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Sunday, August 25, 2013
Whatever Happened to Old Judge?
Old Judge is a distillery, fairly important in its day, that seems to disappear from history almost as soon as it appears. Was it revived in some form after Prohibition? Not with that name, nor with its #1 brand. The distillery's pre-Prohibition best-seller, Old Fitzgerald, was owned by Louisville's Stitzel-Weller Distillery when Prohibition ended.
This picture, taken in 1961, may have been taken at the distillery once known as Old Judge. The man in the suit, on the right, is Otis Beam, one of the seven distiller sons of Joseph L. Beam. The distillery where this was taken was called 21 Brands. The picture comes from a neat little collection of 16 photos at the University of Louisville Library that can be found here.
21 Brands was owned by Francis T. Hunter, the gold medal winner in tennis at the 1924 Paris Olympics, who in 1933 founded 21 Brands, an importer and distributor of wine and liquor. In 1956, he bought what was then the Rocky Ford Distillery. According to the Dow Jones News Service, it had a production capacity of 40,000 barrels a year, about 2 million gallons. The purchase price was a little more than $1 million. Hunter sold it in the late 1960s to Sid Flashman, who changed the name to Double Springs. The final owner was Abe Schecter, formerly of Barton, who closed it for good in about 1978.
After consulting Sam Cecil's book as well as Trey Zoeller's, it would appear that 21 Brands was Old Judge, refurbished into a modern plant. According to Zoeller, it was also called Old Kennebec, whereas Cecil has those as two separate distilleries.
No one knows who established the original distillery on Benson Creek but it was owned by Charles Herbst, a major international wine and spirits dealer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Herbst always claimed it was established by John Fitzgerald, after whom Old Fitzgerald was named, but that turns out to be fiction. Herbst's Old Fitzgerald was, however, a very successful pre-Prohibition brand. A photo of the Old Judge Distillery, taken in 1906, was altered to serve as the Jno. E. Fitzgerald Distillery in advertising. Herbst's distillers at Old Judge were members of the Bixler family.
During Prohibition, Herbst sold the Old Fitzgerald brand but not the distillery to Pappy Van Winkle's Stitzel-Weller Distillery. What had been Old Judge was revived and modernized after Prohibition and went through a number of different owners and names, including Sam Clay and Benson Creek, before becoming Rocky Ford and then 21 Brands.
Distilleries like 21 Brands struggled to survive, even though bourbon was booming, because although they had a few small, regional brands they mostly sold bulk whiskey to non-distiller producers, a very competitive, low margin business. When sales began to trend downward at the end of the 1960s, everyone found themselves with too much inventory. Producers that had strong brands in their stables were able to continue but most commodity producers went out of business.
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I'm having trouble following your opening paragraphs. Are you postulating that 21 Brands Distillery may have been Old Judge Distillery at some early stage?
- August 25, 2013 at 9:05 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
My theory, at least (I'm not entirely convinced), is that the distillery known before Prohibition as Old Judge came back after Prohibition, updated and modernized, and was called many names, including for a time 21 Brands.
- August 25, 2013 at 9:26 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
One problem in nailing this down is that there is overlap in the record between this distillery, Buffalo Springs in Stamping Ground, and Old Kennebec, which is also described as 'near Frankfort.' All three had Beams minding the still. Four of the seven brothers--Otis, Roy, Harry, and Desmond--are associated with one, two, or all three of those distilleries. I've seen Buffalo Springs but not the other two so I know that's separate and wasn't 21 Brands, although the windows in the picture look a lot like the windows in the buildings at Buffalo Springs.
- August 25, 2013 at 9:37 PM
Old Mr. Boston and Heublein come to mind.
By the way, there really was an Old Mr. Boston once, actually located in BOSTON, MA, not KY. I have a bottle of it from 1943 that we can taste next time you come to visit. It was distilled (in 1937) by Ben Burk at RD #4 in Boston, Massachusetts. The brand still exists, although I don't know if they bottle a bourbon anymore. But "Mr. Boston" has had more distillery relationships than Larry King has had wives. I think one of those was 21 Brands, by way of the Viking Distillery in Albany, Georgia. Barton (and therefore, Sazerac) owns the brand today, and presumably makes whatever spirits are bottled under that name.
I don't know if Heublein ever bottled a bourbon, but they certainly didn't own a bourbon distillery. Neither did Austin Nichols until 1971. Their Wild Turkey bourbon was sourced from several of those independent distilleries that no longer exist, except for the one (Ripy Bros./J.T.S. Brown in Tyrone) that they eventualy bought for themselves.
- August 26, 2013 at 12:24 PM
Thanks, Chuck, for answering my question so quickly. Now in retrospect you were quite clear in your opening paragraphs. My brain must have been on pause. I love your posts on bourbon history, especially mysteries such as what happened to Old Judge.
- August 27, 2013 at 6:45 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
I must confess, I rewrote it a little after your astute comment.
- August 27, 2013 at 6:51 PM
- Goonboy said...
Hi Chuck,
I think it's about time I chime in here after many months of trying to nail down the "Old Judge" history.
So happy to read all the bits and pieces of the Herbst legacy. Here's my contribution to the lore of the Herbst distillery. It's a visual one!
I have in my possession an entire sealed bottle of Old Judge pure malt whiskey. I'm looking at the original, very brittle paper label as I type. It has since fallen off the bottle due to the age of the glue. This label must be quite rare as I have not seen another anywhere. I have carefully scanned it and put the original between two pieces of acrylic for safe keeping. Would love to post this image along with a photo of the bottle. Any interest. I have a story behind how I acquired this rare piece and can share this in another post if you like.
- January 29, 2014 at 10:00 PM
- David said...
The area of the distillery was known as Kennebec. Kennebec Hall, the county orphanage was close to the distillery.
