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Palm Trees in the Snow () is a 2015 Spanish romantic drama film directed by Fernando González Molina. Penned by Sergio G. Sánchez, the screenplay is based on the novel of the same name, Palmeras en la nieve, by Luz Gabás.

Plot

Kilian is a young man from the mountains of Huesca who, in 1954, returns to the island of Fernando Pó (present Bioko), where he was born. He joins his father Antón and his brother Jacobo. They are one of many Spanish families who harvest cocoa in Spanish Guinea.

The movie opens in 1968 with Kilian and Bisila making love. Shortly after, Killian departs, leaving behind a half-torn picture and his hat as a memento for Bisila. Flash forward to 2003 Pasolobino, Spain, where Clarence is attending the funeral of her estranged father Jacobo. After the funeral Clarence and her cousin Daniela discuss the possibility of selling the family land. They also discuss Daniela's father, Kilian, who is suffering from dementia. While in Killian's office Clarence finds a journal, a half-torn picture and a torn note stating that money has been sent to an unidentified woman. Clarence asks Julia, an old family friend, about the note. Julia admits that her deceased husband Manuel wrote the note but she doesn't know who the woman is. Clarence tells Julia that she will travel to Bioko in Equatorial Guinea to find out more about her father's life. Clarence also decides that if there are relatives in Bioko she will bring them back to Spain. Julia tells Clarence to look for a man named Simón, who was Kilian's houseboy and friend.

Flashing back to 1954, a young Kilian and Jacobo are saying goodbye to their mother and sister Catalina as they depart for Guinea. Catalina gives Kilian a journal and encourages him to write in it. On the ship to Bioko Kilian and Jacobo meet Manuel, the new resident doctor of the cocoa plantation estate. Once on land they are greeted by Kilian and Jacobo's father Anton, and his best friend Ose. On the plantation, Kilian has an unpleasant introduction to Gregorio, an abusive overseer. While in the cocoa fields Kilian wanders off into the nearby forest where he hears singing. He follows the singing to a waterfall where he sees a woman crying. Kilian attempts to introduce himself to her but gets distracted by noise from the bushes, where he discovers Gregorio with a native prostitute. She is gone by the time he looks again for her. Later on a young Julia invites Kilian, Jacobo, and Anton to a dinner party at her parents' estate. During the dinner party Nelson, an estate worker, arrives asking for Jacobo's help with a medical emergency. Once in the car Jacobo reveals to Kilian that it was a ruse to leave the dinner party early to go to a night club called Santa Isabel. At the club, Jacobo encourages Kilian to drink and sleep with prostitutes.

During a lavish estate party Julia confronts Jacobo about his ruse at the dinner party, scolding him for his activities at Santa Isabel. Jacobo rebuffs Julia stating that they are not a couple and he will do as he pleases. Kilian introduces Manuel to Julia and they immediately become attracted to each other. Weeks later Anton, annoyed with Kilian's activities, takes him to visit Ose's village and introduces him to the Bubi people. Anton encourages Kilian to explore the land and get to know the locals. Sometime later Ose invites Anton and Kilian to his daughter Bisila's wedding in the village. When giving congratulations to the bride Kilian is surprised to see that she is the same woman from the waterfall. He immediately becomes attracted to her. Soon after, Antón's health takes a turn for the worst and he dies. At Antón's funeral Jacobo runs off into the forest. When Julia attempts to console him, Jacobo forcibly kisses Julia, but she pushes him away, stating that she is engaged to be married to Manuel. Frustrated, Jacobo runs into the forest screaming. Filled with grief of his father's death, Kilian leaves Bioko and returns to Pasolobino for 3 years.

In present-day 2003, Clarence has arrived in Bioko, locates Antón's grave, and is introduced to Iniko, a plantation office employee. While driving Clarence back to her hotel Iniko detours to pick up his younger brother, Laha, who has returned home from university in Spain. Iniko and Laha show Clarence around town, and Iniko and Clarence gradually develop a relationship. Iniko reluctantly helps Clarence find out more about the coco plantation estate. After being met with hostility from the plantation workers, they are introduced to an elderly Simón. Simón tells Clarence that Iniko's grandfather, Ose, was friends with her grandfather, Antón. A confused Iniko demands to know what Clarence is really searching for. Clarence tells Iniko about her uncle Kilian and her father Jacobo, then shows Iniko the half-torn picture. A shocked Iniko tells Clarence that the woman in the picture is his mother Bisila. Iniko takes Clarence to the elderly Bisila's home, where Bisila tells Clarence her connection with Kilian.

Flashing back to 1957, Kilian returns to Bioko. Kilian visits Ose and the Bubi people at their village. Ose reintroduces Bisila (she states her name as Daniela Bisila), her husband Mosi, and their son Iniko to Kilian. Kilian then visits Santa Isabel looking for Jacobo. While there, Gregorio takes a prostitute at gunpoint after arguing over her with another man. Kilian talks Gregorio down and then takes Jacobo, Dick, and Pao back to the estate. The next day, Kilian sends Jacobo on a plane back to Spain. Kilian visits Julia at her parents' store and they discuss the hostile changes of the political climate. Bisila arrives to tell Julia that her friend Gustavo, a local politician, has been attacked. Julia asks Kilian to assist her and Bisila with rescuing Gustavo, smuggling him through military checkpoints. At the estate Bisila, a nurse, attends to Gustavo's wounds. Killian and Bisila almost share a kiss, later meeting in a shed where they profess their connection and make love. Though they try to keep their affair a secret, everyone on the estate finds out about the affair.

