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Various crew members stand on and crowd lookout posts atop both masts of the USS Pennsylvania ( BB-38 ) as she passes under the Brooklyn Bridge on the way outbound for maneuvers and target practice. Remember guys, Safety first! Photo dated 7 Jan, 1920, copyright Keystone View, published by the Mid-Week Pictorial ( a weekly feature of the New York Times of New York City )
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====================================== Happy Black and White Sunday my friends hope you all are having a great weekend … Here’s a shot of one of my favorites the Manhattan Bridge … Have a great rest of the day … 😉🙌👍🍻 ====================================== Follow @bnw_sundays and tag your awesome black and whites to #bnw_sundays 🙌🙌 ====================================== ⚙Gear and Shot Information 🔸 Camera: @NikonUSA D750 🔸 Lens: Nikon 16-35 F4 🔸 Aperture: F/11 🔸 Exposure: 45" 🔸 ISO: 50 🔸 Mode: Manual 🔸 Tripod: MeFoto Globetrotter CF 🔸 Filter: none ====================================== Interested in purchasing a print ?? Business inquiries or questions about my work either DM me or shoot me an email. ======================================#rsa_streetview #city_of_newyork #nycprimeshot #ig_nycity #igpodium_mag #igpodium #igs_america #igbest_shotz #what_i_saw_in_nyc #inspiring_photography_admired #GotToLove_This #ig_all_americas #TopNewYorkPhoto #loves_NYC #master_shots #igersmood #nbc4ny #manhattan #nightshooters #illgrammers #weekly_feature #newyorkcity #abc7ny #nightphotography #NikonNoFilter #amazing_longexpo #worldshotz #GlobalCapture #global_hotshotz
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Highlighted New Listing – December 23, 2010
Ozaukee County, WI
Located in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, southwest of Port Washington in Lake Michigan, the schooner Northerner lies upright and intact in 130 feet of water. Built in 1850 and lost in 1868, the Northerner represents relatively undocumented class of sailing vessel on the Great Lakes, the lakeshoring schooner. Built by the well-known shipwright John Oades at Clayton, New York, the 81-foot schooner was lost in 1868 off Port Ulao, Wisconsin, while under tow to Milwaukee for repairs. Once common in the Great Lakes, small schooners like the Northerner occupied a special niche in the Great Lake’s regional economy, providing important economic and cultural links between frontier coastal communities. Representative of a relatively undocumented vessel type and trade, the Northerner provides historians and archeologists a rare opportunity to study Great Lakes lakeshoring schooner construction and use.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name. The image is a glossy real photograph. The card was posted in Barnes on Friday the 25th. October 1912 to:
Mrs. C. Pearse,
14, Powderham Crescent,
Pennsylvania,
Exeter,
Devon.
The long message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Friday Morning.
Dear Mother,
Many thanks for your jolly long
letter. I am sorry you are feeling
so bad, and hope this medicine
will suit you better. What does
the doctor say?
We are going to Hampton Court
for the day - taking our lunch, so
I haven't time to write a letter.
Very foggy so far, but yesterday
was glorious, bright sunshine all
day.
Yesterday morning G. and I walked
into Wimbledon across Wimbledon
Common, it is pretty. We then came
home by train and bus.
In the afternoon we went into
Barnes to shop and in the evening
to the theatre. It was simply
splendid, I did enjoy it. It is on the
eve of St. Bartholomew and the
last scene is where they go out to
kill and you hear the bell going as
a signal. It is most dramatic.
In the end she dies and he is shot,
so the curtain goes down with
them both lying dead on the stage.
The music was grand. We got home
at 11.30.
Haven't heard from anyone yet. I
wrote yesterday. Do write again
soon and tell me how you are.
Very much love to you both,
Howard."
Minnie Pearl
So what else happened on the day that Howard posted the card?
Well, on the 25th. October 1912, Minnie Pearl was born in Tennessee.
Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, known professionally as her stage character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (1940–1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991.
