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“The reality is that old houses that were built a hundred years ago were built by actual craftsmen, people who were the best in the world at what they did. The little nuances in the woodwork, the framing of the doors, the built-in nooks, the windows—all had been done by smart, talented people, and I quickly found that uncovering those details and all of that character made the house more inviting and more attractive and more alive.”
― Joanna Gaines, The Magnolia Story
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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The Riley H. Andes House in Sevierville is representative of the building style widely employed for larger houses in rural Tennessee. It is distinctive, however, for the expertly crafted, hand sawn wood ornamentation which decorates the porches, central gable and the eaves. Thus, the house is an excellent example of a vernacular Victorian farmhouse. And, it is also one of the few houses in Sevierville to predate 1870. This situation is due to a widespread fire in the late 1850's and the lack of development during the Civil War.
The ornamental wood trim seen on the Andes House was hand crafted by Louis Buckner, a talented black carpenter who worked on a number of houses in Sevierville. In addition to designing and producing exterior wood, Buckner also made mantel pieces and furniture. His work is characterized by the use of both geometric and floral motifs. Several pieces of furniture believed to have been made by Buckner for the Andes are still in the house today. The Andes House displays some of the best examples of Buckner's work still in existence.
The house was built in 1867 by Riley H. Andes after his marriage in 1866 to Rebecca Rimel. Riley's grandfather, Peter, was one of the first settlers in Sevier County, arriving from Virginia in 1803. Both Riley and his brother John served in the Union Army during the Civil War. They both returned to farming and became prominent in Sevier County. In his biographical sketches of Sevier Countians, Goodspeed notes that R.H. Andes has a farm of 230 acres and a "good residence".
On July 8, 1980, the Riley H. Andes House was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Auf Wiedersehen Achim,
Condor Boeing 767-300ER extended range D-ABUM, named Achim, in its special 1980's retro livery, since it joined the fleet in 2012 from Alitalia.
In January 2023, retro D-ABUM was retired from service, departing out of Frankfurt Hahn, Germany for the last time on the 23rd January, heading for Phoenix, Arizona.
The 767 fleet is now being replaced by new A330Neo's, the first for Condor was delivered in December 2022.
Goodbye Achim
The Buckingham House is located on a slight elevation overlooking the fertile valleys of the French Broad River in Sevier County. It was built in 1795 by Thomas & Ephriam Buckingham and is the oldest existing house in Sevier County. Although it was not an elaborate house, it was well-built and is still in sound structural condition. The original part of the house was rectangular, of the Federal style, measuring 33' x 20' and consisting of two rooms and an attic. It was built of brick, with an exterior brick chimney at either end. The pattern of the brick on the front elevation is Flemish bond, while on either end it is English bond. A small, four-paned transom window was placed over the front door. Two bricks located to the right of the front bear the inscriptions "T & E B" and "1795" identifying the Thomas & Ephriam Buckingham and the date of construction.
The house also overlooks a large area that was once an island formed by the French Broad River and Boyd's Creek. This area has been known as Big Island, Sevier Island, and Buckingham Island,
which is its present name. The property was bought by Thomas Buckingham from John Sevier, famous Indian fighter and first governor of Tennessee.
Thomas Buckingham was prominent in governmental affairs, having been one of the Commissioners to locate the courthouse when Sevier County was created by the division of Jefferson County in 1794. He was elected as the first sheriff of the county and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1796 in Tennessee became a state.
The Buckingham House is significant not only as being the oldest existing house in Sevier County, but as one of the few remaining examples of the type of architecture of the early houses built on the Tennessee frontier in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Additionally, with its connection to Mr. Buckingham and his position within the community and the state, this house was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on March 18, 1971. All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for NRHP listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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Bledsoe's Fort Historical Park is an 80-acre park that features the outline of buildings that were part of the original Bledsoe Fort dating to the 1780's. Also at the park are several historic buildings, including Rogan's Cottage, an Irish-style stone cottage built by Irish immigrant Hugh Rogan in the 1790's; the restored 1790 cabin of Nathaniel Parker; Bledsoe’s Lick, a prehistoric natural spring; the archaeological outline of Bledsoe’s Fort, ca. 1780; and the Isaac Bledsoe family cemetery. A hiking path passes the historic cemetery and loops around the edge of the park. There is a short offshoot on the trail that leads to remnants of an old springhouse. The park also strives to preserve the site of the settlement founded by Isaac Bledsoe in 1780 and the frontier fort that was occupied continuously from 1783 to 1806.
