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The Daily Picayune
New Orleans, December 17 1905
"Writing a History of Pike County
Luke W. Conerly is Preparing a Valuable Historical Work"
The history of Pike County, which I am preparing and will soon have ready for the publishers, will embrace, first, a compendium outline of the origin of Mississippi from the advent of Hernando De Soto in 1540 to its formation into a territorial government by act of Congress in 1798.
Here I begin the immigration from South Carolina and other States of men and women into that region subsequently designated by the boundaries of Marion County, from which territory the County of Pike was formed in 1815.
I am giving the names of those pioneer, both men and women, who their parents were, where they were from, how they came through the deep forest wilderness hundreds of miles afoot, on horseback or in cars drawn by an ox or cow, with her calf toddling by her side, pulling their little water millstones all the way with axles and shafts fastened to them, carlike, from South Carolina; where they settled on the different water courses, who their children were and who they married, the industries established, the constitution of schools and churches and leading men of that period. The makers of the carding machines, the reels, the spinning wheels and looms, household furniture and water mills; the hardy life on the farm, making them self-sustaining and fitting them for the future, which has been written with some of the best blood of their descendants.
I will give the territorial civil officers of Pike County, which are not on record at the State Capitol; the establishment of the county seat of justice, civil officers after admission in the Union in 1817 and on down legislative and judicial, to the war period, embodying interesting events, noted men, charming women, fandangos and spiritual revivals; good fiddlers and dancers, good preachers and Sunday school teachers; 'possum hunts', deer drives and bear fights and negro slavery as it prevailed then.
Also a history of the original constitution of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad from its first convention in New Orleans in 1847, why it took the route it did, and where it began in that city.
Also events connected with the coming struggle in 1800 and 1861, the organization of the military companies, the war period, including the names of the officers and men forming these military companies, the struggles of the people left at home for self-preservation, the results of the great conflict as concerned Pike County, her chivalric sons, her matchless women, her sacrifices in blood upholding the starry cross and the "Bonnie Blue Flag."
All the newspapers of Pike County will come in- who where their founders and editors- from the first one established in Holmesville in 1842 by Henry Smith Bonney, contemporaneous with the little Picayune, the Bee and Commercial Bulletin.
My object has been to preserve the names of the Confederate soldiers of Pike County and leave to posterity the names of the ancestry. If such could be done by some one in each county of the State of Mississippi, it should be encouraged.
I expect to close the main features of my book with the close of the Tilden campaign in 1876. Every man, woman and child whose ancestry belonged to the pioneer of Pike County, or who were citizens of the county prior to the Civil War, or who may be any way connected with more than 1,000 soldiers who served in the Confederate Armies, going out with the companies organized there, will have a personal, as well as friendly interest in this book.
From Valley Forge and Ticonderoga, from Yorktown and Kings Mountain, from the Cowpens and the Talapoosa, from Chalmette and Chepultepec, heroic blood came to Pike County, and from Buena Vista to Fort Gregg a halo of glory enshrines her people of the century that has passed and gone.
Some years after the close of the Civil War I conceived the idea of writing a history of Pike County and compiled some valuable records from the clerks offices at Holmesville and at Columbia in Marion County. After this the records of Pike County were destroyed by fire at the burning of the recently built Courthouse in Magnolia. Not a marriage license nor certificate was saved, but my book will tell thousands who their great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers were and whence they came. From Scotland's rugged crags and England's foggy shores, from Ireland's green fields and Switzerland's romantic heights and the Kaiser's realms, the chivalrous and the good came and planted their seed in the pine woods of Pike County along with those established there. "If such a book should be appreciated by the living of today, I shall feel that my work has not been in vain."
Luke W. Conerly
Luke Ward Conerly
"Historian, Newspaper Editor, Attorney, Southern Patriot"
Compiled and Edited by Lee Jackson
Luke Ward Conerly was born February 3rd 1841 on a cotton plantation, owned by his grand uncle after whom he took his name, in the vicinity of China Grove, MS. He was a son of Owen Conerly Jr and grandson of Owen Conerly Sr, one of the pioneers of Pike County from North Carolina, who settled in Pike County in 1823. His mother was Ann Louisa Stephens of New Orleans, a daughter of Ann Lawn of England, and Robert James Stephens, of Irish nativity. In his early childhood, his father attended a mill on Magees Creek erected in 1817 by Ralph Stovall and later known as Bishops' Mill. He went to school at China Grove and in the early fifties his father moved to Holmesville, where he attended the schools taught by Samuel F. Gard, Edward Carruth and Thomas R. Stockdale. In 1859 he was a clerk in the store of Dr. George Nicholson and later was with William M. and James Conerly in the town of Holmesville. In 1860, he began the study of law under H.E. Weathersby, which was discontinued on account of the death of his father, necessitating his presence on the plantation with his mother to manage the slaves and the farm business.
Luke W. Conerly c.1860's
At age 20, Luke became a member of the Quitman Guards Infantry of Mississippi, organized and tutored by Capt. Preston Brent. Later that year the company was called out by the state after it had passed the ordinance of Secession and was mustered into the Confederate Army on May 27th 1861 as a 5th Sgt. The Quitman Guards became Company E of the 16th Mississippi Infantry, part of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was wounded two times, in the hip at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, MD September 17th 1862 and in the leg at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, VA at Bloody Angle May 12th 1864.
Antietam was the Bloodiest one day battle in American history. 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after twelve hours of combat.
Bloody Angle at the Battle of Spotsylvania was the longest sustained intense fight of the Civil War. For up to 20 hours men were engaged in a hand-to-hand and close in fight. A 22-inch oak tree was whittled in two by musket fire.
He was captured in the Shenandoah Valley near Strasburg, Virginia on June 27 1862 and held prisoner by the Union forces at the old Capital Prison in Washington, D.C. for 40 days before being released on August 5th 1862 at Aiken landing James River, Virginia in a prisoner swap. He then returned to his unit. He was again captured towards the end of the war on January 27th 1865 at Petersburg, VA. and was confined on March 14th 1865 at Knoxville, TN and sent to Chattanooga, TN. Luke again took the Oath of Allegiance at Louisville, KY on March 18th 1865, after which he was paroled by the Federal Army to remain north of the Ohio River for the rest of the war. Luke was again in the hands of the Federal Army at the time of the final surrender in 1865 of the Confederate Army. He was released and returned home to Pike County walking most of the way on foot. Company E of the 16th Infantry Regiment of Mississippi was also in the battles at Cross Key, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Second Battle of Manassas, Harpers Ferry, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg , Bristoe Station, Mine Run, Shady Grove, Petersburg, Hatcher's Run, and Fort Gregg.
In 1866, within a year after the close of the War for Southern Independence, he was admitted to the bar at Monticello, in Lawrence County, in Judge C. McNain's Court.
In 1867 Luke married Emma Eoline Quin, daughter of Judge H. Murray Quin of Holmesville and they had 13 children. Judge H. Murray Quin was grandson of Peter Quin Sr. (1750-1824) who was a Revolutionary Soldier and in the group of men who created the town of Holmesville.
