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My Lasia spinosa is flowering again. As summer finishes it starts to produce flowers right through to the start of summer again. The flower (inflorescence really, as with aroids generally) is quite unusual. The spathe is very long, slender and twisted. The plant still has fruit/berries from last season that never seem to want to ripen. You can see from the photo of the fruit where it gets its name "spinosa" from.
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My Lasia spinosa is flowering again. As summer finishes it starts to produce flowers right through to the start of summer again. The flower (inflorescence really, as with aroids generally) is quite unusual. The spathe is very long, slender and twisted. The plant still has fruit/berries from last season that never seem to want to ripen. You can see from the photo of the fruit where it gets its name "spinosa" from.
Thanks for the update concerning the fruit/berries from your plant Tropic. Mine gave me its first inflorescence a couple of weeks ago:)
That's great Rachel. The last photo I saw of yours it was still quite a small plant. It must be really thriving. They flower over a long period so you should get some more inflorescences.
Thanks Tropic. Mine sure has been a strong and aggressive grower even as a potted specimen and I even took your advice on adding some clay to the soil mix . I will be looking forward to reading on how it goes with the berries on your plant in the future.
Any updates on the berries Tropic?
Rachel, sorry for not getting back earlier. It appears the stem with the berry cluster was waiting for when it fell into water. I kept it hooked up out of the water and it went a couple of years without doing anything. Eventually it went into the water and I didn't notice until later. By then the berries had come off and were floating around. Probably a response to wet season flooding which would disperse the seeds. Anyway, I collected them up and placed them in water in a container. Didn't take long for some to germinate, some still haven't germinated. I put some of the germinated ones in pots and they've grown a bit. One is white, perhaps going to be variegated? Or perhaps going to die when it's food source, the seed, runs out. I'll see how it turns out. Don't know what sort of a market there'd be for variegated Lasia spinosa. Some of the seedlings are a plain but very healthy looking green. I really don't need any more of these, but it's nice to get plants going right through their cycle.
Hi Zig and thanks for the update. I hope the new leaves on the all white one, does not show that much chlorosis as it would be very interesting to see a stable variegated form of Lasia and I would definitely say there would be a market for a variegated form. Mine flowers often but has yet to give me any ripe berries thus far. Hopefully, in the future, my seeds will prove to be viable as well.
My Cyrtosperma johnstonii has yet to flower but it is now standing well over 5 feet tall so I am hoping for an inflo. soon.
Give another update when you can.
The "variegated" ones are still all white and are slower growing than the all green seedlings. I suspect when they run out of reserves stored in the seed they'll 'expire'.. The main plant(s) have another cluster of berries. Most of the flowers don't develop berries, thankfully. I think I'll have to start cutting off the old flowers to stop getting over run with seedlings.
My C. johnstonii has been flowering for a while and still looking good. Don't know if it'll produce seed, have to wait and see. It is producing a sucker so looks like it's in clumping mood (or mode).
thanks to u tropic ..i will be checking out sources to get some cyrtospermas..
lol plant collecting is truely addictive.. not such a bad one i guess.. :)
rachel ?? any suggestions to someone not living in the tropics (im in utah)
still no greenhouse..but go to major extremes to keep tropicals alive..LOL :)
i think cyrtos would be a super addition to my ever growing collection of tropicals
sources to get quality plants,places NOT to buy..
much thanks..
I would say you are busy enough with just keeping the Lasia plants in check without having to worry with a bunch of seedlings but I hope the "potential" variegated one does not expire. The C. johnstonii, I spoke of prior, has only produced three suckers but I have another one in which has produced seven even though it is not nearly as mature.
tropicalnut, I sent you a D-mail.
An update on the Lasia spinosa seedlings. This mornings photo. The green seedlings have grown quite a lot. The variegated ones (should really call them albino, there's no green on them at all) are quite small. The seeds are still attached but must be getting close to empty. If they'd show just a bit of green there'd probably be a chance of them surviving but as is, . it's only a matter of time. Funny how you can get such extremes from the one berry cluster with nothing in between.
The parent plant is flowering again, though not as prolifically as during the winter. It's also producing more berry clusters. I think I'd better try and "put the genie back in the bottle", LOL.
Sounds like it would be a very good idea for you to put the genie back in the bottle at the rate your getting seeds Zig and those albino ones have grown since your last photo and I'm a bit amazed that they have not fizzled out on you yet. I had some albino Alocasia seedlings and they died out with in two weeks of growing. Good luck and hopefully they will develop some "green" and keep on growing. I sure hope so!
do u all pot up your crytos in similar potting mix as
EE's? i'll do some searches on culture..
would a potting mix like im using on my amorphs work??
pine bark fines,pumice,peat moss..
are they heavy feeders? special needs of N,P,K ?
much thanks...
Rachel, just looking at them today, I don't think the albinos have much time left. One seems to have shrunk to close to nothing, and the others are tiny compared to the green ones now. Two stems of the main plant have fallen over (into the water). Debating whether to cut them off and plant elsewhere, or just compost them. The main plant is now getting close to my height. Looks great, but a bit menacing, LOL.
Dave, Cyrtos are swamp plants (not deep water, though).They'll grow in ordinary soil but be sure to keep them wet all the time. I knew someone who had a C. johnstonii but when she went to show me it was gone. She checked the sprinkler nearby and it was blocked up.
tropic..much thanks..im looking forward to trying cyrtos...
Nice size on your main plant Zig and sorry to read about the albinos although it does not surprise me but I'm still wishing atleast one will make it. My plant is almost 4 ft. tall and has filled up it's 3 foot round pot. I guess I'll have to buy a baby swimming pool for it next. Geesh, what extremes some of us in-house gardners will go to :o)
Dave, I agree with Zig on the type of soil for Cyrtos. I use the soil from around my outside pond and add Osmocote. I also use Miracle Gro at 1/4 the label rate each time I have to add water to it's container and when I water from the top.
There's not a lot of them and very few are available. All except C. merkusii are from New Guinea. If you haven't already jacked up the roof of your house to accomodate the A. titanum you'll definitely need to for some of the Cyrtos.
tropic..lol.. maybe raising cyrtos will be what will force me
to put up a greenhouse.. :)
i read "somewhere"..i read stuff and i cant remember where..
??? does that mean im getting old.. lol
but.. tindara orchids..is..and im guessing by "they" as the dr who
owns/operates the amorph plants..and his bro in law..i think .. are going
to maybe branch out on varieties/hybrids of amorph titanum..
now that will be fun !!!
major longggggggg term plan for sure..but would be cool
sorry for bending the cyrtos posting here..
but hey.. tropic..u brought up amorph titanum... LOLLL
:) kidding..
"Cyrtos posting"? It's actually a Lasia thread, LOL.
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Isaiah calls the nations of the Earth to listen as he foretells the downfall of Edom. G-d has judged the nations and allowed them to be destroyed, their dead unburied. The Heavens will (metaphorically) be rolled like a scroll – either those nations will be "erased" or they will be in "darkness," as in a rolled-up scroll. G-d's "sword" is full, from the kings and governors of Edom (compared to sheep and goats), for He has made a great slaughter in Edom and Batzra. (Batzra was a city in Moav, but they were cohorts of Edom – see Genesis 36:33 in which a man from Batzra became king of Edom.)
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C.H. Thanks for inviting me to guest blog today, Joyce. I'll be giving away a signed copy of my June release, One Day in Apple Grove, book two in my contemporary small-town series.
I'm a firm believer that our veterans should be appreciated and supported and that the real job begins when they come back home. Annually, I send donations to the VFW, Disabled Veterans Foundation,, the SOWF and the USO. It is important that we never forget those who fight (and who have fought) to keep us free.
I also support our local animal shelters by sending money or supplies. In the 34 years we've been married, we've had four dogs. Our first dog was a Beagle named Jake. He was my first Christmas present the year we moved into our home. He came from a pet store in the mall. I gave my hubby a spinet piano that year. We still have the piano, but unfortunately, Jake had lung cancer and died when he was only 7. Our oldest son was 6, our daughter 4, and our youngest son 2 at the time. It broke our hearts — especially when they asked if God was going to fix Jake and send him back to us.
This time, we bought a Beagle from a breeder, hoping that we would have our dog for at least 14 years — the normal lifespan of a Beagle. So we brought Sam home, but she only lived with us for 10 years and had pancreatic cancer. Sam and I shared a birthday, and it broke our hearts when she died just four months after my dad. Another hard blow for a family to endure, when we love dogs so much.
I promised my husband that, yes, we would wait and adopt an older dog, because so many needed homes, and agreed that we weren't ready. And then my sister asked me to go with her to the shelter in town because she wanted to adopt a dog. I was just going along for the ride, she was adopting a dog — not me. Not a problem … and then I looked down and saw this little German Shepherd/Rottweiler mix looking up at me. She tilted her head to one side as if to say, "I'm ready when you are. Please, take me home?" Well, I did something I never did before. I didn't call my husband first to ask what he thought. I just knew that Ginger needed us as much as we needed to rescue her. She'd been someone's Christmas present and had been abused and ended up at the shelter. She was a part of our family for 12 years. The longest we'd had a dog … and when she died, we were desolate.
It was only the four of us now that our daughter was married and had moved out. But, I could tell that our sons and my husband needed a dog in our lives as much as I did. We visited three shelters and adopted a dog that we ended up having to give back because the dog had hidden issues of aggression — she didn't like men and I was surrounded by them. We had an expert come and evaluate the dog, and she agreed that it was best for the dog to return her.
I read about a local group, Doggy Dog World, who fostered puppies from high-kill shelters. They'd be visiting a local pet supply store and would have dogs ready to adopt. When we walked into the chaos of happy kids, grinning parents and wriggling puppies, I just had this feeling. And then our youngest son walked over to a cage with a little black ball of fuzz in it — one that no one was paying any attention to. He asked to meet the dog, a Black Lab/Pitt Bull mix. He brought him to the back and we sat and let the puppy crawl all over us, sniff us and get to know us. Yes, we did adopt him and take him home. And somehow, Jameson (aka Jamie), with his little underbite and black lips, healed the ache in our hearts and ended up as a character in the second book in my contemporary small-town series: One Day in Apple Grove. From the moment he ran out in front of Jack Gannon's camouflage-colored Jeep, I knew he would have more than a brief paragraph in the book. He would heal Cait's and Jack's hearts as surely as he has healed ours.
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A Daventry woman was grateful there was room at the inn when she was forced to stop off and give birth en route to the hospital.
Jamie Jollands and Samantha Taylor were on their way to Northampton General Hospital in the early hours of Sunday, December 22 after Samantha's waters broke in the living room of their home on the Southbrook estate.
However, as the pair were driving, along with Miss Taylor's mum Yvonne, to Northampton, the contractions got worse and they pulled in at the Holiday Inn near Flore.
Mr Jollands said: "I thought she wanted to stop for a bit of a rest but we pulled in, the hotel found us a room and it was then we noticed the baby's head."
Paramedics arrived in the nick of time and helped Miss Taylor give birth to Charlie James Jollands at 4.25am, weighing in at 8lb 20z. Mother and baby were then taken to Northampton General Hospital but were later discharged.
Mr Jollands added: "I didn't think we'd be giving birth there and then. The hotel was absolutely fantastic. I am sure the guy on reception wasn't expecting us to turn up!
"Both mum and baby are doing really well and we were delighted to welcome our second child in unusual circumstances.
"A big thank you to Denholm Butler, the guy on reception for his help in getting Samantha a room and to the paramedic Trevor Wayne. We couldn't have done it without either of them."
It is the couple's second child. Charlie will be a brother to five-year-old Olivia May.
The hotel's general manager, Jo Taylor, said: "It has been a real talker among the staff, it's not every day that something like this happens. However Denholm was incredible and stayed very calm in the situation.
"We have had a nice message from the couple since the day to say she has given birth. It was nice to hear from them that both mum and baby were doing well. We are just really pleased we were able to help out at a very crucial moment in their lives."