In WWII the Louisville & Nashville RR established a flagstop there named Kennebec, it was later renamed Sam Clay after a bourbon made at the distillery. This flagstop lasted till the L&N ended passenger service on this line in 1955.
My uncle, E. T. Morse was general manager of the 21 Brands distillery. The photo collection in the UL archives has a photo of him at his desk. Sitting on his desk is a bottle of bourbon labeled for a brand they made during the Civil War Centennial.
21 Brands also sponsored a sprint car racing team. The car's number was 21. An Ezra Brooks decanter was made of this car. E. T. was also the manager of the race team.
- March 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM
Can you give me any information on the Kennebec Hall Orphanage? Where it originated, who owned it? Who ran it? anything about it??
- May 7, 2016 at 6:25 AM
Can you give me a run down on Woodford Reserve Distillery? Who ever owned the property?
- May 7, 2016 at 6:32 AM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
I have no information about the Kennebec Hall Orphanage.
The Woodford Reserve site was owned by Brown-Forman from the 40s until the 60s, then again after about 1995. I don't know who owned it in between but they didn't do anything with it.
Before Brown-Forman it was owned by the Labrot family, E. H. Taylor before that, and the Pepper family before that.
- May 7, 2016 at 1:24 PM
- mozilla said...
I have researched the distilleries on Benson Creek a number of times...and have come to the conclusion that the 21 Brands distillery and the Old Judge distillery were two different sites.
According to the Sanborn map....the names of the SC Herbst distillery were also knows as Old Fitz, Laval & Mayse, and Old Judge and were located on a plot that resided between Benson Rd and Benson Creek...where the train tracks were located between the road and the creek.
The site of the 21 Brands facility are located to the outside of the road and opposite the creek side with the train tracks located on the wrong side of the plant. Therefor, we have two different facilities.
Judging by the current google maps and the few pictures I have seen of the Old Judge facility....I am guessing that the 21 Brands site was slightly east or slightly west of the Old Judge facility. The Old Judge facility was along one of the those two curves in the road where the creek curved with it and the tracks lay between the road and creek.
- November 4, 2016 at 8:25 PM
- Unknown said...
Wow! I'm so excited to read this. My dad, Curtis Durham, hauled coal to this distillery. He was friends with E. T. Morse. I remember when I was a little girl they would call my dad, sometimes in the middle of the night, to bring coal because the water was getting over the road. My mom and I would go with dad. When we got there they would send a jeep out to meet us to follow them in because you couldn't see the road for the water. Ever Christmas E. T. Morse gave my dad a turkey, decanter of Ezra Brooks and a bottle of bourbon. I've looked for information about 21 Brand distillery and I'm glad to find this. Do you know the address of the distillery? Thanks
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"It's one thing to read about it in a magazine or see it on TV, but when people see it in their own state, with someone they know, they start to pay attention. We're hoping they think, `I could live in one of these,"' says Sheryl Logan. A founder of Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) of Idaho, a small construction and land-development company, she is referring to Solar Summit—a new and totally solar-powered subdivision with super-efficient construction.
The idea for the first home came from a Mother Earth News article by Michael Reynolds, a New Mexican architect who designed and built the "earthship:' (See Earthship Homes.) Reynolds' construction design is based on the theory that the denser that matter is, the more stored energy it can hold; the denser the walls of a house are, the better able they are to retain temperature. Reynolds' concentrated walls of dirt-packed tires and aluminum cans are so dense they act as the home's primary cooling and heating source.
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Solar Summit's first home—similar to Reynolds earthship design—is a 2,500-square-foot adobe-style house cut into Idaho hillside. It's a split-level, with two floors made of stone, eight-foot ceilings, two bedrooms, and a metal roof. There are 30 windows (seven are operable) that slant to the south, deflecting the hot sun in the summer and soaking up the sun's low-angled rays in winter. As for the walls, they are made of 1,000 tires, each stuffed with over 300 pounds of dirt. Aluminum cans are stuck between the tires, and adobe or stucco covers the tires for a smooth finish. (It's hard to get much denser than this.)
As of November, five lots had been sold. What types of people are looking to move into this subdivision? According to Olson, who is also the development coordinator for the project, the average home builder is concerned with today's skyrocketing building-material costs, higher and higher energy costs, and concern for the environment. People want energy-efficient homes to keep these costs down, and are beginning to look for alternative building techniques:'
Local Boise resident Mary Reed agrees. She saw the earthship concept on TV about a year ago, and then saw a local news article on the subdivision this past summer. After seeing actor Dennis Weaver's finished tirehouse on video, Mary was convinced that the concept is viable; she is considering building a house early next year with PMA's help. She likes the obvious heating and cooling advantages implicit in the design, as well as the idea of recycling tires. "Anything that can help reduce this ongoing environmental disaster is important," Mary says. "But the most important thing about this type of house is its warm and secure feeling; it is very livable and has a lot of flexibility in design and function:"
Ken Kroll, another interested homebuilder, says that the flexibility in the tirehouse's design is absolutely crucial. "Being able to incorporate personal needs and desires into your own structure is what life is all about:"
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A big boost for the company's development efforts came when Idaho's major electrical utility Idaho Power, jumped on board. "It's the last place you might think to look for help on a solar project;" states Olson. "But it proves that even the most traditional entities are realizing that change has to occur soon:' The utility has designed and will maintain, for three years, a solar-powered, photovoltaic energy system to provide for the home's electrical needs.
Engineer John Wennstrom, of Idaho Power's Energy Division, reinforces PMA's goal: "Idaho Power is committed to Solar Summit as a research project. The Public Utilities Commission has encouraged us to be more active in solar, and PMA's projects have helped provide incentives for us to file a tariff with the commission, which they've approved. Our commitment can now be expanded to helping anyone who is living or wants to live off the grid:" People in remote areas can now look to an established entity to help them harness power for their homes and cabins.
