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Many weekends, Aaron Taylor can be found hitting yard sales, surfing the Web or rummaging through boxes from his parents' attic discovering treasures from his childhood.
Many sci-fi enthusiasts, such as Taylor of Elizabethtown, have personal connections to their memorabilia collections and valid reasons for loving them.
Around every corner of his office and home are bits and pieces of his collection, mostly Transformers and "Star Wars" merchandise.
"What I enjoy is the hunt and the time-travel aspect of collecting," Taylor said. "Every time I come across something I used to have, or always wanted, it cracks open memories and emotions long gone."
He explores yard sales and flea markets, but it's getting harder and harder to find the types of items he loves.
"The '90s were a big time for scooping up Transformers collections and old 'Star Wars' toys," he said.
During that time, people who were fans as kids were in college or out on their own. Their parents began cleaning out their attics and selling their collections in yard sales, he said.
Today, he checks eBay and patiently digs for bargains. But he finds a lot of stuff at www. shopgoodwill.com.
"It's like eBay for Goodwill stores across the country," he said.
Collecting can get costly but is worth what you are willing to pay, he said.
It also can be competitive.
"A good friend of mine and I would compare and contrast collections from the time we were in grade school all the way up to today," he said. "It's interesting to see what other people prize in their collections; what their Holy Grail is."
That item can be a toy that's hard to find or one they had as a child and always regretted losing, like Taylor and the G1 Megatron Transformer.
His greatest joy is sharing with his 4-year-old daughter, who also has a growing collection.
"To watch it spark her imagination is amazing," he said.
CBS comedy "The Big Bang Theory" gives millions of viewers a glimpse at the hobby when Sheldon, for example, laments over a "Star Trek" collectable, mint in box. Fans of the show also have been exposed to cosplay —or dressing up like favorite sci-fi characters — another aspect of collecting.
Jason Schreck makes his own costumes and accessories. He has a shirt resembling one from the original "Star Trek" series as well as costumes he's made for participation in the 501st.
The 501st is a worldwide professional "Star Wars" costuming group of more than 5,000 members. The unit often is called on for Lucasflim publicity and charity events, sometimes visiting children in the hospital through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
All of Schreck's costumes are handmade and sometimes take some ingenuity to create. A gun started off as a Nerf Blaster and was painted for a costume. For one costume, he built a cooling mechanism into a chest plate and helmet to make it easier to breathe inside. He also has made a light saber from an old camera flash.
His costumes include an Imperial TIE fighter pilot, an Imperial officer, "Episode III" Anakin, an Imperial Navy trooper and an Imperial crewman.
But he also does Civil War re-enacting and makes costumes for that as well. He has participated in local ghosts and legends tours.
Schreck, who uses a wheelchair, usually plays someone wounded and is a part of the 6th Kentucky Regimental Field Hospital re-enactment group.
"Star Trek" aficionados Dennis and Jill Rayburn of Radcliff are picky about what they collect.
The Rayburns know the family of original "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry personally and host their own entertainment website, www.soentertain.me.
A few items they own are autographed action figures, a wooden mask used in the movie "The Mask" and one of Roddenberry's awards given to them by Roddenberry's son.
They also have a print of a painting of the cast of "Babylon 5" with several signatures on it and an autographed action figure of Spock from the new "Star Trek" movie signed by Zachary Quinto.
They don't usually spend a lot of money on their collection and find more value in items made by other fans. From his experience at conventions, fan-made art is something the creators and stars of the shows appreciate, Dennis said.
Collectors — especially those after expensive items — should make sure collectibles are certified and only work with dealers they trust, he said.
And the best way to make sure an autograph is real is to take something to a convention and have it autographed in front of you, Jill said.
While some collectors can go overboard, most are just like anyone else with a hobby.
"There are some in fandom (fans of a particular genre) that are slightly nutty, but don't judge us all that way," Dennis said. "We're in the workforce and your neighbors; just normal people."
Anyone can go overboard with something they like, including sports teams, model trains or other collections, he said.
"The wisdom comes when you figure out how to balance it all," he said.
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The galaxy is a dangerous place.
Sophi, Alpha and Nargle, Commissars in the Imperial Navy, are painfully aware of this fact. Their job was a thankless one - the commissars were the ones who made sure the men were loyal, and they were the first ones to take the fall when a politician needed to cover his misdoings. Such was their fate now.
Consul MDK of the Imperial Assembly, a powerful political man, had ordered their battalions to participate in the conquest of some small, backwater planet. They didn't know why - the Consul probably thought he was advancing his political agenda somehow. It didn't matter; they didn't question orders.
The planet was settled by a handful of potato farmers - Sophi, Alpha and Nargle led their units in the slaughter of these oafs, as they were ordered to do, though it left a sick taste in their mouth.
A few standard weeks later, news of the massacre reached the media. One would expect this to end MDK's career, but it didn't - he had found a way to put the blame on the killers' commanders. Our Commissars. That was how the three of our outfit found themselves in the brig of a prison ship headed for the Core worlds. They were to be executed publicly, without doubt.
The three had begun to accept their inevitable fate, when a freak solar storm knocked their transport's main systems offline. They took this as their chance to escape. In the panic of the power-outage, Sophi, Nargle and Alpha managed to make it to the escape pods and jettisons themselves onto the small planet below.
That's where we begin.
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_____Sophi: Part of a soldier-breeding program, the brainchild of MDK, to which he owes his position. Grown to be physically superior to normal humans. The genetic tampering tends to lead to mental unstability, however, and these vatgrown soldiers tend to dislike socialization. She is unusually pious for this day-and-age. Also she can't carry a tune to save her life.
_____Nargle: Another genetic supersoldier, Nargle is a horribly disfigured character, with a gnarled face. Nargle is also hemophobic, an interesting trait for a soldier.
_____Alpha: A lowborn orphan, Alpha worked his way up the chain of command through blood, sweat and tears. He fancies himself an artist, and enjoys the finer, carnal pleasures in life..
Our refugees land on this unknown world, and set to work to building a sustainable safehouse. No doubt MDK will send men to try to kill them. They set up a small perimeter and farm, and begin to dig a bunker into the mountainside. The long, grandiose entrance hallway takes a week to dig out, but will act as a shooting gallery should thugs show up.
A few cycles pass without any incident. A squirrel goes mad and tries to kill the survivors, but being trained soldier, it posed no threat.
Then, suddenly a group of five raiders shows up, armed with Uzis, shotguns, grenades, molotov cocktails, and flamethrowers. Yikes.
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As soon as they see the drop pods landing, the three ex-military officers build a few more turrets. They're in for a wild fight.