In 1964 Kilian's mother sends him a letter requesting he return to Spain due to his sister Catalina's declining health. Kilian stays in Spain for several months after Catalina dies. Jacobo returns to Bioko and visits Julia, telling her that he has met a woman in Spain. Jacobo makes another advance towards Julia, who tells him to leave. That evening at the estate, Bisila is cornered by a car with a drunken Jacobo, Dick, and Pao inside. They proceed to beat and rape Bisila. Simón finds her, she swears him to secrecy, and tends to her injuries. The next day Kilian returns; Jacobo is in the plantation hospital with syphilis. Dick and Pao's bodies are found hanging from a tree. It is implied that Mosi, Bisila's husband is taking revenge for the rape. Kilian confronts Ose and Simón, they inform him of Bisila's rape, and warn him not to interfere, or Mosi will find out about their affair. Kilian tells Jacobo of Dick and Pao's deaths and then confronts him about Bisila's rape. Kilian beats Jacobo and warns him of Mosi's revenge. Kilian asks Bisila for forgiveness and she hints at Mosi's attack. Later on Mosi attempts to kill Jacobo but Kilian arrives in the middle of the attack, giving Jacobo time to shoot Mosi dead. Kilian sends Jacobo back to Spain. Bisila tells Kilian that she must leave and mourn Mosi's death for a year, after which she will be free to be with him. Kilian tells Bisila that he will wait for her.

In 1968, a new president is elected for the newly independent Republic of Equatorial Guinea, and the Spanish colonists are being forced to leave. Julia's parents lose their business and begin to make plans to return to Spain. Back at the estate, various overseers such as Gregorio have gone missing. While walking through the cocoa fields Kilian is approached by three angry laborers. They force Killian to go deep into the forest, where he is forced to dig his own grave. A laborer tells Kilian that he originally wanted to kill Jacobo for killing Mosi, but now Kilian will pay the price. Simón arrives and convinces the laborer not to kill Kilian as long as he leaves and takes Bisila with him at the end of her mourning. As Julia and Manuel are preparing to leave for Spain, Julia begs Kilian to leave with them and suggests he bring Bisila along. Julia brings Bisila to her home, marking the end of Bisila's year-long mourning. Bisila arrives with Iniko and her second son Laha, telling Kilian that he is Laha's father. The next day Julia, Manuel, Kilian, Bisila, and Nelson and his wife attempt to leave Bioko by boarding a ship to Spain, with other Spanish colonists and some locals. Julia and Manuel pass through the gate successfully, but a guard prevents Bisila and her children from passing because everyone considered Guinean is prohibited from leaving. The crowd becomes agitated and pushes the gate down, and the guards begin shooting at the crowd. Julia and Manuel escape on to a motorboat where Julia's parents are waiting, while Nelson is shot dead. Kilian and Bisila return to the estate, marry in front of a rock the call the Keeper of the isle, and attempt to live together as a family but Kilian is eventually forced to leave alone.

In present-day 2003 Clarence returns to Pasolobino, where she visits the elderly Kilian. Clarence gives Kilian the hat he gave to Bisila. Upon seeing the hat Kilian remembers Bisila. Clarence begins to sing a song that Kilian heard Bisila sing when they first met. Back in Bioko, the elderly Bisila receives a letter from Spain informing of Kilian's death. Bisila travels to the beach where she walks into the ocean tide. Iniko and Laha arrive in Pasolobino to visit Clarence, who introduces them to Daniela.

Cast
 Mario Casas as Kilian de Rabaltué, the main male character who works on his family's cocoa plantation
 Celso Bugallo as older Kilian
 Adriana Ugarte as Clarence, one of the female leads who travels to Bioko to learn more about her father's history
 Djedje Apali as Iniko
 Macarena García as Julia
 Petra Martínez as older Julia
 Alain Hernández as Jacobo de Rabaltué, the brother of Kilian and father of Clarence
 Laia Costa as Daniela
 Emilio Gutiérrez Caba as Antón
 Berta Vázquez as Bisila, a mixed-race woman; the love interest of Kilian
 Victoria Evita Ika as older Bisila
 Daniel Grao as Manuel, doctor on the plantation in Bioko
 Fernando Cayo as Garuz
 Serge Happi as Simon
 Michael Bautista as Laha
 Laia Costa as Daniela
 Fanor Zapata as Mosi

Production
The film was shot in the Canary Islands, Huesca and Colombia.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack for this filmed received lots of attention from reviewer as well as award shows. Below are listed some of the songs from the soundtrack as listed by IMDB.

Awards and nominations

Reception

This film resulted in much praise and appreciation in the Spanish box office, especially since much of recent Spanish films have missed the opportunity to show Spain's colonial history. Many of the positive reviews of the film relate to its beautiful film location and the romantic plot between the two main characters. Additionally many of the rave reviews relate to the cinematography of the film that very much followed that of a novel in the sense that the directors took the time to develop the characters the plot without rushing to fit the film into a smaller time frame. One film reviewer emphasized that "they both have such excellent on-screen chemistry (the love which has blossomed from reel to real life too) that many times you can send ether penetrating love even through the yearning glances through the windows across the street or even during the lighting of a torch across the alley to indicate each other's presence."