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PJ, the sun may have arrived, but the gray haze is so thick that it's covering it up.
Yes, Wendy - I assume it's gotten lost in the fog. That's a 'hinder' - I'll try again later.PJ
PJ, I love the thought of T-mail! Most times your T-mail has worked, a few times not. It's still cloudy here so the T-Mail must have gotten lost.
Today the sun is shining again, Wendy - I'm sending sunshine by T-mail, should be there in a jiffy... :-)PJPS - I just invented T-mail, - by thought.
Oh PJ, I don't see the sunshine yet! I hope that your Norway sun is going to cheer me up more than the gray, rain-filled sky that I'm experiencing at the moment. How did you send it? Express mail?
A wonderful puzzle, Wendy. I got in a better mood while solving it. The colors are so cheery, the design is stylish and so fun. I like your creative color combinations. Sending you grateful sunshine :-)PJ
Holley, I'm so glad that you enjoy solving my puzzles. I love it when someone 'out of the blue' tells me that. Thank you so much. :-)Katie, thank you, dear. :-)Cheryl, ohhh, I was pretty pleased with it last night, but then this morning when I looked at it in my folder, I thought it looked too bland....washed out. Right now, it looks better than I remembered it looking this morning. LOL Anyway, thank you very much. :-)Pat, yes, it's great that my flowers grow in January. They're not very fussy. LOLwhatnauts, every time you think one of my flower puzzles looks like a bunch of parasols, I look again, and then agree with you. Now why don't I think that while I'm creating them? I must be in a stupor most of the time. ;-)Judy, sometimes I'm very pleased with what I create, and then other times very disappointed. It all depends on my mood, or the amount of pain I'm feeling, or whether or not I've eaten anything (I forget to a lot), or whether or not I'm running way behind and feel stressed. One of these fine days, I'll get it together. :-)
Wendy, I think it is a great puzzle as is. It is lovely, has great colors, is well constructed and positioned, and it is great fun to solve. What's not to like? I do believe it will be something mighty special when your own creation meets your approval, because this one has so much already. Thanks for posting it!
Terrific parasol flowers, Wendy.
How lovely to see a garden blooming in January! These are so delicate and delicious! Thanks, Wendy!
Wendy, this is utterly delightful. Its hard for me to imagine what you are not satisfied with. Thanks for posting.
Ooh! Your Thursday garden is such a treat! Thanks Wendy!
Lovely design. I love working your puzzles.
I'm so glad you enjoyed the pinks and purples, Mary. I can understand your excitement when it comes to Fridays if you still work. The very weird thing for me now is that even though I no longer work, I still feel a bit of relief when Friday rolls around. Weird...but true.
Love the pinks and purples in this one! Doing the Thursday Flower Dance and it's delightful because tomorrow is TGIF! LOL 6:17 Thanks, Wendy!
Ardy, it's definitely not the first time that I've wanted to dedicate one for you...and haven't been satisfied. One of these fine days I'll create one and say to myself, "Finally, perfect for Ardy!"
Thank you. Wendy. They are so sweet. And so are you to be thinking of me.
Ardy, I made these with you in mind, and was going to dedicate them to you, but I never got them to where I was truly happy. So they were just posted instead.
Beautiful, Wendy. They look soft and cuddly. Thank you.