He subsequently moved to Louisiana. He always had a talent and fondness for writing and drifted out of law into the newspaper business. He became the editor of the Amite City Democrat in Amite City, Tangipahoa Parish, La. And in 1875 was urged by his friends in Pike County to establish a partisan campaign paper at Magnolia, MS to aid in the defeat of the Republican regime. He bought an old newspaper outfit at Ponchatoula, La, and shipped it to Magnolia. September 17, 1875 the first issues of the Magnolia Herald were printed. Luke continued as the editor until 1878 when he sold it to Henry C. Capell and Charlie Lee.
In 1876 he took a leading part in the Tilden campaign in Pike County. He was the correspondent for the New Orleans Delta during the lottery campaign in Louisiana and was Senate reporter for the Shreveport Caucasian during the Foster incumbency.
His wife Emma died March 19, 1901 during childbirth while living on the Conerly farm near Pride, LA. After Emma's death he relocated to Gulfport, MS and began writing his book on the history of Pike County which was published in 1909. That same year he married his second wife Ida Mae Farmer May 4th, 1909 and she died four years later on September 14, 1913. She was the daughter of Zachary T Farmer and Mary J Byars.
While doing research for his book he discovered that an Unknown Soldier from the War of 1812 had been buried in Pike County. In 1908 he corresponded with the War Department about the Unknown Soldier from Tennessee with General Carroll's Division that was buried about 11 miles east of Magnolia near the banks of Love's Creek on the Brumfield family property. The family there had maintained the grave about 93 years marking it with a slab of yellow pine. The US government funded the remains to be exhumed and relocated to the Chalmette Cemetery. Luke and Superintendent O'Shea of the Chalmette Cemetery were led to the grave by Henry S. Brumfield a grandson of the original owner of the Brumfield plantation. The pine slab marking the soldiers grave had rotted and the inscription of the name could not be identified. Two brass buttons were found with the remains and fragments of a blue uniform. The remains were taken by train to the Chalmette Cemetery and buried with military honors. Upon his tomb is engraved "Unknown Soldier U.S.A. War of 1812."
Luke W. Conerly 1907
Luke practiced law on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and on May 4th 1912 he founded the Society of Mississippi Choctaw whose chief council was located in Gulfport MS. This was a historical society with a membership spread over Alabama, Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. He became a claims agent for the Mississippi Choctaw Indians and in 1914 traveled to Washington DC to represent them before Congress. He appeared before the committee of Indian affairs in support of the MS Choctaw's claim on the distribution of $3,500,000 to be given to the tribe. The money was held up pending a decision by Congress as to the rights of the Mississippi Indians who claimed title to a share of the money under the treaty of 1830, awarding citizenship. The Choctaws of Oklahoma opposed having the Mississippians placed on tribal rolls and the house rejected the proposal.
Society of Mississippi Choctaw pin circa 1912
Luke remarried a third time April 17th 1915 to Georgia E. McNair(1874-1951). They had no children together but Georgia did have a son from a previous marriage who lived with them.
He became ill and June 10, 1921 was moved into Beauvoir in Biloxi, MS. Beauvior at the time was converted to house Confederate Veterans. Barracks and other buildings on the property including a hospital were destroyed by several hurricanes with major damage during Hurricane Katrina. The main house survived and has been beautifully restored. A Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum is being constructed adjacent to Beauvior and is set to open August 2011.
Luke W. Conerly died at 4:45 a.m on Thursday March 9th 1922 at age 81 while living in the barracks at Beauvior Old Soldiers Home. He is buried in Mississippi City Cemetery a few miles west of Beauvoir off Pass Rd and H Ave next to his 2nd wife Ida Mae Farmer at his request. He was a member of the Masons and was buried with Masonic honor. The Sons of Confederate Veterans placed a new headstone at his grave August 2nd 2008 with a rifle and cannon salute. Many of his descendants attended the ceremony including three granddaughters, four great grand-children, four great great grandchildren, and five great great great grandchildren and host of friends and family.
Luke, while living in the barracks of the old soldier's home next to Beauvoir, the last home of Jefferson Davis, placed a copy of his book "Pike County Mississippi" in the Jefferson Davis Library. The book has remained there all these years. It survived hurricane Katrina and is in good shape, even though the library was destroyed. It will again be placed in the new Jefferson Davis Library at Beauvoir when it is completed.


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Homemade flax seed dog biscuits
- Story and recipe shared in 2008. Update: We lost our dear Dante in May, 2011. We love you, Dante. Thank you for bringing us so much love and joy into our lives.
- Update: here is a new recipe for Pumpkin Flax Seed Dog Biscuits.
When we saw her 3 years ago, her gentle puppy demeanor, her adorable little brown "pirate patch" over her eye, her lovable licks and her warm, sweet gaze deceived us into believing that she was going to be the perfect puppy.
She tricked us into thinking that with proper, firm training, she would do no harm. Can you call us two big SUCKERS?!! Not only has she killed and pulled up many plants from our garden, those that she has not killed, she's eaten. We finally gave up on the idea of growing rhubarb because she eats the stalks even before the snails get to them. What's left of the plant is a tiny base stalk with a dog paw print as evidence left behind. She loves strawberries too. Every other morning, it's a race to our little strawberry patch to beat her to the ripened berries.
If we're a little late, she'll be found licking her mug free of the super duper sweet chandler strawberry juice. It's SO wrong to see two humans (us) salivating and staring down at a dog (her) who just beat her guardians to their prized strawberries. Can you call us JEALOUS?!! But she is a great soccer player, loves to play in dirt and her love of the sprinklers keep us entertained and forgiving of her destructive ways!
He's big, he's lazy and he's a princess. He is named Dante, inspired during our trip to Rome, after the famed poet Dante Alighieri. We really should have named him "princepesa". Dante is supposed to be the big, strong, noble, athletic and fearless Rhodesian Ridgeback hunter that we also got suckered into loving. Is it too late to get a refund? Isn't there an 8 year dog ownership statue of limitations?!
What we ended up getting was a dog who HATES water, doesn't like to get his paws dirty, screams bloody murder when getting his nails trimmed or when about to get a shot at the vet and sleeps about 20 hours a day. And worse yet, he will not chase balls. Nope, none of this "fetch, Fido, fetch" playtime with Dante. He looks at a tossed ball like it's an insult to his character, giving us that "you really don't expect me to chase that, do you?" look. But wait, those are his GOOD traits.
If there's one significant description to singularly identify this dog amongst others, it's is his love of FOOD. Yes, of course, mostly all dogs love food and love to be fed. But our "great red hope" of a canine is so infatuated with food that if there was a plate of leftovers on the counter sitting over night, he will sit and stare at it ALL NIGHT. True! When we wake up in the morning, we'll find this hound sitting in the kitchen, half asleep, hoping the food will miraculously fall to the floor for him to ingest. But he is part hound and does have great smelling and hunting skills. He can run trails with Mom & Dad like no other, and if one of us gets lost, we're certain that he'll be able to find us by smell. We suppose that's a good thing!
