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Sewickley Montessori to add middle school program
As Montessori schools around the world celebrate 106 years of the educational philosophy founded by Maria Montessori, staff at Montessori Children's Community in Sewickley are starting to plan their own historic celebration.
Starting in the fall, the local school will be the first in the Pittsburgh area to offer a middle school program for seventh- and eighth-graders, the school's head said.
The local school, founded by Terri Modic, school head and head teacher, has been in Sewickley for 21 years. It has 106 students from preschool through the sixth grade and stresses an individualized, independent approach to education.
In the new middle school program, community activities will be more prevalent, Modic said.
Students will follow Montessori's Pedagogy Place philosophy, where lessons revolve around what surrounds them.
"They might study physics in the morning and apply what they learn to the engineering of the Sewickley Bridge. They might study chemistry in the morning and take water samples from the Ohio River in the afternoon," she said.
Students also will study the history of the area relating to the railroads, the steel industry and Native Americans, along with the area's geography and biology.
Modic said she began thinking about including a middle school program more than a year ago. It moved forward in the fall when parents started to express their desire for the seventh and eighth grades.
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Both women attended Montessori's 106th anniversary celebration at the school, where children sang and expressed their thoughts about what the school meant to them.
They talked about peace, respect, harmony, learning to be responsible, freedom to move around and to work on whatever project they want, and feeling comfortable talking about problems with others.
Both Williams and Lapinski said their children's love of the school is one of the reasons why they want Montessori to expand to the seventh and eighth grades.
"The longer they are at Montessori, the better off they will be," said Williams, who has two children at the school, Kieran in fifth grade and Cara in first.
"We dread them leaving after sixth to go to a traditional school."
Lapinski, whose children, Drew, a fifth-grader, and Leah, a third-grader, also attend the school, agreed.
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The women talked about their children learning to be confident leaders, be innovative, think creatively and work independently.
"Substance is what you get here — and friendships. They know everyone in their classroom so well because there is so much collaboration; yet it's individually based, too," Lapinski said.
Williams said Montessori is "a small but strong school."
"It never feels too small. The kids are so happy, and the teachers know everyone."
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Trenté loudspeakers
as reviewed by Bob Neill
Last time out, in my review of the new Reynaud Mk III Twins, I made an observation that surprised me but not those of you who have been around the audio block a few more times than I have. To wit: recordings perfectly recovered by one of the world's best studio monitors, though quite beautiful and tonally on the money, nevertheless sounded less like musical performances than they did on the tiny Reynauds. I had come upon what is apparently one of the classic anomalies of audio: truth to source does not necessarily mean truth to musical performance. My experience with the Twins' slightly larger and three times as expensive brothers, the recently reconfigured Trentés (pronounced Tren-tay) the past six weeks has taken this observation into the sky. While a piano coming through the Trentés lacks some of the pristine beauty and sense of sonic perfection it has coming through my Monitor 40's, it also sounds more immediate and far more exciting. It is all piano, with no frame around it. Some speakers will let you see perfectly all there is on a recording but won't let you touch it. If I were required to reduce to one word my description of both the new Twins and Trentés, it would be 'tactile.'
Reynauds and Harbeths
It is possible to get something of this tactile quality with Harbethsshould one want to do thatby sitting at the apex of an equilateral triangle with the speakers aimed directly at you. This is how I came to listen to my Monitor 40's over the past year after finding them a bit reticent from a more casual seating arrangement. Alan Shaw has since informed me that since his monitor series was designed to be used in studios where near-field listening is the rule, even a slightly projective presentation is unwanted. More important, he feels that 'real' sound is a bit distant:
I offer this quotation from designer Shaw (with his permission) because it is the clearest statement I've heard about why Harbeths sound as they doand why, in particular, they sound different from Reynauds. To say that a speaker is 'laid back' is of minimal interest to me because a lot of speakers that sound laid back don't sound like each other. But to say that our experience of realitythe very object we are trying to reproduceis laid back is of great interest. Now listen to Jean Marie Reynaud: "Alive, aliveSound must be alive. Speakers must be able to express the life and joy in music." What we have here is a significant difference in prioritiesand perhaps in principle as well, which is something a good deal more concrete than we usually have in comparing audio components.
Robert Greene in his review of the M40's in TAS a while back, quoted a visiting friend as saying that a piano coming through his M40's sounded "real but more beautiful." I couldn't say it better myself. Music never sounds "more beautiful" through Reynaud Trentés. It sounds compelling. ("I don't want anyone preparing a meal while listening to my speakers." JMR). If you prefer a little distance in your recorded music, the slight remove that tends to make beauty and tonal purity the first priorityand I'm not talking about euphony here or lyricism, I'm talking about reality conceived as being slightly "away," in Alan Shaw's senseyou will likely find the Trentés a little too present. On the other hand, if you like your music present'live'you may well find them the very best of their popular mid $2000 class, as I did.
I have characterized Harbeths as being "direct" in their presentation. They are indeed, compared with Spendors: but having spent the last couple of months with Reynauds, I now hear the Harbeth directness as comparable to that of a photograph taken by an 8 x 10 view camera, with its remarkable resolution and depth of focus. Reynauds are direct in a different way. They are direct in the manner of a performance. The focus is on the foreground. We are aware of performers directly before us, in the room, where we can nearly feel their physical presence. The presentation is less finished, but more affecting. Reynauds are expressive, joyful speakers. If Spendorswith apologies to William Wordsworthare ultimately about music as lyrical ballads and Harbeths are about music as a portrait of music, Reynauds seem to be about music as live performance. In the artificial world of music reproduction it is becoming clear we can't achieve all of these worthy goals equally well.
Which are the real Reynauds?
I have had the Trentés in my house a good deal longer than I had the Twins because they are a good deal more versatile than their little brothers and harder to pin down. Though they have an identifiable character, they revealed a multiplicity of personas, depending on what I fed them. Where the Twins clearly preferred slightly warmer single-ended electronics and did not respond all that well to my exceptionally neutral sounding, balanced Blue Circle AG hybrid electronics, the Trentés responded well, though differently, to both the AG's and to warmer preamps and amps. I fed them caviar and I fed them beans and they never flinchedeverything came out music. I listened to them on the AG electronics, which cost-wise are way over their head; on the more reasonable single-ended BC 3 Despina and Galatea with my AG8000's (still in balanced); and on both the BC21.1 and BC3 Galatea with the new BC24 hybrid stereo amp. These last are the combinations that would seem to make the most sense economically. The BC24 did extremely well with the Twins last month, as you may remember.