Minnie Pearl - The Early Years
Sarah Colley was born in Centerville in Hickman County, Tennessee, 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Nashville. She was the youngest of five daughters born to a prosperous sawmill owner and timber dealer.
She graduated from Ward-Belmont College (now Belmont University), at the time Nashville's most prestigious school for young ladies, where she majored in theater studies and dance. She taught dance for the first few years after graduating.
Minnie Pearl's Professional Career
Minnie's first professional theatrical work was with the Wayne P. Sewell Production Company, a touring theater company based in Atlanta. She produced and directed plays and musicals for local organizations in small towns throughout the Southeast.
Part of her work involved making brief appearances at civic organizations to promote the group's shows, and during this time she developed her Minnie Pearl routine.
While producing an amateur musical comedy in Baileyton, Alabama she met a mountain woman whose style and speech became the basis for "Cousin Minnie Pearl". Her first stage performance as Minnie Pearl was in 1939 in Aiken, South Carolina. Her now-famous hat was purchased downtown at Surasky Bros. Department store before the show.
The following year, executives from Nashville radio station WSM saw her perform at a bankers' convention in Centerville and gave her an opportunity to appear on the Grand Ole Opry on the 30th. November 30. The success of her debut on the show began an association with the Grand Ole Opry that continued for more than 50 years.
Pearl's comedy was gentle satire of rural Southern hillbilly culture. Pearl always dressed in frilly "down home" dresses, and wore a hat with a price tag hanging from it, displaying the $1.98 price. Minnie's hat is now on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
Her signature greeting to her audience was "How-w-w-DEE-E-E-E! I'm jest so proud to be here!" delivered in a hearty holler. After she became an established star, her greeting became a call-and-response with audiences everywhere.
Pearl's often self-deprecating humor involved her unsuccessful attempts to attract "a feller's" attention and, in later years, her age. She also told stories involving her comical "ne'er-do-well" relatives, notably "Uncle Nabob", his wife "Aunt Ambrosia", "Lucifer Hucklehead", "Miss Lizzie Tinkum", "Doc Payne", and her "Brother", who was simultaneously both slow-witted and wise.
Minnie usually closed her monologues with the exit line, "I love you so much it hurts!" She also sang comic novelty songs and often danced with Grandpa Jones.
In 1956, she made a paid appearance – $3,000, plus expenses – at the kickoff event of the first Alabama gubernatorial candidacy of segregationist George Wallace. She also appeared at an event kicking off his 1962 candidacy for governor. By that time, his segregationist stance had hardened into the primary issue of his campaign.
Pearl drew much of her comic material from her hometown of Centerville, which she called Grinders Switch. Grinders Switch was a community just outside Centerville that consisted of little more than a railroad switch.
Those who knew her recognized that the characters were largely based on actual Centerville residents. So much traffic resulted from fans and tourists looking for Grinders Switch that the Hickman County Highway Department eventually changed the designation on the "Grinders Switch" road sign to "Hickman Springs Road".
Minnie Pearl appeared for many years on television, first on ABC's Ozark Jubilee in the late 1950's; then on the long-running television series Hee Haw, both on CBS and the subsequent syndicated version.
Minnie made several appearances on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford. She also appeared as a celebrity panelist on game shows such as Match Game in 1977 and 1978, and Hollywood Squares in 1980.
Her last regular performances on national television were on Ralph Emery's Nashville Now country-music talk show on the former The Nashville Network (TNN) cable channel. With Emery, she performed in a weekly feature "Let Minnie Steal Your Joke" in the Minnie Pearl character, and read jokes submitted by viewers, with prizes for the best jokes.
Minnie Pearl's Family Life
On the 23rd. February 1947, Colley married Henry R. Cannon, who had been an Army Air Corps fighter pilot during World War II, and was then a partner in an air charter service.
After the wedding, Cannon set up his own air charter service for country music performers, and took over management of the Minnie Pearl character.
His clients in the charter service included Eddy Arnold, Colonel Tom Parker, Hank Williams, Carl Smith, Webb Pierce, and Elvis Presley.