Searching for Solutions
The super insulation and mass of the tirehouse sparked another thought for PMA. As Logan tells it, "The houses we are building today are dinosaurs. There isn't a good reason why we aren't building better homes, so we started looking for other super-insulated home plans that would work for our subdivision. We have found several different kinds, from Styrofoam to stray, but we had to look hard in many different places to find them. The problem is that the consumer isn't aware of everything available, and it is frustrating when you can't find one place that a person can call to get a list of names and phone numbers of alternative-housing companies:'
But PMA was lucky enough to find a small, newly founded company located right in Idaho, a clearing house to research and find this type of information. The company Alternatives Inc., uses a variety of methods including computer database searches and the development of an alternative-materials library. The company's goal is to maintain and track information about alternative construction methods and materials. The company hopes these methods will be a good way to show people just how many choice, they have when considering construction alternatives.
Last Efforts
Although PMA is excited about its solar-powered subdivision, there is still work to be done. "We have people thinking the tire house will be more like a cave than a house," states Olson. "Getting people to change their ways of thinking can sometimes be the most frustrating aspect of our project:"
Raised Eyebrows
The public isn't the only one who has to be convinced. PMA has been forced to work within the confines of traditional banking rules in an effort to finance their dream. It was difficult to find financing for the land because it is not connected to the power grid. According to Fenwick, the banks raise their eyebrows because of the nature of the house. Olson adds, "We are trying to make them understand that we want to make normal better. We have to. Our planet won't survive what has become `normal,' so we do what we have always done when we believe in a project—keep going until someone listens:' The fate of the loan lies in the hands of the loan committee, and PMA hopes that banking attitudes change towards the use of alternative building materials and techniques.
Chins Up
Although PMA of Idaho expects more hurdles, Fenwick looks toward the future with anticipation. "We want to see this kind of action in every town. We want to learn all we can about different types of alternative housing, and help people build homes for themselves. Our goal is to work with other builders of super-insulated, environmentally responsible homes in an effort to bring these ideas to everyone, including low-income and third-world families." In the meantime, he encourages those who are starting new businesses to keep their chin up and continue moving forward ....
Bionote: Tim Rhodes is a member of MOTHER'S Reader Editorial Board. His interests in alternative energy are deep-rooted with 18 years of personal experience in solar, wind, and water projects. He hopes to have his own tire-house-building plans approved soon, and he is getting ready to start building his home as soon as the weather breaks this spring.
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By Kim Jones
Housed in a converted garage in the north end of Idaho's capital is a small construction and development company with dreams big enough to house the world.
The company, PMA of Idaho, is one that was really pulled up by its bootstraps. Partners Sheryl Logan, J. Scott Fenwick, and Kenny Olson started with a few hundred dollars, some credit cards, and a lot of positive thinking. The trio began by purchasing older run-down homes (which nobody else seemed to want) and finding new creative possibilities. They did the remodeling themselves, and then rented some and sold others for profit. But when the real-estate market changed in Boise, older homes were no longer available at competitive prices, and that forced the founders to move into construction and property development. The idea of the solar subdivision was born.
Says Logan, "The biggest hurdle in the remodeling/new-building game or any small business for that matter, is finding lenders who are willing to cooperate with your building plans. Having the banks tell us `no' just made us more determined to find an answer." So the company asked family, friends, and outside investors to participate in their development projects. Sometimes they used finance companies who specialized in high return and little risk.
This determination, coupled with the group's growing concern for the planet, led to PMA's most recent quest to create energy efficient and friendly homes. As Kenny Olson put it, "The amount of waste that occurs each day in our collective lives-feeding our need for energy and for what we consume—is appalling. If we don't do something soon, our kids won't have anything left. We must learn to reduce, reuse, and recycle:'


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This article will explain how you can create an SPF record on your server using Plesk 11.
If you have not already done so you will need to generate an SPF record first this can be done at Microsoft's SPF record wizard1
Login to your Parallels Plesk Panel.
Click on the Domains link on the left panel.
Click on the Open in Control Panel link for the relevant domain name.
Click on the Website & Domains tab.
Click on the DNS settings link.
Click on the Add Record icon.
Select TXT From the drop down list.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is to sell part of a manufacturing plant it is closing in Salo, southwest Finland, to drugmaker Orion.
The property includes production facilities and warehouses, the companies said on Thursday. Nokia said in June it was ending production in Salo, cutting 850 jobs.
Nokia is seeking to bolster its cash position as it launches smartphones aimed at recapturing market share lost to Apple and Samsung.
The plant, the hub of Nokia's success story in 1990s, was the last major cellphone factory in western Europe.
Orion plans to open a new packing and logistics center in Salo next year and could employ around 100 people.
(Reporting by Terhi Kinnunen and Tarmo Virki; Editing by Dan Lalor)
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School Shooting in Connecticut May be Worse than Columbine in Many Ways
As heartbreaking as Columbine was, as appalling as Virginia Tech was, and as distressing as the Colorado theater shooting was, the mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut brought home something more terrifying to parents.
Not even elementary school kids are safe.
While details are still emerging on the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary on Friday – recent reports say 27 people have died, including 20 children – what seems to be clear is that in many ways it was worse than Columbine, which until Virginia Tech had been considered the worst school shooting in U.S. history.
Kids still learning their numbers and barely able to add and subtract confronted the unimaginable: a gunman carrying a .223 caliber rifle and another firearm entered the school and began firing at small children and teachers. A motive remains unclear, but authorities say the killer, identified as 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, also killed his own mother, a teacher at the school.
At the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, 13 people died and 24 were injured. At the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, 32 were killed before the shooter killed himself.
The shooting in Columbine, on which Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed classmates, teachers and themselves, made parents realize not even schools are a safe place to leave a child.
