it's impossible, the people would not have believed the truth. -Wikipedia
• with movie's release, Tina set off on the What's Love? concert tour, her first in US since 1987 Break Every Rule tour followed up her book's release & set new attendance record for a female artist • Tina's career soared • in 1996 she told Jet Magazine, "I am as big as Madonna in Europe. I am as big, in some places, as the Rolling Stones."
• Ike said that prior to production of the movie, Disney offered $45K for what he understood to be permission for an actor to play Ike Turner; he signed, not realizing he had just forfeited his right to sue • to tell his side, Ike wrote an autobiography, Takin' Back My Name (1999), co-written by Nigel Cawthorne, Richard Little
• the 5'8, 125 lb. musician's admissions to Tina's accusations were inconsistent • in a TV interview (4:33), Ike admitted hitting Tina • Sure, I've slapped Tina... There have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. But I have never beat her. • Yeah I hit her, but I didn't hit her more than the average guy beats his wife ... If she says I abused her, maybe I did. -Wikipedia
Me and the Devil / was walkin' side by side / Me and the Devil, ooh / was walkin' side by side / And I'm goin' to beat my woman / until I get satisfied -Robert Johnson, Me and the Devil Blues (2:38) • Uncensored History of the Blues podcast: Beating Blues (24:37)
• Oh, sure [I hit her], but not because I was mean or anything bad like that. She would get these attitudes and give me grief, so we would get into fights and I maybe had to hit her some. • But I never beat her. That's not my style. If you start something with me, I just ain't going to sit back and take it. • Tina exaggerates about me beating her. Have you seen how big she is? Man, she could handle guys bigger than me if she wanted to. But ain't it part the woman's fault if she stays around and lets me hit her? She didn't have to put up with that." -Rockabilly
• former Ikette PP Arnold said "of course" she witnessed Ike's spousal abuse. We were on the road together. Traveling together like family. I think that I was affected worse than the others because of my own personal abuse syndrome. I cried for Tina on many occasions. • former Ikette Claudia Lennear said, During the three years I was an Ikette, I never witnessed any physical abuse. He was certainly never abusive to me. -Providence Journal
• Steve "Sandy" Leigh, keyboardist: I played for I&TT. I lived in their house. Tina (Little Ann) was known as "Ditta". She often made me lunch. At no time was there any violence that *I* know of. If there was, I'd be honest about it. -In Honor of Ike Turner
• singer Etta James said she witnessed (seemingly unprovoked) violence: Tina said, “Look at this diamond Ike gave me," as she pulled the ring from her purse and started putting it on her finger. It was dazzling. When Ike came back, he took one look at the ring on Tina’s hand and without saying a word, he punched her in the face with a closed fist. Then he grabbed her hand and bent it back, and yanked off the ring, almost breaking her finger in the process. Her face swelled up right in front of me. -Rage to Survive, 1995
• recalling longtime Ikette Robbie Montgomery Tina said, Robbie was a support for me in those dark days [of Ike's abuse]... And when Robbie left, I missed her so much. I don't mean to cry... Robbie and I were very close. -Huffington Post, 2013 • in 2014 TV interview, Robbie Montgomery said she believed Ike was bipolar but never witnessed him abusing Tina: video (2:19)
• Ike's ex-wife Jeannette Bazzell said, I want the truth exposed. He was a man who stood on his own courage. He was very demanding, controlling and yes, he was a womanizer. But he gave his heart. When he was up, he was all the way up. When he was down, he was all the way down. There was no middle. • Turner's caregiver, background singer Falina Rasool, said Ike was taking Seroquel for his bipolar condition -The Last Days of Ike Turner, Ebony, Oct, 2008
• Ike never got over the divorce from Tina • My father used to come to my house a lot... He used to ramble around and try to look for my mom's phone number. -Ronnie Turner • a drug conviction landed Ike in California Men's Colony, San Luis Obispo, 1989 • 4 yr. sentence, released after 2 • total arrests during lifetime unclear, but seems to be between 10 and 12 -Rockabilly