But they are loved! Aside from our rant, they do get treated quite nicely (we remind them of their fulfilling life). They get plenty of couch cuddles, ear rubs, new toys , daily walks, frequent hikes, beach visits and road trips. In return, they give us unconditional love and loyalty, despite our faults. To show them that they are really, truly and deeply loved, we make them homemade flax seed dog biscuits. Can you call them SPOILED?! Yes, they get homemade dog biscuits made from all natural ingredients. Our highly loved and tattered bible, "The Professional Pastry Chef" by Bo Frieberg, is the ultimate, extensive book that is full of wickedly amazing dessert recipes. But Bo Frieberg's very first recipe in this monstrous book for human consumption is a recipe for dog biscuits, in which he dedicated to his dogs. This recipe has been in the White On Rice Couple's household for 8 years now and along with the addition of flax seeds, it's a culinary tradition will continue to be fully executed for as long as we have four legged monsters in the house.
"Sharing the Love" of dog biscuits ! Dante & Sierra want to share their biscuits with their canine friends. Awww, isn't that so kind of them to extend their treat bag to their doggie friends? Well, we didn't tell Dante, but what he doesn't know won't hurt him. So for all you mommies and daddies out there who have doggies that would like to sample some of these delicious homemade dog biscuits, we're "Sharing the Love"! Dear blog friends who have dogs, you will love these, seriously you will. Take a bite into them for yourself and you'll see that they are quite delicious. But wait! These are for the dogs, so if you want some for your dogs, just leave your comment here and we'll get back to you. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy these dog biscuits and try to make them for your canine loves!
Here's our favorite cutter sets. Obviously they have many uses beyond puppy treats, but ours tend to see a lot of action in that department. We love how all of these sets store, 'cause nothing drives us nuts more than messy kitchen drawers:
Homemade Flax Seed Dog Biscuit Recipe
- 12 oz (340g) whole wheat flour
- 12 oz (340g) bread flour
- 2 oz (55g) wheat germ
- 1 teaspoon (5g) salt
- 2 Tablespoons (30g) brown sugar
- 3-4 Tablespoons Flax Seed (optional)
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup (240ml) vegetable oil
- 3 oz (85g) powdered dry milk
- 1 cup (240ml) water
- Combine wheat flour, bread flour, wheat germ, salt, and brown sugar, and flax seed in mixing bowl. Stir in eggs and vegetable oil.
- Dissolve dry milk in water then incorporate the mixture.
- Mix to form a very firm dough that is smooth and workable. Adjust by adding a little extra flour or water as required.
- Cover the dough and set aside to relax for 15-20 min.
- Roll the dough out to 1/2″ (1.2cm) thick. Cut out biscuits using a bone-shaped cutter 3″x1.5″ (7.5×3.7cm). Place the biscuits on sheet pans lined with baking paper.
- Bake at 375°F (190°C) for approx. 40 minutes or until biscuits are brown and, more importantly, rock-hard. Let biscuits cool, then store in a covered container five to six feet off the flour. Use as needed to reward your four-legged friends.)

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Men are notoriously hard to buy for. Not any more! No matter what he's into we've found the perfect gifts for men he most definitely won't be donating to Oxfam!
It's no urban myth that we tend to dread looking for that perfect present for the men in our lives, so we've put together our handy guide to the dos and don'ts to bear in mind when buying gifts for men.
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Do try and give him something he wouldn't buy himself
When buying gifts for men experience gifts, or luxurious treats that he might not fork out for himself are always a good idea. Let's face it, it'll hardly be on top of his list to run out and book helicopter flying lessons for himself!.
Do opt for the classic gift option
His favourite book or album in a specialised format (an anniversary edition or vinyl) always make a great gift for him, and he'll appreciate that you put thought and care in giving him something he'll always remember.
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If you know that he'll love something, don't be afraid to play it safe. If he loves sport, buy him a gift of tickets to see his favourite team; if he's a movie buff get him that box set he keeps meaning to get. Even you're not exactly filled with joy at the thought of spending all day in a field/ watching re-runs of Top Gear, he'll love it so your job is done.
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We don't mean simple as in buying him a pair of socks- more that you don't have to spend hours making a handmade birthday card to show you care. It's the thought that counts and if you stick to what you know he'll like (you'll most likely have an in depth knowledge of this) chances are he'll be very happy.
Do stay away from gifts for him that you think might be a bad idea
Chances are, your instinct's will be spot on.
Gifts for Men Don'ts:
Don't give him anything with an obvious monetary value
Never, ever give cash!. Not only is it supremely impersonal, it shows a distinct lack of imagination. Plus do you really want him to know the exact monetary worth that you put on him?.
Don't give him anything his Mother would buy him (unless you are his mother!)
For obvious reasons!
Don't get him something you wish he would wear/use
In other words, don't buy him a gift that you think might encourage him to change. It may seem like a bright idea, but there's a good chance it could backfire and you don't want to get a bad rep for what we're sure are your super gift buying skills. The best gifts for him are gifts that he (rather than you!) likes.
Don't over think it
If you're feeling super stressed about it, trust your instincts and go with what you know he'll enjoy. Choosing a gift for him should be a pleasure, not a chore.
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Daily roundup of what's hot online right now with the 2012 Olympics schedule, news on Paris Jackson and a video of Christian Bale visiting Aurora, Colo.
Trending topic: Olympics 2012 schedule
Olympic soccer has begun, and Olympic swimming will start on July 28. Check out the 2012 Olympic Swimming schedule at NBCOlympics.com, and be sure to watch your favorite events and athletes.
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Yanks hopeful tight upper back won't shelve Pettitte
NEW YORK -- Yankees left-hander Andy Pettitte was forced to leave Thursday's 3-2 loss to the Mariners after 79 pitches with a tight left trapezius muscle, which spans the neck, shoulders and upper back area.
Pettitte and manager Joe Girardi held out hope that he won't have to miss his next start.
Pettitte appeared to stiffen and wince after throwing his final pitch, a swinging strikeout of Kyle Seager for the second out of the fifth inning. Girardi dashed to the mound and held a fairly lengthy conversation with Pettitte, who shielded his mouth with his glove. Pettitte jogged off the field and was relieved by Shawn Kelley.
"Obviously, I'm realistic," Pettitte said. "I know how these guys are. I asked them if I could stay out there and try to get through it out there. I'm hoping it's a spasm and it settles down."
Girardi -- no stranger to injury updates in a season that has already been filled by them -- remained hopeful as well.
"I don't think Andy's [injury] is too bad," Girardi said. "His trap just kind of got a knot in it, and to me it was affecting his velocity. That's why I took him out. It's muscular, but I don't know what that means going forward."
Pettitte, 4-3 with a 3.83 ERA, said that he never felt especially sharp on Thursday, allowing two runs and four hits, with three walks and five strikeouts to take the loss.
"It was just really tight," Pettitte said. "I couldn't get extended at all. I really just felt like I was kind of cutting everything off and just really trying to throw it in there almost slower than slow, to tell you the truth."
