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The Hudson River Valley is home to more than its share of formidable ruins, but few match the spooky appeal of Rhinebeck's Wyndclyffe Mansion. Its beetle-browed exterior is blessed with that beguiling combination of gloom, ornamentation, and extreme old age that only the best haunted houses claim, and there's no better time to witness them than late October, when autumn breezes send yellow leaves eddying through the hills and hollows of the old estate. It seems that the only thing this "haunted house" is missing is a good ghost story…
Murder, mayhem, and the supernatural don't factor at all into the history of Wyndclyffe, but its past is compelling enough as it is. The manor was constructed in 1853 as the private country house of Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones, who was a prominent member of an exceptionally wealthy New York family. Though palatial Hudson Valley estates were already in vogue among New York City's ruling class, the magnificence of Wyndclyffe prompted neighboring aristocrats to throw even more money into their vacation homes so as not to be overshadowed by Elizabeth's Rhinebeck abode. The house and the fury of construction it inspired is said to be the origin of the phrase, "keeping up with the Joneses."
Elizabeth was the aunt of the great American author Edith Wharton, who is known for her keen, first-hand insight into the lives of America's most privileged, which she brought to bear in classics like Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and The Age of Innocence, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. (She's also known for her ghost stories.) In her early youth, Edith would spend summers in the house, which was known by her as "Rhinecliff." She portrayed it in less than laudatory terms in her late-career autobiography "A Backward Glance" (1934):
"The effect of terror produced by the house at Rhinecliff was no doubt due to what seemed to me its intolerable ugliness… I can still remember hating everything at Rhinecliff, which, as I saw, on rediscovering it some years later, was an expensive but dour specimen of Hudson River Gothic: and from the first I was obscurely conscious of a queer resemblance between the granitic exterior of Aunt Elizabeth and her grimly comfortable home, between her battlemented caps and the turrets of Rhinecliff."
Her words bring to mind this passage from Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" which describes the titular (fictional) structure:
"No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice. Almost any house…can catch up a beholder with a sense of fellowship; but a house arrogant and hating, never off guard, can only be evil."
The modern eye is likely to be much more merciful to the embattled Wyndclyffe, evil or no. Its beauty is readily apparent, and arguably enhanced, by the extent of decay it has suffered through 50 years of neglect. But how does a house as expensive, distinctive, and historically relevant as Wyndclyffe end up in such a state?
When Elizabeth passed away in 1876, Wyndclyffe was sold to a family who maintained the house into the 1920s, but the succession of owners that occupied the mansion through the Great Depression struggled to keep up with the costly repairs it required. In the 1970s, the house had already been abandoned for decades as the Hudson Valley's status as a playground for the wealthy declined. At this point, the property was purchased and subdivided, which pared down the grounds of the estate from 80 acres to a paltry two and half. This action more than any other spelled doom for Wyndcliffe—notwithstanding the astronomical expense required to renovate a partially collapsed 160 year old mansion, the lack of land surrounding the structure has made it an extremely difficult sell to potential buyers. While many nearby estates have been renovated into thriving historic sites after a period of neglect, Wyndclyffe has struggled even to remain standing.
A glimmer of hope appeared in 2003 when a new owner cleared most of the trees and overgrowth from the grounds, erected a fence, and announced plans to save the mansion. But as is often the case, good intentions fade in the face of financial realities. Eleven years have come and gone and the meager improvements are difficult to discern—thick saplings, tangled thorns, and shrubbery completely envelop the structure once again, and the progress of decay marches on.
Since Halloween is just around the corner, I'll leave you with another eerie passage from Jackson's "Haunting," which is said by Stephen King (who should know) to be the best opening paragraph of any modern horror story. It deftly captures the uncanny appeal of empty buildings, and the persistent, however illogical, impression that a house continues to think, feel, and ruminate over its past long after it's left behind by man.
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut: silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."
A deserted castle in the woods always has a few stories to tell. Maybe you've heard of the heart-shaped pools at Storybook that fill with blood on a full moon, or the Rapunzel-inspired succubus who hangs her hair to tempt gullible fishermen to their doom in the highest tower. Locals will tell you about the mad widow kept locked in a room with no doorknobs, who escaped on occasion to ride through town on horseback tossing gifts to children. (Supposedly, you can still find scratch marks where she clawed her way out.)
Most of these stories don't hold water, of course, but the truth is nearly as strange. For starters, no one has ever lived in the castle.
The facts are few but generally accepted. Construction began in 1907 by a prominent New Yorker and heir to the builder of a famous canal. He transformed a nondescript wooden lodge that already stood on the property into a fanciful fairy tale castle modeled after a Scottish design, cutting corners with local river rocks on the facade but indulging in fine imported marble for the interior. Some say the castle was built out of love for his ailing wife, who suffered from mental illness. Unfortunately, the owner died in 1921 just before the structure was completed. Instead of moving into the romantic hideaway, his grieving widow was checked into a sanatorium shortly thereafter. The couple's daughter and sole heir ran off to Europe with a new husband, leaving a caretaker to look after the unfinished castle.
In 1949, the property was purchased by the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of the Masonic Order, an African American group based in Manhattan. The original plan was to convert the castle to a masonic home for the elderly, but it was instead used for many years as a hunting and fishing resort. Later, the property became a summer camp for inner-city youth. As far as I can tell, the expansive grounds still serve this function today, though the castle itself has reportedly only been used to creep out campers over the years. There may be no more fertile ground for legends than a summer camp set in the vicinity of a derelict castle. Tales of glowing green eyes, apparitions in white, moving portraits, and self-slamming doors abound.
