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Meeting the civilians of Gettysburg
Sunday, October 14, 2012
By Christine Tibbetts
First in a series of Civil War Sesquicentennial stories
GETTYSBURG, Pennsylvania. - No disrespect intended, but the battles of Gettysburg and their strategies elude me. Re-enactments too.
Travel to famous, greatly honored places should excite and uplift, so I've skirted Gettysburg for a lifetime.
Poor attitude for a traveler. I see the error of my ways now that I've walked the battlefield, visited some 1863 homes and hospitals, paid attention to the letters and diaries of Civil War civilians, and opened my attitude to the musing available in the outstanding Visitor Center and Museum in the National Military Park.
This is not a recount of what's obvious about the soldiers to historians and battle strategists. This is a story suggesting where to muse about the other people.
Seminary Ridge Museum is a major place. So is Shriver House Museum. Bed and breakfast inns with specific echoes from the battle days too.
Next trip will offer even more because "Voices of Duty and Devotion" will be open. Finishing touches are underway for the brand new Seminary Ridge Museum: four floors of personal, reflective, history-based conversations in the 1832 building from which Union General John Buford watched early battle developments July 1, 1863.
You too can see that sweep of Pennsylvania land from the cupola of the museum. Red flag meant Civil War hospital located here, and this cupola held a red flannel petticoat, presumably belonging to Mary Ziegler.
She was the cook for seminary students, her husband Emanuel the steward. Together, after the battles, they encountered many people seeking their men.
That included the couple who walked 21 miles over mountains from Chambersburg, looking for their son Charlie.
Four sons had died in the war and the Zieglers helped them locate Charlie on the third floor of the Seminary; he recognized his parents, and died.
See what I mean? In Gettysburg I found civilian stories, people embattled for sure but not in battle. Clearly I could have encountered them had I visited earlier, but now preparations for the sesquicentennial bubble with discoveries.
Helped me muse about life those days in my petticoats had Gettysburg been my 19th century birthplace.
Civilians are the story
in the Shriver House Museum
in downtown Gettysburg where
Director Nancie W. Gudmestad shares details
filled with research and tenderness.
Hettie Shriver was 27 when the soldiers appeared in front of her house on Baltimore Street; daughter Sadie was seven and Mollie only five.
Husband George, of course, was off to war. Next door lived 15-year-old Tillie Pierce who later wrote her view of a neighborhood suddenly filled with soldiers, guns and canons, wounded, dying and dead men and dead horses.
I time traveled, exploring every bit of the Shriver family home with director docent Nancie W. Gudmestad. Sometimes I put myself in Hettie's shoes, sometimes the little girls'.
Their home as you and I visit is 152 years old, meticulously restored; scientific testing proves copious amounts of blood spilled in the attic floor where Confederate sharpshooters set up.
The civilian experiences intrigued other travelers when I chatted over breakfast at the Baladerry Inn, travelers who had not yet discovered the Shriver House Museum. I recommend planning a few hours there.
It's in the midst of a charming downtown so let the musing settle with some strolling, shopping, dining, sipping.
Many Union and some Confederate wounded
entered this front door when today's Baladerry Inn
served as a hospital during
and after the battles of Gettysburg, July 1863.
Then go, or go again, to Seminary Ridge Museum. Formal opening is July 1, 2013; here's what I know from a hard-hat visit in September.
"We will talk about history and religion in ways not always possible," Barbara Franco told me, because of being a historical society and an active seminary. She's the founding executive director, passionate about ideas and the stories behind the stories.
"The Seminary was in the center of the battles," she said, America's first seminary and still active today. I didn't meet the current leader of Gettysburg's Lutheran Theological Seminary, but the life story of Samuel Schmucker who founded the school is interesting to know when you go.
Anti-Slavery, Princeton theology graduate. First wife died, second wife a woman from Virginia with slaves. A dozen children combined.
Could their conversations have been as lively as their household? The galleries and interactive exhibits designed for every floor sound energetic too.
Videos on every level. Music true to 1863. Diary stories. Interaction with the Ziegler children, Hugh age 10 and Lydia, 12, growing up in the Seminary when the soldiers arrived.
Life cast figures in Seminary Ridge Museum should give reality checks to visitors like me, wondering about the wounded and their helpers.
"More than 600 patients were here," Franco said, "and we know the names of at least 400, plus nurses and doctors."
Overlooking the battlefield next to the sculpture
of Maj. Gen. G. K. Warren on Little Round Top
allows daunting contemplation.
The museum is already reaching out to their descendents, Franco said. "We want to know what happened afterwards.
"What is the continuing impact of what happened in Gettysburg in July 1863?"
Other intended consequences of the exhibitions, seminars and conversations developed for Seminary Ridge Museum are:
•considerations of compassion and empathy
•religion and slavery from 19th century viewpoints plus what Franco calls
•"the unfinished work for freedom."
Incentive for me to return when all is ready. Should you choose to go for opening week and all the 150-year commemorations, start studying the plans because they are abundant.
Good website for starting is www.GettysburgCivilWar150.com and July 1 – 7, 2013 are busy days.
The look of Soldiers National Cemetery --
so different from Arlington and Normandy
Consider too a November trip this year. Nov. 16 is Remembrance Day with a parade and ceremony and a somber luminary event in Soldiers' National Cemetery.