Pettitte missed a start in April with lower back spasms, but he said that he did not believe the two injuries were related. Pettitte turns 41 next month, but he said he is reluctant to use his age as an excuse.
"There's no doubt I'm getting old, but I don't want to sit here and tell you that that's the exact reason why, you know?" Pettitte said, with a chuckle. "I saw Moose [Mike Mussina] go through a full season at age [39] and win 20 ballgames."
The Yankees have already had 12 players on the disabled list this season, with 10 of those men still on the shelf.


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The Microsoft-Facebook acquisition rumor has resurfaced, this time with former Internet analyst Henry Blodget fanning the flames with a hefty price tag of $6 billion.
He posts on his blog that, "No, of course we can't confirm it. But it makes sense, don't you think?"
All Things Digital jumped into the mix with a follow-up post, saying that $6 billion is a "hell of a lot of money to hand to someone who can't always be bothered to take your phone calls." (That's in reference to the famous anecdote of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg failing to show up for an early morning conference call with Microsoft in early 2006 when the software giant was reportedly considering a $2 billion purchase of the social networking startup).
Meanwhile, Bay Partners' Salil Deshpande, whose Silicon Valley firm earlier this week launched an investment vehicle called AppFactory to back Facebook applications, sent out a statement saying he would not be surprised by the move.
"We believe that social networks are poised to become the next great application platform, and Facebook has the lead. We believe they will successfully make the transition from a social networking destination site to a social platform, or 'social operating system.' Whether Facebook stays independent or gets bought is a related but different question. We can see that going either way – but even in the acquisition scenario; the Facebook platform has a good shot at being a long-term viable platform, especially if the acquirer is a company with deep experience in managing platforms and developer relations."
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1. There is going to be a very, very happy coach after tonight's Len Sepanak Tournament final , and with good reason. Both Ridge and Watchung Hills have been surprising success stories so far after going through turbulent offseasons. Both turned in impressive wins over GMC opponents in the semifinal round. The message is loud and clear: These are teams to be reckoned with.
2. Kudos to the Skyland Conference basketball coaches for adopting Coaches vs. Cancer as a charity this year. Each team is going to donate proceeds from one home game. The Watchung Hills boys will be hosting "Coaches vs. Cancer Night" this Friday against Hunterdon Central. Come out and support worthy good cause.
3. Just one man's opinion: Immaculata is the best team in Somerset County right now. Saw the Spartans thrash Piscataway today and I'm very impressed with this team's balance. Until Bridgewater's backcourt improves, and I see a bit more from Hillsborough, I'm riding shotgun on the Spartan bandwagon.
Here is today's link to Plainfield coach Pete Vasil's San Diego diary. The Cardinals posted a huge victory over Scripps Ranch and its Creighton-bound power forward Friday. Good stuff!
I'll be ringing in the New Year in the Giants Stadium parking lot. If the Jets somehow lose this game all the Champagne in France won't be able to drown the pain of Gang Green faithful. It would be the worst loss in franchise history — and that's quite a sordid history.
I'll be back Tuesday to talk Rutgers-Seton Hall. Until then, best wishes for a 2007 filled with good health and good shtick!


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Welcome to guest blogger Ginny Kubitz Moyer
It's that time of year again. Teachers are decorating their classrooms, brand-new lunchboxes wait to be filled, and kids who have savored the delights of vacation are looking downright glum. If you're a hardcore summer fan, you too may find it tough to get excited about the return of school. It's not easy to exchange the relative leisure of vacation for the tyranny of the alarm clock, the inflexibility of pickup times, and the challenge of shepherding your family through another academic year while (hopefully) keeping your own life in balance.
Luckily, the start of school does not have to mean the end of sanity. Here are a few ways to ease the transition, making back-to-school a positive, fun, and even spiritually enriching time for you and your family. Continue reading
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HOUSTON, May 10 , 2013–University of Houston President Renu Khator has been honored by the nation's association of student affairs administrators. She is the recipient of the 2013 President's Award for Region III presented by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA).
The President's Award is a special recognition bestowed upon a college or university leader who has advanced the quality of student life on a campus by supporting student affairs staff and programs. Recipients have demonstrated active attempts to involve students and student life staff in governing the institution and contributions to the profession that have an impact beyond an individual campus. This award has been presented only three times before Khator's recognition. The past recipients are Donna Shalala of the University of Miami (2010), James Wagner of Emory University (2011) and Eric Barron, Florida State University (2012).
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Tuna and egg bento
The bare tuna-paste bento was a great success, but with the arrival of my new bento container, I was left with some extra unused space. I decided to fill the space with easy to make and very tasty iri tamago, which is basically a Japanese kind of scrambled eggs! You can definitely use iri tamago in onigiri, or as a small side dish.
Bonito-dashi ramen with egg
Ramen is a delightful soup served piping hot with wheat noodle and lots of vegetables — a perfect dish that you can prepare quickly for a healthy autumn dinner or a light lunch. You can customise it almost indefinitely with ingredients you like: eggs, meat, vegetables and rice cakes. I will show you how to prepare a simple, but very tasty ramen based on bonito fish stock (bonito dashi) and eggs.
Simple chicken teriyaki bento
This recipe is very easy and fast to cook, because it requires ready-made teriyaki sauce. Still, it's a really tasty alternative to sausages and pork, and chicken made in teriyaki style is juicy, tender and full of aroma! It also takes just few minutes, because the meat is first fried quickly, and then glazed with sauce. Fast food like a boss ;-)
Fancy tamagoyaki bento
Oh my, this one is both a looker and tastes amazingly! :-) This bento idea is based on the basic tamagoyaki recipe, so feel free to use your favorite ingredients: champignons or chanterelle mushroom, herbs, different kinds of onion, bacon bits, ham shavings etc. Go crazy! :-) It's also a very good side dish!
Teriyaki salmon bento
I think life is too short to keep the frozen salmon in the fridge! :-) So I made a teriyaki salmon bento, which was so fast to cook, that I had too much idle time in the morning... Just be careful not to overcook the teriyaki sauce, because it may have a burnt taste. Also, optional lotus root slices will keep the fish tender and juicy for the time when you can finally devour every last bit of it ;-)


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As 2007 comes to a close, I thought it would be fun to look back at some of the most popular blog posts and products of 2007. Here are three top ten lists each ordered from highest to lowest.
Top Ten Blog Posts
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- The Lifework of Dr. Jim Rosscup
- The Secret to Beating the Postage Increase
- New Bible Widget for Mac
- Original Language Study: A Boutique Specialty
- Getting More from Library Builder, Part 1
- Smokers Drive Up Costs of Bibles
- The Most Important Person in the Bible
- Lange's Lost Volume
- Christmas Deals from Logos!
