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Bob Sullivan wrote a terrific article last month on the sources of pressing debt loads for much of America's middle class. It reviews and echoes some of the best research on how situational forces are attributed to the dispositions of the individuals and families feeling the squeeze of situation. We have excerpted Sullivan's article below.
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Shopping malls are packed every weekend. Restaurants can't open fast enough. Everyone seems to be wearing designer shoes, jackets and jeans and sipping $4 lattes. Credit card commercials constantly advocate splurging and, it seems, U.S. consumers are all too ready to comply.
So what's the problem? Why do so many middle class Americans with so much stuff say they feel so squeezed? If they are dogged by debt, isn't it their own fault?
Perhaps, some experts say, things are not as they appear.
Bankruptcy law expert and Harvard University Professor Elizabeth Warren spent a lot of time crunching consumer spending numbers for her popular books, "The Fragile Middle Class" and "The Two-Income Trap." In both, she makes this point: Despite all those $200 sneakers you hear about and the long lines at Starbucks, consumers are actually spending less of their income — much less — on discretionary items like clothing, entertainment and food than their parents did. In fact, after taking care of essentials like housing and health care, today's middle class has about half as much spending money as their parents did in the early 1970s, Warren says.
The basics, according to Warren, now take up close to three-fourths of every family's spending power (it was about 50 percent in 1973), leaving precious little left over at the end of the month—and leaving many families with no cushion in case of a job loss or health crisis.
Warren's theories fly in the face of conventional wisdom and those crowded malls. But the premise is simple: Even though household incomes have risen about 75 percent from 1970, most of that is the result of a second earner — generally a woman — joining the work force. And that added income has been swallowed by rising fixed expenses, such as child care and housing costs, Warren argues. The average family pays at least twice as much for housing compared to its counterpart in the 1970s, Warren says, and in some competitive areas with good schools, housing costs have risen by as much as 600 percent.
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Now consider these factors: Four in 10 Americans don't have even one month's worth of savings for use in case of an emergency, according to a survey by HSBC Bank published in 2006. And with two incomes built into the family budget, the odds of a household getting hit by a layoff have doubled in the last generation. This combination — high housing debt, rising health care costs, lack of savings and greater exposure to unemployment — leaves many families in a precarious financial position.
Yet before Warren can get policymakers to talk about the middle-class squeeze, or at least middle-class worry, she often finds she has to beat back the notion that overconsumption is to blame for the rise in consumer debt — and in middle-class anxiety.
"A growing number of families are in terrible financial trouble, but no matter how many times the accusation is hurled, Prada and HBO are not the reason," Warren says in her book "The Two-Income Trap."
There is no arguing that most Americans have more gadgets in their living rooms and more clothes in their closets than ever before. Consider the explosion of the closet-organizer business.
But government spending data paint a different picture. Take the often-cited evidence of culinary extravagance. While it's true that Americans are eating out much more than ever — nearly half of all dollars spent on food now go to dining out — overall food costs have plunged in recent decades. Americans now spent only about 10 percent of their money on food each year, compared to nearly 20 percent in the 1970s, according to data collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And despite the designer brands they buy, the average family of four spends about 20 percent less on clothes today, according to Warren's analysis. Think about your last trip to Target: Thanks in part to the entry of inexpensive imported textiles from China and other trading partners, it's possible to buy a Friday night outfit for under $40. This shows up in BLS data too: On average, Americans spent nearly 7 percent of their money on clothes in 1973, compared to about 4 percent in 2005.
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In fact, many consumer goods are much cheaper than they were in the 1970s. A look at 1971 Sears catalog offers a glimpse of some plummeting prices. In 1971, a basic Sears refrigerator cost $399. Adjusted for inflation, that would be about $2,000 in 2005 dollars, or nearly seven times the $297 price of a basic fridge in today's Sears catalog. Put another way, a fridge costs more than two week's work for an average earner in 1971, but less than two day's labor today.
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But Amelia Warren Tyagi, co-author of "The Two-Income Trap," and also Warren's daughter, said weekend shopping trip receipts aren't the best way to examine the state of the middle class.
"Yes, people are spending more on home electronics, but the dollars just aren't that big," Tyagi said. "Maybe they spend a couple of hundred dollars more on stereo equipment. But they are spending less on tobacco. This is not to say that there's no frivolous spending going on, but as you add it all up, there's no more frivolous spending than there was a generation ago."
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With government data showing that Americans are spending much less than they did 35 years ago on clothes, food, and even entertainment, Tyagi says the anxiety they are feeling comes from somewhere else: the exploding costs of housing, health care and education.
In housing, recent data is most striking. Household incomes have largely stagnated in recent years, even shrinking 2.8 percent from 2000 to 2006. Housing costs skyrocketed 32 percent in that time.
Even more striking is the amount of income most families are paying to stay in their homes. Banks have long had a standard that said mortgages should not be approved unless the monthly payment was 25 percent or less of the buyer's income. That limitation clearly is long gone. The U.S. Census Bureau defines "house poor" as spending more than 30 percent of income on housing expenses. In 1999, 26.7 percent of U.S. households were considered house poor. By 2006, the number had jumped to 34.5 percent.
. . . . A 1975 Census report showed that only 8.9 percent of mortgage holders spent 35 percent or more of their income — including insurance, property taxes, and utilities — on housing.
The number of households spending half their income on housing — an amount that for most would be fiscal suicide — also has dramatically increased, from 10 percent in 2000 to 14 percent in 2006.
The cost of education has similarly spiked. Pre-school was largely non-existent in the 1970s, but today many families pencil in $1,000 a month for child care and early childhood education. On the other end, college costs have easily outpaced the cost of inflation. For example, the average bill for attending a four-year public college rose 52 percent from 2001 to 2007.
Health care costs have climbed steadily as well. According to the BLS, the average household spent 4.7 percent of its income on health care in 1984, and 5.7 percent in 2005.
In the end, the portion of an average family's budget spent on fixed costs like housing has risen much faster than wages and inflation, while spending on discretionary items has declined. That means mortgages, more than lattes, are the source of middle-class anxiety, says economist Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, a generally liberal think tank that focuses on the interests of low- and middle-income Americans.
"Consumers are asking, 'If the economy is doing so well why am I feeling so squeezed?'" he said. "Well, they feel squeezed because they are squeezed."
Identifying the source of the squeeze requires more than simply comparing overall inflation to overall wage growth, Bernstein said.
"You have to look at a basket of key goods," he said, like housing and college costs. "If you compare income growth to growth in prices of key goods, that stuff is growing 10 percent faster than income. … Perhaps (consumers) are beating overall inflation but are they beating inflation in key components of their market basket? No."
More to the point, Bernstein said, rising housing costs have quietly broken a social contract with consumers that promised that a good job with a good income would guarantee a good place to live. While that may have been true in the 1970s, it is often not true today, he said.
"Lodged in the minds of those who come from the middle class is the idea that the middle class is a safe haven. It's not," he said.
That notion is changing. People no longer feel certain they will be better off than their parents, for example. "What really messes with your economic mind is when your expectations and aspirations are violated, Bernstein said. "You think, my parents died in a much better home than they grew up in. Will I?"
Bernstein is not as pessimistic as Tyagi in his interpretation of the data. A comparison of then vs. now needs to be a little more subtle, he said. Clearly, middle class Americans are better off in some ways: larger homes and availability of what were once luxury items, like air conditioning, for instance.
"If a person is arguing that middle class families are worse off in every way, that person hasn't spent enough time at the mall," he said. "But these are things you don't see at the mall: housing, health care, child care, saving and saving for college. The price of those (are) rising more quickly than inflation in general, rising more quickly than family income. And they are largely responsible for the squeeze that families report feeling."