In 2005, the Prince Hall Masons and the Open Space Initiative announced an agreement to protect the castle and surrounding land, limiting future development and prohibiting residential subdivision. Unfortunately, nearly 10 years later, the castle is left completely vulnerable to vandals and exposed to the elements. Though the interior is remarkably well-preserved, several rooms are tagged up with uninspired graffiti. For this reason, I've chosen not to reveal the true name or location of the castle, be advised that the building is located on private property.
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At the easternmost tip of Staten Island, a natural promontory thrusts over the seething Narrows of the New York Harbor, formed by glaciers thousands of years ago. The site's geography most recently made it a prime location for the Verrazano Bridge, but its history as a popular scenic overlook and strategic defense post dates back to the birth of the nation. The British had occupied the area during the Revolutionary War, and its first permanent structures were built by the state of New York in the early 1800s. These fortifications safeguarded the New York Harbor during the War of 1812, but were abandoned shortly thereafter. So began the familiar cycle of ruin and rebirth that characterizes the history of Fort Wadsworth.
By the mid-19th century, these early structures had fallen into an attractive state of decay. In a time when all of Staten Island held a romantic appeal as an escape from the burgeoning industrialism of New York City, Fort Wadsworth in particular was known for its dramatic terrain, sweeping views of the harbor, and evocative old buildings. Herman Melville described the scene in 1839:
"…on the right hand side of the Narrows as you go out, the land is quite high; and on top of a fine cliff is a great castle or fort, all in ruins, and with trees growing round it… It was a beautiful place, as I remembered it, and very wonderful and romantic, too…On the side away from the water was a green grove of trees, very thick and shady and through this grove, in a sort of twilight you came to an arch in the wall of the fort…and all at once you came out into an open space in the middle of the castle. And there you would see cows grazing…and sheep clambering among the mossy ruins…Yes, the fort was a beautiful, quiet, and charming spot. I should like to build a little cottage in the middle of it, and live there all my life."
The "castle" was demolished to make way for new fortifications constructed as part of the Third System of American coastal defense, known as Battery Weed and Fort Thompkins today. The batteries remain the fort's most impressive and unifying structures, but they too were deemed obsolete as early as the 1870s due to advances in weaponry, and were used for little more than storage by the 1890s. At the turn of the 20th century, Fort Wadsworth entered yet another phase of military construction under the Endicott Board, when the United States made a nationwide effort to rethink and rebuild its antiquated coastal defenses. Like its predecessors, the Endicott batteries never saw combat, and were essentially abandoned after World War I.
Though Fort Wadsworth was occupied by the military in various capacities until 1995, its defense structures went unused for most of the 20th century. By the 1980s, woods and invasive vines had covered areas that were once open fields, and Battery Weed was living up to its name, overtaken by mature trees and overgrowth. Since Fort Wadsworth was incorporated into the Gateway National Recreation Area in 1995, its major Third System forts (Battery Weed and Fort Thompkins) have been well maintained and properly secured, and upland housing and support buildings have been occupied by the Coast Guard, Army Reserve, and Park Police. But the headlands still retain an air of abandonment, due in large part to the condition of the Endicott Batteries, which remain off-limits to the public.
Layers of history peel back like an onion at Fort Wadsworth, as evidenced by a new discovery just unearthed by Hurricane Sandy. The storm caused a section of a cliff to collapse, downing several large trees and exposing the entrance to a previously unknown battery. Its vaulted granite construction places it firmly in the Third System, which means it was built around the time of the Civil War. Very little is known about the structure, except that it's the only one of its kind at Fort Wadsworth. My best guess traces its partial construction to the 1870s, when Congress left many casemated fortifications unfinished by refusing to grant additional funding.
To my disappointment, the next room came to a dead end, and to my horror, it was crawling with hundreds of cave crickets. These blind half spider/half cricket monstrosities pass their time in the darkest, dampest, most inhospitable environments, and are known for devouring their own legs when they're hungry. They give perspective to the level of isolation of this chamber, which likely stood underground for over a century.
What other mysteries still lie buried in the lunging cliffs of Fort Wadsworth, or the depths of this forgotten battery? The dirt may well conceal deeper rooms and darker discoveries…
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Imagine a picture-perfect October afternoon—white steeples set against a crisp blue sky, apples to be picked, pumpkins to be carved, colonial headstones moldering beneath a gaudy display of fall foliage…
Only in New England is the essence of autumn so vividly arrayed, no more so than the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. The pastoral region was revered among literary luminaries of the 19th century—it's rumored that Melville first envisioned his white whale in the wintry outline of Mount Greylock—but it's also a wellspring of inspiration for local storytellers. The Berkshire hills are laced with legends and more than their fair share of ghost stories, so I got out of town to explore this mysterious region and hopefully encounter a few ghosts, just in time for Halloween.
My first stop was the Bellows Pipe Trail on Mount Greylock, known to be haunted by a ghost called the "Old Coot." This unfortunate soul went by the name of William Saunders in life and earned his living as a farmer before being called away to fight for the Union in 1861. His wife Belle assumed the worst when the letters stopped coming after receiving word that her husband had been injured in battle. But Bill Saunders had survived, only to return home and find Belle remarried. He retreated to a ramshackle cabin on Mount Greylock, where he lived out the rest of his days as a hermit, occasionally working on nearby farms. One day, a group of hunters entered his shack and came across his lifeless body. They were the first to describe a sighting of the Old Coot's spirit fleeing up the mountain, but he's haunted the trail ever since.