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Okay folks, taking up from where Island Dog left off, Ideas for a Community Theme Project - Holiday Edition, I thought it would be nice to continue this with a Valentines Day Theme.
I haven't jumped out here and taken responsiblity for much of anything so i thought it would be nice to take the lead for a ommunioty project for a Holiday Theme.
What do you say?
My idea, subject to further input from the community.
Valentines Day Theme Pack with a Dream as being the core for the Theme
This would include at the minimum: (updated to show skin volunteers)
•WindowBlinds theme (for XP, Vista and Win 7) - k10w3
•DesktopX Theme - RedneckDude
•DesktopX Widgets - RedneckDude
•CursorFX theme - Vampothika
•Dream - CarGuy1
•Rainlendar - RedneckDude
•RightClick Skin - Nimbin
•ScreenSaver Skin (based on the Dream) - CarGuy1
•Icons (IP or just some dock icons) - Vampothika
•Object Dock backgound - RedneckDude, DisturbedComputer
•Wallpaper (based on the Dream) - CarGuy1
•Logons (based on the Dream) - CarGuy1
•BootSkins (based on the Dream) - CarGuy1
(If you would like to do a skin that is not listed please leave a comment on the thread)
At the end this would all be wrapped up in a Theme Manager suite, I have to do something.
We need ideas for a unique name plus design ideas for the Dream. If someone is all ready working on a Dream, all the more better.
Now, I'm a non-skinner so you folks need to let me know if there is enough time to pull this together for Valentines day. We are only talking a little more than five weeks as we should have it done in time for folks to use the theme. In that line of thinking the Theme probably should not just say Happy Valentines Day in words but show more of what Valentines Day means between two people who care about one another, if that makes sense.
Okay, so lets hear your thoughts.
Everyone knows what the date of Valentine day is so you just call it.
FEBRUARY 14th
Now I get it. Most wives are working on one guy. Poor shmendrick!
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Man, that's screwy...the quotes in reply 128 & 129 show me to be the one quoted yet I did not post it, Dave did.
I fixed mine for ya, CarGuy1! (For the record, I'm blaming Skinhit).
Karen, the men know it they just don't admit they know. It's like selective hearing.
Jim, give it up.
I need beta testers! My access to XP is rather limited (kid's computer---he works a totally different shift than I do), and I have NO access to Vista, so I'd like comments, suggestions, -- rip 'her to shreds, be brutal. I've had the kid glove treatment long enough. (k10w3 really would like a promotion soon). I've uploaded it here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/mmymnnt0wkt/A1.wbaI still need to make the XP file transfer animations and the interface loading animation. That's going to have to wait until next week when I don't have to work again.
We really need to name this thing...I'm at a standstill until we do.
My favorites out of the suggestions so far are...
My Dirty Valentine
Okay, lets see some voting here.
I vote for My Dirty Valentine.
I third it.
I just tested the skin on windows 7. Not being a total expert it sure looks great to me on my desktop. I have a background with water and mountains. Have to say with the blue water and red taskbar the 3D effect is unbelievable. Wonderful job to all.
Okay, 'My Dirty Valentine' is the name of the Theme.
What is your rank, Karen?
Cool...looks like I can get back at it now.
Karen...community projects like this helps you get noticed, in a good way.
I want to encourage other skinners to join in the project.
If you would like to add a skin like Rainlendar, Winstep, SysMetrix or Xion please leave a comment.
If some one has volunteered to do a skins but you would like to do s second one, like RightClick or ObjectDock leave a comment.
The only thing that is required is that you do use the graphics of the project theme.
Come on folks, join in, the more skins the better, and we are looking at this for XP, Vista and Win 7.
If anyone has a mind to they can post screenshots of what they are working on, finished or not, it just might encourage some more folks to join in.
Looking excellent Jim and thanks for posting the scrrenshot.
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Conferences & Workshops
SERDP and ESTCP convene workshops of experts from academia, industry, and the military Services to examine the current state of the science and engineering on specific environmental problems. These workshops identify gaps in knowledge and technology and prioritize these gaps in light of DoD needs to determine where investments in RDT&E could have the greatest impact on DoD's ability to address its environmental requirements. Results of these workshops guide investment decisions.
Throughout the year, SERDP and ESTCP also support and participate in various technical conferences that align with their mission and areas of emphasis.
Upcoming Events
- Dec 9-13
- 2013 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
- Dec 17-18
- SERDP Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting
- Jan 9
- FY 2015 SERDP Core Pre-Proposals Due
- Jan 15
- SERDP and ESTCP Quarterly Progress Reports (QPR) Due (First Quarter)
- Feb 4-6
- Energy and Water In-Progress Review (IPR) Meeting
- Feb 10-14
- Environmental Restoration In-Progress Review (IPR) Meeting
- Feb 19-20
- Munitions Response In-Progress Review (IPR) Meeting
- Feb 24-26
- SERDP and ESTCP to Exhibit at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit
Past SERDP and ESTCP Workshops
ASETSDefense 2012: Sustainable Surface Engineering for Aerospace and Defense
August 28-30, 2012, San Diego, California
This SERDP- and ESTCP-sponsored workshop, the latest in a series of workshops covering environmentally friendly coating and surface treatment alternatives, fostered information exchange among 200 representatives from research organizations, chemical and coating formulators and manufacturers, aerospace/defense repair facilities, and weapons systems and aircraft manufacturers. Workshop sessions addressed the impact of U.S. and European environmental and health regulations on defense acquisition and sustainment. Alternatives to cadmium, hexavalent chromium, beryllium, and cadmium were assessed. Other sessions highlighted alternative technologies used for light metals protection, aluminum and magnesium anodizing, anodize sealing and repair, and coatings removal. A focused side meeting addressed cadmium replacement on electrical connectors. For the full workshop report and briefings, visit www.asetsdefense.org/PastWorkshops.aspx.
Workshop on Research and Development Needs for Long-Term Management of Contaminated Sediments
July 25-26, 2012, Seattle, Washington
Environmental restoration and closure of contaminated sediment sites is a top priority for the Department of Defense. Over the next five to ten years, identifying methods to establish long-term remedy success, reducing long-term management costs, and achieving site closure will be of primary concern. New investigation work will largely be associated with identifying recontamination sources within the local and regional watersheds and with emerging contaminants. SERDP and ESTCP convened a workshop to address this shift in site management priorities. The focus of the workshop was on examining the current state of the science and technology for the long-term management of contaminated sediment sites, reviewing the current and projected future status of DoD long-term management activities, identifying data gaps that, if addressed, could aid in the long-term management of contaminated sediments, and prioritizing research and demonstration opportunities to help facilitate regulatory and public acceptance of long-term management strategies for contaminated sediment sites. A review of the research, demonstration, and technology transfer needs identified is presented in the Workshop Report.