The couple had no children. In 1969 they purchased a large estate home in Nashville next door to the Tennessee Governor's mansion. Minnie attended Brentwood Methodist Church, just to the south of Nashville, where she also donated the pipe organ.
Chicken Restaurants
In the late 1960's Nashville entrepreneur John Jay Hooker persuaded Minnie and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to lend their names to a chain of fried chicken restaurants established to compete with Kentucky Fried Chicken.
After initially reporting good results and enjoying a public stock worth $64 million, the venture collapsed amid allegations of accounting irregularities and stock price manipulation.
The ensuing investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission cleared both Minnie and Jackson of involvement in financial wrongdoings, but both were embarrassed by the negative publicity.
Cancer Research
After battling breast cancer through aggressive treatments, including a double mastectomy and radiation therapy, Minnie became a spokeswoman for the medical center in Nashville where she had been treated.
She took on this role as herself, Sarah Ophelia Cannon, not Minnie Pearl, although a nonprofit group, the Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation, was founded in her memory to help fund cancer research.
The center where she was treated was later named the Sarah Cannon Cancer Center, and has been expanded to at least twenty other hospitals in Middle Tennessee, southern Kentucky, Richmond, Virginia, Kansas City, Missouri, Gainesville, Florida, and the UK.
Her name has also been lent to the affiliated Sarah Cannon Research Institute.
Minnie Pearl - The Final Years
Minnie suffered a debilitating stroke in June 1991, bringing her performing career to an end. After the stroke, she resided in a Nashville nursing home, where she received frequent visits from country-music industry figures.
Her death in Nashville on the 4th. March 1996 at the age of 83 was attributed to complications from another stroke. She was laid to rest at Mount Hope Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee.
Minnie Pearl's Legacy and Influence
Minnie was an important influence on younger female country music singers and rural humorists. In 1992, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts, and in 2002, she was ranked as number 14 on CMT's 40 Greatest Women in Country Music.
She was friends with performers outside the country genre, including Elvis Presley, Dean Martin (she appeared on an episode of The Dean Martin Show), and Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman). In 1992, Reubens made what would be his last appearance as Pee-wee Herman for 15 years at a Minnie Pearl tribute show.
Life-sized statues of Minnie Pearl and Roy Acuff are displayed sitting on a pew in the lobby of the Ryman Auditorium. Chely Wright and Dean Sams (of Lonestar) posed for the statues.
A museum dedicated to Minnie Pearl was situated just outside the Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland USA (next to another museum dedicated to Roy Acuff), but the museum closed along with the theme park in 1997. Many of its artifacts were moved to the adjacent Grand Ole Opry Museum.
Minnie Pearl's Books
Books written by Minnie Pearl are as follows:
-- Minnie Pearl's Diary (1953)
-- Minnie Pearl's Christmas at Grinder's Switch (1963)
-- Minnie Pearl Cooks (1970)
-- Minnie Pearl: An Autobiography (1980)
-- Christmas at Grinder's Switch (1985)
-- Best Jokes Minnie Pearl Ever Told (Plus a Few She Overheard!) (1999)
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If you have been following our stream you may know that we have been selected for a weekly feature on Senseslost.com.
Each Wednesday we feature the top ten freights from the past weeks benching.
Be sure to check out the A&P Bench feature and Senseslost's blog, updated daily with fresh links and news.
Feature #42 can be found here: A&P BENCH #42
Mimico Creek Bridge
Humber Bay Park East | Toronto
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Bangkok super moon from last night. I had no idea that it was a full moon that day. I was in the park taking some photos of the sunset when it suddenly appeared between the buildings.
Highlighted New Listing – September 16, 2011
Knox County, Maine
Land’s End Historic District, located on Marshall Point in Port Clyde, Maine, on the west side of picturesque Penobscot Bay, is a summer cottage colony developed by Russell W. Porter between 1907 and 1919. Built around a sheltered harbor, the village has traditionally focused on fishing, and more recently, low-key tourism. Marshall Point is an irregular peninsula that extends southwest from the mainland in Point Clyde- the point is less than half a mile long and a quarter mile wide. At the southwest tip of the point the Marshall Point Light Station, listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, occupies five acres; the remainder of the approximately 50 acres on Marshall Point were developed as Land’s End. The point is accessed via the paved Marshall Point Road, roughly paralleling the cost. The historic district, which includes those cottages that retain historic integrity, span the point from Teel’s Cove on the northwest to lower Penobscot bay on the southeast.