The Trentés sounded clearest, most authoritative, and most dynamic on the balanced AG's,Blue Circle's most straightforward electronics. I expect their performance on the AG's is generally representative of how they would sound on most premier solid state or hybrid preamps and amps. On this AG3000/AG8000 combination, the Trentés were able to retrieve a stunningly transparent, naturally smooth but also robust version of what's on recordings, coupled with Reynaud's characteristic immediacy, presence, contrast, and tactility. On the Arditti Quartet's recent recording of Berio's String Quartets (Montaigne), the electricity and dynamics were riveting. On the Emerson Quartet's Haydn Project, the instruments were clear, powerful, and bursting with vibrancy. Pamela and Claude Frank's Beethoven Violin and Piano Sonatas (BMG Music Masters) were clear, crisp, smooth, beautiful, and illuminating. I found this recording thrilling on the AG's. In summary, I would say the AG/AG pair seem to maximize the Trente's powers of musical resolution, which are truly remarkable. I have heard what I consider to be their principal competitionHarbeth Compact 7's and Spendor SP1/2'son these same electronics, and the Trentés in all respects sounded superior. No one I know would put $2600 speakers on $26,000 electronics; but I'm telling you here that if you did, the Trentés would give you serious second thoughts about how expensive speakers need to be to truly get it.
With the single-ended BC3 Despina and Galatea, Blue Circle's more sensuously expressive electronics, running through my Blue Circle SE/XLR converter to the AG8000's running in balanced, the Trentés projected a warmer, airier, slightly softer and less contrasty, more blended presentation. The result was a little firmer sounding than I am accustomed to hearing from a system with a BC3 in it because the preamp was connected to David Elrod's EPS Signature 2 power cord. Edges were softened a bit, in comparison with the AG/AG combination, a little more on the Despina than on the Galatea, but since the characteristic Reynaud immediacy and presence were still there, this came through more as ease than euphony. And then there was that special single-ended thingthe ability to count feathers in the dark! On the Florestan Trio's latest, Beethoven Piano Trios, (Hyperion), the violin and cello were especially detailed and feathery. In direct comparison with the AG/AG combination on the Emerson's Haydn Project, the strings were warmer, more elegant, more delicate, airer, less forcefulthough still vibrant. On both combinations, they were immediate and tactile. That is the Reynaud contribution, the constant in both hearings. On rock music, it was nice to have the greater dynamic punch and stronger back-bone of the balanced AG's. Feathers don't help with rock. The Galatea, with its larger power supply, produced a notably firmer and clearer presentation overall than the Despina and the Trentés were a bit more responsive to it.
Several weeks after CES, the BC24, Gilbert Yeung's updating of the much loved BC6, arrived, along with a BC21.1 (BC21 with 6922 tubes), and I got to hear a similar but also subtly different pair of Trentés. Gilbert Yeung's preamps make strong statements, so it is not always easy for a reviewer to hear through them to get at exactly what his amps are doing. I pretty much know what the BC24 sounds likeI have heard it on both a BC3, which warmed it considerably, and on the all solid state preamp in the Purse and Shoes, which on the Twins was a superb match. With the BC21.1, the combined impression of the 21.1 and 24 through the Trentés was of a less refined version of the AG/AG approach: a bit yangyfull of beans and energy. Music was clear, crisp, spunky, and very dynamic. Jimmy Heath's sax on the recently reissued Freddy Hubbard recording, Hub Cab (Blue Note) was about as there as a sax can get. Jazz and rock music will love this combination. The 21.1/24 combination definitely asks the Trentés to play music sunny side up, which they are fully capable of doing. (Note: A digital front end less robust than my Naim CDS2 would doubtless soften this presentation a bit and I would recommend that.)
The BC3 Galatea and BC24 were, as you might expect, in contrast, more like a version of the Galatea/AG8000 combination, only here the compromise was more modest. The overall presentation was more laid back than the 21.1/24, smoother, with an increased sense of ease with very little loss of clarity, which is unusual when these virtues are featured. The sense of space, especially depth, was very pleasing. With this combination, Hubbard's trumpet and Julian Priesters's trombone on the Hubbard disc were the starsrich, smooth, presentand percussion was present without some of the insistence they had with the 21.1 in the system. This is definitely a system I could live with for a long time.
At about this point in the audition, I stepped back and marveled at how many truly different pairs of speakers I'd been listening to. Clearly, the Trentés can go pretty much anywhere you want to goand excel there, so long as you want the music in the room and full of life. The AG/AG combination had shown me, allowing for the scale and bandwidth limitations of a stand-mounted monitor, how much musical resolution the Trentés were capable of. The BC3 Galatea/AG8000 combination had taken a more sensuous view of this resolution, turning the Trentés into sophisticated romantics. And the BC21.1/24 and Galatea/24 combinations showed me that these takes on music could be had from the Trentés for what, in high-end terms, we have come to call reasonable money.
Not only did the Trentés sound different on different electronics, they also sounded different (and generally better) on JMR's Magic Stands than on my own, as did, by the way, the Twins. The stands arrived too late for my Twin review. The improvement, interestingly enough, was mainly in the midrange, which becomes a bit more solicitous as the bottom end becomes flatter, which is what the MS's are designed to achieve. My own stands tended to give both Reynauds a subjectively more authoritative bottom end, but when I introduced the Magic Stands, while that authority seemed a little diminished, the mids improved, suggesting that it was an intrusive artificial bass boost that was my stands' principal contribution! Once I'd adapted to the Magic Stands, I stayed with them happily.
Preliminary Conclusions
While the Trentés are more resolving and more versatile than the Twins, both speakers are clearly on the same course. On all electronics, the Trentés put a premium on 'in the room' presence and expressive immediacy. Instruments and voices are compelling, not assertive, compelling. Not to be denied or ignored. You feel your attention is being called to. The experience of listening to Reynauds is comparable with listening to 'live' music at a concert hall, where it is (generally) equally impossible to ignore the performance, whereas many music systems are surprisingly easy to be distracted from, to talk over. Listening to music on the Trentés, you are more inclined to shush your seven-year-old when he interrupts Ida Kafavian and Robert Levin playing Schumann (ECM). There is something about the performance that feels unique, not likely to be repeated, to be lost if not attended to.