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity appears as a bluish dot near the lower right corner of this enhanced-color view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter taken on June 27, 2013 and released on July 24, 2013. The rover's tracks are visible extending from the landing site, 'Bradbury Landing,' in the left half of the scene. Two bright, relatively blue spots surrounded by darker patches are where the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's landing jets cleared away reddish surface dust at the landing site.
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Birth of a Musical
The Broadway musical is a commercial art form that often aspires to, and occasionally attains, high art. It is also a collaborative medium, in which the librettist, composer, lyricist, director, and choreographer determine together the details of plot and action, the style and tone of the production, and how music, movement, and language will be used to best convey the story they wish to tell. The collaboration also involves dozens of people who play key roles, including the designers of the set, lighting, and costumes, the orchestrators and musicians, and ultimately the performers who must embody not only the characters they play, but also must be able to sing and dance—in the case of West Side Story—this most demanding music and choreography. The items on display in this section come from the Library's Leonard Bernstein Collection and provide a rare window into this complex process.
William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet.
Boston: Ginn and Co.,
1940. Ed. by George Kittredge.
Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division (1)
By permission of The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc.
Bernstein's Annotated copy of romeo and juliet
Throughout this volume Bernstein made several notes for adapting Shakespeare's play into a contemporary musical. In its early stage of development Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, and Leonard Bernstein considered replacing the feuding artistrocratic families with a Catholic and Jewish family. On the inside cover is a scene breakdown suggesting that the show open either at the Mulberry Street Festival or during Easter and Passover. Elsewhere, Bernstein's notes suggest that a song entitled "Song on Racism" instead be entitled "It's the Jews." At the top of the title page, Bernstein writes "An out and out plea for racial tolerance," and in the margin "Should be prologue interrupted by street fight."
Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein.
Scene breakdown
ca. 1949. Typescript with holograph annotations.
Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division (2)
Used by permission of The Robbins Rights Trust
Early Scene breakdown
This early scene breakdown—presumably typed by Jerome Robbins with Bernstein's annotations in pencil shows the collaborative process between these two artists. Bernstein's notes reveal that although the character names still come from Shakespeare—Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, and Mercutio—the feud is now based on Jewish and Catholic prejudices.
Arthur Laurents. Romeo Synopsis
October 1955. Typescript
Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division (51)
By permission of The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc.
Romeo Synopsis
Shown here is the first page of a six-page synopsis by Arthur Laurents. Although several of the details would eventually change (including most of the character names), many moments are richly described in this early version and were closely realized in the final show, including the description of Romeo and Juliet's (Tony and Maria's) meeting in act 1, scene 2.
Jerome Robbins to Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents, with annotations by Leonard Bernstein,
October 18, 1955. Typescript letter.
Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (4)
Used by permission of The Robbins Rights Trust
Letter from Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins wrote this thoughtful and detailed reaction to Arthur Laurents's Romeo synopsis. Notable among Robbins's responses are: his argument for a two-act division (p. 1, par.3); his suggested changes to Anita's character (p. 1, par. 5); his expressed concerns about the "wedding scene" (p. 2, par. 3); his overall philosophy regarding what the work needs to convey (p. 3, par. 2); and his thoughts on casting and the use of dance in the show (p. 3, par. 3). The annotations in the margins, mostly in agreement, are in Leonard Bernstein's hand.
Leonard Bernstein. Scene Outline with notes regarding songs
ca. 1949. Holograph manuscript.
Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (5)
By permission of The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc.
Scene Outline with Notes on Songs and Music
In this outline, Bernstein makes notes about song placement, participants, and the tone of musical numbers. Here he describes scene I as "Dogged, intense"; scene II includes a "Duet to crowd" by Romeo and Rosalind (his erstwhile girlfriend); scene V opens with a number for Mercutio "with girls"; and before the fight and double murder in scene VII, Bernstein suggests a "happy song" for Romeo.
Audition Notes
Twenty pages of lists and notes on cast auditions for West Side Story in the Bernstein Collection record not only the broad range of actors who tried out for the play, but also provide insight into what Bernstein was seeking in a cast. Surprises among those auditioning are Suzanne Plechette ("hoarse"), Warren Beatty ("Good voice—can't open his jaw—charming as hell—cleancut"), Jerry Orbach ("Good read. Good loud bar[itone]"), and Artie Johnson ("Good singer"). Among those actually cast, Larry Kert, who landed the role of Tony, initially auditioned for the roles of Bernardo and Rigg. As Bernstein comments: "Great singer + performer. But looks? Read Riff Better." The original Maria, Carol Lawrence, is here described as "Lovely soprano. Not quite Maria. Much realer with accent."
Leonard Bernstein outside the National Theatre in Washington, DC
Robert H. Phillips, photographer.
Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (27)
Courtesy of the estate of the photographer
Leonard Bernstein outside the National Theatre in Washington, DC
West Side Story began its out of town performances at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. on August 19, 1957. After a two-week run at Philadelphia's Erlanger Theatre, the show opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 26, 1957. In this photograph taken for Life Magazine, a euphoric Leonard Bernstein leaps under the marquee for West Side Story after the show's opening at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Opening Night Telegrams
Leonard Bernstein saved approximately 140 opening night telegrams that he received when West Side Story opened on Broadway. Included in those saved are the seven on display here: (a) from Betty Bogart, wife of Humphrey Bogart and best known as Lauren Bacall; (b) from Harold "Hal" S. Prince and Robert "Bobbie"E. Griffith, the show's producers who, presumably intentionally mangled the song title "Maria" as "Martha"; (c) from the lyricists/librettist team of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, previous Bernstein collaborators, referencing Bernstein's father, Samuel, who had wanted his son to join and take over the family business—the Samuel Bernstein Hair Company; (d) from librettist Arthur Laurents; (e) from Carol Lawrence, the original Maria; (f) from Roger Stevens, an early producer and constant supporter; (h) and from songwriter Cole Porter. Bernstein received a surprising number of telegrams from the leading Broadway songwriters of the day, including Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields, Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner, Richard Rodgers, Arthur Schwartz, and Jule Styne.
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Production Photographs
In spring of 1958, Look magazine had planned a feature spread on Carol Lawrence, the original Maria. Photographer Paul Fusco took hundreds of photographs of Ms. Lawrence, including dozens of production shots from West Side Story. Although Look never ran the article, the photographs, several of which are seen here for the first time, offer rare views of the original Broadway production. [The Library had the first prints made from the original negatives for this exhibition.]