Nov. 19, 2012 is Dedication Day and Lincoln's brief remarks delivered four months after the battles will be the focus. Steven Spielbeg is the guest speaker.
Sure you and I memorized "Four score and seven years ago ..." decades ago and see photos of children in black paper hats doing so this decade.
Meant more hearing it here. In context. I believed that was Abe's voice as I stood in the National Military Park Museum gallery dedicated solely to his two minutes of thoughts.
Edward Everett gave the main speech that 1863 day, two hours worth, setting aside the land to bury Union soldiers.
Looking at life as it was lived just prior
to the battles is a powerful part
of Gettysburg experiences.
This is the Sherfy family farm,
with a worm fence in front, movable as needed.
Exhibitions, touch-screen videos, films, interactive audio displays, artifacts, thoughtful questions, abundant galleries abound in this museum, well worth another story and a longer trip.
But here's a tip when you go: try to be a stowaway in the Cyclorama because it is so fascinating the 15-minute limit is not sufficient. Here's how:
Entry is a long, steep escalator. Exit is a stairway. Linger quietly on the steps and you might get to see the show again.
This detailed painted battle scene is 42 feet tall and 377 feet long, hanging on rings like a shower curtain with weights on the bottom.
Weighs 11 tons. Atlanta's Civil War scene Cyclorama is 40 feet smaller. Gettysburg's was painted by Paul Dominique Philippoteaux, first seen in Boston in 1884, apparently a short-lived genre, replaced by motion pictures.
Look straight ahead at this massive painting, walking the circle to see it all. Elsewhere in town, take a look at the Diorama for another perspective.
This is a private business, presenting a 30-minute light and sound show of the three days of battles across 6,000 acres. The little scale helped battle-challenged me to get some perspective.
These 20,000 hand-painted soldiers are the scale of HO train models, director Sharon Widener told me. That's 1/72nd scale.
Same scale for almost a thousand cannons and horses on 800 square feet. Don't think I misled you when you enter this corner building on Steinwehr Avenue. Diorama's in the back; t-shirts and trinkets in the front.
President Abraham Lincoln arrived
in this train station to share a few short remarks
at the dedication of the cemetery
for Union soldiers killed in Gettysburg.
Good idea to sleep comfortably and dine well while traveling; even more true perhaps in Gettysburg with so much to contemplate. Musing time makes sense.
I added to the contemplative time in bed and three-course-breakfast inn built in 1812, Hospital Road is the address, battlefields on three sides, bike-riding distance from the National Military Park.
Funny to me the name is Scottish since the history here and the access opportunities are so Civil War.
Baladerry Inn was a Civil War hospital and I found that a powerful concept simply standing at the original narrow front door, wondering about wounded Yanks and Rebs in first-floor rooms to my left and right and up the stairs to three rooms you can reserve.
Same wooden floors. Some of the same wavy-glass windows. Innkeepers Judy and Kenny Caudill consider the enormous weeping Douglas fir at their door as much a treasure as the sweeping views across the front and side yards.
Proprietor Judy Caudill creates
three-course breakfasts every morning
for guests in the Baladerry Inn.
They balance new rooms and renovations with powerful history. Their land was the George Bushman family farm, and records show Brig. Gen. Strong Vincent, mortally wounded in the Gettysburg battle, died at Bushman's.
The Twelfth Corps hospital treated 1,131 Union and 125 Confederate soldiers, Judy told me. That means right where I was.
In my own room at the Baladerry Inn, I thought about Catherine Hoffman Bushman in hers. Age 38 when the battles began. Bullet piercing her quilt.
I thought about Charlie's mother too, and all the children. And Hettie Shriver's husband George who died in the Andersonville prison.
I'll be back.
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When you go:
Gettysburg Convention & Visitors Bureau
When the Seminary Ridge Museum opens July 1, 2013, ten paintings by artist
Dale Gallon will be enlarged as eight-foot murals, joining four floors of interactive story-telling exhibits with films, music, voices and thoughtful compassion.


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Often the resolution to make time to cultivate intimacy in your marriage or the intention of setting regular date nights with your partner isn't always a top priority. Realistically, the effort towards working on your sexual relationship is constantly upstaged by the demands of motherhood, the responsibilities of managing a household and/or a career, and the determination to shed those last few pounds of "baby weight."
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For me, Pesach has always been a time to see that crazy family of mine, eat delicious food, and retell the story of our people crossing arid deserts to reach the Promised Land. As the holiday approaches this year in 2011, the southern neighborhoods of Tel Aviv had a gathering for their own family. Around 5:30 in the afternoon of Saturday April 9th, the African refugees from around the area, the Israeli citizens, as well as the Tikkun Olam participants all gathered at Levinsky Park to have a seder of their own. This, indeed, was a spectacle to see as individuals from several different cultural and ethnic backgrounds congregated to share this special time together.
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GHANIAN lightweight star Richard Commey was left bitterly disappointed following the decision to his vacant IBF World title fight with Robert Easter Jr last Friday at the Santander Arena in Reading, Pennsylvania.
The 29 year-old from Accra found himself on the wrong end of a split decision, with judges John McKaie (114-113) and Craig Smith (113-114) separating the fighters by a single point, and Ron McNair (112-115) giving the home fighter a three point lead, despite a close fight and Commey scoring an eighth-round knockdown.