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 86% based on reviews from 7 critics.

Critics to the film highlight that it did not properly address many of the themes related to colonialism even though it was the central focus of the movie.

See also
 List of Spanish films of 2015

References

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'I am not involved in Nigerian politics'- Professor Uju Anya
The controversial Nigerian-born American Professor Uju Anya of Carnegie Mellon University that tweeted the 'excruciating death' wish on the late Queen Elizabeth II has asked Nigerians and the rest of the world to delink and dissociate her from Nigerian internal politics and polity. Her words:
"I would not like to comment on the Nigerian government or any of the politicians or leaders on what they are doing and what they are not doing. I have not lived in Nigeria for almost 40 years. I am not registered to vote and I am not part of any political movement in Nigeria nor do I get involved in Nigerian politics. US politics is what I know and what I am involved in. Even in the US, I am a registered Independent. I neither support the Democrats nor do I support the Republicans or any of those parties. That is how strongly I believe in political independence and not being part of any party strategy whatsoever. All I can say is that I believe in a unified Nigeria. The wrong that has been done to the Igbo has to be compensated. At least, 'sorry' should be said. I expect this of the British government and the monarchy. No matter who you are or how big a government you are, when you have done wrong, hurt people, killed people, especially on a massive scale, I believe they must apologise and recognise that they have done something wrong. I also believe that Nigeria should be for all Nigerians. We didn't have a choice for the country to be formed in the first place – the British did that, too, forcefully putting independent nations into one. Now that we are together, we must try to accommodate one another so we can thrive and not just one group over the other."
Uju Anya, the Carnegie Mellon professor who sparked a firestorm when she wished Queen Elizabeth II an "excruciating" death has doubled down on her comments, saying she was trying to teach America about the monarchy's role in an African and Nigerian genocide.
"The news of Queen Elizabeth II's death has been met with public outpourings of grief commemorating her service as the longest-reigning monarch in British history. But not everyone is in mourning. For many impacted by the lasting legacy of the British Empire — one marked by genocide, racism, and exploitation — her death has been met with indifference, rage, and even celebration. "I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying," Uju Anya, an applied-linguistics professor at Carnegie Mellon, tweeted on Thursday. "May her pain be excruciating."
Anya was born in Nigeria in the aftermath of its civil war, which included a genocide aided and abetted by the U.K. over oil interests. Anya is far from alone in criticizing the queen's role in obscuring the realities of colonialism, which, over the course of her 70-year reign, she at times acknowledged but never explicitly apologized for. Yet Anya's words were met with harsh backlash, including from Jeff Bezos, who responded, "This is someone supposedly making the world better? I don't think so. Wow."
Anya replied to Bezos, writing, "May everyone you and your merciless greed have harmed in this world remember you as fondly as I remember my colonizers." Twitter responded by removing Anya's initial tweet, claiming it violated the site's policy, while Carnegie Mellon released a public statement saying it did not "condone the offensive and objectionable messages" Anya posted. "Free expression is core to the mission of higher education; however, the views [Anya] shared absolutely do not represent the values of the institution, nor the standards of discourse we seek to foster," the university explained. Last year, Carnegie Mellon received a $2 million donation from Amazon for its Computer Science Academy.
"If anyone expects me to express anything but disdain for the monarch who supervised a government that sponsored the genocide that massacred and displaced half my family and the consequences of which those alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star," Anya wrote in a tweet that remains up on her account. She spoke with the Cut about her feelings on the queen and her passing as well as the backlash she has faced for speaking frankly about colonialism." ( The Cut)