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Surrounded by commercial and residential buildings at the Three Corners intersection in Hartland village, Damon Hall (Hartland Town Hall) is a Colonial Revival style, one-and-one-half story (plus raised basement), concrete-trimmed brick building with a slate-shingled hip roof. The three-bay main (southeast) facade is marked by a central entrance portico with stuccoed columns, above which a pedimented wall dormer with three-part window interrupts the modillion cornice at the main eaves. On the longer secondary (southwest) facade, three oversized central windows mark the interior auditorium with full stage and balcony. Both the auditorium and the other rooms are sheathed generally with pebbled stamped metal on their walls and ceilings. The former town library (the southeast corner room) differs by its oak woodwork, the rest of the interior being trimmed in hard pine. Aside from the altered main entrance and the replacement light fixtures in the auditoriums the building retains intact its original (1915) fabric.
Damon Hall is situated on the northwest corner of the so-called Three Corners at the center of Hartland village. Quechee Road enters the intersection from the north in front of the building's main (southeast) facade. Vermont Route 12 parallels its southwest facade on a northwest southeast alignment. A small public green lies immediately southeast of Damon Hall within the converging roadways, and U. S. Route 5 curves past its southeast corner. An irregular cluster of commercial and residential buildings surrounds the intersection.
Damon Hall stands somewhat recessed from the streets on a simply landscaped lot. A medium-sized maple tree provides shade for the south east grounds. The tapered rectangular concrete posts of a former chain fence define the perimeter of the southeast and southwest grounds. A small granite memorial slab and an aluminum flagpole have been placed on the lawn near the building's southeast corner.
Oriented with its longer dimension parallel to Route 12, Damon Hall possesses an original rectangular plan of about 40 feet by 90 feet. A small ell projection was added in 1967 near the east end of the north east elevation. The building rises one and one-half stories above a raised basement, except on the northwest elevation where the basement is fully exposed and a second story is marked by reduced sash.
A high concrete foundation extends around the southwest, southeast, and northeast elevations while a beveled water table of the same material completely encircles the Colonial Revival style building. The walls are laid up in five-course American bond with cross-bond courses composed of alternate headers and stretchers. The window openings are framed with concrete sills and shouldered pressed-brick lintels whose soldier arches are flush-jointed for contrast to the tooled joints of the walls. The wall surfaces are articulated by brick piers into panels surmounted by corbeled heads below a corbeled stringcourse that encircles the building. The deeply projecting eaves of the slate shingled hip roof carry a modillion cornice. Flush with the wall planes, four. tall interior chimneys rise from the lower edges of the roof, one each near the east ends of the northeast and southwest elevations and two near the center of the northwest elevation.
The main (southeast) facade of Damon Hall presents to the village green a symmetrical three-bay arrangement dominated by a central one-bay, gabled entrance portico. Approached by a high flight of unsheltered concrete steps, the shallow portico incorporates stuccoed Tuscan columns at the front corners and pilasters at the wall plane. The columns carry a paneled frieze band bearing the name DAMON HALL in raised letters below a pediment with modillion cornice. The entrance was altered in 1983 with partial plywood infilling around a modern metal door, replacing the original double-leaf paneled wood doors. Directly above the entrance portico, a gabled wall dormer interrupts the main cornice (stopped by overscale stylized brackets). A triptych window with continuous concrete sill occupies the entire width of the dormer, comprising a twelve-over-one central sash and flanking six-over-one sash, the latter being enframed by smooth pilasters. The gable is pedimented like its portico counterpart except for a broken horizontal cornice; the date 1915 appears in raised numbers on the tympanum. The side bays of the main facade contain coupled two-over-one sash with continuous concrete sills and soldier-arched lintels, mounted in the lower half of the wall. The raised basement repeats this arrangement with half-height sash of the same division.
The secondary (southwest) facade extends seven bays in length, each bay being delineated by brick piers. The three central (auditorium) bays contain vertically elongated two-over-one sash, each surmounted by a twelve-light transom. The two right-end bays have two-over-one sash of conventional size. The opposite (left) end of this facade possesses a secondary entrance sheltered by a somewhat reduced version of the portico on the main facade. This entrance retains its original paneled wood door with a single rectangular light. Above the entrance, a pedimented gable with modillion cornice surmounts the main eaves; a nine-light oculus with raised brick surround lights its brick tympanum. At the center of the main roof, a slate-sheathed gabled dormer is lighted by paired six-over-one sash enframed by pilasters carrying a pediment with modillion cornice. A basement entrance vestibule with double-leaf paneled wood doors projects from a right-center bay of this facade; its brick walls support a shallow pitched gable roof.
The northwest elevation of Damon Hall is articulated (above the water table) by brick piers into three bays. The exposed brick basement has twin side-bay entrances, each of a paneled wood door with four-light glazing; the right entrance is sheltered by a small gabled canopy. Three coupled, half-height, two-over-one sash with continuous sill occupy the central bay. Two-over-one sash of conventional size light the first story while sash of half that height are mounted at the second-story level.
The northeast elevation repeats the articulation and partly the fenestration of the southwest facade, e.g., the elongated central windows. The right-end bay differs by having triptych windows on two levels. The first-story window incorporates a two-over-one central sash flanked by one-over-one sash while the upper window consists of half-height counterparts. A gabled dormer centered on the roof matches its counterpart on the southwest slope.
Added in 1967 against the northeast elevation to contain a records vault, a small gabled projection conceals the second bay from the left end. The projection matches the main block's high concrete foundation and its blind brick walls are laid up in stretcher bond but the wood sheathed gable is not classically detailed. Its asphalt-shingled roof rises to the lower edge of the cornice along the main eaves.
The interior plan of Damon Hall is dominated by a large central auditorium with stage at the northwest end and balcony at the southeast end. The latter constitutes a second story above two corner rooms ( used for Hartland municipal offices) that flank a central entrance hall with stair to the balcony. At the opposite end of the building are rooms on both floors used by the Hartland Historical Society and Nature Club. The basement level repeats the basic plan of the first floor, having a large central meeting room and small rooms at each end.
Corresponding to the three central bays on the southwest and elevations. the auditorium rises the full height of the interior. The original sheathing materials remain in place. The woodwork is mostly of varnished hard pine. The floor is laid with narrow matched boards. Narrow matched wainscoting on the walls rises to a molded rail slightly higher than the level of the window sills. Both the upper wall surfaces and the ceiling are sheathed with stamped metal in a pebbled pattern, now painted light blue instead of the original apple green. A massive ceiling cornice of the same material displays lyre and egg-and-dart decorative forms. From the cornice along each side of the auditorium, the paneled ceiling slopes upward to a central horizontal surface. A chandelier medallion of stamped foliated openwork is centered above the balcony, although the chandelier has been removed. A similar medallion is missing from a central position above the main floor. The ceiling is supported by boxed wood beams that spring from wood capitals above the level of the window lintels and correspond in profile to the ceiling surfaces.
The proscenium opening with curved upper corners displays a molded stamped-metal surround surmounted by a cartouche with flanking cherubs. The stage platform has been extended beyond its original curved front edge into a rectangular projection with plywood skirting. The angled rear stage wall is also sheathed with stamped metal, and stage balconies with wainscoted fronts surmount the triangular dressing rooms (also sheathed with stamped metal) that flank the stage floor. Mounted on a roller, the stage curtain is painted in a landscape scene.
Beneath the balcony overhang, the main entrance to the auditorium passes through a central trabented opening enframed by wood Tuscan columns supporting a wood entablature. However, the double-leaf doors (of the five-panel design common to the building) are mounted in the entrance hall beyond the stair to the balcony. The balcony rises in tiers to the southeast end of the building, lighted by the triptych window of the southeast wall dormer. The balcony railing incorporates diagonal stickwork ("Union Jack" pattern) alternating with solid, molded panels. From the auditorium, single-leaf doors with architrave surrounds (like those of the windows) lead to other rooms.
The original ceiling and wall light fixtures have been removed from the auditorium in recent years. The replacement fixtures of modern utilitarian design are wired by means of metal conduit attached to the wall surfaces. Two fluorescent fixtures are suspended from the balcony overhang. Metal, heating ductwork has been installed along the side walls, mostly concealing the wainscoting.