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Hugh Rogan was born in 1747 in Glentourne, County Donnegal, Ireland. He married Ann (Nancy) Duffy and their first son, Bernard was born about 1774. Fearing arrest by the British,
Hugh left Ireland for America in 1775 on one of the last passenger ships to leave before the Revolutionary War. It was twenty years before he saw his family again. Rogan first came into the Cumberland Valley in 1778, as a guard for the survey team led by Dr. Thomas Walker and General Daniel Smith. Rogan spent nearly two decades helping to establish and defend several of the eight forts or stations in the area.
In 1796, with the Indian wars over and Tennessee about to be granted statehood, Hugh returned to Ireland for his wife and son. Upon bringing them back, he built his two-room stone house, Rogana, likely between 1798 and 1802, based on an Irish folk house in scale, materials and plan. The Rogan family is also credited with establishing the Catholic religion in Sumner County. This home served as the meeting place for area Catholics for over 50 years.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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"Something went wrong, says the empty house in the weed-choked yard."
-- Ted Kooser, line from his poem Abandoned Farmhouse
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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The vicinity of Brabson's Ferry Plantation is rich in early East Tennessee history. In 1776, a force of 1,800 men (most of whom were Virginians or settlers of the Holston and Wautauga River Valleys) were led by Colonel William Christian across the French Broad River at War Ford, the same site as the Brabson Ferry located on the property above. The force continued up Boyd's Creek toward the Overhill Cherokee towns to offer retaliation for Cherokee raids upon the Holston-Watauga settlements. Isaac Thomas, guide for the expedition, later settled in the Sevierville area a few miles from the Plantation.
In 1780, John Sevier (namesake of Sevier County and the town of Sevierville) led another force of settlers upon the Cherokees. He and his militia of about 100 frontiersmen also crossed at War Ford and engaged in battle with the Cherokees in the area of the Brabson land. This was the first of 35 encounters that Sevier had with the Indians and became known as the Battle of Boyd's Creek. The county was later named in honor of Sevier.
John Brabson, one of the earliest settlers in Sevier County, came to the Boyd's Creek area in 1794 from Frederick County, Virginia (now Berkeley County, West Virginia). He farmed his homestead of 10,000 acres which was purchased from North Carolina (B.D. Brabson II still has the purchase note); he ran the ferry service at War Ford, only a hundred yards from his log home; and he raised ten children. Two sons, Thomas and Benjamin Davis, followed in their father's ways in continuing the various operations on the property. They were the original owners of the two homes which are part of the described district. A daughter, Mary Reece Brabson Shields, married second Dr. Robert Hogsden who was the attending physician on "The Trail of Tears".
The Brabson/s were pro-Confederacy during the Civil War. Under extreme harassment from the local majority Unionists, they left their Boyd's Creek homes and moved to Texas. They returned to a neglected farm after the War. One son, William Brabson, fought under General McCowan of the Confederacy and was captured at Chickamauga. The homes described previously have not been modernized or appreciably altered. The exteriors and woodwork of the interiors are fine examples of 19th century architecture of the East Tennessee area.
The Brabson's Ferry Plantation District is located on land important in early military history of Tennessee. It was also an important industrial site, and buildings of architectural & historical importance still exist on the property. Some of which are seen in the photograph above include the B.D. Brabson house (constructed circa 1856), barn, and shed. The entire district was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 25, 1975. And, all of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration that can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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For surfer boys and beach babes...
