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The Fed Wants to Unleash a BIG QE 2 Program… But CAN It?
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- Oct 26, 2010 8:41 AM
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So much has been baked into the cake already rhetorically. Talk only works so much by manipulating expectations.
But now they're backed into a corner to do something, but too little or too much will roil markets. The entire economic team is in shambles and it's just Uncle Ben against the world. Timmy doesn't count.
Where's Stiglitz? Did the official socialist economist abdicate or what? Is that why Krugman is carrying the flag?
To QE2 or not to QE2,that's the question for me and you.
But not for the boys on top,they already know and placed
their bets accordenly.
If the Fed does a large QE2, it will become a fire hazard. People will be ready to burn it down. That's not how a confidence man runs a ponzi scheme. To run a major league ponzi, you get out and talk big shit about QE2, you get the market to really eat it up and move ahead of the event. Meanwhile you and your buddies position short, unloading inventory like a trash truck at the dump.
When we get to the event, things are better, or offset with reverse repos, market tanks banks makes money. Rinse repeat.
However, if the Fed DOESN'T announce ANY QE 2, then we are likely heading into a Crash for stocks.
When was supporting price levels in the stock market added to the FED mandate?
The establishment wants to reflate asset values like holding the door open for your buddies. Once they get through, deflation will snap back and the rich have had their wealth reestablished with the FED's help.
Can you imagine having a billion dollars of cash, gold and liquid assets in a DEFLATION? The rich have been spared the disaster with the on-the-taxpayer reflation of their ill-gotten assets.
We all have to remember that when we are long dead, the rich MUST carry on their legacy and the BANKING system must be the vehicle to retain and store this wealth. The wealthy have been buying gold bullion, hoarding cash(as usual) and in general frontrunning all decisions by the FED. They will survive. We may not be so lucky
There's another reason why the Fed may not print any more money via QE2 - the power elites want mild deflation rather than inflation.
CHS points out that, in an evironment of low/negative GDP growth and returns on assets, inflation will hurt the people with the most cash who cannot offset the loss in purchasing power with returns on investments, as they have been able to do for decades. Therefore, a manageable deflation will help financial elites increase their purchasing power and get higher real interest rates on debt owed to them.
Of course, I think our deflation will be anything but mild like Japan's was... so the power elites may be in for a rude awakening.
DOW weekly chart shows the rising wedge contained within the megaphone pattern. This remains a very bearish picture and we should
get a breakout soon.
Why Americans want to do business with gooks that oppress and poison their own people for a buck is beyond me. Wait, no it isn't -- America loves oppression, poisoning it's youth and putting them in harms way for a buck, too!
Yea really, whats the big difference between China and US right now? Not a hell of a lot.
China is oppressive to one billion people on Earth and the US to six billions minus 300 millions people?
Still a long way to go for China to match the US excellence.
The Fed has to deal with 3 issues IMHO:
1. Jobs
The employment picture is bleak and not improving. The politicians are telling Bennie to fix it or we start auditing the Fed. They both need a bogeyman, China gets the nod, and perhaps deservedly so. Since China pegs to the dollar, and seems unwilling to open their markets, the response to their mercantilist ways is to print and devalue dollars.
2. Asset Prices
Major deflation in asset prices such as housing and stocks would be catastrophic for the US economy. So many state & local government entities are dependent on property taxes to sustain their budgets. It their property tax revenue streams decline significantly, they can no longer service the debt, hence the muni bond market collapses.
Pension funds are deeply invested in the stock market. The same story, if stocks tank, these pension funds are (more) underwater and Americans cannot retire. Since the political climate today is to backstop these committments, Bennie sees inflating the price of financial assets as pennies on the dollar.
3. Interest Rates
Even small amounts of increase in interest rates would be a disaster for the US. The financial guys (PIMCO) can not have their portfolios crash if rates rise. An increase in rates would be bad news for large debtors like the Federal government. Housing prices would decline if rates go up. Rates CANNOT go up.
All this points to a nimble Fed ready to intervene wherever required to keep these economic parameters within limits. They will do whatever to make sure they have the tools required. Does this mean $1.5T in QEII? maybe, but maybe not. There is little political will for a"big-bang" type approach, the Stimuli and TARP have been political disasters, so it is unlikely we will see such an announcement.
What is does mean is a stagnant US economy, increasing world wide trade tensions and eventually protectionism and higher input prices for oil and commodities. The efforts vs China will maintain the status quo, things will not get better, they just will not get any worse.
So the result of all this is the middle class is destroyed because as many have previously said, wages are stagnant, jobs are scarce and prices are higher. The cost for things we want go down (electronics), prices for things we need go up (food, oil) and our wealth is eroded by this inflation.
The big unknown is the "black swan" effect. What happens if a geo-political event changes everything?
China not opening their markets make me laugh everytime I read it.
This part of the world (not limited to China) is quite reluctant to open one sector of their market: the banking sector.
It is funny.
China not opening their markets make me laugh everytime I read it.
You have posted previously to this effect. My position is not whether either country is more or less protectionist. The issue has now moved into the political and the US electorate will vote for those representatives who will work to address the huge economic imbalance between the US and China. The people will not stand by anymore and watch their jobs and economy shipped to China.
Hundreds of billions in balance of payment deficits and U6 at 17%+ are not compatible. The risk how it gets fixed and the pain as a result.
1. Printing money does not create jobs. Only production does that.
2. You cannot have asset prices rise disproportionately to rises in productive output i.e. you can't fake price rises over the longer term. The market will go to where the market wants to go. Blowing up asset prices will not lead to higher demand for goods and services. There is no future consumption to be brought forward!! Personal balance sheets need to be repaired, not further indebted.
3. I think that's utter rubbish (no offense). No one is borrowing at low rates now (but savers have been raped by fed policy). If market rates were to rise (and they surely will anyway if you keep printing money) then that is the clearing price for money. The US is Japan. Printing money really did nothing. It's all left to fiscal policy now.
I think they'll be looking to do the MINIMUM they can get away with without crashing the markets. The market shoe-horned them into QE (not surprising really... bank revenues are low and the banksters have to get themselves paid somehow) and they have totally lost control of the amount and timing.
The reserve ccy being devalued does NOT help the US. It helps everyone else (thank you Mr Bernanke) but not america. Unlike any other country, whose trade deficit contracts when you devalue, in the US it actually deteriorates such is your desire for oil imports. Since trashing the USD merely pushes up the price of oil etc then all you see is a deteriorating trade balance for america. Printing money is only effective in the limit, where it means you default. The chinese will not sit back and watch you destroy their holdings.
No one is borrowing at low rates now
Agreed. The issue is not borrowing, the issue is debt service and the value of those assets on the Fed books. Increasing rates means higher percent of the Federal budget going towards debt service, that is bad. Also, increasing rates implies that bonds holders lose. With rates increasing, the losers are the Fed and Federal Government. They have decided to download the pain to the middle class by creating a negative interest rate scenario. The Fed wants inflation and low interest rates and will manipulate the markets to achieve this.
Since trashing the USD merely pushes up the price of oil etc then all you see is a deteriorating trade balance for america. Printing money is only effective in the limit, where it means you default. The chinese will not sit back and watch you destroy their holdings.
Also agree, this is the risk that they face. Input prices will by definition rise, especially oil. At what point does $100+ oil affect the economy? Do they have a political deal in place with the Saudis to keep oil around $80?
The Chinese hand will be forced, whether right or wrong, they cannot continue to take every good paying job in the world. So they decide, lose a big part their treasury investments or allow for balancing. The balance of trade China enjoys is not politically feasible with 17% U6.
well... to be fair... americans enjoyed greater lifestyle in the last 20 years at the expense of the chinese... that's about to reverse.
... to be fair... americans enjoyed greater lifestyle in the last 20 years at the expense of the chinese
I do not disagree. Most Americans are fair, but they perceive the trade relationship with China to be unfair, hence politicians will take advantage of this fear.
The true answer is for America to become more competitive: tort reform, taxes, regulation, fair wages and stronger moral foundation on the part of the people. These are painful adjustments against powerfully entrenched special interests (bar association, big business, unions, bureaucrats, etc). It is easier just to blame someone else.
We Americans will try everything else before doing the right thing - just as Churchill said.
That is right. That QE2 announced by so many as certain, is endangered of being nothing more than a urban legend past November, 3th.
Pomo is operating to save the political establishment. After the 2nd, the Fed may disappoint. It will be the last opportunity to get gold as the hyperinflation bugs dump positions and the dollar rises or at least bottoms out.
The US is a currency manipulator on par with China- why anyone listens to that turd polisher Geithner is beyond me
RIGHT! Since Sept 1 when the DOW was barely clinging to 10,000, this has been all about market rally decoration for this election nonsense which hasnt had the desired effect of an Obama/Demonrat love-fest at all, really looks like the opposite.
+100 Dog. The desired effect has not occurred because of websites like this one. The truth is out there and the sheeple are wising up. They want a piece of the action too....
Maybe the FED will announce the purchase of $1000 billion in treasuries from foreign central banks - makes other countries happy because they are getting bought (at "pre-money" valuations) and gives the FED the ability to push all kinds of liquidity out the door.
The Fed can't give the markets everything they want. If the markets are too high, it makes it difficult to justify more stimulus. Bit of catch-22.
Funny, now I see everyone talking about $1 trillion dollars? Since when? All the hype for 2 months has been some massive number closer to $5 trillion. Just yesterday GS said $4 trillion, and last month the IMF said Q/E needed to be $7 trillion.
Sell the news HARD when Bernanke says 'We're keeping rates at 0 to infinity and standing by to do 'something'. Its all BS people.