The entrance hall is divided into inner and outer vestibules by double paneled doors with rectangular glazing and transoms. The inner vestibule retains the original box office window on its north wall. The outer vestibule provides access to the offices at the front of the building. Also finished in stamped metal and hard pine, the northeast office is occupied by the Hartland Town Clerk. The vault addition is entered via this room.
The southeast room was originally designed and furnished to serve as Hartland's public library; the library was removed in 1957 and the room was adapted to an office for the Town Manager. Sharing the stamped-metal sheathing common to the building's interior, this room lacks wainscoting but is distinguished by varnished oak woodwork, closely spaced boxed beams on the ceiling, and a pressed brick fireplace. Along the room's northeast and northwest walls, oak bookcases rise about five feet in height; their vertical members are treated as fluted pilasters that support a molded cornice along the top shelf. Placed against the southwest wall between the windows, the fireplace possesses a corbeled mantel and a paneled breast that rises to a denticulated ceiling cornice.
Occupying the northwest end of the building, the rooms used by the Hartland Historical Society and Nature Club are oriented to the south west entrance. The first-floor space extends the breadth of the building (40 feet) by about 18 feet, subdivided at about two-thirds of its length by a partial partition whose central trabeated opening with Tuscan columns carrying an entablature matches the entrance opening of the auditorium. Trimmed with varnished hard pine, the first-floor walls and ceiling have pebbled stamped-metal sheathing with an egg-and-dart ceiling cornice while the unpartitioned second floor shows exposed brick wall surfaces. An attic was created in 1935 by the installation of a third floor beneath the roof framing.
The basement of Damon Hall contains a large central meeting room finished with narrow matched-board floor, stuccoed walls, and pebbled stamped metal ceiling encircled by a narrow egg-and-dart cornice. In the kitchen, both the ceiling and the walls are sheathed with pebbled stamped metal. Original wood cupboards with paneled doors are mounted along the southwest wall. An elongated soapstone sink engages the opposite (northeast) wall.
Damon Hall constitutes an outstanding Colonial Revival style town hall that belongs among the last generation of monumental public buildings in Vermont. Designed by H. F. Beckwith and erected in 1914-15, the building represents the civic spirit and philanthropy of the Damon family then resident in Hartland. William E. Damon pursued a successful business career in New York, and after his death in 1911 his family presented the Town of Hartland with a new community center in his memory. The classically detailed brick building holds particular interest for the stamped-metal sheathing applied nearly throughout the interior, including the auditorium with full stage that dominates the interior plan.
The Damon family moved to Hartland from Reading, Massachusetts and settled on a farm about one mile south of the Three Corners (Hartland village) on the Windsor road. Luther Damon, son of the original settler, built the extant house on the property about 1845. He and his wife, Betsey Thayer of Braintree, Massachusetts, became the parents of ten children. Principally a farmer, Luther Damon engaged also in various other activities. He drove a freight wagon between Hartland and Boston prior to the arrival in 1849 of the railroad along the Connecticut River valley. Adapting to the technological changes, he then contracted to build the railroad roadbed in the Hartland vicinity.
Born in Hartland in 1838, William Emerson Damon was the youngest of Luther and Betsey's offspring. William was educated in local schools and the Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire, and married Alma C. Otis of Windsor. Thereafter the couple joined the middle nineteenth century tide of emigration from Vermont. William pursued a career in business that culminated as superintendent of the credit department at Tiffany's in New York, a position that he held for many years. Nevertheless he retained ownership of the family homestead, a farm of 160 acres in 1883.
William Damon's prevailing-avocational interest involved natural history, and he became a specialist in marine life. He directed an expedition that succeeded in bringing the first live tropical fish to New York. In 1879, he published a book, Ocean Wonders, that was among the first popular treatments of the subject. His efforts were largely responsible for the establishment of an aquarium in New York. Apparently he retired to the family farm in Hartland, where he died December first, 1911.
At that time, the Town of Hartland used a plain, two-story, clapboarded, gable-roofed building at the Four Corners (a small village about one mile west of the Three Corners) for a town hall. The population of the township was only 1,316 in 1910, almost the nadir of a century-long decline. The immediate need for a substantially larger and more stylistically sophisticated Town Hall must have seemed debatable under the circumstances. Nevertheless Mrs. William Damon took the initiative and the estate of her husband apparently provided the funds. Actually the new Damon Hall was the joint gift of the widow and several other members of the family (the children of Urias and Harriet Cotton Damon, the children of John and Lucy Damon Lamb, and the children of Merit and Lavinia Damon Penniman).
The site for the new town hall was selected at the Three Corners and it was occupied by an historic building. The large two-and-three quarters story, clapboarded, gable-roofed Pavilion House (hotel) had stood there since circa 1795, containing at various times the village post officer a store, courthouse, and large ballroom. Nevertheless in January, 1914, the Town of Hartland purchased the site from L. E. Merritt for $1,000, and the hotel along with its large barns were demolished.
An "architect and builder" by the name of H. F. Beckwith from Claremont, New Hampshire (about 15 miles southeast of Hartland) was retained for the project. Construction started in the summer of 1914, and the brick building was dedicated on December 2 of the following year. Its fully developed Colonial Revival style suggests a metropolitan influence within the setting of predominantly clapboarded vernacular buildings. Probably a concession to cost was the substitution of concrete in place of the stone traditionally used for the foundation, columns, and sills. The unusual application of stamped-metal sheathing almost throughout the interior affirms an interest in contemporary materials (albeit expressing classical forms). Upon completion, the building together with its furnishings was appraised at $25,000.
Damon Hall was planned to serve as a community center providing facilities for various municipal functions and organizational activities. The auditorium was equipped with a complete stage and dressing rooms for theatrical productions as well as being the scene of Hartland town meetings. The southeast front room was designed specifically for the town's public library, being distinguished from the other rooms by its classically detailed oak woodwork and pressed brick fireplace. The opposite northeast front room was provided for town offices (and served also as box office for the auditorium by means of a vestibule window). Reflecting the Damon family's interest in natural history, the rooms at the northwest end of the building were dedicated for permanent use by the Hartland Nature Club and Historical Society.
The basement of Damon Hall was intended principally for the serving of meals at public events. The large central room was called originally the dining room, adjoined on the northwest by the "commodius" kitchen with its extraordinary elongated soapstone sink. The local Grange chapter, Progressive Grange No. 283, began holding its meetings in the dining room not many years after the building was completed.
Damon Hall retained its original appearance and functions for about forty years. The first significant change occurred in 1957 when, owing to insufficient space, the library was removed to a new building nearby. The library room was subsequently adapted to an office for the Hartland town manager. In 1967, the first addition was made to the exterior of Damon Hall; the small blind brick ell near the northeast corner contains the municipal records vault. More recently, the decorative character of the auditorium was impaired by the removal of the original light fixtures and the installation of utilitarian replacements with exposed conduit wiring. And in 1983, the original double-leaf paneled doors were removed from the main entrance in favor of plywood infilling and a single modern door.
Collectively these changes exert rather minor effect on the architectural integrity of Damon Hall. In the cases of the light fixtures and the main entrance, the alterations are readily reversible. Changing municipal needs and access requirements, however, will probably lead to extensive alteration of the basement in the near future. A plan exists to convert the basement into municipal offices to overcome the serious inadequacy of space in the present office rooms. The plan also includes the provision of an unobtrusive ramp for handicapped access from the parking area next to the northwest elevation.
Damon Hall shares, on somewhat reduced scale, the Colonial Revival style characteristic of the monumental municipal buildings erected in Vermont during the first third of the twentieth century, the last generation numbering only a few such buildings. It followed by six years the West Rutland Town Hall (entered in the National Register on July 28, 1983) that exhibits striking similarity of design, although any direct influence is merely speculative. Unlike its publicly funded counterparts in the larger towns and cities, Damon Hall was placed In a small rural village as an expression of civic philanthropy by a local family. The forthcoming adaptation of its basement to contain expanded town offices will ensure the continuity of Damon Hall's historic role in Hartland community affairs.
1. "A Fine Community Building." The Vermonter, XXI (January, 1916), 23-26.
2. Annual Reports of Town Officers of the Town of Hartland, Vermont. Hartland, Vt.: Town of Hartland, 1915, 1916.
3. Hartland - The Way It Was 1761-1976. Hartland, Vt.: Hartland Historical Society, 1976.
4. Hinkle, Ricardo. A Plan for Damon Hall, Hartland, Vermont. Woodstock, Vt.: Two Rivers-Ottauquechee Regional Commission, 1985.
DATE ENTERED: June 2, 1988.


