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For my first photo, I went to Fullersburg Woods which located in Oakbrook, Illinois. In addition to being a regular forest preserve, Fullersburg also serves the purpose as a nature education center. I went here on Tuesday, March 24th. This picture depicts an environmental solution to human passivity regarding trees. The earth offers many great ecosystem services to us human beings, but many of them go overlooked if they are not associated with a numerical value. In the photo, a “price tag” is attached to the tree in the background to help the passersby associate trees with more than just aesthetic value. If we are able to get an idea of how much one single tree contributes to the world, then the magnitude of an entire forest becomes easier to understand. This sign helps the general public understand why deforestation and other environmental threats are relevant to our everyday lives. Based on the leaf litter found below, I believe this particular tree to be an oak, part of the beech family in the genus Quercus.
A view form 3rd and Army skatespot, those have been up while since i started skating there a few months ago.
In the style of Banksy if not actually by him.
Found on Hawley Road, Camden
Referring to the 2013 horsemeat scandal.
A story we're familiar with..but hopefully one which we can mirror as well.
Curtis and Paul Jones wrote how, on a bitterly cold day in a western city, a small boy stood shivering on a steel grate in the sidewalk. He was very poorly dressed and obviously a child of the street. A well-dressed woman passerby noticed the lad and began to talk to him. Sensing his need, she took him to a clothing store and had him completely outfitted suitable for the weather—including cap, scarf, and gloves.
The lad was so grateful he couldn't thank her enough. As they parted he turned back to ask, "Are you God's mother?"
Surprised, the woman replied, "Oh, no! I'm just a child of God."
Whereupon the smiling lad remarked, "I knew you were related."
photo caught by my son, Joshua...and reprocessed by the father..
A map from 'Mapping and valuing ecosystem services in the Ewaso Ng'iro Watershed', 2011 (map credit: ILRI/WRI).
Recently, Jason was delighted to learn of the regular support he now receives from a “godfather” in England, who sponsors his “scholarship”. He is just one of 28 youngsters receiving such highly valued patronage.
You may think that USD$50.00 each month won’t make a big difference but this extra funding for those on the receiving end means more than any of us can dream about, in the sense of facilitating a clear passageway through a particulary delicate phase of life, specifically adolescence.
A “scholarship” guarantees a child’s continuation in the programme, safeguarding their healthy development in accordance with their own interests and diminishes outside pressures that often occur from families, who far too often depend on the income their adolescent children can supply when sent out to work on the streets instead of investing in their education for the future.
If you would like to know more about our Youth Capacity Building Scholarship Programme, just take a look at the article on our Blog, where you can easily subscribe to one of the scholarships on an automated monthly payment system through PayPal. Simple and Sweet!
I know that the positive consequences of sponsoring children's development programmes like ours are not so easy for supporters to "feel" at such a long distance. Nevertheless, I would personally like to take this opportunity to assure you all that for those fortunate enough to be on the receiving end, this kind of help should never be underestimated. It makes a "world" of difference to those kids and I am truly grateful to those of you who have understood the value of being one of those global citizens who feels he/she is making a difference by contributing in this manner.
CARF uses very few resources to administer its programmes as we have volunteers involved with admin work and because we value every cent going to where it was originally intended, namely to the children.
Without such help we would not be doing all that we are able to do today to change the outlooks of some of the world's children at risk.
Thank you so much for your support!
www.ntex.co.uk/about-ntex/core-values
Our core values are the backbone of everything we do and what defines NTEX, both as a company and a brand. Visit our website to view the seven C's of NTEX.
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DeCA's application of value engineering led to energy-saving features such as non-ozone-depleting refrigeration systems that were at least 30 percent more efficient than established standards in the commissary at Naval Submarine Base New London, Conn. (DeCA photo: Kevin L. Robinson)
Lubuk Beringin villagers, Anshori harvesting a cinnamon tree in the forest near Lubuk Beringin village, Bungo district, Jambi province, Indonesia. Forests have become an integral part of Lubuk Beringin, Jambi province, as the villagers have carried out forest management and exploitation in a sustainable manner by implementing traditional values.
Photo by Tri Saputro/CIFOR
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“Spiritual learning takes precedence. The secular without the foundation of the spiritual is … like the foam upon the milk, the fleeting shadow. … One need not choose between the two … for there is opportunity to get both simultaneously” (Spencer W. Kimball). Model Kelsey Garry. (Photo by Karen Petitt)
Value = $2,300
Starting bid = $950
An exquisitely restored stone farmhouse situated among the rolling hills, fields, and vineyards of the Gaillac region of southern France, “La Bourthoumarie” is just a few kilometers from the lovely historic village of Cordes sur Ciel.