Do they have any faults? Any speaker worth listening tothat is any speaker that has a point of view will not please everyone. Those who don't share Spendor's priorities and point of view will say that those speakers err on the side of charity; those who don't share Alan Shaw's view that the sound of reality is slightly distant will say that Harbeths err on the side of civility. Those who hearken more to 'the beauty of innuendoes than to the beauty of inflections,' will likely say Reynauds err on the side of effusiveness. The Trentés have never met an instrument or musical phrase they didn't want us to hear: "Attendez!" you can almost hear them say.
Like all smallish stand-mounted monitors, Reynauds are not ideally suited to full-scale orchestral music, though I'll have to say that on the basis of Rubbra's Symphony 3 (Chandos) and John Adams' Naïve and Sentimental Music (ECM), they can sound surprisingly rich and full, even in my 5000 cubic foot room. Listening to the Kings College Choir doing A Festival of Lessons and Carols (EMI), the organ in particular, while not window-rattling, was deeply present. With Christopher Herrick's Complete Bach Organ Music (Hyperion), both the reedy brilliance of the smaller pipes and the throbbing weight of the large ones unleashed by the foot pedals were there in surprisingly credible scale. For that matter, even the low end of the piano sometimes startled me with its impact. On the other hand, the Trentés could not quite satisfy Abbado's Beethoven Symphony Nine (DGG), which requires weight as well as extension. They got a lot of the necessary extension but not the weight: they just can't move enough air to convince us that all of those large brass instruments and double-basses are here. That said, they do symphony orchestras as well as any stand-mounted speaker I've heard that doesn't sacrifice detail, especially if you crank 'em up a bit.
Other Points
On bi-wiring the Trentés, M. Reynaud says, "Because of the crossover used, bi-wiring generally offers a real improvement: the sound will be more airy and there will be better bass damping." My experience did not confirm JMR's recommendations when I bi-wired with my Au24. I found the Trentés sounded a bit phasey, thin, and less smooth. Very unpleasant. I took this to Jean Marie, who explained my experience as follows: "Bi-wiring is an improvement with some cables and not with some others. Your cable is probably excellent in term of capacitance resistance and time group propagation; but doubling cable with these characteristics could generate phase problems at the crossover entrance, even with the kind of crossover used for the Trente. It's not a mystery, simply a logical consequence of the design choices of the cable manufacturer. I have always said that a very good single cable is better than two of lower quality, but it is also true that two very good cables of a design that prioritizes time group propagation, could be a bad choice."
Because I happen to love Au's presentation of music, I ended up following another of Jean Marie's recommendations: wiring up a single cable with the positive spade to the tweeter's positive tap and the negative spade to the woofer's negative tap, bridging with Au24 jumpers. This arrangement sounded excellent. You will clearly need to experiment for yourself.
Experiment with toe-in. I came to like a full 45 degreesspeakers aimed directly at me, but I'm getting old and have probably lost a bit of hearing on the high end!
The Trentés are very handsome, especially in the cherry stained beech. The tweeter, mounted on top to maximize dispersion, is encased in matching wood!
They are very solid and appear to be very well made.
Final Conclusions
How good does a speaker have to be? For many of those who value Jean Marie Reynaud's point of view and priorities, the point of diminishing returns may well set in with the Trentés, just as it does with the Harbeth Compact 7 and Spendor SP 1/2's in their respective marques. How good a speaker has to be depends almost entirely on your experience. It is evident that I like the Trentés a lot but I have lived with and grown accustomed to larger speakers with more authority, weight, and fullness; and so I feel the need, which you may not, to press on to the re-voiced Offrandes, which M. Reynaud tells me have gained nearly an octave of bass over their predecessors; and then to the new floor-standing Concordes. It will be an exciting spring in our house.
Two weeks after I posted the above, I got a note from JMR suggesting I experiment with his own proprietary speaker cable, HP. 216A (which is used to wire the Trentes, Offrandes, and Concordes internally) to test his thesis about the benefits of bi-wiring Reynaud speakers. I have done so and M. Reynaud is extraordinarily correct. Everything I said above about the Trentes is even truer on bi-wired HP. 216A. Bass and air in particular improve significantly; there is also added quickness and liveliness, if you can imagine Trentes needing that at times they sounded almost like active speakers. I have not heard all of the competition but Ill have to say that among those cables I have heard, bi-wired HP. 216A is clearly the cable of choice with Reynaud speakers.
At some future date I hope to be able to compare the Reynaud cable with Au 24 on some non-Reynaud speakers to see just how well its excellence travels.
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They serve a decent breakfast; gravy and biscuits every day, fresh cooked waffles, cereals,yogurt, boiled eggs, fruit, great coffee. And most of the staff was great. One of the staff was a snot nosed brat that was not helpful at all. WiFi was hit or miss. If you can find the Sugar Loaf on Kayak it's a great deal.
Room stunk like dog do do and wet hair from same. Light bulbs burned out. Told front desk without any action. Police took down armed persons right outside our door. Got sick from eating hard boiled eggs from the breakfast buffet. Used to be good but not anymore..
The breakfast was good. The normal rates are over priced for the age of the facility; but when you can book through an internet booking site, the prices are more in line with what the rooms are worth.
There were two good things about this place. The guy working the front counter when we checked in on Feb 5 (2016) was very nice and helpful. The other thing is the biscuits and gravy in the continental breakfast were pretty good. There were quite a few things we didn't like. We were told all the rooms in the hotel were non-smoking, but ours stunk badly of cigarette smoke. Tried calling the front desk to let them know, but the phone was inoperative. The carpets were filthy and stained. One bed made a large clanking sound anytime you sat on it or rolled over while laying on it. Out of the four clean towels provided, one had a large grease stain and one had, what looked like, FECES on it. When I brought the fecal towel to the attention of the front desk lady on the morning of Feb 7th (2016), she responded with, "what do you want me to do!" In other words she was very rude. I recommend staying away from this motel. I've stayed here several times over the past few years and it has been getting progressively worse.