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The New York Times reports that the human and fly mind share a common link in the FOXP gene. This gene in humans is closely linked to cognitive development and language, and is also linked to movements in the body and other actions that require a sequence of events. While it has not been proven, it is now believed that fruit flies may be able to process and act on information using the same method of thinking that we do.
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Honduran Ports to Receive $250 Million
The IDB would grant a loan through a trust to the Honduran Port Authority (ENP) for port modernization.
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Representatives from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) visited the company yesterday. Among them, IDB Vice President, Steven Puig, told Laprensahn.com: "We are very interested in authorizing the loan to the ENP as soon as possible so that they can begin to work on expanding their facilities."
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Wouldn't dust from the mattress get all over the shoes?
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The connection between donations and peerages has been scrutinised by Scotland Yard detectives for the past seven months, in an investigation now believed to be drawing to a close.
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Date: 12 November 2009
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Hayneedle Brings Warmth to the Season of Giving with Gifts That Give Back Collection
Second Year Holiday Campaign Expands to Wide Variety of Products and Vendors; Hayneedle to Donate Blankets to Children in Need Through Children's Home Society of America
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Summer Fun at the Library!
June 06, 2011
Looking for something fun to do this summer? Well, look no further than your local South Independence Branch!
We're going to have loads of fun this summer with face painting, a visit from Turpentine Creek's Big Cats and the Kansas City Zoo. Then, we're conjuring up some magic with magician Eric Vaughn and a Harry Potter Extravaganza right before the final movie comes out.
And as always, we have weekly storytime and toddler time for you to come enjoy!
All these programs (and lots more!) are all here on our events page for you to check out!
Jennie V.
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So here's what i'm trying to model in MySQL/PHP.
A Leaf will have exactly 3 ancestors; Leaf <= Type <= SuperType <= CategoryEach category can have multiple SuperTypes, each SuperType can have multiple Types, each Type can have multiple Leaves.
Representing this in the database isnt difficult; parsing it is.A page will load with a given Category value; I need to retrieve all Leaves that belong to said category; that's easy.Now i need to walk the tree in-order. Foreach Supertype...Foreach Type... Foreach Leaf. So i need to determine the best way to establish the database and how to translate it into a walkable tree.
Additional: Leaves have a different data model than any other type (additional values). The other types carry only a Name value.
imho the Nested Set Model is the way to go.
life for me became so much easier once I started using it for the type of application you're asking about.
if interested I have posted sql scripts to move nodes and their children in this thread
So.. how does this model let me walk the tree in a Foreach fashion? I need to be able to wrap tree layers in a div tag...