Commey's team will now be launching an appeal to the IBF asking that they grant the former Commonwealth and IBF Intercontinental Champion an immediate rematch.
"I feel I won the fight, I came to my opponent's country with everything in his favour and I took the fight to him in every round, even scoring a knock down in round eight," said Commey. "He caught me once in the twelfth but I took it and came back strong, that's what a true champion does. I know my team will be appealing the decision and I hope I get the opportunity of a rematch as next time I will not be leaving anything up to the judges."
"We knew we were going into hostile territory so we prepared to be on the front foot and to push Easter Jr in every round, which I think we did," said Commey's coach Carl Lokko. ''I knew that if we left it to the judges it would be difficult for us and I was proved correct. One judge scoring 115-112 with Richard down 6-1 through seven rounds seems unfair and we believe we should be granted an immediate rematch."
"We are all very disappointed," adds Commey's manager Michael Amoo-Bediako.
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It is common knowledge that diamond blades need sufficient water during operation. Not only will it keep the dust from flying around, it will also help extend its life. But you won't be wet cutting all the time. In some cases, dry cutting is the more appropriate thing to do.
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In my agenda, the Absolutely Fabulous Fair is highlighted with three different colors, since it is quite a big event for all young designers, vintage shops and a perfect meeting for bloggers. So, yesterday afternoon I was there, and I met once again all the lovely ladies I adore and some which I missed and I gazed once again at the wonderful pieces of clothing and jewelery.
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It should be noted that wedding ceremonies are quite a long affair, sometimes reaching up to ten hours; this could certainly be a tiring experience. This may cause you to lose focus and concentration, following the bride and groom everywhere could be a really daunting task especially if they have got chicken feet. Experience, however, teaches you how to handle the stress hangover of the previous Saturday night, it may be difficult at first but as you become a wedding photographer Leicester with more experience, it sure gets a lot easier with time.
Discovering your style
Weddings can be quite complex, it is usually a very diverse event that requires a dynamic approach. Hence a good photographer ought to discover the style that suits him for the job. It is not enough to follow trends because trends always change, therefore develop your own unique style that will become a vintage evergreen. Honestly speaking, following trends can be a really big risk. One day everyone will appear to be following a particular trend and the next day, the wind will blow in a totally different direction. Therefore be smart enough to develop your own style and stick to it. Upgrade yourself create a brand and promote it, and who knows, you may just end up starting a long lasting trend.


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Hey everyone! Just stopping by to share a project I did for the October Afternoon blog. October Afternoon and May Arts have teamed up this week, and so all the projects on the OA blog are adorned with beautiful ribbon.
I have had a little embroidery hoop in my stash, and I have been wondering what to do with it. When I found out that we were going to showcasing ribbon this week, a little light bulb went off in my head: ribbon as a canvas.
I cut strips a bit longer than the hoop and stitched them together to create the background for my little scene. I then created the little house from papers from Farmhouse, Boarding Pass, and Thrift Shop and added chipboard embellishments from Boarding Pass and 5 & Dime. For the heart, I adhered some ribbon to a scrap piece of paper and hand-cut the heart. All in all, a pretty easy project.
And just so you know, October Afternoon is having an awesome giveaway of the entire Boarding Pass collection along with 5 yard each of five coordinating May Arts Ribbons. Just head on over to the OA blog HERE, and leave a comment for a chance to win. But you have to head over there ASAP because they will be announcing the winner tomorrow, Aug. 5th!
Good Luck to you all!
Hope you have a wonderful day, and thanks so much for stopping by!
Thursday, August 4, 2011
October Afternoon + May Arts
Posted by roree at 4:10 PM
4 comments:
- Beth Norman said...
Such a cute card. What a wonderful idea to use an embroidery hoop.
- August 5, 2011 at 8:32 AM
- Cheryl Nelson said...
cuter than cute! couldn't love it more!
- August 5, 2011 at 12:24 PM
- Crayola58 said...
Hello Roree...I haven't been to visit in a while but am stopping by now to say hello...and I love your hoop project. What a cute and unique creation.
- August 6, 2011 at 10:10 PM
- Cloclo said...
je découvre et j'adore!
- August 8, 2011 at 11:56 AM
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New Republic's Jonathan Chait on the Ground Zero Mosque, on the Prop. 8 decision, and chastising the Weekly Standard for having fun
HH: Joined now by the New Republic's senior editor, Jon Chait. Jon, welcome, good to have you back again.
JC: Thanks, Hugh.
HH: Rich Rodriguez, are you inspired, are you confident about Michigan's prospects for the upcoming Big 10 season?
JC: Yes, I am. We will revisit this as the season goes on, but yeah. No, I think the team will be all right.
HH: Because I just saw my ESPN magazine, and my Sports Illustrated. They're not ranked very high.
JC: No, not ranked high.
HH: (laughing)
JC: (laughing) I think this squad's going to do better, but we will see.
HH: All right, we'll check back. Jon, let's cover a few things you've written over at www.tnr.com in your blog.
JC: Yeah.
HH: First, the Prop. 8 decision, you appear to be, from your most recent posting, comfortable with the idea that no judicial review necessary.
JC: You know, I'm morally comfortable with it. Legally, again, that's way over my head, but you know, I linked to a guy making an argument that it won't happen, so it seems like an interesting argument.