Surf and Turf at the Munich Airport Center
Hang loose with french fries, burgers & the Volkswagon Microbus
The Vaught Home located at 718 W. Abram was built for T.J. Trammell and purchased by Alex Vaught in 1907. It is a two-story wood & stucco American Foursquare (an adaptation of the Prairie Style popular in the first two decades of the twentieth century) with a later full-height Classical Revival Porch. Platted in 1876 as a railroad stop midway between Dallas & Fort Worth, the city of Arlington remained a small farming community until an interurban rail came through the town in 1902, allowing easy access to the nearby cities and initiating the growth that would characterize Arlington during the twentieth century. Alex & Selma Vaught bought the house in 1907 on Abrams Street, right on the interurban line. To a traveling salesman like Alex Vaught (selling Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, an herbal remedy with a considerable alcohol content originally marketed to women to cure everything from infertility to kidney disease), the interurban was a convenient way of traveling, not just to Dallas & Fort Worth, but throughout the region. The interurban was discontinued in 1934 leaving very little evidence of the infrastructure responsible for Arlington's rapid transition from a rural to suburban character. In 1951 the Newburn family purchased the house after the death of Alex and added the Classical Revival porch. Exponential growth after WWII led to the destruction of many of the city's pre-war resources. Abrams Street is now predominantly commercial and the Vaught house stands out as one of the few representatives of Arlington's early development.
The Vaught House was nominated for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) under criterion A in the area of community planning and development for its association with Arlington's early development by representing the housing and transportation options available to Arlington's business class in the early twentieth century. It was officially added on August 10, 2005 for these contributions. More details about the house and owners like that included above can be found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration found here:
atlas.thc.state.tx.us/NR/pdfs/05000864/05000864.pdf
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Although famous primarily for its antebellum suburban mansions and grand tollhouses, Natchez has an impressive and remarkably intact old town area which is composed primarily of 19th century buildings. Within this cohesive and architecturally significant old town area, twenty-four buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and four buildings have been designated National Historic Landmarks NHL). During the early 19th century, Natchez was politically, commercially, and culturally pre-eminent in the region which now includes Mississippi and upper Alabama. Its nearest rivals among Mississippi River towns were Memphis and St. Louis to the north and New Orleans to the south. Older even than New Orleans, Natchez was one of the earliest settlements on the Mississippi River and was the terminus of the Old Natchez Trace from Nashville to Natchez at one time the most southwesterly settlement of the United States. The boundaries of the Natchez On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District are based on the street grid plan of the Spanish as depicted on the 186U Map of the Defenses of Natchez. The district is naturally bounded by the bluff park area to the west and by bayous to the east and south. Railroad tracks located in the center of Monroe Street and running its full length make Monroe St. the logical northern boundary. The district stands out within the city by its street regularity and the high concentration of antebellum buildings within its boundaries.
One of the beautiful, old antebellum houses located within the historic district is The Parsonage located at 305 S. Broadway Street facing the Mississippi River. It is a one-story five-bay brick residence of Greek Revival design on a partially-raised basement with pedimented portico, observatory, flat brick arches, brick dentiled and paneled entablature. It also includes a framed wing on a raised basement with hipped roofs and a one-story brick outbuilding constructed in two parts. The Parsonage was built circa 1852 on land donated by Peter Little to the Methodist Church because of his young wife Eliza's deep religious devotion. In later years, it also became known as the Metcalfe House.
The On-Top-of-the-Hill Historic District was added to the NRHP on September 17, 1979 and includes The Parsonage seen in the photograph above. All of the information above (and much, much more about the rest of the historic district) was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Haynes Haven, a big white Italianate-style home that sits on Hwy 31 (or Old Nashville Highway), is situated on the site of a home named Woodland, which was built just after the Civil War. In its heritage as Woodland, the Polk family was its first occupants. In the mid-1930s, it was established by W.M. Tolley who used it as a breeding farm for trotters and pacers. Sadly, Woodland burned down in 1937 in an accident that occurred during its restoration. Colonel Jack Haynes purchased the property in 1938 and salvaged many of the architectural pieces from Woodland, which were used in the construction of Haynes Haven, most prominently the front doors.