'The markets have already priced in a massive Q/E delivery'
Yes, so we're ALREADY looking at a huge 'sell the news' event even if as you say the Q/E is delivered. (BTW, whats this about $1 trillion? Wasnt the top of the hype numbers $7 trillion as suggested by the IMF?)
Anyway, when Ben says he's keeping rates low and economic data does not warrant further easing right now but theyre waiting and watching, he'll be watching a bubble market implode on itself.
From the onsite of this debt crisis, when has the FED ever risked disappointing the markets. It won't. Everyday, there is a different FED governor talking up bond purchases and additional easing. It's completely telegraphed. There will be QEII, the only question left is the size and exactly what securities will be purchased. Do you really think that the government is going to risk a 10% pullback in the markets ahead of the holiday season. I think that everyone really underestimates the manipulation currently taking place in the equity markets. The S&P has been up with 7 of the past 8 weeks, only dropping 2 points in the one down week. The FED does not limit its intervention to only POMO, you could bet the farm on that. For now, weak dollar, strong equities, that's it.
Denninger says the FED precipitated '08 crash (WITHDREW liquidity) to spook people into bonds
NY FED sues BofA. BofA undereserved, FED injects liquidity....legally required QE?
It's all theater. Even w/o the QE and media noise the entire money 'management' trope is a variation on 'Dancing Wid' the Starz'.
People seem surprise when I tell them that market participants act on their own without some sort of manipulative star council behind the scenes pulling strings. After all, market moves are what pay speculators' bills.The foreign exchange market is huge. Currency speculators like nice things. Duh!
Dollar goes down this week and up next month. Treasuries go up this week and down next year. It's markets, they fluctuate!
I predict that by January 2011 corporate dollars held overseas will start flowing back into the country, helped by passage of a law that grants a tax amnesty on repatriating those $$$ . That is $1 T of stimulus right there.
LOL, youre already projecting to Jan 2011? Try getting past Nov 2010 first. And you figure somehow all the 'corporate money' will come back here after taxes are dropped to -0-? I cant even figure out what it is youre talking about...USA ruined economy to be saved by a tax loophole? Dream on.
Sorry for not being clear. My point is that there are still bullets in the Fed gun. They could use the repatriation as a way to prop up the USD, for example, while still doing QE into the face of that renewed dollar demand. I am not saying it is a good idea, just that there is the possibility it will happen.
Theres still bullets in the FED's gun HOW? In what form, imaginary dollars? I dont get where the FED has anything but a broken slingshot, can you elaborate how the FED has more weight to throw around at all?
It isn't exactly the FED that will do it, but the FED and Congress together. US companies that operate abroad have cash sitting there that is taxable if it comes back to the US. The tax rate is quite high and a deterrent to bringing that money back home and (theoretically) using it. If the Govies pass a tax amnesty allowing this $$ to come bac tax free, this is essentially a QE without printing money. This would be good for: 1.) the FED, as it would help keep it's balance sheet lower; 2.) big business as it's a tax break; 3.) the dollar as this is not inflationary by nature.
Ive never heard Bernanke or any other official Mention Q/E2 at all, the media did though.
Where is there any evidence at all that Bernanke intends to, or will print trillions more in QE and shower banks and markets with it?
Bernanke did say that as a student of the Great Depression he will do whatever he has to in order to prevent deflation, and that a small amount of inflation is needed to grow the economy.
Right, but aside from Bernanke actualy designing and guaranteeing we're in a depression that cant be gotten out of (see 'New World Order 1 world govt 1 world currency), when has Bernanke sworn to deliver $4-$5 trillion Q/E2 as has been jawboned for 2 months by the banks and media at EVERY piece of bad news to drive the markets ever higher?
Whats going to happen Nov 3 when Bernanke says 'Upon further review, economic data suggests we keep rates at 0 to infinity again and stand by in case we need to 'do something' as he will?
New World Order?
No Fucking Way
Well dont ignore the direct comments from the UN and IMF themselves TOO much, saying the formation of a 1 world govt is behind schedule.
Since it appears that QE2 has already been priced into the DOW, it will probably drop below 10,000 again.
Bernanke keeps saying he will keep interest rates low.
How can he do this other than by buying up Treasuries at near face value?
Isn't that QE?
Thats what theyve already been doing for months. But you know the expectation is delivery of a warehouse stacked to the rafters with $4 Trillion to be showered on the banks and markets....where have you heard any official say thats their plan?
Thanks. My son and I are in disagreement about future federal government policy. I think the federal government will totally bail out state and local governments which of course will mean yet more electronic money printing. My son says the federalies will take only token steps in this direction and basically tell the states and cities to get stuffed. I said such a no-bail policy will lead to massive riots and my son agreed but said the federalies would welcome such events as an excuse to establish an out and out police state. I would like to know what you think about this.
IF IT it plays out as you say,
I agree with your son, except for it will be far worse than riots.
Martial Law will do nothing.Just make things much worse.
Americans are ARMED to the teeth, this will be a war against the Government.(not the one we were given).
There are not enough military to even begin to stop a major civilain takeover of this Gov't.
Hell, we have fought Iraq,and Afghanistan for years, against far fewer numbers, and look at the outcome thus far.(try urban warfare against your relatives.)
Plus the Military are US,they have families,they are our brothers and sisters,aunts and uncles,Dad's and Mom's, they take an oath, to protect and defend the Const of the US.
FIRST,if they see it being crushed, they either stand down, and let the Founders intent be carried out, or they join the public.
The Founders saw to that.
Sadly, we are so close to this starting already, it will be a "small" thing to push it over the edge.
Behind the scenes theyre working towards the goal of 1 world govt and 1 currency, I think theyre right at the point where they can implode everything and do it now. They dont care about millions of dead people, in fact they'd like it and state population reduction is also part of their plan so this american idea that the govt cares about the people is out the window. I expect diabolical events from behind the curtain soon.
"They dont care about millions of dead people, in fact they'd like it and state population reduction is also part of their plan so this american idea that the govt cares about the people is out the window."
THEY will care when they realize they will be the first in line to be in those millions.
All hype, exactly WHO except the media has ever mentioned Q/E2? Ive heard Bernanke say theyre standing by to 'act', but other than that can anyone point to any OFFICIAL who has discussed Q/E2 and given any details about it?
It's not just the international situation - depending on the form it takes any additional QE could be seen as a bailout of the banks. The timing of the the latest bombshells from the mortgage fraud fiasco is interesting, because politically it makes it much harder to do QE. Not saying it won't happen, but I'm definitely leaning towards it being smaller.
Everyone here is talking about the effect on QE on stocks, but stocks are a pimple to the bond market's elephant. Treasuries amd MBS will be hammered if QE is too small, I would expect that most of the recent buyers of these have been front-running the Fed.
My guess is the Fed will try to do it 'just right' - a 'small' amount of QE with continued promised of more as necessary to try an minimize the impact all the way around. If the bond market calls Bernanke's bluff and tanks, the outcry against more QE perceived as bailing out the banks will be even more after another leg down -- the noose is slowly tightening and closing off the option of endless printing. If this weren't a bluff, the printing would already be astronimical, way beyond POMO. And if the other guy is bluffing, you know he holds a weak hand.
Risk on only works in a low interest rate environment, and I believe we are about to see that end...


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Ottawa Senators Foundation, Ferguslea Properties Limited and City of Ottawa to open third Sens RINK at Bayshore Park
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators Foundation (@sensfoundation), in partnership with Ferguslea Properties Limited and the City of Ottawa, will debut the third phase of the Sens RINK (Recreational Investments in Neighbourhoods for Kids) initiative when the Accora Village SENS RINK at Bayshore Park is officially declared open on Thursday, Aug. 14 at 10:30 a.m.
What: The Sens RINK in Bayshore Park, located in Ottawa's Bay Ward, will include the installation of hockey dasher boards, fencing, hockey nets in the winter and basketball nets in the summer. Managed by the City of Ottawa, Sens RINK recreational spaces offer a variety of social recreation and sports programs that will engage hundreds of children and youth in Accora Village and beyond.
Ferguslea Properties Limited, owners of Accora Village, is currently undergoing a number of exciting revitalization initiatives in the community previously known as Bayshore Village. The Sens RINK project is the latest commitment to bring renewed energy and excitement to the already vibrant community.
Who: Jim Watson, mayor of the City of Ottawa; Danielle Robinson, president and CEO of the Ottawa Senators Foundation; Cyril Leeder, president of the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club and co-chair of the Sens RINK major gift committee; Mark Taylor, Ottawa City Councillor, Bay Ward; Barbara Crook and Dan Greenberg, Ferguslea Properties Limited and Spartacat, the Senators' ambassador of fun.
When and where: 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 14, at Bayshore Park, 175 Woodridge Cres., in Ottawa. For a map of the area, please click here.
Photo and media opportunity: Participants will be available for brief interviews to discuss the opening of the latest phase of the joint partnership's community rinks initiative. Photo opportunities of participants while at the park will also be available.
For more information, please contact:
Brad Weir, [email protected]
Brian Morris, [email protected]
Chris Moore, [email protected]
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April 6, 2013
HOUSTON (SMU) --- The No. 51 SMU women's tennis team pushed No. 26 Rice, but fell 5-2 after Rice won the final two singles matches in three sets. The Mustangs' (11-9) duo of Vaszilisza Bulgakova and Aleksandra Malyarchikova defeated the No. 17 tandem from Rice. Malyarchikova, ranked No. 77 in singles, followed with a straight sets win over No. 72 Dominique Harmath.