On the outskirts of Brattleboro, rumors about one eccentric local are still raising eyebrows more than fifty years after her death. Madame Sherri was a well-known costume designer in jazz-age New York City whose designs were featured in some of the most successful theatrical productions of the day. After her husband died of "general paralysis due to insanity," Madame Sherri retreated to an elaborate summer home in the Berkshires, where she was known to throw lavish and unsavory parties for her well-heeled guests, often gallivanting about town in nothing but a fur coat. Gradually, her fortune was depleted and the dwelling was abandoned in 1946. Late in life, she became a ward of the state and died penniless in a home for the aged. Her "castle" burned to the ground on October 18, 1962, but its dramatic granite staircase remains to this day. Sounds of revelry have been heard emanating from the ruins of the old estate, where the apparition of an extravagantly dressed woman has often been spotted ascending the staircase.
If Madame Sherri's Forest and the Old Coot's trail don't give you goosebumps, this next one might. To get there, you have to go down—way down—into the Hoosic River Valley to the bedrock of the Hoosac Mountains in North Adams, MA. Turn off on an unnamed dirt road, park at the train tracks, take a short hike, and you'll come face to face with one of the most haunted places in New England. How far would you be willing to venture into the "Bloody Pit?"
In 1819, a route was proposed to transfer goods from Boston to the west, and the Hoosac Range was quickly identified as the project's biggest obstacle. Construction began in 1855 on the 5-mile Hoosac Tunnel, but the dig was plagued with problems from the beginning. When steam-driven boring machines, hand drills, and gunpowder proved too slow, builders turned to new, untried methods, namely nitroglycerine, an extremely powerful and unstable explosive. The tunnel claimed close to 200 human lives over the course of its 20-year construction, earning the nickname "The Bloody Pit." The work was merciless, but precise—when the two ends met in the middle, the alignment was off by only one half inch.
On March 20, 1865, Ned Brinkman and Kelly Nash were buried alive when a foreman named Ringo Kelly accidentally set off a blast of dynamite. Fearing retaliation, Ringo disappeared, but one year later, he was found strangled at the site of the accident, two miles into the tunnel. No one witnessed the crime, but most men agreed—the ghosts of Ned and Kelly had slaked their revenge.
The most costly accident in the tunnel's history occurred the following year on October 17th, halfway through the digging of a 1,000-foot vertical aperture called the Central Shaft which was designed to relieve the buildup of exhaust in the tunnel. Thirteen men were working 538 feet deep when a naphtha lamp ignited the hoist building above them, sending flaming debris and sharpened drill bits raining down. The explosion destroyed the shaft's pumping system and the pit soon started filling up with water. When workers recovered the bodies several months later, they discovered that several of the men had survived long enough to construct a raft in a desperate attempt to escape the rising waters. The accident halted construction for the better part of a year.
When work resumed, laborers reported hearing a man's voice cry out in agony, and many walked off the job, claiming the tunnel was cursed. Through the 19th century, local newspapers reported headless blue apparitions, ghostly workmen that left no footprints in the snow, and disappearing hunters in and around the Bloody Pit. As recently as 1974, a man who set out to walk the length of the tunnel was never heard from again.
In spite of these tales, I found myself standing at the entrance to the West Portal, where a single bat sprung out of the darkness, setting the tone for what would prove to be a rather unsettling experience. The tunnel is undeniably creepy, lined with old crumbling bricks, half flooded with gray water, and coated with almost two centuries of soot and grime. It didn't help that I was visiting on October 17th, the anniversary of its grisliest accident…
Sure enough, the moment I stepped across the threshold, my camera started taking pictures by itself. (Granted, it's been having issues lately, but the timing and severity was uncanny.) The whole time I was in the tunnel, I was unable to gain control of the shutter, and had to resort to setting up a shot and waiting for the "unseen forces" to take each picture. It beats me why a ghost would choose to fiddle with my camera rather than, say, making the walls bleed, but the entire encounter left this skeptic scratching his head. Were these the spirits of the Hoosac Tunnel?
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Back at the campsite, with the fire extinguished, I settled in for a fitful sleep on the hard ground, unable to shake that uneasy feeling. That night, the falling leaves outside the tent sounded just like footsteps. When the wind blew, the whole forest sounded like a crowd of ghosts walking. It was exactly the kind of night I had hoped to pass in the Berkshire hills, a chance to experience the other side of the season, beyond the spiced cider and the pumpkin lattes, far older than the covered bridges that cross the languid Hoosic River, that ancient date that marks the beginning of the dark half of the year, when the boundary between the living and the dead is at its thinnest point.
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In Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, the oddball ruins of the "Tent of Tomorrow" are fading into yesterday. This land had been home to the Corona Ash Dumps—immortalized as the "valley of ashes" in the Great Gatsby—until master builder Robert Moses set out to transform the area by selecting it as the site of the 1939 New York World's Fair. While the overall design of the park was laid out for the '39 event, its most evident landmarks date back to the '64 exhibition. The Space Age design of the New York Pavilion was intended to inspire visitors with the promise of the future, but today it serves to firmly plant the structure in the context of the 1960s.