• recorded 1st album in 23 yrs, Grammy-nominated Here and Now, 2001 • drug-free until 2004 relapse • won 1st solo Grammy for Risin' With the Blues, 2006 • Ike & Tina inducted into Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame while Ike in jail, 1991 • died, 12 Dec, 2007, "cocaine toxicity"
• B.B. King told me at a party with Doc Pomus and Joe Turner and Ray Charles sitting there that Ike Turner was the only guitar player he wouldn't play behind. That's how good he was. -Phil Spector eulogy, 2007 • He could play almost every instrument better than anybody else in the band. He worked hard, but he had a gift. It was unbelievable. -Robert Johnson, music exec. • The best musician I ever encountered. -Sam Phillips • shortly before Ike died, request from Big Muddy Blues Festival to declare an Ike Turner Day refused by St. Louis mayor Francis Slay • Ike Turner added to St. Louis Walk of Fame, 2001 • Clarksdale Walk of Fame, 2010
• Ike Turner (1931-2007) bio -Gibson USA • Ike Turner, aka Icky Rennut, Lover Boy, in Wikipedia • The History of Rock 'N' Roll in 25 Songs -Hunter Schwarz, rhombus • The Number One "Rocket 88" -Rock & Roll Hall of Fame • St. Louis Recalls -Columbia Tribune • obituary -NY Times
Bob Thayer/The Providence Journal
Jonathan Knowles, associate professor of architecture at the Rhode Isand School of Design, right, describes the "soft house" during a critique session at the school.
BY ALEX KUFFNER Journal Staff Writer akuffner@providencejournal.com
PROVIDENCE — It’s not often that architects worry about a house blowing away, taking off like a kite caught in an updraft. But that was one possibility that couldn’t be ignored when the designers of a house made of a fabric that has the look and feel of sail cloth met on a recent afternoon at the Rhode Island School of Design. “It brings up an obvious point,” Peter Dean, assistant professor of furniture design, said as he studied a scale model of the house. “Does this whole thing become airborne?” His comment met with laughs but it also led to a serious discussion among the couple dozen students and teachers in the classroom about how to anchor the lightweight structure so it can withstand a strong gust of wind. It was an unusual conversation, but then everything about the Techstyle Haus is unusual. The 800-square-foot house will showcase the latest in sustainable design. It will use 90 percent less energy than the typical home. A 5-kilowatt solar array will generate all the electricity it needs. A small solar thermal system will provide all its hot water. The one-bedroom house will also be mobile, able to be taken apart in sections, moved and reassembled. And as the name of the house — pronounced like “textile” — suggests, the primary building material will be fabric, with the outer shell made of woven fiberglass.
The project, a collaboration between students from RISD, Brown University and the University of Erfurt in Germany, was conceived for the 2014 Solar Decathlon Europe, an international competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy to see who can design the most innovative energy-efficient homes. The house will be built in Rhode Island and shipped next summer to France, where the Palace of Versailles will become home to a village of 20 solar homes designed by teams of college students from Japan, India, Spain and other countries. The Techstyle Haus is one of only two U.S.-based entries in the competition. The project was started a year ago by Jonathan Knowles, associate professor of architecture at RISD and a designer of net-zero energy homes — homes that create all the power they use. Knowles helped lead the RISD team that entered a design in the 2005 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. That house is now used for faculty housing at Portsmouth Abbey, the private school on Aquidneck Island. He had been wanting to participate again but the competition is expensive and the recession had made funding difficult. The partnership between the three schools allowed them to enter the 2014 competition. Four students at RISD and Brown initially signed up, but the team quickly grew to more than 60 members, expanding into many departments at the schools, including architecture, engineering, textile design, furniture design and landscape architecture.
Derek Stein, assistant professor of physics at Brown, is heading up his school’s contributions. Students at Erfurt are working on the energy analysis for the house.
