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There were some outdoor cooking items placed in front of this house in the original image so I carefully edited them out without changing any detail of the house. The sidewalk extended to the street but I took the artistic license to try to focus on the subject of the photo, the historic home. Please click on image for an enlarged, more detailed version. This Queen Anne style cottage resembles a design from plan book competitor architect, George F. Barber out of Knoxville, TN. Barber in the 1890's managed a large firm. and published many plan books. By coincidence, he was also originally from Illinois and started his career in DeKalb, IL. Local architect George W. Payne apparently somewhat copied or perhaps better, "borrowed" from Barber's designs and not just in this one example. If any resentment existed between the rivals, history has left no record of it.
Piccadilly North Side (seen from the bus)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson
One way to lose friends is to say something which is not fashionable about somebody like Boris Johnson: it is so much easier not to think for oneself and to regurgitate what the tabloids say. I noticed it the other day at a drinks party in south London (yes I do have friends south of the river!):
it struck me as plain lazy if not outright silly to repeat like a parrot headlines splashed on the news stand billboards... and caused me not to think much of the person whom I considered until then moderately intelligent before he gave 'his' opinion...
Why not see for myself, judge for myself, rather than recycle cliches?
Boris Johnson's kind of books , although inexpensively sold in paperback (some even in HW Smith at Victoria station - a bad omen) I would not normally read - it is not my thing! However, out of curiosity I decided to order several at my local bookshop (whose native salesmen do not even know how to spell such authors as Glendinning or Ondaatje...):when I put in the order I was looked at with a mixture of incredulity, amusement, suspicion and superiority by the young temp - thankfully I was not going to face him for much longer - these people do not stick for long in such places)...
Back to the story of my Saturday "drinks spotty" (sic) what my friend reproached Boris, among others, was that he appeared to be dressed casually at the Beijing Olympics ceremony, compared with the Chinese official who gave him the flag... I asked myself, where have I seen a British politician doing the same before? was it perhaps at the Cenotaph , the died-in-the wool "old Labour" Michael Foot?
Oh, but you see, Foot had plenty of excuses which would not apply to Boris in a society redolent with the resentment of class war typical of the best Stalinist practices, a society stuck in the mould of political correctness and global lukewarming.
Back to Johnson's books I finished his biography which i found amusing and informative giving a more rounded view of Boris and making him more humane than he otherwise appears, spontaneous, refreshing, cultivated, intelligent, predictable in his unpredictability....
"Cultivated" you say? but this is a cardinal sin which is looked at with greatest suspicion! Come on, who wants to be cultivated?
The other books I decided to read at intervals, a short story at a time and more of it later, For now all I can say from an incomplete trawl is that i would strongly recommend that you make up your own mind (unless it is too arduous or painful) and read for yourself.
The Liberation Monument ("Russian monument")
(Further pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Officially, one can find various names: (Russian) Liberation Monument, Russian War Memorial and Monument of the Red Army. The Viennese call the towering monument at the southern end of the Black Mountain Square (Schwarzenbergplatz) usually disparaging "Russian monument (Russendenkmal)".
The monument commemorating the 18,000 in the liberation of Vienna fallen soldiers of the Red Army was designed by Major Intazarin, the sculptures were created by Lieutenant Jakoviev. The overall direction of the yet in April 1945 ordered and as first monument building after the war completed structure had major Ing. Mikhail Scheinfeld. In the construction were temporarily 400 workers involved, 18 tons of bronze and 300 cubic meters of marble were used. The monument was on 19 August 1945 with the assistance of Karl Renner, Leopold Figl and Theodor Körner unveiled on then so designated Stalin Square.
On a in total 20 m high, marble-clad base, the lower part in the form of a five-pointed red star, decorated with flags and guard badges, stands the 12 m tall figure of a Red Army soldier. The soldier is wearing a gold helmet and the famous Russian submachine gun with rotary magazine. With his left hand he has the flag with the right hand he holds a round shield with the Soviet coat of arms. In the background arises a broad, eight meter high balustrade, at its end respectively one group of two fighting men is situated, a prime example of the style of socialist realism, which gradually has become an art-historical rarity.
One of the inscriptions in Russian only in the early 80s have been translated into German and is:
"Eternal glory to the heroes of the Red Army, killed in action against the German-fascist invaders for the freedom and independence of the peoples of Europe (Mikhalkov)".
Until 1956, there were also graves of Soviet soldiers in the area, and a Soviet tank stood before the monument.
The monument is in the custody of the City of Vienna. As is generally known, Austria is according to the detailed provisions of Article 19 of the State Treaty of 15 May 1955 committed war graves and war memorials of the Allied Powers on Austrian soil "to respect, to protect and to preserve".
Between 1945 and 1956 stood in front of the fountain on the former "Stalin Square" a Russian tank, which is now in the Museum of Military History.
=> Marschik/Spital, Vienna The Russians monument, architecture, history, conflicts, Vienna, 2005
=> Hannes Leidinger/Verena Moritz, Russian Vienna, Böhlau, Vienna, 2004, 182 f
Sometimes leads the memory to the bad experiences which have been made by Austrian people with the occupation forces - particularly the Soviet - in the ten years of Allied occupation to open resentment against monuments such as the "Russian monument". Nevertheless - the greater the distance from the war and post-war period is, the more one had to give account about the fact how much innocent blood just the peoples of the former Soviet Union have sacrificed in the fight against Hitler's rule, and how little the Austrian people to its own liberation has contributed. Such thoughts have got to come to one's mind when one takes some time to decipher the Cyrillic letters of gold on a "Russian monument" - whether on that at Vienna Schwarzenberg Square or somewhere out in the vast realms of Lower Austria, where up to the Waldviertel (part of Lower Austria) little Soviet military cemeteries exist.
A survey by the Gallup Institute, published in the "standard" on 11th February 1992 shows that 71% of Viennes people do know the monument. A clear majority (59 %) is for the preservation of the monument. Only 9% of the 1,000 respondents agreed with the opinion that the monument should be eliminated as a remnant of Stalinism. So, have the Austrians made peace with the contemporary history?
Hochstrahlbrunnen
Before the liberation monument arises the to the occasion of the completion of the First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline on 24th October 1873 in the presence of the emperor put into operation Hochstrahlbrunnen (high jet fountain), which should have been standing according to the original plans in front of the Votive Church, then opposite the New Town Hall. The builder of the aqueduct and the fountain, Anton Gabrielli, was a friend of astronomy. Accordingly, symbolizes the respective number of the jets of water the days of the year, the months, the days of the month, the days of the week and the hours of the day.
Rocinha slum - favela - , Río de Janeiro, Brazil. An agency arranges tours of the favelas and spends part of the gains is on charity in the favelas, mostly on building schools. This means that you're actually welcome - even though some of the young men, reasonably enough, showed signs of resentment.
ICU
By Fielding Edlow
Directed by Brian Shnipper
World Premiere production
Performances Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 7:00pm
September 25 - October 31, 2015
Photos by Jeff Galfer
An obnoxious, caustic, oblivious New York family has to deal with their dying son and a complete stranger who insists on making an “amend.” Can they suppress their resentment toward each other––and toward their son’s irascible charge nurse––long enough to hear a cry for help?
Featuring Caroline Aaron, Shaun Anthony, Tony DeCarlo, Dagney Kerr, Ericka Kreutz, Joe Pacheco, Doug Sutherland
Producers: Tim Wright and Jennifer A. Skinner
Assistant Director: Sam Sonenshine
Stage Manager: Cassandra Scott
Set Design: Amanda Knehans
Lighting Designer: Ric Zimmerman
Costume Designer: Dianne Graebner
Sound Designer: Jeff Gardner
Props: Bethany Tucker
Location: Atwater Village Theatre, Theatre #4, 3269 Casitas Ave., LA CA 90039
Now that perfect equality has been achieved, protests are obsolete. Nevertheless, a single protester bares her chest, perhaps in remembrance of the injustices of the past.
All of that resentment must be buried along with the Alt-right. Let us enjoy utopia together.
"If we're only ever looking back
We will drive ourselves insane
As the friendship goes resentment grows
We will walk our different ways" Bastille
I feel old...
In the US, the number of caregivers of family and others aged 50 and over increased by 7.6 million from 2015 to 2020, reaching a staggering 41.8 million
Looking after aging parents is a significant challenge for many sibling groups — and it’s a challenge that more and more people are facing. In the US, the number of family caregivers has increased dramatically in recent years, and today, around 17 percent of Americans are caring for an aging parent or other individual.
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Collaboration is vital when caring for an aging parent. Yet there are many stumbling blocks to good teamwork, from unequal division of tasks and differing perceptions of a parent’s needs to old, lingering resentments.
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Latvian riflemen (strelnieki) were military formations assembled starting 1915 in Latvia in order to defend Baltic territories against Germans in World War I. Initially the batallions were formed by volunteers, from 1916 by conscription among Latvian population. A total of about 40 thousand troops were drafted into the Latvian Riflemen Division.
From 1915 to 1917, Latvian Riflemen fought in the Russian army against the Germans in positions along Daugava river. In December 1916 and January 1917, Latvian riflemen suffered heavy casualties in month-long Christmas battles which began with a surprise attack on German positions during Christmas. Suffering heavy casualties, Latvian riflemen managed to break German line of defense but the effort was wasted as the attack was not continued. The Russian Army lost over 26,000 soldiers in the failed attack. The casualties included 9,000 Latvian riflemen, about a third of the total number at that time. The heavy casualties resulted in a strong resentment for the Russian generals and tsar among the riflemen. This resentment led to an increased support for the Bolsheviks, who were advocating an end to the war.
In 1917, a large number of Latvian riflemen sided with the Bolsheviks. They became known as Red Latvian Riflemen (красные латышские стрелки) and actively participated in the Russian civil war. The riflemen took active part in suppression of anti-Bolshevik uprisings in Moscow and Yaroslavl in 1918. They fought against Denikin, Yudenich, and Wrangel. In 1919 the division received the highest military recognition of that time — the Honorable Red Flag of VTsIK. Latvian Red Riflemen officer Jukums Vācietis became the first commander-in-chief of the Red Army. Latvian red riflemen were also a part of the attempt to establish Soviet rule in Latvia in 1919. They were defeated by Baltic German volunteers in Western Latvia and then by the Polish and new Latvian army in Eastern Latvia.
11,395 former Red Riflemen returned to Latvia after the 1920 peace treaty between Latvia and Bolshevist Russia. Other former riflemen stayed in Russia and took positions in the Red Army, Bolshevik party, Cheka. Many of them were arrested or executed during the Great Purges, when ethnically Latvian Communists became one of the groups particularly targeted by the Purges.
How to describe the red riflemen is still a hot issue in Latvia. It has been talks about if the statue (pictured) should be demolished or kept. Some see the red riflemen as pro-communists and want the statue removed, others see them as pro-Latvia and want the statue to remain.
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Here's the reason I wanted to stop in Indianapolis, as it turns out I've been driving right past the home of a President of the United States for 15 years. This is the home of Benjamin Harrison, one-term senator from Indiana and the 23rd President of the United States. Coincidentally, 23 is halfway to 46, and I'm betting that the 46th President of the United States will also be from Indiana.
We like to say that there have been 45 Presidents of the United States, but that's not really accurate, as we count one guy twice. Grover Cleveland served two terms, but the terms weren't consecutive, so he gets to be both the 22nd and 24th Presidents. Benjamin Harrison of Indiana was the guy stuck in the middle, the Presidential tomato on a Grover Cleveland sandwich. Which was probably fine with Harrison, as he really only dabbled in politics anyway. The grandson of William Henry Harrison (who served as the 9th President for only 30 days before dying of a cold), Benjamin Harrison spent most of his life as a prominent Indianapolis lawyer. He ran for governor in 1876 but lost. The Indiana General Assembly chose him to serve a six-year term as U.S. senator in 1881. In 1888, he ran for the presidency on the Republican ticket and won, beating out Democrat Grover Cleveland.
I sometimes come across the argument from Republicans on the internet who defend their party by saying that Republicans freed the slaves while Democrats were the party of the Ku Klux Klan. And while this statement is on its surface true, it misses the fact that the political parties dance around on issues and change positions a lot, and more than once they've all switched sides completely. You can look at the Republican administration of Benjamin Harrison and compare it to, say, Ronald Reagan or either of the Bushes as an illustration of that point. Harrison focused heavily on economic protectionism and helped push through the McKinley Tariff, which imposed an average duty of almost 50% on foreign goods. (Republicans in the modern era have mostly been fans of free trade until just recently, when the populist pendulum has started them swinging back toward protectionism.) He also signed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibited certain monopolies, and the Land Revision Act of 1891, which led to the creation of the first national forest reserves. He even tried to push through protections of the voting rights of African-Americans, though he mostly failed on that one. He took us to the brink of war with Great Britain and Chile, which is the kind of thing a Republican would do, but then eased us through the tension with diplomacy, which is not. He was an early fan of the "tax-and-spend" philosophy that later Republicans would so viciously deride, and his administration holds the distinction of being the first to push the federal government's annual expenses to over a billion dollars. Democrat resentment over this spending would cost the Republicans big during the Congressional midterm elections of 1890, and it would give the White House back to Grover Cleveland and the Democrats in 1892. Which is not a thing you could say a hundred years later.
The end of Benjamin Harrison's presidency was the end of his political career, and he spent the rest of his life roaming around and either practicing law or giving lectures at various universities. In February of 1901, he caught influenza, which isn't something you want to do if you've ever been called President Harrison, and he died on March 13. His home is now owned by a private foundation, which offers tours, but it was closed when I took this picture.
[The old Eumolpus talking to the young Encolpius :]
"When I went to Asia," he began, "as a paid officer in the Quaestor's suite, I lodged with a family at Pergamus. I found my quarters very pleasant, first on account of the convenience and elegance of the apartments, and still more so because of the beauty of my host's son. I devised the following method to prevent the master of the house entertaining any suspicions of me as a seducer. Whenever the conversation at table turned on the abuse of handsome boys, I showed such extreme indignation and protested with such an air of austerity and offended dignity against the violence done to my ears by filthy talk of the sort, that I came to be regarded, especially by the mother, as one of the greatest of moralists and philosophers. Before long I was allowed to take the lad to the gymnasium; it was I that directed his studies, I that guided his conduct, and guarded against any possible debaucher of his person being admitted to the house.
"It happened on one occasion that we were sleeping in the dining-hall, the school having closed early as it was a holiday, and our amusements having rendered us too lazy to retire to our sleeping-chambers. Somewhere about midnight I noticed that the lad was awake; so whispering soft and low, I murmured a timid prayer in these words, 'Lady Venus, if I may kiss this boy, so that he know it not, tomorrow I will present him with a pair of doves.' Hearing the price offered for the gratification, the boy set up a snore. So approaching him, where he lay still making pretense to be asleep, I stole two or three flying kisses. Satisfied with this beginning, I rose betimes next morning, and discharged my vow by bringing the eager lad a choice and costly pair of doves.
"The following night, the same opportunity occurring, I changed my petition, 'If I may pass a naughty hand over this boy, and he not feel it, I will present him for his complaisance with a brace of the best fighting cocks ever seen.' At this promise the child came nestling up to me of his own accord and was actually afraid, I think, lest I might drop asleep again. I soon quieted his uneasiness on this point, and amply satisfied my longings, short of the supreme bliss, on every part of his beautiful body. Then when daylight came, I made him happy with the gift I had promised him.
"As soon as the third night left me free to try again, I rose as before, and creeping up to the rascal, who was lying awake expecting me, whispered at his ear, 'If only, ye Immortal Gods, I may win of this sleeping darling full and happy satisfaction of my love, for such bliss I will tomorrow present the lad with an Asturian of the Macedonian strain, the best to be had for money, but always on the condition he shall not feel my violence.' Never did the stripling sleep more sound. So first I handled his plump and snowy bosoms, then kissed him on the mouth, and finally concentrated all my ardors in one supreme delight. Next morning he sat still in his room, expecting my present as usual. Well! you know as well as I do, it is a much easier matter to buy doves and fighting cocks than an Asturian; besides which, I was afraid so valuable a present might rouse suspicion as to the real motives of my liberality. After walking about for an hour or so, I returned to the house, and gave the boy a kiss--and nothing else. He looked about inquiringly, then threw his arms round my neck, and 'Please, sir!' he said, 'where is my Asturian?'
"'It is hard,' I replied, 'to get one fine enough. You will have to wait a few days for me to fulfill my vow.'
"The boy had wits enough to see through my answer, and his resentment was betrayed by the angry look that crossed his face.
"Although by this breach of faith I had closed against myself the door of access so carefully contrived, I returned once more to the attack. For, after allowing a few days to elapse, one night when similar circumstances had created just another opportunity for us as before, I began, the moment I heard the father snoring, to beg and pray the boy to be friends with me again,--that is, to let me give him pleasure for pleasure, adding all the arguments my burning concupiscence could suggest. But he was positively angry and refused to say one word beyond, 'Go to sleep, or I will tell my father.' But there is never an obstacle so difficult audacity will not vanquish it. He was still repeating, 'I will wake my father,' when I slipped into his bed and took my pleasure of him in spite of his half-hearted resistance. However, he found a certain pleasure in my naughty ways, for after a long string of complaints about my having cheated and cajoled him and made him the laughing-stock of his school-fellows, to whom he had boasted of his rich friend, he whispered, 'Still I won't be so unkind as you; if you like, do it again.'
"So forgetting all our differences, I was reconciled to the dear lad once more, and after utilizing his kind permission, I slipped off to sleep in his arms. But the stripling was not satisfied with only one repetition, all ripe for love as he was and just at the time of life for passive enjoyment. So he woke me up from my slumbers, and, 'Anything you'd like, eh?' said he. Nor was I, so far, indisposed to accept his offer. So working him the best ever I could, to the accompaniment of much panting and perspiration, I gave him what he wanted, and then dropped asleep again, worn out with pleasure. Less than an hour had passed before he started pinching me and asking, 'Eh! why are we not at work?' Hereupon, sick to death of being so often disturbed, I flew into a regular rage, and retorted his own words upon him; 'Go to sleep,' I cried, 'or I'll tell your father!'"
(Petronius, The Satyricon, translated from Latin by Alfred R. Allinson, The Panurge Press, New York, 1930).