SuperTypeName

TypeName

Leaf1

Leaf2
 (yes i know this BR is dangling)

SuperTypeName2

TypeName2

Leaf3

Leaf4

generally what you need to do is
1) build your categories table structure as described in the tutorial at the other end of the link I posted. the lft and rgt values for each category (node) represent where each category is in the hierarchy are then used to retrieve, move or delete nodes and their children.
2) assign lft and rgt values to each category as described in the tutorial.
3) build an sql query to retrieve the categories you need to display in the browser.
4) generate the html as you loop through the retrieved categories from 3).
That... told me all of nothing."How do I make this walkable?""Make it walkable."...
simply Looping through the elements doesnt work - you dont get a chance to close tags from 6 elements ago, unless i'm missing something.If i have to loop through the elements and put them into a tree inside PHP, what precisely have i accomplished by redesigning my table? I have no need to search within the tree itself - the full tree (each Category being a tree) will be pulled every time.
well, I'm not going to write the sql and php code for you.
post some code so I can see you are making an attempt to work it out for yourself and I can then try to help you.
I'm not into spoon feeding - well not for free at least
otherwise I can't help anymore and so hopefully someone else will come along to help you.
It's a Kalon post, you'll get used to it (or put him on ignore).
Trees are simply arrays with nested arrays. The PHP array will look something like this
$episodes => array (
0 => array (
'title' => 'Broken Arm',
'date' => '12/1/10',
'claims' => array (
0 => array (
'insurer' => 'Payee',
'dateFiled' => '12/3/10',
'procedures' => array (
0 => array (
'name' => 'Set Arm',
'charge' => '100.00'
Traversing the array will look like this (using braceless syntax and short tags here).
<? foreach ( $episodes as $episode ): ?>

<?= $episode['title'] ?>

<? foreach ( $episode['claims'] as $claim ): ?>

<?= $claim['payee'] ?>
<? foreach ($claim['procedures'] as $procedure): ?>

<?= $procedure['name'] ?>

<? endforeach ?>
<? endforeach ?>
<? endforeach ?>
Pretty simple really. Assembling the starting array above is the trickiest part, the traversal is pretty straightforward.
assembling the array is reasonably straight forward as well if I use the nested set model.
but I would just use the rows in the result set returned from the db queries and not bother transferring them to an array.
once you get your head around what the lft and rgt values represent and the concept behind them, life should become very much easier (it did for me).