Paul Fusco, photographer. Look Magazine Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (34-44)
© Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos
"The Dance at the Gym, " an extended dance number full of energetic popular music styles from rock to mambo, includes a sequence where time seems to magically stop as Tony and Maria (played by Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence) first meet and lock eyes. (34)
In the bridal shop where Maria works, she and Tony exchange vows as they "marry" each other while singing the tender "One Hand, One Heart." (40)
From the "Somewhere Ballet," a dreamlike scene in which Tony, Maria, and the rest of the cast imagine a world without prejudice or violence. (36)
From the "Somewhere Ballet," a dreamlike scene in which Tony, Maria, and the rest of the cast imagine a world without prejudice or violence. (43)
A furious Anita confronts Maria about Tony's killing of Bernardo, Maria's brother and Anita's boyfriend, damning Tony in the song "A Boy Like That." Maria counters with the passionate "I Have a Love." (41)


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The Gullah are the descendants of enslaved Africans who live in the Lowcountry region of the US states of South Carolina and Georgia, which includes both the coastal plain and the Sea Islands.
Historically, the Gullah region extended from the Cape Fear area on the coast of North Carolina south to the vicinity of Jacksonville on the coast of Florida; but today the Gullah area is confined to the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry. The Gullah people and their language are also called Geechee, which some scholars speculate is related to the Ogeechee River near Savannah, Georgia. The term "Geechee" is an emic term used by speakers (and can have a derogatory connotation depending on usage). "Gullah" is a term that was originally used to designate the language spoken by Gullah and Geechee people, but over time it has become a way for speakers to formally identify both their language and themselves as a distinctive group of people. The Georgia communities further identify themselves as either "Saltwater Geechee" or "Freshwater Geechee" depending on their proximity to the coast.
The Gullah have preserved much of their African linguistic and cultural heritage. They speak an English-based creole language containing many African loanwords and significant influences from African languages in grammar and sentence structure. Properly referred to as "Sea Island Creole," the Gullah language is related to Jamaican Patois, Barbadian Dialect, Bahamian Dialect, Belizean Creole and the Krio language of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Gullah storytelling, cuisine, music, folk beliefs, crafts, farming and fishing traditions all exhibit strong influences from West and Central African cultures.
The name "Gullah" may derive from Angola,[1] where some Gullah people may have originated. Some scholars have also suggested it comes from Gola, an ethnic group living in the border area between Sierra Leone and Liberia in West Africa, another region where many of the Gullah ancestors originated[citation needed]. The name "Geechee", another common (emic) name for the Gullah people, may come from Kissi, an ethnic group living in the border area between Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.[2]
Some scholars have also suggested Native American origins for these words. The Spanish called the South Carolina and Georgia coastal region Guale after a Native American tribe. The Ogeechee River, a prominent geographical feature in coastal Georgia, takes its name from a Creek Indian word.
African roots[edit]
It has been claimed that most of the Gullahs' early ancestors of what is now the United States were brought to the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry through the ports of Charleston and Savannah as slaves, making their way from Sierra Leone by way of Brazil. Because Charleston was one of the most important ports in North America for the transatlantic slave trade, there may be some truth in that because up to half of the enslaved Africans brought into what is now the United States came through that port. A great majority of the remaining flowed through Savannah which was also active in the slave trade.
The largest group of enslaved Africans brought into the port cities of Charleston and Savannah came from the West African rice-growing region, centered primarily in present-day Sierra Leone, through Bunce Island, the most significant castle for slaves transported to the modern day United States. But since Sierra Leone was founded by the British as a haven for slaves rescued from the Middle Passage or freed slaves returned from the United States and Caribbean (as Liberia was founded, by an act of U.S Congress), no slaves were ever taken from Liberia and Sierra Leone, previously called the "Grain Coast". This makes it all the more likely that the name "Gullah" came from the Gola tribe whose language and culture pre-date the modern names of the countries they still inhabit, namely Liberia and Sierra Leone. [3] The people had cultivated African rice in this section of West Africa for possibly up to 3,000 years. South Carolina and Georgia rice planters once called this region the "Rice Coast", indicating its importance as a source of skilled African labor for the North American rice industry. Once planters discovered that rice would grow in the southern U.S. regions, they believed that enslaved Africans from rice-growing regions would be useful, given their knowledge of rice-growing techniques.[3] In 1750, Henry Laurens and Richard Oswald, British-American colonists, opened a major slave castle just up the Sierra Leone River on what was then called Bance Island (now Bunce Island). The ancestors for up to 80 percent of African Americans in the United States whose heritage comes from the slave trade are believed to have been transported from here.
Origin of Gullah culture[edit]
The Gullah people have been able to preserve much of their African cultural heritage because of geography, climate, and patterns of importation of enslaved Africans. Taken from the Western region of Africa in primarily the Krio and Mende populations of what is today Sierra Leone as slaves and transported to some areas of Brazil (including Bahia) the Gullah-Gheechee slaves were then sold to slave owners in what was then Charlestowne, South Carolina. However, according the British historian P.E.H. Hair, Gullah culture, although formed in large part by Sierra Leonean customs, seems be a mixture to elements of different African cultures. So, the Gullahs' ancestors must have been from many different tribes, or ethnic groups, in Africa. Those from the Rice Coast, the largest group, included the Wolof, Mandinka, Fula, Baga, Susu, Limba, Temne, Mende, Vai, Kissi, Kpelle, etc.—but there were also slaves brought from the Gold Coast, Calabar, Congo Republic, and Angola. [4]
By the middle of the 18th century, the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry was covered by thousands of acres of rice fields. African farmers from the "Rice Coast" brought the skills for cultivation and tidal irrigation that made rice one of the most successful industries in early America.
The subtropical climate that made the Lowcountry such an excellent place for rice production also made it vulnerable to the spread of malaria and yellow fever. These tropical diseases, endemic in Africa, were carried by slaves transported to the colonies by slave ships.[5] Mosquitoes in the swamps and inundated rice fields of the Lowcountry picked up and spread the diseases to English and European settlers, as well. Malaria and yellow fever soon became endemic in the region.
Because of having built some immunity in their homeland, Africans were more resistant to tropical fevers than the Europeans. In addition, because planters devoted large areas of land to plantations for rice and indigo, the white population of the Lowcountry and Sea Islands grew at a slower rate than the black population. More and more enslaved Africans were brought as laborers onto the Sea Islands and into the Lowcountry as the rice industry expanded. By about 1708, South Carolina had a black majority.[6] Coastal Georgia later acquired its own black majority after rice cultivation expanded there in the mid-18th century, and malaria and yellow fever became endemic. Fearing disease, many white planters left the Lowcountry during the rainy spring and summer months when fever ran rampant.[3] Others lived mostly in cities such as Charleston.