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
Model : Mubarak Al Maalik
126/366 ― Embassy of Egypt
“The overman... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
Denarius. 54BC. 3.56grams. Rome mint. Pompeia. Crawford 434/02 Q.POMPEI Q.F.RVFVS. Obverse: curule chair, arrow, laurel. Reverse: curule chair, lituus, wreath. Scarce. Two curule chairs from two Roman consuls. The famous Sulla, and the later Q. Pompeius Rufus, whose son apparently struck this coin.
POMPEIA and CORNELIA. Obv — Across the field SVLLA CO(n)S(ul), Q(uintus) POMPEI(us) RVF(us). In the area, a curule chair between a laurel garland and a lituus – the augural staff; the whole alluding to the consulship, triumphal dignity, and augurship of Sylla. It is doubtful whether the RVFVS on both sides relates to one person or not : it was a wonderfully popular name, if its belonging to no fewer than fourteen Roman gentes may be admitted as an evidence. Rufus Caecilius was the brother of Publius Sylla by the same mother, but not by the same father; he was tribune of the plebs B.C. 63.
Rev — Q(uintus) POMPEI(us), Q(uintus) F(ilius). RVFVS CO(n)S(ul). A sella curulis as on the obverse, but posited between an arrow and a branch of laurel. The arrow may possibly be applied to the Apollinarian games, though surely Cavedoni takes considerable latitude in stating that therefore the laurel indicates Sylla's being one of the decemviri sacris faciundis. Perhaps, however, in the absence of closer inscriptions, there is nothing better to suggest. This coin is inferred to have been struck by the Q. Pomp. Rufus, who was tribune of the plebs, 52 BC and whose father was murdered in the forum by the Marian party 88 BC. The "seat" in the government thus commemorated, had descended a few pegs from its palmy honours; and that once august and highly aristocratic body — the Roman Senate — had become so indiscriminately increased, that it was recruited even from among the freedmen, common soldiers, and peregrini. Fallen from its high estate, it was mostly an instrument in the hands of men in power; and in the last days of the Republic, as well as during the Empire, it was truly a degraded and servile body. To be sure, the "conscript fathers" had occasional qualms, and were seized with a fit of virtuous resentment on the accession of a new emperor, at the vices of the deposed or defunct ; but a message from the throne instantly allayed their convulsive throes, and made them hug their chains.
13.05.10
When the routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
But emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways
Taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again
Why is the bedroom so cold
Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed
Our feelings run dry?
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again
Do you cry out in your sleep
All my failings exposed
Get a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can't function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again
Ilustración sobre el tema de como resentimiento "nos come la vida"
Diario La tercera, suplemento Tendencias, agosto 2011
Resentment is like taking poison every day and expecting the other person to die! (Something someone said on Oprah) I was searching my heart for forgiveness tonight. Imagine you are walking to an event, and your flash jumps the shoe (obviously not tightened in enough) and goes careening across an asphalt parking lot, and one of the people walking behind you says sarcastically, "Good job!" First of all, my heart was already in my throat seeing my $300 flash go sailing, so the nasty venom in the tone and comment was like a punch in the gut to go with it. I was in shock, outraged shock! I reeled around and said, "Wow, that was really compassionate...wow" and shook my head.
I went on to the event, (of course) and made sure I got a couple of shots of my offender. The anger was tearing my guts up as I smiled and encouraged the attendees for the camera. I kept thinking, be YOU, be kind, be above it and let that stinker see you doing so!!! After it was over, and I was in a safe place, I cried. All those feelings were draining, especially, the ANGER. Trust me, I'm no shrinking violet, but it was especially outrageus behavior by this person in light of the event and location.
When I looked at the photos, and got over the fact that indeed it appears my flash had some bad moments which I've never experienced with it, I really looked at her in the shots. My heart started to change as I realized, she must be unhappy with herself, and perhaps most of the things that have happened to her so far in life, and again, I cried. This time tears of compassion and perhaps the desperation of wishing I could help her find the goodness in herself and in life. Since I cannot reach out to her directly, I pray. I pray tonight for her to see and for all of us to see that every day is a gift and a new beginning. You can make a paradigm shift in your life, at any time. I pray also for everyone to be able to FORGIVE! Forgive your loved ones, forgive strangers, and forgive yourself! Life is short. I choose, forgiveness and compassion! I choose to forgive her. I also forgive myself for not tightening the flash completely and for feeling so angry and resentful.
Thanks for viewing and allowing me to share the catharsis I experienced today. =o)
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Canzone
When shall we learn, what should be clear as day,
We cannot choose what we are free to love?
Although the mouse we banished yesterday
Is an enraged rhinoceros today,
Our value is more treatened than we know:
Shabby objections to our present day
Go snooping round its outskirts; night and day
Faces, orations, battles, bait our will
As questionable forms and noises will;
Whole phyla of resentments every day
Give status to the wild men of the world
Who rule the absent-minded and this world.
We are created from and with the world
To suffer with and from it day by day:
Whether we meet in a majestic world
Of solid measurements or a dream world
Of swans and gold, we are required to love
All homeless objects that require a world.
Our claim to own our bodies and our world
Is our catastrophe. What can we know
But panic and caprice until we know
Our dreadful appetite demands a world
Whose order, origin, and purpose will
Be fluent satisfaction of our will?
Drift, Autumn, drift; fall, colours, where you will:
Bald melancholia minces through the world.
Regret, cold oceans, the lymphatic will
Caught in reflection on the right to will:
While violent dogs excite their dying day
To bacchic fury; snarl, though, as they will,
Their teeth are not a triumph for the will
But utter hesitation. What we love
Ourselves for is our power not to love,
To shrink to nothing or explode at will,
To ruin and remember that we know
What ruins and hyaenas cannot know.
If in this dark now I less often know
That spiral staircase where the haunted will
Hunts for its stolen luggage, who should know
Better than you, beloved, how I know
What gives security to any world.
Or in whose mirror I begin to know
The chaos of the heart as merchants know
Their coins and cities, genius its own day?
For through our lively traffic all the day,
In my own person I am forced to know
How much must be forgotten out of love,
How much must be forgiven, even love.
Dear flesh, dear mind, dear spirit, O dear love,
In the depths of myself blind monsters know
Your presence and are angry, dreading Love
That asks its image for more than love;
The hot rampageous horses of my will,
Catching the scent of Heaven, whinny: Love
Gives no excuse to evil done for love,
Neither in you, nor me, nor armies, nor the world
Of words and wheels, nor any other world.
Dear fellow-creature, praise our God of Love
That we are so admonished, that no day
Of conscious trial be a wasted day.
Or else we make a scarecrow of the day,
Loose ends and jumble of our common world,
And stuff and nonsense of our own free will;
Or else our changing flesh may never know
There must be sorrow if there can be love.
--WH Auden
Collections of remnants
dusty resentments
disappointments
placed on glass shelves
enclosed
sealed
Holding us in place
Holding on to the non-past
Gravitational stuff
Holding us down
Memories of sweetness
alofts
swiftly
gently and
flies away like a butterfly
ljs
The Pears 1917 Annual Cover 'Home Once More' by Joseph Simpson follows the theme of the 1916 front cover by Frank Dadd, with a kilted soldier from a contemporary Scottish regiment shown with his wife/sweetheart/sister.
The inside cover shows the editorial greeting at that dark time in WWI, and lists all the stories and illustrators, the three presentation plates and a series of four full page colour illustrations on the theme 'Humours of Old Christmas Days'. The plates are shown lower right.
1917 Content: from the annual's inside cover
Plates:
- There's More than One Style of Beauty by Margaret Collyer, b&w mezzogravure 17x22in. "Treating the old moral of 'Beauty & the Beast' with a sympathetic touch of contrast altogether new and effective. A young girl, daintily attired in white, is seated on acouch; she holds a hand-mirror in front of her, evidently well pleased with the reflection. Not so, however, the pet bulldog, who looks on in jealous resentment, in spite of having his mistress's arm around his neck. A fine picture." Only a poor small photo, and no jigsaws known at June23.
- Lady Hamilton as Diana by Romney, in colours 18.5x14.5in. (2 vintage jigsaws known.) July 23: NOW 3 - see below.
- Courting Trouble by Albert W Holden, in colours 18x13in. (3 vintage jigsaws known)
Colour Large Illustration Series Illustrating the Humours of Old Christmas Days
1 The Welcome Guest by John Hassall RI (1 jigsaw known)
2 The Boar Hunt by Harry Rountree
3 The Attack on the Coach by Lionel Edwards RI (1 jigsaw known)
4 The Master's Home Coming by Joseph Simpson RBA (also did the front cover).
Large, Left: A magnificent large jigsaw from the 1917 Annual Plate Lady Hamilton as Diana by Romney ref965 from the John H collection. Large accurately line-cut smooth push-fit pieces.
Middle, Right: A small later vintage jigsaw of the same painting from the USA. Pastime 90pc Lady Hamilton as Baccante/Diana by George Romney. c1930 with figurals, line-cutting and curl connectors.
For much of the 19th century, this was an exclusive, gated private park (like Gramercy Park today), accessible only to the affluent families who lived around its perimeter. It was built by Trinity Church, who hoped to lure wealthy residents to the area (then on the outskirts of the city) to support the new chapel being constructed next to the park. As commercial development spread north in the 1840s, the neighborhood found itself surrounded by the working class, and resentment toward the park's closed-off confines grew:
The journalist and all-round labor agitator Mike Walsh regarded the park as an affront to the citizens of New York. "A more exclusive concern than this park does not exist on earth. Its gates are all locked, and keys for it are sold, by the church which claims it, for ten dollars a year, to none however, but the upper ten thousand, who reside in the surrounding palaces. Can anything be more insultingly aristocratic than this?" He made a democrat's protest by climbing over the ornate railing of St. John's Park and strolling on the forbidden gravel paths.
Perhaps this outrage had some effect: during the winters of the 1860s, the park's trustees decided to flood the grounds of St. John's and open it to the public as an ice-skating rink.
The park was sold in 1866 and a railroad freight depot was subsequently built on the property. The quality of life in the area declined substantially over the next couple of decades, and the neighborhood had become a "slum" by the 1890s:
Thomas A. Janvier noted "the aggressive presence of several distinctively Neapolitan smells. The stately houses, swarming with this unwashed humanity, are sunk in such squalor that upon them rests ever an air of melancholy devoid of hope. They are tragedies in mellow-toned brick and carved wood-work that once was very beautiful."
Completing its ignoble descent into obscurity, St. John's Park is now the inaccessible gravel-filled lot you see here, sitting in the middle of the Holland Tunnel exit rotary.
(In case you were wondering, that's One World Trade Center looming in the background, under construction.)
As much as I tried to prevent it, my expectations have gotten away from me for this fourth Indy film and I am counting down the moments until its release. There has not been a single time that I’ve eagerly awaited something of this magnitude and not been crushed with disappointment. Hopefully Indiana Jones will be spare us of similar misery and be a film worthy of the series.
With that said, here is a list of a few of my biggest entertainment reappointments:
Weezer - (Green Album) CD
Effortless, lame, boring are a few adjectives that I’d like to punctuate with four letter words when describing this album. After a phenomenal sophomore release and a long hiatus Weezer returns to do little more than drool out of my CD player. It was at this point I wrote them off for dead.
Disappointment rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Halo 2 - Xbox
While years of playing multiplayer redeemed this game for me, it was initially the campaign mode that had me clamoring for its release. After multiple playthroughs of Halo 1’s campaign, I was ready to take on the Covenant and the flood as they invaded Earth.
While I could live with the ‘false advertising’ of the infamous E3 demo, I was utterly let down by the whole of the campaign mode. Combine that with a convoluted story line and a devastatingly anti-climactic ending and I was left holding the feces from the biggest space marine disappointment of all time. Did Bungie sacrifice the campaign mode in lue of multiplayer? That’s the way it felt to me.
Disappointment rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Star Wars - Episodes I, II, & III
The only thing I have left to say about these three films at this point is that I’m over it. I’m over the anger, resentment and hostility I felt towards George Lucas for vomiting them onto the big screen. The story was shit, the acting was shit and the dialog wasn’t anywhere near a level that could be compared to shit. These movies sucked ass so bad they should be banned.
I may have rose colored glasses when I look back at the original Star Wars trilogy, but that doesn’t mean there couldn’t exist prequels worthy of that fondness. What loyal fans got instead was so trite, forgetful and embarrassing that I would purposely leave it off my resume had I been even just a janitor on set of the films.
Disappointment rating: 5,000,000 out of 5 stars
I pray to Shiva that Indiana Jones DOES NOT make it onto this list. It is one of the few remaining untainted greats from my childhood. Hopefully it can stay that way.
COVER YOUR HEART INDY!!!!!
Antwerp/Antwerpen/Anvers
Belgium/Belgie/Belgique
March 9, 2011
Antwerp is a most cosmopolitan city. There seems to be a certain indescribable ennui throughout much of Belgium- but not in Antwerp. There is a causal sophistication here. Unlike Bruges, which is stuck in time, and Brussels which seems to have lost its identity in its role on the international stage, Antwerp is vibrating through another golden age.
The area has been settled at least since the Roman era, but really rose to prominence in the 1500’s after the Zwin River silted up and Bruges’ economy collapsed. If Bruges was an incredibly prosperous port whose realm of trade stretched throughout medieval Europe and the Levant, Antwerp was a port of intercontinental scale- one of the first such ports in the world. As part of the Spanish Empire, it brought in goods from as far as the Americas and Asia. Some sources say that in the early 1500’s, Antwerp saw up to 40 percent of global trade, and was one of the largest cities in Europe.
This, of course, is where the city’s cosmopolitanism originated. Merchants from across Europe set up shop in Antwerp, and the spirit of tolerance inherent in most port cities attracted a large population of orthodox Jews. And, as always, wealth attracted the arts, including some of the most prominent painters and musicians of the Northern Renaissance.
Despite this boom period, there was a great underlying tension rising. The Low Countries became swept up by the Protestant Reformation and by a growing resentment of Spanish rule. Violence erupted in 1566, with the Iconoclastic Fury, in which Protestants ransacked towns and churches, destroying Catholic icons. A reason why many Medieval churches in Belgium have interiors adorned in the style of the Renaissance and the Baroque is that so many of the items made before 1566 were lost. The fiercely Catholic Spanish came down hard, and thus began the Eighty Years’ War which resulted in the independence of the Netherlands.
As a city at the heart of the Dutch Revolt, Antwerp suffered mightily. In November of 1576, Spanish troops sacked the city, plundering property and killing 6,000 residents - an event which became known the “Spanish Fury”. In 1585, Spain took full control of Antwerp and expelled the Protestants to the north. The population was reduced by half, and Amsterdam became the new center of international trade.
After this, the city fell into a long period of decline and was revived only in the early 19th century, when Napoleon invested in upgrading the long-neglected port (which the British attempted to capture in a disastrous campaign). In the 1890’s, Antwerp hosted a World’s Fair, and in 1920, the Olympics. The city was heavily damaged by German bombs in WW2, but today is on the rise once again- today ranking among the top 20 of busiest ports in the world- certainly larger than the port of New York. Standing on the bank of the River Scheldt, one can see shipping facilities stretching to beyond the horizon.
And once again, Antwerp is a cosmopolitan place. There is a diverse immigrant community, the arts have returned, and the city is taking a seat among the most prominent fashion centers of the world. 80 percent of the world’s rough diamonds pass through its diamond markets (unfortunately though, this includes many blood diamonds).
In short, there is a lot of action here. By day, the streets bustle with a certain vibrancy and lust for life. By night, bars and restaurants host a sophisticated conviviality. It feels like a new city.
It’s interesting how history works though. Walking at dusk through the Grote Markt, with its magnificent Golden Age houses of trade, under the sublime carillon of the Cathedral, you realize that, though the faces and much of the cityscape have changed, it is, in essence, the same city it was half a millennium ago.
National Monument to the linguists and collectors of fairy tales, Jacob Grimm (Hanau 04.01.1785 - Berlin, 20.09.1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (Hanau 02.24.1786 - Berlin, 12.16.1859).
Starting point of the German Fairy Tale Road Hanau-Bremen.
Nationaldenkmal der Sprachforscher und Märchensammler Jacob Grimm (Hanau 4.1.1785 - Berlin 20.9.1863) und Wilhelm Grimm (Hanau 24.2.1786 - Berlin 16.12.1859).
Ausgangspunkt der Deutschen Märchenstraße Hanau-Bremen.
(further pictures and informations you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Grimm Brothers National Memorial
A long way, since 1896 the brothers Grimm were cast in bronze.
View of the National Monument to the brothers Grimm in the New Town Market Square.
While still alive, the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, in 1853, the respected citizen of Hanau and patron Pedro Jung donated 500 guilders for a monument to be constructed. Subsequent fund-raising and appeals, however, remained largely unsuccessful. On 21 January 1884 was founded a so-called Monument Committee and affirmed the prerogative of the city of Hanau to be a site for a National Monument to the brothers Grimm towards Kassel, Göttingen and Berlin. 1888 were invited eleven well-known sculptors to submit a draft, and all models were publicly exhibited at the Royal Academy of Drawing Hanau in January 1889. The population showed strong interest in the designs. A jury determined the first three winners: In first place came a design of Max Wiese, sculptor and director of the Academy of Drawing, the second Prize went to Gustav Eberlein, professor, sculptor and painter from Hannoversch-Münden. The third Price won Syrius Eberle, professor and sculptor from Munich.
Bronze plate
Bronze plate "Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm" at the National Monument.
But soon were stirred up resentment and counter-voices. It came to a dispute over the top-ranked design of sculptor Wiese. It was decided the son of Wilhelm Grimm, Herman Grimm, art and literary historian in Berlin, to ask his opinion. This examined the models and decided on the design of Syrius Eberle. So the order for the execution of the monument to Eberle was granted. The monument should be erected on the New Town Market Square, the figures measure a height of about three meters and a new base to be built. The Prussian Ministry withdraw thereupon indignantly its financial commitment.
Bronze plaque at the base of the national monument .
So the artist fell into default. The making of an auxiliary model in original size was delayed until 1894. Except for minor changes, the Hanauer have been taken with the design, but not the artist, because he destroyed the auxiliary model and was only a year later to present a new one. In the rush, the monument had to be poured in parts in two bronze foundries. On 18 October 1896 finally took place the solemn unveiling of the monument under great sympathy of the population.