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- Stephanie A. Yarwood *a and
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High diversity of microorganisms in the soil matrix has been the focus of extensive research in the fields of soil biology and microbial ecology, and is a key concept that students in the environmental or biological sciences should understand. Two activities to demonstrate diversity and highlight the challenges faced in studying soil microbial diversity are presented here. Using a bag (soil sample) containing different candy types (soil microbes), students explore isolation and molecular techniques, two strategies used in studying microbial diversity, and are asked to consider the limitations these methods have in understanding complex microbial communities. In a second activity students use this collection of candy to construct mock-phylogenetic trees. These hands-on activities provide students with a fun way to learn about microbial diversity. Student assessment scores increased by 35% after participating in these activities and results from final exam questions show that a high percentage of studentsretained the major concepts demonstrated during these activities.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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IDF Clips of Gaza Offensive Are Fourth Biggest Hit on YouTube
IDF says more than 30,000 clips have been viewed thus far, including videos of Gaza air strikes.
Israel Defense Forces video clips documenting the war in Gaza and showing preparations for combat were the fourth most-popular videos on the video-sharing Web site YouTube as of last week, and some have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, the IDF reported Sunday.
The IDF, which has also been showing the clips as free videos on demand on cable television, began making them public over the weekend, and said Sunday that more than 30,000 clips have been viewed thus far.
Some of the short videos, which last between several seconds and several minutes, show Israeli air strikes on Gaza, while others show humanitarian food-distribution missions, Home Front Command instructions and units preparing for combat.
The army plans to expand the video content in the coming days, the IDF said.
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How much better is the Super AMOLED Plus display?
One of the most anticipated devices this year is the Samsung Galaxy S II, which is bringing a new display technology – Super AMOLED Plus (also found in the Droid Charge). Of course, this is simply the next generation of the same screen technology that Samsung has been using for pretty much ... Read More »


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I find that I remake a movie at least three times: when I write it, when I shoot it, and again when I edit it. The one I didn't realize--and that still seems wildly underappreciated to me--is editing.
Well, here's hoping that EdgeCodes.com has a long, successful run at Two Boots Theater and beyond. From A.O. Scott's review, this documentary about the history, theory, practice, art, and science of film editing sounds awesome.
Inside the Editing Room, Where Movies Are Built [nyt]
EdgeCodes.com [the name is the url!]
related: start with anything about Murch or Schoonmaker


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Our popular Beer Tower Cooler combined with a set of five beer faucet caps.
This is a great combination! Our beer tower cooler keeps your beer faucet and shank cold while our beer faucet caps help keep bacteria, mold and fruit flies out of your taps. Use these two together for ultimate kegerator beer tower protection!!!!
The beer caps are made of reusable soft PVC plastic. You can rinse and reuse them over and over again. We include five with this combo kit because five beer caps has been our biggest beer faucet seller.
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Our beer kegerator tower cooler is designed to cool the beer tower on your home kegerator, a direct draw type draft beer system. With a direct draw system, the beer keg is stored in a refrigerator or cooler right below the beer tower.
The number one complaint about any direct draw home kegerator is your first 1/2 glass of beer is always foamy. The reason for this is simple - the beer faucet & shank inside your beer tower get warm between glasses and cause your foamy beer. And the solution is less than 5 minutes away - just install our Beer Tower Cooler! Our tower cooler works by continuously blowing a small volume of cold air into your beer tower and the cold air keeps your beer shanks and faucets ice cold. A side benefit is the continuous cold keeps faucet mold and bacteria growth inside your beer faucet at an absolute minimum.
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NM at Utah Preview
Salt Lake City, UT - Whoever starts at quarterback for Utah can certainly expect to take some hits from the opposition.
Wide receiver coaches, meanwhile, shouldn't have any reason to be afraid of being purposely hurt within their own team.
The 17th-ranked Utes won't name a starting quarterback until game time Saturday night when they face a winless New Mexico team that has been playing under the cloud of continued developments regarding an altercation between coaches.
Oddsmakers from online sports book SBGGLOBAL.com have made Utah -27 point spread favorites (View College Football odds) for Saturday's game (Game Matchup). Current public betting information shows that 51% of bets for this game have been placed on Utah -27 (View College Football bet percentages).
Terrance Cain started the first seven games for Utah (7-1, 4-0 Mountain West Conference), but coach Kyle Whittingham replaced him with freshman Jordan Wynn in the third quarter of a 22-10 win over Wyoming last Saturday. Wynn threw for 82 yards and a touchdown to help the Utes rally to 19 straight points.
"I believe the time to make change is when you need to, not necessarily when thing aren't going well and you are in panic mode," Whittingham said. "We are trying to get better. We would like to blow people out, but that's not happening. We are trying to find the right combination."
Cain was 10 for 13 for 121 yards, but also took two sacks that brought Utah back 12 yards and took it out of scoring range. There was a false start between those two sacks, leaving the Utes scoreless after driving to the Wyoming 17.
Cain has been mostly steady, completing 64.0 percent of his passes for 1,624 yards and 11 TDs while getting picked off five times, but Whittingham has been impressed by Wynn and believes Utah's offense is capable of better performances as it tries to at least remain tied with TCU atop the Mountain West.
"Jordan is mature beyond his years," Whittingham said. "He does not operate as a true freshman."
If Wynn gets his first start, it will be against a conference rival in disarray.
The Lobos (0-8, 0-4) have lost 12 straight and their coaches don't appear to be in any position to guide them out of their rut.
New Mexico coach Mike Locksley was back on the sideline for a 23-20 loss to San Diego State last Saturday. He missed a game while serving a 10-day suspension after being accused of throwing a punch at receivers coach J.B. Gerald on Sept. 20.
Notes released by the university Oct. 30 on an athletic department investigation into the incident confirm Locksley took a swing at Gerald, apparently contradicting what the school had said publicly about the altercation.
The university released photographs of Gerald that include pictures showing a cut lip, an apparent bruise on his neck and a cut or scrape on his arm. According to the notes, offensive line coach Mike Degory restrained Locksley as the coach grabbed Gerald's throat and choked him.
There have also been problems this season regarding one of Gerald's pupils, Ty Kirk. The wide receiver is expected to play Saturday after missing two games due to an undisclosed violation of team rules.
Kirk started six games before the suspension, catching 17 passes for what had been a team-high 206 yards and one TD.
Utah has one of the MWC's top receivers in David Reed, who has 52 catches for 754 yards and four scores. He averaged a season-low 8.4 yards on seven receptions versus the Cowboys.
Wynn's touchdown pass went to Jereme Brooks, a 22-yarder in the fourth quarter. Wynn was also helped by yet another strong performance from running back Eddie Wide.
Wide tied a school record with his fifth straight 100-yard game, finishing with 135 and a late TD to seal the victory. He has five TDs in his last four games and is averaging 6.0 yards per carry.
Utah rushed for 198 yards - but only four from Wide - in a 13-10 win at New Mexico on Nov. 1, 2008. Reed was held to one catch for 11 yards.
The Utes lead the series 31-17-2.
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Christine (Hustus) Ridley
Christine (Hustus) Ridley, 91, died Aug. 9, 2014, at Bayview Manor with her children by her side. She was born in Frankfort, Maine, on June 10, 1923, daughter of Chellis and Marion Hustus. She was a homemaker.
She was predeceased by three children Vivian Waltein, Clifford Ridley Sr., Leslie Ridley Sr. and a grandson Charles. Survivors include her three children Wendell Ridley, of Connecticut, Thelma Kenney, of Waldo, and Nancy Carrel, of Belmont; 16 grandchildren; many great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Friends may call at Riposta Funeral Home, 182 Waldo Avenue, Belfast on Wednesday, Aug. 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. Those who wish may make donations in Christine's memory to Bayview Manor, 45 W. Main Street, Searsport, ME 04974. Online condolences may be offered to the family at www.ripostafh.com.