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'They could not take my soul'…Lydia Tischler 2017 – and inpatient psychoanalytic treatment.
Posted by Christine in Children in Hospital, Inpatient treatment, WW2
The British based child psychotherapist, Lydia Tischler, is an editor of the classic text: The Family as In-Patient: Working with Families and Adolescents at the Cassel Hospital. The Cassel Hospital in Kingston upon Thames, was originally established for the treatment of shell shock patients during the Great War. Under the directorship of psychiatrist Tom Main who developed the practice of psychosocial nursing, the work evolved into psychoanalytically orientated inpatient treatment of families.
Tischler and her group also had an effect in Melbourne, Australia. During the late 1980s the Melbourne Clinic in Richmond in Melbourne under the directorship of Dr Brian Muir, a psychoanalyst, who came from Britain and the Cassel Hospital for the job. He was the head of the adolescent and family unit there during the 1970s. Joan Christie then the Clinic's Director of Nursing, and a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, was also involved. Patients with multiple and complex problems can need the supportive structure of the hospital in their psychotherapeutic journey. At least for a time. Some people with complex presentations cannot be worked with without such support. Their emotional world, so fractured by early, and accidental experiences, requires the consistency and availability of a safe secure environment. As Marion Milner noted in her book, 'The Hands of the Living God, an account of the analysis of a woman lasting more than twenty years, psychoanalytic treatment can enable the living of a productive life. Otherwise means a considerable demand on the public purse. It is one part of a complex policy debate over treatment efficacy, evidence and as others have pointed out, the reluctance of psychoanalysis to represent itself.
The workings of the Melbourne Clinic project and the factors contributing to its ending are matters for historical research. I get the impression, at least as far as my memory goes, that this was an exciting and hopeful moment for psychoanalytic practice in this country. Why it ceased I do not know.
These musings and memories surfaced at the moment when I discovered Lydia Tischler's interview online. Published in 2017 she speaks of her early life, the family's arrest by the Nazis and the loss of her mother. Mengele's nod to the right was enough to seal Lydia's mother's fate. Lydia Tischler was nodded to the right.
'They could not take my soul', she says.
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'From Dachau to Cyprus': Story of survivors' internment in Cypress
'From Dachau to Cyprus': Story of survivors' internment in Cypress after the Holocaust to be told
By Louise Rachlis
The topic of Jewish refugees held in camps in Cyprus between 1946 and 1949 is relevant to the refugee situation in the world today.
"The history of the Cyprus camps reminds us that in the face of persecution and suffering, people will endure huge sacrifices in search of safety," said Eliana Hadjisavvas, a historian of modern Europe with particular interests in migration and displacement, in an interview with the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.
Hadjisavvas will be speaking at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre on Wednesday, November 27, 7 pm, at "From Dachau to Cyprus: Jewish Refugees and the Cyprus Internment Camps 1946-1949," a Holocaust Education Month event presented by the Shoah (Holocaust) Committee of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa in partnership with the Cyprus Embassy.
"Now, as then, state-imposed draconian immigration measures have done little to deter those who are desperate and displaced," she said. "The detention of people risking their lives for a better future will do little to prevent global population movements. The internment of Jewish refugees in Cyprus offers a historical lens from which we can analyze contemporary migration crises."
Although the history of the camps has remained relatively unknown, their significance "must not be underestimated," she said. "The Cyprus narrative broadens and enriches our understanding of both the Holocaust and its aftermath, demonstrating the way Jewish life continued following the horrors of the Second World War."
As the camps had traditionally been considered a mere "stopover" for refugees bound for Palestine, she said her audiences "are often surprised to learn how extensive the Cyprus program was." More than 53,000 Jewish refugees were interned in Cyprus between 1946 and 1949, and approximately 1,500 babies were born.
"Although I was born and raised in the U.K., I am of Greek-Cypriot descent and so was intrigued by this narrative," said. "As I began to research the subject, it became clear that very little had been written about this topic, with the history of the camps often relegated to footnotes in wider studies on the post-Holocaust period."
According to Hadjisavvas, a number of young American and Canadian Jewish men also played an active role in the Cyprus story.
"These machalniks (volunteers), many of whom had fought for the Allies during the war, were dedicated to helping Europe's surviving Jews by assisting clandestine immigration passages to Palestine.
"Tasked with manning the immigrant ships, those captured by the British would disguise themselves amongst the refugees to avoid detection and were consequently interned in Cyprus themselves."
Hadjisavvas recently completed a PhD in history at the University of Birmingham. Her doctoral research examined the history of British-run internment camps for Jewish refugees in colonial Cyprus, significantly reconfiguring historical understandings of this period, moving the Cyprus camps from the periphery to the centre of the question of post-war European migration and British imperial politics through a transnational lens.
Eliana's postdoctoral project at the Institute of Historical Research of the University of London, "Migrant Movements in the Mediterranean: Jewish Displacement in the British Empire, 1940-1950," will centre on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of migration.