From the sale of the original large cast model of plaster to Kassel the wrought iron grille has been paid.
Bronze plaque at the base of the national monument. The three winning models of the national monument of the Grimm brothers are now in the ownership of the Hanau Historical Association 1844 eV and can be marveled at among other Sien Grimm (Grimmensien) in the Historical Museum Hanau Castle Philippsruhe.
The national monument today is the starting point of the German Fairy Tale Road from Hanau to Bremen.
The preference of Japan for the brothers Grimm and their fairy tale collection led in 1989 to the cast of the monument, including a replica of the New Town Hall in scale 1:1 for the "Bliss Kingdom" Kofuko, an amusement park in Obihiro on Hokkaido Island/Japan.
Total height of the monument: 6.45 m.
Sculptor of the statue group: Syrius Eberle/Munich.
Neoclassical Bronze base and decorative grille: architect Friedrich August von Thiersch/Munich.
Seated Figure Wilhelm Grimm and base: Rupp'sche Erzgießerei/Munich, Germany;
standing figure Jacob Grimm: foundry of Miller/Munich.
Socle of Swedish granite: Dykerhoff & Naumann/Wetzlar.
Installation work: Hunter & Stumpf/Hanau.
Sons of the city - the brothers Grimm
We made the Sydney flight out of LAX. That was about 15 hours, I think. I can't remember for sure now; Brisbane from L.A. was going to be fourteen and a half. And except when eating, I wore a face mask the entire way. I brought both KN95s and N95s, and at first decided I would just stick with the KN95. But, I wound up wearing it for so long that the straps literally chaffed my ears, at a point when I was trying to sleep. I actually switched out to N95 just to relieve my ears, and slept in that for a couple of hours. But then I woke up due to the difficulty breathing, and switched back to the N95.
Shobhit wore a disposable mask maybe half the way. He had it on in the airports on the way there, but about halfway through the trans-Pacific flight he could no longer abide it and took it off.
No fewer than four people within about a four-seat radius of me coughed regularly through this entire flight. Including the guy on the other side of me, sitting by the window. Fun!
But I haven't even gotten to the other delay we had to endure! This happened at the Sydney Airport, so it was especially frustrating after already having to get re-routed through Sydney to begin with. In fact, at first we were thinking of the first delay as a blessing in disguise, because our original flight to Brisbane was to land at 5 a.m. local time and we couldn't check into our hotel until 2 p.m. We wound up on a later plane that didn't land until 2:30 anyway, so, problem solved, I guess!
And: why? Well, perhaps we should have known better, but we didn't think about this at all, when Shobhit, who works at Total Wine & More, bought two liquor containers on clearance and with his employee discount: in the shape of gas canisters, with the words HOLIDAY FUEL stenciled on the sides. (You'll see a photo of me holding these later in this email.) Well, it turns out, Airport Security gets spooked when they see what looks like gas canisters in their luggage scans.
Shobhit and I had picked up our luggage and taken it through customs already at this point, had even made it to the gate for our 10:05 am flight, we thought barely. We even assumed we would get bumped to the next flight when we checked our luggage at the domestic flights counter, but the agent there told us the flight was slightly delayed and we would barely make it. We took a shuttle bus from the International to the Domestic terminal. We went into the bathroom and brushed our teeth, having spent the night (and then some) on an airplane. We were waiting to board in a matter of minutes, when Shobhit was paged by name at the Qantas customer service desk.
The lady there told us some "camping equipment" had been seen in his suitcase, so he was pulled off the flight. We were going to have to shuttle back to International Terminal and discuss this with Airport Security. They hadn't pulled me off the flight, so we had them do that too, and make sure they also retrieved my suitcase.
Back we went. After a short while, we met a young man I felt very comfortable heaping twenty tons of resentment on for assuming we had checked actual canisters of gasoline. Shobhit even opened both canisters and let him smell them. A Qantas agent had to rebook us on another flight, and while Shobhit made several complaints the man said Airport Security is totally different from the airline and this was entirely out of their control. Very convenient! Well, we saw the security guy a couple of times and, after understanding that there was no point in resenting the arline agent, I spent a lot of time looking at the young man from security and thinking things along the lines of Fuuuuuuck you!
I was pretty lax about the setbacks up to this moment, but was reaching a breaking point when the agent told us that, although there are hourly flights from Sydney to Brisbane, not only were we clearly missing the 11:05 flight, there weren't even seats available at 12:05. Or even the 1:05. We wound up on the 2:05 flight, delayed a further four hours from the itinerary we thought we had after re-booking at LAX.
To say I was relieved when we finally actually touched down in Brisbane—at 2:30 local time, because the Australian state of Queensland does not observe Daylight Saving—would be an understatement. And if you actually read all of this, congratulations! I don't think any of the other captions will be this long. We can only hope. Let's pray!
BG Annual Conference 2018 | November 8–10 | ZK/U – Center for Arts and Urbanistics
ambient-revolts.berlinergazette.de
The growing interconnectedness of everyone and everything is transforming our world into an unprecedented techno-social environment. The boundaries between atmosphere and politics are being suspended; already, tiny ruptures can cause cascade-like repercussions – think of cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protest. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – involving human interaction but seemingly beyond human oversight. Set against this backdrop, the conference poses the questions: What are the techno-social logics of both regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What potential do micro-political acts have in day-to-day life? What regulations of automated systems at the macro level will enable democracy to emerge in the age of AI? The Berliner Gazette conference will explore these questions in the context of performances, lectures and workshops.
More info: projekte.berlinergazette.de/ambient-revolts/
Photo taken by Norman Posselt (berlinergazette.de / cc by nc)
Pershing County Courthouse has a very unusual jury box. It is in the middle of the room.
The Pershing County Courthouse in Lovelock, Nevada is a Classical Revival building built in 1920-21. The courthouse's plan is hexagonal with a circular dome over the central circular courtroom. The building was designed by Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps, who had previously designed six other Nevada courthouses. DeLongchamps was involved in the design of a new courthouse for Humboldt County, where the old courthouse had burned. As a result of resentment over assessments for the replacement in Winnemucca, the new Pershing County was created from part of Humboldt County and its seat established in Lovelock. DeLongchamps, as Supervising Architect for the State of Nevada, undertook the new Lovelock courthouse.
The courthouse features a shallow Ionic portico on a raised basement backed by a plain rectangular mass. Behind this is the hexagonal main body of the courthouse, built with curving walls. A shallow dome, reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia Library, crowns the central courtroom. The primary building materials are brick with stone trim and terra cotta detailing. Construction cost amounted to $99,138.68.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_County_Courthouse
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
Tag hammered by Rene. I don't think I'm a massively interesting person, but here goes. XD
The photo is taken by my brother, and editing was done by me. This lovely upside-down beauty is called Squinty, and she's a very friendly fluffy community cat.
[10 THINGS ABOUT ME]
i. I sound extremely scathing at times without meaning to be, because I speak very bluntly. But most of the time, don't take it personally, because I often forget to modulate my vocal intonations so sometimes I sound very aggressive.
ii. I have trust issues and bitter inner resentment stemming from a very rough childhood, the latter of which I still have difficulty trying to put behind me. It's getting better, though.
iii. I don't really enjoy listening to English music. I'll happily listen to almost any other language, though.
iv. I have dark chocolate brown irises that are encircled by a solid black ring.
v. I adore cats. If I see any strays that appear friendly and approachable on the streets, I will stop and play with them.
vi. I usually don't turn on the subwoofers or bass of sound systems because the vibrations reverberate in my chest and make me feel sick.
vii. I'm very uncomfortable being touched by people I'm not close with. (Hand on shoulder, etc) If I'm poked in the ribs or something my instinctive reaction is to hit whoever poked me really hard.
viii. I can only fall asleep in a room that is completely dark.
ix. I can easily drink up to 3 litres of water in a day.
x. I'm asthmatic, so I can't really keep pets; I'd love to be able to keep a Russian Blue or Ragdoll though.
When the routine bites hard
And ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
But emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways
Taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again
Why is the bedroom so cold
Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed
Our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again
Do you cry out in your sleep
All my failings exposed
Get a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can't function no more?
When love, love will tear us apart again
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Joy Division (1979)
Animals Asia volunteer Esta LeCren said: "It was as if Frodo didn't hold any resentment towards people, despite years of being confined and treated poorly by humans."
The Liberation Monument ("Russian monument")
(Further pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Officially, one can find various names: (Russian) Liberation Monument, Russian War Memorial and Monument of the Red Army. The Viennese call the towering monument at the southern end of the Black Mountain course (Schwarzenbergplatz) usually disparaging "Russian monument (Russendenkmal)".
The monument commemorating the 18,000 in the liberation of Vienna fallen soldiers of the Red Army was designed by Major Intazarin, the sculptures were created by Lieutenant Jakoviev. The overall direction of the yet in April 1945 ordered and as first monument building after the war completed structure had major Ing. Mikhail Scheinfeld. In the construction were temporarily 400 workers involved, 18 tons of bronze and 300 cubic meters of marble were used. The monument was on 19 August 1945 with the assistance of Karl Renner, Leopold Figl and Theodor Körner unveiled on then so designated Stalin Square.
On a in total 20 m high, marble-clad base, the lower part in the form of a five-pointed red star, decorated with flags and guard badges, stands the 12 m tall figure of a Red Army soldier. The soldier is wearing a gold helmet and the famous Russian submachine gun with rotary magazine. With his left hand he has the flag with the right hand he holds a round shield with the Soviet coat of arms. In the background arises a broad, eight meter high balustrade, at its end respectively one group of two fighting men is situated, a prime example of the style of socialist realism, which gradually has become an art-historical rarity.
One of the inscriptions in Russian only in the early 80s have been translated into German and is:
"Eternal glory to the heroes of the Red Army, killed in action against the German-fascist invaders for the freedom and independence of the peoples of Europe (Mikhalkov)".
Until 1956, there were also graves of Soviet soldiers in the area, and a Soviet tank stood before the monument.
The monument is in the custody of the City of Vienna. As is generally known, Austria is according to the detailed provisions of Article 19 of the State Treaty of 15 May 1955 committed war graves and war memorials of the Allied Powers on Austrian soil "to respect, to protect and to preserve".
Between 1945 and 1956 stood in front of the fountain on the former "Stalin Square" a Russian tank, which is now in the Museum of Military History.
=> Marschik/Spital, Vienna The Russians monument, architecture, history, conflicts, Vienna, 2005
=> Hannes Leidinger/Verena Moritz, Russian Vienna, Böhlau, Vienna, 2004, 182 f
Sometimes leads the memory to the bad experiences which have been made by Austrian people with the occupation forces - particularly the Soviet - in the ten years of Allied occupation to open resentment against monuments such as the "Russian monument". Nevertheless - the greater the distance from the war and post-war period is, the more one had to give account about the fact how much innocent blood just the peoples of the former Soviet Union have sacrificed in the fight against Hitler's rule, and how little the Austrian people to its own liberation has contributed. Such thoughts have got to come to one's mind when one takes some time to decipher the Cyrillic letters of gold on a "Russian monument" - whether on that at Vienna Schwarzenberg Square or somewhere out in the vast realms of Lower Austria, where up to the Waldviertel (part of Lower Austria) little Soviet military cemeteries exist.
A survey by the Gallup Institute, published in the "standard" on 11th February 1992 shows that 71% of Viennes people do know the monument. A clear majority (59 %) is for the preservation of the monument. Only 9% of the 1,000 respondents agreed with the opinion that the monument should be eliminated as a remnant of Stalinism. So, have the Austrians made peace with the contemporary history?
Hochstrahlbrunnen
Before the liberation monument arises the to the occasion of the completion of the First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline on 24th October 1873 in the presence of the emperor put into operation Hochstrahlbrunnen (high jet fountain), which should have been standing according to the original plans in front of the Votive Church, then opposite the New Town Hall. The builder of the aqueduct and the fountain, Anton Gabrielli, was a friend of astronomy. Accordingly, symbolizes the respective number of the jets of water the days of the year, the months, the days of the month, the days of the week and the hours of the day.
Hello. With all respect and sincerity I am curious to learn how many, if any, of my American or foreign born neighbors believe the late popular American urban story-TRUTH-teller Tupac Shakur's #T_H_U_G_L_I_F_E Child Abuse and Emotional Maltreatment *AWARENESS* concept offers a reasonable explanation for why significant numbers of American children are being impeded, hampered or prevented from maturing into reasonably responsible, well-adjusted American teens and adults who become doctors, scientists, engineers, business owners, educators and leaders?
Does Tupac offer a reasonably intelligent explanation for why Americans of African descent are being impeded from experiencing the equality and respect all peaceful, reasonably responsible Americans are entitled to enjoy?
How many of my American or foreign born neighbors are familiar with urban-TRUTH-teller Tupac Shakur's (often misinterpreted) #T_H_U_G_L_I_F_E Child Abuse, Emotional Neglect, Abandonment and Maltreatment *AWARENESS* concept:
"The Hate U Give Little Infants Fvvks *EVERYONE*" ~Tupac Shakur
"We need more people who care; you know what I'm saying? We need more women, mothers, fathers, we need more of that..." ~Tupac Shakur
TUPAC EXPLAINS HIS 'T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E.' CHILD ABUSE *AWARENESS* CONCEPT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlcufeHMsVU/
Tupac, an admitted emotionally ill adult who loudly spoke about experiencing childhood abuse and maltreatment during a critical period of human/childhood development, intelligently recognized not only are American kids being UNJUSTLY OPPRESSED, IMPEDED and DEPRIVED from experiencing their full human potential, as well as a SAFE, fairly or wonderfully happy American kid childhood...
...Tupac realized OUR NATION is being deprived of enjoying the potential achievements offered to ALL Americans by fairly or wonderfully happy kids maturing into reasonably responsible teens and adults caring about the future of OUR Nation, and the welfare of their peaceful, as well as less fortunate neighbors.
I believe Tupac correctly recognized Americans need to change the name of our “War On Poverty”, to “America’s Firm Resolve to End Childhood Abuse, Emotional Neglect and Maltreatment.”
Unlike Mr. Barack “My Brother’s Keeper” Obama and his presidential predecessors, I am hopeful our new president Renegade Republican Donald Trump will recognize improving the Quality of Life for our American neighbors of African descent begins with addressing HEALTH issues related to proper childhood care and environments.
I believe Mr. Trump should take meaningful ACTION to protect from harm our Nation's most precious and cherished assets by placing an emphasis on EDUCATION about proper child care, as well as stepping up enforcement of Child Safety & Protection laws which will eventually lead to fewer depressed, unhappy, emotionally neglected/abandoned American kids...
...maturing into angry, frustrated teens and young adults full or half full of rage and resentment for IRRESPONSIBLY and THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN, being introduced to an emotionally and/or physically abusive childhood fraught with pain, struggles, torment, uncertainty, frustration, FEAR, demeaning government handouts, resentment, depression, sorrow, sadness, disappointment and hardships. :Childhood Trauma!:
Unfortunately, before he discovered how to properly promote his #T_H_U_G_L_I_F_E Child Abuse *AWARENESS* concept, Tupac was brutally murdered by OTHER emotionally or mentally ill victims of America's Culture of African American Child Abuse, Neglect and Emotional Maltreatment evolving from America's multi-generational, ignorant once legal Culture of Racism.
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Not only I am asking Mr. Trump to take meaningful ACTION protecting and preventing American kids from experiencing a potentially life-scarring, traumatic childhood...
...I am asking my American neighbors to RECOGNIZE and embrace the fact our imperfect human species will continue evolving, learning day by day about our human condition and physical world, slowly shedding our human ignorance and adapting as we continue plodding along trying to improve the Quality of Life for all human beings!
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My friends, during the 80s-90s I spent the first twelve years of my police career as a Brooklyn, NY cop, robbery and death investigator regularly witnessing significant numbers of newborns, infants, toddlers, children and teens, through no fault of their own experiencing a potentially life-scarring medical Disease/Condition known to medical doctors and researchers as "Childhood Trauma."
"Childhood Trauma" is a REAL Disease/Condition affecting far too many American kids and teens who far too often develop into emotionally damaged teens and adults lacking empathy, compassion and respect for their peaceful neighbors because they believe their lives suck so why shouldn't other people's lives suck too!!!
Much like Tupac I'm sorry to pick on moms, though since ancient times they are the primary caregivers we look to keep us SAFE, protected, cared for and loved right from our start.
In case there is any confusion, I am writing about and assisting my responsible American neighbors with sharing credible evidence describing America’s potentially life scarring, oppressive, MUCH-IGNORED African American *PARENTAL CHILD CARE* HEALTH CRISIS that I, as well as a growing number of my responsible, caring, concerned American and foreign born neighbors believe is impeding our American neighbors of African descent from experiencing the equality and respect all peaceful, reasonably responsible Americans are entitled to enjoy.
Peace.
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"America’s Firm Resolve to End Childhood Abuse and Neglect”
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by the Washington News Company of Washington D.C., Leipzig and Berlin.
The card was posted in the King of Prussia, Montgomery County, Pa. on Saturday the 16th. February 1907 to:
Miss Ann W. Pechin,
King of Prussia,
Montg. Co.,
Pa.
There was no message on the back of the card as the back is undivided - divided backs were only allowed in the United States in 1907.
The King of Prussia is a census-designated area in Upper Merion Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, its population was 19,936.
Back in 1907 the King of Prussia had a very much smaller population, and a person's name was sufficient for the card to be delivered to them.
The Union Arch Bridge
The Union Arch Bridge, also called the "Cabin John Bridge", is a historic masonry structure in Cabin John, Maryland. It was designed as part of the Washington Aqueduct.
Construction of the bridge began in 1857, and was completed in 1864. The roadway surface was added later. The bridge was designed by Alfred Landon Rives, and built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers under the direction of Lieutenant Montgomery C. Meigs.
The Union Arch Bridge was designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1972, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
Design of the Bridge
The bridge, with an overall length of 450 ft (140 m) and width of 20 ft (6.1 m), is constructed from Massachusetts granite and red sandstone quarried at the nearby Seneca Quarry.