Colonel Haynes was also the owner of Haynes Haven Stock Farms. He was particularly known for his prize-winning Tennessee Walking Horses, including the 1940 and 1941 Grand Champion Tennessee Walking Horse of the World, Haynes Peacock. The Tennessee native lived at Haynes Haven through the mid-1940s. However, that was not the end of Haynes Haven's history with Tennessee Walking horses, as told by Mrs. Sisse Pressnell Pfeiffer who had the pleasure of growing up there.
Mrs. Pfeiffer spent most of her childhood and youth at Haynes Haven when her father Harry Pressnell and his brother Wayne bought the property in 1957. Despite the size and (then) isolation of the property, Mrs. Pfeiffer had a lovely childhood, living there from second grade through high school. Some of her fondest memories are of the many parties her parents gave over the years and getting to brush the manes and tails of the numerous Tennessee Walking horses that were boarded and trained on the property. Eventually, her father became taken with aviation and built a landing strip toward the south end of the house. She and her brothers were responsible for washing his Mooney airplane on a regular basis. Mr. Pressnell also built a pool on the property, which was the first in-ground pool in Maury County.
In 1970, Mrs. Pheiffer's senior year of high school, the Pressnells sold the property to Jesse Stallings who was the president of Capitol Airways. In the mid-1980s, General Motors (GM) purchased the farm when the automotive manufacturing giant made a large land acquisition to set up manufacturing for their new Saturn Plant. To date, the Maury County house and property are still owned and maintained by GM. The barn that housed prize-winning Haynes Peacock still stands on the GM site and has been restored as the company's Visitors Center, while the main house serves as an occasional meeting space for GM. With its fascinating history and elegant architecture, it is easy to understand why GM chose to preserve one of Maury County’s finest historical homes.
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The Mitchell House, a large two story, rock-faced masonry building of the Neo-Classical Revival style, is located on the campus of the Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, Tennessee (Wilson County). It faces south and is fronted by a large open lawn with huge scattered trees. Situated at the base of a gently sloping hill on which rests the castellated school for which the academy derived its name, the Mitchell House remains visible from West Main Street as the impressive focal point of the campus entrance. Built as a residence in 1906 by David E. Mitchell, who with I.W.P. Buchanan established the Castle Heights School in 1902, the Mitchell House was used as such until the mid to late 1920's when the academy acquired the estate and used the building to locate the Junior School. During its service as the Junior School, the mansion has been somewhat altered. The interior changes have resulted in the conversion of the upstairs bedrooms into class- rooms, the addition of several restroom facilities, the conversion of main floor rear parlors into offices and a kitchen, and the enclosure of the rear porch as a hallway. In addition, an apartment for the headmaster was added to the rear ell. Other than these alterations, which do not compromise the building's architectural integrity and involve no structural changes, the building appears very much the same as originally designed by the architects, Thompson, Gibel and Asmus, and still stands an excellent example of the high Neo-Classical Revival style as represented in a residential structure and among the city & county's most architecturally significant buildings of the twentieth century.
This house/home was listed on the NRHP on December 6, 1979. And all information above was taken from the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
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The Commercial Bank (located immediately to the north or left of the house in the photograph above) was chartered in 1833. For reasons of security, a condition in the design of its building was the physical incorporation of the banker's residence (as seen in the photograph above), as a linear extension of the overall mass of the bank. The plan of the bank is simple. From the portico one enters a short hall with an office on each side, originally for the bank's officers. Behind these rooms is the main banking room with three tall (16/16) windows on each side. In the rear of the main banking room is an alcove flanked by the bank vaults and framed by Greek Doric columns supporting a full entablature. An identical Doric treatment shelters the entrance to the banker's house which is just around the corner and faces Canal Street. Although the bank facade is of marble (as seen above), the other elevations are stuccoed brick. The present division of ownership of the building places the property line at the front wall of the bank vaults.