"This was a great college tennis match," said head coach Kati Gyulai. "We put ourselves in the position to win. Will move forward from the loss and look forward to our final regular season match on Wednesday."
Rice won the doubles point by taking matches at No. 2 and No. 3. At the top spot, Bulgakova and Malyarchikova won 8-6 over the No. 17 tandem from Rice of Natalie Beazant and Harmath. It is their second straight win over a ranked pair; they knocked off the No. 47 duo from TCU on Wednesday. This marked the 75th career doubles win for Malyarchikova, which ties her for fourth at SMU.
In singles, No. 77 Malyarchikova improved to 5-3 against ranked opponents this year with a 6-2, 6-2 win against No. 72 Harmath in the No. 2 singles matchup. It was her second win this week over a ranked foe as she now has 84 career singles victories, which is eighth for the Mustangs. Elena Fayner recorded the other victory for SMU, winning 6-3, 6-0 at No. 4 singles.
Rice defeated the Mustangs in three sets in two different singles matches. Liat Zimmermann of Rice defeated Bulgakova 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the No. 3 matchup. At the No. 6 line, Rice's Solomiya Zinko rallied over Holly Verner 2-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0.
The Mustangs host UT-Arlington at Northwood Country Club on Wednesday at 4 p.m. It is SMU's regular-season finale and senior day for Aleksandra Malyarchikova and Edyta Cieplucha.
Tennis Match Results
SMU vs Rice
4/6/2013 at Houston, Texas
#26 Rice 5, #51 SMU 2
Singles competition
1. #62 Natalie Beazant (RICE) def. #119 Edyta Cieplucha (SMU) 6-4, 6-2
2. #77 Aleks Malyarchikova (SMU) def. #72 Dominique Harmath (RICE) 6-2, 6-2
3. Liat Zimmermann (RICE) def. Vaszilisza Bulgakova (SMU) 4-6, 6-2, 6-4
4. Elena Fayner (SMU) def. Katie Gater (RICE) 6-3, 6-0
5. Kimberly Anicete (RICE) def. Hristina Dishkova (SMU) 7-5, 6-4
6. Solomiya Zinko (RICE) def. Holly Verner (SMU) 2-6, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0
Doubles competition
1. Vaszilisza Bulgakova/Aleks Malyarchikova (SMU) def. #17 Natalie Beazant/Dominique Harmath (RICE) 8-6
2. Katie Gater/Liat Zimmermann (RICE) def. Hristina Dishkova/Holly Verner (SMU) 9-7
3. Daniela Trigo/Solomiya Zinko (RICE) def. Edyta Cieplucha/Yana Erkeeva (SMU) 8-5
Match Notes:
SMU 11-9/2-2; National ranking #51
Rice 16-4/2-1; National ranking #26
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (2,1,4,5,3,6)


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|Assistant Coach/Pitching Coach
|Olympia, Wash.
|Alma Mater:
|Western Washington, '94
|10 Years
Gregg Swenson has spent nine seasons as the Washington State pitching coach. During that span, he has mentored 11 hurlers while on the Palouse who have gone on to pitch at the professional level. A master of the mental aspect of baseball, Swenson has spent 22 seasons as a coach, including 18 at the collegiate level. He was on the Cougar staff that helped lead Washington State to back-to-back NCAA postseason appearances in 2009 and 2010. Prior to that, the Cougars had not participated in the postseason since 1990. Two decades later, they came within one game of advancing to a Super Regional.
Several Cougar pitchers under Swenson's guidance have etched their name into the Washington State record book for season and/or career accomplishments.
Chad Arnold - 53 Games Started (Third, 2008-11)
Chad Arnold - 217 Strikeouts (Eighth, 2008-11)
Chad Arnold - 291 Innings (10th, 2008-11)
Kellen Camus - 13 Relief Wins (Tied First, 2011-14)
Kellen Camus - 86 Games (Second, 2011-14)
Tanner Chleborad - 42 Games Started (Tied Eighth, 2012-14)
Adam Conley - 13 Saves (Tied Fourth, 2009-11)
Adam Conley - 70 Games (Eighth, 2009-11)
Wayne Daman, Jr. - 45 Games Started (Tied Sixth, 2004-07)*
Wayne Daman, Jr. - 67 Games (Ninth, 2004-07)*
Wayne Daman, Jr. - 293 Innings (Ninth, 2004-07)*
Wayne Daman, Jr. - 21 Wins (Tied 10th, 2004-07 - Aluminum Bat Era)*
Ian Hamilton - 15 Saves (Third, 2014)
Seth Harvey - 78 Games (Third, 2007-10)
Ross Humes - 19 Saves (Second, 2006-08)
Jeremy Johnson - 10 Saves (Eighth, 2006, 2008-09)
Steve Kost - 89 Games (First, 2005-08)%
Jayson Miller - 74 Games (Tied Fifth, 2005-08)%
Jason Miller - 295 2/3 Innings (Tied Sixth, 2005-08)%
Jason Monda - 1.324 WHIP (Seventh, 2013-14 - Aluminum Bat Era)
Jason Monda - 3.34 ERA (10th, 2013-14 - Aluminum Bat Era)
Joe Pistorese - 42 Games Started (Tied 10th, 2012-14)
Joe Pistores - 1.247 WHIP (First, 2012-14 - Aluminum Bat Era)
Joe Pistorese - 2.89 ERA (Fourth, 2012-14 - Aluminum Bat Era)
Paris Shewey - 13 Saves (Tied Fourth, 2009-11)
Matt Way - 239 Strikeouts (Fifth, 2006-09)
Matt Way - 1.338 WHIP (10th, 2006-09- Aluminum Bat Era)
*Last Two Years Under Swenson
%Last Three Years Under Swenson
Matt Bower - 31 Games (First)
Kellen Camus - 28 Games (Tied Seventh)
Ian Hamilton - 15 Saves (First)
Ian Hamilton - 28 Games (Tied Seventh)
Joe Pistorese - 1.163 WHIP (Fourth - Aluminum Bat Era)
J.D. Leckenby - 6 Saves (Tied 10th)
Kellen Camus - 29 Games (Tied Fourth)
Spencer Jackson - 28 Games (Tied Seventh)
Scott Simon - 28 Games (Tied Seventh)
Paris Shewey - 10 Saves (Tied Fourth)
Adam Conley - 12 Saves (Tied Second)
Adam Conley - 29 Games (Tied Fourth)
Paris Shewey - 30 Games (Tied Second)
Jeremy Johnson - 1.068 WHIP (Second - Aluminum Bat Era)
Jeremy Johnson - 10 Saves (Tied Fourth)
Jeremy Johnson - 28 Games (Tied Seventh)
Matt Way - 124 Strikeouts (First)
Matt Way - 1.099 WHIP (Third - Aluminum Bat Era)
Ross Humes - 6 Saves (Tied 10th)
Ross Humes - 12 Saves (Tied Second)
Travis Webb - 8 Saves (Eighth)
Swenson's primary responsibilities at Washington State include the development and growth of the Cougar pitching staff, as well as recruiting and practice organization. Having been involved with every aspect of a program during his career, Swenson has handled academics, alumni relations, travel, scheduling and camp organization while with the Cougars. Academically, Washington State produced three-straight Pac-10/12 Conference Baseball Scholar-Athletes of the Year (2008-10) and another in 2014, a Rhodes Scholar candidate (2013), a back-to-back Capital One CoSIDA Academic All-American (2013-14), and the top GPAs in program history during his nine seasons on the Palouse.
In 2014, the Cougars posted three shutouts in Pac-12 play, the first time since 1988 Washington State blanked three conference opponents. During one stretch, Cougar starters logged six-consecutive starts of seven innings or more in conference action for the first time since 1982.
Ian Hamilton set the school record with 15 saves while Matt Bower established the Cougar single-season mark for games with 31. Hamilton's saves tied for the NCAA lead among freshman and he was named a Freshman All-American by Collegiate Baseball and the NCBWA while earning a spot on the All-Pac-12 Team.
Swenson's staffs have twice set the Washington State school record for strikeouts in a season, including the current record of 453 set in 2009. That same season, the Cougars recorded a 2.46 strikeout-to-walk ratio, the second best in school history. During the 2013 campaign, Washington State notched a 4.14 ERA, the best mark since the 1988 squad that won a school-record 52 games. The Cougars came close to repeating the effort with a 4.15 ERA in 2014. In addition, the most recent season saw Washington State yield 9.61 hits per nine innings, its best mark since 1994.
Five of the top six season totals for saves have come under Swenson's tutelage, including freshman Ian Hamilton's school record 15 in 2014. Hamilton's save total led the Pac-12 in the regular season.
Adam Conley put his name in the Washington State record book four times before his three-year Cougar career concluded after being selected in the second round of the 2011 MLB First-Year Player Draft by the then Florida (now Miami) Marlins. He is currently in AAA and considered one of the top prospects in the Marlins' organization. Conley's selection in the second round (72nd overall) after being drafted in the 32nd round out of high school continues a trend of Swenson's pitchers moving up in the draft after coming to Pullman.
Turnarounds have been a staple of Swenson's time at Washington State. In his first season, he inherited a staff that allowed a Pacific-10 Conference-high 6.17 ERA in 2005. During the 2006 campaign, with a staff consisting of 15 underclassmen or first-year players, the Cougars improved their ERA to 4.87 and fanned a then-school record 404. Part of the 2006 squad was Travis Webb.
Before Swenson's arrival, Webb had a 0-5 record with a 9.08 ERA in 2005. After one season under Swenson's guidance, Webb went 4-0 with a 2.17 ERA and an opponent batting average of .214. He added eight saves and was an eighth round selection by the Cincinnati Reds.