We didn't have bath towels in our room, so I went to the front desk to ask for two. I was told they were still in the laundry room, so another staff member went to go get them for me. She said she'd deliver them to my room, which was great, but she came back with a few pool towels and said they didn't have any bath towels available. I would have liked to be told that I could check back in the morning at the front desk for bath towels -- pool towels are not absorbent, let alone, super tiny. It just seemed a little weird. Also, the pool was open until 10pm, but there are no lights on either around the pool or in the pool. We went at around 9:30 and decided it was too creepy to swim.
Mini refrigerator,micro,coffee maker in room. Good coffee and waffles at breakfast Room was next to a stairwell where smokers constantly puffed smoke into our room. Add oat meal to breakfast
Pool, breakfast, friendly manager. Dirty carpets in room.
the rooms were clean and comfortable this is our third visit and found the service lacking. It took two hous to get a bulb for the room and that's only after we went to the desk. No coffee in the morning (7am) only cereal, old muffins for food. Very disappointed on this trip
Seemed newly remodeled and breakfast was alright
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Just off highway 97, convenient. Wi-Fi internet too slow, gave up trying to check. Hard boiled eggs on ice-too cold, would prefer scrambled eggs and bacon.
Friendly staff, clean rooms Internet didn't work in my room even though the offer high speed internet.


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The Example of John 2:1-11
by Edward "Mickey" Klink
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The goal of this article is to use the familiar scene of the wedding at Cana to show how an understanding of an ancient literary convention can explain a difficult phrase in the narrative, and help the contemporary interpreter grasp the author's theological intentions.
At a wedding at Cana, described in John 2:1-11, Jesus is approached by Mary his mother and told that the wedding party has run out of wine. Jesus responds in a bewildering manner: ti, evmoi. kai. soi,( gu,nai (Jn 2:4). This idiomatic phrase is difficult to translate. The NRS V is probably the most rigid: "Woman, what concern is that to you and to me?" The NAS attempts an awkward–and maybe even more confusing–softened translation: "Woman, what do I have to do with you?" And the NIV tries to eliminate all offense: "Dear woman, why do you involve me?" Yet the translation difficulties are only the beginning, for Mary's response to Jesus in 2:5 appears oblivious to Jesus' apparent refusal: "His mother said to the servants, 'Do whatever he tells you.'" Was Jesus response a refusal or, as some translations handle it, a legitimate hesitancy? In either case, why did Mary not take it seriously? Explanations of Jesus' initial refusal followed by his immediate concession have produced some creative exegesis, usually in relation to the historical occurrence of the scene itself.
The awkwardness of this passage is lessened when the contemporary reader realizes that a literary convention implicit in John 2:1-11 explains to us how it should be read. The Gospels are clearly functioning within the confines of an ancient literary genre: Greco-Roman biography. At the same time, the Gospels are intimately connected to the Old Testament narratives, as they themselves reveal. Scholars have long noted that the Elijah-Elisha tradition supplies a conceptual background for the miracles of Jesus. A detailed comparison between 2 Kings 4:1-7 and John 2:1-11 makes this clear.
Both passages begin with a common aspect in miracle stories, a description of the scene. In both cases the initial characters (widow and the mother of Jesus) and the problem (creditors approaching and no wine left at the wedding) are made known to the miracle worker. Following the setting, both miracle workers engage with the person in need, though in different ways. In both cases the miracle workers respond to the problem by providing what was needed. In both cases food was replenished in appropriate jars; more than what was expected. Following the miraculous result, each passage closes with a purposeful summary statement. In 2 Kings 4 the statement is made by Elisha himself; whereas in John 2 the comments by the "chief steward" point to a thematic message presented by the episode, followed by the narrator's comment concerning this first sign of Jesus. The structural similarity between these two narratives is striking.
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|1- Setting
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|2 – Elisha's answer
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|6 – Result
|11 – Closing summary
|7 – Closing summary
But the allusions to the same type of miracle and a similar literary structure are not the most surprising aspects that connect these two texts. Jesus' response to his mother, "what concern is that to you and to me?" in 2:4, is also connected to the Elisha narratives; but this time the link is not the miraculous works but to the miracle worker. The same phrase is spoken by Elisha in 2 Kings 3:13. Commentators have made the connection in the past, but merely as a means to make sense of this difficult Greek phrase in translation. Jesus' statement refers almost directly to the scene in 2 Kings 3 where Elisha was confronted by the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom, who were going to battle against the king of Moab. After marching for seven days they ran out of water. They called upon Elisha to inquire on their behalf. According to the LXX (the Greek translation of the Old Testament), Elisha responded to the kings with the identical phrase used by Jesus in John 2:4 (ti, evmoi. kai. soi,). In the Old Testament the phrase can be used in two ways: when one feels unjustly bothered by another (What have I done to you that you should do this to me? Cf. Jud. 11:13, I Kings 17:18) or when one feels that another's matter is no business of his own (That is your business; how am I involved? Cf. 2 Chron. 35:21; 1 Esd. 1:24). The latter seems to be the case in both 2 Kings 3:13 and John 2:4. In both texts the narrative reveals a reluctant prophet who is called upon to provide for one in need, a need the prophet sees as an unwanted involvement. The expression always distances the two parties. The tone is not rude, but certainly abrupt. "The expression is, at least minimally, a measured rebuke."2 Elisha agrees to the request because he has regard for king Jehoshapat of Judah, while Jesus' reason for complying is not mentioned. Thus, the fourth evangelist deliberately places the miracle story in John 2:1-11 within a motif of the prophet Elisha. But how does this prophet motif function? How do the narrative and thematic connections between Jesus and Elisha enlighten our understanding of John 2:1-11, and specifically Jesus' response to his mother in 2:4?