Written up in several European travel guides, “La Bourthoumarie” features four bedrooms, two covered outdoor dining areas, a 10-meter pool with large terrace, lovely gardens, and incredible views. The large rooms are flooded with natural light and contain fireplaces, original terra cotta tiled floors, and traditional exposed wood beam ceilings.
The well-equipped kitchen opens to a covered breakfast terrace, which is in fact the restored bread oven. A large, three-arched, attached barn houses a second outdoor dining area and barbecue.
A wide, gently spiraling, wood-and-iron staircase leads to the upper two floors, which contain four spacious bedrooms — two with double beds and private bathrooms and two with twin beds and a shared bathroom. Original wood floors contribute to the light and airy ambiance.
The beautifully landscaped ten-meter by five-meter pool is naturally chlorinated by an electrolysis system.
An hour from Toulouse, “La Bourthoumarie” offers an ideal setting to unwind or to explore the ancient and historic Gaillac appellation wine region and its fascinating medievale ‘bastide’ villages, including Cordes sur Ciel, which boasts lovely shops and restaurants, including one with a coveted Michelin star. The town of Albi, with its famous fortified cathedral and renowned Toulouse Lautrec museum, is nearby. The Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts are only a few hours away, as are the Pyrenees.
Adventures and activities abound for adults and children alike, including biking, tennis, golf, canoeing, rock climbing, and fishing.
For more information, additional photos, and date restrictions, visit www.brattleboromuseum.org/?p=5387.
This is one of many items to be auctioned off at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center's "Apple Blossom Gala" -- a festive evening of wine, food, art, live music, and dancing -- on Friday, May 10, 7 p.m. at Alyson's Orchard in Walpole, New Hampshire. All proceeds support BMAC's education programs serving thousands of students in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
To purchase tickets, visit www.brattleboromuseum.org/2013/02/19/apple-blossom-gala/ or call 802-257-0124, ext. 101. If you cannot attend but would like to place a proxy bid, please contact Josh Moyse at 802-257-0124, ext. 116 or josh@brattleboromuseum.org.
Drinking a store-brand Wal-Mart beer: Great Value beer! It cost a quarter and was worth every penny.
Collection: Cornell University Collection of Political Americana, Cornell University Library
Repository: Susan H. Douglas Political Americana Collection, #2214 Rare & Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Cornell University
Title: Hayes-Wheeler Pennant, ca. 1876
Political Party: Republican
Election Year: 1876
Date Made: ca. 1876
Measurement: Pennant: 10 x 14.5 in.; 25.4 x 36.83 cm
Classification: Textiles
Persistent URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/6085
There are no known U.S. copyright restrictions on this image. The digital file is owned by the Cornell University Library which is making it freely available with the request that, when possible, the Library be credited as its source.
From the website www.foodmatters.tv/dvds/the-greater-good
"To vaccinate or not? The greater good sheds lights on the ever debatable topic of vaccines! What I particularly love about this film, apart from it’s fantastic production value and equitable conversation on both sides of the story, is the way in which I was drawn into the fascinating personal stories throughout the journey accompanied with real scientific data. This film is a must watch for all parents considering vaccinations and even for those of us still considering the annual flu shot! It’s a contentious issue and one that needs a lot more attention moving towards an open and fair medical system where we have the power to decide what is best for us and our children."
– James Colquhoun, Producer / Director "Food Matters" and "Hungry For Change"
From:the website www.greatergoodmovie.org/
THE GREATER GOOD is a character-driven documentary that explores the cultural intersections where parenting meets modern medicine and individual rights collide with politics. The film offers parents, doctors and policy makers a safe space to speak openly, actively listen and to learn from one another. Mixing verité footage, intimate interviews, 1950s-era government-produced movies and up-to-date TV news reporting, THE GREATER GOOD weaves together the stories of families whose lives have been forever changed by vaccination.
Back in the 1980s, children were asked to get 23 doses of 7 different vaccines. By 2010, parents are being asked to give their children 69 doses of 16 vaccines. That’s triple the dose of those recommended in the 1980s.
And today, many states have made certain vaccinations mandatory… with parents having little or NO say in whether or not their children will receive a vaccine.