After battling injuries that limited him to 30 2/3 innings during his first three seasons at WSU, Jeremy Johnson flourished under Swenson in 2009. Johnson posted a 6-2 record with 10 saves, a 2.90 ERA and 61 strikeouts in 28 appearances. His season was rewarded with a 13th-round selection by the Cleveland Indians after being undrafted out of high school.
Matt Way's breakout year came in 2009 when he went 8-4 (more wins than his first three seasons at WSU) and posted a 2.43 earned run average, 15th-best nationally. He set a school record with 124 strikeouts, breaking former MLB pitcher Aaron Sele's record set in 1991. Way, undrafted out of high school, became the Philadelphia Phillies' fifth round draft pick in 2009.
"Through Swens's program, I was given every tool and every option to succeed," Way said. "His enormous dedication to teaching the mental side of pitching has taught me how to stay calm and collected in the most adverse situations both on the pitching mound and in life."
In 2008, Swenson coached Jayson Miller who went 8-1 with 74 strikeouts in 99 and two-thirds innings and a 4.06 earned run average. He was selected the Pac-10 Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2008. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim selected Miller in the 30th round of the 2008 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft and the southpaw went on to earn Pioneer League Pitcher of the Year where he recorded more wins that season than walks given up.
"The biggest impact that coach Swenson had on me in the three years as my pitching coach is teaching me the importance of the mental game," Miller said. "Being successful on the mound is not about having the best stuff; rather, it's believing you're better than the guy at the plate."
A teacher of baseball and life to his student-athletes, Swenson joined Donnie Marbut's staff in June, 2005, after spending the previous four years as an assistant coach at Washington. While with the Huskies, Swenson helped produce 10 All-Pac-10 players, and saw several of his players drafted by MLB teams. The Huskies also reached three-straight NCAA Championships (2002-04) for the first time in school history.
Overall, Swenson has been on staffs that have produced 11 MLB players, including two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, who was the first player to earn Pac-10 Pitcher of the Year and Freshman of the Year honors in the same season (2004).
Prior to his tenure at Washington, Swenson served as the head coach at Tacoma Community College, where he also played two seasons (1990-91). Swenson spent five seasons as the Titans' skipper after joining the staff as the pitching coach in 1996. He led the Titans to the NWAACC Tournament in three (1997, 2000, 2001) of his five seasons at Tacoma. Prior to Swenson's arrival, TCC had not been to the tournament since 1988 and he was the first coach to guide the Titans to three tournament appearances. He was the NWAACC Western Division Coach of the Year in both 1997 and 2000.
He began his coaching career as the pitching coach at Sehome High School in Bellingham in 1992. As an assistant under hall of fame coach Gary Hatch, Swenson helped the 1992 Sehome club to a second place finish in the state playoffs while both the 1993 and 1995 teams earned fifth-place finishes.
While in Bellingham, Swenson coached the 1993 Bellingham Post 7 American Legion team to a second place finish in the state tournament and also guided the 1994 British Columbia White Rock Tritons to the Washington Palomino Baseball state championship.
Swenson earned a degree in physical education/exercise science and physiology/sports psychology from Western Washington University in 1994. In 1997, he completed his master's degree in teaching from City University. Swenson and his wife Diane are the parents of daughter, Megan and son, Jacob.


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College Hockey:No. 11 Northeastern Rallies to Top No. 19 Bowling Green
Four Unanswered Goals Lead to Victory
MADISON — Going in Fridays game, No. 19 Bowling Green had only lost one game after scoring first. In every single Northeastern victory, they were scored on first.
Something had to give.
So when Bowling Green opened 3-0 lead it was hard to count out the so-called "cardiac kids. Almost on cue, the Huskies began to battle back and eventually scored four unanswered goals to take the lead, holding on to outlast the Falcons, 4-3, to advance to meet upset-winner Colgate in the championship game of the Badger Hockey Showdown at the Kohl Center in Madison.
"I think Northeastern controlled a majority of the game, we were fortunate to be up 3-0 when we look back at things,." Bowling Green head coach Scott Paluch said. They kind of deserved to win the hockey game"
Bowling Green took the lead less than two minutes into the game on a David Solway five hole goal beating Northeastern goalie Brad Thiessen right between the pads. Todd McIlrath and Tim Maxwell collected assists.
Before the first frame was over the Falcons struck again when Dan Sexton put a juicy rebound past a sprawled Thiessen. The initial shot came from McIlrath who took a feed from Maxwell to start the play.
Early in the second stanza, Bowling Green would add their third tally of the evening when Jacob Cepis took a brilliant backhanded feed from James Perkin to bury the puck in the top corner. Starting the play and collecting an assist was Kai Kantola.
Then the Huskies found their legs and the pucks began bouncing their way.
Halfway through the second Dan Nycholat took a shot from the point that snuck its way to the back of the cage through a three player screen to bring the Huskies within two. Freshmen Wade MacLeod and Tyler McNeely collected assists on the play.
A little over two minutes later the Huskies found the back of the net again when Jimmy Russo deflected a centering feed from Greg Costa past Bowling Green net minder Jimmy Spratt. Dan Nycholat collected his second career point " and second of the game — with the assist.
Entering the third period things were looking up for Northeastern and momentum flipped their exactly five minutes into the period when Jimmy Russo tied the game with his second goal of the game. Defensemen David Strathman fed the puck to Randy Guzior who took it deep and centered it, Greg Costa tried to shoot in and was unable to connect but trailing him Russo was able to score.
Elation overtook the Northeastern bench when Louis Liotti took a shot from the point and made its way through a bevy of screen to find the back of the net, giving the Huskies their first lead of the game.
"We've been down a lot this year, it shows a lot out of our team to be able to regroup after that first period when Bowling Green was all over us and to be able to come back out there and really take it to them and get a little momentum going, Huskies defenseman Louis Liotti said.
And we've been in that position before but there is a lot of believability in our locker room and we know we can [come back]."
Believability is a word that has been a constant across the Northeastern locker room this season, it is something that Greg Cronin stresses.
"Its not fun as a coach to dig yourself a hole to start the second period, but there is believability, we have a nice balance in our team," the head coach noted.
Neither the Falcons or Huskies netted a power-play tally; all seven goals were even strength. Brad Thiessen made 23 saves in the game, Jimmy Spratt made 29.
Northeastern will face Colgate at 4 p.m. CST for the championship while Bowling Green will play Wisconsin in the nightcap of the Showdown.
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Washington: Transferred from Mt. San Antonio College in California. 2000: Did not start in the opener with Idaho, but started every game thereafter ... second on the team in sacks with six, double the total of any Husky defensive lineman in 1999 ... sack total was tied for seventh in the Pac-10 ... teamed with Larry Tripplett, Ossim Hatem and Jeremiah Pharms on a formidable defensive line that generated 21.5 total sacks and 39 tackles for loss ... third on the team in tackles for loss with eight, for 51 yards ... made an immediate impact with a sack in his first game, against Idaho ... had one of Huskies' six sacks in 17-14 win at Colorado ... had best game tackling the following week, making seven stops ... forced a fumble on a sack of ASU's Jeff Krohn in Huskies' 21-15 win ... another sack, in the fourth quarter against the Sun Devils, gave Roberson first-career two-sack game.
High School and Personal: Born Nov. 29, 1980 ... played for coach Bill Fisk at Mt. San Antonio College … earned first-team All-Mission Conference Northern Division honors in 1999 … helped the Mounties to an 8-3 record and an appearance in the Mission Conference Bowl game … was a two year starter … totaled 62 tackles in 1999, including 26 solo stops … credited with 15 tackles for loss and nine sacks … broke up three passes, recovered two fumbles and caused three fumbles … was voted by Mounties' coaching staff as the defensive player of the week three times during the season ... a sociology major.
Year G-S UA A Tot Loss FC FR PD Int Sacks 2000 11-9 13 14 27 8-51 2 0-0 0 0-0 6-47


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Edward Thomas Watson was born September 5, 1856 two miles from Thomson, Georgia, oldest son of John Smith Watson and Ann Eliza Maddox. His family -- land and slave owners – descended from Georgia's early Quaker residents who had settled in 1768 in Columbia County. The Civil War and Reconstruction profoundly disturbed Watson's boyhood. His father was twice wounded; two of his uncles returned from the war incurably injured or sick. Watson's beloved grandfather suffered a debilitating stroke in 1863 and soon died. The chaos of Reconstruction and the general economic collapse of the postwar South eventually left the Watsons destitute. In 1873, after losing the family plantation and a succession of smaller farms, they moved to nearby Augusta where John S. Watson found work operating a boarding house and saloon. The contrast between antebellum agrarian life and degrading urban existence forever marked Tom Watson's worldview.
Young Scholar
Despite desperate finances Watson's mother, ever his champion, secured a modest college loan for her son. In 1872 Watson entered Mercer College, where his hero and former Thomson schoolmaster Epenetus Alexis Steed had recently accepted a professorship in Latin. Watson's already ravenous appetite for poetry, literature, biography and history was further cultivated in the classrooms and employed in debating societies. After his freshman year, Tom Watson had earned a reputation as an eloquent, impassioned speaker. His ability to stir college audiences hinted at the fiery oratorical powers that would distinguish his future legal and political careers.
Lack of funds forced Watson to withdraw from Mercer after his sophomore year. Following a fruitless trip to Augusta in search of a store clerk position, Watson gained a seat in a wagon bound for Screven County. There he opened schools at both Little Horse Creek and Double Heads Creek, pecked out a meager living, and lived and dined among the common farming class he taught.