“It started more as an extracurricular activity,” said Grace Wong, a senior RISD architecture student and one of the original members of the team. “It eventually became a much larger thing.” Their idea was to create a habitation that would meet the standards for what’s known as a passive house, a structure that is so well-insulated and sealed so tight that it needs little, if any, heating. “The analogy they use is that you only need a hair dryer to heat your home,” said Knowles. The tiny energy footprint is not the only feature that sets the fully-functioning house apart from traditional structures. It will also have a small materials footprint. It won’t use any drywall and only a minimum of wood. The curvy structure will be supported by a series of ribs, with an interior lined in a fabric designed at RISD and an exterior made of SheerFill, a durable fiberglass material that has been used on roofs for stadiums and shopping centers but never for entire houses. Flexible photovoltaic cells to generate power will be embedded in the fiberglass, so the roof won’t be encumbered by bulky solar panels. That has also never been done before, said Knowles. Part of the roof will be translucent to let in natural light. Walls of glass at either end of the house will also maximize light exposure and help create heat in the winter. Photoluminescent paint, which absorbs sunlight during the day and glows in the dark, will replace electric lights in places, such as the path to the hub that will house the bathroom, kitchen and mechanical systems.
“When you get up and go to the bathroom at night, you won’t have to turn on the lights,” said Kim Dupont-Madinier, a senior RISD architecture student. The house will cost an estimated $700,000 to design and build. So far, the project team has raised $500,000 in cash donations, materials and technical expertise from Saint-Gobain, the French manufacturer of SheerFill, and other companies, including Taco, the Cranston heating components maker, and Providence’s Shawmut Design and Construction. Ximedica, the Providence medical products company founded by RISD graduates Stephen Lane and Aidan Petrie, has cleared half its warehouse in Cranston to give the team enough space to build the sections of the house. A manager from Shawmut will oversee construction, which must be done entirely by the students. Team members showed their design at the U.S. Embassy in Paris in November and earlier this month gave a presentation to U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a leading supporter in Congress of renewable energy. The team is not just building the house for the competition. Domaine de Boisbuchet, an arts retreat in France associated with some of Europe’s leading design museums and schools, has agreed to take the structure afterward, place it in an apple orchard and test it out as a dormitory. If it works, the organization will commission up to seven more of the houses.
Under the rules of the Solar Decathlon, competitors are not allowed to build foundations for their houses or otherwise dig into the ground. They cannot pour concrete or drill holes. They can only hammer stakes in the ground if needed. While other teams will be able to sit their structures on the ground without much concern, the Techstyle Haus team will have a more difficult time. Unlike a tent that has guy wires holding it down, for aesthetic reasons, the house must be self-anchored. The exterior fabric walls will be cinched down to a steel I-beam. They will also be weighted with ballast. The idea is to create a type of modular home, one with a soft shell. “You can pick this thing up and put it anywhere,” Brett Schneider, a RISD professor of architecture, said at the final design critique last week.
But using fabric is a challenge. “It’s less material and a lot more engineering,” Knowles said. “It’s harder engineering,” said Montana Feiger, a senior structural engineering student at Brown who is coordinating the work with Saint-Gobain. So far, the team has built a mock-up of one of the house’s sections, but construction of the actual house won’t start until Jan. 6. The team must have everything ready to be shipped by May 1. Once the pieces arrive in Paris, the students will have only 10 days to put the house together for the competition that starts in mid-June.“We’ll have enough time — if we’re on time,” said Dupont-Madinier, who is serving as the assistant to the project manager. Summer weather in France can be volatile. Team members wondered what would happen to their creation if a nasty storm rolls through Versailles. “The beautiful thing about a big rainstorm is that everyone will run inside and hold the house in place,” said Dean.
I did request an upper floor room when I booked my Providence RI hotel and was rewarded with this view of the city looking east. I overlook the offices of the Providence Journal (‘The Pro Jo’), which has been published since 1829. The Pro Jo boasts of being America’s oldest daily newspaper in continuous production.