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In Connecticut, a routine school day for 5 to 9-year-olds turned into a scene of horror. At least 18 mothers were told the kids they dropped off at school just hours before had died.
Mergim Bajraliu, 17, heard the gunshots echo from his home and raced to check on his 9-year-old sister at the school. He said his sister, who was fine, heard a scream come over the intercom at one point. He said teachers were shaking and crying as they came out of the building.
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The back inside cover of the February issue of Opera News magazine this year had a full-page tribute to famed opera singer Placido Domingo, 71, for having performed "nearly 130 roles in 50 years." Certainly an impressive body of work, and the implication was that since learning and performing new operatic roles is so exhausting physically, mentally and psychologically (not to mention the demands on the memory), few if any other opera singers could match Domingo's record for sheer numbers. (Even most of the world's greatest opera stars have generally performed in no more than 50 different operas.)
Well, he will almost certainly never get a full-page tribute in Opera News magazine, but in terms of sheer numbers, Mt. Airy native Ralph Tudisco has outperformed the legendary Domingo — and possibly every other opera singer in the world. At just 53, Tudisco has sung 140 different operatic roles since he began singing opera at age 15, 38 years ago.
In April of 2008, Tudisco performed his 100th different operatic role in Verdi's "Falstaff" at The Garden Church in Lansdowne. It also marked the fact that Ralph has performed in all 26 of Verdi's operas, and there is no record of any other singer, past or present, matching that record. Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) is generally regarded as the greatest operatic composer who ever lived.
And unlike the multi-million dollar stars at the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York City Opera or La Scala in Milan, Tudisco does a lot more than just sing. As founder of the East Oak Lane-based Amici Opera Company, Ralph has staged 92 different operas in the 13 years since he started Amici. And even though Amici does charge an admission fee of about $25, they usually just break even after paying rent to the church or other facility where they rehearse and perform, as well as the cost of publicity, mailings, etc. (Ralph still does not own a computer, believe it or not.)
As a result, in order to keep Amici (and himself) alive, Ralph maintains a teaching schedule of non-credit opera courses, "Opera from the Beginning," at Temple University's Ambler campus (a six-week course begins in October) that usually have 40 or more students per class, and he also has a full-time job as a home health care worker. "I have built up such stamina," said the stocky singer, "that despite all that, I have never missed a performance. And when other male singers call in sick, I have to perform their roles as well as my own."
One of the remarkable things about the Amici Opera Company is that even though the singers do not get paid, many of them come from hundreds or even thousands of miles, all at their own expense, to audition, rehearse and perform in the Philadelphia area. (If you think it is sad that they are not paid or reimbursed for their expenses, some small opera companies actually require their singers to pay the company for the privilege of performing.) Tudisco advertises for singers in a national trade publication called "Classical Singer" that usually brings in resumes from all over the country. For example, John Carpenter, 65, who previously sang with the Metropolitan Opera and who won the prestigious Richard Tucker Award, answered Ralph's ad and flew in from his home in Colorado to audition. "He was in 'Trovatore' in March at St. Nicholas Hall in South Philly, and he was great," said Ralph. "Next October I'm flying out to Colorado to sing 'Otello' with him, and then he's coming here in October of next year to sing with us again."
Lynette Owens, a mother of a teenage boy who has performed in at least 10 Amici operas, would fly to Philly each time from her home in Utah and stay in the home of a friend in Philadelphia for two weeks while rehearsing and performing. But the farthest distance of all was traveled by Gwen Trussler, who lives 3,000 miles away in Washington state. She even flew in to Philly six times — for four rehearsals and two performances of one opera — when she was three months pregnant.
"We give opportunities to singers, regardless of age or looks or how much they weigh," said Ralph. "I just want good singers. I prefer the older ones because of their experience, but I have given a chance to many young kids with no experience."
Ralph also prides himself on the fact that Amici has performed more than 10 operas that had never previously been performed in the U.S., such as "Saffo" by Puccini, "Virginia" by Mercadante, "Belisario" and "Gemma DiVergy," both by Donizetti. One opera that they've done 10 times, "Cristofaro Colombo" by Franchetti, had last been performed in the U.S. in 1913. "The Jewel of the Madonna," by Wolf-Ferrari, about a love triangle that even has Mafia involvement in the plot, was one of Amici's most successful operas, with more than 130 people coming to a venue in South Philly in 2007. It had not been performed in the U.S. before that since the 1920s.
"Most singers do not want to be in these," said Ralph. "They'll say, 'I'll never do that opera again, so why should I learn it?' They're also afraid they'll get a small audience. Even the Metropolitan Opera does not do these little-known operas unless they have a really big name in the lead. It's really a shame that most opera singers have no curiosity about these rarely performed operas because many of them are wonderful. I have never had anyone come up to me after performing one of these little-known works and say, 'It was no good.' It's just the opposite. People come up afterwards and say, 'Why isn't it done more often.'"
But the best compliment Ralph ever received was from an 80-year-old woman in Upper Dublin after a performance of "The Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart. She said, "You are the best Figaro I have ever seen, and I have seen Robert Merrill, Frank Guarrera, John Charles Thomas and Carlo Morelli all do it in person."
Tudisco, who has traveled all over the world to buy music, has a collection of more than 700 vocal scores, 25,000 records, 5,000 CDs and countless books about opera. "The UPS guy and the mailman are my best friends," he said.
Tudisco, who has no children, was married once for three years in the 1990s to a native of Brazil. (You might say he is now married to opera.) For many years he lived with his mother, Grace, in East Oak Lane, but she died a few years ago at the age of 91. "She was my biggest fan," said Ralph. "She would come to every performance, even though she did not like to go out of the house. Sometimes I would have to carry her, and every time I came off stage, she would say how much she liked it, even if she slept through most of it." (Grace is buried at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery at Cheltenham Avenue and Mermaid Lane.)