They left their African "rice drivers," or overseers, in charge of the plantations.[3] Working on large plantations with hundreds of laborers, and with African traditions reinforced by new imports from the same regions, the Gullahs developed a culture in which elements of African languages, cultures, and community life were preserved to a high degree. Their culture was quite different from that of slaves in states like Virginia and North Carolina, where slaves lived in smaller settlements and had more sustained and frequent interactions with whites.
Customs and traditions[edit]
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African influences are found in every aspect of the Gullahs' traditional way of life:
- The Gullah word guber for peanut derives from the Kikongo and Kimbundu word N'guba.
- Gullah rice dishes called "red rice" and "okra soup" are similar to West African "jollof rice" and "okra soup". Jollof rice is a style of cooking brought by the Wolof people of West Africa.[7][dead link]
- The Gullah version of "gumbo" has its roots in African cooking. "Gumbo" is derived from a word in the Umbundu language of Angola, meaning okra, one of the dish's main ingredients.
- Gullah rice farmers once made and used mortar and pestles and winnowing fanners similar in style to tools used by West African rice farmers.
- Gullah beliefs about "hags" and "haunts" are similar to African beliefs about malevolent ancestors, witches, and "devils" (forest spirits).
- Gullah "root doctors" protect their clients against dangerous spiritual forces by using ritual objects similar to those employed by African traditional healers.
- Gullah herbal medicines are similar to traditional African remedies.
- The Gullah "seekin" ritual is similar to coming of age ceremonies in West African secret societies, such as the Poro and Sande.
- The Gullah ring shout is similar to ecstatic religious rituals performed in West and Central Africa.
- Gullah stories about "Bruh Rabbit" are similar to West and Central African trickster tales about the clever and conniving rabbit, spider, and tortoise.
- Gullah spirituals, shouts, and other musical forms employ the "call and response" method commonly used in African music.
- Gullah "sweetgrass baskets" are coil straw baskets made by the descendants of slaves in the South Carolina Lowcountry, and are almost identical to coil baskets made by the Wolof people in Senegal.
- Gullah "strip quilts" mimic the design of cloth woven with the traditional strip loom used throughout West Africa. The famous kente cloth from Ghana and Akwete cloth from Nigeria are woven on the strip loom.
- The folk song Michael Row the Boat Ashore (or Michael Row Your Boat Ashore) comes from the Gullah culture.
Civil War period[edit]
When the U.S. Civil War began, the Union rushed to blockade Confederate shipping. White planters on the Sea Islands, fearing an invasion by the US naval forces, abandoned their plantations and fled to the mainland. When Union forces arrived on the Sea Islands in 1861, they found the Gullah people eager for their freedom, and eager as well to defend it. Many Gullahs served with distinction in the Union Army's First South Carolina Volunteers. The Sea Islands were the first place in the South where slaves were freed. Long before the War ended, Unitarian missionaries from Pennsylvania came down to start schools for the newly freed slaves. Penn Center, now a Gullah community organization on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina, began as the very first school for freed slaves.
After the Civil War ended, the Gullahs' isolation from the outside world actually increased in some respects. The rice planters on the mainland gradually abandoned their farms and moved away from the area because of labor issues and hurricane damage to crops. Free blacks were unwilling to work in the dangerous and disease-ridden rice fields. A series of hurricanes devastated the crops in the 1890s. Left alone in remote rural areas in the Lowcountry, the Gullahs continued to practice their traditional culture with little influence from the outside world well into the 20th Century.
Recent history[edit]
In recent years the Gullah people—led by Penn Center and other determined community groups—have been fighting to keep control of their traditional lands. Since the 1960s, resort development on the Sea Islands has threatened to push Gullahs off family lands they have owned since emancipation. They have fought back against uncontrolled development on the islands through community action, the courts and the political process.[8]
The Gullahs have struggled to preserve their traditional culture. In 1979, a translation of the New Testament in the Gullah language began.[citation needed] The American Bible Society published De Nyew Testament in 2005. In November 2011, Healin fa de Soul, a five-CD collection of readings from the Gullah Bible was released.[citation needed] This collection includes Scipcha Wa De Bring Healing ("Scripture That Heals") and the Gospel of John (De Good Nyews Bout Jedus Christ Wa John Write). This was also the most extensive collection of Gullah recordings, surpassing those of Lorenzo Dow Turner. The recordings help people develop an interest in the culture because people might not have known how to pronounce some words.[9]
The Gullahs achieved another victory in 2006 when the U.S. Congress passed the "Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Act" that provides $10 million over 10 years for the preservation and interpretation of historic sites relating to Gullah culture.[10] The Heritage Corridor will extend from southern North Carolina to northern Florida. The project will be administered by the US National Park Service with extensive consultation with the Gullah community.
Gullahs have also reached out to West Africa. Gullah groups made three celebrated "homecomings" to Sierra Leone in 1989, 1997, and 2005. Sierra Leone is at the heart of the traditional rice-growing region of West Africa where many of the Gullahs' ancestors originated. Bunce Island, the British slave castle in Sierra Leone, sent many African captives to Charleston and Savannah during the mid- and late 18th century. These dramatic homecomings were the subject of three documentary films—Family Across the Sea (1990), The Language You Cry In (1998), and Priscilla's Homecoming (in production).
Celebrating Gullah culture[edit]
Over the years, the Gullahs have attracted many historians, linguists, folklorists, and anthropologists interested in their rich cultural heritage. Many academic books on that subject have been published. The Gullah have also become a symbol of cultural pride for blacks throughout the United States and a subject of general interest in the media. This has given rise to countless newspaper and magazine articles, documentary films, and children's books on Gullah culture, and to a number of popular novels set in the Gullah region.
Gullah people now organize cultural festivals every year in towns up and down the Lowcountry. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, for instance, hosts a "Gullah Celebration" in February. It includes "De Aarts ob We People" show; the "Ol' Fashioned Gullah Breakfast"; "National Freedom Day," the "Gullah Film Fest", "A Taste of Gullah" food and entertainment, a "Celebration of Lowcountry Authors and Books," an "Arts, Crafts & Food Expo," and "De Gullah Playhouse". Beaufort, South Carolina hosts the oldest and the largest celebration "The Original Gullah Festival" in May, and nearby Penn Center on St. Helena Island, South Carolina holds "Heritage Days" in November. Other Gullah festivals are celebrated on James Island, South Carolina and Sapelo Island, Georgia.