Concieved by New York businessmen and funded by private financing, the 1964-65 New York World's Fair was once again headed by Robert Moses, who saw the project as an opportunity to complete his vision for Flushing Meadows Park. In order to make the fair financially feasible, organizers charged rent to exhibitors and ran the attraction for two years, ignoring the regulations of the worldwide authority on world's fairs (the Bureau of International Expositions.) As a result, the BIE refused to sanction the fair and instructed its forty member nations not to participate, which included Canada, most European Nations, Australia, and the Soviet Union.
The fair was dedicated to "Man's Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe," but the majority of exhibitors were American companies. Some of the most popular destinations included General Motors' "Futurama" exhibit, Disney's original "It's A Small World" attraction, and a model panorama of New York City (which you can still visit at the Queens Museum of Art). Although over 51 million people attended the fair, the turnout was far less than expected. The project ended in financial failure, returning only 20 cents on the dollar to bond investors.
Most of the World's Fair pavilions were temporary constructions that were demolished within six months of closing, but a few were deemed worthy of becoming permanent fixtures of the park. Once the centerpiece of the fair, the 12-story high stainless steel Unisphere has gone on to become a widely recognized symbol of Queens. Designed by notable modernist architect Philip Johnson, the nearby observation towers and the "Tent of Tomorrow" remain striking examples of the Space Age architecture the fair embraced. Unfortunately, they've sat empty for decades, and are starting to show their age. In the Tent of Tomorrow, space that once hosted live concerts and exciting demonstrations are occupied by stray cats and unsettling numbers of raccoons.
The pavilion was reopened as the "Roller Round Skating Rink" in 1970, but roof tiles soon became unstable and the city ordered the attraction to close by 1974. Owing to their singular design, the structures have found their way into the background of many feature films, television shows, and music videos, including a memorable turn as a location and plot element for the original Men in Black. You can still make out the design of the pavilion's main floor—modeled after a New York state highway map—in this late '80s They Might Be Giants video.
The New York State Pavilion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, and a group of preservationists have helped clean up the exterior, restoring a bit of the original color scheme. As we near the 50th anniversary of the '64 World's Fair, here's hoping something can be done to put these unique structures back to use.
When the Sutro Baths first opened to the public in 1896, the west side of San Francisco was a vast region of all-but-unpopulated sand dunes. The sprawling natatorium was a pet project of Adolph Sutro, a wealthy entrepreneur and former mayor of San Francisco who became widely known as a populist over his illustrious career. Before constructing his magnificent bathhouse at Land's End, he opened the grounds of his personal estate to all San Franciscans. Later, when transportation costs proved too high for many to reach his baths, he built a new railroad with a lower fare.
The Sutro Baths were the world's largest indoor swimming establishment, with seven pools complete with high dives, slides, and trapezes, including one fresh water pond and 6 saltwater baths of varying temperatures with a combined capacity of 10,000 visitors. The water was sourced directly from the Pacific Ocean during high tide, and pumped during low tide at a rate of 6,000 gallons per minute. The monumental development also featured a 6,000-seat concert hall and a museum of curios from Sutro's international travels.
The Baths' popularity declined with the Great Depression and the facility was converted to an ice skating rink in an attempt to attract a new generation of visitors. Facing enormous maintenance costs, the Sutro Baths closed in the 1960s as plans were put in place for a residential development on the site. Soon after demolition began, a catastrophic fire broke out, bringing what remained of the glass-encased bathhouse to the ground. (There's some suspicion that the fire was related to a hefty insurance policy on the structure, though it's never been confirmed.)
The condo plans were scrapped and the concrete footprints of the Sutro Baths were left largely undisturbed. In 1973, the site was included in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and the ruins were opened to the public for exploration. This is not your typical park; as one sign warns, "people have been swept from the rocks and drowned."
The highlight of any trip to the Sutro Baths is the cliffside tunnel. Through a pair of apertures, visitors can watch waves collide on the rocks below as the unlit corridor fills with briny mist and the booming sounds of the sea. In this spot, you might catch yourself believing vague rumors of hauntings that hang like a fog around the ruins of the Sutro Baths, or as some would have it, strange sightings of Lovecraftian demigods that lurk in its network of subterranean passages…
-Will Ellis
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If you're like me, city living can wear you down—sooner or later, you're itching for the woods again. The sleepy college town of New Paltz offers a cheap motel and a short proximity to Mohonk Preserve, 5,000 acres of hiking trails, swimming holes, and rock scrambles nestled deep in the ancient Palisades. The world-worn hills of the Shawangunk Ridge evoke a pleasing sense of permanence to the weary New Yorker, it's a lifetime away from the teeming avenues of Manhattan. Time seems to stand still around here, but out in these tall timbers, the ruins of a 19th century ghost town hint at a lost way of life.
The area is known for its landmark luxury resort, the Mohonk Mountain House, which has been run by the same family since it opened in 1869. True to its Quaker roots, the hotel originally banned liquor, dancing, and card playing; until 2006, it couldn't claim a bar, and you still won't find a TV or radio in any of the $700 a night lodgings. It may sound old-fashioned, but it's part of a tradition in these parts—since they were first settled in the late 1700s, things have always been behind the times.