Clarksdale est. 1848, pop. 17,962
• Ike Wister Turner (1931-2007) was born in this house • his father, Izear Luster Turner, was a Baptist minister, carpenter & RR worker • peering out of a front window, 3-yr-old Ike saw him beaten by a white posse led by the lover of one of Izear's girlfriends
• for years Ike thought his own name was Izear Luster Turner Jr • discovered legal name when he applied for a passport • has said first sex (age 6) was with a 45-year-old "Miss Boozie" • allegedly raped by 2 other women before age 12, said he wasn't traumatized: "In those days they didn't call it abuse. They called it fun!"
• Izear Turner died three years later, either from injuries suffered during the beating or, according to writer/blues historian Ted Drozdowski, in an industrial accident
• at age 11 Ike's mom – Beatrice – gave him 25¢/wk for piano lessons from blues pianist & future recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, Pinetop Perkins (1913-2011) • boogie-woogie lessons in a pool hall: Ike played piano while Pinetop played pool • after an hour, Pinetop would play something for Ike to practice before his next lesson • learned guitar from Robert Nighthawk (1909-1967)
• as teenager operated elevator at Alcazar Hotel • assisted deejay Early Wright (1915-1999) at WROX studio located in hotel • in late 40s formed band Kings of Rhythm • their landmark 1951 song, "Rocket 88", credited to Jackie Brenston & his Delta Cats, who were actually the Kings of Rhythm with Turner on piano
• versions of song's origins have Brenston (1930-1979) as writer or, a 19-year-old Ike Turner writing the song with or without Brenston, either at the Riverside Hotel and/or on the road: We started writing the song in the car. By the time we got to Memphis, we was almost finished writing it, and we finished writing it in the studio. It took me 10 or 15 minutes to put the music together. -Ike Turner, We Like Ike • No. 1 on R&B charts, earned Ike $20 and no credit
• produced by 28-year-old Sam Phillips (1923-2003), Memphis Recording Service • released by Chess Records, Chicago • Phillips claimed "Rocket 88" first ever rock 'n roll record • others hold differing opinions • Brenston said song is based on 1947 Jimmy Liggins hit, Cadillac Boogie (2:39): If you listen to the two songs, you'll find out they're both basically the same. The words are just changed. • original recording of "Rocket 88" (02:54) • also influenced by Pete Johnson's 1949 Rocket Boogie 88 (2:32), named for newly launched Oldsmobile Rocket 88 automobile
• Turner became Philips' production assistant, commuting Clarksdale-Memphis • played piano on B. B. King's You Know I Love You • as a result, Modern Records' Joe Bihari requested Turner for King's 3 O'Clock Blues session, then hired him as talent scout • Bobby Bland, Howlin' Wolf, Rosco Gordon, Little Milton among artists sourced by Turner
• became in-house producer, cut Howlin' Wolf tracks, also Sonny Boy Williamson II, Elmore James, others • wrote new material which Bihari Brothers copyrighted for themselves without his knowledge • though not Jewish, Turner wore silver-dollar-sized star of David for good luck after being gifted one by Bihari brothers -We Like Ike, Daniel Durchholz, Riverfront Times
• moved to St. Louis, 1954 • met Anna Mae Bullock (b. 1939), a teenager from Nutbush, TN • hired her as singer for his band, naming her "Little Ann" • recorded A Fool in Love, 1960 • producer Juggy Murray of Sue Records (NY), offered $25K advance
• Ike asked Anna to use his surname to discourage her former lover — saxophonist Raymond Hill (1933-1996) — from trying to steal her for his band • Ike changed her first name to Tina (without her permission, she says), renamed backup trio the Ikettes • A Fool in Love (Sue 765) released 1960 under billing Ike & Tina Turner, sold 1MM copies, No. 2 R&B charts, No 27 pop • video (2:40) • duo became national stars • 1972 Grammy for Proud Mary • video (6:02)
• Turner one of the first black musicians to keep control of his music • owned booking agency, publishing & management company, designed band's uniforms & Ikettes' costumes including wigs and makeup, choreographed dance steps, directed lighting sound and stage effects.