This unique complex unites in a single structure a bank and a fine residence, each representing a superb expression of the Greek Revival. The bank facade is an Ionic tetrastyle temple of gray/white marble; the residence, entirely domestic in character, has an appropriately scaled entrance portico with impeccably detailed Doric columns and cornice. Interiors are notable for the massive scale of the wood trim, particularly apparent in the residence. Corner blocks adapt Greek motifs to a specifically 19th century fashion. After a sequence of unsympathetic uses, the bank has been adapted to use as a church (at the time of listing in 1974) with almost total fidelity to its original architectural qualities being retained.
For its significant contributions to the Natchez, Mississippi area in regards to architecture and its role in commerce, the Commercial Bank building and the Banker's House were designated at National Historic Landmarks (NHL) and listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on May 30, 1974. All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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"Tearing down an old house and building a new one is the most wasteful thing we do as humans."
-- Grace Potter (American singer-songwriter and musician)
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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The Redding House is a large double-pen log structure with an open breezeway between the pens. There are stone chimneys on either end of the house. The structure is in excellent condition and has been fully restored by the owner. This was a working farm operated by the Redding family during the war. In addition to the house, there would have been stables, cribs, and other outbuildings. While there is no record of camps, there could have been short-term Confederate camps in the area.
This site is an example of what the women of the Confederacy did during the war. With most of the men away in the army, the females of the County were responsible for holding things together. They managed the farms, and, with the assistance of their children and enslaved Africans (if they owned any), they not only produced food for themselves, but also grew a surplus for sale to the army. Some women worked under government contract during the war making uniforms. The state quartermaster office employed male tailors to cut uniforms from patterns. The cut uniforms, thread, buttons, and other accessories were then sent to women for sewing. The women supported the Confederate cause in numerous other ways.
Each community had a Soldiers Relief Society that was made up of local women and girls. They met to make quilts and knit socks and mittens for the soldiers; they also made uniforms and rolled bandages. These patriotic women welcomed the opportunity to thank men for their military service through gifts and goods provided by local Soldiers Relief Societies. Women made or collected socks, shirts, pants, and blankets for soldiers. Some groups sent goods to local military units, while others forwarded packages to the front with instructions to distribute them as needed. In addition, they frequently sent packages of food for the military camps. Relief societies also sent reading material, Bibles, and religious pamphlets to the men in the field.
Overcrowded camps and unsanitary conditions killed thousands of Georgia Confederate soldiers. In addition, surgeons treated soldiers under conditions that commonly led to deadly infections. More Civil War soldiers died from illness than from battle wounds. The Confederacy established a hospital complex at Ringgold, Georgia. Because of a shortage of male nurses, women stepped in to care for the sick and wounded. Some of the young women of Dade County volunteered for this duty. At first, the women mainly brought food to the patients and wrote and read their letters. Gradually, however, women began to take a more active role by assisting surgeons and changing dressings. After the battle of Chickamauga, some of the less seriously wounded were brought to private homes in Dade County for nursing and convalescence.
In this part of Dade County, the Soldiers Relief Society activities were directed by a young woman named Manerva Redding and her mother. The other women brought the articles they had made to the Redding house and Manerva and her mother delivered them to the Confederate camps.
The above information was found on a historical marker located in front of the house which was placed there by the Chickamauga Campaign Heritage Trail and State of Dade Camp 707, Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Polish LOT Airlines Embraer E175LR "SP-LIM " in special retro livery visits Dublin from Warsaw.
SP-LIM was delivered to LOT in May 2010.
To celebrate LOT's 90th anniversary, SP-LIM was painted into this special retro livery in December 2018, depicting the carriers colours of the 50's to mid 60's.
There is also some old advertisement posters of LOT from the 1960's inside the cabin.
A little really does mean alLOT.
Aer Lingus Saint Colman Airbus A320, superbly painted in Aer Lingus 1970's fleet livery, rotating off Dublin's runway 28 with the newish control tower in the background.
EI-DVM was delivered to Aer Lingus in March 2011 in a blaze of fanfare to celebrate the airlines 75 years in service.
Known as " retrojet ", allot of the veteran worldwide carriers have been painting their own fleets in past colours, adding some colour & nostalgia.