- Getting More from Library Builder, Part 2
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- The Hermeneutical Spiral
- A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Christ
- Selected Works on the Life of Christ
- The Apostolic Fathers in Greek and English (3 Editions, with Morphology)
- The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament (Moulton & Milligan)
- The Bible Speaks Today New Testament on CD-ROM (22 Volumes)
- Romans Unlocked
- The John Piper Sermon Manuscript Library
- Getting to Know Jesus Bible Study
- Idioms of the Greek New Testament, Second Edition
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- Hebrew Pronunciation Addin
- An Exposition on Prayer in the Bible (5 volumes)
- John Piper Collection (24 volumes)
- Christian Theology, Second Edition
- Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms
- A Simplified Harmony of the Gospels
- Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey
- Studies in the New Testament
- Norman L. Geisler's Systematic Theology
- Lexham Greek-English Interlinear New Testament
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Edvin Loach, also Edwin Loach, is a village in eastern Herefordshire, England, about four miles north of the town of Bromyard, and near the village of Edwyn Ralph. It is part of the modern civil parish of Edvin Loach and Saltmarshe. Wikipedia
The Soul Angels
Alveley, Shropshire, WV156HX
Hi, My name is Nichola Hemming and my Company is called The Soul Angels. I offer Reiki, Chakra balancing, Crystal Reiki to name but a few [...]Distance: 17.16 miles.
Kate Jones Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki Master
Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, WR15 8AA
01584 890284
Everyone faces challenges in life, whether it's a painful physical condition, stress, bereavement or other loss. You might also feel that you have lost [...]Distance: 6.97 miles.
DNC Therapies
Hereford, Herefordshire, HR13NL
If you're looking for relaxation and calm in your life, and the ability to learn how to reconnect with yourself, then you're in the [...]Distance: 10.25 miles.
Charlotte Blackwood – Ascension Healing Academy
Malvern Link, Worcestershire, WR14 1TY
07732 138131
Are you dreaming of running your own successful Reiki business? Does the thought of running your own Reiki Academy excite you? Do you want to help [...]Distance: 10.65 miles.
Tranqullity Centre
Colwall Green, Herefordshire
07766 828072
My business is all about helping others to reach their full potential or at least as close as they can get to it. I [...]Distance: 11.62 miles.
Christa Barry Holistic Therapies
Great Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 2DG
Welcome to Christa Barry Holistic Therapies. Choosing a therapist is not always an easy task, so thank you for looking at my listing. As [...]Distance: 12.17 miles.
A Zest for Life Healing
Worcester, Worcestershire, WR7 4HF
Hi I'm Claire a very warm welcome to A zest for life healing. I specialize in Crystal, Angelic, Sound and Reiki healing whilst also offering [...]Distance: 12.56 miles.
Mary Gold Reiki
Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, WR14 4LQ
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I am attuned to level 1,2,3, Master Teacher and Karuna Reiki (Hawaii) I treated people with Aromatherapy massage for 20 years. I learned Reflexology to the [...]Distance: 12.63 miles.
Therapies by Rosie and Charlotte
Worcester, Worcestershire, Wr1 3hy
07827 448684
Hello, We are Rosie and Charlotte Denham. We are a mother and daughter team offering a range of holistic therapies as well as gifts [...]Distance: 12.74 miles.
Action Belief
Worcester, Worcestershire, WR3 8BG
07825 325934
I am a certified Life Coach & Reiki Practitioner. I offer 1 to 1 coaching with Reiki or either as a stand alone session. [...]Distance: 12.88 miles.
My Reiki Listing HealingTouch Worcester
Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5
01905 763481
About the Tutor Rita Davies: Rita Davies is an educational facilitator with over 30 year's experience and is a Practitioner of Biomechanical therapy, Aromatherapy [...]Distance: 13.02 miles.
Rainbow WIngs
Worcester, Worcestershire
Rainbow Wings is a Holistic & Spiritual business run by Jo Kelsall. Jo is a holistic therapist who also has natural healing abilities, she [...]Distance: 13.02 miles.
Natural Harmony
Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1 2HN
01905 612285
A welcoming haven in the centre of historic Worcester where you will find a selection of beautiful crystals, jewellery and other gift ideas. Reiki, crystals, [...]Distance: 13.07 miles.
Solfa-Do Centre
Hereford, Herefordshire
Drawing on over 30 years of experience as an accomplished martial artist and Soul educator, Clarence Harvey focuses ch'i through the healing modalities of [...]Distance: 13.15 miles.
Reiki with Rachel
Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 1JA
Reiki is a safe, non-intrusive system of ancient natural healing. Reiki stimulates the body's natural healing ability at the deepest level. Reiki removes physical [...]Distance: 13.44 miles.
Alice Ford Angelic Reiki Practitioner
Hereford, Herefordshire
Higher Realm Reiki is an Angelic healing technique based on the principle of free and uninterrupted energy flow and helps activate the natural healing [...]Distance: 14 miles.
Jayne Sheen Reiki Master Practitioner
Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire, WR9 8UH
07834 424342
REIKI is a Japanese word which translated means 'Universal life force Energy'. Reiki therapy treatment allows the therapist to facilitate Reiki energy through the hands [...]Distance: 15.61 miles.
Reiki Healing by Tara
Hartlebury, Worcestershire, DY10 4HS
Reiki treatment increases your supply of life force energy and helps you heal quickly. It promotes relaxation, makes you feel at peace and reduces [...]Distance: 15.79 miles.
Holistic Help
Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire
07789 301873
Sue is a Reiki Master practitioner who has taught many people the science and art of Reiki healing. Reiki itself is an amazing self [...]Distance: 15.93 miles.
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There are absolutely some travel days where you're better off hiding under the covers and starting again the next day.
And rather than merely present the good/interesting days all the time, perhaps it's more realistic to occasionally blog about the "other" days as well.
The "there will be days like this" axiom holds true even when you're at home, but there are frustrations and challenges on the road that make the bad days even more pronounced.
To balance it out, I suppose it can also be said that the ways to remove the stink of such days are more numerous and more enjoyable on the road too. So, allright October 20th, we'll call it a draw. But I don't need to see days like you again for a while.
En voyageant, everything is heightened - the good times can be really good, and the bad days can make you want to book the next flight home to mommy. (I didn't do the latter, I should add).
Rather than ramble on with a list of actually frustrations though, I will proffer some handy travel tips instead:
- When you are leaving your home country, it is best to notify your bank. If you don't and they see a number of foreign withdrawals from your account, they may freeze it. The bank however, doesn't tell you this. And this, oddly enough, leaves you unable to withdraw money and unable to do online banking. You simply get an error message stating "It looks like you're having trouble." Yes, no freaking kidding I'm having trouble. You just froze my account.
- When calling (more on that in a moment) your bank to get it sorted out, it helps to find a good customer service representative. This is luck of the draw, of course, but to have one scold you, actually scold you, for not having the foresight to notify them ahead of time that you are leaving, is really not helpful. (Who actually does the call-the-bank-before-leaving thing anyway? Who's even heard of this? You're lying).
- Before settling into a neighborhood, try to locate local call shops ("belcenters" in Holland) that you can use if you need to access a landline. And then do not use them. At least not if you need to try to dial a 1-800 number. I may as well have been in the jungles of Borneo, sending smoke signals, to get through to my bank. The call shops don't allow calls to 1-800 numbers in North America. This I found out after going to about 4 of them in a 20-block radius.