Middle-class squeeze skeptics often point to rising credit card debt as evidence that consumers have themselves, and their spending habits, to blame for any economic anxiety. But there's a problem with that theory too — it's an exaggeration, says Liz Pulliam Weston, author of "Deal With Your Debt" and an MSN Money columnist. The majority of American consumers carry no credit card debt from month to month and very few carry large balances, she notes.
Last year, Americans held about $900 billion in credit card debt, leaving the average household with a bill of about $9,300, according to Federal Reserve data. That sounds like a lot, but a few consumers with very large debts can skew the average. The median balance is — the point at which half of consumers have more debt, and half have less — is a better indicator. The median credit card balance is $2,200, a fairly manageable amount. Only 8.3 percent of households owe more than $9,000 on their credit cards. Meanwhile, one-quarter of all Americans don't even have credit cards, and another 30 percent pay them off in full every month.
"Our national discussions about consumer indebtedness and bankruptcy are being distorted by the idea that we're waddling around with four- and five-figure credit card debts," Weston wrote recently. "That makes us sound like spendthrifts, when that's not the norm."
Nevertheless, overconsumption and excessive credit card spending persist as explanations for middle-class debt angst. Tyagi has a theory why.
"Frivolous spending is visible, and it's easy to pass judgment on, she said. "There is a comforting notion that if you are not spending wildly you are safe. If you are deeply invested in the belief that if everyone can solve their problems on their own, then there's no systematic problem, it would be important to think that if anyone is in trouble financially it's because they did something stupid."
It might be something their parents would never have done, such as taking out a negative-amortization mortgage or taking out a $100,000 home equity loan to pay for a child's college, or spend as much money on child care as food.
But you can't blame that on extravagant living, Warren said.
"Perhaps the most important thing we can do is persuade people that it's not about the lattes," she said. "I think the "latte factor" is a way to distract people from real changes in the economy. Those who shake their fingers over lattes can feel good about themselves, both for their own economic prosperity and for the fact that those who are in trouble are there because of their own personal failings."
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For superb blogging on credit, bankruptcy, health-care costs, college expenses, and related challenges to middle-class Americans, be sure to visit Warren Reports. Last month The Situationist published a series of posts on the situational sources of college debt. The first post in that series describes the general ways in which credit card companies have infiltrated college campuses. The second post in this series looks at some of the ways that credit card companies recruit student debtors here. The third post, linkable here, examines the hidden tuition of university credit cards. The fourth in the series examines some of the steps lawmakers are taking to curb the the most egregious strategies of credit card companies.
To watch the acclaimed, eye-opening documentary "Maxed Out" (1 hour, 27 min), click on the Google Video below.


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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Academic and Illustration Museums
Here's what I've got so far:
Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Haggin Museum, Stockton, California
Metropolitan Museum, New York, New York
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, Rhode Island
New Britain Museum, New Britain, Connecticut
Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Please let me know if I've missed your favorite museum, specifically for this type of artwork.
43 comments:
- Julia Lundman said...
the school that I went to in Chicago, The American Academy of Art, was a school that formerly trained illustrators from the 30's, 40's, 50's, and beyond. As a result, the school has many, many vintage illustrations hanging in the hallways and in classrooms.
I've always wondered why the school doesn't give tours, but I bet if someone were to call the office and ask, they'd allow it.
- March 15, 2009 at 2:07 PM
- Victor said...
Here are some museums that I felt had some real gems of 19th century academic/naturalist/realist painting:
The Wallace Collection (London, UK)- Some great little Meissoniers and Delaroches.
Tate Britain (London, UK)- William Logsdail, Watts, Waterhouse, Pre-Raphaelites, Sargent, Draper etc.
The National Portrait Gallery (London, UK)- Lots of 19th c. British portraits
The Huntington Library (San Marino, CA)- American and British arts like Sargent, Reynolds, Beaux, Moran, etc.
The De Young Museum (San Francisco, CA)- a few awesome Frederic Church paintings, Sargent, Merritt-Chase, other Americans
I find that most major art museums these days have at least a couple 19th c. gems. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has a Gustave Surand and a Julius Stewart (obscure French academic artists) that are stunning, at least on a technical level. The Getty Museum, also in Southern California, has Alma-Tadema's Spring and a lovely David portrait.
Also, I'm going to be in Boston for a few days during spring break. I'll be visiting the MFA, Gardner museum, Fogg art museum and the public library to see Sargent's murals. Do you have any other recommendations for art/illustration sights in the area?
I really wish I could attend your lecture at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto. You probably don't remember when I came to the Linden Tree Books signing before your San Jose State presentation, but I think I told you that I attend the ARA in the summers. Last summer when I was there, I actually showed the head instructor some of your work and suggested that he bring you up for a talk. I wish you could have made it while I was there because a lot of your knowledge is very relevant to what is being studied there. Oh well, maybe for the next Dinotopia book tour! Say hello to Fernando for me!
- March 15, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Unknown said...
Does the CNBDI in Angouleme, France, meet your criteria?
(Website is in French only, but Google can make a reasonable job of translation.)
- March 15, 2009 at 2:29 PM
- Kendra Melton said...
The Frick in NY was a great collection featuring Whistler, Gainsborough, MW Turner, Vermeer, Anthony Van Dyck, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, etc. I would definitely recommend checking it out if you're in the area.
Here's a link to images of the collection:
- March 15, 2009 at 2:32 PM
- Kendra Melton said...
I just realized Society of Illustrators wasn't mentioned. It's kind of small, but it's free and has some inspirational art in there. I especially liked the Portraits you see as you walk up the stairs.
- March 15, 2009 at 2:35 PM
- Andrew R. Wright said...
The Frederick Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, NY: http://www.fredericremington.org/
I grew up right around the corner from this place, which has a great collection of his paintings and bronzes!
- March 15, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- Andrew R. Wright said...
and The Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.artic.edu/aic/
There is a great collection of Homer, Sargent, Cassatt, Remington, Twachtman, Whistler, etc. It is one of the better collections in my opinion.
- March 15, 2009 at 3:10 PM
- Unknown said...
Let's See. Two that I was going to mention, The Stockton and De Young were mentioned. One that has not been that has quite a bunch are the Smithsonian Museums.
Especially the Renwick
Great Thayers , Whistlers , Sargent , Benson , Wendt , Robinson, Moran too many to mention.
- March 15, 2009 at 4:25 PM
- Marco Folchi said...
I can suggest this, i think that meet the criteria, it's in Rome:
- March 15, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- Unknown said...
Oh and one more...someone needs to convince George Lucas to show his private collection of American Illustration. You will not believe what treasures he has at the Ranch. He owns Maxwell Parrish's "Garden of Allah" as well as Leyendeckers, Rockwells you name it. They are all over the Mahogany Walls.
- March 15, 2009 at 4:52 PM
- Unknown said...
The Dahesh Museaum in Manhattan is great. Excellent if small permanent collection, plus great exhibits, usually all academic painting and illustration.
- March 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM
- Carolyn A. Pappas said...
You might want to check out The Clark Museum in Williamstown MA. It has been some time since I was there but I really liked what I saw there. http://www.clarkart.edu/.
- March 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM
- Julia Lundman said...
Just remembered the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK. (or near it) It has a lot of Fechin's.
- March 15, 2009 at 6:31 PM
- Unknown said...
Okay...just remembered the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Many Academics but 2 definite MUST sees. Lepage's " The Wood Gatherer " and Bouguereau's " Homer being led by the Hand" .
- March 15, 2009 at 7:24 PM
- Jamie Pogue said...
I've never visted the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine, but it houses some work by N.C. (and Jamie) Wyeth, George Bellows, Rockewell Kent, and Edward Hopper.
Also, if anyone hasn't gone to Brandywine, please try to go at some point! It's our own little tucked away gem in southeastern PA.
- March 15, 2009 at 7:36 PM
- James Gurney said...
These are fantastic, everybody...some that I just forgot, and a bunch that I've never heard of. It will be fun to expand the list.