"how did you spend your superbowl sunday Tif?"
oh well thank you for asking and since you asked so nicely :)
i spent it wisely as it droned on in the background, wallpapering my studio wall with a fabby find from the vintage aisles of Etsy no less.
upon finishing my wise move, i proceeded to dabble with Mr Hook...
a few days on and i am still marvelling at several things, not only did i manage to match the wallpaper up but also it stayed where i put it... another being how one can possibly tell which way up it should have gone and lastly, why oh why have i left it so long since Mr Hook and i dabbled :)
Born in 1790 at Turkeytown on the Coosa River in Alabama, John Ross was the son of a Scotsman of loyalist sympathies and a mother, mostly Scottish but one-quarter Cherokee. Educated at Maryville College and Kingston Academy in Tennessee, his first political mission came in 1809 when he was just 19 years old. The U.S. Indian agent, Jonathan Meigs, sent him as an emissary to the western Cherokees on the Arkansas River. From that time on he was forever in the service of his people.
In the Creek War of 1812, Ross volunteered and served as adjutant for the Cherokee detachment in the forces of General Andrew Jackson. He made a name for himself at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, March 27, 1814 in one of the bloodiest Indian fights in the history of the United States. In a savage no quarter battle some 2,000 men under Jackson, including 500 Cherokees, fought a barricaded force of about a thousand Creeks. While Jackson's forces pounded the Creek breastworks, the Cherokee swam the Tallapoosa River, got behind the enemy position and scattered the Creek boats and canoes. Attacked from both sides and without means of retreat, the Creek force was virtually annihilated with a loss of more than 800 killed.
In 1817 he became a member of the National Council of the Cherokee and succeeded to the presidency, a position he held until 1826. Chosen a member of the National Committee of the Cherokee Council in 1817, he drafted the reply to the United States Commissioners who were sent to negotiate the exchange of the Cherokee lands for others west of the Mississippi. As President he was instrumental in the introduction of school and mechanical training and led in the development of the civilized autonomous government embodied in the republican constitution adopted in 1827. In that year he was made Associate Chief with William Hicks and president of the Cherokee constitutional convention.
John Ross moved to this two-story square timber log house following , the confiscatory acts of the Georgia legislature in 1830. When the State extended its jurisdiction over the Cherokee lands, Ross was ejected from his very fine home on the Coosa River in the vicinity of Rome, Georgia.
The following year he was chosen principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation & held that position until removal in 1839. During these years, Ross led the National Party faction of the Cherokee with an iron discipline which sustained the majority of his people in opposition to a succession of removal treaties. He led countless delegations of protest beginning with the Georgia confiscatory acts of 1830. He bitterly opposed the Ridge-Boudinot faction which began to urge negotiation toward a treaty and successfully outmaneuvered & intimidated the pro-treaty faction down to the very moment of forced removal in 1838 when he himself turned to negotiate protective arrangements for the Cherokee as best he could.
He led his people in exile beyond the Mississippi on the dreadful "Trail of Tears" into Oklahoma along which they buried a fourth of their kinsmen and there contributed significantly to the new constitution of 1839, uniting the western and eastern Cherokee under one government. In that year he was chosen Chief of the United Cherokee Nation, although his position was disputed by a southern Cherokee faction and the United States government during the Civil War when he sought to keep the Cherokee neutral. However, in 1861, he signed a treaty of alliance with the Confederacy, which was repudiated in 1863. When federal troops invaded the Territory in 1862, he moved to Philadelphia. He died in Washington, D.C. where he had gone to assist in making the Cherokee treaty of 1866.
John Ross was one of the most prominent of the Chiefs of the Cherokee nation. He has had as many violent critics as he has had warm defenders. There are those who charge that his ruthless resistance to a treaty of removal caused his people the hardships he so earnestly sought to avoid. Others argue that it was in the honor and interest of the Cherokee people for him to have done nothing less. Nevertheless, Ross' ability as a statesman, diplomat, and leader cannot be questioned. The fact that he was for forty years the head of his nation is evidence that he possessed the confidence of the majority of his people.