Before the age of mountain tourism, a small subsistence community lived off this land, growing what little food the thin, rocky soil could support, raising a handful of livestock, drinking from the Coxing and Peter's Kills. They scraped a living carving millstone out of native rock, shaving barrel hoops, and harvesting tree bark for leather tanning. In the summer, women and children joined in harvesting huckleberries, a seasonal cash crop in wild abundance at the time.
With a peak population of forty or fifty families, the settlement included a hotel, a store, a chapel, and a one room schoolhouse. Despite this progress, the population held to its old ways. So hopelessly and wonderfully at odds with the changing values of the outside world, this oldfangled hamlet didn't stand a chance.
Starting in the late 1800s, advances in technology gradually replaced the small trades of the Trapps. Unable to sell their traditional wares, settlers found work in neighboring resorts, including the Mohonk Mountain House, building hotels and maintaining trails and carriage roads. In the late 20s, the construction of Route 44 created a short term boom in the town's employment, but eventually led to its decline.
Many sold their property to resort owners and headed to nearby villages to find a better way of life, but one man called Eli Van Leuven stayed behind, living in a tiny plank house without running water or electricity until his death in 1956.
The Van Leuven Cabin has been lovingly restored, an unassuming monument to a largely forgotten community. Aside from this, the humble industries of the two score families that resided here have left little to mark them but shallow depressions in the ground, rubble stacked in odd arrangements, and leaf-littered tombstones. Only a settlement so bound to the earth could disappear so completely.
On the drive home, the first sighting of the Manhattan skyline elicits a kind of dull horror, signaling the inevitable return to a concrete-bound existence. As I'm plunged back into the 21st century, the scene is at once overstimulating and shockingly mundane. In that moment, I'd take an axe and a cool morning in a mountain hamlet over any day in the ad-plastered streets of midtown, but the daydreams invariably dissolve. Out of habit, obligation, or common sense, I'll forget the plank house for the brownstone, the Coxing Kill for the coffee shop, as the stony ruins of a mountain town blanket themselves in moss.
-Will Ellis
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MARTINSBURG — Mary Kathryn Bellaver, 78, of Martinsburg, passed away Monday afternoon, Jan. 17, 2011, at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus surrounded by loved ones.
She was born March 6, 1932, in Mount Vernon, a daughter of the late William and Goldie (Adkinson) Bumpus. Mary attended the Owl Creek Baptist Church. She was an officer in the Pythian Sisters of Gambier and for many years she volunteered with the American Red Cross in Mount Vernon.
Mary is survived by her son, Buddy D. (Debbie) Fickes of Butler; daughters, Colleen K. Morris of Howard and Susan L. Yates of Bellville; 10 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and a brother, William Bumpus of Florida.
In addition to her parents, Mary was preceded in death by her husband, Albert Bellaver; infant sons, Leonard and Michael Fickes; and brothers, Jack and Darrell Bumpus.
The family will receive friends Thursday, Jan. 20, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Dowds-Snyder Funeral Home, 201 Newark Road, Mount Vernon, where funeral services will be held Friday, Jan. 21, at 11 a.m. with Pastor Patrick Bailey officiating. Burial will follow in Mount Vernon Memorial Gardens.
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Can you dissect a square into: 4, 7, 10, 13... other squares? 6, 9,
12, 15... other squares? 8, 11, 14... other squares?
I found these clocks in the Arts Centre at the University of
Warwick intriguing - do they really need four clocks and what times
would be ambiguous with only two or three of them?
A cube is made from smaller cubes, 5 by 5 by 5, then some of those
cubes are removed. Can you make the specified shapes, and what is
the most and least number of cubes required ?
A and C are the opposite vertices of a square ABCD, and have
coordinates (a,b) and (c,d), respectively. What are the coordinates
of the vertices B and D? What is the area of the square?
Place the numbers 1, 2, 3,..., 9 one on each square of a 3 by 3
grid so that all the rows and columns add up to a prime number. How
many different solutions can you find?
A square of area 3 square units cannot be drawn on a 2D grid so that each of its vertices have integer coordinates, but can it be drawn on a 3D grid? Investigate squares that can be drawn.
A visualisation problem in which you search for vectors which sum
to zero from a jumble of arrows. Will your eyes be quicker than
A bicycle passes along a path and leaves some tracks. Is it
possible to say which track was made by the front wheel and which
by the back wheel?
A half-cube is cut into two pieces by a plane through the long diagonal and at right angles to it. Can you draw a net of these pieces? Are they identical?
The whole set of tiles is used to make a square. This has a green and blue border. There are no green or blue tiles anywhere in the square except on this border. How many tiles are there in the set?
Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom.
Here is a solitaire type environment for you to experiment with. Which targets can you reach?
This is an interactive net of a Rubik's cube. Twists of the 3D cube become mixes of the squares on the 2D net. Have a play and see how many scrambles you can undo!
It is known that the area of the largest equilateral triangular
section of a cube is 140sq cm. What is the side length of the cube?
The distances between the centres of two adjacent faces of. . . .
Glarsynost lives on a planet whose shape is that of a perfect
regular dodecahedron. Can you describe the shortest journey she can
make to ensure that she will see every part of the planet?
Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an
opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and
An irregular tetrahedron has two opposite sides the same length a
and the line joining their midpoints is perpendicular to these two
edges and is of length b. What is the volume of the tetrahedron?
The triangle ABC is equilateral. The arc AB has centre C, the arc
BC has centre A and the arc CA has centre B. Explain how and why
this shape can roll along between two parallel tracks.