Are we doing the right thing? Should all of this be stopped? Or, are we completely taking vaccines for granted?
What you will learn
The Greater Good DVD takes a closer look behind the...
Fear...
Hype and...
Politics...
… Which polarizes people into taking either a pro-vaccine stance, or an anti-vaccine position… with no room in the middle.
Hear what experts have to say on both sides of the coin including…
Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-founder & President, National Vaccine Information Center
Paul Offit, MD, Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Mark Feinberg, MD, PhD, VP Medical Affairs and Policy, Merck & Co.
The deputy director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
The FDA’s Director of Office of Vaccines Research & Review
The lead researcher for Gardasil, HPV and cervical cancer vaccine
Vaccine neuroscientists, developers, and injury lawyers
And also listen to sobering accounts of 3 families from Wichita, Kansas… Portland, Oregon… and Tulsa, Oklahoma, who have had to deal with devastating effects from vaccines.
The Greater Good DVD is a plea to parents, doctors, scientists, and the general public., to get more educated about vaccines and making informed decisions. The DVD challenges you to think again and dig deeper into the burning issue… Is there a better way to approach all this?
"This excellent documentary looks at BOTH sides of the vaccine controversy, making it an excellent tool for educating parents who have been victims of pro-BIG-pharma propaganda. It is the most researched, credible and compelling information I have ever seen in my 25 plus years as a medical professional. All parents MUST watch this video!" - J.D. Weed
I found all this at Value Village, all told for $72 No sets are complete, all are missing at least 1 or two minifigs, smaller items in the set, and a couple cases had some glue on them, most notable the TIE advanced. Still one heck of a deal.
Not having had the opportunity to go to school, she understands the value of education for boys and girls. “If I were educated enough, I would have accomplished a lot,” she claims.
One of her duties is to monitor the schools in her village. She visits them regularly to ensure that teachers are attending , and that children are being provided with good quality mid-day meals.
Photo credit: UN Women/Anindit Roy-Chowdhury/ Ashutosh Negi
Please don't use my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission - rr.restifo@gmail.com. © All rights reserved.
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Da/from www.facebook.com/iononmilasciofregare/info/?tab=page_info:
IO NON MI LASCIO FREGARE
#iononmilasciofregare
Questo appello nasce dalla volontà di ricordare cosa è successo il 19 novembre 2015 a Verona...un appello che abbiamo scritto a più mani in maniera ANONIMA e che vuole essere una "chiamata alle armi" per amici artisti di buona volontà.
IN BREVE
Presso il Museo Civico di Castelvecchio sono state trafugate 17 opere di grandissimo valore: Tintoretto, Mantegna, Rubens solo per citare alcuni autori, in pratica un piccolo museo per intero (le foto delle opere rubate le trovate nel nostro album a questo indirizzo: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1064799210228843.107374....)
L’operazione è durata quasi un’ora e mezza ed è stata condotta con molta tranquillità. Un vero scandalo! Poche le parole spese dai media in seguito all’accaduto, le Istituzioni hanno messo in scena il solito scaricabarili e la raccolta firme on-line ha avuto poco seguito.
Ma un pezzettino di quelle straordinarie opere è anche MIO, è ANCHE VOSTRO! Io rivoglio il nostro pezzettino di MANTEGNA, TINTORETTO, BELLINI, etc! Non so se ve ne siete accorti ma si stanno rubando il passato e soprattutto IL FUTURO!
Io non ci sto, noi non ci stiamo! Portiamo un segnale fuori, per le strade e in rete per tenere viva l’attenzione su questo caso letteralmente scomparso, senza lasciare traccia.
Ci rivolgiamo quindi agli amici artisti: quello che sappiamo fare è dipingere, non perdiamo tempo, facciamolo. L'idea che ci è venuta è di adottare ognuno di noi una delle 17 opere e di realizzare un murale (ma anche un poster o una qualsiasi installazione urbana) reinterpretando a modo nostro il lavoro originale. Sfrutteremo l'interesse dei media per l'arte urbana per poter denunciare ad alta voce insieme questo incredibile furto!
Vi chiediamo di farlo liberamente, ognuno con i propri mezzi, ognuno con le proprie capacità,
Siete invitati a partecipare tutti e di farlo in maniera ANONIMA senza firmare le opere che lascerete nelle nostre città, per far parlare direttamente i vari TINTORETTO, MANTEGNA, PISANIELLO ETC, coinvolgendo chi volete (le realtà che oggi hanno a disposizione spazi non mancano, quindi destinatarie di questo messaggio e di certo non abbiamo niente da insegnarvi su come si può fare arte per strada...).