His poverty, frustration and obscurity notwithstanding, Watson was determined to become "one of the first men of the state," and he turned his interests to law. At night he studied Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England. In 1875, Watson's mother gained him permission to read law in the Augusta office of Judge W. R. McLaws. Watson passed the bar that fall and after a brief attempt to teach and to practice law simultaneously in Screven County, he returned permanently to Thomson to begin in earnest his legal career.
At the Bar
As a young lawyer, Watson eagerly accepted virtually every law case that came his way. His gifts of eloquence and intellect and his willingness to spar with lawyers twice his age and experience soon positioned him among the foremost trial lawyers in Georgia. A protégé of boyhood heroes Robert Toombs and Alexander Stephens, Watson displayed in court a balance between fiery oration and logical argument. Watson's mastery of rural idiom, country metaphor and his appreciation of folk humor, all gained honestly by living among Georgia's farmers, completed his formidable courtroom arsenal and jury appeal.
After his first year at the bar, Watson repurchased the Sweetwater Place, a 700 acre plantation once owned by his father. In 1877, he moved his family from their Augusta shanty to the Thomson farm, no doubt satisfying Watson with a social, economic, and moral victory over post war defeat and denigrating city life. In the meantime, Watson's growing trial practice began to focus more closely on criminal defense. By 1890, Watson's income was reportedly larger than any other famous Georgia lawyer except for Robert Toombs or Benjamin H. Hill. By 1897, lawyers throughout Georgia bitterly complained they could not earn convictions when Watson appeared for the defense.
Watson made his political debut as a delegate to the Georgia convention of 1880. His impertinent opposition to the nomination of Bourbon Governor Alfred H. Colquitt, demonstrated in an extemporaneous but brilliant speech, immediately earned statewide recognition and branded Watson a political rebel. His opposition cast the convention into an impasse from which it did not recover and marked the first time Watson crossed swords with Patrick Walsh, skilled manipulator of the formidable Richmond County Catholic vote and Democratic editor of the Augusta Chronicle.
Stirred by the convention of 1880, Watson ran for the Georgia House in 1882. He was elected with notable support from black voters. At 26, Watson's shrill voice and slight appearance in the Atlanta statehouse did not differ greatly from his mentor and newly elected Georgia governor, Alexander H. Stephens.v Watson's early attempts at state lawmaking could only be described as frustrated opposition to the political rein of the Bourbon Triumvirate. To no avail, he opposed Colquitt's seating in the U.S. Senate. Watson attacked the state convict lease system, which abused prisoners and profited corporations (and lined the pockets of Democratic Senator Joseph E. Brown), and sought relief for the conditions of tenant farmers. Watson's attempts to increase the taxation on railroads were defeated, as were similar corporate reform efforts. Stymied, Watson resigned after his first session of the legislature downcast, presumably unmoved by glowing newspaper reports of his "brilliance" on the floor.
Although Tom Watson was formally out of the political limelight for almost the next decade, he was not detached from politics. He rallied local opposition against John B. Gordon's gubernatorial bid, and in 1888 campaigned statewide for Grover Cleveland with fellow presidential elector John Temple Graves. During these years Watson increasingly bristled at Henry Grady's promotion of an industrialized New South, and in frequent speeches debunked his vision as fundamentally at odds with the realities and interests of Georgia's majority: the long-suffering farming class.
In 1890, Watson was elected to Congress from Georgia's "Bloody 10th" District. Although elected as a Democrat, Watson had campaigned on the principles of the Farmer's Alliance that were soon incorporated into the Ocala Platform. His refusal to be cowed by his Bourbon counterparts attracted high praise from fellow Alliance supporters. "[He is] the most striking personality of the group," wrote Hamlin Garland in the Populist Arena. "He speaks with a touch of the dialect of the South, and wears a soft hat in the Southern way. He is small and active. His face is perfectly beardless and quite thin. His eyes are his most remarkable feature, except possibly the abundance of dark red hair, pushed back from his face."?
If newspapers and Democratic leaders demurred to his Alliance loyalties, they soon recoiled when Watson failed to support Charles F. Crisp–a Georgian—for Speaker of the House. Watson's opposition to Crisp, who refused to stand on the Ocala demands, served as a rallying point for the Farmer's Alliance and tempered permanently Watson's position as a radical. Most Democrats, now threatened by the emerging People's Party, branded Watson a demagogue and traitor to his party and the solid South.
If anything, Watson's break with the Democratic Party galvanized his determination for reform. Except when ill, Watson attended every session of Congress and introduced legislation on most of the Ocala demands. In 1892, Watson introduced a bill to levy an income tax and one to abolish the customs duties on jute, jute bagging, iron ties, binding twine, and other materials used in cotton baling. Watson introduced a bill to abolish the National Bank, urged the free coinage of silver, pushed for a subtreasury system and advocated an eight-hour workday. Watson demanded the direct election of U.S. Senators. Also during his single session in the U.S. House, Watson proposed and secured funding for an amendment to the Post Office Appropriation Bill that would become the rural free delivery system of the U.S. Postal Service, earning Watson the sobriquet "Father of Rural Free Delivery."
Watson's titular claim that the populist movement was "Not a Revolt; It is a Revolution" was graphically supported throughout his failed 1892 reelection campaign against Augusta lawyer and Democrat J.C.C. Black. Watson's successful challenge to Democratic rule and his advocacy for the political equality of the black farmer prompted violent confrontations between Democrats and Populists in towns across Georgia. Watson sparred with a supporter of Black in Thomson and was howled down in Augusta and Atlanta. In Augusta, several Populist supporters were killed; in Elbert County two black populists were shot on their way to the polls. Similar violence occurred in Dalton, Louisville and elsewhere. While visiting Macon, Populist presidential candidate James B. Weaver and his wife were egged. A black Populist campaigner for Watson was nearly lynched in Thomson, prompting the armed protection of him and Watson by thousands of loyal local farmers. Tom Watson's life was threatened repeatedly, and fisticuffs throughout the campaign were commonplace. In retrospect, Watson privately pondered it was "almost a miracle I was not killed in the campaign of 1892."
While violence marred Georgia's political process, it was manipulation and vote fraud that ultimately counted Watson out of Congress. Democrats gerrymandered Watson's district prior to his reelection campaign. Bribery, ballot box stuffing, intimidation, voting by nonresidents and mass voting of blacks hired by the Democratic machine were tactics used throughout Watson's district. In Augusta alone, where Federal agents proved helpless in their attempts to ensure proper polling, the vote against Watson totaled twice the total number of registered voters. Watson lost the election, despite carrying all the counties in his pre-gerrymandered district with the exception of Richmond.
Watson ran again two years later. The congressional election of 1894 was a repeat of the 1892 charade, but on a larger, more egregious scale. The economic plight of the farming class by 1894 was desperate; Watson's venerated popularity in rural Georgia bordered on religious. Alarmed, the Democratic leadership bought votes with alcohol, intimidation, and cash. Populist ballots were destroyed. Watson again lost his election bid, though he carried nine counties in the district to his opponent's two. Admitting the election fraud was notorious, some dismayed Augusta Democrats even complained publicly at seeing "worthless negroes vote dozens of times at ten cents each…."
Between 1894 and 1896, the Populist ranks swelled by the thousands across the South, largely because of defections from the national Democratic Party. Faced with eroding membership on the eve of a national election, the Democratic leadership desperately urged fusion between the two parties. Tom Watson, champion of the southern Populists and the intellectual leader of the national party, refused to equivocate and preached against any policy that sacrificed the fundamentals illustrated in the Ocala platform.
Western Populists were more conciliatory. At their Chicago convention in 1896, the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan for president, Arthur Sewall for vice president and adopted a platform that included a demand for free silver. Tempted by populist planks and powerfully attracted to a Nebraskan they believed loyal to their cause, western Populists leaned towards fusing their own ticket with the Democrats. Watson balked at any such gesture and urged party independence. He reportedly refused Bryan's offer of a cabinet post if Watson bowed out of the race. Tom Watson did not attend the Populist convention at St. Louis–an unfortunate and inexplicable mistake for the future of the party.
The chairman of the Democratic National Committee, James K. Jones, did attend the Populist convention. By working with western fusionists and against the southern radicals, he kept the former organized and the latter chaotic. At length, Bryan was nominated for president. When it appeared the southern Populists would bolt the convention in protest, Tom Watson was nominated as vice president with an assurance from the Democrats that his name would replace Arthur Sewall on their ticket. From Thomson, fearing the extinction of his own party, Watson reluctantly agreed to the compromise and accepted the nomination. The fused ticket appeared complete.
The deal proved a sham. In the Democratic circles the following morning, Chairman Jones denied having sacrificed Sewall for Watson. Jones was even more caustic days later, when he criticized the southern populist delegates as "not a credible class" and predicted their political demise: "They will go with the negroes, where they belong…." As Watson bitterly recalled, the moment proved " …one of the most complete and deliberate deceptions that ever was practiced by one lot of politicians upon another."
Despite the treachery that all but wrecked the aspirations of the People's Party and a disingenuous running mate who refused to mount a stage with him, Watson campaigned admirably (if hopelessly) across the West in 1896. His efforts were futile. In the end, the Republican ticket of McKinley and Hobart headed to Washington. The Democrats retired to fight another day. The scattered Populists melted into the rural landscape, never again to organize as a viable third party. Watson, despondent over the Appomattox of his political life, returned home to ring the death knell for his party.