HH: Now you write that the fundamental issue with gay marriage is that opponents have never been able to adequately explain who is hurt by letting gays marry.
JC: Right.
HH: In this instance, is it fair to say that the people who sponsored and spent money and time on Prop. 8 following the laws of California, and the provisions of California Constitution, investing all that time and effort, win the vote, win the California Supreme Court case upholding the vote, that a single federal judge striking them down, manipulating the process as he does so by dismissing Imperial County, that they would not be injured by virtue of his ruling here?
JC: Well, I don't know what you mean by manipulating the process. That's not an accusation I've heard at all.
HH: Dismissal of Imperial County, it's, among legal scholars, it's been talked about quite a lot.
JC: Right, again, like if you're talking about it as a legal issue, you know, this is not the thing I know. When I was quoting, I was quoting a legal expert who's making an argument about, a legal argument about standing. What I'm making is a moral argument, and I would say there's a parallel between the legal issue and the moral issue. The moral issue is no one is hurt by gay marriage, so that's basically my commentary and my position.
HH: And I wasn't going to join that debate. I was just going to ask you if you think people are hurt by following the law, spending all that time and money getting an initiative qualified, winning the campaigning, defending it before the California Supreme Court, are they injured by that process to then be told nah, never mind, by a single federal judge? Is that an injury not to the people who want to get married who are the same sex, but to people who use the political process in good faith?
JC: Is that an injury? You know, you're saying not in a legal way but in a moral way.
HH: Yes.
JC: You know, maybe it is. You know, maybe you're right about that.
HH: All right. It's just something to think about, because I do think people are overlooking the fact there's an awful lot of reliance on the laws of California that are being put in peril here by this judge's suggestion there's no review necessary. Now I want to talk about Ground Zero Mosque.
JC: Okay.
HH: Charles Krauthammer, you say, is at least open to the construction of mosques, outside of this mosque's exclusion. And of course, he's actually said mosques everywhere, just not here, hasn't he?
JC: Yeah, right.
HH: So it's overstatement a little bit for the purpose of your thing. But you also write Krauthammer's approach…
JC: No, I think that's what I think. He's saying there should be a mosque exclusion zone of some undetermined size in Lower Manhattan. But it shouldn't extend beyond that.
HH: But you wrote he is at least open to. In fact, he's endorsed…
JC: Well, I wrote Krauthammer at least is open to the construction of mosques elsewhere.
HH: And that significantly understates his position, which is I think the classic liberal position of free exercise of religion outside of a few particular places.
JC: Right. He's open to the construction of mosques elsewhere.
HH: Okay, I thought it was overstated. But you also write, Krauthammer's approach…
JC: He's not demanding them. He's just saying he's open to it. It's fine.
HH: Krauthammer's approach is to treat all Muslims as political terrorists. Do you think that's overstatement?
JC: As potential terrorists.
HH: Yes.
JC: I think that is the proper interpretation of what he wrote. What he wrote was who's to say that the mosque won't one day hire an Anwar al-Awlaki, the spiritual mentor to the Fort Hood shooter, which is true. You know, he's fixating on the potential that any mosque will one day bring in some kind of terrorist or the spiritual mentor to a terrorist, which is, you know, of course possible. But that's not, I don't think that's a proper way to treat them.
HH: Is that accurately conveyed when you write that his approach is to treat all Muslims as potential terrorists?
JC: That's exactly what he's doing here, yes. He's saying, he's not, he's saying there's no, he's saying without any particular reason to think that this mosque will harbor terrorists, he's saying who's to say that they won't.
HH: No, he's saying if they were to hire a known terrorist, that would be an objection. He's not saying treat every Muslim as a potential terrorist, which is quite radically different, isn't it, Jon?
JC: No, I think it is. What he says is who's to say that the mosque won't one day hire an Anwar al-Awlaki, the spiritual mentor of the…again, that, what he's saying there is that they should be considered, essentially, potential terrorists.
HH: I don't think so.
JC: But the fact that there's no evidence that they are doesn't mean that they won't be.
HH: No, he named a specific, well-known terrorist who's hiding out in Yemen, and is responsible for inciting mass violence against Americans. That's very different from saying treat all Muslims as potential terrorists.
JC: He said that the mosque could hire, could bring someone like that on board, without any reason to believe that they would.
HH: Isn't…are you at all concerned about attributing to someone a degree of anti-Muslim phobia that they don't even remotely harbor, Jon?
JC: I would not do that.
HH: Okay, look at that sentence again. Were you a member of Journolist?
JC: Yeah.
HH: Were you reading Ackerman's piece when he suggested people attack Fred Barnes as a racist?
JC: I don't think so.
HH: You didn't read that one?
JC: I probably, I don't know. I mean, he, he tends to fly off the handle and write things. You know, it wouldn't necessarily strike me, I wouldn't necessarily remember it if he did.
HH: What about the morality of that proposal?
JC: Well, it's insane.
HH: Insane, but is it immoral?
JC: Oh, yeah.
HH: Ought he to apologize for it?
JC: You know, I don't know if you need to publicly apologize for saying some crazy thing in private. Haven't you ever said something in private that you know, you don't really mean, that you're angry about somebody and say that guy should be shot, you know, blah, blah, blah? Have you ever said something like that?
HH: I don't think so, but if I had and it became public, I would apologize to the person about whom I said it.