Triangles are formed by joining the vertices of a skeletal cube. How many different types of triangle are there? How many triangles altogether?
Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct.
When dice land edge-up, we usually roll again. But what if we
What is the shape of wrapping paper that you would need to completely wrap this model?
Is it possible to remove ten unit cubes from a 3 by 3 by 3 cube made from 27 unit cubes so that the surface area of the remaining solid is the same as the surface area of the original 3 by 3 by 3. . . .
Draw a square. A second square of the same size slides around the
first always maintaining contact and keeping the same orientation.
How far does the dot travel?
What would be the smallest number of moves needed to move a Knight
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99 square board?
A train leaves on time. After it has gone 8 miles (at 33mph) the driver looks at his watch and sees that the hour hand is exactly over the minute hand. When did the train leave the station?
This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and
reasoning to agree a final product.
A cylindrical helix is just a spiral on a cylinder, like an ordinary spring or the thread on a bolt. If I turn a left-handed helix over (top to bottom) does it become a right handed helix?
What can you see? What do you notice? What questions can you ask?
Two angles ABC and PQR are floating in a box so that AB//PQ and BC//QR. Prove that the two angles are equal.
Three frogs hopped onto the table. A red frog on the left a green in the middle and a blue frog on the right. Then frogs started jumping randomly over any adjacent frog. Is it possible for them to. . . .
Lyndon Baker describes how the Mobius strip and Euler's law can
introduce pupils to the idea of topology.
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is
covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom
right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .
Mike and Monisha meet at the race track, which is 400m round. Just to make a point, Mike runs anticlockwise whilst Monisha runs clockwise. Where will they meet on their way around and will they ever. . . .
Charlie and Alison have been drawing patterns on coordinate grids. Can you picture where the patterns lead?
Choose a couple of the sequences. Try to picture how to make the next, and the next, and the next... Can you describe your reasoning?
Imagine a large cube made from small red cubes being dropped into a
pot of yellow paint. How many of the small cubes will have yellow
paint on their faces?
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right
hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of
Square numbers can be represented as the sum of consecutive odd
numbers. What is the sum of 1 + 3 + ..... + 149 + 151 + 153?
An irregular tetrahedron is composed of four different triangles.
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Do they do the dryers in different sizes? Otherwise you'd have someone trying to stretch an A-cup on the DD dryer, or putting the DD onto something more suited to an A and having it sag. (We don't want sagging DDs, do we?)
Also, what range of sizes, do they cater for the really well-endowed, given that this group are more likely to need costly support and want to take good care of it. Inquiring hands^Wminds want to know.
Bulgarian airbag compliance?
Truly this is a technological zenith, but will it cater for the Jordans of this world?
what happened to a clothes peg
And the airing cupboard or the drying line? Didn't that suffice?
"sagging DDs"
Is there any other kind?
Does the same logic about contoured drying apply to socks, tights, gloves, thongs and Y-fronts? The utility room is going to look like a scene from star wars
If the theory behind this device
applies to tights, socks, gloves. shirts, Train managers' blouses, thongs,and my y-fronts. the laundry room is going to look like an out-take from Star Wars
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Mines the one with an Ann Summers catalogue in the pocket!
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Welcome our new bra drying Overlords
I for one...
... Welcome out new bra drying overlords.
Is there a model for underpants?
IT angle
what the hell, no IT angle? It was probably designed by a guy who was a former network engineer, maybe even a desktop tech... Secondly, screw the IT angle, Paris has boobage (albeit some what lacking), this very appliance could be in her humble abode, so that satisifies the Paris angle... And it was borderline interesting enough to make it to the pages of the reg, which you're probably viewing from the comfort of your cell phone, pc or other i-enabled device... It's got IT slapped, cupped and fondled all over it!
@Andy Shulman
"Additionally, there is no IT angle to this story."
Uh ... it's a bit of tech, is it not?
Me, I just hang the wife's bras on a hanger over a door frame when she's too tired to finish taking care of her own laundry ... seems to work quite nicely. She's never complained, anyway.
::shrugs:: Whatever. Insert "naughty knickers" joke here, or thereabouts.
And watch me yawn ... C'mon people, grow up a little, would you?
I bet the guy testing it...
...felt a right tit.
Thank you very much, I'm here all week, try the fish.
My head...
I iron them on my head, luckily my head is round...
If I ever spend that much on a bra, I'll get myself checked in tot he nearest mental unit.
As for drying them, I find that hanging them on the bedroom radiator works well enough.
@ Dr Patrick J R Harkin
You forgot your coat. Let me fetch it for you.
Useless for many women..
If you read the website it tells you that there are different inserts for different bra sizes. Still, it's bloody useless. Maximum cup size of DD.
What's the point at which the average bra becomes expensive and difficult to find in the UK? DD and up..
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Officials with Oklahoma Forestry Services recently unveiled a new program designed to help Oklahomans better protect their homes and communities from future wildfires.
At the gathering, state officials including Gov. Mary Fallin, Secretary of Agriculture Jim Reese and State Forester George Geissler, unveiled the Southern Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal, or SouthWRAP. The web portal allows individuals, civic planners, fire departments, emergency managers, and elected officials to zero in on their wildfire risk and access resources to help them better prepare for wildfires and mitigate hazards.