Rather than examining the scene between Jesus and his mother at a wedding only from the perspective of a historical event, the connections between John 2 and the Elisha narratives allow us to place Jesus' response within the literary convention of a prophet "type." In Judaism the great prophets became types; they occupied unique positions or roles in both oral and literary traditions. The various prophets represented epochal movements of God in the history of their people, movements that were expected to find their culmination in God's eschatological plan. Jesus was not outside that tradition but within it. It is clear in John that a prophetic motif is at work in his depiction of Jesus. As George Buchanan claimed over thirty years ago: "The Gospel of John shows more interest in prophets than any of the Synoptic Gospels…."3 Today, the prophet "type" has been duly recognized. But a "prophet" motif cannot be estranged from the content of the narratives, for it was intended to serve as a literary convention. For example, "Old Testament figures such as Moses, Elijah, and Elisha… served as models for conceptualizing Jesus at both pre-literary and literary stages of Gospel tradition. … The role into which Jesus is typecast in the Gospels is an amalgam of existing conceptions of the categories eschatological prophet and messianic king."4 Unfortunately, these types are far removed from the contemporary reader. As Robert Alter explains: "One of the chief difficulties we encounter as modern readers in perceiving the artistry of biblical narrative is precisely that we have lost most of the keys to the conventions out of which it was shaped."5 Alter argued that "there are certain prominent elements of repetitive compositional pattern" in biblical narrative that are a conscious convention, one which has been designated "type-scene." For Alter, the concept of "type-scene"6 is based upon the assumption "that there is a series of recurrent narrative episodes attached to the careers of biblical heroes...."8 So in some cases, "the biblical authors, counting on their audience's familiarity with the features and function of the type-scene, could merely allude to the type-scene or present a transfigured version of it." While Alter's discussion of the "type-scene" was primarily oriented to the Old Testament, it is now commonplace to see the type-scene convention in the New Testament narratives, especially in the depiction of Jesus. The recognition of type-scenes in the Gospels allows the modern interpreter to read the Gospel narratives in light of literary conventions common to their authors' creative context. Alter explains: "As modern readers of the Bible, we need to relearn something of this mode of perception that was second nature to the original audiences."9 It is now widely accepted that the authors of the Gospels are teaching us to perceive Jesus through patterns of the Old Testament.
I suggest that the recognition of the presupposed literary convention of the type-scene implicit in John 2:1-11 brings needed clarity to several aspects of this enigmatic passage. First, Jesus' response to his mother in 2:4 firmly establishes his prophetic mission. The phrase "What concern is that to you and to me?" or as we might say in modern English idiom, "Why do you interfere in my affairs?" is not meant to be mysterious. Jesus intends that his allusion to the Elisha narratives in light of the type-scene is to be recognized. This "strange" comment between a mother and son at a wedding feast is overshadowed by the "prophetic" context in which John has placed it. To attempt to explain the comment as simply an exchange between mother and son misses the larger intent of the passage. This is made all the more clear by 2:4b where Jesus declares, "My hour has not yet come." Jesus' response to his mother is in response to another request, the one in response to which he came (1:9). Although Jesus eventually answers the request, he does so as a prophet who is living out a "prophetic" mission. John has no need to show why Jesus eventually did respond to his mother's request, for the Elisha narratives provide explanation. In 2 Kings 3:14 Elisha responds to the kings' request by saying, "Were it not that I have regard for king Jehoshaphat of Judah, I would give you neither a look nor a glance." The silence of Jesus is due to his reliance on the words of Elisha and the assumption that a son would have a similar "regard" for his mother. As Alter stated, "[T]he biblical authors, counting on their audience's familiarity with the features and function of the type-scene, could merely allude to the type-scene…."10 Thus, Jesus' response to a wedding request by his mother in 2:4 is able to exemplify a larger request already imposed upon Jesus, one that he will accomplish during his prophetic mission.
Second, the entire scene in John 2:1-11 places Jesus' prophetic mission as the final stage of a divine movement already in motion. By using Elisha as a "type," the fourth evangelist places Jesus in a related divine mission. But this mission is different, as 2:10 makes clear. After Jesus turns the water into wine he instructs the stewards to take the wine to the chief steward (2:8). After tasting the new wine the chief steward exclaims: "Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now" (2:10). Frequently commentators take the chief steward's remarks to be in reference to the "quality of the wine that resulted from the miracle"11 or to the custom of serving the best wine first.12 But when seen within the prophetic type-scene a different intent may be discerned. Since the narrative has already made implicit the connection between Elisha and Jesus, and has already shown that Jesus' mission is a prophetic mission similar to the prophets of old, John intends the chief steward's comment to serve as irony (as is normal for John–see for example Caiaphas' comment in 11:49-52), in order to differentiate between the work of previous prophets and Jesus' prophetic mission. The new wine that is better than the old is Jesus himself who is the last of a long line of "prophets" and the greatest of them all. In contrast to the custom of wine distribution at weddings where the best is served first, John explains that in the plan of God the best "wine" will be served last.
Third, the prophetic type-scene, by functioning to define the mission and task of Jesus, introduces him to the readers of the Fourth Gospel. John has already made clear in the prologue that the identity of Jesus was assumed to be linked to the "prophets" in some sense (1:17, 21, 45). The first "sign" of Jesus "anticipates the significance of Jesus' mission, as the water of the Jewish rites of purification gives way to the wine and joy of the new life that Jesus provides."13 The use of the term "hour" in 2:4 leads toward a culmination of which this passage is just the beginning. As Brown explains, "The 'hour' of which we hear so much in John, the hour of Jesus' passion, death, resurrection, and ascension, is the culminating hour in the long history of God's dealings…. Jewish customs, feasts, and religious institutions… find their fulfillment in Jesus."14 And the prophets were primary figures in this "long history." Thus, the normal theological themes within the narrative no longer stand alone. On its own John 2:1-11 portrays Jesus' prophetic mission and the divine task for which he has come. Yet, within the Gospel as a whole, it is just one of many "signs" of the person of Jesus that is meant to lead the reader to believe that Jesus is the Christ (20:31). The prophets had characterized the messianic age as a time when wine would flow liberally (Jer 31:12; Hos 14:7; Am 9:13-14; we see the same ideas in the apochryphal literature, e.g. 2 Bar 29:5; 1 En 10:19). The Gospel of John reveals Mary's concern about ending the wedding without embarrassment, while simultaneously revealing Jesus' concern for his identity and role as the prophet from God.
1 This article is adapted from Edward W. Klink III, "What Concern is that to you and to me? John 2:1-11 and the Elisha Narratives," Neotestamentica 39.2 (2005): 273-87.