JC: Fair enough. No, the thing is, this is, you know, this is a guy who first of all, you don't need to go on covering Journolist to find an example of Spencer Ackerman saying crazy things. I mean, just read his blog. People have been treating this as a revelation. That's what he does.
HH: Well, anyone who read it with specificity, ought they to have written him back immediately, that's insane, Spencer, you can't do that, he's an innocent man, you can't charge him with a very serious moral thing like that?
JC: You know, honestly, if it was someone else, I think people would have done that. I think people just got used to the idea that he goes completely over the top so often that people just tune it out.
HH: All right, now I want to go back to Ground Zero Mosque. Are there any restrictions that you would accept in the area around Ground Zero as appropriate for protection of a sacred space?
JC: Probably. I mean, there's nothing I'm thinking of off the top of my head, but I'm certainly open to those that are, yeah, that are, I think, done in a fair-minded spirit.
HH: So if they are neutrally applied, such that they would ban any use that attempted to exploit proximity to Ground Zero, would you be comfortable with that?
JC: I wouldn't be comfortable with any such regulation, but I would be open to regulations that are such as the ones you're describing, yes.
HH: You think they'd be Constitutional?
JC: Well, it would depend on the regulation.
HH: Well, let's say that we do not want any house of worship of any sort – Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Muslim, Jewish…
JC: Right.
HH: …within a half mile of Ground Zero. Would that be, in your mind, acceptable?
JC: That's a zoning restriction, right?
HH: Yes.
JC: I mean, we have zoning restrictions, so yeah.
HH: Okay, so when we come back, I'll take a brief break here with Jonathan Chait from the New Republic. I'm going to ask him then what's up with Mayor Bloomberg, who seemed to treat the idea that any kind of restriction there would be an assault on the Constitution.
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HH: Okay, Jon, so Mayor Bloomberg accused everyone of being basically bigots who opposed the Ground Zero Mosque. Do you think he overstated that?
JC: I don't know exactly what he said. I mean, if he said that everyone who opposes it is a bigot, then that's not true. That's certainly, I don't think people are, everyone who's opposing this is doing so out of bigotry.
HH: All right.
JC: But I do think that's the effect of it.
HH: And do you, would it matter if it was not Faisal Abdul Rauf, who is behind the Ground Zero Mosque, but a known extremist who advocated violence against the United States. Would that be grounds for preventing it from being built?
JC: Grounds for, did he say violence?
HH: No, grounds for preventing the mosque from being built if the proponent of the mosque was in fact a known and admitted terrorist sympathizer.
JC: Right. I think so. I think that would change, yeah, I mean, I think…well, let's put it this way. If someone was actually trying to construct what the critics have described, which is a kind of victory mosque to celebrate al Qaeda's triumph, then yes, I think there would be strong grounds for opposition.
HH: Now you see, Jon, that's where I think the left runs into trouble on this, because that's not a rule of reason that can be applied. Then, you're looking at motive. You're looking at identity, and you're trusting, you're going to search out people's, you're going to search out their motivations, which will involve the government in inspection of religious beliefs. That's why…
JC: You're right. Well, I'm not saying that they should, that they would necessarily have legal grounds. But I do think that would be a good reason to do what the opponents are doing, which is to try to appeal to moral suasion, and say do not build this.
HH: Could the government stop it, though, if it was a known terrorist, if it was, you know, the Blind Sheikh on parole or one of his followers who had attacked the World Trade Center?
JC: That's the whole thing about known terrorists. If he's a known terrorist, I think they could stop it by arresting him.
HH: But if a known sympathizer, could they stop a known sympathizer, though not a convicted terrorist?
JC: I'm not, I don't know if I have the legal expertise to answer that question.
HH: What do you think the law should be in that instance?
JC: What do they say? Hard cases make for bad law, where you know, you devise a tricky hypothetical law that challenges your basic principles? I think that's kind of what's, what you're up to here. Now I'm sure that's probably what you spent all of law school doing, but you know, I'm not really sure what's the gray spot in the law where you can try to come up with some neutral legal principle that doesn't discriminate against Muslims against another religion while still having that in. I suspect you just probably wouldn't be able to do anything.
HH: There's a piece in the New Republic by Reuel Marc Gerecht. Have you had a chance to read it yet on Faisal Abdul Rauf?
JC: No, I've not. I saw it, but I haven't gotten to it.
HH: Oh, when you get a chance to read it, we'll come back to that. Now I want to finish up by talking with you about the state of intellectual conservatism. Are you objecting to the Weekly Standard's having fun with the word refudiation?
JC: No, I'm poking fun at the whole intellectual tenor of first the editorial, and then the attempt to make money off of it.
HH: Do you think you can draw any conclusions about the intellectual standing of conservatism based upon a parody and a joke?
JC: I don't think it's a parody. I think it's an actual campaign. What, for the listeners who don't know what it is, so first Sarah Palin talked about refudiating liberalism, refudiating Obama. Then, Kristol wrote an editorial for the Standard heartily endorsing her call. And now, they're running ads selling bumper stickers and T-shirts with the Refudiate Obama and Refudiate Socialism.
HH: Yes.