For now, I'm kind of leaving the pre-1800 old masters and American or other regional impressionist or plein air movements off this list; I thought we could develop a master list for each of those big groups another time.
Has anyone been to the following to consider whether they have academic/classical/fantasy realism painting on show?:
Musee des beaux-arts de Rennes, FR http://www.mbar.org/
Groninger Museum, Copenhagen
Royal Academy, London
Tretyakov, Russia
Russian Museum
Hart Museum
Also, I thought of the Yale Center for British Art and Ponce Museum of Art, which has Leighton's Flaming June and a lot of Preraphaelite work.
- March 15, 2009 at 7:53 PM
- Victor said...
The Royal Academy isn't really worth visiting if you're looking for an oasis of 19th c. academic art, as I was when I visited London in January. Most of their exhibition space is dedicated to the rotating exhibition so they only have a few pieces from their collection on display at a time. I did get to see a perfect Alma-Tadema portrait of his daughter, though, that made the visit worthwhile.
I learned about so many amazing British academic/realist artists that I had never heard of during my trip, but most of them were found at the NPG or Tate.
- March 15, 2009 at 11:08 PM
- Erik Bongers said...
I guess you (JG) are also looking for Fine Arts museums that dare make a cross-over to illustration.
Modern/contemporary art museums of course already do this to some extend.
I know the Antwerp Royal Museum of Fine Arts did an exhibition on the work of graphic novelist Dick Matena.
What you had was one room filled with Rubens' paintings and the next one filled with comic book pages.
Though I don't think this museum already deserves a place in your list, it's a promising precedent.
- March 16, 2009 at 5:12 AM
- Vertumno said...
Fascinating series of links: thanks to Mr Gurney and all the readers of this blog.
A quick question: I was browsing the site of the American Illustration in Newport and I noticed that they do not have any work by Andrew Loomis. Any idea why they decided not to include this author?
- March 16, 2009 at 5:54 AM
- Making A Mark said...
Re the Royal Academy - drawings are accessible via their archive and a visit to the Library. In other words they're accessible you just need to ask in advance and make an appointment to see. They also do displays from time to time. I went to one by Laura Knight last year. I've also found their staff to be very helpful
Other museums you might want to include are:
- the Victoria and Albert, both for realist nineteenth century paintings and for what they've got in the drawing archives
- the Print Room at the British Museum (which includes drawings and illustrations). Lots of regular displays and again you can contact to get access to anything specific (and their online website is good for tracking stuff down)
I have been to the Farnsworth in Rockland and can confirm that work by NC Wyeth is on display. However you need to go to the building at the top of the street (the annexe?) and not the main museum (where the shop is)
You'll certainly find illustrations at Chris Beetles Gallery (opposite Christies). Their last (Christams) exhibition was THE ILLUSTRATORS: THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION 1800 – 2008 They always overprint on the catalogues because they sell them to people all around the world. You can buy catalogues for this exhibition from past years - contact the gallery to find which ones are available.
- March 16, 2009 at 6:15 AM
- James Gurney said...
Vertumno--I've never been to the American Illustration Museum in Newport, but I gather they focus more on earlier illustrators. There used to be a store in the San Fernando Valley called Carter Sexton that had a half dozen Loomis originals on display.
Katherine and Victor, thanks for the UK report.
- March 16, 2009 at 6:39 AM
- Vertumno said...
Thanks for the answer!
Part of the Sexton collection has been sold last week at this auction house: http://comics.ha.com/common/auction/pricesrealized.php?src=&ID=&optGlobalSearch=0&globalSiteDropdown=comics&txtSearch=loomis&cmdSearch=Search+Auction+Archives&hdnSearch=True&txtLotNo=&stage=1
I was asking about Newport because there is a possibility I could visit the area in August. Looking forward to it :-)
- March 16, 2009 at 7:00 AM
- Carl C said...
Hi James,
Just wanted to say the best places to find this sort of work in the UK are out of London in the town and city galleries in the north - Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool all have great collections of Victorian/Pre-Raphaelite paintings and even smaller town galleries have more than their fair share (we've got one of Brangwyn's best - 'The Slave Market' here in Southport).
Best of all is probably the Lady Lever Gallery in Port Sunlight near Liverpool - here's a link to just some of the stuff in there,
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/paintings.asp which includes Holman Hunt's 'Scapegoat' and more Lord Leighton's than you can shake a stick at!
- March 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- Laraine Armenti said...
There are Puvis de Chavannes murals permanently installed in the Boston Public Library.
- March 16, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- artkitty said...
The Sid Ricahrdson museum in downtown Ft Worth TX is small but rotates their great Remington collection, also has some nice Russell and other western illustrators. The staff is knowledgeable and very friendly!
Amon Carter museum in Ft Worth has more Remington and lots of Russell, including bronzes, as well as a very nice NC Wyeth and a Sargent portrait.
Also I recall the Getty in LA has a pretty diverse selection with some nice portraits from lesser-known figural painters of the 19th century, including a Bouguereau.
- March 16, 2009 at 10:44 AM
- Craig Daniels said...
The Legion of Honour in San Francisco has several French academic works
- March 16, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- Parrish70 said...
One of my favorite museums here in Seattle is the Frye. http://fryemuseum.org A too often overlooked museum that focuses mainly on a combination of realism and impressionism. They have a couple of Bouguereaus, Susanna and the Elders by Franz Winterhalter and a stunning landscape by Daniel Somogyi in their permanent collection. They often feature illustrative work in their temporary exhibits. The website is well set up and has good size thumbnails of the artwork in their founding collection. Enjoy browsing. =)
- March 16, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- Ilaria said...
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- March 16, 2009 at 1:33 PM
- Ilaria said...
In London:
-Guildhall Art Gallery
(Victorian and preraphaelite paintings)
-Leighton House
- March 16, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- innisart said...
Illustration House and Christie's and Sotheby's are not museums, and thereby do not house permanent collections, but they are great resources to see artwork from the periods/genres in question. It's like having a continuously revolving exhibit!
One little place of interest, quite out of the way, is the St. Johnsbury Atheneum in Vermont. It has Durands, Bierstadts and Bouguereaus!
- March 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM
The Groninger Museum is not in Copenhagen, but in Groningen, Holland.
In Copenhagen, we have The Hirschprung Collection, which is THE place to go for 19th century Danish painters such as Krøyer and Hammershøi.
Also the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, which has a nice collection of mainly French 19th century painting (Millet, Bouguereau, Manet, Vuillard, Gauguin, among others).
- March 16, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- Frank said...
It drives me CRAZY that a place like Society of Illustrators has TONS of great illustrations LOCKED IN THE BASEMENT.
Excuse me, they actually have a very small collection on display in the bar on the 3rd floor, which you aren't even allowed to see unless you're a member or there's an event going on.
- March 17, 2009 at 12:29 AM
If you happen to be in Europe this coming month, do visit the Groningen Museum in The Netherlands.
Until May 3rd they are holding an exhibition of 93 works by JW Waterhouse. I went there last sunday and I felt almost uncomfortable: here was a 19th century artist and his work had almost an 1980's 'fantasy' feel to it. Beautiful stuff, though!
- March 17, 2009 at 3:54 AM
Umph, apparantly the Waterhouse exhibition mentioned above goes on an international tour this year. It will be in Royal Acadamy of Arts (London) from June until September this year, and in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from October until February 2010.
Good news for all of you who would not travel to Groningen even for Waterhouse.
- March 17, 2009 at 3:59 AM
- Alyson B. Stanfield said...
James, you have excellent suggestions here. For US museums, you can also go to a library (university library) and look for the "Official Museum Directory," which has detailed descriptions of museum collections. When I worked in museums, this used to be in my office. I've never worked with a digital version of it, but I imagine that would be preferable if they have it. It's a tome! And very expensive. Here's their site:
(Would love it if you allowed non-Google/Blogger comments.)