Watson ran for president on the People's Party in 1904 and in 1908 as a protest candidate. Although hailed as "a beacon of light to those in doubt" by Clarence Darrow and other national figures, Watson did not seriously challenge his Republican or Democratic opposition. The passion and momentum of 1896 had largely subsided. In 1904 Watson earned barely 117,000 votes.
In 1910 Watson returned to the Democratic Party. Except for 1912, when he bolted the party to vote for Progressive Theodore Roosevelt, Watson remained within the Democratic Party for the rest of his life, albeit as a firebrand Jeffersonian Democrat and unwavering advocate of populist principles. Watson refused numerous entreaties for a gubernatorial bid, but his enormous statewide political influence ensured that no Georgia governor between 1906 and 1922 was elected without his express support.
In 1918 Watson was again urged by supporters to run for Congress. Despondent over the recent deaths of his two oldest children and frustrated by the effective silencing of his newspaper, Watson surprised many when he agreed to oppose Representative Carl Vinson. Watson's platform, consistent with Jeffersonian philosophy, opposed the overseas war, involvement in the League of Nations, and virtually all policies of the Wilson administration. Vinson, on the other hand, was a popular patriot and war hawk. Although Watson entered the contest late and was in poor health, he ran a surprisingly close race. Vinson defeated Watson by two county unit votes. Watson's protests of election fraud were ignored.
Watson came back in 1920, stunning his political opposition by beating U.S. Senate incumbent Hoke Smith and former Georgia Governor Hugh Dorsey. Watson took 110 counties and won the U.S. Senate seat without a runoff. After three decades of formal absence from national politics, Watson returned to Washington as Georgia's freshman senator.
In 1921, Watson gave his final speech in Thomson, Georgia, and left Hickory Hill for Capitol Hill. As a U.S. Senator, Watson attended every assembly session in the 67th Congress. His battles, consistent with his Jeffersonian convictions, ranged from fighting America's land purchases in support of oil exploration to advocating the diplomatic recognition of soviet Russia to crusading against America's participation in the League of Nations. Watson urged the restoration of civil liberties for the political prisoners of Woodrow Wilson. Watson opposed militarism and denounced the imperial designs of the administration and its request for an increased standing army. Watson also forcefully opposed the attempted seating of millionaire Henry Ford in the Senate because of Ford's notorious anti-Semitism.
Despite having fallen seriously ill several weeks before, Watson insisted on attending and speaking on the final day of session, September 22, 1922. His precarious health continued to decline and on the night of September 25, suffering from chronic asthma, he was unable to rise from bed. Watson died of a cerebral hemorrhage on September 26, 1922 at his rented home in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Watson's fiery assistant, Alice Lytle, remained in Maryland to handle the arrangements. Upon learning of the railway's intention to place the Senator's casket into a baggage car, Lytle protested: "The Senator did not arrive in Washington in a baggage car; he will not go home that way." Watson's body was returned to Thomson via a Pullman car.
It is estimated that 10,000 people attended Watson's funeral at Hickory Hill. Georgia Watson died on May 14 the following year. The Watsons were buried with their children in the Thomson City Cemetery.
Watson died without realizing his lifelong dreams of sweeping Jeffersonian economic and political reforms and a political alliance between the South and the West. Many of his reform initiatives came to life posthumously, including:
• Graduated income tax
• Inheritance tax
• Government regulation of public communications and transportation
• Government ownership of public utilities
• Agriculture subsidies
• Recognition of the right of labor to organize for protection
• Abolition of child labor
• Eight hour work day
• Abolition of the convict lease system
• Initiative, referendum and recall
• Secret ballot system
• Direct elections of U.S. Senators
Journalist and Author
In 1891, while in Congress, Tom Watson launched the People's Party Paper with novelist C.C. Post. A national weekly newspaper devoted to the principles of the Farmer's Alliance and Jeffersonian popular government, the People's Party Paper was intended to compete with the Southern Alliance Farmer, the weekly run by L.F. Livingston, president of the Georgia Farmer's Alliance whose questionable political loyalties attracted Watson's increasing mistrust.
Despite its early struggle for circulation, its financial strain (Watson personally absorbed all costs) and the heaping ridicule it received from the Democratic press, the People's Party Paper ran unabated for eight years with Watson at the helm. By 1893, two years after he launched it and a year after he had been counted out of Congress, Watson claimed the paper went to every state in the union and its circulation was second in Georgia only to the Atlanta Constitution. Three years later, riding the high water mark of the People's Party, Watson's paper was nationally known and quoted routinely. Watson also was a frequent contributor to the Populist journal, Arena, and to other national periodicals.
Watson scuttled the People's Party Paper after the disastrous Populist defeat of 1896. While demanding that the principles of Populism were as vital as ever, Watson conceded his party was wrecked. For all practical purposes Watson exited the political stage to recuperate in his personal library and to begin a serious writing career.
In 1898 The Macmillan Company offered Watson a publishing contract to write a two-volume history of France. The subject matter was both pragmatic and philosophical. Watson had periodically written essays on France for the People's Party Paper and in 1896 had published a small, three volume French history that amounted to an expansion of historical essays. As an apostle of Thomas Jefferson, and therefore an ardent Francophile, Watson recognized the populist allegory in France's epic drama and rarely failed to compare the lessons of the past to contemporary domestic struggles.
In 1899 Macmillan published The Story Of France in two volumes. Totaling more than 1,700 pages, Watson's work was a literary and commercial success. Reviews were supportive and the work was received well stateside and abroad. It sold more than 50,000 copies while published by Macmillan.
Watson's history of France was followed immediately by a passionate and apologetic 700 page biography of Napoleon, which was published by Macmillan in 1902. Napoleon also enjoyed considerable success. A biography of Thomas Jefferson, published by D. Appleton and Company, followed in 1903. In 1904 Watson completed Bethany: A Story of the Old South, his first and only published novel.
In 1904, Watson refused a lucrative offer to edit William Randolph Hearst's Morning American. The following year he launched Tom Watson's Magazine, a literary and reform magazine published from New York. The first number sold more than 100,000 copies. With articles from contributing authors such as Clarence Darrow and Theodore Dreiser and Watson's sensational editorials that abused class rule and runaway capitalism, the magazine was identified with other well-read muckraking and reform journals of its day.
His magazine's early success notwithstanding, Watson was soon at odds with the management practices and unsavory reputation of his New York business partner, W. D. Mann. In late 1906 Watson moved the magazine's publication to Atlanta, where it joined its sister weekly, the Weekly Jeffersonian, begun months earlier. Aided by the mailing lists of Hoke Smith's Atlanta Journal, Watson's weekly and monthly enjoyed continued popularity with loyal constituents and former Populists he affectionately dubbed "Old Man Peepul" and "Aunt Sarah Jane." Focusing on national issues, the Weekly Jeffersonian rivaled the Journal and Clark Howell's Atlanta Constitution for circulation and statewide influence.
In 1910, Watson purchased the copyrights to his books, constructed a modern printing plant within sight of his Thomson home, Hickory Hill, and moved his publications one last time. He named friend, political ally and future Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture, J.J. Brown, vice president of The Jeffersonian Publishing Company and moved to Thomson managing editor Alice Lytle. The 9000 square foot plant employed 30 people and was equipped to print, stitch and bind Watson's periodicals and books.
1910 was also the year Watson began a deliberate serial crusade against the Catholic hierarchy. While his mistrust of foreign missions and the historic political activities of the Catholic Church had manifested itself earlier in both his periodicals and histories, Watson's campaign of 1910 took on a more vitriolic complexion. His bitter attacks in "the Jeffs" against the abuses of the Church and a wealth of purported sexual crimes ran unabated for seven years, attracted an effective Catholic boycott and, eventually, a federal indictment. Watson was arrested June 3, 1912, for sending through the U.S. mails a Latin quotation considered obscene for the day—a quotation Watson reprinted to illustrate the vile nature of questions asked of female parishioners by their confessors. Watson led his own defense and in 1916, after a quashed indictment and a mistrial, won his own acquittal.
Watson's contentious publications again found the national spotlight in 1914, after Watson bristled at an Atlanta Journal editorial urging a retrial for Leo Frank. A wealthy, northern, Jewish manager of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Frank had been convicted a year earlier of raping and murdering Mary Phagan, a working class 13-year-old company employee. Frank's conviction was subsequently upheld on five appeals to the Georgia Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. Watson, who had refused offers to assist in the defense and in the prosecution, remained publicly silent on the case until Hoke Smith's newspaper printed the editorial.
Watson assailed the Journal for judicial tampering (the case was under appeal), took on northern publishers who clamored for a new trial, and began a two-year defense of Georgia's judicial system and demonstration of the guilt of the "libertine Jew." Editorials in his weekly exploded into expansive evidentiary and trial reviews in Watson's Magazine. Georgia Governor John M. Slaton commuted Frank's death sentence during his final day of office, outraging many Georgians and prompting Watson to ask his readers "whether Lynch law is not better than no law at all." Two months later Leo Frank was taken from the jail in Milledgeville by a group of prominent Marietta citizens, driven back to Marietta and hanged. Watson responded to the news through the Jeffersonian: "Now let outsiders attend to their own business, AND LEAVE OURS ALONE." For many, the episode branded Watson as an anti-Semite for the only time in his life.
Through it all, Watson's paper and magazine continued to attack Wilsonism, American involvement in World War I, the Conscription Act, and any U.S. involvement in the League of Nations. As it did with Socialist Eugene Debs, the Wilson administration ultimately silenced Watson's printed protests in 1917 by denying his paper and magazine the use of the U.S. Mail under the Espionage Act. Unlike other progressive reformers and Debs, Watson narrowly escaped federal prosecution.