2 D. A. Carson, The Gospel According to John (Eerdmans, 1991), 171.
3 George Wesley Buchanan, "The Samaritan Origin of the Gospel of John," in Jacob Neusner, ed., Religions in Antiquity: Essays in Memory of Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (Brill, 1968), 149-75; see also Wayne A. Meeks, The Prophet-King: Moses Traditions and the Johannine Christology (Brill, 1967), and J. Louis Martyn, "We Have Found Elijah," in Robert Hammerton-Kelly and Robin Scroggs, eds., Jews, Greeks, and Christians: Religious Cultures in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honor of William David Davies (Brill, 1976).
4 David E. Aune, The New Testament in its Literary Environment (Westminster, 1987), 54.
5 Robert Alter, The Art of Biblical Narrative (George Allen & Unwin, 1981), 47.
6 Ibid, 50.
7 Ibid, 51.
8 Ibid, 58.
9 Ibid, 62.
10 Ibid, 58.
12 Raymond E. Brown, The Gospel According to John, Vol. 1 (Doubleday, 1966), 100; C. K. Barrett, The Gospel According to St. John, 2nd ed. (SPCK, 1978), 193, emphasis added.
13 Andrew T. Lincoln, Truth on Trial: The Lawsuit Motif in the Fourth Gospel (Hendrickson, 2000), 15.
14 Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the Gospel of John, Francis J. Moloney, ed.(Doubleday, 2003), 237.


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"The findings do suggest there is some benefit to quitting smoking," said Amy Ferketich of Ohio State University College of Public Health in Columbus, who worked on the study.
However, quitters who were older or who had earlier stages of lung cancer did not have an advantage over smokers, she and her colleagues report in the journal Cancer.
Ferketich's group used medical records from 4,200 lung cancer patients treated at eight cancer centers around the country. Patients who never smoked were more likely to survive the less advanced cancers - stage 1, 2 or 3 - than were former or current smokers, the researchers found.
Among smokers with stage 1 or 2 lung cancer, for instance, 72 percent survived at least two years, compared to 93 percent of the never-smokers and 76 percent of people who'd kicked the habit a year or more before diagnosis.
Only 15 percent of smokers with stage 4 disease survived two years, while 40 percent of never-smokers and 20 percent of former smokers did.
After adjusting the numbers for factors such as age, race and radiation treatment, the researchers determined that quitters were just as likely to die from the early-stage cancers as were current smokers.
But for advanced cancers, people under 85 who had stopped smoking more than a year before their diagnosis survived longer than smokers. Forty-five-year-old former smokers, for instance, were 30 percent less likely to die from stage 4 lung cancer within two years than were current smokers.
Smoking is the number one risk factor for developing lung cancer, and studies have shown that people who quit are less likely to get it than current smokers.
It's not clear why smokers already diagnosed with lung cancer fare worse than non-smokers, Ferketich said.
"In general, never smokers are healthier individuals, so they tend to, in a lot of trials, have better outcomes with disease than people who continue to smoke," she said. "Just the continued exposure to tobacco might make the disease progress more quickly in smokers compared to never-smokers who don't have that exposure."
Ferketich said it's also possible that smoking could influence the biology of the cancer, and perhaps smokers get tumors that never-smokers are less likely to develop. She added that it's never too late to quit.
SOURCE: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/11/us-smoking-youth-idUSBRE89A1EF20121011
Cancer, online September 28, 2012.
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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Next publication
Got started on another short story, "Mak Siccar" wherein I tackle the Titanic and alternate history.
Getting ready for Soonercon next weekend.
Friday, May 29, 2009
I've had a story idea bouncing around in my brain for a few years, about the mysterious appearance of an otherworldly airship at a small East Texas airport during a vicious thunderstorm. For some reason, everything finally clicked in my sub-conscious and last night I sat down to write the story.
I finished a 2,700-word first draft by the time I went to bed. Tonight I fleshed it out a bit to 3,200 words, and read it to Patricia. She also liked it. It's a short, quick alternate history/fantasy read, and it will probably be ready to head for the slush piled on Monday.
Also, the story - "Great White Ship" - will probably be a good story to read at Soonercon.
Here's hoping.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Oww, my head
Someone left a door open yesterday and the girls made a dash for it. Patricia had to work hard to get them back inside. Today she did get to work at the high school. I knocked off after lunch and was home by 1:30, to the girls have some company. I feel better being here. So do they.
Watched "The Goode Family" last night. I liked it, Patricia thought it was stupid. Well, that's why we have two DirecTV receivers at the house.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
A chuckle of recognition
You may recall that the Fox Network announced last October they will not be renewing the long-running series "King of the Hill", which will close out its 13th season next year.
"King of the Hill" is the second-longest running animated series in history – after "The Simpsons" – and in addition to being very popular, garnered much critical acclaim.
Of course, it has always been popular here in Texas, since it's set in Texas. Neither of the two men behind the series – Mike Judge and Greg Daniels – are native Texans, but Judge lived many years in the Dallas area and obviously drew upon people and places he knew.
The family of Hank and Peggy Hill, their son Bobby and the niece who lived with them, LuAnn Platter – who came to stay with them after her mother went to prison for stabbing her boyfriend – just rang true, along with their neighbors, Wayne Gribble the conspiracy theorist, Bill Dauterive – who's suffered from low self-esteem ever since his wife left him – and Jeff Boomhauer, always nearly unintelligible since he both mumbles and drawls ( I didn't know there were people who did that, until I came to East Texas).
The humor on the show was accurate and gentle-natured; the chuckles came naturally. We laughed at the things we recognized. Sometimes I didn't get some of the humor, not being a native Texan. Other times I was uncomfortable, as the show reminded me that, indeed, I'm not a native Texan. But it was always fun.
Mike Judge now lives in Austin, and I guess when he wanted to come up with another project to follow "King of the Hill", he drew upon the people and places he now sees every day in that bastion of political correctness. The result – another project with Greg Daniels – was sold to ABC, and it debuts Wednesday night. "The Goode Family" is a gentle satire on eco-freaks and political liberals who try so hard to do good – hence the name.