Alyson Stanfield, http://artbizblog.com
- March 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- Alyson B. Stanfield said...
James, you have excellent suggestions here. For US museums, you can also go to a library (university library) and look for the "Official Museum Directory," which has detailed descriptions of museum collections. When I worked in museums, this used to be in my office. I've never worked with a digital version of it, but I imagine that would be preferable if they have it. It's a tome! And very expensive. Here's their site:
(Would love it if you allowed non-Google/Blogger comments.)
Alyson Stanfield, http://artbizblog.com
- March 17, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- James Gurney said...
Hi, Alyson, Yes, I wish Blogger let people comment if they aren't signed up, but I don't think it's possible. I try to keep as few hurdles as possible. But unregistered people can always email me at email@example.com, and if they want, I can post their comment for them.
Marionros, I also noticed that Waterhouse exhibition will be coming to the RA and Montreal. I hope to see it at one of those places. There's also a lovely book with the exhibition. I'm in contact with one of the curators, and I'll be doing a post on Waterhouse sometime in the next couple of weeks.
- March 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM
- armandcabrera said...
The Cowboy Hall of Fame and western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma has Dunn, Cornwell, NC Wyeth,Fechin and contemporary and 19th century realists like Moran Beirstadt and others. The National Wildlife Museum in Jackson has Rungius and Kuhnert and contemporary wildlife illustrators.
The Crocker in Sacramento has Thomas Hill and other 19th century artists. The Freer in DC has a great collection of 19th Century work.
Alfred Munnings House in Dedham England has a big collection of his work. Edinburgh has a good American Section with Church(Niagra Falls) and Sargent( Lady Agnew).
- March 18, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- James Gurney said...
Thanks, Armand, I knew you'd have some ideas that none of the rest of us thought of.
- March 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM
- David Apatoff said...
Jim, in answer to your question about the State Russian Museum (assuming you mean the one in St. Petersburg) I have been there and it is terrific. They have the world's largest collection of Repin illustrations, which are an education by themselves, and a lot of excellent art by 19th century academic types that are still largely unknown in the west. Great work by Korin and Fechin too.
- March 18, 2009 at 7:07 PM
- pete said...
The Frank Frazetta museum has some sci-fi and and fantasy paintings.
- March 28, 2009 at 3:03 AM
- Mike McCarthy said...
Glad to see the Brandywine River Museum on your list. I grew up and still live about 20min from there. Others in my area...The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (Thomas Eakins) The Phila Museum of Art has some Eakins stuff in the American section as well as several 19th century galleries. Sadly Frank Frazetta passed but he had a museum in the Pocono's which luckily I visited once. But, since his death I believe it closed.
- April 19, 2012 at 10:46 PM
- bruce said...
I see mention of Lucas' collection so Ill just add this update for those who dont know. Opening hopefully in 2023.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas Republicans tried to distance themselves Saturday from a Republican state representative's assertion that slavery was a "blessing in disguise" and a Republican state House candidate who advocates deporting all Muslims.
The claims were made in books written, respectively, by Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro and House candidate Charlie Fuqua of Batesville. Those books received attention on Internet news sites Friday.
On Saturday, state GOP Chairman Doyle Webb called the books "highly offensive."
Hubbard wrote in his 2009 self-published book, "Letters To The Editor: Confessions Of A Frustrated Conservative," that "the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise." He also wrote that African-Americans were better off than they would have been had they not been captured and shipped to the United States.
Fuqua, who served in the Arkansas House from 1996 to 1998, wrote there is "no solution to the Muslim problem short of expelling all followers of the religion from the United States," in his 2012 book, titled "God's Law."
Fuqua said Saturday that he hadn't realized he'd become a target within his own party, which he said surprised him.
"I think my views are fairly well-accepted by most people," Fuqua said before hanging up, saying he was busy knocking on voters' doors. The attorney is running against incumbent Democratic Rep. James McLean in House District 63.
Hubbard, a marketing representative, didn't return voicemail messages seeking comment Saturday. He is running against Democrat Harold Copenhaver in House District 58.
The November elections could be a crucial turning point in Arkansas politics. Democrats hold narrow majorities in both chambers, but the GOP has been working hard to swing the Legislature its way for the first time since the end of the Civil War, buoyed by picking up three congressional seats in 2010. Their efforts have also been backed by an influx of money from national political action committees.
U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin, R-Ark., kicked off the GOP's response Saturday by issuing a release, saying the "statements of Hubbard and Fuqua are ridiculous, outrageous and have no place in the civil discourse of either party."
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Crews, Olin families persevere so many years later
Wives, children cherish memories, march on with lives after pitchers' tragic deaths
This story originally ran in March 2013, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the deaths of Tim Crews and Steve Olin.
The cloudless sky, the shining sun and the still waters betray the truth of what happened here.
This is where the world lost you, Tim, and you, Steve. On Little Lake Nellie in Clermont, Fla. This is where you boarded a black power boat shortly after sundown on March 22, 1993, hoping the bass would be biting on that overcast evening. This is where you saw the headlights flashing from the shore, alerting you that the rest of your friends had arrived. This is where you hit the gas, Tim, not knowing that, in the blackness of a night with a new moon, the 18-foot, open-air Skeeter had drifted out toward the unlit dock on the opposite shore -- a 185-foot-long wooden structure that extended far into the water. This is where the boat slammed, head-high, into the end of that dock.
This is where life met death.
The baseball world couldn't fathom what happened here, because ballplayers aren't supposed to die. Not during Spring Training, when optimism is abundant and nobody frets over standings or statistics. Not when they have young, growing families waiting for them on dry land.
That's why baseball fans remember the names Tim Crews and Steve Olin. They remember the way your Cleveland Indians teammates wrestled with the emotional intensity of that 1993 season. The way Bob Ojeda, who had been with you on the boat and survived only because he happened to be slouching at the moment of impact, dealt with survivor's guilt and suicidal thoughts before returning to the team later that year.
What they don't know, what they can't know, is what it's been like for your families to live with the losses. What it was like for your wives to explain to their children that Daddy wasn't coming back. What it was like -- what it is like -- for them to wonder what their lives would be like today, if only you were still here.
Twenty years. You've missed so much.
Laurie is standing in the living room of the two-story cedar house built on 48 acres of former orange grove. This was your dream home, Tim. If you could peer out the back window, beyond the grazing pastures and the riding rings, you'd see the 22-stall horse barn you had built for her. And beyond that, the lake. The place where the dream died.
You found this place in 1992, not long after you signed a seven-figure contract with the Dodgers. Every Sunday that winter, you and Laurie scanned the classifieds, looking for the perfect spot where two native Floridians could settle down. You wanted five acres, but it seemed every time you looked, the properties got bigger and bigger. Finally, your realtor pointed you here, to Autumn Lane, to the unkempt acreage that wasn't even on the market. It took creativity to look at the land filled with all those scrubby trees and see what would become the "Bass and Bridle Ranch." You had that vision, and true to form, did your best to will it into being the following offseason, taking your little blue tractor into the fields, stripping dead citrus from the soil to clear the space where Laurie's horses could roam. "The Dirt Farmer" was your nickname, and Laurie laughs at the memory, because it didn't take long for you to give in and hire a construction company to finish the job.
The barn went up first, then the house. The whole process took more than a year. You moved in on Feb. 12, 1993, soon after signing with a new team, the Indians, who, as luck would have it, held Spring Training camp 40 miles to the south, in Winter Haven. You could commute, check in, ready your arm for the grind of another 80 innings or so of long relief, then head home to your wife, your three young children and your bass boat. Everything was perfect.
Six weeks later, you were gone. Laurie hadn't even finished unpacking.
Yes, she still lives here today, and some people can't comprehend that. They don't know how she could stay within eyesight of the spot where your head hit the dock in the dark. How the kids could play and swim in that very lake. How Laurie could willingly be surrounded by the daily reminders of the life the two of you had planned.