- What's that you say? Just use or get a cell phone? Ideally, your phone is equipped with GSM that works everywhere in the world pretty much, and it allows international dialling. If you have a CDMA phone, a slowly dying North American standard, you cannot use it in Europe. I knew this going in - so I figured, "I will buy a prepaid phone when I get to my country of choice, and simply swap out the SIM card when I get to another country." The latter part of this works just fine. Except when your SIM card provider does not allow you to call 1-800 numbers. (As an aside, the prepaid rates are fairly exorbitant, so only buy a prepaid phone if you think you really need it).
- Before you go, enlist a trusted relative (thanks sis) or friend back home who can get things done on your behalf if you are really stuck, and then call them. A conference call patched through them to the right agency/bank really helps.
- Don't do laundry, groceries, or attempt anything at all really when one of your days begins with wandering the streets for 2-3 hours looking for an ATM that will take your card or a call center to take your call. You will lose socks, buy the wrong food, and nearly break your toe on a wayward cobblestone. Just sit down at a local cafe or find the local stress-relieving method of choice - Amsterdam has abundant choices - and wake up tomorrow. My personal statisitics for travelling indicate that there are 23 great days for every one like this.


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Pink bat in hand, Stanton slams Mets with walk-off
After Bell allows runs in ninth, slugger caps six-run frame with homer
With one swing, Stanton created a frenzy at Marlins Park.
Stanton's walk-off grand slam punctuated a six-run ninth and propelled the Marlins to an 8-4 win over the Mets on Mother's Day.
The no-doubt shot was estimated at 433 feet, making it the longest home run measured in the first 14 games at Miami's new retractable-roof home.
"That one was one of those no-doubters off the bat," said Stanton, who ripped into reliever Manny Acosta's first-pitch fastball. "First-pitch heater, right down the middle. I'm looking for a pitch that is going to get the heart of the plate."
Stanton's seventh homer of the season capped a three-hit day for the 22-year-old slugger, who used a pink bat as part of MLB's Mother's Day tradition of raising breast cancer awareness.
The last time the Marlins won via a walk-off slam came on June 11, 2008, when Dan Uggla connected.
The laser landed to the left of the park's ornate home run feature, which was set into motion with mechanical marlins spinning and water splashing. It was Stanton's third career grand slam, with his most recent one on July 6, 2011, against the Phillies.
Miami has shown a flare for the dramatic. Five times they've won by walk-off, including Greg Dobbs's game-winning single on Friday night.
After circling the bases, the 6-foot-5, 250-pound Stanton was lifted by teammate Logan Morrison.
"I didn't think he was going to get me," Stanton said. "I didn't know if his knees were going to hold up. We toppled, but it worked out."
Emilio Bonifacio completed the on-field party atmosphere by smearing a shaving-cream-covered towel on Stanton's face.
Nothing has been easy for the Marlins, who have now won four straight series.
"It's all about pitching," Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said. "Late in the game, don't be surprised if we're going to win or lose late in the games. The reason is, our starting pitching is pretty good. You're going to see a lot of bullpen guys losing and winning games."
For the second time in the afternoon, the Marlins came back from being two runs down.
In the ninth, they rallied off closer Frank Francisco. Bonifacio led off with a triple, his second of the game. John Buck walked, and Brett Hayes entered as a pinch-runner. Dobbs, pinch-hitting, lined an RBI single, advancing Hayes to third.
Mets manager Terry Collins replaced Francisco, who felt the strike zone was squeezed. After handing the ball to Collins, Francisco walked directly towards home plate, shouting at umpire Todd Tichenor, who ejected the reliever.
Animated, Francisco gave Tichenor an earful before he headed toward the clubhouse.
"It's tough," Francisco said. "I went out there and Bonifacio hit a good fastball. I didn't care about Bonifacio. I was trying to shut it down right there, and I thought I was hitting my spots really good. I didn't get a call. Nothing you can do about that."
In his plate appearance, Buck felt there was one borderline call.
"The first [pitch], which started it, I thought it was pretty low, personally," Buck said. "Then, the next one was probably borderline. After that, they were in there. Trust me, I was hacking with Boni on third. We all know that I love to swing. I'm not the most patient guy. If I could have, I would have put some wood on it. There was probably one pitch, but other than that, I feel like no."
Jose Reyes had a game-tying sacrifice fly to center, and Acosta filled the bases by walking Hanley Ramirez and hitting Austin Kearns with a pitch. Stanton ended things one pitch later.
The Mets took a 4-2 lead in the ninth on Justin Turner's two-run double off Heath Bell.
Turner's heroics were reminiscent of the Marlins' 3-2 loss to the Mets at Citi Field on April 26. In that game, Bell surrendered two runs in the ninth inning on a day the Mets enjoyed a walk-off. The tying run scored when Turner capped a 13-pitch showdown with a walk.
In the ninth on Sunday, Daniel Murphy doubled with one out and Ronny Cedeno walked. A groundout advanced both runners into scoring position. Pinch-hitter Mike Baxter, who delivered pinch-hit hits on Friday and Saturday, was intentionally walked, loading the bases.
Turner, with the count full, lined a two-run double past diving first baseman Gaby Sanchez.
Miami right-hander Carlos Zambrano continued to put up terrific numbers without necessarily being rewarded.
Zambrano allowed two runs (one earned) in seven innings, striking out seven. The veteran lowered his ERA from 1.98 to 1.88. He came into Sunday having not allowed a run in his previous two starts, including a complete game.
Mets lefty Jonathan Niese held the Marlins scoreless over his six-inning stint.
Trailing by two in the seventh, the Marlins pulled even on Buck's two-run homer off reliever Ramon Ramirez. Bonifacio tripled to open the inning and Buck deposited the game-tying shot over the wall in left-center. It was his fourth of the season, and first at Marlins Park.
The Marlins used the long ball at opportune times to secure the series.
"We're still not even close to our full potential," Stanton said. "We're still getting it done somehow, every day. Once it clicks for everybody, we're going to be scary. Even in that road trip, we went 8-1 and we still didn't play our best baseball. More is yet to come."


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The main objective of this UNDG-HLCM WG is to improve the level of consistency and harmonization across the UN system in relation to the practices and procedures governing the attribution of costs (with a focus on administrative and support costs), related to extra-budgetary funded activities. Co-chairs: Mr. Ashok Nigam, UNDG and Ms. Yolande Valle, UNESCO.
This initiative builds on the coordination efforts done in recent years by the HLCM Working Group on "Support Costs for Extra-budgetary Activities" and by the UNDG Management Group, and intends to establish common cost recovery guidelines for the UN system organizations. A first HLCM working group on "Support Costs for Extra-budgetary Activities" was activated in October 2003 and concluded its activity at the end of 2005. Its main deliverable was a system wide cost classification policy which classify costs in three main categories in relation to field projects: direct variable costs, indirect variable costs and indirect fixed costs. The HLCM/FB Network meeting held in Geneva the 20-22 June 2007 decided to reactivate the Working Group on cost recovery policies with the mandate to develop and further pursue the harmonization of cost recovery policies in a system-wide consistent way. This mandate is currently being undertaken as a joint effort with the Development Operations Coordination Office (DOCO) of UNDG. In the fall 2008, a UNDG-HLCM study was launched with the objective to accelerate the harmonization process of UN Organizations' cost recovery policies, taking into account that a consensus had been reached on a 7% programme support costs (PSC) rate for Multi-Donor Trust Funds (MDTFs) and Joint Programming activities, while maintaining the objective of full cost recovery.