Quando avete fatto mandateci le foto a questo indirizzo:
iononmilasciofregare@gmail.com
o postatele su questa pagina
www.facebook.com/iononmilasciofregare/
sarà nostra cura farle girare il più possibile perchè #iononmifacciofregare
Ecco la lista dei nostri 17 capolavori da adottare:
1 Antonio Pisano detto Pisanello, Madonna col bambino
2 Jacopo Bellini, San Girolamo penitente
3 Andrea Mantegna, Sacra Famiglia
4 Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Ritratto di giovane con disegno infantile
5 Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Ritratto di giovane monaco benedettino
6 Jacopo Tintoretto, Madonna allattante
7 Jacopo Tintoretto, Trasporto dell’arca dell’alleanza
8 Jacopo Tintoretto, Banchetto di Baltassar
9 Jacopo Tintoretto, Sansone
10 Jacopo Tintoretto, Giudizio di Salomone
11 Cerchia di Jacopo Tintoretto, Ritratto maschile
12 Domenico Tintoretto, Ritratto di Marco Pasqualigo
13 Bottega di Domenico Tintoretto, Ritratto di ammiraglio veneziano
14 Peter Paul Rubens, Dama delle licnidi
15 Hans de Jode, Paesaggio
16 Hans de Jode, Porto di mare
17 Giovanni Benini, Ritratto di Girolamo Pompei
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I WON'T GET SCREWED OVER
# Iononmilasciofregare
This call arises from the desire to remember what happened on Nov. 19, 2015 in Verona, a call that we have written many hands in an ANONYMOUS way and that wants to be a "call of duty" for artist friends and people of good will.
THE FACT
17 works of great value were stolen from the Museum of Castelvecchio: Tintoretto, Mantegna, Rubens just to mention a few painters, basically a real small museum (photos of stolen works can be found in our album to this address: https: //www.facebook.com/media/set/....)
The operation lasted nearly an hour and a half and it was carried out with extreme calm. A real scandal! A few words spoken by the media after the incident, the institutions have staged the usual buck and the online sensibilization campaign has had little success.
A part of those extraordinary works is also MINE, is also YOURS! I want back our piece of MANTEGNA, TINTORETTO, BELLINI, etc! I do not know if you are aware of that but they are stealing our past and our FUTURE!
I do not accept it, do you? Let's transmit a signal on the streets and in the internet to keep attention focused on this case that risks to disappear without a trace.
We appeal to artist friends: what we do is painting, do not waste time, let's do it. The idea is to take each of us one of the 17 works and create a mural (or a poster or any urban installation) reinterpreting our own way the original work. Let's exploit the media interest in street art to denounce loud together this incredible theft!
We ask you to do it freely, each with their own means, each with their own abilities,
You are all invited to attend and do it in an ANONYMOUS way, without signing the works that you will leave in our cities, to speak directly to TINTORETTO, MANTEGNA, PISANELLO, etc, involving those who want to participate.
Once you did it, please send photos to this address:
iononmilasciofregare@gmail.com
or post them on this page
www.facebook.com/iononmilasciofregare/
We will spread them as much as possible, because:
I WON'T GET SCREWED OVER
In the Young Women organization of the LDS church, girls age 12-18 years old are encouraged to set worthwhile goals, and complete projects in each of 8 categories. Each of those categories, or values, is assigned a color.
White = Faith
Blue = Divine Nature
Red = Individual Worth
Green = Knowledge
Orange = Choice and Accountability
Yellow = Good Works
Purple = Integrity
Gold = Virtue
I have the privilege of working with the fine young women in our congregation, and I made this for them.
Are you going to go to Rodmersham? The warden at Milstead asked me.
I had not heard of it, but then that's not surprising, as I seem to be fining new parish churches all the time, indeed I have since discovered I have also missed the mother church of the benefice, Tunstall.
Anyway.
I had seen a signpost pointing the way to Rodmersham on the road back east towards home, so it seemed easy enough. Though the signs were intermittent, but after a ten minute drive, I arrived at St Nicholas, situated on the side of the lane, with a couple of houses opposite.
It felt like it would be locked, but I went to check, and found the porch and door unlocked. I went to collect my cameras and get busy.