• a former lover said, Once you go to bed with him, you wanted to stick around. -Ebony, Oct, 2008 • Ike married at least 5 times, claimed it was 14 – insisted the 1962 Tijuana marriage to Tina Turner never happened • had 6 children including Tina's son Craig — fathered by Raymond Hill but carries Turner's name — and also their own son, Ronald "Ronnie" Renelle Turner (b. 1960)
• Ike's infidelity & addiction to cocaine put a strain on the marriage • when he was getting on with housekeeper Ann Cain, Tina allegedly threatened her with a hammer, threw a table, beat her up • Ike: If I owe anybody an apology, that would be Tina. I put her through hell with other women. I regret it today, but I can't undo it. -Jet Magazine, 2006 • Tina failed in suicide attempt, 1968 • 16 yr. marriage ended in 1976 divorce, finalized 1978, never in contact again • Tina allowed to retain her name because Ike failed to copyright it
• Ike's career & personal life suffered following allegations of domestic abuse in Tina's 1986 autobiography, I Tina: My Life Story, co-written by Kurt Loder • the Disney/Touchstone 1993 "biopic" What's Love Got To Do With It was even more devastating
• movie was based on the book but "fictionalized for dramatic purposes" • public outraged by Ike as portrayed in movie • made "Ike Turner" byword for "domestic violence" & Tina a feminist icon • Ike claimed he never pulled gun on Tina as portrayed in movie; both Turners denied that Ike raped Tina • episode in book where Tina was served cake she didn't order & Ike tells her to eat it became film's famous eat cake scene (2:18), referenced in Beyoncé's controversial Drunk in Love • partial list of innacuracies
• Tina occasionally visited movie set, made corrections to script • regarding the movie, she said, I would have liked for them to have had more truth, but according to Disney, they said, it's impossible, the people would not have believed the truth. -Wikipedia
• with movie's release, Tina set off on the What's Love? concert tour, her first in US since 1987 Break Every Rule tour followed up her book's release & set new attendance record for a female artist • Tina's career soared • in 1996 she told Jet Magazine, "I am as big as Madonna in Europe. I am as big, in some places, as the Rolling Stones."
• Ike said that prior to production of the movie, Disney offered $45K for what he understood to be permission for an actor to play Ike Turner; he signed, not realizing he had just forfeited his right to sue • to tell his side, Ike wrote an autobiography, Takin' Back My Name (1999), co-written by Nigel Cawthorne, Richard Little
• the 5'8, 125 lb. musician's admissions to Tina's accusations were inconsistent • in a TV interview (4:33), Ike admitted hitting Tina • Sure, I've slapped Tina... There have been times when I punched her to the ground without thinking. But I have never beat her. • Yeah I hit her, but I didn't hit her more than the average guy beats his wife ... If she says I abused her, maybe I did. -Wikipedia
Me and the Devil / was walkin' side by side / Me and the Devil, ooh / was walkin' side by side / And I'm goin' to beat my woman / until I get satisfied -Robert Johnson, Me and the Devil Blues (2:38) • Uncensored History of the Blues podcast: Beating Blues (24:37)
• Oh, sure [I hit her], but not because I was mean or anything bad like that. She would get these attitudes and give me grief, so we would get into fights and I maybe had to hit her some. • But I never beat her. That's not my style. If you start something with me, I just ain't going to sit back and take it. • Tina exaggerates about me beating her. Have you seen how big she is? Man, she could handle guys bigger than me if she wanted to. But ain't it part the woman's fault if she stays around and lets me hit her? She didn't have to put up with that." -Rockabilly