Photo: Shawn, Travis, Tricia and Laurie Crews on the shore of Little Lake Nellie. (Anthony Castrovince/MLB.com)
But what they also don't understand is Laurie's moxie, her indefatigable nature and her lineage. She's the daughter of Dutch parents who were born in Indonesia and spent three years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. When World War II ended, they came here, to a land of opportunity and individuality. Laurie's father found migrant farm work in Central Florida, and he kept two jobs at any given time. He bought a piece of property in Windermere, which has since become one of the most prestigious areas of Orlando, for $9,000, before Disney World was built. He was a hoarder of duct tape and wire and batteries and anything and everything that might come in handy if a war broke out. "The Dutch McGuyver," they called him.
He was a survivor. So is Laurie.
She has persevered here, at the safe place you had sought to raise your kids and groom her horses and cast your line into the tranquil waters of Little Lake Nellie. And if you could see your kids now, you'd know what a wonderful job she did.
Tricia is 29 now. She's a veterinarian in Williston, not far away, and she's grown into a beautiful woman with long brown hair, sharp brown eyes and a fearless approach to her craft. When she was a kid, she found her cat laying sick in the bushes and was afraid to touch it. Now, she's cutting off the heads of dead horses for rabies tests.
Your youngest, Travis, has also come a long way. Growing up, he was a scrawny little squirt who would be terrorized by his older brother, pelted with paint balls when he'd try to hide in a tree. He didn't have the hand-eye coordination to pursue baseball and once broke his nose trying to catch a fly ball. Now he's 6-foot-3, strapping, with a badge to boot. At 23, he's one of the youngest members of the Kissimmee police force.
And Shawn? Man, Shawn is your spitting image. The broad shoulders, the twang in his voice, the gleaming blue eyes. Like you, Shawn was a pitcher, before an array of arm injuries and surgeries forced him out of the game at the junior-college level. Now he's 24 and finishing up his degree in architecture at the University of Florida. He has plans to start grad school next fall, around the time his fiancée, Christen, is due to give birth to your first grandchild.
The memories of you are limited for Tricia, hazy for Shawn and non-existent for Travis. But they love that shot of you from the 1988 World Series, waiting near home plate to smack hands with Kirk Gibson after his legendary home run, and Laurie and your parents and brothers have done their best to fill in the blanks. The kids adore their mother and light up when they talk about how well she filled the roles of, as Travis says, "tough daddy and sensitive mama." Laurie is still as sassy and as chatty as the day you met at Valencia Community College, when you fell for the volleyball player who ran laps with the guys on the baseball team in her little red shorts.
But all that sass hasn't made the past 20 years any easier. Laurie can't count the number of times she'd pull up to the ranch, see your truck in the driveway and think, for a fleeting moment, that you had returned. Or the number of nights, in the weeks after the accident, that those three young bodies piled into bed with her. Sure, she made some mistakes along the way. Relationships came and went, and people didn't always respect her decisions.
Not long after you died, Laurie hired a young guy named Sean Griffith to build fences at the ranch, and, well, things progressed. Sean moved in, and, soon, Laurie was pregnant. She gave birth to a girl, Jeannie, less than a year and a half after the accident, and Jeannie has been nothing short of a beloved little sister to your kids ever since. Your parents have always treated her just like one of the Crews kids.
Still, the relationship with Sean drove a wedge between Laurie and some of her friends and relatives. They wondered how she could move on so quickly. But Laurie had it in her mind from the beginning that she would not let herself venture down the dark hole of depression, not let herself succumb to the what-ifs and the wherefore-art-thous. She was going to keep moving, keep doing. Feed the horses, clean the stalls, coach the kids' teams. Go, go, go. The rodeo shows, the skiing trips, the ocean fishing excursions, the trips to Holland to explore their ancestry. Your kids were well-traveled but they also understood the value of hard work. Heck, they were back in school the day after your funeral. Laurie did not for a moment let their dad's absence prevent them from learning how to fish, to throw, to repair a pipe or to change a light bulb.
So, yes, Laurie was tough-minded and strong-willed, yet she still needed support over the years. The relationship with Sean fizzled, but thank goodness for Jeannie, who was Laurie's best buddy as your kids grew up and moved out. But even Jeannie has grown up in a hurry. She's newly married and just gave birth to a son, Kaden, in January. At 18, she's discovering how quickly life can change.
She's in a family whose members have each other's backs. When Shawn was a pitcher in high school -- mimicking your mannerisms on the mound despite having no real memory of you on the mound -- he'd go to scouting tryouts or camps, and the two loudest voices from the stands would invariably be those of Laurie and Tricia.
"Woo! Look at that curveball! He threw that just like his daddy did!"
Shawn wonders if his baseball career would have taken off with his dad there to mentor him. Instead, he is now focused not on baseball but on his schooling and his own soon-to-blossom family.
There are times, though, when he'll visit his mom, retreat to the upstairs game room and gaze at your Dodgers jersey hanging on the wall or leaf through the photos and news clippings tucked into the dresser drawers. The vents are closed in that room, and it gets mighty cold up there in the wintertime. It is not a room visited often, because this is not a family that needs to keep the photos and mementos out in the open to preserve your memory. Nor is this a family that feels the need to make many visits to your grave at Woodlawn Memorial Park. For as pleased as they are that your tombstone overlooks a small pond, putting you in eternal reach of the waters you loved, they know your spirit is actually beside them, around them, speaking to them, sometimes in the strangest ways.
Your number with the Dodgers was 52, and they see it often. Travis will happen to look up at a clock at 52 minutes past the hour. Laurie will get a dinner bill for $52 and change. She remembers grabbing her high school yearbook -- published before she even met you -- and taking it to a hospital where her high school track coach, Ogie Keneipp, was dying of pancreatic cancer. She opened the book to a page showing a group of football players Ogie had coached, and the only jersey number they could make out in the blurry photo was 52. She closed the book and will forever believe that you were there for Coach as he prepared to venture into the ether.
Is that you up there, Tim? Because some of these things don't feel like coincidence.
Photo: Travis, Shawn and Tricia with Tim, all decked out in Dodgers garb. Tim pitched for Los Angeles from 1987-92. (Crews family)
Was that you preventing your old Dodge Ram from skidding off the ledge and falling down a cliff when Laurie hit a patch of ice on an S-curve during a family visit to North Carolina just a few years after the accident? Because it's difficult to believe that thin tree on the side of the road was what really held it up.
Was that you looking over Shawn, encouraging him to jump off his motorcycle just before it was T-boned by a speeding car at an intersection last September? Because the police officer working the scene told Shawn he had seen about 25 similar accidents in which the biker did not survive.
They hope that's you, pulling the plow and sprinkling in the reminders that you're a constant, hovering in their midst. They need those reminders, because the grief never ends.
The other day, Laurie was watching TV, and she got annoyed when Dr. Phil told a woman who had just lost her husband that the feelings of anguish get easier to handle over time. It doesn't get easier, Laurie thought; it just occurs with less frequency. Your life evolves, you keep busy and you don't let the absence overwhelm you. Laurie is busy as ever. She has about 20 regular students at the ranch, and she teaches them how to ride and care for the horses. She attends their barrel shows and arranges their summer camps. Those students are like sons and daughters to her. And she's got a new man in her life. Jerry Tate. He lives with her, and he's been good to her.
But you're still present as Laurie stands in the living room, scrolling through the music channels on the satellite radio and landing on a country station. Randy Travis' voice comes through the speakers, and Laurie mentions that you used to know Travis' promotion agent, who would hook you up with tickets to his shows. You saw Travis in Hawaii, shortly before the accident. You were there for some charity golf outing and Randy was filming a trailer for a TV movie. Tears well in Laurie's eyes. She has that memory of getting to ride Travis' black stallion on the beach in Maui, the waves crashing against the shore and you looking on as the horse galloped off toward the setting sun.