JC: So you know, I think the problem here is that, as though, is that their thinking can be reduced to a T-shirt and a bumper sticker, which is itself a problem. I mean, if you look at the history of neo-conservatism, it's often credited with having an important role in the intellectual development of the right. And you had the Public Interest, which was this really great magazine for several years, back in the late 60s and early 70s, which was founded on this project of subjecting liberalism and government to empirical scrutiny to find out what works and what doesn't, and having really rigorous, tough-minded intellectual standards, as opposed to simply, you know, wantonly starting government programs because the purpose sounded nice.
HH: Well, isn't sometimes just a joke a joke, and a tongue-in-cheek T-shirt a tongue-in-cheek T-shirt?
JC: You know, I don't know how tongue-in-cheek it is. I mean honestly, I think it's just, it's a magazine that has devolved, to a point. So Bill Kristol obviously is the son of Irving Kristol, who was one of those Public Interest editors, and it's just kind of devolved to the point where you really can just boil everything they believe down to a bumper sticker, which I don't think speaks well of them.
HH: So you really think the Refudiate Obama bumper sticker and T-shirt is an indictment of the intellectual project of the right?
JC: Yeah. You know, even the original Weekly Standard of 1995, which wasn't the highest standards of any magazine, would probably have, I think certainly had people who…
HH: Okay, you're consistent. You think Michigan's going to bounce back as well.
JC: 8 wins.
HH: Jon Chait, always a pleasure from the New Republic.
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In a dream,
I saw a caged bird.
When I woke up,
you were near me
Edgar Allan Poe(A Dream Within A Dream )
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Bird in the shot: a hairy woodpecker.
April 23, 2012
Rita, I would say woodpecker,too. I am not sure exactly what kind, though. I do love your poem.ReplyDelete
Hello Sandy. i am so grateful that you did drop by to help me recognize this beautiful bird. I went back to the same bare tree where I saw this bird. I saw many holes in the branches. And suddenly, he came and I took several good photos of him. This time, I saw him pecking the tree by his long bill. It is strange because this tree is on the main street near our nieghbourhood. I used to think that woodpeckers live only in the forest! I will post the new photos so that you can recognize him better.
Thanks for your uplifting comment about my poem. I do learn about nature from your blog and this enriches my writings since traditional haiku is interested in nature which can teach us something meaningful about human nature.
much love,


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Monsoon is here again.
When the paddy crops start growing, it used to be time for different varieties of goñchi (dragonflies) to flitter around. The beautiful lañchañ goñchi, agile byago takho, proud yaju piikho and the king of all, the magnificent apañ kemañ. There was then the itu pumiñ, the smallest of all but so light-footed that it was a big challenge to catch any of them, and the dui goñchi with its characteristic black stripe. Jijiñ tayiñ - hordes of them: a swipe of bamboo stick would bring down a dozen of them. Apart from occasional byago takho, none of them can be seen today at Ziro. Some groups of jijiñ tayiñ can still be seen, but they are so much higher up than I can recall.
These days, there are lots of plums. Truckloads of them are being taken down to Itanagar as there is no market at Ziro. It is time somebody start some productive project to tap all such local resources here.
As any monsoon, it is wet. Since the roads are better everywhere, it is pleasant, though.


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Since it's unlikely that anyone will return e-mails until January 5, 2015, the next few weeks promise to be very challenging for anyone who, like myself, needs almost constant validation from the outside world. So in lieu of the usual volley of short, long, meaningful and meaningless correspondence with which we pack our days like Styrofoam popcorn, I have created a list for myself (and for you) of five positive things that we can all meditate upon to lift our spirits should they begin to wane over the period known benignly as "the holidays." (And statistically speaking, if your spirits do not wane over the holidays, then you are a dog or a small plant.)
1) Let It Go. I, for one, found the plot of Frozen rather confusing. But I did enjoy the songs, particularly "Let It Go". During the holidays, it's almost impossible to avoid our own foibles (read flaws), or those of the people we know and love. Life is a short journey in a wooden boat that always sinks in the end, so you might as well try and get along with everyone on the manifest, starting with yourself. In other words, let it go.
2) Puppies. OK, call me a softie, but no matter how old I get, the appeal of a cute puppy remains undiminished. The fact that there are puppies in the world right now and that brand-new puppies are being born every day…well, that alone pretty much outweighs all the horrors of Ebola, global warming and unscripted television.
3) You Are Not Dead. Many people are already dead, but you are not. You can eat, sleep, work and, if you're lucky, still fool around. So when the Christmas doldrums descend, just remind yourself that you are not yet lying in a wooden box in a field. (And for the record, I do not mean to disparage the dead by saying this. Some of my best friends are dead.) So, rejoice!
4) You Recycle. As anyone will tell you, recycling is important, even if it's not particularly interesting. And you do it. You put the plastic things with the other plastic things, and you put the bottles with the other bottles. You are doing your small part not to muck up the planet any further. Kudos to you. This may not seem like much, but around the holidays, we must all gather up even our smallest accomplishments like pennies in a jar, and hope they will add up to a few bucks of self-worth.
5) Someone Loves You. Granted, it may be someone who has little choice (your parents, your kids), but you do have someone. As my friend Paula's mom likes to say, "There is a lid for every pot." So be grateful this holiday season that you, too, are loved by a fellow creature. Around the holidays, a not unpleasant thing to do is to tell those creatures how you feel about them. This is best done in some awkwardly direct but very meaningful way. A handwritten letter is nice. Or a homemade cookie. Or, better yet, just look them in the eyes and say something like,"I'm really happy that you're still in my life. I've probably given you lots of reasons not to be. So, thanks. You mean a lot to me."