If you want to see one of Amici's operas, they will be performing a concert of Italian and Spanish arias, duets and songs on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2:30 p.m., at Dockwoods Community, 275 Dock Drive in Lansdale (inside the chapel); and Puccini's "La Boheme," one of the most popular operas of all time and the basis for the Broadway hit musical, "Rent," 0n Sunday, Oct. 2, 3 p.m., at Upper Dublin Lutheran Church, 411 Susquehanna Rd. in Ambler. Tickets for both are $25 at the door, $22 for seniors and advance purchases, and $15 for students. For more information, call 215-224-0257.


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The upper Kanawha Valley contains abundant evidence of prehistoric habitation. Among the more striking remains are village sites and burial grounds at such places as Marmet, Pratt, Hugheston, and Mount Carbon; dozens of mounds of various sizes in the valley itself and along many of its tributaries; and the walls on the hillsides above Pratt and Mount Carbon. The remains clearly show that successive culture groups inhabited the Kanawha Valley, often for prolonged periods. The earliest habitations date back to perhaps a thousand years or more before the birth of Christ. On the other hand, the identity of the prehistoric residents and their fate are even yet largely shrouded in mystery.
Among the most interesting of these prehistoric remains are those at Mount Carbon, about four miles east of Montgomery on Route 61. The Mount Carbon remains consist of a village site or sites between the highway and the Kanawha River and of stone walls and rock cairns on the mountain above the town. Early settlers of the upper Kanawha Valley, who like most other West Virginia pioneers lived partly by hunting, must very soon after their arrival in the valley have become aware of these walls. Yet, their concern with the grim problems of survival left them little time to explore the walls carefully, and their low regard for the Indians probably induced little speculation on their part as to the origin of the structures.
The Mount Carbon walls were built across ridge spurs between Armstrong and Loop Creeks, both tributaries of the Kanawha River, at elevations ranging from about 1200 to about 1600 feet above river level. The walls actually consist of five, or possibly six, windrow segments made up principally of sandstone slabs. These windrow sections were built of loosely and irregularly placed stones, which formed a wall as much as three or four feet high and up to twelve and fifteen wide.
Nineteenth century investigators, who under the influence of the Romantic movement of their time often gave free play to their imaginations, grossly exaggerated the nature of the walls and gave rise to erroneous information which has persisted to the present. The considered the mounds and earthworks as hardly inferior to the pyramids of Egypt and concluded that their builders were a super race quite apart from the American Indians. Their superficial studies of the walls left the impression that they were from three to ten miles in length and from eight to ten feet high. At points along the wall, which they depicted as continuous, were "lookout towers" made of stones piled twenty feet high. The truth was, as John P. Hale, the Charleston businessman and antiquarian pointed out, that there was no continuous wall, and consequently no enclosure as early visitors had suggested. Furthermore, one of the supposed lookout towers was placed in a small cove which obscured vision on three sides.
Scientific excavations at the site of the walls have yielded no knowledge either as to the purposes for which the walls and rock cairns were erected or of their builders. The first effort to study the site scientifically was made in 1884 by Colonel P. W. Norris for the Smithsonian Institution. Norris died, however, before his investigations were completed. In June and July of 1958 Dr. James H. Kellar, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Georgia, under a grant from that institution and the West Virginia Archeological Society, spent six weeks trying to unravel the mystery of the walls. Kellar and his associates found few artifacts. The most plentiful were hammerstones, but there were also some side-notched projectile points, scrapers, and crude choppers, generally made from poorer grades of the Kanawha flint, which crops out below the walls. On the other hand, they found no pottery sherds. Subsequent finds by local amateur archeologists added nothing substantial to the investigations by Kellar.
Examinations of the walls have offered absolutely no positive clues to their purpose. Kellar rejects the idea that the walls were defensive, since they were erected on steep slopes instead of the brows of the ridges where they would have been most advantageous as defenses. Besides, they were not high enough to have given much protection, unless giving support to a log stockade, and there is no evidence to support such a conjecture. He also rules out the claim that the walls may have formed enclosures into which to drive animals. About the only animal that could have been trapped in this manner, according to Kellar, was the buffalo, which avoided such rugged terrain. Kellar concluded, therefore, that perhaps the only reasonable assumption on the basis of existing evidence is that the walls and rock cairns served a ceremonial and ritualistic purpose. Yet, even this suggestion is warranted only by the fact that other explanations cannot be supported by logic or evidence. Dr. Edward V. McMichael, the West Virginia state archeologist, generally concurs in the conclusions of Dr. Kellar.
Excavations at the village of Mount Carbon, at the base of Armstrong Mountain, may ultimately offer some clues to the identity of the builders of the walls. Careful examination of a part of the Mount Carbon village area by Dr. McMichael and a crew of serious-minded associates has during the past three years provided much new information concerning prehistoric settlement of the Mount Carbon area. McMichael found some indications that a culture group known as the Early Hunters may have been at Mount Carbon as early as 8000 B. C. and that a later group, the Archaic hunters and food gatherers, were in the region between 6000 and 1000 B. C.
McMichael's efforts also uncovered evidences of habitation by the Adena Mound Builders, who constructed most of the mounds and earthworks of West Virginia. The Adena group, which was in the Kanawha Valley between 1000 B. C. and 200 A. D. is believed to have built one mound and an enclosure once standing on Armstrong Creek and the mound at Falls View, across the Kanawha River from Mount Carbon. The circular houses of the Adena inhabitants appear to have been scattered over the bottom lands at Mount Carbon.