"The High Commissioner of the Cyprus Embassy sent us a variety of photographs of the detainment camps, which Eliana will be using to create a photo-narrative exhibit," said Anne Read of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa. "This is in addition to her talk, which will address her own research, as well as how her research has been received, on the same subject."
Holocaust survivor Rose Lipszyc will tell her story of being interred in Cypress after being caught by the British in 1947 after reaching pre-state Israel.
Rose Lipszyc, a Holocaust survivor who was caught by the British in 1947 in pre-state Israel and sent to an internment camp in Cyprus, will also speak about her experiences there.
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Philipsburg Manor and Sunnyside were two of the sites singled out in the August, 2012, Path through History kickoff program as primary tourist destinations in the Lower Hudson Region. I had heard about the departure of the animals through the grapevine.
Animals, of course, are a crowd favorite. Besides the appeal to children of all ages who visited the site, the animals also were attractive to teachers who participated in IHARE Teacherhostels there. Teachers who had never milked a cow before would joyously milk one at the farm and have their pictures taken by their fellow teachers for display back in the classroom.
Historic Hudson Valley unofficially has made a strategic decision not to participate in the Path through History project even though it supposedly would be one of the beneficiaries. Instead it has chosen to place its historic sites in "hibernation." This means the sites will be maintained until the tourist climate changes with little expectation of tourism in the present. This decision is based on the drop in tourism from 18,000 day visitors in 2008 to 10,000 in 2012 with no end to the drop in sight. This excludes the extravaganzas and special events which drew 35,000. When a program on pirates was first offered, nothing much was expected, but people poured out of the woodwork and turned it into a really big event. Pirates, of course, have little to do with the Hudson River or any of the Historic Hudson Valley locations but they do bring the people in.
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOUR THINK THAT NEW SIGNS ON THE NYS THRUWAY AND A WEBSITE WILL RESTORE PHILIPSBURG MANOR TOURISM TO THE PREVIOUS LEVELS.
These developments reminded me of a session I attended a conference several years ago at Columbia University. In one session there was a presentation by the director of Colonial Williamsburg who recounted how excited the staff had been when the attendance passed the 1,000,000 mark for the first time. Then the plan was how to build on that achievement to reach 2,000,000. As you may expect, the 1,000,000 turned out to be the high point and paid attendance for 2012 was 653,000. And this is a big operation with a big budget and high national name recognition.
RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOUR THINK THAT NEW SIGNS ON THE VIRGINIA THRUWAY AND A WEBSITE WILL RESTORE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG TOURISM TO THE PREVIOUS LEVELS.
One of the comments made to me by officials at Historic Hudson Valley was about the lack of attendance from the Westchester residents. Historic Hudson Valley has little interest in trying to draw people from Pennsylvania or California who might stay over in hotels when people right next door with minimal travel expense to get to Philipsburg Manor, Lyndhurst, or Sunnyside weren't driving or taking the train from New York City to visit these sites.
The public which Historic Hudson Valley wants to reach is the same public that was mentioned in the Hudson Valley Path through History regional meeting held January 25 at the Wallace Center in Hyde Park: the residents of the community in which the historic site is located. These people aren't visiting the sites in their own backyard, the sites are starving, and the Path project is not designed to help them.
I am having a similar experience with places in the Bronx and Queens, places that aren't even on the officially-designated prime destination sites within the New York region. While it is fine and dandy that millions of people are visiting Manhattan for business, for diplomacy, to shop 5th Avenue, to see Broadway plays, and even to sight-see on double-decker tour buses, and to visit such world famous sites as Ground Zero, the Statue of Liberty, and the Empire State Building, where else do they go?
It would be interesting to know how many of the out-of-state and out-of-country visitors to Manhattan also visit the Museum of the City of New York, the New-York Historical Society, or the American Museum of Natural History compared to the number of visitors from within the metropolitan area. [Note – I do hear foreign accents all the time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.] At some point, one might think that the people in the immediate vicinity of an historic site in Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester or wherever in New York State form a much larger and more accessible target audience than the phantom tourists from around the country or the world who are going to be enticed to visit upstate New York because of new signs on the Thruway or a website.
IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE THE $1,000,000 TO HIRE TEN PEOPLE TO PROMOTE THE TEN REGIONS THEN USE IT TO PAY FOR FIELD TRIPS FOR 4TH GRADERS. THAT WILL BOOST ATTENDANCE MORE THAN ANY OTHER SINGLE ACTION.
But it won't mean increase sales and lodging taxes. In the meantime, sites are in a survival mode and the audiences they need to reach are in the ones in their own backyard. That is the frustration with the Path through History Project and why so many people have opted out. It doesn't meet their needs. Since we can't expect help from above, it will take a grassroots effort to develop the plans, structures, and tasks to try to make historic organizations a vibrant center of the community that they should be. After all, we are a storytelling species, and if we don't tell the story of our community, how can the community survive?