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Turner, James, 1946-
Liberal education of Charles Eliot Norton.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1999
|Persona incaricata:
|Charles Eliot Norton; Charles Eliot Norton
|Tipo documento
|Tutti gli autori / Collaboratori:
James Turner
|0801861470 9780801861475
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|xv, 507 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
|Prologue: The New England Clerisy --
Shady Hill, 1786-1842 --
Cambridge and Boston, 1842-1849 --
The World, 1849-1851 --
A Merchant in the Unmaking, 1851-1855 --
Adrift, 1855-1857 --
A Literary Invalid, 1857-1861 --
Toward "A Science of Ideal Politics," 1861-1865 --
The North American, the Nation, and the Nation, 1865-1868 --
Europe and Erudition, 1868-1872 --
Interlude --
Beginning Again, 1873-1878 --
Fresh Foundations of Learning, 1878-1882 --
Olympus Ascended, 1882-1886 --
Years That Bring the Philologic Mind, 1886-1891 --
To Make Democracy Safe for the World, 1891-1895 --
The Invention of Western Civilization, 1895-1898 --
Shady Hill Again, 1898-1908 --
The Published Writings of Charles Eliot Norton.
|James C. Turner.
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"The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton is the first major biography of this towering figure in American journalism, letters, and education. Norton was editor of the North American Review and a founder of the Nation. He was the leading American Dantist of his day, translating the Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy in what became standard versions. He initiated art history in the college curriculum, organized the field of classical archaeology in the United States, and formulated what has come to be known in college courses as "Western Civilization."" "James Turner's biography offers the first full account of Norton's life and its significance, following him from his perilous travels across India as a young merchant to his role as his country's preeminent cultural critic - an American analogue to John Ruskin and Matthew Arnold, his close friends." "Most importantly, Turner shows how Norton developed the key ideas that still underlie the humanities, historicism, and culture and how his influence endures in America's colleges and universities because of institutions he developed and models he devised. Drawing on nearly a hundred archives in the United States, Britain, and Italy, The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton reveals a new picture of the beginnings of the humanities in American higher education."--Jacket.
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quote:Originally posted by oneiron339RE: egg creams. Growing up in PA, I had never heard of an egg cream either, but one night while tending bar on a slow night in a Lancaster pub, a young lady from NY came in and we got to talking about this topic, she then told me how to make an egg cream - milk, ice cream, syrup, and a raw egg, mixed in the metal mixing container. I assumed that was the official recipe, after all, she showed me some other "official" versions of things, but I can't mention them here. Just suffice it to say dessert was wonderful. Oh, by the way, best milk shake ever was at the Dari-King on Route 49 between Salem and Bridgeton, NJ. They also serve up Belly Buster hamburgers that are about 12" in DIAMETER. Great road food for those going to the "shore."
quote:Originally posted by Liketoeat... Jerry Van Dyke's in Benton, AR, makes a great one - if you can endure the too frequent noise of the music and of the young patrons.
quote:Originally posted by LiketoeatBushie, yes, unfortunately, last time I was at Jerry Van Dyke's that damn train was still going, and although the kid customer noise wasn't as bad as it sometimes is, the two little waitresses, who could hardly wait on us for doing their karioke (spelling??) singing, were as distracting/annoying as the customers frequently are. It's a pity that a place like that, with some fair foods and really good fountain items, is ruined by all the damn racket (combination of customers, music & other noises, and acoustics). I don't go there as I otherwise would because of the usual high noise level, and I always warn others of it.
quote:Originally posted by tikiI'm with you Andy---the Chocalate Malt!!! Freindlies Ice Cream Paqrlors in New England used to have something they called an "AwefulAweful"---awful big and aweful good---that with malt added---sheer heaven on a hot summer afternoon
quote:wanderingjew writes I believe you are referring to Newport Creamery . They had the awful awfuls. Never tried one unfortunatelyWonder if they still have them
quote:Originally posted by Howard BaratzI love the extra taste sensation that the malt adds to a shake. Also, all New Yorkers know the resulting drink as a Malted and not a Malt.As a New Yorker, I must also state to anyone who thinks there are eggs in an Egg Cream: Fuhgettaboutit!
quote:Originally posted by BigGlennPineapple Shake is my favorite....Simple, But just the best!
quote:Originally posted by marberthenadWhat is malt anyway?


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