"Not only are the men and women of Oklahoma Forestry Services on the front lines fighting wildfires, they have also been working behind the scenes on ways to help the people of Oklahoma better prepare and protect themselves from the devastation of wildfires," Reese said. "We know you can't always predict, much less control wildfires, but SouthWRAP offers an opportunity for communities to better understand what they can do to prepare."
SouthWRAP is primarily geared toward officials who are creating a long-range regional plan, such as a Community Wildfire Protection Plan. The "professional viewer" application allows a user to outline a project boundary on a map and generate a customized report that summarizes wildfire risk information for that area.
For example, the report shows where and how many people are living in an area, as well as zones within that area that might be prone to high wildfire risk due to landscape characteristics, historical fire occurrence, weather, terrain and potential fire behavior. Armed with this information, users can create prevention strategies, define mitigation options, allocate resources and prioritize programs to better protect their communities.
"It gives you the ability to mine the latest available data and makes it easy to use," said Mark Goeller, assistant director and fire management chief of OFS. "In the past, you had to have GIS skills to be able to use this kind of data, and you had to rely on a third party to interpret it. SouthWRAP not only identifies a community's at-risk areas, it provides potential mitigation solutions."
Training will be offered to professional users to ensure they can make optimal use of SouthWRAP, and OFS personnel will work with communities that determine a need for a protection plan. Geissler noted that homeowners, too, can identify threats and access prevention and mitigation resources using the "public viewer" version of the application.
"Basically, everyone living in the wildland urban interface can be doing something to better protect their home and family," Geissler said. "You can use the 'what's your risk' tool to get an idea of what the fire intensity potential is around your home and what you can do to help protect yourself."
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A disabled tractor trailer caused a seven mile backup on Interstate 39/90 in Rock County Friday afternoon, according to the Wisconsin State Patrol.
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Stepping back and viewing both Chris Hero and Barrett's careers overall instead of through a microscope in small sample sizes, Chris Hero has been a MUCH MUCH better performer than Barrett in almost all aspects of wrestling. I hate this "what have you done for me lately" stance that many people on here take towards journeymen wrestlers. The fact that Barrett is using a poorly done version of Ohno's finisher and gimmick is ridiculous and insulting on many levels. Barrett's one great trait is his word delivery. He has very little charisma, other than those few backstage segments, decent presence that doesn't seem to translate with a large audience, average ring skills, and a mediocre look. Having said all that I enjoy Barrett, but by stealing aspects from a superior talent like Hero, I'm having a hard time enjoying him as much lately.
Hopefully Chris Hero soon drops this wildman look and adopts his ROH knock out kid look, complete with the rap music entrance, and flashy attire. That gimmick fits his personality much better than his work in NXT. I would like to see creative, catch-phrase laden, promos again that echo back to a young mohammad ali, because THAT is a gimmick that will make him a star in the wwe.
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Congratulations to THL Conchobar MacEoin and THL Eilidh Keldeleth!
The investiture was a lovely ceremony during Saturday evening court at Crown. Baron Conchobar and Baroness Eilidh were accompanied into court by all the members of the Barony at Crown; all carrying baronial flags and their own arms. Baron Conchobar and Baroness Eilidh's first Baronial event is Harvest Feast. Please come and help them celebrate!
The heirs to the Coronets: THL Conchobar MacEoin and THL Eilidh Keldeleth, and their wonderful son Roman
The outgoing Baron, Master Arontius of Bygelswade, was awarded a Court Barony. Now he will be Excellency for life! The outgoing Baroness, Marquessa Laurellen, was awarded an augmentation of arms. And both of course, are given the love and gratitude of the faithful populace of Dragon's Laire for their caring and service as Our Baron and Baroness
Their Former Excellencies of Dragon's Laire, Master Arontius and Marquessa Laurellen, processing in to Court at Baroness' War, 2014.
Copyright James and Carole Simmons, 2014, used with permission
Before every Crown event, and many of the local events, it is important to remember to submit your recommendations for awards for your compatriots in the Barony. Testimonials from people who witness a good gentle doing a good deed are always important, save them up and submit them in an award recommendation to the Crown! You can do this easily online.
The Baron and Baroness request that if you do recommend someone for award that you drop them a note so that they can add their input as well.
If you see someone who works hard, creates beautiful artwork, provides leadership and inspiration, but you do not know what to recommend for an award, let the Baron and Baroness know. Tell them your anecdotes and observations, they'll help sort it out and get that recommendation submitted. This is true for both Baronial and Kingdom level awards.
We hold a weekly Baronial Fighter Practice, Social and get together every Tuesday night at the VFW Hall on Central Valley in Bremerton, WA from 6pm-8pm. All are welcome! See the Map for the location.
Sometimes we have additional fight practices at other locations. See the marshallate pages for more information.
For those interested in the Arts & Science (A&S) side of the SCA classes are held at the Baronial Social (generally each Tuesday of the Month) at the VFW Hall on Central Valley in Bremerton, WA -  from 6pm-8pm. Please consult the Events Calendar for more information.
Our practices and classes at practice are open to anyone interested and do not require medieval dress. Our events are also open to anyone but do require medieval dress. Loaner clothing can be arranged for our local events through Gold Key for those who do not have any yet, but it is best to ask in advance because our supply is limited.