Between 200 and 1000 A. D. a group of people designated by McMichael as the Armstrong Mound Builders resided from time to time in the bottom lands at Mount Carbon. They lived in small circular houses. Numerous interesting artifacts from this period have been uncovered. The Armstrong Mound Builders probably erected most of the mounds on both Loop Creek and Armstrong Creek.
About 1000 A. D. the Buck Garden hill people began to occupy the Mount Carbon site. They were probably driven out of the valley by the Fort Ancient group, who arrived at Mount Carbon about 1400 A. D. and remained until about 1600. Some of the most interesting discoveries made by Dr. McMichael and his associates deal with the Fort Ancient occupants.
Many of the burials and artifacts at Mount Carbon date from the period of Fort Ancient occupation. In addition to earlier finds, more than forty skeletons were unearthed by McMichael and his party. Refuse pits disclosed that the Fort Ancient people lived partly by hunting and fishing and partly by farming. Wild game, fish and mussels, squash and other vegetables formed the staple parts of their diet, but they also used the dog for food.
The dwellings of the Fort Ancient people were rectangular in shape and had thatched roofs. The houses were a part of a palisaded village which had an entry passage of overlapping walls. Bastions were placed at intervals along the outer walls. From time to time this village was evidently expanded by erecting new palisades.
The question stills remains: who constructed the walls on Armstrong Mountain? Was there any relationship between the walls and the village inhabitants at Mount Carbon? It seems reasonably certain that there was. If so, then precisely which group of occupants most likely constructed the walls? Sigfus Olafson, of New York, who has long had an intense interest in archeology, believes they may be of Archaic construction. He bases his belief on the fact that some of the artifacts found in the workshop area around the walls is similar to Archaic products. Kellar suggests that they could have been constructed by a Middle Woodland culture group, but McMichael points out that only few remains of Middle Woodland culture have been found in the Kanawha Valley.
McMichael believes that the builders of the walls lived in either the Adena, Archaic, or Middle Woodland periods, but considers the late Adena people the most likely builders. He gives three reasons for his opinion: the comparatively large numbers of Adena residents in the Mount Carbon areas; the fact that the Adena group had a strong enough social organization to enable them to carry out such a sustained and difficult project as the construction of the walls; and the close parallels between the Armstrong walls and the structures of other Adena and Hopewellian peoples.
Although much knowledge has been gained by the careful investigations of the last half dozen years, much remains to be learned about the pre-history of Mount Carbon. The work of archeologists is done slowly and painstakingly, however, and bits of evidence found in widely scattered areas must often be pieced together to establish simple facts. With rapid strides being made in dating and classifying the discoveries presently being made, it may not be too much to hope that even yet the riddle of the Mount Carbon walls may be solved and a new chapter in the pre-history of the upper Kanawha Valley may yet be written.
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onlinebrands brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 553 Designs von 121 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Need a logo for an online consulting company. We bring the experience to the table in helping companies navigate their online efforts which includes developing a strategy for their online business model, their marketing, development and design efforts.
Online Brands Inc.
We work with clients in helping to navigate the world of online development. From early planning and online strategy, market research and marketing, feasibility, advertising, programming and infrastructure, usability, even SEO, we work with clients to help create, shape and manage their online effort. We provide that 1000 foot view of the unique aspects of developing online businesses and ventures. With that said, we need a logo that represents or stresses the project management level in the domain of internet business.
- Some kind of iconography that speaks to the online world (please see note under what we do not want).
- One potential motif I had in mind was a set of blueprints to emphasize the planning nature of the business, but what would blueprints in an online world look like?
- Something that represents or emphasizes "results" would be nice. Conveys experience as well.
- A logo that stresses the fact that we provide assistance at the highest level. A job for us may be nothing more than being there to answer questions and give good advice or to even evaluate their current team, given that is from years of experience hitting potholes and land mines, which we can help them to avoid. Truly a consulting firm. - While most of our clients are small, we want to present a very professional image that leaves no doubt that we can provide first class services to the haughtiest and snooty of cliental. Perhaps this means serious corporate looking. At the least, creative, innovative, and up to today's graphical standards. - Deliverables in an industry standard vector based format in addition to any rendered bitmap art (Jpeg/Gif etc). Clean, Simple and Subtle logos that creatively convey the business at hand are preferred. A few excellent examples that do this on this website include: http://99designs.com/contests/14965…615125What I like about the above two designs is that they are not just pretty but they also say something first when you look at them. In other words, I would like to avoid a logo that is primarily playing on the initials for online brands if I could. In other words rather than creating some kind of abstract for the initials I am hoping for something that subtly speaks to the business itself. A representation of the world of online brands and branding, online business, online in general at the least. What represents that? This is where you're creativity comes in.
- Not just a globe or random icon or shape but something with some kind of meaning to it that is relevant. Think more about the online experience and what makes it unique perhaps. Be creative as you like.
- We do not want anything that resembles the logo for Internet Brands Inc. (http://www.internetbrands.com). They are completely unrelated to us and there needs to be no confusion about that.
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Chinatown Boardroom
"The point of Chinatown Boardroom was to mix surfboards and art, because surfboards are art, too," says Jackie Walden. This shop features one-of-a-kind surfboards as well as gift items, such as tote bags made from recycled materials and bracelets fashioned from old dominos. Walden co-owns the business with her husband, Eric, who shapes the boards, while she manages the art. www.chinatownboardroom.com. 1160 Nuuanu Ave., 585-7200.
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The Art Treasures Gallery
The Art Treasures Gallery has been a fixture in the Chinatown scene for more than 25 years. Owner Phuong Tran's gallery is filled from floor to ceiling with eye-catching antiques and art he's collected during his travels in Southeast Asia, including handbeaded pots from Bali and pendant maple leaves dipped in gold. Tran (in photo right) also features his own art, impressionistic paintings of Hawaiian landscapes, as well as pieces by other local artists. 1136 Nuuanu Ave., 536-7789.