God, it was beautiful.
Photo: Alexa Olin, napping with her father, has a psychology degree from the University of Portland and works at a drug and alcohol rehab center for teenagers. (Olin family)
Patti Olin-Winter, as she is now known, no longer enjoys the perks and endures the pressures of a baseball wife. She is, instead, a baseball widow. When she lost you, Steve, she was 25. Your daughter, Alexa, had turned 3 the day before the accident. Your twins, Garrett and Kaylee, were 7 months old.
Patti was lost. She was helpless.
You were supposed to be the closer on that '93 team. You had just bought a house in the Cleveland suburbs, and there was talk of a long-term contract. You had made the long climb from the anonymity of the 16th round of the amateur Draft, when the Indians gave you $1,000 to sign your first pro contract and you and Patti thought you were wildly rich. You were past the point of bouncing between the Majors and the Minors and well past the point of having your submarine-style pitching motion scrutinized. You had made that unorthodox delivery work, silenced the skeptics, and '93 was to be the first time the two of you could just enjoy Spring Training.
In those frantic moments after the accident, they wouldn't let Patti near the boat. Laurie Crews was hell-bent on getting down to the shore to find Tim, brushing past the paramedics like a running back breaking a tackle. But Patti hung back, sitting on a curb, trying to process the chaos surrounding her. It wasn't her personality to push forward with force. And for a long while after that nightmare at the ranch, she struggled to determine how to push forward at all.
Sure, home was Portland, Ore. -- the place where the two of you were born and raised. But what did "home" mean anymore, anyway? "Home" had become whatever baseball town the two of you happened to inhabit from year to year. "Home" was the wives' room at Municipal Stadium. "Home" was the stands in the seventh inning, when it was fair game to wait for the bullpen door to swing open and see you emerging from it. "Home" was anywhere and everywhere, as long as you were there.
So when the club broke camp and headed north to Cleveland, Patti did the same. She stepped into the house in Westlake and found the note you had scribbled to her when you made a solo visit in the offseason:
"Welcome to our new house!"
She admits now that she was torturing herself, living in that house and playing your favorite song, Garth Brooks' "The Dance," every day as a gauge. Patti said to herself that if she could hear that song -- the one you had once told her you wanted played at your funeral -- without crying, she'd know she had made progress. But that never happened. It was a good thing the kids were too young to understand what was happening. Their mother was a wreck, flailing in blind stabs at something that had slipped away. It wasn't until July that family members -- yours and hers -- convinced Patti to return to the only real home she had left. She packed up the kids and went back to Portland.
Photo: Patti Olin-Winter and her son Sam, as pictured in 2013. (Olin family)
But for a long while, even attending Garrett's high school games was a surreal, sometimes painful, experience. "My God," she'd say to herself, "that's Steve." The way Garrett would shrug his shoulders or shake his hand between pitches. The way he'd step over the first-base line on his way to and from the dugout. And of course, the quirky sidearm delivery -- the one his coaches forced him to abandon for fear he'd hurt himself. That was all you, Steve.
Patti sits here today with her son by her side. But it's not Garrett, who is 1,800 miles away, learning the rigors of military life at an Army post in Georgia. This is 13-year-old Sam Winter, who, in his younger years, would hear your name often and, one day, drew a laugh and an explanation when he wondered aloud, "Is Steve my dad or my uncle?"
Sam was born on Christmas Day in 1999, a gift, Patti likes to say, from a benevolent being above. But the family he was born into has been pulled apart.
You knew Bill Winter. The two of you played against each other when you were at Portland State and Bill was a third baseman and right fielder for the University of Portland. Neither of you could have imagined then that Bill would one day help Patti rebuild her life after you were gone. Patti and Bill were introduced by a mutual friend and married in February 1996. It was your dad, Gary, who filled in for Patti's deceased father and walked her down the aisle. And it was your daughter, Alexa, who ran up to Bill at the reception and called him "Dad" for the first time.
Your family embraced Bill as they had embraced Patti years earlier. Your sister, Joell, is still Patti's closest female friend and has been since that day, long ago, at your grandpa's lake house, when you asked your little sis to keep your girlfriend company while you hung out with your buddies. They clicked that day, sitting by the lake, talking about Joell's guy trouble, connecting, confessing. They were "sisters" before they were ever sisters-in-law.
Today, Joell and Patti are both enduring the toll of divorce just as they once endured the trauma of loss. They lived together recently, helping each other get through yet another major change. Joell will tell you that Patti never really recovered from your death. Sure, she could smile for pictures, she could crack her kids up on car rides trying to rap like Eminem, and she could share a bed, a family and a future with another man -- a man who helped her do a terrific job raising your three kids. But Patti never had that glow again. That glow could only come from the boy from Beaverton with the free spirit, the roper boots and cowboy hats and the beat-up orange Datsun he affectionately called Barney.
You had this way about you, Steve. Even in the midst of an argument, you'd be the first one to stop and say, "This is ridiculous. We're going to get through this." You were always so patient, so cool when things got hot. Patti internalized everything, fretted over everything. You were the one who brought her calm. You were the one who never made her feel like anything less than the most important person in your world.
A love like that only comes along once.
Patti and Bill agree that they never had that love. The kids were their focus, and once they reached adulthood and began to move out of the house, Patti and Bill paid the price for their own neglected foundation. Nobody cheated, no bitter war was waged. The respect was there, every step of the way, but that consuming, empowering, addictive love was not. And when they sat the kids down about a year ago and told them about the split, Alexa, Kaylee and Garrett weren't totally surprised. They knew their mom had not been happy for a while, so in one sense they were relieved. But they knew the divorce would be toughest on Sam, and their heart ached for the little guy.
The baseball world ached for your kids when word spread of your death, Steve. It was heartbreaking to realize Alexa, Kaylee and Garrett would never get to know their father. But what nobody could have known was how much those kids would go on to embody your best qualities.
Photo: Steve reads to young Alexa. (Olin family)
Alexa shares your love of the sun, the outdoors, bugs and dirt. She'd go off to summer camp every year as a kid, eventually becoming a camp counselor. Now she's putting that experience and her psychology degree from the University of Portland to good use, working at a rehab center with drug- and alcohol-addicted teens. Some of those kids have all but given up on themselves, but Alexa encourages them to remember how much life they still have ahead, how much untapped capacity they possess. You'd see a lot of yourself in her enthusiasm for helping others. It was, after all, shortly before your death that you told your mom, Shirley, "When I make my first million, I'm going to start a house for the homeless kids here." That conversation always stuck with your mother, and she's so proud that Alexa is doing her part to make a difference.
Shirley has another memory of you that stands out when she talks about Garrett. It was Spring Training in Tucson, Ariz., and she was babysitting Alexa while you and Patti went out to dinner with another couple. When you got home, somebody mentioned that you had picked up the tab at the restaurant for a serviceman and his family. When the soldier thanked you, you told him, "I love my job. And if you weren't out there doing your job, I couldn't do my job."
Garrett's doing that job now. He enlisted in the Army over the winter and reported to Fort Benning in January. He was always more of a hands-on learner, so traditional schooling never suited him. When he finished high school and struggled to find stable work, the itch to serve took over. He looked so scared that final day before he reported for duty, and he sounded miserable in his initial correspondences from boot camp. But as the letters have kept coming, Garrett has sounded more and more passionate, convinced that he's done the right thing.
And remember how you used to hate losing, Steve? Well you should see Kaylee. Oh, brother. When the whole family gets together at the lake house and plays board games, Kaylee will up and leave the room if the outcome of Sorry or Monopoly or Apples to Apples doesn't go her way, because in those moments, she just can't be around other human beings. Of course, it's that expectation of perfection that has made Kaylee such an excellent student. She's a sophomore at UP, majoring in marketing, open to and hopeful for the boundless possibilities life provides.
