DOWN EAST CHATTEH PART 2
THIS CONTINUES SHARING MY favorite New England expressions and phrases, as compiled by Charles Fry Haywood in his Yankee Dictionary. Parson’s Nose. Haywood is both succinct and technical on this … Continue reading
DOWN EAST CHATTEH PART 1
WHEN I RECENTLY UNEARTHED Charles Fry Haywood’s Yankee Dictionary, I naturally turned to René, Maine pal/family member to learn which of these New England expressions were familiar to her. Published … Continue reading
A MAN, HIS THINGS MECHANICAL—AND HIS SISTER VERA
GEORGE EDWARD MILLIGEN was born in 1910; he died in 2004, shortly after which his collection of things mechanical was auctioned by Bonhams at the Goodwood Revival Sale 2004. Here … Continue reading
SHELDON LEONARD: “HI’YA, BUD. C’MERE….”
I WAS WATCHING BOGART and Bacall in To Have and Have Not; not for the first time, I note. This time around, though, I recognized another cast name. His face … Continue reading
AIRWAYS OF AMERICA—1933 PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE FOLLOWED a 1933 airways route from New York to San Francisco, based on A.K. Loebeck’s book Airways of America Guidebook No. 1 United Air Lines. Here in Part … Continue reading
AIRWAYS OF AMERICA—1933 PART 1
“THE SENSATION OF FLYING is not what most people imagine…. There is perfect calmness, possibly a feeling of exhilaration, never one of fear.” This, from cartographer and artist Armin K. … Continue reading
NORTH KOREA TRIPPIN’
ARMCHAIR TRAVEL CAN be enlightening and entertaining. To wit, Michael Palin’s North Korea Journal. British polymath Palin is a member of the Monty Python comedy group and is also a … Continue reading
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH—COMEDIC BARISTA
GLORIOUS BACH. OF COURSE. Majestic Bach. Sure. But comedic Bach?? And a purveyor of coffee?? Yes, as confirmed by his Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211, aka Kaffeekantate. Wikipedia describes … Continue reading
PALM SPRINGS MODERNISM WEEK 2022
I SUSPECT MY mathematician’s appreciation of rectilinearity attracts me to Midcentury Modern. SimanaitisSays has already celebrated this architectural genre in “California Cool” and “Postwar Architecture: Specialists’ Views. Now from February … Continue reading
JOHN W. BURGESS—MUSEUM CURATOR/ARTIST/DIRT TRACK RACER
JOHN BURGESS KNEW AUTOMOBILES extremely well and also admired the American West. I have proof positive of this through his artwork and through knowing him as director/curator of Briggs Cunningham’s … Continue reading
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