The father of the family, Gerald Goode, "comes from a long line of over-educated liberals," in Judge's own words. Wife Helen is a liberal because her dad is such a right-wing curmudgeon. They have a daughter, Bliss, who is at that awkward stage of being a teenager who just wants to fit in, and is constantly chagrinned by her parents' behavior.
Being such good politically correct liberals, years ago Gerald and Helen Goode decided to adopt a baby from Africa, but were flustered when the baby arrived from SOUTH Africa. That's how you get a blond-headed white teenager named Ubuntu.
The family is vegan – meaning not only will they not eat meat, they won't eat anything that comes from an animal (hence, no eggs, no milk, etc). Their dog, Che, is one of the funniest characters in the show as he frantically tries to catch squirrels and neighborhood pets to get some meat!
I don't know if liberals will chuckle at themselves as much as more conservative, traditional people did when they watched "King of the Hill". I hope so, it would do them some good. As the old saying goes, if you can't laugh at yourself sometimes, other people will do it for you.
(Originally published in the Mount Pleasant (Tx.) Daily Tribune, Monday, May 25, 2009.
Monday, May 25, 2009
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
New from Fantastic Books
Warren Lapine, on his livejournal blog, yesterday announced the publication of two books by James Gunn, a collection - "Human Voices" and the novel, "This Fortress World".
Here is the rundown from the Barnes and Noble web site, from the links in Warren's blog:
In Human Voices you will find stories covering the past three decades of James Gunn's career: imaginative, entertaining speculations revealing insight-and foresight-into human nature now and in the future, which are the unmistakable hallmarks of his best fiction.
James Gunn's work is always polished, ironic, and deeply concerned about humankind. Long before I knew him, his stories and novels were a pleasure to read, and this has never changed. -George Zebrowski, Award Winning author of Macrolife and Brute Orbits
These are consistently and admirably intelligent, austerely but effectively written stories . . . . - Roland Green, Booklist
SFWA Grand Master James Gunn's This Fortress World takes place in the far future of our galaxy, when countless civilizations have risen and fallen, leaving only their marvelous scientific achievements as legacy to those worlds which have now fallen into a new Dark Age. On the planet Brancusi, William Dane, an acolyte monk in the all-powerful Church, comes into possession of a crystal pebble dropped in the offering plate, a stolen treasure believed to hold untold secrets of mankind's past. There are powerful men who will stop at nothing, including murder, to recover this ancient artifact, and Dane must flee for his life to protect the knowledge the crystal holds.
Once in the outside world to which he is a stranger, and no longer in the comforting isolation of the Cathedral where he has spent his entire life, Dane faces not only internal challenges to his deepest held beliefs, but those external and involving the long-term destiny of mankind-if only he can survive. Deceived, imprisoned, tortured, and now a murderer himself, Dane must not only break down the walls that have kept him alone in the world, but those imposed upon the people through an oppressive centralized government, a government putting its own desires above those of its people.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Has it been 29 years already?
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Contract send-off
It's fairly straightforward and simple and fit on one page in 11.5 Times Roman type.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A little good news
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Today is Spring
Today it's 70 degrees, fahrenheit: The perfect spring temperature. So I guess today is spring. I doubt we'll see this again this year. You only get one day of spring in Texas. Tomorrow it will probably be 99 degrees.
Looking forward to SoonerCon in three weeks. A quick romp through Mapquest revealed that Oklahoma City is 36 miles closer to me than Austin (280 vs. 316). ArmadilloCon in August will be my next convention. Fencon in Dallas is only 120 miles away. Tulsa is only 230 miles, which is why I liked going to Conestoga.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Contract in hand
Strock notes he will be off on vacation for a week. Interesting - back in 2004, Gardner Dozois took a vacation right after accepting "A Rocket for the Republic".
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Talking to the Rotary
He introduced me by saying that when he interviewed me for the job, and we chatted about my hobbies, I was certainly the first editor he ever knew who wrote science fiction.
Having served on dozens of con panels by now, I gave what I feel was a quick but useful overview of the genre, focusing on Texas's role. I brought a few books, and reading some of the blurbs was very entertaining for the crowd.
My texts were the three "Republic of Texas" books by Daniel daCruz (The Ayes of Texas, Texas on the Rocks, and Texas Triumphant), "The Texas Israeli War: 1999", "For Texas and Zed" and "A Spectre is Haunting Texas".
I also mentioned "A Canticle for Liebowitz", pointing out the role Texarkana plays in the story, and that next year is the 50th anniversary of its release.
The talk was well received, and I even had a few people visit with me afterwards.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Boy, am I sore
Really didn't use the chain saw a lot, but it was crucial in hacking through some undergrowth. I accomplished my main goal, which was to clear the forest around the cabin so you can walk around it. This was harder than it sounded. When the two-story structure was moved there, the lot was cleared (which makes no sense to me - why have a cabin in the woods and then chop down the woods? Then again, if the original owners had a brain, they would have paid their taxes and we wouldn't have bought the property at a tax auction).
I want the forest to come back, and on one side, closest to where some pine trees were left standing near the property line, there are some nice trees shooting up. They're taller now than the cabin. They are slowly squeezing out the scrub, which is what I want. Perhaps somewhere down the road I'll think about trimming out the pines, but for now I love them.
As for the cabin itself, and had to re-secure a window that had blown open, but otherwise it was intact. It's hard to work there, there's no utilities - what you call a "hunter's cabin". I suggested to Patricia if we ever install anything, electricity would be the first thing; that way we could have a/c and, more importantly, a refrigerator for food and water.
There's a telephone pole across the street, so I don't think it would be a big deal. Anyway, using the chain saw and pruning shears left me real sore, but I'm on the mend.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Happy Mudder's Day
Starting in March, and going into May, we have these spates of thunderstorms - often day after day - that leaves everything soaked. This is what the meteorologists call the "Storm Season" - when they are most concerned about tornadoes.
Last Saturday was the worst; there were three waves of thunderstorms that rolled through Mount Pleasant. The last - which struck about midnight - flooded our garage.