It rises 101 ft (31 m) above Cabin John Creek. The main arch span is 220 ft (67 m) long and rises 57 feet 3 inches (17.45 m). The bridge has an internal spandrel wall structure that contains nine additional smaller arches, which are concealed from view by exterior stone sidewalls.
At the time of its construction, the main span was the longest single-span masonry arch in the world. It retained that distinction until the opening of the 277-foot (84 m) span of the Pont Adolphe Bridge in Luxembourg in 1903.
Previously, that honour had gone to the Grosvenor Bridge which crosses the River Dee in Chester, England and which was opened by the thirteen-year-old Princess Victoria (five years before becoming Queen) in October 1832.
Visually, the similarities between the Union Arch Bridge and the Grosvenor Bridge are remarkable.
Although Washington's population of approximately 58,000 was estimated to need 5,220,000 gallons per day, the conduit was designed for a daily capacity of 76,500,000 gallons.
Originally, the bridge was not intended to support traffic, and so the conduit was only covered with soft clay. However, soon after its completion, farmers began to use the bridge to bring produce to market.
The bridge also began to be used for the transit of equipment to repair the conduit itself. Between 1870 and 1875, a $46,000 appropriation allowed the road to have macadam topping for about a mile.
In the summer of 2001, what had been a narrow bidirectional roadway underwent extensive renovations, partially due to vehicles bumping and damaging the low, unreinforced stone parapet, particularly in the middle of the span where the bridge further narrows.
The renovation converted the bridge to one alternating lane with signalization and a pedestrian/bike lane, providing continuity for the MacArthur Boulevard Bike Trail.
On the vehicle side of the roadway, a concrete curb was added to reinforce and protect the stone parapet. A low modular concrete barrier separates vehicles from pedestrians and bikes.
Integrated drainage and a simple balustrade of wrought iron railing was added to both sides, protection which had not previously existed.
Controversy
The naming of the bridge has been somewhat confused, related to its completion during the Civil War.
While the bridge was being designed and constructed, it was referred to as "Union Arch", "Bridge No. 4" or "Cabin John Bridge" in drawings and government correspondence.
The latter two names, however, do not appear in any of the stone carvings that were eventually placed on the bridge. In 1861, as the bridge was nearing completion, the Army drew up initial plans for inscription of commemorative stone tablets to be installed on the bridge.
Meigs, who had been promoted to the rank of captain, issued an order in March 1861 for a tablet on the east bridge abutment. The text was to consist of a title, "Union Bridge," and the names of the principal designers, namely Meigs and Assistant Engineer Alfred L. Rives.
However by the time the war began, Rives had joined the Confederate Army. Accordingly the final tablet design was modified with the title "Union Arch," and the reference to "Alfred L. Rives" was replaced with "Esto Perpetua" ("Let it last forever.")
Several publications have referred to the "Union Arch" of the Washington Aqueduct, but others still refer to the structure as the Cabin John Bridge.
The bridge design process had begun in 1853, during the administration of President Franklin Pierce and the Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis.
Captain Meigs' 1861 order also called for a tablet on the west bridge abutment, with the title, "Washington Aqueduct" and listing the political leaders that were in office both at the start of the project and at its completion (i.e., Pierce and Davis; President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of War Simon Cameron).
By 1862, however, Davis had left the Union to become President of the Confederate States of America. There was resentment among some members of Congress about the inscription of Davis' name on the bridge, and this led to an order that his name be removed from the tablet. The Department of the Interior, which was managing the aqueduct at that time, ordered the removal of the inscription.
In 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt was asked by various constituents to restore Davis' name to the tablet. Roosevelt ordered the restoration.
Twentieth Century Naming Confusion
Some additional confusion over the bridge name arose when the Capital Beltway was constructed in the early 1960's, and the nearby Beltway bridge over the Potomac River was also called the "Cabin John Bridge." However, in 1969 the Beltway bridge was formally named the "American Legion Memorial Bridge."
Historic Designations
The Union Arch Bridge was designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1972. It was also listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Both designations refer to the bridge as the "Cabin John Aqueduct."
Current Operation of the Bridge
The bridge continues to support the Washington Aqueduct, as well as a roadway, MacArthur Boulevard. Traffic is narrowed to one lane with traffic signals controlling traffic in either direction. Signs remind road maintenance crews not to salt the roadway in winter months.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed a renovation of the bridge in 2001.
SKF
So what else happened on the day that Katharine posted the card?
Well, on the 16th. February 1907, SKF, a worldwide mechanical parts manufacturing brand (mainly, bearings and seals), was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden.
AB SKF (Swedish: Svenska Kullagerfabriken ('Swedish Ball Bearing Factory')) is a Swedish manucturing company.
The company manufactures and supplies bearings, seals, lubrication and lubrication systems, maintenance products, mechatronics products, power transmission products, condition monitoring systems and related services globally.
SKF is the world's largest bearing manufacturer, and employs 44,000 people in 108 manufacturing units.
It has the largest industrial distributor network in the industry, with 17,000 distributor locations encompassing 130 countries.[
SKF is one of the largest companies in Sweden and among the largest public companies in the world.
Published by the Martinsburg, WV Journal, May 2017
Are there really “Two Americas”, the phrase we hear from all side of the political spectrum referring to the disparity between the haves and the have-nots, the urban and the rural, the left and the right, the intellectuals and the blue collars? Now I see another phrase to describe our division: ‘cultural resentment.’
But historically, there are not two Americas: there are three.
There are the Native Americans, the hundreds of tribes who thrived for thousands of years until they were forced at gunpoint to quarantined lands under treaties that are still being broken by both the US government and private citizens. But they are Americans, with the right to vote granted in 1924.
Secondly, there are the descendants of Africans who were kidnapped, shipped, sold, and worked like animals here until death. They were not even considered people for the first 400 years. They are still living on ‘reservations’ in the rural south and segregated neighborhoods of the inner cities. But they are Americans, with the right to vote since 1870.
Then, there are the European immigrants who settled this continent. They guaranteed themselves, white men, the right to vote as their first act of government in 1787. This third America has never been subject to any legislative interference to its own pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness. But now, after banishing one race, enslaving another, and disenfranchising their own mothers, wives, daughters and sisters until 1920, they are angry because they realize that they have divided themselves into a caste system not unlike the class structure they imposed on Native Americans, African-Americans and women.
To trivialize our divided nation into what is essentially opposing White Americas by calling it ‘Two Americas” is more of the same disrespectful exclusion of the only true minorities we owe anything to in this country. Everyone else came willingly, and most got a better deal here than they did from the place they left.
This latest excuse to elect a working-class savior has no basis: all the ingredients for a Trump-like figure to rescue the 'little (white) guy' have existed for well over five decades, spanning 12 presidential elections that could have been opportunities for blue-collar middle-class voters to express their frustration with ‘elite’ Washington. We've had the working poor since Biblical times, wages have stagnated for the over 30 years while the cost of living has gone up, and manufacturing began to decline well before that. Distrust of government is epidemic, starting with the Vietnam War and Watergate. Appalachia has been the epicenter of poverty for a century.
So, what was so different in this election cycle? The only factors that have never before occurred were these two events: our first black President, and the looming specter of his potential replacement, a woman. That was the spark that lit the fire that blazed the inferno that became the arsonists’ destruction of the integrity of our government that is now swirling towards a conical abyss.
Rebuilding will obviously be difficult. Who will accomplish the hard labor? Minorities, new immigrants, and women. Many of these people have two things in common: adapt to survive, and don’t put the responsibility of failure on someone else. Those are the same values that made our ancestors achieve, for better or worse, success in this country we call home.
This government was founded specifically so that its citizens, and now every citizen, would have an opportunity to shape their own fate, and also shape the destiny of the nation. If we can’t continue to believe that, then no cosmopolitan billionaire real estate developer is going to do it for us, no matter what he promises. If you want to ‘Make America Great Again,’ you need to start with you.
Over some late-night pierogies, my friend and I were engaged in a long conversation about early childhood anxieties and introversion. It is comforting to me to find people with whom I’ve shared similar or common experiences.
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I had always been strangely self-contained, even as a child. In my earliest memories, with my paternal grandmother, I remember being left to play quietly by myself. It was natural for me to engage elsewhere deep in a rich inner life, requiring little external stimulation. Outwardly, I was an Edward Gorey illustration come to life.
Our culture has a certain expectation that children must exhibit extroverted behavior. A child as morose as I would be considered abnormal and probably engendered disfavor in all adults except those possessed of a certain kooky sensibility.
Take my second grade teacher as a case in point. Mrs. Scribner adored me because I would, when asked to write a paragraph about our field trip, turn in my assignment in verse with rhyming couplets. And for this same reason, she worried that I would have a difficult time gaining acceptance as the new kid in a small suburban school. And so, Mrs. Scribner went to great lengths in making my place prominent in her classroom, showing extreme favoritism, and couching my exceptionalism in the most positive light. I wonder that it wasn’t all to protect me, her Chiik Rain Man, from the potential cruelty of others. (Ten minutes to Wapner)
One day, she brought in a child-sized rocking chair and placed it on the rug beside her own, where all of us would gather for story hour. This chair, she announced, belonged to Chiik and only Chiik was allowed to sit in it an any time.
-How come she gets to sit there?
-Because she’s Chiik. And because I said so.
I was touched by Mrs. Scribner’s gesture. Still, I was unable to take any pleasure in that chair, uncomfortable as I was at the center of attention, and conscious as I was of the growing resentment around me. It is so unfair! After a week of this, enduring all the grumblings about being teacher’s pet, I asked Mrs. Scribner for permission to allow Gemma, my best friend of three weeks, in the chair for just that afternoon. I wanted to dissipate all the attention that was focused upon me, but was afraid that Mrs. Scribner would think I was disobeying her wishes. She only looked a little bit sad about it: “Well, I wanted you to sit there. But it’s yours to give, Chiik.”
I felt miserable.
By the time story hours was over that day, I had 21 new best friends haranguing me for chair privileges. This situation persisted for another week, wherein I would brace myself for the 2 o’clock onslaught of hustling and wheedling (picture the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange). Some tried bribes. Some cried. Some denounced me, as if I were responsible for the debacle, saying they didn’t want to sit in the chair anyway. Some promised to be my very best friend, when all I wanted was for them to go away. Gemma was there to help me take names, to throw her influence in favor of her other friends, and to protect her best friend status. Mrs. Scribner intervened, organizing an equitable rotation system, but not before I endured a crazy amount of stress.
I could say that the incident deepened my natural distrust of people. But that isn’t really the point, nor is it true even. It is absurd that anyone would be your friend simply so they can sit in your chair for one afternoon. Maybe this is what a person in any position of real influence encounters in daily life, approached with a bazillion friends looking to extract favors in one form or another. I wouldn’t know because I am inclined to give the problem to someone else.
This situation could have played out in many different ways. Why couldn’t I simply accept and enjoy this gift as my sole right, as it was bestowed on me? Why didn’t I use it as currency to trade for other benefits? As it is my prerogative as the writer of this piece, I cast the peculiarities of my character in the best light. But I wonder that I might not get further in life if I possessed that natural instinct to take advantage. If given a ball, most people would run with it and not, as I do, stand there on the field puzzling over the purpose of the ball and whether I want it in the first place. Still, I love Mrs. Scribner for trying.
JACK KIRBY
Birth nameJacob Kurtzberg
BornAugust 28, 1917
New York City. New York
Died February 6, 1994 (aged 76)
Thousand Oaks, California
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Penciller, Inker, Writer, Editor
Pseudonym(s)The King
Notable worksMarvel Comics
AwardsAlley Award
*Best Pencil Artist (1967), plus many awards for individual stories
Shazam Award
*Special Achievement by an Individual (1971)
Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of medium. He was also a comic book writer and editor. His most common nickname is The King.
He was inducted into comic books' Shazam Awards Hall of Fame in 1975.
The Jack Kirby Award for achievement in comic books was named in his honor.
Early life
Born Jacob Kurtzberg to Jewish Austrian parents in New York City, he grew up on Suffolk Street in New York's Lower East Side Delancey Street area, attending elementary school at P.S. 20. His father, Benjamin, a garment-factory worker, was a Conservative Jew, and Jacob attended Hebrew school. Jacob's one sibling, a brother five years younger, predeceased him. After a rough-and-tumble childhood with much fighting among the kind of kid gangs he would render more heroically in his future comics (Fantastic Four's Jewish Ben Grimm was raised on rough-and-tumble "Yancy Street", and was predeceased by his older brother; in addition to sharing Kirby's father's first name, his middle name is Jacob, Kirby's first name at birth), Kirby enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, at what he said was age 14, leaving after a week. "I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done".[1]
Essentially self-taught, Kirby cited among his influences the comic strip artists Alex Raymond and Milton Caniff.
The Golden Age of Comics
Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), art by Jack Kirby (penciler) and Joe Simon (inker).
Per his own sometimes-unreliable memory, Kirby joined the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate in 1936, working there on newspaper comic strips and on single-panel advice cartoons such as Your Health Comes First (under the pseudonym "Jack Curtiss"). He remained until late 1939, then worked for the movie animation company Fleischer Studios as an "in-betweener" (an artist who fills in the action between major-movement frames,) on Popeye cartoons. "I went from Lincoln to Fleischer," he recalled. "From Fleischer I had to get out in a hurry because I couldn't take that kind of thing," describing it as "a factory in a sense, like my father's factory. They were manufacturing pictures."
Around this time, "I began to see the first comic books appear". The first American comic books were reprints of newspaper comic strips; soon, these tabloid-size, 10-inch by 15-inch "Comic books" began to include original material in comic-strip form. Kirby began writing and drawing such material for the comic book packager Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of firms creating comics on demand for publishers. Through that company, Kirby did what he remembers as his first comic book work, for Wild Boy Magazine. This included such strips as the science fiction adventure The Diary of Dr. Hayward (under the pseudonym "Curt Davis"), the Western crimefighter strip Wilton of the West (as "Fred Sande"), the swashbuckler strip "The Count of Monte Cristo" (again as "Jack Curtiss"), and the humor strips Abdul Jones (as "Ted Grey)" and Socko the Seadog (as "Teddy"), all variously for Jumbo Comics and other Eisner-Iger clients. Kirby was also helpful beyond his artwork when he once frightened off a mobster who was strongarming Eisner for their building's towel service.
Kirby moved on to comic-book publisher and newspaper syndicator Fox Feature Syndicate, earning a then-reasonable $15 a week salary. He began exploring superhero narrative with the comic strip The Blue Beetle (January–March 1940), starring a character created by the pseudonymous Charles Nicholas, a house name that Kirby retained for the three-month-long strip.
Simon & Kirby
During this time, Kirby met and began collaborating with cartoonist and Fox editor Joe Simon, who in addition to his staff work continued to freelance. Speaking at a 1998 Comic-Con International panel in San Diego, California, Simon recounted the meeting:
“
I had a suit and Jack thought that was really nice. He'd never seen a comic book artist with a suit before. The reason I had a suit was that my father was a tailor. Jack's father was a tailor too, but he made pants! Anyway, I was doing freelance work and I had a little office in New York about ten blocks from DC's and Fox [Feature Syndicate]'s offices, and I was working on Blue Bolt for Funnies, Inc. So, of course, I loved Jack's work and the first time I saw it I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He asked if we could do some freelance work together. I was delighted and I took him over to my little office. We worked from the second issue of Blue Bolt...
and remained a team across the next two decades. In the early 2000s, original art for an unpublished, five-page Simon & Kirby collaboration titled "Daring Disc", which may predate the duo's Blue Bolt, surfaced. Simon published the story in the 2003 updated edition of his autobiography, The Comic Book Makers.
After leaving Fox and landing at pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman's Timely Comics (the future Marvel Comics), the new Simon & Kirby team created the seminal patriotic hero Captain America in late 1940. Their dynamic perspectives, groundbreaking use of centerspreads, cinematic techniques and exaggerated sense of action made the title an immediate hit and rewrote the rules for comic book art. Simon and Kirby also produced the first complete comic book starring Captain Marvel for Fawcett Comics.
Captain America became the first and largest of many hit characters the duo would produce. The Simon & Kirby name soon became synonymous with exciting superhero comics, and the two became industry stars whose readers followed them from title to title. A financial dispute with Goodman led to their decamping to National Comics, one of the precursors of DC Comics, after ten issues of Captain America. Given a lucrative contract at their new home, Simon & Kirby took over the Sandman in Adventure Comics, and scored their next hits with the "kid gang" teams the Boy Commandos and the Newsboy Legion, and the superhero Manhunter.
Kirby married Rosalind "Roz" Goldstein (September 25, 1922–December 22, 1998) on May 23, 1942. The couple would have four children: Susan, Neal, Barbara and Lisa. The same year that he married, he changed his name legally from Jacob Kurtzberg to Jack Kirby. The couple was living in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, when Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army in the late autumn of 1943. Serving with the Third Army combat infantry, he landed in Normandy, on Omaha Beach, 10 days after D-Day.
As superhero comics waned in popularity after the end of World War II, Kirby and his partner began producing a variety of other genre stories. They are credited with the creation of the first romance title, Young Romance Comics at Crestwood Publications, also known as Prize Comics. In addition, Kirby and Simon produced crime, horror, western and humor comics.
After Simon
Sky Masters comic strip by Kirby & Wally Wood.
The Kirby & Simon partnership ended amicably in 1955 with the failure of their own Mainline Publications. Kirby continued to freelance. He was instrumental in the creation of Archie Comics' The Fly and Harvey Comics' Double Life of Private Strong reuniting briefly with Joe Simon. He also drew some issues of Classics Illustrated.
For DC Comics, then known as National Comics, Kirby co-created with writers Dick & Dave Wood the non-superpowered adventuring quartet the Challengers of the Unknown in Showcase #6 (Feb. 1957), while also contributing to such anthologies as House of Mystery. In 30 months at DC, Kirby drew lightly over 600 pages, which included 11 Green Arrow stories in World's Finest Comics and Adventure Comics that, in a rarity, Kirby inked himself. He also began drawing a newspaper comic strip, Sky Masters of the Space Force, written by the Wood brothers and initially inked by the unrelated Wally Wood.
Kirby left National Comics after a contractual dispute in which editor Jack Schiff, who had been involved in getting Kirby and the Wood brothers the Sky Masters contract, claimed he was due royalties from Kirby's share of the strip's profits. Schiff sued Kirby and was successful at trial.