Watson would continue his fight against Wilsonism in 1918 in the pages of his newly purchased weekly Columbia Sentinel, but in fact the Jeffersonian Publishing Company was silenced forever.
Home Life
On October 9, 1878, Tom Watson married his "Sister Spirit on earth" Georgia Durham, the adopted daughter of prominent Thomson physician George Washington Durham. Patient, calm and dainty, Georgia Watson was a beloved local schoolteacher and perhaps an unlikely match for a man whose tempestuous nature was already legendary. Nevertheless, Watson's devotion to her was sincere and time honored. Her name graces dedication pages of his books, and more than a few essays and poems were devoted to their lifelong love affair. Watson would later recall, "Did ever the bright stars look down upon a happier man than I the night she said she loved me – me the moneyless village lawyer who had barely a good coat to his back?"
The Watsons had three children: John Durham (1880), Agnes Pearce (1882) and Louise (1885). Louise, frail and sickly, died at age four. Her death moved Watson deeply, and his expressions of melancholy dot his numerous essays written throughout his life:
The tracks that were all about the yard, on the dreadful day when sickness seized her, were still there when you came back from the funeral,--the tracks of a child at play: and while the merciful wind and rain and the passing of other feet, soon hid these tiny footprints, the tracks that she would now make if she could leave the borders of Dreamland, would still fir the little shoes that are laid away.
You sometimes hear her voice, some time when the day is done, and the Spirit of Silence has locked a slumbering world; and the voice is that which you head when she climbed upon your knee, and laid one hand to one cheek, saying, "This side Mama's," lending the other to your kiss.
No, they do not grow up, along with the surviving children,--no indeed! Carved upon memory by the stern hand of Grief, their little figures are immortally young, as the marble children following the motionless procession upon a Grecian frieze.
In 1900, Watson purchased a nearby home and its surrounding acreage from Captain James Wilson and began an expansive renovation. In 1904, Watson and his family moved to Hickory Hill, a relatively modest southern home he transformed into a substantial Greek revival mansion.
Hickory Hill presented a fabulous combination of aesthetics both antebellum and modern. Amid the ionic capitals, marble mantels, parquet floors, heavy drapes and bold wallpapers, Watson installed telephones and indoor plumbing. A power plant provided electric lighting for the house and also pumped water to the indoor plumbing. In time, corncrib, pigeon cote, smokehouse, schoolhouse, and peacock run would support life in the big house in a harmony that made Hickory Hill almost completely self-sufficient. Fanciful luxuries such as bicycles and automobiles would run errands from Hickory Hill in tandem with horse and carriage, presumably without disrupting the bucolic backdrop of cotton and southern magnolia.
When Watson threw open his doors to guests, few visitors came away without commenting on the graciousness of manner and hospitality abundant in the house. Food was elegant, talk civilized, and music and dancing were enjoyed by every member of the family. In the spring, Hickory Hill was the preferred venue for young Easter egg hunters. The Watsons occasionally hosted parties for their two young grandchildren under the lanterned canopy of trees.
These neighborly expressions were not without expectation of etiquette and social grace. If anything, life at Hickory Hill was orderly, dignified and disciplined. Uncorsetted secretaries were scolded, rambunctious grandchildren bribed for their silence, roaming dogs encouraged on their way with an occasional blast from Watson's shotgun. Children sat silent at the dinner table while the head lectured on history and world affairs. Only the young itinerate servants were sympathetically allowed to roam the house barefooted.
Paradoxically, Watson showed a careless affinity for things natural, and he allowed wildlife to have the run of the place. Woodpeckers were allowed to punch holes in eave and column, and squirrels were encouraged to take refuge—and their meals--on Watson's office windowsill. Servants constructed brush piles and concrete birdbaths for songbird habitat. Watson ordered trees and shrubs by the hundreds from nearby Fruitland Nursery, planted them with precision and nursed them through the extreme seasons with maternal tenderness. Hickory Hill provided Watson with quiet solitude he found elusive in the political arena. Watson's daily walks and horseback rides through its fields and woods inspired quiet reflection that ultimately gelled in a published collection of essays, Prose Miscellanies.
Its idyllic setting notwithstanding, life at Hickory Hill was not without tragedy. In 1917, Watson's daughter Agnes died, barely one week after his periodicals were banned from distribution. Her death hit Watson like "the crash of an avalanche." In declining health himself, Watson repaired to his Hobe Sound, Florida, vacation home to recover and mourn. While visiting months later, Watson's son John Durham underwent an operation for a hernia. Following the procedure, he died in his father's arms. "This ends it all!" wrote Watson in despair.
Already active grandparents, the Watsons now were saddled with even more responsibilities for the two grandchildren, Georgia Watson Lee and Georgia Doremus Watson. Behind Hickory Hill Watson built a one room schoolhouse where the girls were taught. He also built a small swimming pool for his granddaughters. The girls frequently joined their grandfather during his peaceful, often fun loving romps and horseback rides through the grounds of Hickory Hill. These moments of companionship reflected a warmth and calmness seldom seen in Watson's public life. Georgia Doremus Watson recalled, "Whenever I sensed peace and harmony in him… it was when he was nearest the earth."
When Watson was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1919, he brought his granddaughters to Washington and enrolled them in the National Cathedral School. The girls' education in Washington was highlighted by occasional visits with their grandfather at the Senate cafeteria and routine pilgrimages to historical sites throughout Washington. Their experience was short lived. Watson's death in 1922 forced the girls and their grandmother to return to Thomson.
Cody–McGregor Case, Warrenton, Georgia, 1890
On October 12, 1889, Watson received a telegram from his closest friend, Major Charles McGregor, which read dramatically: "I have killed Jim Cody. Come instantly."
Charles McGregor, former officer in the Confederate army, was a prominent citizen of Warrenton who had served in the state legislature with Watson. His close friendship with Watson was supported by mutual populist political sentiment.
The feud between McGregor and Cody stemmed from their mutual interest in Mrs. DuBose, a wealthy Warrenton widow. Cody was her cousin; McGregor was married. Town gossip ultimately unnerved Cody and on the night of December 17, 1887, he shot McGregor from ambush in his own front yard. McGregor survived the chest wound. At length Cody admitted he had been the assailant. McGregor did not press for criminal prosecution, but routinely armed himself as he went around town. Cody in the meantime moved to Gainesville, Georgia. He was not indicted for attempted murder until spring 1889. Cody was absent from the first term of Superior Court, and bailiffs failed to locate him.
On Saturday, October 12, 1889, Jim Cody rode into Warrenton, stepped out of his buggy and spoke with a citizen on the street. Charles McGregor approached Cody, drew his pistol and deliberately shot Cody three times: in the chest, the head and the neck. Cody died in the street--any of the three shots would have been fatal. McGregor then wired Watson and walked home. The Warren County sheriff promptly arrested McGregor for murder. Cody had been unarmed.
The McGregor trial began April 10, 1890 and received significant press attention, including the Atlanta papers. Solicitor General William M. Howard represented the state, and was assisted by five special prosecutors hired by the Cody family. The team included Hal Lewis, a preeminent litigator, and Judge H.D.D. Twiggs, a distinguished Savannah jurist known for his sarcasm and great oratorical ability. McGregor was represented by 33 year old Tom Watson.
In less than two days, the prosecution presented its case. The facts were undisputed. In defense, Watson offered no testimony and presented only McGregor's unsworn statement. Watson's summation rested the entire case his theory of anticipated self-defense: that to anticipate an assassination by killing the intended assassin first was the logical extension of the law of self-defense.
After presenting his argument to the jury, Watson had McGregor's wife and children, each wearing mourning attire, ushered into the courtroom and seated next to the defendant. Watson appealed:
This, gentlemen, is the picture you make if you bring in a verdict of guilty. Let me present another picture of the glad sunshine of tomorrow. The holy Sabbath smiles in holy joy through the evergreen trees and falls upon a happy family reunited in yonder household. Charley McGregor, the gold of his soul purified by a fire through which it has gone, stands once more within his own home a free man…That picture you can make by bringing in a verdict of not guilty.
The jury acquitted McGregor after 106 hours of deliberation.
Zeigler Case, Sylvania, Georgia, 1896
George Zeigler, prominent Screven County farmer, boarded a train bound for Sylvania in September 1894 and was seated next to Screven County Sheriff L. B. Brooker. Enraged by a series of disparaging remarks about Populists by George Bellinger, a black Democrat, Zeigler drew his pistol. Brooker responded by attempting to disarm Zeigler, and in the ensuing scuffle was pistol–whipped. Zeigler was disarmed. He disembarked at the next station, where his son, Solomon Zeigler, was waiting.
After father and son were united on the train platform, a verbal altercation began anew with the sheriff. Brooker, still on the train, drew his revolver and shot through the window, striking the unarmed Zeigler in the chest. Sol Zeigler produced his own pistol and rushed into the train. In the resulting shootout, Brooker was shot in the head and side and Zeigler was wounded in the arm. Although seriously wounded himself, George Zeigler attempted to reboard the train but was apprehended by the county coroner, who cut his throat. Ultimately troops were called out to curb the violence. George Zeigler died three days later. Sol Zeigler and Sheriff Brooker recovered from their wounds.
Sol Zeigler swore out a murder warrant against Sheriff Brooker. The grand jury refused to indict Brooker for murder, but did hand down a true bill for assault and battery. Both Brooker and Zeigler vowed revenge and the sheriff harried the Zeigler family for months. Meanwhile, Sol Zeigler and William Walter shot George Bellinger to death. Watson defended Sol and ultimately both he and Walter were acquitted of that murder.