This home was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on November 7, 1973 for its association with Chief John Ross. All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/ba15e8d8-c1b5-48a7-817...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
"how did you spend your superbowl sunday Tif?"
oh well thank you for asking and since you asked so nicely :)
i spent it wisely as it droned on in the background, wallpapering my studio wall with a fabby find from the vintage aisles of Etsy no less.
upon finishing my wise move, i proceeded to dabble with Mr Hook...
a few days on and i am still marvelling at several things, not only did i manage to match the wallpaper up but also it stayed where i put it... another being how one can possibly tell which way up it should have gone and lastly, why oh why have i left it so long since Mr Hook and i dabbled :)
Text of the above historical marker placed by the Georgia Historical Commission:
This comfortable two-story log house was the home of Cherokee Chief John Ross from boyhood until he went west over the "Trail of Tears," losing his Indian wife enroute. Although only one-eighth Indian himself, Ross was the elected "Principal Chief" of the Cherokee Nation for 40 years and their advocate for justice for 57 years. He voluntarily chose exile with his people. In the war of 1812, Ross served with a regiment of Cherokees under Gen. Andrew Jackson against the Creek allies of the English. This house was built in 1797 by John McDonald, grandfather of John Ross.
Full history of the John Ross Home:
Born in 1790 at Turkeytown on the Coosa River in Alabama, John Ross was the son of a Scotsman of loyalist sympathies and a mother, mostly Scottish but one-quarter Cherokee. Educated at Maryville College and Kingston Academy in Tennessee, his first political mission came in 1809 when he was just 19 years old. The U.S. Indian agent, Jonathan Meigs, sent him as an emissary to the western Cherokees on the Arkansas River. From that time on he was forever in the service of his people.
In the Creek War of 1812, Ross volunteered and served as adjutant for the Cherokee detachment in the forces of General Andrew Jackson. He made a name for himself at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, March 27, 1814 in one of the bloodiest Indian fights in the history of the United States. In a savage no quarter battle some 2,000 men under Jackson, including 500 Cherokees, fought a barricaded force of about a thousand Creeks. While Jackson's forces pounded the Creek breastworks, the Cherokee swam the Tallapoosa River, got behind the enemy position and scattered the Creek boats and canoes. Attacked from both sides and without means of retreat, the Creek force was virtually annihilated with a loss of more than 800 killed.
In 1817 he became a member of the National Council of the Cherokee and succeeded to the presidency, a position he held until 1826. Chosen a member of the National Committee of the Cherokee Council in 1817, he drafted the reply to the United States Commissioners who were sent to negotiate the exchange of the Cherokee lands for others west of the Mississippi. As President he was instrumental in the introduction of school and mechanical training and led in the development of the civilized autonomous government embodied in the republican constitution adopted in 1827. In that year he was made Associate Chief with William Hicks and president of the Cherokee constitutional convention.
John Ross moved to this two-story square timber log house following , the confiscatory acts of the Georgia legislature in 1830. When the State extended its jurisdiction over the Cherokee lands, Ross was ejected from his very fine home on the Coosa River in the vicinity of Rome, Georgia.
The following year he was chosen principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation & held that position until removal in 1839. During these years, Ross led the National Party faction of the Cherokee with an iron discipline which sustained the majority of his people in opposition to a succession of removal treaties. He led countless delegations of protest beginning with the Georgia confiscatory acts of 1830. He bitterly opposed the Ridge-Boudinot faction which began to urge negotiation toward a treaty and successfully outmaneuvered & intimidated the pro-treaty faction down to the very moment of forced removal in 1838 when he himself turned to negotiate protective arrangements for the Cherokee as best he could.