• former Ikette PP Arnold said "of course" she witnessed Ike's spousal abuse. We were on the road together. Traveling together like family. I think that I was affected worse than the others because of my own personal abuse syndrome. I cried for Tina on many occasions. • former Ikette Claudia Lennear said, During the three years I was an Ikette, I never witnessed any physical abuse. He was certainly never abusive to me. -Providence Journal
• Steve "Sandy" Leigh, keyboardist: I played for I&TT. I lived in their house. Tina (Little Ann) was known as "Ditta". She often made me lunch. At no time was there any violence that *I* know of. If there was, I'd be honest about it. -In Honor of Ike Turner
• singer Etta James said she witnessed (seemingly unprovoked) violence: Tina said, “Look at this diamond Ike gave me," as she pulled the ring from her purse and started putting it on her finger. It was dazzling. When Ike came back, he took one look at the ring on Tina’s hand and without saying a word, he punched her in the face with a closed fist. Then he grabbed her hand and bent it back, and yanked off the ring, almost breaking her finger in the process. Her face swelled up right in front of me. -Rage to Survive, 1995
• recalling longtime Ikette Robbie Montgomery Tina said, Robbie was a support for me in those dark days [of Ike's abuse]... And when Robbie left, I missed her so much. I don't mean to cry... Robbie and I were very close. -Huffington Post, 2013 • in 2014 TV interview, Robbie Montgomery said she believed Ike was bipolar but never witnessed him abusing Tina: video (2:19)
• Ike's ex-wife Jeannette Bazzell said, I want the truth exposed. He was a man who stood on his own courage. He was very demanding, controlling and yes, he was a womanizer. But he gave his heart. When he was up, he was all the way up. When he was down, he was all the way down. There was no middle. • Turner's caregiver, background singer Falina Rasool, said Ike was taking Seroquel for his bipolar condition -The Last Days of Ike Turner, Ebony, Oct, 2008
• Ike never got over the divorce from Tina • My father used to come to my house a lot... He used to ramble around and try to look for my mom's phone number. -Ronnie Turner • a drug conviction landed Ike in California Men's Colony, San Luis Obispo, 1989 • 4 yr. sentence, released after 2 • total arrests during lifetime unclear, but seems to be between 10 and 12 -Rockabilly
• recorded 1st album in 23 yrs, Grammy-nominated Here and Now, 2001 • drug-free until 2004 relapse • won 1st solo Grammy for Risin' With the Blues, 2006 • Ike & Tina inducted into Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame while Ike in jail, 1991 • died, 12 Dec, 2007, "cocaine toxicity"
• B.B. King told me at a party with Doc Pomus and Joe Turner and Ray Charles sitting there that Ike Turner was the only guitar player he wouldn't play behind. That's how good he was. -Phil Spector eulogy, 2007 • He could play almost every instrument better than anybody else in the band. He worked hard, but he had a gift. It was unbelievable. -Robert Johnson, music exec. • The best musician I ever encountered. -Sam Phillips • shortly before Ike died, request from Big Muddy Blues Festival to declare an Ike Turner Day refused by St. Louis mayor Francis Slay • Ike Turner added to St. Louis Walk of Fame, 2001 • Clarksdale Walk of Fame, 2010
• Ike Turner (1931-2007) bio -Gibson USA • Ike Turner, aka Icky Rennut, Lover Boy, in Wikipedia • The History of Rock 'N' Roll in 25 Songs -Hunter Schwarz, rhombus • The Number One "Rocket 88" -Rock & Roll Hall of Fame • St. Louis Recalls -Columbia Tribune • obituary -NY Times
Found in our garden one afternoon. My wife used this for her Providence Journal blog entry. www.providencejournal.com/features/lifestyle/garden/maste...
Taken w/OMD and Industar 61 L/Z
Went for a nice 70 mile ride along the southern coast of Rhode Island and Massachusetts today. This was one of the many landmarks we passed. Gray's closed its doors for good just a month back.
news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2012/07/little-c...
Horace Trumbauer designed the 626 Bellevue Ave estate in 1904 for Pennsylvania Railroad executive Edward C. Knight.