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Restaurant Epic
If this place doesn't remind you of The Odyssey it's probably because Epic is in fact an acronym for "Euro-Asian Pacific International Cuisine." Every Sunday, this downtown hotspot has a special brunch menu, serving traditional items with a local twist, such as eggs Benedict layered with king crab or kalua pig, and pancakes topped with fresh bananas, macadamia nuts and vanilla brown butter. 1131 Nuuanu Ave., 587-7877.


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BradTak necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 59 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We are launching a real estate investment company that will purchase property and loans in coastal markets valued at $5MM and up. We need a logo that will be used for general business use, our website, stationary, and business cards, both for investor solicitation and communication with brokers, owners, and banks
1780 Equity Partners
Our principals and entity backer are all from Boston. While we will invest in both east and west coast markets, we chose the name to reflect our Boston roots. 1780 was the year the Massachusetts Constitution was signed. Our general mission statement is to operate an investment management business with an emphasis on integrity, trust and transparency. At this time, we have offices in Boston and Dallas.
I don't have a tagline in mind, we are thinking a simpler elegant logo is the idea, but am open to suggestion. We will likely use white or other neutral colors for our website background - we are working on that, and the logo will influence this process. I experimented with some fonts, colors etc, and think I like blue and red, but again am open to suggestion and creative ideas. I hate brown.
I am not a techie or a designer, so I don't know exactly what format to ask for - 99 Designs says to ask for a vector design like Adobe Photoshop, so I will trust them.
Don't want a lot of clutter, or anything that looks too KMart. Our client base will be high net worth investors with net worth typically exceeding $10MM.
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Martin play brings question of genius to WBU stage
PLAINVIEW – Comedian and actor Steve Martin has kept audiences in stitches for decades with his standup comedy routines and hilarious movie roles. But beneath the physical comedy and acting antics lies a talented writer as well.
It is his first play that shows another side of Martin's humor and, Dr. Marti Runnels feels, will entertain audiences as the lead-off hitter for the 2007-08 season of the Wayland Baptist University Theatre department.
Picasso at the Lapin Agile will open on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 28 and 29, with repeat performances on Oct. 5 and 6. A dinner theatre production, the show will begin at 8 p.m. in Harral Studio Theatre following an Italian meal catered by Carino's on the Harral Auditorium stage.
The piece, which garnered the Outer Critics Circle Award for the Best Off-Broadway Play, shows a more thoughtful humor to Martin as he pits two of the best-known thinkers of the 20th century together in a fictitious meeting. Physicist Albert Einstein and artist Pablo Picasso meet in a Paris café in 2904, musing over the century's achievements and prospects as well as other topics.
"What I love about this play is the notion of what makes the work of a genius, which is always a fascinating subject and is often controversial as well," said Runnels, Director of Theatre at WBU. "We dealt with this topic a little in the play Art, but this goes a little further."
Picasso, who Runnels calls "one of the most prolific artists of his time who became popular and acclaimed during his lifetime," must deal with his fame and the reactions of those around him in the play. Likewise, Einstein's work involved new ideas that also were lauded by the scientific community.
But were they both geniuses? And was one more genius than the other?
"What we do know is that both men changed the face of the planet forever," Runnels said. "Even if you know nothing about either of them, you'll still enjoy this play."
While the play may feature a fictitious meeting of the two thinkers – Runnels said as far as history tells, there was no personal connection between the two – the issues they raise and the events that unfold around them create some great comedic moments.
Runnels said he first read Picasso several years ago, but has been a longtime fan of Martin's work. During his college years at William Jewell, Runnels said he often memorized Martin's skits and would entertain on campus with his routines. In fact, to some on campus, he was known only as "Steve."
Many years have passed since those days, but Runnels' fondness for Martin's work still holds true. And his fondness for this comedic play parallels that.
Taking the lead role of Picasso will be junior Jordy Williams of Shallowater, an English major who also had the lead in last year's production of Terra Nova. Peter Bourland, a theatre major from Tucson, Ariz., who appeared in last spring's Shorts, plays the role of Einstein.
Others in the cast include WBU theatre veterans Thomas Hoffman, a theatre major from Wasilla, Alaska, as Freddy; theatre major Grant Jasper of Argyle as Gaston; theatre minor Khrystyne Eckerd of Ruidoso, N.M., as Germaine; theatre minor Rachel Morgan of Plainview as Suzanne; Dr. David Howle, associate professor of religion, as Sagot; theatre minor Jessie Else of Weiser, Idaho, as The Countess. Newcomers include freshman David McClung of Sundown as Schmendiman and freshman Rachel Morrison of Turkey as a female admirer. Barry Stagg of Texas Tech University will play the role of a surprise visitor. Sarah Buckland of Houston, who served as stage manager for the summer production of Shadowlands in Ruidoso, N.M., will serve in the same role for Picasso.
Tickets for the dinner theatre are $20 per person, which includes the meal, show tickets and dessert. Tickets for the show only are $8 for adults and $4 for students college age and under. Reservations for dinner theatre tickets must be paid for in advance by check, cash or credit card but may be picked up at the door.
For more information or to make reservations, call the Theatre Box Office at 291-1089.


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35395, Children's Songbook, Home and Family, My Dad, 211
My daddy is my fav'rite pal,
And I help him ev'ry day.
It's plain to see I want to be
Like him in ev'ry way.
He teaches me that honesty
Is best in all I do.
I'm very glad that he's my dad,
And I know he loves me too.
Words and music: Carol Graff Gunn, b. 1929. © 1957 IRI
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Most of us deck out our homes during the Christmas season– garland, lights, trees, and gifts are common sights that help to let us know that the birth of the Christ child is near. In the days leading up to Easter Sunday, in our home we also try to have the sights of the Lenten season present to remind our children of that one special day, for afterall, without the fulfillment of Easter there would be no need for Christmas.