And on that note, I want to thank you, dear reader, for continuing to read these blog posts after so many years. I began writing the blog back in 2008 and I ran out of things to say around 2012. But, as with all good relationships, the best conversations always begin after all the clever and intelligent things have already been said. So, I'm glad you're still here. And I'm glad I'm still here. I wish you all a very happy, healthy 2015!


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HERE BE SIRENS, COSMICOMICS and More Set for Winter/Spring 2014 at Dixon Place
Scroll down for Dixon Place's 2014 Winter/Spring shows! The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during, and after the show. Proceeds directly support Dixon Place's artists and mission.
Sat, Jan 11 at 7:30
Sun, Jan 12 at 4:30
Thurs, Jan 30 at 7:30
Fri, Jan 31 at 7:30
Sat, Feb 1 at 7:30
Sun Feb 2 at 4:00pm
Here Be Sirens
by Kate Soper
Shrouded in significance, the mythological Sirens roost deep in the collective consciousness, cliched specimens of femmes fatales. In composer/vocalist Kate Soper's new work, join these singing ciphers as they investigate their own origins, seeking--through the twists and turns of ancient literature and contemporary philosophy--a way off the island for good. This moving and audacious work blends beautiful music, critical theory, Aristotelian tragedy and screwball comedy to present these beloved monsters as real beings, confronting an endless cycle of death and desire.
Kate Soper, is hailed by the New Yorker as "a dazzling vocalist" and praised in the New York Times for her "exquisitely quirky" compositions. Ms. Soper received an award from the Guggenheim Foundation in 2012, which supports this production of her new work. Other recent awards and commissions include the American Composers Orchestra, The Koussevitsky Music Foundation, and Chamber Music America. She is a co?director and vocalist for the new classical music ensemble Wet Ink.
For more information, visit www.morningsideopera.com. Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $15 students / seniors.
2nd EXTENDED RUN!
January 17 &18 at 7:30
January 25 & February 1 at 10pm
Mike Albo
The Junket is a hilarious, harrowing story about a struggling writer named Mike Albo. He gets a plum freelance gig at the city's most major newspaper, then goes on an ill-fated promotional junket, becomes a gossip item in the snarky blogosphere, and ends up caught in the middle of a war between old and new Media.
From writer and performer Mike Albo comes this hilarious, harrowing tale of a writer named Mike Albo who has been living/trapped in New York City for the past 20 years. He starts writing a column for the country's most influential newspaper and thinks he can finally afford his aspirational life. But after he goes on a crazy, over-the-top press junket and becomes a gossip item, he becomes a pawn in the acrimonious war between Old and New Media. Here's a wildly funny, slightly painful account of New York's back-biting media scene, the inner workings of fashion and promotion, and what it takes to survive as a writer in our chattering, challenging, increasingly unaffordable culture. "I was perilously close to exposing a secret underground economy of promotion: the gift bags and plus ones and galas and banquets that keep the city in motion, and keep underpaid writers at work. Basically, I became the Silkwood of Swag."
Mike Albo is a writer and performer who has performed his acclaimed comedic solo shows all over the country, as well as the US and Canada. He is the author of the novels Hornito and The Underminer: The Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life (co-written with Virginia Heffernan), as well as the novella, The Junket. He is also a founding member of the legendary downtown dance troupe, The Dazzle Dancers, as well as the comedy trio, Unitard, and the comedy collective, Show Show. Check out his spacey website: Mikealbo.com. Twitter: @albomike
70 mins. Tickets: $17 in advance / $20 at the door / $15 students & seniors.
1st Dixon Place 2013 Tom Murrin Performance Award Winners!
Paper Magazine's 2013 Beautiful People!
January 23, 24, & 25 at 7:30pm
The Baroness is the Future
Performed by: Nikki Calonge, Brighid Greene, LUCY KAMINSKY, Madison Krekel, Linda Mancini, Eva Peskin
Exploding into incantation and dance, The Baroness is the Future unfolds the life and works of poetess, found object sculptor, and proto-Dadaist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, whom Duchamp called simply, "the future."
The Baroness' cross-dressing, kleptomania, outlandish costumes, found object sculptures, sexual escapades, brawls, and abstract poems shocked, delighted and inspired the greatest names of the Dada movement. However, due in part to her own unwillingness or inability to conform, the Baroness was ultimately excluded from their successes and died alone and penniless in a Parisian garret.
ANIMALS shuffles dance, puppetry, text and video into a unique performance style that irreverently questions the durability of the world around us and the nature of human ability and human play. Founded by Nikki Calonge, Michael De Angelis and Mike Mikos, ANIMALS is the recipient of the 2013 Tom Murrin Performance Award and was named one of Paper Magazine's 2013 Beautiful People.
For more information, visit bearelephantibex.com. 60 mins. Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 stu/sen.
Feb 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, & 22 at 7:30pm
Toni Schlesinger
The Mystery of Pearl Street
Set in the mysterious Blue Room, playwright, performer, and journalist Toni Schlesinger pursues the unsolved real-life story of two artists who disappeared in 1997 from their loft near the East River on one of the oldest streets in Manhattan. The three-person play, a double mystery, is a wildly visual, psychological, and philosophical exploration of terror, romance, police procedure, money, real estate, and the city's history, from the ruthless colonists and clipper ships to the booms on Wall Street. Pearl Street is finally a story of love and loss, loss that no one saw coming--the oldest story in the book--and the Valentine's Day dinner when one could not have known what a large and horrific turn life could take.