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A good example of a village church surrounded by orchards in this least spoilt part of north Kent. The building consists of an exceptionally tall and proud west tower, nave and chancel with south aisle and chapel. In the north wall of the nave are excellent examples of doors to the rood loft, the top of each doorway having nicely shouldered arches. The most interesting parts of the church are the chancel and chapel. The former contains an excellent altar by Buckeridge and Hoyce (1888) and an east window of German glass by Bayer of Munich, dated 1881. On the south side is the excellent fifteenth-century wooden sedilia of three canopied seats - almost unique in England. It backs on to a contemporary parclose screen that divides the chancel from south chapel which contains two panels of blind Norman arcading and a good east window by Ward and Hughes. In the south aisle is a blocked low side window that probably served a side altar.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Rodmersham
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RODMERSHAM.
NORTH-EASTWARD from Kingsdown lies Rodmersham. It lies at a mile southward from Bapchild-street and the high Dover road, on high ground, the church being plainly seen from it. It contains about 1050 acres of land, of which not more than seventy-five are wood. The village, which is built straggling along the road, having the church in it, has at the lower or northern part of it two or three pretty modern houses; at the opposite end of it is New house, which has been for some years tenanted by the Taylors; at the south-east corner of the parish is the hamlet of Upper Rodmersham, and on the western side that of Rodmersham-green, which joins to a long tract of woodland, called Minchin wood. The land in the lower or northern part of this parish is rich and fertile for corn, and is let at a high rent, but higher up among the hills it becomes chalky and light, and much of it very poor. It is not an unpleasant situation, and considering its nearness to a very unwholesome country, is not so unhealthy as might be expected.
THE PARAMOUNT MANOR of Milton claims over it, subordinate to which is
THE MANOR OF RODMERSHAM, which was antiently the inheritance of the family of De la Pine, whose seat of residence was at Easthall, in the neighbouring parish of Murston.
John de la Pine was possessed of it in the 20th year of the reign of king Henry III. as appears by private evidences, whose grandson James de la Pine, about the latter end of king Richard II.'s reign, sold it to John de Podach, descended originally from John de Podach, who held lands of his own name in Devonshire in the reign of king Henry III. as appeared by an antient pedigree of this family. His descendants, possessors of this manor, from being usually called Pordage, at length wrote their names so. The antient arms of which family were, Argent, a fess chequy, or, and gules, in chief, three cross-croslets, sable; but this John Pordage altered the fess to plain sable, in which form his descendants have borne it ever since.
His descendant Sir William Pordage, as well as his ancestors, resided at Rodmersham, where he rebuilt the manor-house in the reign of king James I. naming it New-house, at whose request in 1615, the pedigree of Pordage was drawn up from old evidences, by John Philipott, Somerset herald, by which it appears that he bore for his arms six coats, Pordage, Crowland, Gourly, Belton, Gisors, and Barrow; all which, except the first and last, were borne in right of the heir of Crowland, and in one of the windows of Faversham church were painted the arms of Pordage, impaling Crowland. (fn. 1) He died s. p. and was succeeded by his brother and heir Thomas Pordage, esq. who resided here. His grandson William Pordage, or Porridge, as the name was then usually called, about the beginning of queen Anne's reign alienated it, with the seat, and all the rest of his estates in this parish and neighbourhood, to Stephen Lushington, esq. of Sittingborne, whose father Mr. Thomas Lushington, had been in the possession of them under a mortgage term for some years before. He was the son of Mr. Augustine Lushington, gent. of Sittingborne, who bore for his arms, Argent, a fess engrailed, gules, between three lions heads erased, or. Of whose family was Thomas Lushington, a noted scholar of his time, born at Sandwich in 1589, and afterwards educated at Oxford, and preferred to a prebend of Salisbury, &c. He wrote several books, a list of which the reader will find in Wood's Ath. Oxon. At length retiring in his latter days to his relations at Sittingborne, he died there in 1661, and was buried in the south chancel of that church, having had a handsome monument, with his bust on it, set up to his memory, by his kinsman, Thomas Lushington, esq. of Sittingborne, whom he by will made heir to all he had.
Mr. Stephen Lushington was twice married, and left issue by both his wives, by his second he had several children, the eldest surviving son of whom was Henry, vicar of East Bourne, in Sussex, and D. D. who left several children, of whom Henry, was massacred in the East Indies, and Stephen was a proctor of Doctors Commons.