Below are some examples of the emails I have received on the subject consistent with the actions taken by Historic Hudson Valley. Since these were private emails I have omitted the names except in one case where I received permission to use it. I will explore more positive actions at the grassroots level in future posts.
I am historian for the Town of XXXX in XXXX County. We have group that formed a coalition of museums and historical societies along with several town/village historians. We meet on a monthly basis. We did a county museum map/brochure and are presently working on a place mat project to give to local restaurants with a museums located on the map. The coalition shares resources such as speaker lists and a locally published book list, and we have held a XXXX County History Week with programs to attract visitors. We're doing great work, but it's a struggle to be able to fund any of our projects. It seems it would be of more benefit, if some of that Path project money was filtered down to our local county level where the real work is being done!
Thanks for sending this along Peter- it reinforces the murmurs and grumblings that I heard during my time attending PTH meetings last year.
I stepped away from the effort in December. For what it's worth now&#8211two months later&#8211I'll forward you the &#8216-resignation' note that I sent to our regional coordinator.
I am writing to inform you that I have decided to step away from active participation in the PTH effort. Despite having attended several work group meetings and contributed to the MV heritage site list, I remain confused as to how this effort represents anything truly new, lasting, or unique to the promotion of cultural heritage tourism in NYS.
-STRUCTURE: As the state already has 1) established vacation destination regions and 2) the I Love NY campaign, I don't understand why PTH is being administered through the state's economic development councils. It seems counterproductive, especially given the necessary interplay between PTH and other tourism promotion efforts. Why PTH is a separate entity at all&#8211instead of being structured as a program within an already well-established statewide tourism effort (read in: ILNY)&#8211escapes me.
-APPROACH: Since its establishment, PTH has taken a &#8216-bottom up' approach, with Albany encouraging most parts of the program to be developed within the ten regional work groups. This would be fine if our ideas were fed into a state-established structure, but that does not appear to the be case. Not only have we been asked to bring content to the table, but we're also being asked to provide structure and implementation recommendations, which I'm fairly certain aren't consistent across regions.
Unless I've missed something here, NYS has asked the ten different regions to provide ten unique plans, around which the state will structure its implementation effort. I feel that a &#8216-top down' effort would be more effective at promoting a statewide initiative, with regions feeding their unique content into a single structure. There are no specific goals to focus our commentary towards, just the vague idea to &#8216-promote cultural heritage tourism'. Frankly, I feel that we're wasting time, throwing around ideas without a net in which they will be caught.
-DUPLICITY: I don't see what PTH brings to the table that hasn't already been covered&#8211ad nauseum&#8211by past and present cultural heritage tourism initiatives. I only have the MV work group to cite, but why are we spending time reinventing the wheel when programs like the MV Heritage Corridor, Erie Canalway NH Corridor, and a wealth of local/county-wide initiatives are already in place? If money is available for cultural heritage tourism, I think it would be better spent coordinating between these myriad existing efforts rather than trying to develop PTH. While PTH may be new it isn't unique.
-GUIDANCE FROM ALBANY: Communication of PTH's specific goals has been sparse at best. At every meeting I've attended I've heard &#8220We're waiting for guidance from the Governor's office&#8221 or &#8220That hasn't been decided yet&#8221. Or worse, awkward silence in response to questions. Time and again, PTH has been likened to a plane that has taken off but is being built in the air. Why? It is not the concept of PTH I disagree with so much as the approach (or lack of one) taken by the state to its development and implementation. It was encouraging to see an ILNY representative at yesterday's meeting, but I think one should have been with us since the start.
Please know that it is not my intention to denigrate the efforts of anyone who has participated in this program. A lot of time, talent, and treasure has been expended by our history and tourism professionals to develop this idea. I appreciate being asked to be a part of PTH and am encouraged to see that our great history is a priority at the highest levels of government. Please know that I am happy to contribute content if/when the time comes to do so, and that the my facility is open for future meetings, press conferences, and other promotional efforts as is appropriate.
Feel free to share this note as you feel is appropriate. What I am questioning is not the merit of PTH as an idea, so much as I am the disjointed, vague and duplicitous approach that has defined its development to date. If I can be of further assistance, please let me know. Otherwise, I wish you the best in your efforts.
Mr. Howard has summed it up nicely.
Regarding what is apparently a poor decision in removing the very popular animals from Philipsburg Manor. Perhaps they are following the strategy that was set by the National Parks. Some of them announced in February that they were intentionally planning cuts in ways that would hurt tourists the most. Glacier National Park announced that it would stop maintaining the only road that provides access to the park. Gettysburg and Yosemite announced cutting their volunteer coordinators, eliminating 6,872 volunteer hours and 3,500 volunteers, respectively. Natchez Trace planned to close rest rooms one day a week.
Peter, Brian and others concerned about this issue: I strongly urge you to send your concerns, such as those posted above, to Senator Betty Little. Senator Little is Chair of the NYS Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation Committee. She represents my district and in my interactions with her, I find Senator Little to be a very practical and effective person.