Within two years of purchasing the property in Port Clyde, Russell W. Porter divided much of his property into lots and pursued a vision of an enclave of seasonal residents dedicated to experiencing nature, living a simplified existence and nurturing artistic talents. At Land’s End Porter built cottages and created a summer community with lasting cohesion. Unlike other colonies characterized by a specific aesthetic for their buildings (i.e. log cabins or large Shingle Style estates) the cottages at Land’s End are an eclectic mix of Craftsmen, Shingle Style, Chalet, and (English) Colonial Revival style-buildings.
I am very excited to have been interviewed by the lovely Stephanie Caldwell.
Stephanie has a really cool blog where she writes a weekly feature called Hey, Mama.
I am this week’s "Mama", you can read the interview here
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Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
NPS Cultural Resources Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Other Name: Finca de Trujilo Alto
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Listed: October 7, 2011
This rural forest-like estate historic district was the residence of Luis Muñoz Marín from the 1940s until his death in 1980. Luis Muñoz Marín was the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the people. Luis Muñoz Marín is also called the “Father of Modern Puerto Rico,” a key figure in the development and implementation of Operation Commonwealth, Operation Bootstrap and Operation Serenity, one of the most revered leaders in Puerto Rico’s history, Luis Muñoz Marín is one of the most important political figures of the Americas in the Twentieth Century.
Previous to his tenure as the first home-rule governor, Muñoz Marín had a distinguished careers in journalism, as both a reporter and director of a newspaper, and political activism. After returning from the United States where he studied as a young man and adult, Muñoz Marín joined the Socialist Party and the Free Federation of Workers of Puerto Rico. Both groups were dedicated to fight against poverty and the inequality suffered by Puerto Ricans, causes that he fervently endorsed. He campaigned across Puerto Rico extensively and participated in workers strikes to better the conditions of workers. During the Great Depression Muñoz Marín and others popular figures effectively convinced President Roosevelt to extend the New Deal and other important efforts into Puerto Rico. All the meanwhile, Muñoz Marín and his associates were taking their political campaign to the next level and established the PPD, the Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático), which won twenty-nine out of seventy-six municipalities in the following election. In the 1948 general elections, Luis Muñoz Marín became the first Puerto Rican governor elected by the popular vote. His election as Governor stood up against hunger, injustice, ignorance, sickness and oppression. By the 1950s, after the implementation of Operations Commonwealth and Bootstrap, an “economic miracle” was taking place in Puerto Rico; the Island was now a modern urban-industrial society.
The main house is made mostly of concrete, with the exception of wood doors and windows. One of the most impressive features is an L-shaped balcony accessible from the sizeable living area. The main house and office contain all the furniture, art, books and household items from the time Luis Muñoz Marín and his wife lived on the property.
The library/personal office is another concrete building contributing to this historic property listing. The spaces in the library have all the period furniture, books and items of its owner on display just as he left them when he died. The library/personal office was built in 1965 along with an administrative office and archive building used mostly by Mr. Marín’s staff. Both buildings are significant because these were the spaces which Marín used to write his Memoirs and the other where important documents were first stored and organized.
Down a short pathway is the bohío, built in 1948, where the family gathered for activities and important meeting with dignitaries where held. The bohío was expanded by the family many times over the years and even replaced when it was damaged by a fallen tree in 1998. Though the original bohío does not stand, the historical significance of this space is not lost. Today’s version is a rectangular wooden shed supported by five columns wide, six columns in length and two center columns. All beams and rafters are wood, the floor concrete patterns, and the ceiling is built with Palm tree foliage covered in zinc shingles.
NPS Cultural Resources Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month