Stan Lee and Marvel Comics
Kirby also worked for Marvel, on the cusp of the company's evolution from its 1950s incarnation as Atlas Comics, beginning with the cover and the seven-page story "I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers" in Strange Worlds #1 (Dec. 1958).[9] Kirby would draw across all genres, from romance to Western (the feature "Black Rider") to espionage (Yellow Claw), but made his mark primarily with a series of monster, horror and science fiction stories for the company's many anthology series, such as Amazing Adventures, Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense. His bizarre designs of powerful, unearthly creatures proved a hit with readers. Then, with Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee, Kirby began working on superhero comics again, beginning with The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961). The landmark series became a hit that revolutionized the industry with its true-to-life naturalism and, eventually, a cosmic purview informed by Kirby's seemingly boundless imagination — one coincidentally well-matched with the consciousness-expanding youth culture of the 1960s.
For almost a decade, Kirby provided Marvel's house style, co-creating/designing many of the Marvel characters and providing layouts for new artists to draw over. Highlights besides the Fantastic Four include Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, the original X-Men, the Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, Galactus, The Watcher, Magneto, Ego the Living Planet, the Inhumans and their hidden city of Attilan, and the Black Panther — comics' first known Black superhero — and his African nation of Wakanda. Simon & Kirby's Captain America was also incorporated into Marvel's continuity.
In 1968 and 1969, Joe Simon was involved in litigation with Marvel Comics over the ownership of Captain America, initiated by Marvel after Simon registered the copyright renewal for Captain America in his own name. According to Simon, Kirby agreed to support the company in the litigation and, as part of a deal Kirby made with publisher Martin Goodman, signed over to Marvel any rights he might have had to the character.
Kirby continued to expand the medium's boundaries, devising photo-collage covers and interiors, developing new drawing techniques such as the method for depicting energy fields now known as 'Kirby Dots', and other experiments. Yet he grew increasingly dissatisfied with working at Marvel. There have been a number of reasons given for this dissatisfaction, including resentment over Stan Lee's increasing media prominence, a lack of full creative control, anger over breaches of perceived promises by publisher Martin Goodman, and frustration over Marvel's failure to credit him specifically for his story plotting and for his character creations and co-creations. He began to both script and draw some secondary features for Marvel, such as "The Inhumans" in Amazing Adventures and horror stories for the anthology title Chamber of Darkness, and received full credit for doing so; but he eventually left the company in 1970 for rival DC Comics, under editorial director Carmine Infantino.
Kirby returned to DC in the early 1970s, under an arrangement that gave him full creative control as editor, writer and artist. He produced a cycle of inter-linked titles under the blanket sobriquet The Fourth World including a trilogy of new titles, New Gods, Mister Miracle, and The Forever People, as well as the Superman title, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen which he worked on at the publisher's request. Kirby claims to have picked this Superman family book because the series was between artists and he did not want to cost anyone a job. The central villain of the Fourth World series, Darkseid, and some of the Fourth World concepts appeared in Jimmy Olsen before the launch of the other Fourth World books, giving the new titles greater exposure to potential buyers.
Kirby later produced other DC titles such as OMAC, Kamandi, The Demon, and (together with former partner Joe Simon for one last time) a new incarnation of the Sandman. Several characters from this period have since become fixtures in the DC universe, including the demon Etrigan and his human counterpart Jason Blood; Scott Free (Mister Miracle), and the cosmic villain Darkseid.
Kirby then returned to Marvel Comics where he both wrote and drew Captain America and created the series The Eternals, which featured a race of inscrutable alien giants, the Celestials, whose behind-the-scenes intervention influenced the evolution of life on Earth. Kirby's other Marvel creations in this period include Devil Dinosaur, Machine Man, and an adaptation and expansion of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. He also wrote and drew The Black Panther and did numerous covers across the line.
Although often artistically successful, the books did not connect with an audience to the same extent as his earlier work for Marvel in the 1960s. Many of the themes of his 1970s work - aging and immortality, helplessness in the face of unknowable and inconceivable powers beyond one's control - were those of a man in late middle age and were not likely to connect with younger readers.
Still dissatisfied with Marvel's treatment of him, and their refusal to provide health and other employment benefits, Kirby left Marvel to work in animation, where he did designs for Turbo Teen, Thundarr the Barbarian and other animated television series. He also worked on The Fantastic Four cartoon show, reuniting him with scriptwriter Stan Lee. He illustrated an adaptation of the Walt Disney movie The Black Hole for Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales syndicated comic strip in 1979-80.
In the early 1980s, Pacific Comics, a new, non-newsstand comic book publisher, made a then-groundbreaking deal with Kirby to publish his series Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers: Kirby would retain copyright over his creation and receive royalties on it. This, together with similar actions by other "independents" such as Eclipse Comics, helped establish a precedent for other professionals and end the monopoly of the "work for hire" system, wherein comics creators, even freelancers, had owned no rights to characters they created. Kirby also retained ownership of characters used by Topps Comics beginning in 1993, for a set of series in what the company dubbed "The Kirbyverse".
In 1985, screenwriter and comic-book historian Mark Evanier revealed that thousands of pages of Kirby's artwork had been lost by Marvel Comics. These pages became the subject of a dispute between Kirby and that company. In 1987, in exchange for his giving up any claim to copyright, Kirby received from Marvel the 2,100 pages of his original art that remained in its possession. The disposition of Kirby's art for DC, Fawcett, and numerous other companies has remained uncertain.
Kirby's daughter, Lisa Kirby, announced in early 2006 that she and co-writer Steve Robertson, with artist Mike Thibodeaux, plan to published a six-issue miniseries, Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters, featuring characters and concepts created by her father.
Awards and honors
Jack Kirby received a great deal of recognition over the course of his career, including the 1967 Alley Award for Best Pencil Artist. The following year he was runner-up behind Jim Steranko. His other Alley Awards were:
*1963: Favorite Short Story - "The Human Torch Meets Captain America,", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Strange Tales #114
*1964: Best Novel - "Captain America Joins the Avengers", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, from The Avengers #4
*1964: Best New Strip or Book - "Captain America", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in Tales of Suspense
*1965: Best Short Story - "The Origin of the Red Skull", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Tales of Suspense #66
*1966: Best Professional Work, Regular Short Feature - "Tales of Asgard" by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in The Mighty Thor
*1967: Best Professional Work, Regular Short Feature - (tie) "Tales of Asgard" and "Tales of the Inhumans", both by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in The Mighty Thor
*1968: Best Professional Work, Best Regular Short Feature - "Tales of the Inhumans", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in The Mighty Thor
*1968: Best Professional Work, Hall of Fame - Fantastic Four, by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby; Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., by Jim Steranko[10]
Kirby won a Shazam Award for Special Achievement by an Individual in 1971 for his "Fourth World" series in Forever People, New Gods, Mister Miracle, and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen. He was inducted into the Shazam Awards Hall of Fame in 1975.
His work was honored posthumously with the 1998 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project, for Jack Kirby's New Gods by Jack Kirby, edited by Bob Kahan.
The Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honor.
In 2006, he was voted the #1 artist on Comic Book Resources ' All Time Top 100 Writers and Artists. With Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Gary Panter and Chris Ware, Kirby was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from Sept. 16, 2006 to Jan. 28, 2007.
Legacy
Kirby is popularly acknowledged by comics creators and fans as one of the greatest and most influential artists in the history of comics. His output was legendary, with one count estimating that he produced over 25,000 pages during his lifetime, as well as hundreds of comic strips and sketches. He also produced paintings, and worked on concept illustrations for a number of Hollywood films.
The most imitated aspect of Kirby's work has been his exaggerated perspectives and dynamic energy. Less easy to imitate have been the expressive body language of his characters, who embrace each other and charge into everything from battle to pancakes with unselfconscious exuberance; and such constantly forward-looking innovations as the then cutting-edge photomontages he often used. He (along with fellow Marvel creator Steve Ditko) pioneered the use of visible minority characters in comic books, and Kirby co-created the first black superhero at Marvel (the African prince the Black Panther) and created DC's first two black superheroes: Vykin the Black in The Forever People #1 (March 1971) and the Black Racer in The New Gods #3 (July 1971).
Kirby: King of Comics (Hardcover)
by Mark Evanier (Author), Neil Gaiman (Introduction)
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
As a teenager, future television and comics writer Evanier became an assistant to Jack Kirby, one of the foremost artists in the history of American comics. Kirby played a major role in shaping the superhero genre, not only through his innovative, dynamic artwork but through collaborating with Stan Lee to create classic Marvel characters like the Fantastic Four, the Hulk and the X-Men. Evanier has now written this magnificently illustrated biography of his mentor. Rather than employing the academic prose that one might expect from an art book, Evanier, a talented raconteur, tells Kirby's life story in an informal, entertaining manner. Although Evanier does not delve into psychological analysis, he brings Kirby's personality vividly alive: a child of the Great Depression, a creative visionary who struggled most of his life to support his family. The book recounts how Kirby was insufficiently appreciated by clueless corporate executives and close-minded comics professionals. But the stunning artwork in this book, taken from private collections, makes the case for Kirby's genius. A landmark work, this is essential reading for comics fans and those who want to better understand the history of the comics medium—or those who just want to enjoy Kirby's incredible artwork. (Mar.)
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Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books’ most popular characters including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were comics before Kirby, but for the most part their page layout, graphics, and visual dynamic aped what was being done in syndicated newspaper strips. Almost everything that was different about comic books began in the forties on the drawing table of Jack Kirby. This is his story by one who knew him well—the authorized celebration of the one and only “King of Comics” and his groundbreaking work.
“I don’t think it’s any accident that . . . the entire Marvel universe and the entire DC universe are all pinned or rooted on Kirby’s concepts.” —Michael Chabon
About the Author
Mark Evanier met Jack Kirby in 1969, worked as his assistant, and later became his official biographer. A writer and historian, Evanier has written more than 500 comics for Gold Key, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics, several hundred hours of television (including Garfield) and is the author of several books including Mad Art (2002). He has three Emmy Award nominations, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award for animation from the Writers Guild of America.
Mark Evanier
Kirby, Jack: Jack Kirby (American, 1917-1994) : Jack Kirby has received world-wide recognition for his long comic book career and accomplishments. He is regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic-book medium, thus earning the nick-name "King." Among Kirby's many co-creations are Captain America, the Newsboy Legion, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, the Avengers, the X-Men, Silver Surfer, the New Gods, and countless other memorable heroes and villains.
DECONSTRUCTING ROY LICHTENSTEIN™ © 2000
David Barsalou MFA Hartford Art School
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
───楊・格羅斯 Jan T. Gross
殺死你，只因為你貼著我憎恨的那個標籤。
★成功挑戰二戰主流史觀，大屠殺歷史寫作經典！
「為何惡魔在這座小鎮裡橫行？」
───1941年的炎熱夏日，波蘭耶德瓦布內小鎮裡一半的居民謀殺了另一半居民。
暴力的陰霾籠罩了整座小鎮。
鎮上的猶太人像狼群中待宰的羔羊，他們被棍打、溺斃、砍頭、焚燒……然而這一連串殘忍的暴行並非出自人們熟知的「納粹」，而是擁有真實面孔和姓名的波蘭人，是這些受害者過往所熟識相交的人們：他們的同學、朋友、向他們買牛奶的人以及在街上閒話家常的人——同住在小鎮裡的鄰人。
「大多數是年輕男人，他們非常享受抓捕和折磨猶太人的過程。」
「暴徒們拉著手風琴、吹著笛子，來掩蓋婦女和孩子的尖叫聲。」
「那些劊子手愈來愈興奮，殺人的節奏也愈來愈快、愈來愈瘋狂。」
「儘管事發之後一片慘狀，他們還是搜刮死者身上的財物，因為據說猶太人會把值錢的東西縫進衣服裡。」
證詞、證據、凶手、殺人動機……參與犯罪的隊伍隨著真相大白不斷擴大。作者耗費數十年抽絲剝繭，展開比偵探小說還懸疑迭起、驚心動魄的歷史解謎！人類現代史上公認的受害者「波蘭人」，原來也是屠殺的加害者？！
在面對和你敦親睦鄰的朋友同學、老師校長、鞋匠花匠或理髮店老闆娘……那些走在路上都會忍不住停下來閒話家常的親密情誼，是怎麼在一夕間消失無蹤？那些親密的鄰人們又是如何心甘情願地成為拿著斧頭棍棒的劊子手？
★美國國家書評獎、美國國家圖書獎最終決選書單！
★翻譯美、德、義、荷、西、法等多國語言出版！
★《紐約時報》、《洛杉磯時報》各大國際媒體盛讚！
★哈佛大學教授喬治・史坦納、《戰後歐洲六十年》歷史學家東尼・賈德一致推薦！
★波蘭語出版後，波蘭舉國震撼，成立國家記憶研究所（Institute of National Memory）重啟耶德瓦布內大屠殺事件調查，並審判任何仍存活的或仍能負刑事責任的罪犯。
◎為何人會對周遭的暴力與仇恨冷漠以對？
◎我們又該如何不跨過那道蔑視人命的線？
本書引導讀者思考現代社會普遍潛伏的危險───
「一個社會的徹底癱瘓，最明顯的就是對憎恨（resentment）的制度化。服膺於憎恨的人們受慫恿而相互敵視，彼此間的敵意如獸性本能般水漲船高。社會中任何細小的裂痕都可能迸裂為鴻溝，任何對立情緒都會不斷惡化加劇。曾有一度，政府慫恿人們公開指責彼此，前者的隊伍靠著衝突謾罵不斷壯大，人們在無意識間逐漸不同程度地與政府共謀，鎮壓了他們自己。」——楊・格羅斯
「屠殺事件傷害了所有人，不管是受害者、加害者還是旁觀者，而這些人到今日都還沒能走出那傷害。」───作家、波蘭文譯者 林蔚昀
歐洲長期壓迫、屠殺猶太人，除了「流散」造成「國家缺位」這個角度之外，本書也提供了社會史的解釋。二戰期間在一個波蘭小鎮，一半的人口（猶太人）在一個夏日，被他們的波蘭人鄰居掠奪、凌虐、屠殺殆盡。為什麼？本書帶領我們探索「波蘭—猶太關係的陰暗面」。───吳介民
讀《鄰人》的過程中我一直想哭.....但是除了情緒的波動，它也讓我能更深入肌理地了解波蘭文化，了解今日許多波蘭人的恐懼、脆弱、排外、自大又自卑的情緒是怎麼來的，雖然很矛盾，但這些東西確實與波蘭人的勇敢、堅強、熱情、開放共存，像是與樹共生的蔓藤。我想屠殺事件傷害了所有人，不管是受害者、加害者還是旁觀者，而這些人到今日都還沒能走出那傷害。雖然距離遙遠，社會歷史背景完全不同，我想這本書對臺灣人也很有參考價值，我們都在學習如何正視傷害的眼睛，並且學習如何在傷害中繼續共存下去。───林蔚昀
Once upon a time, there was a noble daughter named Elizabeth. She lived in a grand estate with her mother, a well-respected and admired woman in their community. Despite her privileged life, Elizabeth had always felt a deep resentment towards her mother. She couldn't understand why she felt this way, as her mother had always been loving and supportive, but Elizabeth couldn't shake off her hatred.
As Elizabeth grew older, her feelings of hatred towards her mother only intensified. She avoided her mother's company and refused to confide in her, even when she was going through difficult times. Her mother tried to reach out to her, but Elizabeth shut her out, unwilling to let anyone get close to her.
One day, Elizabeth's mother fell gravely ill, and the doctors knew she didn't have much time to live. Elizabeth was torn between her feelings of love and hatred towards her mother, but eventually decided to visit her at her bedside.
As she sat next to her mother, she realized that all the resentment and anger she had felt was unjustified and came from her own insecurities and feeling of inadequacy. She knew that she would never have another chance to make amends and tell her mother how much she loved her. Her mother passed away peacefully, holding Elizabeth's hand and with a smile on her face.
Elizabeth was left with a heavy heart, filled with regret and sorrow, she realized that her hate had caused her to lose the most important person in her life. She learned that hate and resentment can cloud our judgment and cause us to lose sight of what truly matters, and that it is important to cherish the people we love while we still have the chance.
The Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, (RNCF), was set up at Holton Heath, Dorset in World War I to manufacture cordite for the Royal Navy. It was reactivated in World War II to manufacture gun propellants for the Admiralty and its output was supplemented by the Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent. After the end of World War II, the explosive manufacturing areas of the site were closed down and some areas of the site reopened as an Admiralty Research Establishment. A major part of the explosives site became a nature reserve in 1981. Other parts of the site were converted into an industrial estate; and some may be used for housing.
The Admiralty Research Establishment became part of Defence Research Agency (DRA) and DRA Holton Heath finally closed in the late 1990s. None of the site is now owned by the Ministry of Defence.
A site was needed because Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty, insisted that the Royal Navy had their own independent supply of Cordite. The Army was to be supplied with Cordite from the HM Factory, Gretna, at Gretna, Scotland, another remote location. Holton Heath was chosen in 1914 because of its remote location, away from centres of population, and its good transportation links, on a backwater of Poole Harbour, adjacent to the London and South Western Railway,and the A351 Wareham to Poole road.
During construction and during World War I, it was guarded by a detachment of armed Metropolitan Police. After World War I, the site was guarded by the Royal Marine Police; and later the Ministry of Defence Police. There were several scares and false alarms during construction, i.e. claims that various builder's and contractor's English or Irish employees were German spies or saboteurs. All these claims had to be investigated. In 1935, during the Re-armament Period, a new nitroglycerin plant was bought from Cologne, Germany, and installed by German technicians. It was necessary for the police to guard them, as they may otherwise have been attacked due to resentment about the rise in power of Nazi Germany and memories of World War I.
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2 Grand Street Parade veterans stand in front of Needs.. they are looking forward to seeing Queen Annapolisa and the Apple Blossom Princesses in the Kentville Grand Street Parade that will soon be coming down Main Street .
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Following a 2 year absence due to Covi,, the 2022 Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival. (and Parade) will be held as per usual this year.. Unfortunately the Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess competition has had to be postponed until next year due to time constraints.