He led his people in exile beyond the Mississippi on the dreadful "Trail of Tears" into Oklahoma along which they buried a fourth of their kinsmen and there contributed significantly to the new constitution of 1839, uniting the western and eastern Cherokee under one government. In that year he was chosen Chief of the United Cherokee Nation, although his position was disputed by a southern Cherokee faction and the United States government during the Civil War when he sought to keep the Cherokee neutral. However, in 1861, he signed a treaty of alliance with the Confederacy, which was repudiated in 1863. When federal troops invaded the Territory in 1862, he moved to Philadelphia. He died in Washington, D.C. where he had gone to assist in making the Cherokee treaty of 1866.
John Ross was one of the most prominent of the Chiefs of the Cherokee nation. He has had as many violent critics as he has had warm defenders. There are those who charge that his ruthless resistance to a treaty of removal caused his people the hardships he so earnestly sought to avoid. Others argue that it was in the honor and interest of the Cherokee people for him to have done nothing less. Nevertheless, Ross' ability as a statesman, diplomat, and leader cannot be questioned. The fact that he was for forty years the head of his nation is evidence that he possessed the confidence of the majority of his people.
This home was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on November 7, 1973 for its association with Chief John Ross. All of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration & can be seen here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/ba15e8d8-c1b5-48a7-817...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
Rose Glen is located at the junction of Bird's Creek Road and the Newport Highway near the East Fork of the Little Pigeon River. The home which was built in 1845 was said to be designed on a Monticello plan. Bilateral symmetry is notable in both the home and grounds. Standing beside the road (the Newport Highway) about sixty feet from the house are two small buildings which, along with the greenery of the hardwood,frame Rose Glen. The small building to the right (seen above) was the office of Dr. Hogsden (the original owner) and Dr. Hicks (the second owner); the one to the left was the loom house which was operated by the servants. The house itself is built upon a "T" plan with the central portion being two stories and the wings of the facade are one story high with fireplaces at each end. The exterior was covered in white clapboard and shutters trim the windows. The recessed entrance to the home is the most attractive aspect where two square columns and matching pilasters support the second floor.
The woodwork of the home, both the frame and interior decor, were completed by hand and put together by pegs. The ceilings and walls were plastered at the time of construction and the floors are of heart pine. There are four rooms on the first floor: a parlor and sitting room form the two wings which are separated by a piazza (designed as part of the entrance). The ceiling of the parlor is embossed with a cameo-like design. There is also a large bedroom and dining room downstairs. The kitchen is in the basement and access is gained by the exterior from which servants brought the meals upstairs. Upstairs there are three large bedrooms. A porch also runs down each side of the rear section and is enclosed in latticework (also seen above).
Rose Glen is important not only because of its exemplative architecture but also because of the prominence of Dr. Hogsden, the original owner of the property. The 1840's might be termed the "developing years" of Sevier County. Settlements had previously been made; it was a time when the fruits of one's toil were realized. Dr. Hogsden came to the Harrisburg vicinity from Maryville where he married Mary Brabson Shields in 1842 and set up practice in the county. Rose Glen was constructed from 1845 to 1850; the unusual design is like "The Maples" in Jefferson City. Dr. Hogsden had his office, a small two room structure, built to the side of the front yard; a house of the same design stands on the other side of the yard to complete the symmetry which is so apparent in the layout of the home. During his early medical career, Dr. Hogsden was the attending physician to one party of Cherokees (roughly 2000) during their forced migration to Oklahoma—commonly known as "The Trail of Tears" and later he was President of the State Medical Society. During the Civil War, he was a representative to the Confederate legislature. Rose Glen remained in the hands of another physician, Dr. Hicks, in the later nineteenth century and the property has remained in his descendants' possession.
The photograph above is through a chain link fence that surrounds the abandoned, decaying property even though it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on July 18, 1975. I hope that someone somewhere will be willing to obtain and save this piece of East Tennessee history. And, all of the information above was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration that can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/b984a07e-69f5-4421-bb7...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
The best way to view my photostream is through Flickriver with the following link: www.flickriver.com/photos/photojourney57/
Two young boys smiling in a Hungarian home, posing with a vintage AR-CO wooden building toy set in the 1960s.
Today I carried home a Tretchikoff from the flea market. I was so excited. I felt dizzy! Best. Day. Ever.