On October 13, 1895, Sol Zeigler and his brother Corrie went to a large meeting at the Goloid Baptist church, where they found Sheriff Brooker in attendance. When Brooker headed for his buggy, the brothers shot him in the back of the head. They then stood over the body, shot it twice more, and drove away. Nearly 200 people saw the shooting. Despite the amount of witnesses, little effort was made to apprehend the assailants until a $1,000 reward was offered and private detectives were employed. On May 25, 1896, the Zeigler brothers quietly surrendered to Sheriff William Patrick and were jailed.
While the brothers were incarcerated, a private detective and a witness to sheriff Brooker's murder attempted to arrest a Zeigler cousin for seducing a girl years earlier. The women of the house resisted the intrusion. When the cousins returned home, a gunfight ensued. Jake Zeigler was mortally wounded. Lonny Zeigler was wounded and later lost his arm.
The state separated its cases against the Zeigler brothers, and both Sol and Carrie hired Tom Watson to defend them. The trials began November 18, 1896. Attorneys G.M.W. Williams, W.L. Mathews, D.H. Clark, and H.S. White assisted Watson for the defense. Watson's formidable courtroom adversary, H.D.D. Twiggs, assisted Solicitor–General E.K. Overstreet.
As in the McGregor case, Watson offered only the defendants' statements as evidence. He again argued his point of anticipation; that a man did not have to wait until his adversary was immediately upon him before he took steps to save his life, and that those steps included killing the adversary. When Brooker headed for his buggy, Watson argued, the Zeiglers reasonably concluded he went there to procure a gun.
Both trials lasted two weeks. Both Zeiglers were acquitted.
Lichtenstein Case, Swainsboro, Georgia, 1900
Sigmund Lichtenstein was a shopkeeper in Adrian, Georgia, a small town in located 75 miles northwest of Savannah. On Saturday, November 10, 1900, local carpenter named John Welch burst into Lichtenstein's store, demanding a refund on cloth and shoes for his children he had purchased earlier in the week with his poker winnings. Lichtenstein accepted the shoes, but upon examination refused to take back the wrinkled material, explaining that Welch's wife apparently had begun to cut a dress pattern from it. Welch then asked Lichtenstein to return the money he had paid on his store account. When Lichtenstein refused, Welch flew into a rage and warned that no Jew would spend his poker earnings while his family went hungry. Welch stormed out of the store.
When Lichtenstein left his store later in the day, walking down the street cleaning his nails with a penknife, Welsh staggered from an alley and accosted him. Badly drunk, Welsh cussed and slapped Lichtenstein. The two grappled, Welsh threw Lichtenstein on the ground, drew a pistol and shot him in the leg. He then turned, ran a few yards and fell dead. During the initial fight Welch's heart had been punctured by Lichtenstein's pocketknife.
While Lichtenstein recovered from his bullet wound, Adrian Mayor Wilbur Curry, first cousin to Welsh, agitated the local citizenry with anti–Semitic rhetoric and innuendo. Lichtenstein was charged with murder.
Lichtenstein's wife, Dora, contacted family friend Judge Roger Gamble of Louisville, who accepted the case for free and secured a series of minor legal successes. As the trial neared, and Mayor Curry continued to disrupt an otherwise sympathetic atmosphere, Gamble urged the family to hire Tom Watson, a "man of the people." Lichtenstein was indicted for murder in the April term of Emanuel Commission Superior Court. At Watson's instruction, Gamble managed to have the trial scheduled at the end of the court's term, when the jury would be impatient for its term to end and uncomfortable from the summer heat. Watson also instructed the family on their courtroom appearance and behavior. The trial was scheduled for July 10, 1901.
Judge Gamble conducted the trial for the defense. Watson took no notes, but simply closed his eyes and listened to the testimony. His apparent and inactivity exasperated Lichtenstein's family, who urged Gamble to make his co–counsel do something "lawyerly." Watson overheard the comments and simply smiled.
When Watson began his summation, it was clear that he had listened to every detail of the testimony. His summation began: "You all know who I am and that I am one of you. I am not going to tell you anything that's not true."
The courtroom erupted from the thrilling performance because of his ability to marshall facts. The family realized he had listened to all testimony.
All but one juror quickly voted for acquittal, one held out arguing that if the county was going to waste his time trying a man Watson spoke for, then he would get a meal out of it. After noon supper, the Jury returned a verdict of not guilty.


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Living in Nashville can create a challenge for us runners through different seasons. One day I'm running in shorts and honestly, the next day, I have on three layers because it is snowing outside and the temperature has dropped to sub zero climate. This year has proven to be even a greater challenge with the change of weather patterns. We are just getting through one of the coldest winters in history. I have had many runners tell me they took off during the winter months because it was just too cold to bear the elements. This is unfortunate. Running inspite of the weather can provide a greater sense of accomplishment and even deeper satisfaction. Don't let the weather dictate your runs.
As a runner, there are certain elements of clothing that should be a must for every season so one is well prepared for all seasons.
Winter running is all about layering. A runner needs to start with a good pair of wicking insulated underwear, top and bottom followed by a light-weight long sleeve shirt for the top and a thick pair of running pants for the bottom. As far as the socks, normal weight - knee high or ankle high. Don't be tempted to wear wool socks! This third layer ideally will be followed by a fleece lined vest and then finally a thicker running jacket. Gloves and a hat are essential gear. Your body heat escapes through your extremities so when running sub zero weather, it is always better to wear a hat instead of a headband and I prefer mittens to gloves. A light-weight scarf or mask is also a good item to include on the cold, windy, blustery days. A good rule of thumb do not sweat before the run begins. When the runner first walks outside, it is perfectly normal to feel a little chill before the run starts. The body will warm up within the first mile.
Spring running is an awesome time to experience the outdoors. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing and life is good! But as it goes, April showers brings May flowers! It's easy to talk oneself out of a run when waking up to pouring rain. This again can be an awesome experience, providing the runner is dressed for the elements. For running in rain, a light weight rain jacket, with a hood is a necessity. Don't be tempted to invest in a heavy duty jacket. The lighter the better. Depending upon the temperature will determine how many layers are necessary under the rain jacket. Also it is important to go with a little larger jacket to accommodate layers if necessary. A pair of nylon running pants is also helpful during heavy rain. I would never recommend running in lightening but a downpour is totally acceptable. This is one of those runs that a runner has to resolve before he/she ever gets started, they are going to get wet! Take along a towel for drying off at the end and perhaps a dry layer. These are some of the most rewarding and satisfying runs because the ones that are out there doing it are few and far between!
Summer running can be more challenging than running in the winter. The heat is brutal. While the clothing is more simple and less constricting than winter running, it is more important that runs are completed early morning or late in the evening, avoiding the hottest time of the day. A pair of running shorts and a light-weight tank is all that is needed! Moisture wicking running gear is the best and loose fitting clothing will move easier.
Finally as the weather starts to cool down, the shorts are replaced with long pants and short sleeves are replaced with longer sleeves. We ease into Fall. I personally have a rule of thumb when I wear pants vs. shorts. For me, the cut off temperature is 45*. Determine what your own personal cut off temperature is. As the weather gets cooler, the layers increase.
All in all, even though Nashville weather can play havoc on our runs, from one extreme to the other - I love that I get to experience running in all four different seasons and welcome every challenge as well as the delight they bring! Happy running!


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Being the Continuing Adventures of a Woman and her Trusty Kayak in New York Harbor, the Hudson River, and Beyond. (with occasional political rants just to keep things lively!)
Monday, July 19, 2010
Another interesting Saturday sighting -
Link to the people who built Dragonfly's Banquet, showing the raft rigged for sailing (yes, really).
Dragon figurehead seen in the link seemed to be undergoing repair -
Rockaway Artists Alliance, current caretakers.
More about this rather spontaneous long trip in the next couple of days, if I have a chance. It was part of Sebago's All-Club Invitational, which I think was generally a big success. Big thank-you to the crew I did this trip with - I know it got to be a bit on the long, hot & beastly side at times, but I still had a very good time helping out with this trip.
P.S. - My friend Tugster has left a comment that I thought worth bringing up into the post: Were you aware that the movie featuring scenes from Son of Town Hall's construction, testing, inspection by the Coast Guard, and then crossing will be shown as part of PortSide NY's Atlantic Basin programming this coming thursday night, July 22? well-worth it
I was NOT aware of that! The Son of Town Hall is another Neutrino raft (see Wikipedia's Poppa Neutrino article for a brief explanation, and the "Dragonfly's Banquet" above leads to the Neutrino website, where Son of Town Hall can also be found. When Will says "crossing", he means Atlantic.
New Yorkers may also remember the Town Hall raft, which was moored in the embayment between the north end of Battery Park City and Pier 25 (which was the one that featured a sculpture garden with works by local artists, beach volleyball courts, and a hamburger stand) until the Hudson River Park Trust, in an extremely controversial move, confiscated the raft, which was unintentionally but completely destroyed in the confiscation process.
Labels: Jamaica Bay, new yorky, trip report
3 comments:
- will said...
sounds like an interesting trip. were you aware the movie featuring scenes from Son of Town Hall's construction, testing, inspection by the Coast Guard, and then crossing will be shown as part of PortSide NY's Atlantic Basin programming this coming thursday night, July 22? well-worth it.
- Brian said...
I didn't know this craft was still afloat. I spotted it in Jamaica Bay a couple of years ago and thought, "Finally. A boat that gets more stares than Puffin."
- Gretchen said...
Hi! What a trip! That was my long-abandoned raft! Funny to see it now. Love the photos! Gretchen
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