The Barony of Dragon's Laire is composed of Kitsap County and Northern Mason County in Washington State, USA. It is well known in the community for our annual June Faire which open to the public. June Faire was once called Medieval Faire, the public may know it by that name still. Our members come from a wide variety of backgrounds, interests and ages. We share an interest in the history and culture of the Middle Ages and pursue that interest through the study of combat techniques, arts and crafts, social structures and dress of the period. This study starts in the library and moves quickly to the forge, needle and tourney field for a real hands-on approach. This website provides a glimpse into our world and resources for our members.
The Barony of Dragon's Laire is a branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). Inc. It is part of the Kingdom of An Tir (Northwest U.S. and parts of Western Canada.) The SCA is a not-for-profit educational organization that studies the history and culture of the Middle Ages by recreating it. The SCA has branches all over the USA and Canada, as well as many parts of Europe, Australia, and Asia. To locate a branch near you check the SCA Web site.
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We want to hear about YOUR travels in the SCA. If you've gone to another barony, shire or Kingdom to attend an event, or class or workshop, let us know about it! We want to hear of your adventures!
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The shire of Dragon's Laire was recognized in 1982 (the first in the newly formed Kingdom of An Tir!), and the Barony of Dragon's Laire was officially recognized at 12th Night in 1995.
Did you know?
Our former rapier champion, Lord Ambrose, became the Kingdom Rapier Champion at 12th Night! Huzzah and Bravo Lord Ambrose! For the second year in a row, Dragon's Laire guards the Kingdom as the Rapier Champion of An Tir!
Did you know?
The Barony hosts another Kingdom Champion in 2014, Dame Madrun is Kingdom Arts and Sciences Champion! Does Dame Madrun rock? Yes she does! Does Dragon's Laire rock? Why yes, it does!
The Barony hosts yet another Kingdom Champion. At July Coronation, 2014, Magister Arion the Wanderer became Kingdom Protector! Congrats to Magister Arion!
We have two fine warbands. Check out the warbands page, and the pages for the Myrmidons and Legio I Draconis for more. They will be fighting for our Barony at Baroness' War in Vulcanfeldt in April. Come out and support them!
Dragon's Laire was featured, last July, in our local paper. Here's is a link to the story!
Pictures from June Faire 2014! THL Marcus sends this link to his pictures of June Faire.
We have many talented photographers in the Barony. One of them is Dame Gwen the Potter. She has a gallery of all the pictures she's taken on her website. Check it out!
Other talented Baronial photographers included Marcus Tullius Calvus, Talentus, and THL Theodoric. Their pictures, and links to their various galleries, are scattered throughout these webpages.
Bravo to all the talented photographers of the Barony! Thank you SO MUCH for what you do!
Master Ralg took video of the elevation of our Baroness, Mrq. Laurellen, to the order of the Pelican. Here's a link to the video.
Master Ralg took another video of Master Cedric's knighting. Here's a link to that video.
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Looking for some recommendations, We are going to Chicago for the first time, we are looking for affordable restaurants with great atmosphere close by where we are staying Hotel Sax. There for 4 nights
We already have lined up for sure the following
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Lou Malnati's (for lunch)
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Heaven on Seven (for dinner) (would you recommend this? Is it worth it?)
Looking for some more dinner spots affordable but great atmosphere, small plates, steak house (that potatoes and veggies come with your meal) & great pub/gastro pub with good food.
I like Heaven on Seven but it's just not going to give you a sense of Chicago. There are a number of restaurants that pop up in discussions of "first time in Chicago" posts, all of which are going to be a better experience, such as Purple Pig, GT Fish & Oyster, Bar Toma and Sable. They are all within brief casual walking distance from your hotel.
I would agree- I would skip Heaven on Seven and Quartino. Quartino is fine and a fun place, but not that remarkable. Would swap in GT Fish and Oyster, Frontera Grill, Purple Pig, Sunda etc. If you want Italian small plates, RPM has some good food and is a fun spot as is Sienna Tavern. Make reservations in advance as the popular spots get full. For a steak house, most that I can think of, which there are countless in the area, have the sides a la carte. Or you could go to a regular restaurant and have steak as your entree where it comes with sides.
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Mitey Nice Grill for lunch. It's in Water Tower Place.
I agree with what has been said before. Bar Toma, GT Fish & Oyster, and Sable are all better options. I can't think of a steakhouse that isn't a la carte in the area.
I skipped the pub/steak house part, but The Gage is a good gastropub choice. It's about a mile or so from your hotel but it's adjacent to Millenium Park so I'd imagine you'd hit it somewhere in your travels. As for the steak, while it's nowhere near "steak house", Miller's Pub (very, very old school, also near the Gage/Millenium) has a steak/potato/salad menu, although yo'll probably be better off with their burger.
Wildfire is a very nice steakhouse, really supper club, that includes sides with steaks. Also, I eat there many times and don't even get steak. Their fishes are really nice and sometimes it's just mussels, the widlfire chopped salad and a BBQ rubbed sweet baked potato. It's a Chicago mini-chain but our go-to neighborhood place for non bust-out steak. True you can't get a 45 day dry aged ribeye, but all of their steaks are very good and you won't be disappointed.


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NW is in town for business so he and I are enjoying some wine whilst we catch up. We decided to open this nice Italian red that I found on the half price rack at a local wine shop. The original price was marked at a (bloated) 67 bucks and I think I paid about 30 for it.
Nose: Just after opening currents and tobacco were evident. Now sweet cherry is emerging.
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Finish: Cherry and nutmeg hints on the back of the palate taper off in a long finish the ends with some woody and stemmy tones.
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