Thomas Godfrey Lushington, esq. of Sittingborne, the only son of Stephen, by his first wife, succeeded him in this estate, and afterwards resided at Canterbury, where he died in 1757, and was buried at Sittingborne, having had by his first wife Dorothy, daughter of John Gisborne, esq. of Derbyshire, three sons, Thomas, who died before him unmarried; William, a captain in the army, who died unmarried in 1763; and James-Stephen, now in holy-orders; and likewise two daughters, Dorothy, who died unmarried, and Catherine, married to John Cockin Sole, esq. At his death he gave this manor, with the seat of New-house, and the rest of his possessions in this parish, to his second surviving son, the Rev. JamesStephen Lushington, of Bottisham, near Cambridge, who is the present possessor of them.
The Rev. Mr. Lushington is a prebendary of Carlisle, and has been twice married; first to Mary, one of the daughters of Edmund Law, lord bishop of Carlisle, who died in 1768, having had by her two sons and one daughter; and secondly to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Christian, of Norfolk; by whom he has three sons and two daughters.
There are no parochial charities. The poor constantly relieved are about twenty, casually fifteen.
RODMERSHAM is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sittingborne.
¶The church, which is dedicated to St. Nicholas. consists of three isles and two chancels; the southern chancel belongs to the family of Lushington, as lords of the manor, in it are several memorials for the family of Pordage. In the high chancel are four seats, with a kind of wooden canopy over them; perhaps made use of for the knights of St. John, when they visited their estate here. At the west end is a handsome tower steeple, built of squared slint, very neat, and of much superior masonry to the rest of the church. There are four bells in it. In the east window of the high chancel are these arms remaining. A cross, between four mullets; there was likewise, anno 1719, a scrole remaining in the windows of William Somptere and John Cheynestere, who had been good benesactors to this church. In the south chancel is a brass plate for William Pery, 1482.
A person unknown gave one acre of woodland to beautify the church, now of the annual produce of twelve shillings.
King Henry II. gave the church of Rodmersham to the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, which was confirmed by king John in his 1st year.
About which time an agreement was entered into between Alanus, prior of the hospital, and the chapter of it, and the abbot and convent of St. Augustine's, near Canterbury, that when their chapel of Rodmersham should be dedicated, and the cemetery consecrated, they granted to the abbot and the convent, that they would diminish none of the rights of the mother church of Milton, one of which was, the burial of housekeepers, male and female, (fn. 2) of Rodmersham, at Milton, which should never be withdrawn by them, and that neither in that, nor in any thing else, they should sustain any injury, &c. (fn. 3)
After which, this church was appropriated by the prior and chapter of the hospital, to their preceptory established in the parish of West Peckham; in which state it continued till the general dissolution of the hospital, in the 32d year of king Henry VIII. when this order of knights being suppressed, by an act specially passed for the purpose, their hospital, with all its lands and revenues, was given by it to the king. After which the fee of the rectory of Rodmersham, with the advowson of the vicarage, seems to have remained in the crown, till the king, in the 36th year of his reign, granted it, with its appurtenances, to John Pordage, esq. of this parish, to hold in capite by knight's service. Since which they have continued with the manor down to the Rev. James-Stephen Lushington, the present owner of them.
In 1640 the vicarage was valued at thirty pounds per annum. Communicants one hundred.
It is a discharged living in the king's books, of the clear yearly certified value of thirty pounds, the tenths of it being 16s. 8d.
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Andrew Dickson White Library
Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University’s co-founder and first president, built a great library. Although seldom identified today as one of the foremost collectors of the 19th century, his achievements have left a remarkable legacy. Unlike other famous book collectors of his time—J. Pierpont Morgan, Henry Edwards Huntington, John Jacob Astor, and James Lenox—he did not establish a separate institution to house his personal collections of books and manuscripts. Instead, White donated his entire collection of 30,000 books to the Cornell University Library—at a time when the Library possessed a collection of just 90,000 volumes. White’s great generosity reveals his utilitarian approach to collecting and, in his words, a “strong belief in the didactic value of books.” As an educator and historian he believed that one could not have a great university without a great library, and he wanted his books to be read and used by Cornell’s faculty and students.