The wife and I spent all day cleaning the house and garage. The house has been taking a beating because of all the mud, and there's a secondary problem: It's so muddy and unpleasant outside, the dogs don't want to stay in the yard. They've pounded and torn at the patio French Doors to where there is serious damage; one pane is completely busted out. Also, the pounding - combined with the moisture and the swelling of the wood - caused the dead-bolt lock to freeze up. I had to unscrew and remove it to get the door open (there's a regular knob lock on the door). We have a man coming by Monday to look at the damage; hopefully we can plan some kind of repair. What I'm concerned about is that, now that the dogs have learned that they can breach the door, they will still keep at it, so I'm thinking we have have to modify the doors or even hang shutters to protect them.
Patricia used a spray bottle with bleach in the garage to kill the mildew that was springing up along the bottom of the walls. I swept the garage out. With the rains, the lawn was shooting up, and our lawn guy came by and mowed. While we had the garage door open he came in with the leaf blower and blew out all the dust and schmutz. Things are looking better.
Speaking of schmutz, we have a large upright Dirt Devil vaccuum cleaner, and I dumped three camisters' worth of crapola; that's the most dirt I've ever cleaned up in a single day.
This spate of storms also worries me about the undeveloped cabin we own in Henderson County. Tomorrow is a day off, so I plan to drive there and inspect it, see if it is secure and intact. The lot has become very overgrown, and I bit the bullet and shelled out a couple of hundred dollars to buy a small Husqvarna chain saw to clean the underbrush. I unpacked it and gave it a test this afternoon. I've never used a chain saw before, but I need to clean around the cabin and at this point that is the only thing that will do the job.
Oh, I did call my mother and wish her the best.
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Upcoming article
Last fall I had an interview with Doherty in conjunction with the Tor.com web site. I wrote an article for the entertainment page of my newspaper. I had enough notes that I worked up a second story, focusing on Doherty's observations on the changes and future of the publishing industry.
Kreighbaum asked for my address so he could send a contract. I suppose this is a story I'll get paid for.
Friday, May 08, 2009
Friday Night Video
A real '80s video.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
"Tango" nears completion
Looking forward to SoonerCon, now in less than a month. Eric Flint had to drop out as GOH because of his heart by-pass operation. I sent him a get-well card last week.
Adrian Simmons has sent in the list of questions for the third annual "Ones to Watch" series. I'll have to work on those shortly.
OK, the video for today is one of the most different versions of "Blue Tango".
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Keeping in the spirit
Blown away
Saturday afternoon, after putting the paper to bed, the wife and I went to Texarkana to get some dinner. Mount Pleasant has many nice restaurants, but no Olive Garden. We wanted to try the restaurant's latest entree, Lasagna Rotellini. It was pretty good. I had the sausage version, while Patricia had the chicken variety.
While we were eating, it started to rain. It wasn't much, rather intermittent, and afterwards we went across the Mall to the Books a Million. After buying a few books and magazines, we were in the cafe when a really bad storm hit. I mean, it got very dark, the rain came down in buckets, and then the power failed.
When the front doors began to blow open, the employees herded us to the back of the store, fearful the windows were going to shatter. After maybe 45 minutes, things were calm enough that Patricia and I hit the road. We had planned to a few more stops while in the big city (Texarkana is about four times the size of Mount Pleasant), but I suggested we get back while the going was good.
We made it back fine. The girls had been outside when the same storm hit Mount Pleasant, so they were soaked, but I toweled them down and we all settled down for...
the second wave of storms. About 8 p.m. there was another torrential downpour. Our house is on a hill, but the water pooled up to the edge of the patio. Then the tornado sirens went off, and we huddled until the all clear in our "safe room", which happens to be my office. It has the least outside exposure, is relatively small, and also is lined with bookshelves.
Got through that fine, and then in a few hours went to bed until...
the worst of it all hit. about midnight. This time the storm was so bad the water finally went over and was flowing through the patio, taking leaves and twigs with it. We had never seen this before. Thankfully, the house's pad is slightly raised, so the water didn't make it into the house. But that isn't the case with the garage, and it became flooded. We got the girls from their kennels and they stayed with us in the bedroom until the storm passed and the water began to recede.
Strangest sight was a slug about six inches long - you would have thought it was a small snake - that came into the garage while the water was the highest. As soon as the water began to recede it went back to where it had come from. God knows where that is.
Went to the city park this morning and took photos of flood damage for the Monday paper, and then went to breakfast at I-Hop.
Sheesh, so much for Texas looking like a dessert!!!
Saturday, May 02, 2009
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"It's possible that you haven't run into the stories of Lou Antonelli. Since 2003, he's been publishing delightful short tales of alternate history all over the nooks and crannies of the SF world. Thanks to Fantastic Books, we now have 28 of these little gems in one place. "Many of Antonelli's stories have an unexpected twist ending. And many of them are what he calls "secret history" stories, which aren't exactly alternate history—they're set in our familiar history, but there's always some element that contemporary observers missed. " -
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A better path develops for a distraught man in "Double Exposure" by Lou Antonelli (debut 6/11 and reviewed by Frank D). Jake is about to end it all. He has been trying to keep his high maintenance wife happy for decades and has needed to embezzle to satisfy her spending habits. Now, on the verge of indictment and abandoned by his spouse, he buys a gun. Before he pulls the trigger, he spies a Kodak one-day photo hut. Curious, he pulls up to the window. They are holding pictures of him and his last girlfriend from 30 years before. The package is a lot thicker than it should be. Double Exposure" is listed as an Alternative History story but I would classify it as a Magical Realism tale. It is set as a second chance tale, a look into a life that should have been. The author is inspired by his memories of the old photo huts (I remember them) and of their disappearance. A cool idea (photos of another life), one that I could imagine would make for a great anthology.
- Frank Dutkiewicz, Diabolical Plots
"Great White Ship": A traveler stuck waiting for a flight strikes up a conversation with an old airline employee. The Old Timer tells him a story of a Great White Airship that arrives from a most unusual destination. The story of a craft from an alternate reality and how it got there is only the precursor to the final act. This is one of my favorite stories from this site. I have a great passion for lighter-than-air craft and their potential as a future means of transport, which opens the story. The author uses this speculation to launch into an engaging tale. As fascinating as the main story line is, the alternate history premise that accompanies it is just as worthwhile. This story was well written and very well thought out. It is well worth the read. Recommended.
- James Hanzelka, Diabolical Plots
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