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Shocking news from ABF,
* There's been a stunning development at ABF. *
Apparently in a new younger generation there are those who harbor resentment towards our nations history, for English colonialism, and even for the Monarchy ? Other minority groups have voiced discontent over the diversity and inclusion issue ? And so it seems that the current ABF Board of Directors has listened to the concerns and complaints of a few small minority groups while apparently ignoring and excluding the overwhelming majority of Valley residents ? And it appears that this current Board of Directors chose to resolve such discontent by simply moving to implement and execute the nuclear option and the final solution ? And therefore after a highly successful lengthy run of 87 consecutive years in a row, the extremely anticipated, very popular, family oriented, inclusive and diverse, multi village Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess Pageant along with the prestigious Royal Coronation crowning ceremonies held in Wolfville have all been terminated forever by this current board of Directors ?
Will a drag Queen replace an apple blossom Queen in Kentville ? www.nsbuzz.ca/life/kentville-all-ages-drag-show-draws-pro...
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-----------------------It's The End of an Era-----------------------------
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival 2023 - ABF Board of Directors has announced drastic new changes in format and even deeper cut-backs to the annual People's Festival ? Concerns over ceremony, symbolism, the monarchy and colonialism, along with some complaints over inclusion and diversity may have had an influence on the current ABF board of Directors and they have seen a need to update the long running Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess pageant in order to bring it up to a standard they view as being more relevant to the current times ? And so the Directors must have held an extremely private 'think tank' last Winter, and without notifying, caring, considering or consulting with any of the long time participating Valley communities, they had decided that rather than trouble themselves any further with this pesky issue, why not just take the easy way out and simply get rid of it ? And so it seems they made a final decision in private last Winter and moved to execute the final and fatal solution to their problem by ordering that the iconic 87 year old Pageant competition be immediately shut down and terminated forever ? And therefore, as a result of an uninclusive and uncontested decision made in private, one of the longest running, popular, identifiable, well known, highly anticipated, most inclusive and diverse, proud all family events that has ever benefited Valley residents of every age, has just been taken away ?
This unconditional act of finality will now end the long running 88 year reign of her royal Heinous Queen Annapolisa and will terminate all participation of the 7 to 10 Apple Blossom Princess contestants and their child attendants that represent 7 to 10 local Valley communities ? It will also mean the end of the many beautiful hand crafted award winning Princess floats that always highlight Grand Street Parade, and it will also signal the end of the ultra glamorous Queen and Ladies-in-waiting Crowning ceremonies held annually and televised each year from Acadia University in Wolfville ? This also puts an end to the many popular community Princess Tea events, and also ends all Royal Party visitations to local Schools, hospitals and old folks homes that are so welcome and appreciated by Students, Seniors and shut-ins ? This also signals the end of Royal Party appearances at Kentville Children's Parade, at the Memorial Park Friday night open air concert and fireworks, and all Royal attendances at many other events held annually throughout the Valley and the Province ?
It appears now that current ABF Officials led by President Logan Morse along with Kentville town rep Lindsey Young have not only interrupted the Pageant in 2022 when they temporarily postponed it, but have now in 2023 moved to terminate this prestigious event forever explaining that their radical decision has been made to improve, include, modernize and evolve the famed beauty pageant ? This final act of termination ends almost 90 years of royal pageantry and also leaves a huge gap in the Festival itself ? It will also negatively affect so many of the nearby Valley communities who always participate and enter contestants in the Pageant ? The ending of such an important multiple community event and the taking away of the better half and Star of the Apple Blossom Festival brings forth the question of what replacement is planned, and what are local towns and villages that always play major roles in both the Queen and Princess competition suppose to do now ? And what about Valley youth and the childhood dreams of one day becoming a child attendant or an Apple Blossom Princess or even a Queen ?
You have to marvel at the level of ego and disrespect shown by this latest Board of Directors who have dared appoint themselves as the ones that will end the Pageant and then to think that Valley residents are stupid enough to believe that by cancelling and taking away a cherished and long running event, that they have in some perverted way of thinking moved the Valley forward or improved and modernized anything ? It seems far more likely that they have taken the Valley on a giant step backwards and they have robbed the people of a much beloved, long running, multi community, all inclusive, local production that has always been a highly anticipated all Valley highlight for the past almost 90 consecutive years ?
Why current ABF Management who have applied themselves to be the stewards who are in charge and responsible for the promotion and presentation of this event, appear as unable to perform their duties and do the job they are compensated to do and do what their predecessors have always done so well before them each and every year for the past 87 years often in far more trying circumstances and in far less prosperous times, is hard to understand ? And you have to wonder, Whatever happened to the # 1 rule in business that says that if you can't do the job because of inexperience, immaturity, inability, incompetency, bias, or just plain stupidity, then,, You're all FIRED ! (and a Class action recovery suit may be forthcoming ?)
ABF news updates :
Logan Morse and a newcomer ABF Board of Directors break the hearts of Valley families especially the Children when they move to terminate the historic and long running Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess Pageant after 88 years ? ABF Directors show no remorse, while boasting that their bold action was needed to improve, evolve and bring the pageant up to their modern standards ? www.pressreader.com/canada/annapolis-valley-register/2023...
May 26, 2023 - We Are the Ones. An unusual degree of arrogance and disrespect is shown when the long running Valley Peoples Pageant is cancelled without either of consideration or consultation ? A modern generation of newcomer ABF Directors with bold new ideas have apparently proclaimed themselves to be the one generation to interrupt and permanently end 88 years of wonderful multi Valley village Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess enjoyment ?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/apple-blossom-festival...
Annapolis Valley families are in shock and children cry upon learning their beloved Queen Annapolisa Pageant has been cancelled without notice, consultation, consideration or compassion ? Newcomer Directors say they are taking their bold action to improve, evolve and modernize the historic Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival ? www.saltwire.com/atlantic-
Valley residents lose a long time major yearly entertainment event when the ever popular ABF Greenwood Airshow is terminated and will be no more. Fast forward to Aug 24, 2024, and to corporation greed ? Air Show Atlantic Inc. now charges big bucks to see taxpayer owned aircraft at a taxpayer owned airport in their vastly inferior airshow ? Air Show Atlantic Inc. does not offer a discount Seniors ticket category for Senior citizens ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52345513615
How dare They ! Kentville IS the Cornwallis Inn and the Cornwallis Inn IS Kentville ! If you were to google the 2 words Cornwallis Inn you will get over 600,000 entries with almost all of them married to the word Kentville.. (what a great promotional tool) . The world famous Cornwallis Inn is the source of many fond memories for all local and Valley residents.. "It was the centre of everything’: The past and present of Kentville’s iconic Cornwallis Inn"
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/lifestyles/it-was-the-centre...
Kentville identity crisis. Help, Is there a Superhero anywhere out there to save Kentville from the newcomer agenda ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/51811175986/in/album-7...
The controversial 2017 Grand Street Parade - Has Kentville once again been targeted for exploitation ? After Warden Brothers, (Greenwood ) and Liberal MP L Glavine (Kingston) had all but hijacked Waterville Airport before relocating it to their own home riding in the Kingston/Greenwood area, it seems that the town of Kentville must face yet another attack from the Kingston area when Alxys Chamberlain, the Kingston Apple Blossom Princess, and other ABF Directors attempt to take yet another major source of revenue and major attraction away from the town of Kentville ?
Et tu, Madama Chamberlain ? The unconscionable attempted hijacking and subsequent recovery of Kentvilles's most beloved yearly event ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/18506181065
2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade - Disregard for safety shown as unrestrained Senior citizens are precariously perched atop an unsheltered, open sided, stop and go, large unstable jerking motion moving platform ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53900780519/in/album-7...
Exploiting Queen Annapolisa for a photo op ? Politicians at the official opening ceremony of the 2023 Apple Blossom Festival pretending there's still a Pageant in a photo while knowing full well that Queen Annapolisa and the Apple Blossom Princesses have been terminated forever and will no longer be a part of this year's Festival ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/53755100811/in/album-7...
2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade Newcomer ABF stewards defy our Liberal Government plea for diversity and inclusion ? Many nearby local Valley towns and villages that normally attend have now been excluded from the yearly parade ? Their absence means the loss of diversity that is always provided with the attendance of these local communities ? Where is Canning, Digby, Annapolis Royal, Hantsport Greenwood, Windsor ? Where's Queen Annapolisa ? Where's the Apple Blossom Princesses and all of the individual Town floats including Princess Kentville ? To view complete 2023 Kentville Grand Street Parade press here, www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie
Facebook, Friends of Kentville - The site Administrator, a new arrival from PEI, says she wants to see Kentville as the queerest town in all of Nova Scotia ? www.facebook.com/groups/2588266877982288
Will a drag Queen replace an apple blossom Queen in Kentville ? www.nsbuzz.ca/life/kentville-all-ages-drag-show-draws-pro...
Nov 16 2023 - Apple Blossom Princesses call for a return of Queen Annapolisa,
www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/communities/former-apple...
The Town of Kentville has moved to cut back and eliminate many hours of traditional public outdoor entertainment that have always been a standard part of the Apple Blossom Festival ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52094784785
A medley of the guest Tribute bands that have performed at Memorial Park Kentville - Always free of charge in the past when performing at the Apple Blossom Festival : Petty Larceny, Fleetwod Mix, Keep the Faith, Stones Tribute, Green River Revival, Viscious, Eddy's Basement, Matt Minglewood,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5hqti9
Corporate greed shown by newcomer ABF directors in this year's Apple Blossom Festival ? Instead of providing a free guest Tribute band as per normal at the free Memorial Park Friday night concert, it will now cost 50.00 pp to see a 'Queen tribute band' performance. that's 50.00 per ticket in 2025 ? acadiau.universitytickets.com/
Town of Kentville rips off its own citizens right at Apple Blossom Festival time ? Cold heartless capitalism shown by Kentville and by the newcomer ABF management ? Citizens burdened with out of pocket expense of TWENTY DOLLARS each just to attend an outdoor street dance held downtown on taxpayer owned property during the Apple Blossom Festival ? Is there no shame ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54546051832/in/photost...
She's Ruined It ! Our great Festival is no longer even recognizable ? How could anyone take a world class event and turn it into something that can only be described as stupid ? President Erica Gillis has to be the worst ever ?
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54493011308/in/dateposted
2025 Kentville Grand Street Parade - is this a joke ? A brief 45-minute and bare minimum compacted Kentville Grand Street Parade this year ? Zero in large marching street bands and majorettes other than the one RCMP (mini version) marching unit, no Sottish pipers or pipe bands, zero in Apple Blossom Royalty and their famous royal floats, Most of the regular nearby Valley village participants not there, no horse and wagon entree, no armaments, soldiers, bands or displays from Aldershot or Greenwood, etc etc, ? And yet Guest parade announcer proclaims in quote @ 29:17, " this parade is the largest in Canada, incl Toronto - it's the longest with the largest route and the most entries. " Wha-a-a-t ? Where did she come from and what is she talking about ?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQuaIdrQi00
A different, come from away royal rider now sits on a makeshift throne that has been set aboard the historic Apple Blossom Princess float for its famous trip down Main Street on Apple Blossom festival Saturday. It seems our new Mayor will now grace the famous Town Princess float on its annual trip in Kentville's famous Grand Street Parade ?
' Somebody get that King a crown and sceptre '
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they've ruined it part 2 ? May 31st, 2025 Grand Street Parade - From 100,000 down to 10,000, Parade attendance shrinks to all time low, www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54568017261/in/photost.... Also see, They've ruined the Festival and the Parade too ?
ABF Directors may disapprove and terminated the beloved Queen Annapolisa pageant and the multiple village Apple Blossom Princess competition but Valley residents will always admire, support, respect and remain fond of the British Monarchy. The majority of Valley citizens are delighted to hear that his Majesty King Charles III and Queen Camilla are invited and will be coming for a royal visit to Canada on May 26 and 27, 2025. This year's incomplete and now Royalty-less ABF starts on the 28th, www.cbc.ca/news/politics/king-charles-canada-visit-1.7524946
The long and proud history of past Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess winners has been removed from sight and erased from the official Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival website ? A special honorary history page dedicated to previous Queen Annapolisa winners from 1933 thru 2019 has been taken down and apparently replaced with jumbo size portraits of the newcomer President and other ABF directors who have taken over and ruined the world famous Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival ? www.appleblossom.com/history/past-queens
Meet the directors,
May 30th, 2025 - 20 dollar burgers and bouncy castles ??? High level security enforcement hired for this year's Memorial Park Friday night rock concert ? ( must have taken up most of the budget ) ? Town of Kentville brings in outside police, closes roads, and sets up a defensive securiy perimeter around rhe event with manned traffic guard posts to provide heightened G7 level security for their Friday night Memorial Park Apple Blossom outdoor concert that in past years had always featured guest rock bands, interesting demonstrations and displays, and a Royal Queen Annapolisa visit following her prestigious coronation ceremony in Wolfville, but appears now to have deteriorated into some kind of an outdoor romper room type family show featuring food trucks, inflatable air bouncy castles and 2 live local groups as their featured invited guest star main stage star performer, with nothing much to do for anyone over elementary grade school level other than purchase some food at the upscale restaurant prices to dine on a paper plate using plastic utensils while standing up in a crowd of unruly kids and being lustfully observed by hungry saliva drooling pet dogs leashed to their owners ? And thanks to the upgraded crowd control, and heavy police presence and the strict traffic control hired for this event there was a report of a parking violator being successfully apprehended ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54558198569
May 30th, 2025 Memorial Park Kentville - Seniors and those with disabilities made to walk long distances in order to reach this year's disappointing ABF Friday night outdoor rock Concert that didn't bring in a rock band, (nor much of anything else) ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54558198569/in/photost...
Oct 4th, 2025 - the Harvest Festival in Centre Square
Kentville - A disappointing harvest festival effort this year that forgot about the kids horse-drawn hay wagon ride, the pumpkin people scarecrow making class and group demo, the Valley harvest, Valley livestock and the Valley farmer ? They have apparently been replaced with multiple kiosks with street vendors selling unrelated merchandise, bouncy castles and expensive food trucks ? www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54835089011/in/photost...
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Upgrade 2025 ? photo taken from front of Phinneys dept store - A massive expenditure is budgeted for a major upgrade to the Mayor's business backyard - Downtown Kentville Webster Street gets a complete and total beautification makeover with new installations of street paving, paint, new double sidewalks both sides, driveway entrances, and new curb and gutter both sides ? All other streets that surround the Phinneys' downtown business block have also been upgraded including Aberdeen Street, Cornwallis Street, and Main Street ?
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An Identity Crisis ;
Can an identity crisis be looming in the town of Kentville ?
A proud, neighborly salt of the earth working class community with generous hard working friendly citizens and a rich historic Railroad, agriculture and farming background is losing many of its longtime local traditions, themes and trademarks while elected Town officials, many of them new arrivals, just stand still, watch, and even enable ? Having always been identified as a main Provincial railroad center ever since the old Dominion Rail days dating back to 1869, the town has since lost all of its passenger and freight train rail service in and out including a modern passenger Dayliner service that traveled back and forth to Halifax every day ? And after the railway had been shut down it seemed they couldn't clear out the now useless brand new station, dig up the tracks and demolish the old roundhouse fast enough ? And so now, in what seems to be cruel mockery, the only railroading in Kentville left over from past glory days and from what was once the largest and most important and active railroad center west of Halifax, is just an old and faded hand painted train mural etched onto the weather beaten side of one of the downtown business establishments ?
Unfortunately the loss of the railway wasn't the last humiliating major transportation loss forced on the people of a small rural town as Kentville was soon to become even more isolated from the outside World when for no apparent logical, rational or reasonable reason the aviation community at Waterville municipal Airport CCW3 were told to get out when they had done nothing wrong and had no where else to go ? This long time invaluable contributor to the local area economy was lost when an established municipal airport, a well known Canadian sky diving facility, and an internationally known pilot training and licensing academy, and many privately owned aircraft with local owners, and many other established aviation businesses were told to get out ? The cold hearted eviction also left our young Air Cadets over at Camp Aldershot without a base to train on and so now the next generation has to grow up without their nearby aviation training and education facility ?
And so, a group of out-of-towners that mostly don't even live in this community had transformed an active thriving local Aviation business center that had taken decades to build and establish, into a barren and useless place where unsupervised Michelin children now ride bikes and dodge weeds poking their heads thru a deteriorating asphalt runway that was once a platform for private and commercial aircraft to fly in and out of the local area on a daily basis ? To add salt to the wound, this unwarranted calculated forced closure and loss of a vital member of the local economy was to be hailed by the executioners at Kings Council, ( and also by the prestigious Ivany Report Committee ) as being a bold and brilliant business decision that will greatly improve and benefit the local area ?
After months of homelessness and uncertainty over the future, a few evicted tenants found new sites elsewhere and relocated at their own expense to start all over again, while others just quit, while others were finally redirected to a new location in Greenwood which just happened by chance to be the Kings Council County Warden's home riding ? And so, in the end this devastating loss for Kentville and local area became a windfall for the Kingston Greenwood area, and, Kentville was left to carry on without either a Railway or an Airport ?
When the original KCA town School closed down, existing high school students were separated from their home school and had to be bused to the nearby town of Canning ? This would leave only the Grade 1 to 8 age groups to now identify Kentville as their home school, an education reality that still exists in Kentville ? There is no longer a movie theater in Kentville as the downtown movie theater has been closed forever, and the popular Edge sports bar, eatery and pool hall also closed down and never replaced ? Harvey's Hamburgers drive thru closed down and it never was replaced ? The longtime bowling alley in New Minas was bought out by developers, torn down, and replaced with a business office complex ? We lost the local salvage, reclamation and disposal site in South Alton when ordered shut down by the Provincial Government, but these same people who shut it down never ever offered to replace it with another leaving the community without this vital facility ? One day a portion of roof blew off the long time town funeral home and it never re-opened leaving only one such establishment left in town ? And, just as the citizens of Kentville were learning that both the Apple Blossom Princess and the Queen Annapolisa pageants were to be cancelled after 87 consecutive years, at the same time there was an all age Drag Queen show getting ready to entertain at the Kings Arms Pub in a total flip flop from the popular Irish Rovers or Scottish pipers that most Kentville citizens identify with at this time of year ? Numerous local restaurants and small businesses have all come and gone - mostly gone - and the main town supermarket Jasons IGA had a fire and was forced to close down for over a year so there was no supermarket to provide groceries for the local citizens ? The ever popular multi venue Wandlyn Inn burned down with all venues now lost to the community ? It wasn't replaced after the fire and now there's just a fast food MacDonald's take out to replace all of Wandlyn's many facilities including hotel rooms, indoor swimming pool, whirlpool and sauna, nightclub, dual convention centers and dual restaurants ? Not a very good exchange for the community ?