Owned (1970 to 1988) most infamously by Claus and Martha 'Sunny' von Bulow. Her overdose and lapse into a coma (and ultimately death 28 years later) was the source material for the movie "Reversal of Fortune" (1990) starting Jeremy Irons.
Clarendon Court, was bought by art dealer Glenn Randall and his wife Patricia from Mr Bulow in 1988 for $4.3million.
Boston mogul Paul Roiff purchased in 7.2 acre estate in 2012 for $13,126,000,
Updated 9-13-21: Clarendon Court was sold Sep 9, 2021 for $30 Million making it the highest priced sale of a residence in the State of Rhode Island ever. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2021/09/fli09/...
$4.99. Wanted to show you the big pieces of tender beef, not hamburger.
This was covered with cheese, I stirred it in.
The chili has good flavor and heat.
If you are worried about vegetables, there is a generous amount of peppers and onions in the bowl.
The cornbread was not as good as Tortilla Flats' but cornbread good enough.
I could not finish the bowl, they have a cup size serving also.
Word.
Update! Here is the recipe, below in the comments.
Carte de visite of James B. Angell from the United States Civil War period. Angell was editor of the Providence Journal for the entire Civil War. The paper strongly influenced Lincoln's Presidential candidacy and victory of Rhode Island.
From the Roger D. Baker Collection, c604.
1860s
Subjects
United States – History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Repository: Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, 101 Conrad Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, http://archives.msu.edu
Resource Identifier: A002653.jpg
You don't have to wait till' the weekend to grab some brunch, we are open 10am Fridays! That means chicken and waffles, bottomless mimosas & bloody mary's, heuvos rancheros and also plenty of lunch options. - - @beautifuldayri granola was used as a crust for this chicken. - - #brunch #lunch #chickenandwaffle #foodie #rifoodfights #foodie #eeeeeats #ri #ediblerhody #providencejournal #eater #providence
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
The site is the Great War Memorial at the entrance to Ginnell's Beach, Tiverton Rhode Island, You can see information about the site, which we found by chance, here:
www.providencejournal.com/topics/special-reports/war-memo...
I posted another photo from this series when I got back from our local Remembrance Service in November 2013. unfortunately I couldn't find a list of the WWI servicemen commemorated on the Tiverton memorial online.
A group of us have just completed a book about the people from our village who served in WWI and with that delivered to village households we can now take part in all the organised events and activities going on. This is a 250pc personal jigsaw, using Wentworth's 250pc WWI cut.
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CENTRAL-Appeared in ProJo 6-6-51 (Henry S. Chafee receiving citation from Catherine C. Blodgett)
Kyle Keefe of Chariho heads around on his third and final loop of the wet and rainy Rocky Point park course before heading to the first place finish in the boys race.
9.29.2015: Middletown, Chariho, Narragansett, Exeter/West Greenwich and Toll Gate runners are the first to run on new Rocky Point cross country course in rainy Tuesday multi meet.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
The site is the Great War Memorial at the entrance to Ginnell's Beach, Tiverton Rhode Island, You can see information about the site, which we found by chance on holiday, here:
www.providencejournal.com/topics/special-reports/war-memo...
I posted another photo from this series when I got back from our local Remembrance Service in November 2013. unfortunately I couldn't find a list of the WWI servicemen commemorated on the Tiverton memorial online.
This is a 250pc personal jigsaw, using Wentworth's 250pc WWI cut. It was moderately difficult but satisfying: I started with the lower edge, worked up through the brightest sky colours to the top edge. The last area assembled was the tree - the 20% on the left and left edge. The whimsies were all military - you can see them in the shaped poppy jigsaw too. Wentworth also did a 500pc WWI cut - and this determined which size of jigsaw I bought of their First World War Centenary Jigsaw (which shows WWI posters and images against a field of poppies and daisies).
is on display at the Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood, MO.