I never could figure out, given the guidelines for the choice of primary sites in our region that "they" chose a site that is only open 6 months a year and an other site that has less than 2000 visitation and is not adi compliant.
I've heard little about this program that is positive. However, I have yet to have anyone remark on what I see as a major obstacle. The State keeps repeating that heritage tourism is a $5 BILLION dollar industry in NY, and that heritage tourists spend an average of $300 more per person than other tourists. Part of this PTH program was directed at those dollars. NOTHING has been done to re-educate local government officials that their offices are now tourist destinations, and that they need to act accordingly, with some positive customer service skills. With a couple of exceptions, most clerks view tourists as a nuisance. They do not engage in partnerships with local historical/genealogy groups to provide volunteers. They do not realize that people who have pleasant experiences stay in the area, and spend money in the area at local businesses.
Additionally, nothing has been addressed as to how to keep tourists in the area, or to be blunt, encourage them to spend that extra $300. The best example of this issue is Lancaster, PA. Most of the Amish stores, like government offices, close at 5. However, there is another "night life," so to speak of places that are open later, knowing that after dinner, people are still looking for ways to spend their money. Hence, the outlet malls and other attractions, which have nothing to do with the "Amish Experience." I don't think every county needs outlet malls, but they do need museums and local shops that are open later. People want to get the most out of their vacation. However if research is the primary purpose of the trip, they aren't going to sacrifice, often, research time for other local treasures.
The PTH program needs to start considering it's customer, the tourist. There is an entire field of sociology dedicated to the tourist. Unfortunately, it seems as though no one in the program is familiar with it.
Gayle Ann has made some excellent points. I wholeheartedly agree with her statement: NOTHING has been done to re-educate local government officials that their offices are now tourist destinations, and that they need to act accordingly, with some positive customer service skills. With a couple of exceptions, most clerks view tourists as a nuisance.
Excellent write-up! It is not just Historic sites and museums with declining numbers – attractions like Howe Caverns, Ausable Chasm, The Adirondack Museum all post declines from Best Year Ever. And when was that "Best Year Ever?" I'll bet you could pin it on mid 1990′s. Since a lot of these attractions draw from the Capital Region and Mohawk Valley you can see the dovetail of jobs lost to decreased attendance. GE in Schenectady went from a high of 40-50K jobs in the 1980′s to less than 8K jobs today. Also I see a lot of government tourism promotion to be duplication and poorly designed – here in the Adirondacks the Scenic Byways Project (a federal program, administered by ANCA – hey – they gave us the money!); and the very marginal First Wilderness Heritage Corridor program http://www.firstwilderness.com/ Again a grant funded boondoggle.
My two cents on your latest blog…. Sorry, this is too long, but that's life!
We live near Boston. My wife has lots of Tremper family in the Hudson Valley (HV) region (a few living, most dead). We used to and she still does travel to the area a few times a year for further Tremper-related research and to visit relatives.
hunting ancestors and the occasional living cousin. We've also been to NYC Municipal Archives researching, as well as gone on some NYG&BS walking tours of the old Five Points area and nearby places where there was some Tremper activity. So, our family history interests have drawn us from some distance to the HV and NYC areas, where we have stayed one or more days at a time, spending money, seeing sights, and researching.
Your essay reminds me that I spent 4 years at the U. of Penn, and only on the very last day did I finally force myself to make the effort to go and see the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. I knew they were there and that they would not go away, so I deferred my visit until it became a "now or never" thing. Similarly, the idea of attracting "locals" to see the sights in the HV may get some of them to show up to a place once or twice, but if you want repeated visits you need something more, e.g., family history connections, genealogy, archives, cemeteries, and somehow discovery of living cousins. A few years ago my wife spent about 3 days in Philly researching some Tremper people in the City Hall's dark, dank catacombs viewing poorly preserved records and visiting other Tremper haunts: another example of a "tourist" spending money to do family research.
In other words, I'm not surprised that attracting "locals" may be difficult and costly (per capita) – they already know about the attractions, they know the attractions will "always be there", and so they don't see any hurry to visit them. Lure people from farther away with opportunities to discover more about their ancestry (in addition to eating and sleeping there and buying trinkets)!
One of the comments in your essay or in an attached comment mentioned city clerks who see out of town visitors "as a nuisance". While we have occasionally encountered such, most are happy to see us using their materials. The few others may need some "counseling" from Albany or some tourism group. But it is also true that they are happier to have us if we don't need too much hand-holding when researching their records!
BTW, I'm currently reading (skimming, mostly) an interesting book by David Critchley, "The Origin of Organized Crime in America – The New York City Mafia, 1801-1931″ (Routledge, 2009). On pages 145-147 the author describes a Mafia place ca. 1930-1931 in Wappingers Falls where they apparently distilled and also transferred barrels of bootleg liquor, using a large barn there. I'd bet one could attract some tourists there, but maybe the locals would rather not promote it!