The traditional July 1st Canada Day town sponsored party event of fun, food,speeches and local entertainment held each year at the wading Pool was curtailed by the Town due to budget considerations ? And so now, if you want to enjoy July 1st entertainment or fireworks you have to go to New Minas, Hantsport or Berwick ? Access to clean drinking water is well known as one of the most identifiable entitlements provided by a town ? Billions are currently being spent by the Canadian taxpayer to provide First Nations people with free safe drinking water ? Yet the Kentville water commission charges the customer 10,000 dollars just to turn their town water on at roadside ? And then after this rather large up front financial layout paid for by the brand new customer, he will still have to pay for all of his yard trenching and household plumbing work ? And in return for this large initial forced surcharge, the valued new customer will be rewarded with a water bill courtesy of the town of Kentville each month hereafter ?
They even managed to take away Kentville's most famous of all and most instantly identifiable town landmark in the hotel name Cornwallis Inn ? Cornwallis Inn is a well known trademark hotel name that is synonymous World wide with the name of Kentville, and this name represents a multitude of fond memories for the local area residents and for other residents living all over the Valley ? It was hard to understand why the Town would ever allow this historic name to change,, and also hard to understand why a previous Town of Kentville planning dept would ever allow subsidized apartment units to be built onto the side of such a respected Town centerpiece and also block the access lane to the rear parking lot while doing it ? The Cornwallis Inn will always be an important Valley landmark and a future protected Canadian heritage site ?
They have even changed well known identifiable names of some Streets and even the local traffic bridge traversing the Cornwallis River ? And so now many local residents and delivery drivers don't know what they're talking about when these stupid new names are used ? This name change is especially hard on Kentville's Seniors who can become confused with such absurd name changes and has in some cases, created safety hazards ?
In 2017 ABF Directors tried to move Kentville's 87 year old yearly Grand Street Parade to different location in the Valley, and the town was forced to claw and battle its way just to get its own local yearly parade returned back home to them after hosting it for the last 90 years ? And in yet another major step backwards that same year, ABF and the Town decided to cease and desist all public ABF Wednesday, Thursday and weekends of fun, food, music, displays, amusements, local student performances, etc. etc. held at Memorial Park during the Apple Blossom festival week ? No explanation was given and no replacement or apology was ever offered by the Town for such a devastating loss to be absorbed by the citizens of Kentville ? Kentville has now lost its most identifiable of all citizens, that being their beloved Apple Blossom Princess Kentville, when newcomer ABF Directors had shown an uncommon degree of disrespect, as well as their disregard and insensitivity when presuming to appoint themselves as the ones entitled to end the long running iconic 88 year old iconic Queen Annapolisa and Apple Blossom Princess competition ? This termination means all public Royal party appearances including the Princess Teas, Kentville Children's Parade, all Royal visitations to schools, shut-ins, Seniors, and hospital attendances that are normally made by Queen Annapolisa and the Royal Princesses are now cancelled and no longer take place ?
In 2022 the Kentville Grand Street Parade was quite understandably very limited and downsized following the 2 previous Covi year cancellations, but this year's 2023 effort wasn't much better ? The immense contribution and the wonderful diversity supplied by nearby Valley communities from Windsor to Digby was no longer included in the Parade ? Apple Blossom royalty and all Princess floats were no longer included in the Parade ? And many local residents expressed disappointment when Apple Blossom Princess Kentville and her child attendant were no longer seen or to be included in the Town Parade ? It seemed that Kentville had lost yet another identifiable citizen and wonderful Ambassador that always performed her official duties including advertising, promoting the town and representing Kentville with charm, grace, dignity, talent and beauty wherever she went ?
After the long running 3 consecutive Apple Blossom weekdays of afternoon and evening mid week entertainment at the Park were all cancelled and Apple Blossom Week entertainment was cut down to a bare bone single Friday night affair, ( which btw will no longer include the highlight of the evening Royal Party visitation and rock music by Eddy's Basement ), it seems Officials were still unsatisfied and found yet another way to take away even more ? And this year they want to charge inflation stressed locals a fee to see entertainers like Matt Minglewood and Kevin Davison at private shows when in the past these entertainers appeared on a public stage free of charge ? Cut backs were also apparent in fireworks, (which btw will no longer be started by Queen Annapolisa at her official Royal Party visitation to the Park following Coronation ceremonies in Wolfville) ?
And so, in summing up, the citizens of Kentville are frustrated with cutbacks, the many steps backwards, and the cancellations and closures that never seem to be replaced once gone ? Both the Provincial Railway and municipal Airport are now permanently closed down and even Acadia Van lines inter provincial bus transit no longer stops ? The Wandlyn Inn complex and all of its popular hotel and restaurant services were lost by fire and never replaced ? Extreme cut backs were made to the historic Apple Blossom Festival that saw a week long fun filled period of public entertainment at Memorial Park reduced to one minimal Friday night affair followed the next day by a shortened mundane parade of less than an hour ? Concerns also remain about the absence of an in-Town High School for Teens, the loss of a key funeral home, the loss of the Pool Hall, the absence of a movie theater, the loss of Harveys drive thru burgers, the loss of one of the 2 dt Tim Hortons, the loss of the dt pizza parlor, the loss of Chinese food take out, the loss of the local fruit and vegetable market, the absence of a 7/24 convenience store, the closure of the bakery, and also the loss of the local disposal site when no replacement was ever offered by the Government that shut it down ? There was also the shocking cancellation and heartbreaking termination of her royal heinous the Apple Blossom Princess Kentville and the end of the prestigious Acadia U Coronation ceremonies in Wolfville ? There was also the erasing of, and then the changing of the name of Kentville's biggest most identifiable internationally known Cornwallis Inn name logo that is instantly recognizable world wide and symbolically married for decades to the Town name of Kentville ? There remains the problem of a serious local shortage of rental rooms and local dining spots for tourists created when the Wandlyn hotel complex burned down and when not one of these many hospitality, business, tourist, restaurant, hotel, night club, and recreational venues were ever replaced ?
And now, in a more recent issue, we are seeing more and more small businesses located all over the Valley that have not only provided local employment but also served as popular meet and greet gathering spots for friends and neighbors for years and years now, changing hands after being bought out and turned over to total strangers that are not from Halifax or from N.S. nor even Canada but have come here from another Continent ? A strange new phenomenon of foreign take-overs has arrived in the Valley that includes replacing the management, assuming full control of the business and taking over the labor force of many traditional Valley fast food, gas, and coffee businesses ? Some of these now include : the Petrocan in New Minas, many Valley Tim Hortons, the Subway, KFC, DQ, Burger King, and the Mary Brown's in New Minas to name a few ? And in another concern, because many newcomer employees are unfamiliar with the currency it is advisable to count your change carefully if paying by cash ? There are also some indications that nepotism is now being shown in the hiring of employees once these establishments are taken over by new foreign management, and that our local students can't get Summer jobs any more ? Another major local employer, Eassons Trucking, also seems affected by the current influx of new foreign workers with some reports of untrained, unlicensed, unqualified, (and Government subsidized) drivers behind the wheel, and rumors of some units with multiple drivers on board having a hole drilled in the floor of the sleeper cabin to accommodate a long piece of ABS plumbing pipe used to transfer raw shidzen sewage directly from the interior of the truck down onto the open highway below to avoid pit stops at the Big Stop ?
And, from the looks of a recent Town municipal election, most candidates might be unfamiliar with the Town's long time traditions, customs, character, and past history ? Some candidates even naively describe the town as a kind of happy go lucky, blissful, Hallmark or Who-ville movie set type of place teaming with busy villagers and joyful munchkins frolicking up and down picturesque cobblestone streets lined by colorful quaint shops and internationally known boutiques and fancy eateries which does not accurately describe the Town ?
And apparently the new Mayor who is also a new local business owner, appears to have befriended the ex- Kings County Warden Brothers who represents and resides in the Kingston/Greenwood area and who had previously sold out Kentville when she led the charge to shut down and evict our local municipal Airport, the well known skydiving academy, the international flight training academy and many other prosperous Waterville airport aviation businesses ? And who could forget the Mayors' recent New Year's message of congratulating himself on enlarging the size of his downtown retail store and expressing personal happiness over a new (taxpayer funded) installation of a brand new sidewalk in front of it, but failing to mention serious town issues like terrible poverty and youth unemployment, racial profile hiring at Tim Hortons, the opioid drug crisis, high cost of living crisis, the homelessness crisis, the devastating cancellation of thr Princess Kentville competition, the vacationers and travelers concerns over there being no place to stay in Kentville, and the much needed indoor town recreation facility, (no one wants to get their daily exercise by hiking down crude outdoor trails while attacked by mosquitos or witness a homeless user shoot up in the privacy of the forest) ? There was also the decimation of the Apple Blossom Festival and sad deterioration of the world famous Grande Street Parade ? And there's also the current Town housing crisis, the sudden high increases in rent, the alarming rate of downtown business bankruptcies, and also the urgent need to honor Kentvilles glorious past railroading history with a museum and outdoor display of some sort ? Adding to this there appears to be a newly elected Town Council that has immediately started to cancel and cut back on important traditional town public events when, ( due to a drop of rain ) they had cancelled this year's Military march-on and (best in the area) outdoors Remembrance Day ceremonies traditionally held at the Memorial Cenotaph on Park Street ? There was also this years' poor presentation of a Grande Street Parade and one unsafe situation in the newcomer Parade where normal residents (incl Seniors) were seen perched precariously aboard a stop and go, unsheltered, jerking motion, no sided vehicle without restraining devices, water or protection from the sun ? There was also the ridiculous changing of many of the long time well known town names including the most famous of them all the Cornwallis Inn ? There's also local residents plea to 'bring our high school students back home again' , and some complaints about the Town's failure to provide public outdoor entertainment events exceeding the grade school level ? There was also the controversy over the hanging up of the biggest pride flag money can buy above the main entrance of the honored heritage site Cornwallis Inn, and of course, also the recent down town flooding crisis ? The mayor did not address the question of why a Provincial Government would force the local reclamation and disposal site to permanently close down its operation and then those who ordered this major loss to the welfare of the community would not offer to replace it but would just leave the area without such a facility ? And, there was no mention of the need for an inquiry into the exorbitant five figure fee charged to customers by the Kentville water commission just to turn water on at the road ? And there are also concerns over the recent rash of sudden unopposed takeovers of small businesses by newly arrived foreigners from Asia when our locals around here can't find work ? And what about growing concerns over the formation of an exclusive Ontarioville newcomer type town growing within an already established town ? There were also many concerns expressed over the Spring pothole epidemic that made some streets unfit to drive on, at a time when a brand new double lane sidewalk was being installed in front of Phinneys that was smooth as a baby's bum ? And then there was the refusal by the Town to help citizens with expensive auto repairs caused by their dangerous unattended potholes ? And there was also the inadequate street lighting and residential streets and sidewalks that are still in need of attention ? There was also the inconvenience felt by many local residents when ultra slow motion repairs on Canaan Ave moved at three legged turtle racing speed causing this vital access route to remain closed to traffic, incl emergency vehicles, for many many Months, (very much unlike the speedy workmanship and high priority given to the new downtown sidewalk installation in the front of Phinneys) ?
And so, can it be time to stop the come from away newcomer mentality, and make it mandatory for all candidates bidding on these important Town governing positions to be born and raised and reside in Kentville in an effort to preserve, protect and retain the Town's unique character, history, diversity, identity, and its many longtime local traditions ?
OUCH ? ( could someone please remove the daggers from our back ), Et tu, Warden Brothers and u tu Leo ? March 10th 2014 - A Date That Will Live on in Infamy - Warden Brothers, (Greenwood riding) and the Kings County Council use a calculated forced eviction to shut down the Waterville Airport aviation complex and then relocate some components to the Kingston/Greenwood area ?
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Newcomer ABF directors trying to erase history ? The page showing all past Queens and Apple Blossom Princesses has been removed from the official Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival site ? The popular history page honoring all past Queen Annapolisa winners 1933-2018 with photos and bios has been taken down and apparently replaced with huge portraits of the newcomer directors ?
Meet the newcomer directors,
How dare They ! Kentville IS the Cornwallis Inn and the Cornwallis Inn IS Kentville ! If you were to google the 2 words Cornwallis Inn you will get over 600,000 entries with almost all of them married to the word Kentville.. (what a great promotional tool) . The world famous Cornwallis Inn is the source of many fond memories for local and Valley residents.. "It was the centre of everything’: The past and present of Kentville’s iconic Cornwallis Inn"
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/lifestyles/it-was-the-centre...
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On the recent 2023 edition of the Grand Street Parade :
"it looked as if some spectators along the route just joined in and began to walk along and make themselves a part of the parade ? "
May 27th, 2023 - Dismay, disillusion and extreme disappointment prevail in Kentville over shocking changes and many missing regular entrees in this years 2023 Grand Street Parade ? Where is our famous Queen Annapolisa and where are the many Apple Blossom Princesses and their child attendants riding in their beautiful hand crafted decorated floats ? Where's the town criers ? And what about the dazzling majorette groups, the Scottish pipers and large multi instrumental marching bands that always come ? And where are the Hantsport and Windsor floats and their large delegations ? And where are Digby, Aylesford, Annapolis Royal, Canning, Middleton, Wolfville, and more ? Why are so many towns and villages that normally participate in the parade not included this year ? It was also a major disappointment when for the first time ever Kentville's own Apple Blossom Princess, (aka Miss Kentville) was no longer included in the parade as many toen residents young and old identify with their chosen Apple Blossom Princess at this time of year ? However the now royalty-free Princess float was still used to transport a grouping of normal everyday town residents sitting around together in a social scene meant to identity Kentville as being a diverse and inclusive place ? The New Minas float also did not include an Apple Blossom Princess for this year, however her float was transformed into an advertisement for the famous New Minas UFO incident which all New Minions identify with. The Berwick float didn't include a Princess Berwick this year either. but was altered to proudly identify with the town's upcoming Centennial celebrations. And the Kingston float was also missing an Apple Blossom Princess this year but was instead promoting their long running Kingston Steer Barbecue that all Kingstonians readily identify with. It was good to see an RCMP contingent again although they sent far less officers this year than usual ? And it was notable that only 1 other large marching band appeared in the parade when usually 4 or more big bands, many with many pipers usually attend after traveling up from places like Cape Breton, Bridgewater, Dartmouth etc ? And where have all of the pets and animals gone ? There's no horse teams, wooden wagons, riders or livestock this year ? Even the usual greyhound dogs weren't there ? Also noticed that some spectators must have just joined in and began walking along within the parade, and others must have come over from the Children's parade with their strollers to join in ? There was a variety of advertisers, most from out of town but some local ? There were various Political parties represented with the largest delegation coming from the Liberals ? All in all, this Year's parade seemed a bare minimum weak effort that was really missing the usual royal pageantry and 7 to 10 spectacular Princess floats, and the large marching bands and majorette groups that usually enter, and the usual agriculture horticulture and livestock component, and the very popular Scottish pipers bands that always attend, and the many large out of town contingents that always participate ? This was not the famous grand street parade that patrons are accustomed to and did not come near to the high standards and professionalism set by previous Grand Street Parades ? It became clearly obvious that what they were hailing as a newer, bolder, more inclusive and more diverse parade was instead the exact opposite ? This Grand Street Parades has lost the inclusion, diversity and major contribution given by the many Valley communities and their Princess contestants with Child attendants that come to participate in the Queen Annapolisa competition, the Friday evening coronation gala at Acadia University in Wolfville, the Princess Teas and Royal attendances at schools hospitals, senior citizen homes and shut-ins, as well as the Friday night Memorial Park outdoor concert, the Saturday morning Children's Parade and the Royal trip down Main street Kentville in the famous Grand Street parade ?
And so, to quickly sum up, can this strange, incomplete, hastily thrown together, shortened, newcomer mentality version of our world famous Kentville Grand Street Parade that is now missing all of the Queen Annapolisa Royalty and missing all 7 to 10 Apple Blossom Princesses and their 7 to 10 beautifully handcrafted individual Town Princess floats, and also missing the unique character and diversity brought forth by the many absent Valley villages and communities that are no longer included in the parade, and that had also failed to include many out of town large marching bands and pipers that usually attend, and that had also been lacking in the representation of local farming, agriculture and livestock displays, now signal the end of the once glorious Grand Street Parade era ?