In May 2009, the UNDG-HLCM Working Group held a meeting in order to review the draft consultants' report. In September 2009, the working group held its last meeting. Although participants expressed their concerns regarding the consultants' report, they recognized some useful elements to allow mutual understanding of UN Organizations' cost recovery policies, and provided more insight into accountancy tools and options for re-allocating costs. In October 2009, HLCM decided to move towards the creation of a small group to discuss the future strategic direction of the cost-recovery harmonization initiative, acknowledging significant differences between organizations' funding structures and building on the excellent work already completed by the joint HLCM/ UNDG working group.
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BROOKLINE, Mass. -- Andrew Bailey was just being nosy.
The Oakland A's stuck newly acquired reliever Craig Breslow in the locker next to his late in the 2009 season and Breslow -- whose hands are often glued to his iPad before games -- was always busy.
"I just said, 'What are you always doing over there with that?'" recalled Bailey, who spent three seasons with the A's. "And he kind of explained that he started a charity for pediatric cancer research and awareness. I said, 'Is there anything I can do to help?'"
Four years later and Breslow's Strike 3 Foundation, with the help of Bailey, now a board member, had raised $740,000 toward childhood cancer research. And that's not counting Monday's event.
Most of the Red Sox's squad of 25 was in attendance at Alden Castle in Brookline on Monday night for Sip Happens, which invited participants to taste wine, enjoy fine dining, mingle with Red Sox players and place bids on auction items ranging from vacation packages to a Les Paul guitar signed by the entire team.
With an all-volunteer staff supporting Breslow's Strike 3 Foundation, which includes Breslow's fiancee, Kelly Shaffer, and a generous donation made from a variety of local vendors, it allows for a heavy portion of proceeds to be donated to charitable causes.
Even after the Sox had just returned from Detroit, where they lost three of four to the Tigers, and the record-setting heat was clearly getting the best of the air-conditioning in the old, brick-covered building, Sox players filtered in to support Breslow on one of their rare days off.
"We have a pretty close team, so I have a lot of guys here to support," said Dustin Pedroia, who abandoned the suit in the evening heat in favor a cream-colored button-down shirt. "Bres with his cause, it's been fun. We're just having a good time. We're all enjoying the day off and doing it together."
Breslow started the foundation in part because his older sister, Leslie, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer when Craig was 11 years old. Leslie has been cancer-free for more than 20 years, but Craig has continued to support the cause.
"My life was affected pretty drastically when my sister was diagnosed with cancer," the Red Sox lefty said. "I was young. I didn't totally understand what that meant. It was a pretty scary time for me and the rest of my family."
Breslow learned quickly that starting a charity would be a lot of work. He routinely puts in 20 hours or more each week toward running it.
"Here's a guy that wakes up in the morning and does his work, and then goes to work," Bailey said. "Every waking moment is Strike 3. Then he goes to the field and there's a break from that. He enjoys it because then it takes his mind away from the game as well. It really speaks to the passion he has about the cause."
Jon Lester, who was diagnosed with cancer when he was 21, was treated and is now cancer free, runs his own charity, NVRQT (Never Quit).
"Me and Bres have a lot of similar aspirations as far as raising money for cancer awareness and different things," Lester said. "So it's a good thing for us to come out and support him and be involved in this. Especially him being a home-grown guy [from New Haven, Conn.], there's a lot of good things he's done up here the last couple of years."


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Richard Russo delivers an upbeat, personal account of his youth and the 1950s upstate New York town his family struggled to escape. He recounts the encroaching poverty and illness that challenged everyday life and the dreams his mother instilled that inspired his career.
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A few years ago, passing the sign on the New York State Thruway for the Central Leatherstocking Region, a friend of mine misread it as saying laughingstock and thought, That must be where Russo's from. She was right. I'm from Gloversville, just a few miles north in the foothills of the Adirondacks, a place that's easy to joke about unless you live there, as some of my family still do.
The town wasn't always a joke. In its heyday, nine out of ten dress gloves in the United States were manufactured there. By the end of the nineteenth century, craftsmen from all over Europe had flocked in, for decades producing gloves on a par with the finest made anywhere in the world. Back then glove-cutting was governed by a guild, and you typically apprenticed, as my maternal grandfather did, for two or three years. The primary tools of a trained glove-cutter's trade were his eye, his experience of animal skins, and his imagination. It was my grandfather who gave me my first lessons in art — though I doubt he would've worded it like that — when he explained the challenge of making something truly fine and beautiful from an imperfect hide. After they're tanned but before they go to the cutter, skins are rolled and brushed and finished to ensure smooth uniformity, but inevitably they retain some of nature's imperfections. The true craftsman, he gave me to understand, works around these flaws or figures out how to incorporate them into the glove's natural folds or stitching. Each skin posed problems whose resolution required creativity. The glove-cutter's job wasn't just to get as many gloves as possible out of a hide but to do so while minimizing its flaws.
Leather had been tanned in Fulton County, using the bark of hemlock trees, since before the American Revolution. Gloversville and neighboring Johnstown were home not only to gloves but to all things leather: shoes and coats and hand- bags and upholstery. My paternal grandfather, from Salerno, Italy, having heard about this place where so many artisans had gathered, journeyed to upstate New York in hopes of making a living there as a shoemaker. From New York City he took the train north to Albany, then west as far as the Barge Canal hamlet of Fonda, where he followed the freight tracks north up to Johnstown, where I was born decades later. Did he have any real idea of where he was headed, or what his new life would be like? You tell me. Among the few material possessions he brought with him from the old country was an opera cape.
Both men had wretched timing. My father's father soon learned that Fulton County wasn't Manhattan or even Salerno, and that few men in his new home would buy expensive custom-made shoes instead of cheaper machine-made ones, so he had little choice but to become a shoe repairman. And by the time my mother's father arrived in Gloversville from Vermont, the real craft of glove-cutting was already under assault. By the end of World War I, many gloves were being "pattern cut." (For a size 6 glove, a size 6 pattern was affixed to the skin and cut around with shears.) Once he returned from World War II, the process was largely mechanized by "clicker-cutting" machines that quickly stamped out presized gloves, requiring the operator only to position the tanned skin under the machine's lethal blades and pull down on its mechanical arm. I was born in 1949, by which time there wasn't much demand for handmade gloves or shoes, but both my grandfathers had long since made their big moves to Fulton County and staked their dubious claims. By then they had families, and so there they remained. It was also during the first half of the twentieth century that chrome tanning, a chemical procedure that made leather more supple and water resistant, and dramatically sped up the whole process, became the industry standard, replacing traditional vegetable tanning and making tanneries even more hazardous, not just for workers but also for those who lived nearby and, especially, downstream. Speed, efficiency, and technology had trumped art and craft, not to mention public safety.