Designed by BP's Master Mechanic George S. Griggs and built over a five year period (1858-63) at the Boston and Providence Railroad shops in Roxbury, MA. It was rebuilt and modernized in 1887-1890, during which The Old Colony RR took over the Boston and Providence in 1888 and renumbered it as their 170 upon it's completion. The rebuilding was extensive, giving it a new boiler, cylinders, smokestack, and tender, The only major original parts left were the smokebox, frame, and driving wheel centers. The shape of the smokestack, sand dome behind it, front pilot with horizontal bars, and the outline of the cab match, as do the handrails around the headlight. In 1893 the NYNHH took control and the loco was leased to Purdue University, in 1905. In 1951, it was sold to John Leahy of Danbury, CT. It was donated in 1982 to MOT by the 'Friends of the Danbury' Collection.
The 'Daniel Nason' is the only surviving example of 'Dutch Wagon' practice where the steam cylinders are inside the locomotive frame, a design popular prior to the Civil War. It is a wood burning locomotive with 16" x 20" cylinders and 54" drive wheels.
The eponymous Daniel Nason was the Superintendent of Transportation at the Boston depot of the Boston and Providence line.
Much of the above info was obtained from the below linked websites -
www.providencejournal.com/features/lifestyle/time-lapse/2...
www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5BQA_Daniel_Nason_Boston_an...
goodoldboston.blogspot.com/2012/04/daniel-nason-and-roxbu...
Peter is an environmental writer at the Providence Journal who has written extensively about Block Island. He spoke Friday evening before BioBlitz began and came by on Sunday to see how things were going.
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CENTRAL-ADDITION AND OLD BUILDING-Exterior-View from the sky in ProJo 11-14-07
Andrew Dickerman photographer
Built in 1906, this imposing Beaux-Arts sstructure was designed by Peabody & Stearns, a prominent Boston architectural firm of the era..
As I was walking to my office this morning I noticed a tree service working on an ailing old Elm tree. I had read that the tree suffered from Dutch Elm Disease and needed to come down so as to not infect the remaining Elms on the property of the John Brown House (home in the background). In fact, the tree did not have Dutch Elm, but rather a canker, Sphaeropsis ulmicola. Read more at: news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2013/03/century-...
For a good 45 minutes I withnessed the dismantling of this 100 year old tree.
Here is the final cut, with a previous cut off to the right. The wedge in the foreground was cut to fell the tree in the correct direction.
The fire at "Mowbra Castle", also known as Philips Castle on Saturday, February 6, 1960.
Standard Times:
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Tim Cranston article about the historic residence
www.providencejournal.com/story/opinion/columns/2021/01/3...
November 5, 2008, headlines from newspapers around the world, in front of Newseum, Washington, DC
Front page of The Providence Journal (Providence, RI)
November 5, 2008, headlines from newspapers around the world, in front of Newseum, Washington, DC
Front page of The Oregonian (Portland, OR) and The Providence Journal (Providence, RI)
November 5, 2008, headlines from newspapers around the world, in front of Newseum, Washington, DC
Front page of The Oregonian (Portland, OR) and The Providence Journal (Providence, RI)
November 5, 2008, headlines from newspapers around the world, in front of Newseum, Washington, DC
Front page of The Providence Journal (Providence, RI)
Speidel, the world's number one recognized brand of watchbands and identification bracelets, based in Rhode Island since its founding in 1904, joined Operation Homefront and members of the U.S. Military today as Governor Lincoln Chafee proclaimed the month of January in the year 2013 as "Speidel 'Change A Band, Change A Life(TM)' Month" in the state. To mark the occasion, Speidel also presented a $25,000 donation check to Operation Homefront at the proclamation ceremony at the Rhode Island State House. Read full article at: www.providencejournal.com/business/press-releases/2013011...
news.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/2012/02/video-wa...
Because of our unusually warm winter, the little industry is going to suffer this year...there is a sugarhouse near where I live...it is fascinating to visit...if you like the stuff, and even if you don't, this short video is worth watching...