You'd love to see how close your kids are with their cousins. You used to tell Joell and your other sister, Heather, to start pumping out some kids because you wanted a lot of "rugrats" running around. And now your parents have nine grandchildren in their lives, keeping them busy and blessed.
Your kids never knew you, but you are with them. Not just on the nightstand where Kaylee keeps your picture, not just on the wall where Alexa hangs the Fleer baseball card featuring the two of you in a photo on the back, and not just in the game-worn jersey that hangs in Garrett's closet.
No, you are with them, also, in permanent ink.
It started with Alexa, when she turned 18. She knew she wanted your No. 31 inscribed on her left wrist, and she found a letter you had written Patti, dated on the 31st of the month. The artist was able to make a stencil off the letter, and now your handwriting is right there on your daughter's arm. On her right wrist is another tribute -- a small ghost, because you used to call her your little "boo."
The twins followed suit. Garrett has his own No. 31 design on his forearm and his shoulder. And Kaylee has the words "Thirty One" written out across her back, between her shoulder blades. That one gave her poor grandmother heart palpitations, but when Shirley and Patti warned Kaylee that the tattoo will one day be visible to all honored guests when she wears a wedding dress, Kaylee calmed them with her response: "They'll know he has my back, and he's walking me down the aisle."
Your kids want you to know they're happy. They want you to know how brave, how supportive and how inspiring their mom has been through the years. They want you to know that they each strive, in their own way, to be just like you. And they remember what their grandmother told them when they were young: "Every time you feel the wind on your cheek, smile. Because that's your daddy giving you a kiss from heaven."
A light breeze blows here at the ballpark, as Patti reflects. Those awful, dark days almost feel like they happened to somebody else, like she read about it all in some magazine. These players on the field are unfamiliar to her, and this Spring Training vacation with her youngest son brings her joy, not pain. You can never be replaced, Steve, and Patti has learned not to wait for you to come out for the save. But she still thinks about you every day.
Maybe you're watching her doing it right now, as the breeze picks up and turns to wind.
If only the lake had been this shallow that night.
Tim, you could be casting in those husband-and-wife bass fishing tournaments you and Laurie always talked about. Steve, you could have found that wide-open space where you'd ride four-wheelers and snowmobiles into the gloaming. Maybe you'd both be coaching some local team. Maybe you'd both barely remember that brief period in which baseball allowed your lives to intersect.
The thoughts of if only nearly ate Bobby Ojeda alive. They compelled him to fly to Stockholm, spontaneously, in the aftermath of the accident, not telling a soul where he was headed or what he was doing there. He thought about swallowing a fistful of pills and exiting the hell of reliving the incident in his head and wondering why he was the only one spared. Thankfully, your friend and teammate snapped out of it, came home, got psychiatric treatment, made a brief return to the mound, eventually became a pitching coach and, later, a Mets analyst for SportsNet New York. He politely declines requests to speak about the accident and the aftermath. Everybody deals with these things in their own way.
If only still haunts Fernando Montes. He was your strength and conditioning coach, the only non-player employee of the Indians invited to the housewarming party. Fernando was supposed to be with the three of you in the boat, but he lost the game of Rock-Paper-Scissors that determined who would jump back into Tim's truck and head up to the house to pick up Tim's friend, Perry Brigmond. That memory is now branded in his brain: arriving back at the shore and watching the boat make that turn from life to death. The sickening thud that hung in the air. Crying out, "Are you OK?" and hearing Ojeda's heart-breaking response, "No, no, we're not! We need help!"
Photo: Steve surrounded by all his children, Alexa, Kaylee and Garrett. Kaylee (right) is a marketing major at the University of Portland and Garrett (bottom) recently enlisted in the Army. (Olin family)
What does a person do with that memory? What does a person do with those nagging questions: "Why was I spared? What's the grand plan here?" Montes still asks himself those questions, but he's tried to take advantage of the gift of life by living his the right way. He stayed in baseball for a while, with the Indians and the Rangers. Then he ran the Taylor Hooton Foundation, raising anti-steroid awareness and education. And in recent years, he's trained military personnel in the Army's 10th Special Forces Group to fight terrorism. He's cherished this work, and he's proud that those brave men have accepted him into their fraternity. But to this day, he never plays Rock-Paper-Scissors.
The if onlys lingered in the boat's wake. People latched onto the reports that your blood-alcohol level was .14, Tim -- in excess of the legal limit of .10 at the time. And some of those people were downright nasty. Those there that night insist that you were fully functional. Patti says she never would have let you get on that boat, Steve, if she had even the slightest suspicion that Tim was too drunk to drive. The only mistake, your loved ones insist, was steering the boat out into the dark of night. The little fishing excursion had been in the plans all day, but afternoon rainfall pushed it back toward the evening hours, and then the boat's water pump had to be fixed. If only.
Mike Hargrove let if only churn in his brain for a while. He was your manager, entrusted with molding minds on that Indians team -- a team that was just beginning to establish an identity, to feel like a family. But this? There was no standard operating procedure for this. Hours after the accident, "Grover" would find himself in a cramped clubhouse at the Chain O' Lakes facility, looking into the watering eyes of the players gathered at the dawn of a new day, not knowing what to say, not knowing if young men who had never had mortality slap them in the face would recover from it.
Why had it come to this? You guys weren't supposed to be training in Winter Haven, so close to the ranch. You were supposed to be on the southernmost tip of the Sunshine State, in Homestead. But Hurricane Andrew wiped away the facilities there and prompted the need to set up shop in Central Florida.
More to the point, the accident happened on the only off-day of camp. Hargrove had turned down the Dodgers' late request to reschedule a rained-out game in Winter Haven because he knew filling the anticipated break with a meaningless exhibition would cause a mutiny among the players. Oh, what he would give to redo that decision. The Indians never had another Spring Training off-day during Grover's tenure, which lasted another six years.
Sixth place. That's where the Tribe finished in that blur of a '93 season that followed. First they tried to honor your memory. Reliever Kevin Wickander wanted to make sure nobody would forget his best friend "Oly," and so, Steve, he set up a locker for you at every stop on the road. Eventually, though, Grover felt the tribute had ceased to serve a purpose. They weren't honoring you; they were continuing to mourn you. They moved on from that, and soon thereafter moved Wickander in a trade with the Reds. Wickander never was the same. He fizzled out of the game and did 2 1/2 years in Maricopa County Jail in Arizona on theft and drug-possession charges in the early 2000s. A lost soul who claimed he never got over your loss.
The Indians would see better days in the immediate years after the accident, moving to a beautiful new ballpark in 1994 and, on Sept. 8, 1995, capturing the American League Central Division crown -- the team's first title of any sort in 41 years. Jim Thome caught the final out and the players and coaches crowded in the infield grass near third base in celebration. Just then, a song could be heard on the in-house speakers at Jacobs Field:
Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared 'neath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye?
"The Dance" played, and some tiny percentage of fans in the stands might have understood its significance. But the men on the field knew.
It was Grover's way of saying, "We remember."
Baseball moves forward.
On any given day of the season, the transaction wire is awash with players coming and going. Lives mesh together and drift apart. At the funerals, promises were made to your widows that you -- and they -- would not be forgotten, and some have done a better job than others at keeping those promises. Death, Laurie and Patti discovered, is much like divorce. Save for a Christmas card here or there, people don't always know what to say or how to react.
Even Laurie and Patti were guilty of losing touch, for a long while. They live in opposite corners of the country and didn't know each other until that horrible day at the ranch. It seemed inevitable that they'd be separated by the sands of time.
But times change. You wouldn't believe the things that are possible with computers and communication. One piece of technology is called Facebook, and Laurie and Patti used it to find each other again last year. Now they're trading messages, keeping tabs on each other's lives and kids. Laurie has been insistent about having Patti visit, but Patti has been equally insistent that she can't ever go back to Little Lake Nellie. Patti will, however, be traveling to Fort Benning in May for Garrett's graduation from boot camp, and Laurie is going to make the drive up from Central Florida. It will be the first time they've seen each other in nearly 20 years.