Toni is the originator of the award-winning Village Voice "Shelter" column that she wrote for eight years, the author of Five Flights Up, and the creator of some 25 original off-off-Broadway plays and monologues.
As a playwright, she has written more than 25 original pieces of theater (full length, short two and three person-plays, monologues, toy theaters) that she designed and most often performed in at off-off-Broadway theaters including Dixon Place, St. Ann's Warehouse, HERE, La Mama, The Metropolitan Playhouse, The Kraine Theater, Galapagos, The Kitchen, Ohio Theater, PS 122, Judson Church, The Vineyard, The Culture Project, Los Kabyitos, Cucaracha, The West Bank Café, Don't Tell Mama, and more.
She was a 2012 semi-finalist for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwright Conference. She has received two Puffin Foundation grants, one in 2012 for Five Flights Up: The Woman Who Lives By The Sea (a Dixon Place presentation that was originally planned to be part of a full-length Five Flights Up puppet work) and a Puffin research grant for Paradise, New Jersey in 2004-2005 for the development of a full-length play inspired by Jersey Homesteads, one of FDR's cooperatives in the 1930s to help people survive the Great Depression. Jersey Homesteads was specifically formed for Yiddish-speaking garment workers from the Bronx and the Lower East Side. Characters include Albert Einstein, architect Louis Kahn, labor leader David Dubinsky, artist Ben Shah, and the people of the time. This play is still very much in progress.
She has also received two Jim Henson Foundation grants (2012 and 2004), stipends from her four years in the St. Ann's Theater Lab, a MacDowell Fellowship in 2007 for The Mystery of Pearl Street non-fiction book, and two fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation (1988 and 1983).
Toni's fiction includes the creation & writing of Kansas O'Flaherty: Secret Agent (a graphic serial on Salon.com with illustrations by longtime collaborator and The New Yorker magazine's illustrator Tom Bachtell.) The book, The Lost Notebooks of Kansas O'Flaherty, is in progress. Her short story "4-Tile"was included in the Significant Objects anthology (Fantagraphics Books). Forthcoming: "Mystery," an essay in a collection, edited by Molly McQuade, including writers Jonathan Franzen and more; Lobster Village, a graphic novel, Shotopress.
For more information, visit http://tonischlesinger.blogspot.com/. Tickets: $16 in advance, $20 at the door, $12 students / seniors.
March 1, 7, 8, 14, & 15 at 7:30pm
Kevin Augustine's LONE WOLF TRIBE
Hobo Grunt Cycle
Challenging war's futility with Lone Wolf Tribe's signature puppets and poetic imagery, Hobo Grunt Cycle is a theatrical circus pantomime compassionately focusing on a path to peace. Forging empathetic links between wounded soldiers and rescued fight dogs, writer/performer/director, Kevin Augustine brings his company's newest commissioned work to Dixon Place for its NYC premiere. Augustine, as a silent tramp, alongside a foam-rubber cast of life-sized Pit Bulls, disabled American veterans and a cadre of competing circus clowns, exposes the post-war legacy of soldiers while raising questions about healing and peace in our daily lives. A guest speaker series in collaboration with Brooklyn for Peace and Veterans for Peace will follow select shows.
Kevin Augustine's Lone Wolf Tribe is a NY-based theatre ensemble creating fearless multidisciplinary work since 1997. Blending history, sociology, and life-sized puppetry with deep compassion and the darkest humor, Lone Wolf Tribe's fantastical work goes to the very edges of theatrical style and human experience while sculpting a new dimension for live performance.
LWT productions have been published, commissioned (HERE, PS122), and performed on four continents at international festivals including Brazil, Africa and the Netherlands. Augustine has written seven full-length Tribe productions, from solo shows to a 15-person cast with woodwind quintet, winning excellence awards including an UNIMA and being lauded a Top 10 Show of 2008, by Time Out New York for BRIDE at PS122. Augustine and company have received 24 grants and fellowships from 9 different arts foundations including NYSCA, MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, and The Jim Henson Foundation. Kevin is a three-time MacDowell Colony fellow and the first National Artist in Residence at the EXIT Theatre in San Francisco. David Cote of Time Out praises, "In the church of puppet artistry, Augustine is divine" and Martin Denton of NYTheatre says, "I don't know anyone who is doing theatre quite like this. The images Augustine creates will haunt you for days."
For more information, visit www.lonewolftribe.com. Tickets: $16 in advance, $20 at the door, $12 students / seniors.
Mar 28 & 29 at 7:30pm
April 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, & 19 at 7:30pm
The New Stage Theatre Company
This world premiere stage adaptation comprises a captivating series of stories in which mathematical formulae and cellular structures recall the evolution of the universe. Though Calvino's characters are non-human, they represent the very essence of our human experience. Narrator Qfwfq takes us on a journey from his childhood -- the great unity before the Big Bang, when everything he loved was packed into a single point--through his life as a mollusk, into the throes of his love affairs, and continuing on to modern times. His tales are funny and poignant ones of obsession, neurosis, love and transformation, played out against a cosmic backdrop.