But Gullah culture is also being celebrated elsewhere throughout the United States. Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana recently held an event to showcase the Gullah culture. Purdue's Black Cultural Center maintains a bibliography of Gullah publications as well. Metro State College in Denver, Colorado recently hosted a conference on Gullah culture, called "The Water Brought Us: Gullah History and Culture", which featured a panel of Gullah scholars and cultural activists. These events in Indiana and Colorado are typical of the attention Gullah culture now receives on a regular basis throughout the United States.
Cultural survival[edit]
Gullah culture has proven to be particularly resilient. Gullah traditions are strong not only in the rural areas of the Lowcountry mainland and on the Sea Islands, but also in urban areas like Charleston and Savannah. But some of the old fashioned ways have persisted even among Gullah people who have left the Lowcountry and moved far away. Many Gullahs migrated to New York starting at the beginning of the 20th century, and these urban migrants have not lost their identity. Gullahs have their own neighborhood churches in Harlem, Brooklyn, and Queens. Typically they send their children back to rural communities in South Carolina and Georgia during the summer months to be reared by grandparents, uncles and aunts. Gullah people living in New York also frequently return to the Lowcountry to retire. Second- and third-generation Gullahs in New York often maintain many of their traditional customs and sometimes still speak the Gullah language.
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- Lorenzo Dow Turner
- Gullah Language
- Ambrose E. Gonzales
- Virginia Mixson Geraty
- Peter H. Wood
- Joseph Opala
- Bunce Island
- Bilali Document
- Stono Rebellion
- Black Seminoles
- Port Royal Experiment
- Igbo Landing
Historical figures[edit]
Leaders, artists, and cultural activists[edit]
Notable African Americans with Gullah roots[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Gullah history
- Ball, Edward (1998) "Slaves in the Family," New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.
- Carney, Judith (2001) "Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas," Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Fields-Black, Edda (2008) "Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora," Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- Littlefield, Daniel (1981) Rice and Slaves: Ethnicity and the Slave Trade in Colonial South Carolina," Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
- Miller, Edward (1995) "Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839-1915," Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
- Pollitzer, William (1999) "The Gullah People and their African Heritage," Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Smith, Julia Floyd (1985) "Slavery and Rice Culture in Low Country Georgia: 1750-1860," Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
- Smith, Mark M. (2005) "Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt," Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
- Wood, Peter (1974) "Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion," New York: Knopf.
- Gullah language and storytelling
- Bailey, Cornelia & Christena Bledsoe (2000) "God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man: A Saltwater Geechee Talks about Life on Sapelo Island," New York: Doubleday.
- Geraty, Virginia Mixon (1997) "Gulluh fuh Oonuh: A Guide to the Gullah Language," Orangeburg, SC: Sandlapper Publishing Company.
- Jones, Charles Colcock (2000) "Gullah Folktales from the Georgia Coast," Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Jones-Jackson, Patricia (1987) "When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands," Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Mills, Peterkin and McCollough (2008) "Coming Through: Voices of a South Carolina Gullah Community from WPA Oral Histories collected by Genevieve W. Chandler," The University of South Carolina Press.
- Montgomery, Michael (ed.) (1994) "The Crucible of Carolina: Essays in the Development of Gullah Language and Culture," Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Sea Island Translation Team (2005) "De Nyew Testament (The New Testament in Gullah)," New York: American Bible Society.
- Stoddard, Albert Henry (1995) "Gullah Animal Tales from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina," Hilton Head Island, SC: Push Button Publishing Company.
- Turner, Lorenzo Dow (2002) "Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect," Columbia: University of South Carolina Press.
- Gullah culture
- Campbell, Emory (2008) "Gullah Cultural Legacies," Hilton Head South Carolina: Gullah Heritage Counsulting Services.
- Carawan, Guy and Candie (1989) "Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life: The People of Johns Island, South Carolina, their Faces, their Words, and their Songs," Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Conroy, Pat (1972) "The Water Is Wide," Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
- Creel, Margaret Washington (1988) "A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community Culture among the Gullahs," New York: New York University Press.
- Cross, Wilbur (2008) "Gullah Culture in America," Westport, Connecticut: Praeger.
- Joyner, Charles (1984) "Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community," Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
- Kiser, Clyde Vernon (1969) "Sea Island to City: A Study of St. Helena Islanders in Harlem and Other Urban Centers," New York: Atheneum.
- McFeely, William (1994) "Sapelo's People: A Long Walk into Freedom," New York: W.W. Norton.
- Parrish, Lydia (1992) "Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands," Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Robinson, Sallie Ann (2003) "Gullah Home Cooking the Daufuskie Way" and (2006) "Cooking the Gullah Way Morning,Noon, and Night." Charlotte: University of North Carolina Press.
- Rosenbaum, Art (1998) "Shout Because You're Free: The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia," Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Rosengarten, Dale (1986) "Sea Grass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry," Columbia, South Carolina: McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina.
- Twining, Mary & Keigh Baird (1991) "Sea Island Roots: The African Presence in the Carolinas and Georgia," Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press.
- Young, Jason (2007) "Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery," Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University.
- Historical photos of the Gullah
- Georgia Writer's Project (1986) "Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies among the Georgia Coastal Negroes," Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Johnson, Thomas L. & Nina J. Root (2002) "Camera Man's Journey: Julian Dimock's South," Athens: University of Georgia Press.
- Minor, Leigh Richmond & Edith Dabbs (2003) "Face of an Island: Leigh Richmond Miner's Photographs of Saint Helena Island," Charleston, South Carolina: Wyrick & Company.
- Ulmann, Doris & Suzanna Krout Millerton, New York: Aperture, Inc.
- Children's books on the Gullah
- Branch, Muriel (1995) "The Water Brought Us: The Story of the Gullah-Speaking People," New York: Cobblehill Books.
- Clary, Margie Willis (1995) "A Sweet, Sweet Basket," Orangeburg, South Carolina: Sandlapper Publishing Company.
- Geraty, Virginia (1998) "Gullah Night Before Christmas," Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company.
- Graham, Lorenz (2000) "How God Fix Jonah," Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mill Press.
- Jaquith, Priscilla (1995) "Bo Rabbit Smart for True: Tall Tales from the Gullah," New York: Philomel Books.
- Krull, Kathleen (1995) "Bridges to Change: How Kids Live on a South Carolina Sea Island," New York: Lodestar Books.
- Seabrooke, Brenda (1994) "The Bridges of Summer," New York: Puffin Books.
- Raven, Margot Theis (2004) "Circle Unbroken," New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Siegelson, Kim L. (1999) "In The Time of The Drums," New York: Jump At The Sun/ Hyperion Books for Children.