Just as in the days leading up to Advent and the Christmas season, come Ash Wednesday we decorate our family room mantel in the liturgical color of violet to help aid our children grasp the meaning of this time in the church year.
An old retired violet scarf from the wardrobe is draped across the mantel place and topped with an empty wooden cross. This is to help remind the children that it won't be until Good Friday that the cross will be filled with the Savior.
Atop the scarf there are fourteen votive candles. On Fridays during Lent, our family prays the Stations of the Cross. Each candle, one for each station, will be lit prior to prayer, with one candle being blown out after praying each station, resulting in darkness by the end of the prayers. This simple action allows for meditation on the Passion of our Lord and helps the children to be fully engaged in the prayer.
Down below to the left are the bare willow branches of our Jesus Tree. Much like the Jesse Tree used during Advent which chronicles the lineage of Christ to his birth, the Jesus Tree is utilized during Lent to show the fulfillment of the prophets leading up to Christ's death. Each night during Lent, our family will read the corresponding Bible passage before hanging that days ornament. This year our family will be using Melissa's printable ornaments to adorn our tree. By the end of Lent our Jesus Tree will be full of all the wisdom of the ages as we await the Resurrection.
Just beside the Jesus Tree are two baskets. The first houses all of the books of our Lenten Book Basket. They are here for the children to pick out at will this year since there are not enough just yet to cover each of the 40 days of Lent. Hopefully by next year there will be!
The other basket houses all of the helps that accompany the season such as the purple cloth bag to bury Alleluia on Ash Wednesday, a rosary , and prayer cards.
It also houses a few play sets. My son is very tactile and loves to manipulate objects. I discovered this lovely little play set at the local craft store a few days ago and knew that it was just what he needed.
After coloring in the figures, he has been delighted in playing with it to act out the scenes of the Passion. (If you aren't able to find such a set, Lacy has this little set free to print. I printed this set out, too, just for additional fun!)
Over to the right, atop the chest is the The Golden Children's Bible from which we will read the Jesus Tree passage from in the evenings. Also set there is The Complete Chronicles of Narnia which will serve as our family read aloud for the Lent and Easter season. It is my hope, now that my daughter is older, that she will be able to pick up on all of the rich symbolism within the pages of the books. Our goal is to read the whole series from start to finish by the end of the 50 days of Easter on Pentecost Sunday!
Nesting on top of the books is our family's traditional crown of thorns and sacrifice jar. The children, after completing a charitable deed are free to add either a bean to the jar or break off one of the thorns. Hopefully by Easter we will have a full jar and an empty crown!
So, there it all sits in the family room. A little stark and bare in comparison to our Christmas mantel, but I think it's presence allows for the penitential tone of the Lenten season to shine through.
Looking for other ways to celebrate the Lenten season in your home? Take a look here for other ideas.
Do you decorate your home for the Lenten season? Please share as I am always looking for new ways to more fully engage my children!


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Rich King Casting has placed an ad on Craigslist seeking cast members for the upcoming unofficial Steve Jobs biopic. The movie which stars Ashton Kutcher, officially titled jOBS will start filming next week and needs cast members that look like they are from the seventies.
Filming a movie in Silicon Valley / Palo Alto based on Steven Jobs. Works the week of June 4th - 8th. Film takes place in the 70'sLooking for the 70's look – longish hair, sideburns etc. Also looking for People who have 1965 to 1973's cars. There is Pay when working and meals included.
jOBS is the unofficial Steve Jobs biopic being produced by Mark Hulme and Five Star Pictures and directed by Joshua Michael Stern of Swing Vote and Neverwas. The film will chronicle the 30 most defining years of Steve Job's life, all as seen through his colleagues and friends lives.
So there you have it, if you have long hair and equally long sideburns or have a car from the 70's and fancy getting involved, you can contact the casting company via the ad on Craigslist. Don't expect a huge movie star pay off, the cast positions only come with the minimum wage.
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The U.S. Dept. of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) says it has no intention to propose new regulations governing the transport of agricultural products. The FMCSA's press release announcement is at www.dot.gov/affairs/2011/fmcsa2411.html.
The NCC stated that it was pleased that the FMCSA agrees that onerous regulations are not needed and that agriculture has worked with individual states to develop common sense enforcement practices.
The NCC recently had submitted comments, available at www.cotton.org/news/releases/2011/upload/NCC-FMCSA-Comments.pdf, to the FMCSA expressing its concern with the agency's interpretations and some of its proposed guidances. The NCC's comments focused on: 1) the distinction between interstate and intrastate commerce in deciding whether operations of commercial motor vehicles within the boundaries of a single state are subject to FMCSA regulations; 2) the factors that states are using in deciding whether farm vehicle drivers transporting agricultural commodities, farm supplies and equipment as part of a crop share agreement are subject to the commercial driver's license (CDL) regulations; and 3) proposed guidance to determine whether off-road farm equipment or implements of husbandry operated on public roads for limited distances are considered commercial motor vehicles.
The NCC's comments also noted the concern that the interpretations and some of the proposed guidance in the notice could adversely affect the long-standing exemptions, waivers and exceptions that agricultural operations have effectively used for more than 25 years. These exemptions, waivers and exceptions properly take into account agricultural operations' seasonal nature, limited access to and the availability of CDL drivers, the types of vehicles as well as their varying functions or loads, the hours of service during peak seasonal activities, the use of family members, and costs. Furthermore, agricultural operations and organizations have worked closely with individual states, which have been given authority to grant these exemptions.
In addition to comments filed by outside groups, a bipartisan group of 22 Senators (including nine Cotton Belt Senators) sent a letter to the FMCSA strongly objecting to the changes proposed in the Federal Register notice.