Laurie will talk about her struggle to find a buyer for a property that, with the kids all grown and gone, is much too big for her needs. Patti will discuss the difficulty of the divorce, of venturing back into the dating world and trying to find love again.
They'll have a drink. They'll share stories. They might very well hug and shrug and break down and cry. Hopefully they'll laugh.
Under the Georgia sky, Laurie and Patti will show what it means to stay afloat. To endure heartache, to honor the past, to adapt to whatever strange and wonderful and terrible and amazing turns of life are yet to come.
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Nostalgia is all the rage these days, so it comes as no surprise that Bill Cosby is hoping to return to prime time.
The comedian told Yahoo TV that he's re-teamed with one of The Cosby Show producers Tom Werner to develop a family comedy that "would [satisfy] the people who have come to me in public places and said, 'Can't you put something on that I can watch?'"
Cosby insists the new series wouldn't be a remake of The Cosby Show, but instead would feature older children and their relationships with their parents.
"I want to be able to deliver a wonderful show to [a] network," said Cosby. "Because there is a viewership out there that wants to see comedy, and warmth, and love, and surprise, and cleverness, without going into the party attitude.
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"They would like to see a married couple that acts like they love each other, warts and all, children who respect the parenting, and the comedy of people who make mistakes. Warmth and forgiveness. So I hope to get that opportunity, and I will deliver the best of Cosby, and that will be a series, I assume, that we could get enough people week after week after week to tune in to, to come along with us."
Cosby is also working a reboot of his animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids with writer and producer Tom Straw on developing the project. "It's got to be animated, every bit of it. Maybe except for yours truly saying, 'I told you this is going to be funny, and if you pay attention, you just might learn something,'" Cosby said, quoting the line he used to introduce episodes of the original series.
"I want some network to say to us, 'All right, we're going to give you the money to do one show,' just to lay it out ... I just want one shot, because I know that what I am envisioning ... they've never seen anything like this on TV. The laughter, the stories," said Cosby.
"I just want two things: I want a shot for Fat Albert, half-hour, because I've got the story. And [for] the other show, Tom Werner and I will work it so that this thing has the Cosby feel and the respect for the audience."
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas public broadcasters are already struggling with budget problems, even before the Legislature considers again reducing their funding.
Public broadcasting currently receives about $1.5 million from the state, which could be reduced to about $1 million this year.
Last year, Gov. Sam Brownback tried to eliminate all public broadcasting funding. But some lawmakers resisted and approved smaller cuts. This year, the governor is again seeking to reduce state funding, or change the funding source to state lottery proceeds.
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Mr. Blue Saffron (Lord) is Modi's hero.
@Blue Saffron thou are a God. Thou comments are like a bible that everyone has memorized. We worship thou O Blue Saffron.
Modi washes Blue Saffron's linga for puja 2 times a day.
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Is it true that Modi of India is a raypist in that he married an underage girl?
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A famous medium told me that four (4) was my lucky number, which I had known for decades, and that four would bring me good things in some way that she could not know - or, perhaps, would not tell me.
Why stop at three?
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Yes sir, yes sir, but Mahatma Gandhi raiped me.
C hurn it into butter, make it into cheese,
Freeze it into ice cream or drink my p iss if you please.
Moo, moo brown cow, have you milk for me?
Yes sir, yes sir, but Gandhi f ukked me.
Why do Hindoos is India and abroad raype? DNA?
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Modi prefers but moslem shiet.
Buzz, buzz busy bee, is your honey sweet?
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But hindoos prefer to eat human meat
Modi loves to eat moslem shiet.
Didn't Modi have a boyfriend in Myanmar?
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Throw a quarter in it.
How do you get
them out again?
Tell them Hafizz Saeeed is driving.
I love to eat goat poo poo and cow pee pee
Really? You be from India.... A hindoo?
I love Modi. I eat his poo poo
Have you noticed Indian taxi drivers picking the wax off their ear with a pinky finger and picking their nose with the other hand while driving cabs in NYC? Then they start eating the samosa with chutney and licking their fingers like there is no tommorow. For dessert they first do a two finger pinch on their balls, eat a ladoo and suck lick their fingers off their hands. They have it pat down to a science. They claim to have a degree from Benares Commerce College. Majoring in nose picking and ball scratching. LMFAO
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Modi from India goes to the doctor and says, "I feel terrible."
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Week later Modi goes back and says, "Doc, I feel wonderful, what was the problem?"
Doctor, "you were homesick!"
My name is Laramie. I am Hindu.
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My hero is Blue Saffron. He is everyone's idol
Blue Saffron invented hindooism.
He is a GOD.
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A man was found dead at the home of singer Olivia Newton-John, WPBF 25 News has learned.
"We received a call of a possible suicide," Jupiter Inlet Colony police Capt. John Pruitt said Monday.
Pruitt said Newton-John and her husband were not present at the home, located in the 100 block of Lighthouse Drive in Jupiter Inlet Colony.
Jupiter police Lt. Scott Pascarella said the victim is a 42-year-old contractor who was hired by the homeowners. Pascarella said the man suffered a gunshot wound.
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This is the first in an occasional series of posts on whether the winners of the Pulitzers and other book awards deserved their honors. This site reviewed the 2007 Caldecott Medalist, David Wiesner's Flotsam, on Jan. 22 and the 2007 Newbery Medalist, Susan Patron's The Higher Power of Lucky on Feb. 19 (reading group guide posted on Feb. 22).
Title: The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher. By Debby Applegate. Doubleday hardcover, 527 pp., $27.95, and Three Leaves paperback, 560 pp., $16.95.
What it is: The biography of the most famous preacher of the 19th century, who was also an abolitionist and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Winner of … the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for biography
Was this one of those book awards that make you wonder if the judges were on Class B controlled substances? Or if the editor or publisher had pornographic home videos of all of them? No
Worthy of a major award? Yes
Comments: This is a terrific biography I wouldn't have picked up if it hadn't won a Pulitzer. I intended to read only a few chapters and include the book in the "Books I Didn't Finish" category on this site. But I became swept up quickly in its story of a witty and lovable but flawed preacher and the remarkable Beecher family. Near the end of his life Henry Ward Beecher became entangled in a sex scandal that led to a lurid trial and adds interest at a point when many biographies lose steam. Perhaps the most important thing I took away from this book was an understanding of how the Puritan focus on a wrathful deity gave way to the view of God as a loving presence that exists today. Debby Applegate makes a good case that Beecher was the prime mover in this tectonic shift. She writes in a conversational tone that keeps this book from becoming stuffy but occasionally leads to a phrase that sounds anachronistic in context, such as: "Henry's first two years as a minister had been a mixed bag."
Best line: See below.
Worst line: The title of Chapter 12, which comes from a popular rumor: "I Am Reliably Assured That Beecher Preaches to Seven or Eight of His Mistresses Every Sunday Evening." This might be the best line if it matched the text. But on one page Applegate quotes a man as saying that "Beecher preaches to seven or eight mistresses every Sunday evening." Two pages later, she quotes another man who says, "I am reliably assured that Beecher preaches to at least twenty of his mistresses every Sunday." The chapter title seems to be a corruption of the two quotes. I'm inclined to cut Applegate some slack on this one, because she may have found many versions of this rumor, but not the copy editor whose job it was to catch such discrepancies.
Recommended if … you like Civil War–era history and are looking for book with wider scope than Manhunt, which I also liked. Highly recommended to history book clubs.
Editor: Gerald Howard
Published: June 2006 (Doubleday hardcover), April 2007 (Three Leaves paperback).
Links: You can read the first chapter and watch a C-SPAN interview with Applegate at www.themostfamousmaninamerica.com.
Furthermore: Debby Applegate has taught at Yale and Wesleyan universities. Her book was also a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
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