- Siegelson, Kim L. (2003) "Dancing The Ring Shout," New York: Jump At The Sun/ Hyperion Books for Children.
- Works of fiction set in the Gullah region
- Dash, Julie (1999) "Daughters of the Dust," New York: Plume Books.
- Gershwin, George (1935) "Porgy and Bess," New York:Alfred Publishing.[13]
- Heyward, Dubose (1925)"Porgy," Charleston, S.C.: Wyrick & Company.[14]
- Hurston, Zora Neale (1937) "Their Eyes Were Watching God," New York: Harper Perennial.[15]
- Kidd, Sue Monk (2005) "The Mermaid Chair," Viking Press
- Naylor, Gloria (1988) "Mama Day," New York: Ticknor & Fields.
- Satterthwait, Elisabeth Carpenter (1898). A Son of the Carolinas, A story of the Hurricane upon The Sea Islands. Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry Altemus. 273 pp. ISBN 0-8369-9062-5 (ISBN 0-8369-9062-5).
- Siddons, Anne Rivers (1998) "Low Country," New York: HarperCollinsPublishers.
- Siegelson, Kim (1996) "The Terrible, Wonderful Tellin' at Hog Hammock," New York: HarperCollins Publishers.
- Straight, Susan (1993) "I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots," New York: Hyperion.
Other media[edit]
- Television
Gullah Gullah Island; Children's show on Nickelodeon.
- Films
- Bin Yah: There's No Place Like Home (2008)
- There is a River (2003) (Episode 1 of PBS Series "This Far by Faith")
- The Language You Cry In (1998)
- God's Gonna Trouble the Water (1997)
- Home Across the Water (1992) (Streaming video)
- Daughters of the Dust (1991)
- Family Across the Sea (1990)
- When Rice Was King (1990)]
- Gullah Tales (1988)
- Tales of the Unknown South (1984)] (One of these short films is a Gullah ghost story.)
- Conrack (1974)
- Radio programs
- NPR programs on the Gullah
- "Finding Priscilla's Children"
- Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Act
- ^ "Geechee and Gullah Culture", The New Georgia Encyclopedia
- ^ Africa Update, Summer 1997, Pan-African Language Patterns Revisited, Central Connecticut State University
- ^ a b c d The Gullah: Rice, Slavery and the Sierra Leone/American Connection, Joseph A. Opala, University of South Florida
- ^ http://wysinger.homestead.com/southcarolina.html West African Origins of the Gullah/Geechee. South Carolina & Georgia, USA. Posted by Joseph Opala. Retrieved September 8, 2012, to 17:44pm.
- ^ Rice and Slavery: A Fatal Gold Seede, Jean M. West, Slavery in America
- ^ South Carolina Slave Laws Summary and Record, Slavery in America
- ^ Slavery in America
- ^ Gov. Sanford to Sign Heirs Property Bill at Gullah Festival, US Fed News Service, May 26, 2006
- ^ Smith, Bruce (2011-11-25). "Gullah-language Bible now on audio CDs". The Sun News. Associated Press. Retrieved 2011-11-26.
- ^ Bill Will Provide Millions for Gullah Community, National Public Radio, October 17, 2006
- ^ Michelle Obama's Family Tree has Roots in a Carolina Slave Plantation, December 1, 2008, Chicago Tribune
- ^ Supreme Court Justice Clarance Thomas a Gullah Speaker, December 14, 2000, New York Times
- ^ George Gershwin Completes the Score for Porgy and Bess
- ^ Porgy Critique
- ^ The Zora Neale Hurston Digital Archive


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My idea of matching book to destination didn't quite work out, since neither of these novels is actually set in Budapest, nor even in Hungary: The Pendragon Legend is a sort of Gothic-adventure pastiche set in Wales and England, and Journey by Moonlight follows the peregrinations of the main character, Mihály, as he wanders Italy in search of his past (or perhaps of a past that never existed).
This is a novel of nostalgia; of nostalgia for the void of memory, for death. But that's not quite it. Rather, this is a nostalgia for a richer kind of nostalgia, a feeling once experienced but not fully identified, of a sensual longing for oblivion. Emotion is experienced always at one remove: a yearning for a sense of yearning you imagine you once had, as a child. A yearning to be able to yearn for the present moment, in the memory of your future self. Nothing more than an adolescent fantasy, perhaps. But the performances of adolescence are often played out in memory with a strange force of feeling that has become, or always was, entirely alien to us.
It is difficult to convey a sense of the novel's tone, its irony, now gentle, now mordant; the deadly serious and profound treated always with a certain playful humour and lightness of touch; or to convey the impression one gets of the main character, by turns self-pitying and philosophical, a man of conviction and of cowardice, his words wheedling at times, at times almost wise. Mihály is, to be sure, naïve, emotionally illiterate, unable to face the realities of adulthood; but he also sees that the knowledge of what it means to live life is not easily won, that there is always something missing from a life traded out in the economies of marriage, work and happiness, that knowing how to live is in large part learning how to die.
Mihály's opinions about the bourgeois life he never quite brings himself to reject are often amusing, sometimes true. His thoughts on the 'great abstract mythology' of money, and its religious rites, for example. Often his voice is indistinguishable from the drily acerbic voice of the narrator, as here:
Work was the promised reward for a young man setting out, for completing his studies, and work was the penitential act and punishment for those who met with failure.
And then there are his thoughts on love, often shot through with an adolescent cynicism we most of us hope to outgrow, but just as often speaking of emotions I recognize: the polarities of love, the necessity of distance, and the illusion of closeness. Or, when sitting down to dinner with his wife, 'he could already, a little, look upon her as a lovely fragment of his past, and he was filled with solemn emotion.' 'He loved to relocate himself in his past, at one precise point, and from that perspective re-assemble his present life...and this re-ordering would always give the present moment a richer charge of feeling'; or else 'converting the present into a past': '"what will such memories hold, what associations of feeling?"' This compulsion to aestheticize the moment lived, to commit it proleptically to the memory of a future self, is surely shared by anyone who reads literature, and is influenced by it. It can diminish the experience itself, of course – but every aesthete knows that the cultivation of the memory is far more important than the living of the experience.
Mihály's religious historian friend Waldheim explains to him that death is an erotic instinct, and that all ancient cultures were drawn to the seductive force of the death-hetaira. Christianity, once the darkest of death-cults, says Waldheim, later 'succeeded in sublimating and rationalising the yearning for death, or, in plain language, they watered down the desire for death into desire for the next world, they translated the terrifying sex-appeal of the death-sirens into the heavenly choirs and rows of angels singing praises.' The death instinct, though, persists as an unconscious drive, as Freud tells us – or is this, too, a modern delusion, part of some atavistic fantasy, a yearning after some ancient, elemental 'charge of feeling'?