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Research Claims Abortions Have Cost over $16 Trillion in Federal Revenue
Carrie Dedrick | Friday, August 1, 2014
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A former liberal activist, turned pro-life political consultant has published research that shows the cost of abortions in America. According to Mark Olson's calculations, abortions have used more than $16 trillion of federal revenue, about the same amount as the United States national debt.
Olson's research begins before the Roe v. Wade decision.
He explained, "The figure of 55 million persons aborted, typically reported by pro-life groups, is a significant undercount. Abortions did not magically begin occurring in 1973 [when the Supreme Court allowed them], yet that is when everyone starts counting."
Olson's findings are unsettling: The United States has lost over 125 million babies to abortion.
Charisma News explains the methodology, writing, "When the per-capita individual federal tax burden for each respective year is applied to the population loss model, the result is a statistically significant correlation between our current national debt and federal revenue loss due to abortion.
"Basic macroeconomics says that any such loss in population will result in a collapse of the necessary aggregate supply and demand to sustain long-term national economic growth."
Olson said, "We can argue over a balanced-budget amendment or tax-and-spend policies, but the reality is that we have lost over 125 million persons—no liberal or conservative economic policy can make up for that loss. We need to stop destroying our most precious economic resource, our people."


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The Land Where Women Rule!
By jnadmin2 on April 9, 2010
No man dares sit on this Nigerian throne
In Kumbwada, a curse has assured that only women will reign, locals say. And so far, the current queen pronounces, it has worked out better this way.
By Robyn Dixon
Reporting from Kumbwada, Nigeria
The palace, under a rusted corrugated roof, looks mostly like a shed. Only one delicate pair of feet in its single room is shod, and they are in black rubber flip-flops.
This is the genteel court of Queen Hajiya Haidzatu Ahmed.
The queen's henna-dyed fingers are childlike and slender, her smile girlish and her voice soft. Whenever she speaks, the men who are her courtiers listen, enraptured. Whenever she giggles, they laugh loudly. Whenever she explains some point, they nod solemnly.
In Nigeria's conservative Islamic north, women are barred from ruling, except in the kingdom of Kumbwada. Here, an ancient curse keeps males off the throne, according to locals. Male pretenders who dare to try will be buried within a week.
The last man who wanted to overturn the tradition of female rulers was the queen's father, Prince Amadu Kumbwada, 58 years ago. All he did was say he wanted to succeed his mother, then still alive. He was immediately taken ill.
The prince was rushed to a distant kingdom, where he eventually recovered. He never returned.
"There has never been a male ruler," the queen says, chuckling, a sound like dry, crackling paper. "Even my father just voiced his desire to be chief, but it almost killed him."
Her grandmother, on the throne for 73 years, died when she was 113.
Hajiya was a child when her father tried and failed to become his mother's successor. She was too young to feel any sense of rivalry, but old enough to believe the curse would kill him.
She points up to the nail-pocked iron roof with a mischievous smile, to indicate that it's God's will.
"It's a women's affair," the 65-year-old monarch says. "Women are the rulers and they rule as effectively as men, sometimes even better than men."
These are alien pronouncements in a part of Nigeria where women typically are relegated to second place and strict Sharia, or Islamic law, is the rule.
But in the community Hajiya has ruled for 12 years, women get a sympathetic hearing in cases of wife beating or divorce.
"When domestic issues come to me, the way I treat them will be quite different to other traditional chiefs," she says. "I'm a woman and I'm a mother and I have so much concern and experience when it comes to the issue of marriage and what it means for the maintenance of the home and what it means for two people to live together."
Kumbwada, an undulating region with low, scrubby forest, is so notorious for banditry that the road is dotted with police checkpoints every few miles.
For years, there have been hostile mutterings among northern Islamic clerics in other tribal kingdoms that the curse against male rulers amounts to witchcraft.
"Once there is evidence of the use of black magic in any situation, Islam considers it a deviation which must be reversed," Sheik Aminuddeen Abubakar, imam in the city of Kano, reportedly said several years ago. Reached by phone recently, he stood by his comments.
Musa Muhammad, the chief imam of Kumbwada, defended the queen, saying Kumbwada's position was unique.
"We can't live without a leader, and the fact that any male rulers that ascend the throne die quickly and mysteriously while female rulers reign for many years makes our case a peculiar one," Muhammad says. "This is an exceptional situation none of us can change."
As the traditional ruler, the queen handles disputes such as quarrels over land, divorces, petty violence, accusations of theft and arguments between neighbors. Government courts step in only if a traditional ruler refers a case or if the situation isn't resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
"The royalty have a very important role in Nigerian society," Hajiya says. "Of course we're different than the elected powers. The real power, the confidence, is with us. Politicians think you can buy votes.
"I am closer to the people. The traditional rulers are the ones the people trust."
Outside the palace, goats bleat and chickens cluck. Inside, it's so hot that rivulets of perspiration make their way down people's backs.
The queen could be a simple Nigerian villager in her baggy, shift-like cotton dress and blue-green scarf. She sits on her throne, an extra-wide, spotless armchair that looks designed for either someone very important or someone rather large. The throne is on a platform above her courtiers, elderly men in charge of collecting taxes, hearing complaints or arranging royal audiences.
Since her father's hurried departure, when the princess was 7, she knew she was the heir to the throne. As a child, she played at being queen with other children in the village who were relegated to the roles of domestic servants and courtiers.
"When I was young, there was a very strong peer group of all the children in the village, both boys and girls. We had leaders and other parts like staff among us. I got used to a leadership role, even when I was a child. So I was prepared for this."
Then, her subjects were children. As the real queen, she has more than 33,000 subjects, most of them poor farmers.
But apart from the childhood games, she had no education to prepare her for leadership.
"My only handicap is that I don't have a Western education, because in my time, people didn't educate their daughters. I'm not educated in the modern way, but in the traditional way, I have wisdom in my dealings with people. I'm proud to say that it would be hard to find someone educated who could rule as well as I can," she says with calm dignity.
The queen has her pet hates. She doesn't like divorce. She won't tolerate wife beating. And she can't bear the idea of leaving any case that comes before her unresolved, to be handed over to the local court system. She has never let that happen.
"I've never had a crisis I couldn't solve," she says.
Even politicians sometimes have to come to traditional rulers for help, she says.
"In a crisis, people don't listen to politicians. Once we intervene, once we speak, to the people, it's hands off."
Most traditional African rulers reflexively side with the male head of the household in a family dispute. So a girl resisting marriage to a much older man she doesn't love is likely to be ordered to obey her father. A woman who complains she is being beaten is likely to be told to obey her husband.
Hajiya had one wife-beating case early in her reign.
"I told him if he ever beat his wife again, I'd dissolve the marriage and put him in prison," she remembers. "Marriage is not a joke, and women are not slaves."
Since that case, she has made a point of campaigning against domestic violence whenever she holds court in local communities. She says she's never had another beating case. People know where she stands.
"Men sometimes say the women provoke them, so that is why they beat them," she says. "I tell them that there's no justification, whatever happens."
If a girl is miserable in an arranged marriage, the queen listens to her side of the story, even though she dislikes divorce.
"In such cases I try to strike a balance. I don't just end such marriages. I try to be tactful and see if there's any way this woman can come to love this man," she says. "But if that's not possible, if there's no way she can have any compassion for him or love, it's not her fault or his fault. It's just natural.
"I intervene and ask for the marriage to be dissolved for the sake of the woman, the man and everyone's sake."
She often addresses women's groups, urging members to become educated so that they can be future leaders. Most of all, she wants to live to see a female Nigerian president.
"It's my most ardent wish. I think the problems in Nigeria have become intractable. Let's try a woman. Men have failed."
She keeps her grown daughter, Idris, by her side whenever she holds court, grooming her to be queen. Her son, Danjuma Salihu, also grown, seated on the floor among the courtiers, has no hopes of succession.
He may one day become chief in another dominion though.
"But not here," she says. "Nobody has any doubts about it. He wouldn't survive it."
robyn.dixon@latimes.com
Copyright © 2010, The Los Angeles Times
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