That said, between 1890 and 1950 people in Gloversville made good money, some of them a lot of it. Drive along Kingsboro Avenue, which parallels Main Street, and have a gander at the fine old houses set back from the street and well apart from one another, and you'll get a sense of the prosperity that at least the fortunate ones enjoyed until World War II. Even downtown Gloversville, which by the 1970s had become a Dresden-like ruin, still shows signs of that wealth. The Andrew Carnegie Gloversville Free Library is as lovely as can be, and the old high school, which sits atop a gentle hill, bespeaks a community that believed both in itself and that good times would not be fleeting. On its sloping lawn stands a statue of Lucius Nathan Littauer, one of the richest men in the county, whose extended arm appears to point at the grand marble edifice of the nearby Eccentric Club, which refused him membership because he was a Jew. Down the street is the recently restored Glove Theatre, where I spent just about every Saturday afternoon of my adolescence. There was also a charming old hotel, the Kingsboro, in whose elegant dining room Monsignor Kreugler, whom I'd served as an altar boy at Sacred Heart Church, held weekly court after his last Sunday Mass. Once it was razed, visitors had to stay in nearby Johnstown, out on the arterial highway that was supposed to breathe new life into Gloversville but instead, all too predictably, allowed people to race by, without stopping or even slowing down, en route to Saratoga, Lake George, or Montreal.
How quickly it all happened. In the Fifties, on a Saturday afternoon, the streets downtown would be gridlocked with cars honking hellos at pedestrians. The sidewalks were so jammed with shoppers that, as a boy trapped among taller adults, I had to depend on my mother, herself no giant, to navigate us from one store to the next or, more harrowingly, across Main Street. Often, when we finished what we called our weekly "errands," my mother and I would stop in at Pedrick's. Located next to city hall, it was a dark, cool place, the only establishment of my youth that was air-conditioned, with a long, thin wall whose service window allowed sodas and cocktails to be passed from the often raucous bar into the more respectable restaurant. Back then Pedrick's was always mobbed, even in the middle of a Saturday afternoon. Mounted on the wall of each booth was a mini jukebox whose movable mechanical pages were full of song listings. Selections made here — five for a quarter, if memory serves — were played on the real jukebox on the far wall. We always played a whole quarter's worth while nursing sodas served so cold they made my teeth hurt. Sometimes, though, the music was drowned out by rowdy male laughter from the bar, where the wall-mounted television was tuned to a Yankees ball game, and if anybody hit a home run everyone in the restaurant knew it immediately. I remember listening intently to all the men's voices, trying to pick out my father's. He and my mother had separated when I was little, but he was still around town, and I always imagined him on the other side of that wall in Pedrick's.
I also suspected that my mother, if she hadn't been saddled with me, would have preferred to be over there herself. She liked men, liked being among them, and on the restaurant side it was mostly women and kids and older people. Though I couldn't have put it into words, I had the distinct impression that the wall separating respectability from fun was very thin indeed. There was another jukebox in the bar, and sometimes it got cranked up loud enough to compete with whatever was playing on ours, and then my mother would say it was time to go, as if she feared the wall itself might come crashing down. To her, music getting pumped up like that could only mean one thing: that people were dancing, middle of the afternoon or not, and if she'd been over there, she would've been as well. A good decade after the end of World War II, Gloversville was still in a party mode, and regular Saturday festivities routinely continued right up to last call and often beyond, the town's prosperous citizens dancing and drinking at the Eccentric Club, the more middle-class folk in the blue-collar taverns along upper Main Street or, in summer, at the pavilion at nearby Caroga Lake, the poor (often the most recent immigrants with the lowest-paying tannery jobs) in the gin mills bordering South Main in the section of town referred to as "the Gut," where arrests for drunkenness or indecency or belligerence were much more likely to be recorded in the local newspaper on Monday than comparable exploits at the Eccentric Club.
By the time I graduated from high school in 1967, you could have strafed Main Street with an automatic weapon without endangering a soul. On Saturday afternoons the side- walks were deserted, people in newly reduced circumstances shopping for bargains at the cheap, off-brand stores that had sprung up along the arterial. The marquee at the Glove Theatre bore the title of the last film to play there, though enough of the letters were missing that you couldn't guess what it was. Jobless men emerged from the pool hall or one of the seedy gin mills that sold cheap draft beer and rotgut rye, blinking into the afternoon light and flexing at the knees. Lighting up a smoke, they'd peer up Main Street in one direction, then down the other, as if wondering where the hell everybody went. By then the restaurant side of Pedrick's had closed, but since I turned eighteen that summer, now of legal drinking age, the other side was no longer off-limits. Now, though, it was quiet as a library. The Yankees were still playing on the television, but Mantle and Maris and Yogi and Whitey Ford had all retired, and their glory days, like Gloversville's, were over. The half-dozen grizzled, solitary drinkers rotated on their stools when the door opened, like the past might saunter in out of the bright glare trailing ten-dollar bills in its wake. Every now and then that summer of '67, I'd poke my head into Pedrick's to see if my father was among those drinking Utica Club drafts at the bar. But, like time itself, he, too, had moved on.
From Elsewhere by Richard Russo. Copyright 2012 by Richard Russo. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.


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HONOLULU -- Average hotel room prices hit an all-time high in Hawaii in August as tourist spending rose and visits from Japan, Korea, China and other markets spiked, a tourism analysis firm said Wednesday.
Honolulu-based Hospitality Advisors LLC said in its monthly hotel industry report that hotel rooms in Hawaii cost nearly $215 per night in August, up 10.2 percent compared with the same month last year. The rates led to an August record of nearly $308 million in room revenue.
Total revenue for the 163 properties included in the report was just under $455 million, the report said. The hotels represented in the report make up nearly 86 percent of all hotels in Hawaii with at least 20 rooms.
Joseph Toy, chief executive of Hospitality Advisors, said Hawaii's tourism recovery has been led by Oahu, the state's most popular island for tourists.
"The revenue records set in August caps a remarkable 2012 summer season for Hawaii's hotel industry," Toy said. "Given that we were at the bottom of the market just 30 months ago makes this recovery even more outstanding."
The Hawaii Tourism Authority said visitor spending was up 14.6 percent for the month.
The number of visitors from Japan climbed nearly 13 percent compared with August 2011, the report said. Other international markets _ which are tracked all together but consist primarily of visitors from China, Korea and Australia _ had an even larger spike, increasing by nearly 28 percent.
Hotel occupancy statewide rose 4 percentage points to 81.3 percent. Occupancy was 90 percent in Oahu, 75 percent in Maui and nearly 74 percent in Kauai. Nightly rates were highest in Maui at just over $263 per night.
The report said Hawaii set a new summer season record of $880.5 million in room revenue from June through August. Total revenue for the summer was $1.3 billion.
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