How do we distinguish between the games we play with memory and history, and the tricks memory and history play on us? How is it possible for any gesture, any act – even suicide – to be anything other than disingenuous? And is it possible, when it cannot be said without quoting Rilke, to say with genuine feeling:
"'If this landscape is reality....if this beauty really exists, then everything I have done in my life has been a lie. But this landscape is reality.'"


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"More Guns, Less Crime" author John Lott and FNC legal analyst Lis Wiehl on efforts to have greater gun control.
Jul 27, 2012
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Democrats tried to add a gun control amendment.
To those cyber security bill.
This is New York City mayor -- Bloomberg criticizes both the president and governor Romney.
-- -- calling on police across the country to strike until the federal government -- on -- legislation.
Joining us for more on all of this and a sudden assault on the Second Amendment John -- Former chief economist -- the US sentencing commission author of the -- more guns less crime.
Understanding crime and gun control laws and former prosecutor Fox News legal analyst lease real.
What we start with you John this this is a predictable expected.
Assault by this administration that it took until -- fourth year of the of the of the presidency.
For mr.
Obama to do so has to be the big surprise do you agree.
By don't think he's actually waited -- -- been doing other things along not.
You know that people he's appointed the Supreme Court both Sotomayor and Kagan don't believe that there is an individual right to self defense.
You look at other people his point of the courts -- but not present.
-- -- are talking about his direct assault as personal.
A statement -- to move forward.
Interest in the contest.
Right let me let me do this let me I agree.
Let me put this well ahead.
-- we've just received some news that I think you'll find and I certainly find to be.
Great news in fact.
We've just received word from the Associated Press as we speak here.
That UN member states have failed to reach agreement today.
On -- would have been a new treaty to regulate the multi billion dollar global arms straight.
Diplomats and treaty supporters.
Blaming the United States for triggering the on the -- of -- month long negotiating conference.
To put this in context the arms trade treaty.
This today was the deadline for it to move to move ahead and -- you know -- -- We have the Second Amendment that's why we're in big -- there right I mean that that that's the pronto.
No one on -- I think what they've done is they've decided to folded into the overall arms control.
Treaty there's another arms control treaty that's under way this is -- ended this is just -- they've decided -- look I don't think there LL talk about what happened today.
I think it's very clear that this part of it which was the most concerning because this -- -- the deadline.
And 51 senators move forward express their absolute opposition here that thing because it.
Included in this treaty unbeknownst to millions of Americans.
-- was the inclusion on -- of small arms right within.
Within this agreement.
-- it made no sense because again -- that we only they were the only kind of country the Second Amendment so how can we do a lot ourselves -- -- that kind of -- it did not make any sense.
But I just wanna go back to one of John's point about the -- -- this type church retreat here that.
You know John you would agree with me I think that there's got to be an -- -- the Second Amendment I agree with you.
On the right to bear arms but there have to be some kind of reporting requirement I think that's what some of the senators are getting at here is even after.
The horrible.
-- of last Friday.
There have got with got a beef up at least some reporting some mandate requirements to the ATF to FBI we don't have those at this point in the -- John.
While we have background check some not really sure what -- reporting requirements -- you wanna have look.
Have parts the United States have been registration other -- -- registration hearts do nobody.
No but the point is -- -- registration -- handguns since 1935.
They can't show any crimes that they've been able solve as a result of that.
-- -- theory if a gun is left it a crime scene.
And it's registered the criminal you can Trace exactly but what it probably does think what -- Never works.
It sometimes thought there I'd I'd try noted my right find that and that and that worked.
Let me if I may interject one just resort as much as we possibly -- of the empirical.
This is a report done by the University of Pennsylvania senator for criminology.
At the expiration.
Of the -- 1994.
Assault weapons ban.
And and your very familiar with this report obviously John but right the fact is most Americans are not.
In that in 2004.
After ten years they could not they could not support.
Any idea that the assault weapon -- had in any way.
Reduction in murders homicides are violent crime by got.
-- buy that analysis revenue legalize drugs.
And you legalize everything I don't know I don't know what I -- I certainly.
You might do that if we were in some sort of debate that wasn't really meaningfully centered on -- -- -- that report that's the second of that report taken to.
Drug use alcohol use with with what has your bank does your call or others call for a ban on assault weapons taken -- -- cannot -- -- a -- -- -- -- for certain.
But does it include I call on psychiatrist and and psychologist.
To meaningfully change the way their profession deals with troubled personalities are emotionally distraught.
And mentally ill patients who are a threat to -- I'm not but I was put -- yes and -- -- I don't look.
Right now -- article.
There's lots of studies have looked at the assault when span know criminologist no economist aren't controlled for different types of drug issues that leads may want to have control foreign my research.
No once found -- beneficial effect either one was put in fact or what it was removed.
And there's no reason to expect that I mean basically they were banding guns based upon cosmetic features and the outside of the guns and you know hunting rifle whatever functions the same way as these guns that they classify as quote -- quote assault.
What -- I do think we have presently very candid here in say that a hundred.
A hundred round magazine right.
He is a it has -- quite differently than a third got six reply browns and in the -- Minute.
-- -- -- And some of those that -- little amendments are just -- could only fire one round of the head and then and that need to be you know that kind of got to stop and isn't that a reasonable.
Look we're all for the Second Amendment that got to be some regional mandates to it and and.
Yeah I sputtering out but on I mean that hello everybody just here's John are you let me do this just December just a bit of -- Because -- have reported that every multiple victim.
Public shooting in this country in which more than three people have been killed.
Since at least 1950.
Has taken place were citizens are not allowed.
-- to -- their firearms.
Does that provincial revenues.
There's one exception to that.
But it's an amazing statistic and it's true not just in the United States it's true across the world.
You know Switzerland has the same thing -- They've had some multiple victim public shootings it's very easy for people to carry guns in Switzerland.
And yet when attacker does the attack.
They pick a place to do is where's that you can and can't find a password and so someone and that theater at last Friday it would have been shooting and it would not -- and welcome to -- they should have the shooting at an innocent person they don't know what they're shooting up point look out.
Look at the past practice we have lots of cases -- crimes have been stopped there's never been one case like what you're.
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This dude lives a couple of blocks from the tower, and first heard this very eerie sound during Hurricane Sandy last year. He heard it only once afterwards, sometime last winter. He assumed once the building's framework and windows went in, the airflow would be redirected. At 3:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, he awoke again to the sound.
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