Previous parades :
2011 Grand Street Parade Kentville 79th ABF
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgh3Dh2xn8&t=208s
2012 Grand Street Parade Kentville www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB1VBx50b18
2014 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEo14IZKxp8&t=11s
2015 Kentville Grand Street Parade
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBifeG2SdPY&t=47s
2016 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2wedvN5_Iw&t=8s
2017 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=JozwyGpvfSY&t=1978s
2018 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOK1GmiLmNk&t=986s
2019 Kentville Grand Street Parade www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMdEx8Zf-q0&t=1492s
The exclusion of so many participants and denial of diversity have marred the 2023 edition of Kentville Grand Street Parade ? Many nearby Valley communities were missing when these longtime participants weren't included in this year's parade ? Where is Canning, Digby, Annapolis Royal, Hantsport Greenwood, Windsor ? Where's our Queen Annapolisa ? Where's the Apple Blossom Princesses and all the individual Town floats including Princess Kentville ? To view a complete (newcomer version) of the world famous Kentville Grand Street Parade press here www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie www.dailymotion.com/video/x8lchie
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Public entertainment held at Memorial Park Kentville during the Apple Blossom Festival ;
A medley of some of the bands that have performed at Memorial Park Kentville, Apple Blossom Festival - Petty Larceny, Fleetwod Mix, Keep the Faith, Stones Tribute, Green River Revival, Viscious, Eddy's Basement, Matt Minglewood,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x76pn9b
www.dailymotion.com/video/x5hqti9
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Fleetwood Mix;
in concert 2015,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbltesRRCNk&t=390s
Don't Stop www.dailymotion.com/video/x3o6auu
Gold Dust Woman
www.dailymotion.com/video/x3o5xbg
Edge of Seventeen
www.dailymotion.com/video/x3lpjb7
Everywhere
www.dailymotion.com/video/x3lo7rz
I don't wanna know
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2t85mg
Sisters of the Moon
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gfold
Fleetwood Mix medley - 2015
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sfjm1
Seven Wonders
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jxnas
The Chain
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jxnao
Rainbows End
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jxnaq
Just like a runaway girl
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jxnau
Tusk
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jxnfs
Viscious comes to Kentville ;
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8blaup
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Green River Revival at the 2012 A B F ;
studio.youtube.com/video/Q2rO8pG5Mkk/edit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2rO8pG5Mkk
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Eddy's Basement in Kentville Thursday at the Park,,
Just another brick in the Wall
www.dailymotion.com/video/x7u402l
No Time, Comfortably Numb, Tied to the Whipping Post, Sin City, Twilight Zone, Roller, Smokin,, Money, Just Another Brick in the Wall..
www.dailymotion.com/video/x7u672h
Comfortably Numb,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x3lmbgf
Sin City,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x3ot59g
Roller,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x3lm5z5
Whippin Post
www.dailymotion.com/video/x3o5o5o
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Bluesmobile in Kentville ; ;
Forget About It,,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x4f58y3
25 or 6 to 4,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x4lfjyc
Knock on wood, Proud Mary,, etc = Memorial park Friday night show
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f8WN0_OHz8&t=37s
Without Love
www.dailymotion.com/video/x4f1rgs
Caledonia_by Uncle D
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jv7ua
Superstitious
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jv7xy
All about the base
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jv7qs
No woman no cry
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jv7xw
Mustang Sally
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jv7y0
Bluesmobile on stage Gimme some luvin
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jv74i
Friday Bluesmobile on stage Memorial Park 1/2 hour
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jv6s0
2016 Bluesmobile on stage Friday Memorial Park Pt 1
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jxo5m
2016 Bluesmobile on stage Friday Memorial Park pt 2
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jxnhm
Bluesmobile in Kentville - 25 or 624
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9k6cma
An ABF Guest Tribute band,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x81qbxd
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Keep the Faith,
We got it going on,,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fs7xm
Its my Life,,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2yxwbw
Keep the Faith in Kentville medley 3 songs
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jvbli
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Petty Larceny
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gq64d
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Matt Minglewood at Kentville Memorial Park ABF 2018, -
www.dailymotion.com/video/x6y6tww
2016 84th Apple Blossom Festival ;
The traditional Royal Party visitation to Memorial Park in Kentville following the Coronation Ceremonies at Acadia University in Wolfville,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8zb7zg
Some bad news - Drastic cutbacks to public entertainment by the Town of Kentville will punish citizens and end the enjoyment of these guest Tribute band performances ? In an ongoing decline in content and quality of Kentville town entertainment, all normal mid-week public displays and entertainment that were always held at Memorial Park during the Apple Blossom Festival week have been curtailed by a new generation of administrators ? These Cost saving frugal decisions will conserve Town money by inflicting public entertainment cut-backs on citizens ?
More bad news, Drastic cutbacks by the Town of Kentville will end a long-time tradition of mid week Apple blossom open public entertainment normally held each year during the Apple Blossom Festival down at Memorial Park ? And so ever since these major entertainment cancellations backs in 2017, instead of an interesting and fun filled evening for the residents of Kentville, there's just a silent empty Park on Wednesdays and Thursdays at Kentville's Memorial Park during the Apple Blossom Festival ? No explanation, replacement, substitution or apology was ever offered ?
A Thursday at the Park,,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x81qbxd
www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/52087619256
Thursday at the Park - local students
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8blaur
Thursday at the Park - local music students performing at ABF
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8blaus
Annapolis Valley Apple Blossom Festival Theme
www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gq8bx
Queen Annapolisa at the Park
www.dailymotion.com/partner/x15x1lv/media/video/details/x...
Thursday at the Park 20m Central Kings High drum core, www.dailymotion.com/partner/x15x1lv/media/video/details/x...
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Thursday at Memorial Park - Kentville Grade school kids perform,
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9k6c5c
Celebrate www.flickr.com/photos/74039487@N02/54544345629
Kentville is an incorporated town in Nova Scotia. It is the most populous town in the Annapolis Valley. As of 2021, the town's population was 6,630.
I don't know just what this paper was used for.
"For County Judge,
Sylvester Bailey, 74
For Sheriff,
James E. Felts, 63
Robert L. Smith, 13
John B. Mosley, 2
For County Trustee,
William P. Day, 43
Wm. G. Lancaster, 4
F. Baugh, 0
Thos. E. Hills, 1
Geo. W. Barnes, 1
Jas/ R. Walker, 26
J. C. Murdaugh, 1
For Constable
Dunlap, 43
Bailes, 24
Allen, 3"
Sylvester Bailey (b. 9-?-1794 Lowville, NY, d. 10-8-1864 Memphis, TN) was among the first lawyers in Memphis. He was also the first mayor of the town of South Memphis, which was incorporated January 6, 1846 as a result of resentment toward the more powerful northern section of Memphis (the "Pinch") and which encompassed an area south of Union and east of Bayou Gayoso.
James E. Felts served as Shelby County Sheriff from 1856-1858 and again from 1860-1864.
The Pershing County Courthouse in Lovelock, Nevada is a Classical Revival building built in 1920-21. The courthouse's plan is hexagonal with a circular dome over the central circular courtroom. The building was designed by Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps, who had previously designed six other Nevada courthouses. DeLongchamps was involved in the design of a new courthouse for Humboldt County, where the old courthouse had burned. As a result of resentment over assessments for the replacement in Winnemucca, the new Pershing County was created from part of Humboldt County and its seat established in Lovelock. DeLongchamps, as Supervising Architect for the State of Nevada, undertook the new Lovelock courthouse.
The courthouse features a shallow Ionic portico on a raised basement backed by a plain rectangular mass. Behind this is the hexagonal main body of the courthouse, built with curving walls. A shallow dome, reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia Library, crowns the central courtroom. The primary building materials are brick with stone trim and terra cotta detailing. Construction cost amounted to $99,138.68.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_County_Courthouse
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
I make no excuses for uploading six images of this amazing wood sculpture. Here's some information taken from a plaque beside the artwork:
The history of the Rebecca Riots is one of the most dramatic chapters in Welsh history. Against a background of agricultural crisis and grinding rural poverty, associations known as Turnpike Trusts established a network of tollhouses on country roads. Whether taking cattle to Market or collecting lime to fertilise their fields, hard pressed farmers had to pay tolls at every turn.
Resentment built up over many years until 1839 when there was a sudden explosion of violence directed at a new tollgate at Efailwen in north western Carmarthenshire. The attack was led by the stirring figure of 'Rebecca', a man disguised with a blackened face, wig and women's clothes, astride a white horse and waving a sword.
When the Main Trust placed a new tollgate near the Mermaid Tavern in St Clears on 18th November 1842, it marked the start of a four month battle between 'Rebecca' and the authorities. Positioned to make it impossible for traffic to pass through the area without paying a toll, it was pulled down by 'Rebecca' and her followers within hours. The Mermaid Gate was smashed a second time on 12th December that year when seventy to a hundred men, dressed in women's clothes and armed with scythes and guns, descended on the town at midnight. The rebuilt gate was torn down on 20th December and a fourth gate was destroyed in April 1843.
Every area seemed to have its own 'Rebecca' who became, and remains an almost mythical figure - a Welsh Robin Hood. Police and troops were called in to help protect the gates but 'Rebecca' and her daughters were usually one step ahead of the law. The protests came to an end in 1844 when a government Commission of Inquiry led to a reform of the Turnpike Trusts and answered many of the grievances of the rural population.
Wood sculpture by Simon Hedger (2008), commissioned by St Clears Council, standing close to the site of the original tollgate.
Piccadilly North Side (seen from the bus)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson
One way to lose friends is to say something which is not fashionable about somebody like Boris Johnson: it is so much easier not to think for oneself and to regurgitate what the tabloids say. I noticed it the other day at a drinks party in south London (yes I do have friends south of the river!):
it struck me as plain lazy if not outright silly to repeat like a parrot headlines splashed on the news stand billboards... and caused me not to think much of the person whom I considered until then moderately intelligent before he gave 'his' opinion...
Why not see for myself, judge for myself, rather than recycle cliches?
Boris Johnson's kind of books , although inexpensively sold in paperback (some even in HW Smith at Victoria station - a bad omen) I would not normally read - it is not my thing! However, out of curiosity I decided to order several at my local bookshop (whose native salesmen do not even know how to spell such authors as Glendinning or Ondaatje...):when I put in the order I was looked at with a mixture of incredulity, amusement, suspicion and superiority by the young temp - thankfully I was not going to face him for much longer - these people do not stick for long in such places)...
Back to the story of my Saturday "drinks spotty" (sic) what my friend reproached Boris, among others, was that he appeared to be dressed casually at the Beijing Olympics ceremony, compared with the Chinese official who gave him the flag... I asked myself, where have I seen a British politician doing the same before? was it perhaps at the Cenotaph , the died-in-the wool "old Labour" Michael Foot?
Oh, but you see, Foot had plenty of excuses which would not apply to Boris in a society redolent with the resentment of class war typical of the best Stalinist practices, a society stuck in the mould of political correctness and global lukewarming.
Back to Johnson's books I finished his biography which i found amusing and informative giving a more rounded view of Boris and making him more humane than he otherwise appears, spontaneous, refreshing, cultivated, intelligent, predictable in his unpredictability....
"Cultivated" you say? but this is a cardinal sin which is looked at with greatest suspicion! Come on, who wants to be cultivated?
The other books I decided to read at intervals, a short story at a time and more of it later, For now all I can say from an incomplete trawl is that i would strongly recommend that you make up your own mind (unless it is too arduous or painful) and read for yourself.
NOTE: The paragraph in brackets are those of the artist:
THE SECOND ARCH 1952–1954 Ages 20–21–22
The three year span of the Second Arch witnessed dramatic
changes both in the personal life of the artist and in his view
not only of specific works of art but of the entire concept
of what constitutes art. Of greatest consequence, during this
three year period, were the actualities of events and the
realities of the intellectual and emotional experiences of his
twenty-second year. This was a time of profound questioning.
It was as if he knew with apodictic certainty that what he
saw, learned, did and created, actually, emotionally and
intellectually, would establish irrevocably the pattern his life
would follow thereafter. Leaving Alfred University in upstate
New York where his studies were based on the idea of
becoming a knowledgeable and skilled craftsman, he
transferred to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, where he was, for the most part, given the
freedom to decide for himself when he would work in his
studio and what he would do therein. The throwing of pots,
bottles, bowls and plates was a specifically chosen and needed diversionary distraction from his investigation of and
experimentation with the human figure which took form
in plaster, clay, wood, marble, granite, bronze and in countless
drawings. Sixteen and seventeen hours of concentrated work
in his studio each and every day never seemed sufficient to
the young and joyful artist.
[After the recognition of the possibility for “whatness”
contained within the first arch—after that—the
transposition begins…what would occur, what did occur?
An acknowledgment of sexuality. A rebuttal of the past. An
embracing of presented ideas. A desire for “tools.” A search
for “style.” A sense of having been “chosen.” A more
objective grasp of my own “whoness.” A desire to destroy
the “female” presence within the “who.” Homoeroticism.
Symbiosis. A sense of deprivation in terms of personal
history. A feeling of there not being enough time. A pressing
awareness of death. Smoking. Drinking. “Living.” A
frustrating inability to communicate verbally. An intimidation
by the more culturally informed. A beginning response to music. Competitiveness. Embarrassed by family provinciality. A transfer of love from an older sister to a younger sister. A sense of being “flawed.” A sense of having lost something or of having had something internal and vital taken away. A desire to prove something. A necessity to prove myself “worthy.” A guilt for being alive. A resentment for being ignorant and naive. Ambition. A willfulness and perversity in terms of social “correctness.” A desire to be “the best.” Jealousy. Envy. A sense of being physically desirable to both sexes. A guilt for desiring both sexes. A discovery of love. A having love. A being loved. A departure of the beloved. A being left with love…alone. Guilt, pain, anger, resentment, sorrow—total Romantic Despair. An increasing response to music. A 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. studio day—seven days a week. “Whatness” becomes not a matter of choice but a matter of survival. The “who” cannot support nor retain its feelings, its passion, as being separate. The “what” accepts the first “giveaway” through the
transposition of recognition. It accepts the “who’s” desire to
be acceptable by something greater than itself. The question
“Where do we go from here?” must now be dealt with by
the “what.” The “who” becomes the Host and nourishing
source for the evolution of the “what”…a symbiosis of the self.]
His “production” and his experimentation with ideas
and materials was nothing short of astounding, at times to
the great annoyance of his fellow students. How many actual
pots he “threw” was legend at the time. Although he never
considered himself a ceramicist, his pots, bottles, bowls and
plates gained him that reputation. He was included in craft
exhibitions in such places as The Detroit Institute of Art, the
Brooklyn Museum and the Toledo Museum of Art and he
was represented in Toledo by the Downtown Gallery and in
New York City by the Bertha Shaeffer Gallery. The particular
determination and the desire of the young artist to achieve
perfection, then as now, was clearly evidenced at the time.
In order to master the throwing of pots, it is first necessary
to know how to center the clay on the wheel. To teach
himself, he practiced hour after hour, consecutively, until he
was able to center the clay perfectly each time. By then his
hands were actually bleeding from the effort. Once learned,
and in his desire then to create, he would take over as his
own as many as six wheels in the ceramic studio, a pot in
process on each. The first behavior was deemed by some as
neurotic and the second as selfish. The volume of production
increased and his reputation grew. But he knew ever more
strongly that although the throwing of pots was interesting
to him as a challenge, he was a figurative sculptor. And his
experimentation with materials and with the figure
outmatched his production of ceramics.
In the words of the artist:
[Age 22—The year in Italy—a break with the linear influences
which produced the year 1954–1955 mid-west America, and
a confrontation with that which is Italy…a culture whose
present is enclosed within the “Past.” A place where the world
goes to experience what it was, rather than what it
is—although it goes on living its day by day generation by
generation existence through linear time.…I began to analyze and experience works that were not within the reference of my own time…With the reopening of the “who” and a consideration of art not “of my time,” what I was or what I desired to be was
challenged and enlarged. Art was not only a personal
out-pouring from the “who’s” emotions and feelings but
was also intellectual and somehow seemed to be philo-
sophically ordered. It seemed to signify more than what it
evidenced itself as being in terms of structure, plasticity,
color, etc. . . . What I envisioned for myself and for my own
work was not just an accumulation of the mechanics of
“that’s why it works,” but something more…the works I
responded to seemed to “be about” something. Though my
culture denied the validity of content, the works that I
responded to proclaimed it. A juxtaposition of abstract
bodily weights and axes just didn’t carry as much
significance as those weights and axes with a body
surrounding them. What’s more, certain works which were
supposedly past, over, and done with—in effect dead—were
more alive and real than anything my time had yet produced.
I wanted to become part of that reality. The imposed
limitations of contemporaneity became intolerable. I faced
my own time as though it were an enemy—a murderer.
I returned “home” filled with the sense of my own
“whatness.” That what I thought, felt, and believed could and
would change not only my own work but that by its very
reality, the whole foundation of contemporary art, could and
would be destroyed. If I could respond to works within the linear “Past” and not to works within the linear “Present,” was not my response capable of provoking it?]
The events of the Second Arch were carried into the
Third Arch since the Fulbright Scholarship was for the
academic year 1954–1955. And there, in Rome, he was left to
work as he chose and did so with the same vigor and surety
he had evidenced at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Many pieces
were completed and shipped to America, works in plaster, in
bronze and in terra cotta. But, most importantly, he had
experienced a vital and profound and even cathartic change
in his view of art and of himself as an artist, actually and
metaphorically. Returned to Cranbrook, he again produced
ceramics but, much more importantly, he cast numerous
figurative pieces in bronze. All of his sculpture, no matter the
medium, then and for the rest of his life, was unique. There
were, however, limited editions of his lithographs and books.
Many of the student pieces were later destroyed by the
artist. Some were, however, included in one-man studio
exhibitions and in other venues and a few have been
memorialized in photograph. Exhibitions include: Designer-
Craftsmen at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1953; the
Thirty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Toledo Area Artists at the
Toledo Museum of Art in 1954; Paula Shaeffer Gallery, New
York; one-man exhibition of sculpture and ceramics, the
Toledo Art Museum, 1955; one-man exhibition, Downtown
Art Gallery in Toledo, Ohio. All of those works that have
survived are now in private and institutional collections.
Rocinha slum - favela - , Río de Janeiro, Brazil. An agency arranges tours of the favelas and spends part of the gains is on charity in the favelas, mostly on building schools. This means that you're actually welcome - even though some of the young men, reasonably enough, showed signs of resentment.
The Pershing County Courthouse in Lovelock, Nevada is a Classical Revival building built in 1920-21. The courthouse's plan is hexagonal with a circular dome over the central circular courtroom. The building was designed by Frederic Joseph DeLongchamps, who had previously designed six other Nevada courthouses. DeLongchamps was involved in the design of a new courthouse for Humboldt County, where the old courthouse had burned. As a result of resentment over assessments for the replacement in Winnemucca, the new Pershing County was created from part of Humboldt County and its seat established in Lovelock. DeLongchamps, as Supervising Architect for the State of Nevada, undertook the new Lovelock courthouse.
The courthouse features a shallow Ionic portico on a raised basement backed by a plain rectangular mass. Behind this is the hexagonal main body of the courthouse, built with curving walls. A shallow dome, reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia Library, crowns the central courtroom. The primary building materials are brick with stone trim and terra cotta detailing. Construction cost amounted to $99,138.68.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_County_Courthouse
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...
The blue and white seem to feed off of each other. I love how blue everything is, including the reflections on the snow.
D90 HDR Info
- Three exposure HDR, bracketing set to 3F with 2.0 EV.
- Photomatix tonemapped generated HDR (using detail enhancer).
- Lightroom 2 adjustments.
- Ryan Eng has a great tutorial on HDR here.