White’s collections of materials on architecture, witchcraft, the Reformation, the French Revolution, Abolitionism and the Civil War were among the finest in the world during his lifetime. Originally shelved in the large, three-story room within Uris Library that bears his name, White’s collections are no longer kept together in one place. Many of his books were moved to the stacks in Olin Library when it opened in 1961. In recent years, most of White’s books have been transferred to the Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections for their continued protection and preservation. Today, the Andrew Dickson White Library holds a portion of the humanities and social science collections found in the combined Olin and Uris Libraries.
It is perhaps more fitting and accurate to say that Andrew Dickson White built two great libraries. The first was his large and significant personal book collection. The second was the Cornell University Library. White hired Willard Fiske to be Cornell’s first University Librarian, and he worked closely with him to develop innovative and progressive policies for their library. White purchased its first books, and played an active role throughout his life in developing the library’s collections.
Even in his student days, White had considered the merits of the most prestigious European libraries, imagining what it would be like to build an important new research library. White conceived and developed his vision for an upstate New York university during a miserable first year at college. White’s visions of a beautiful university were honed during his first year at a college whose architecture he called “sordid,” and later at Yale, where he urged classmates to “adorn and beautify the place.” While his classmates occupied themselves with shenanigans, the sixteen-year-old consoled himself in the library, where he found a book on the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. As a University of Michigan professor in the late 1850s, he planted elms and evergreens with the help of his students and was appointed superintendent of grounds. Two decades later he would preside over an institution that embodied the vision of his youth. The faculty included professors of modern history and literature, as well as classics and mathematics. They were free of control by religious sects and political parties. And learning was accomplished not by rote memorization and recitation, but through analysis, discussion, and experience. The Victorian beauty of the A. D. White Reading Room in Uris Library would probably have satisfied White’s exacting standards.
A trace of this inspiration can be found in the stained-glass windows that line the room. They portray the crests of several Oxford and Cambridge colleges. In the north windows, for instance, the blue escutcheon contains the motto for Oxford University, “Dominus Illuminatio Mea.” Translated from Psalm 27, it means, “The Lord is my Light.” Visitors from a new generation find the room’s ambiance comes from another source, calling it the “Harry Potter” library.
When White offered his personal library to the university, he set two conditions. He asked that the university provide a suitable space to house his collection—he stipulated a fire-proof room—and he requested that proper provision be made for the ongoing maintenance of his collections. That “suitable space” is the Andrew Dickson White Library. White played an active role in helping the building’s architect, William Henry Miller, design and ornament this space.
The maintenance and cataloging of the collection became the responsibility of George Lincoln Burr, a member of the Cornell class of 1871. Burr was White’s secretary and personal librarian as well as the first curator of the White Historical Library. Originally hired by White when he was a Cornell sophomore, Burr worked closely with White to develop and care for his library. We can safely posit that after 1879, the White collection must be seen as a collaborative effort between the two scholars. Each traveled to Europe on extended book-buying tours. Burr, also a renowned professor in the Cornell History department, is given special credit for building and enriching the Library’s collections on the Reformation and witchcraft.
Burr’s portrait by Cornell art professor Christian Midjo is prominently displayed on the north wall of the room, and a small drawing by R. H. Bainton on the first tier shows Burr as Cornell historian Carl Becker once described him: an “indefatigable scholar and bibliophile . . . browsing and brooding in the stacks.”
The Andrew Dickson White Library is filled with art work, furniture, and artifacts from White’s academic and diplomatic careers. He served as U.S. minister to Germany while still president of Cornell, and later also served as minister to Russia. Several pictures and photographs in the room depict Russian scenes. The artwork and the case of plaster casts of European coins and medallions were all collected by Mr. White.
Originally, this space had skylights and an open archway into the adjacent Dean Room (where the Burr portrait now hangs). Those features were lost to renovations, but the original three tiers of wrought-iron stacks still offer an open and dramatic display of their books. Upon first seeing these shelves filled with White’s books in September of 1891, George Lincoln Burr wrote that it “gave one such an idea of a multitude of books. You see and feel them all. They quite overawe one.” Setting the objective for the collection, he promised to make the White Library, in his words, “the great living, growing historical workshop of the University.
Carved Wooden Manuscript Case
•Creator: unknown (unknown nationality, artist)
•Title: Carved wooden manuscript case
•Work Type: desks
•Location: Uris Library, Andrew D. White Library, Cornell University
•Description: Carved folding top, supported by two dogs. Possible attribution: Luigi Frullini.
•Repository: Cornell University
•Collection: Cornell: Campus Art and Artifacts