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Connan Mockasin — Caramel
◊ He hasn't listened to anyone else's music for 10 years, shuns record labels and recorded his bewitching new album in a Tokyo hotel room. We meet psych-funk oddball Connan Mockasin.
Birth name: Connan Tant Hosford
Location: Te Awanga ~ Wellington, New Zealand ~ Paris, France ~ London, UK
Album release: November 4th, 2013
Record Label: Mexican Summer (MEX179)/Because Music
01. Nothing Lasts Forever (3:03)
02. Caramel (1:55)
03. I'm The Man, That Will Find You (5:02)
04. Do I Make You Feel Shy? (3:14)
05. Why Are You Crying? (5:25)
06. It's Your Body 1 (5:25)
11. I Wanna Roll With You (5:45)
Photograph: Kristy Sparow/Getty
• Born in New Zealand's capital of Wellington, Connan Hosford was first introduced to music at a very early age by his father, who played the guitar.
• Hosford went on to record his first song aged just five; a fact that doesn't seem too far-fetched when you consider the playful, imaginative; and experimental style of his work in later years. In 2004, he formed his first group, Connan & the Mockasins, releasing a couple of EPs independently and playing shows in New Zealand before moving to England. Hosford, however, felt the band set-up didn't allow him to express his individuality and so broke the band up and moved back to New Zealand to focus on solo material under the name Connan Mockasin. Prompted by his mother to self-produce his own album, Hosford went about using his parents' house while they were at work to create what would become his debut solo album, Please Turn Me Into the Snat, a brilliantly realized record brimming with inventively oddball, psychedelic pop. • Having played shows with the likes of Crowded House and Micachu & the Shapes in 2010, his music was introduced to label owner, producer, and DJ Erol Alkan through friend and collaborator Sam Eastgate of Late of the Pier. Having initially planned to put on a handful of songs as an EP, Alkan fell in love with the entire recording and decided to make it the first full-length release on Phantasy Sound. In 2011, the album was re-released as Forever Dolphin Love on Phantasy Sound, and Because Music with a bonus disc of live content. In 2012, Connan Mockasin composed and appeared on the Charlotte Gainsbourg song "Out of Touch" before touring New Zealand in support of Radiohead. ~ Daniel Clancy
• New Zealand via Paris/London pop sprite Connan Mockasin follows up the widely acclaimed oddball-psych of 2010's Forever Dolphin Love. Caramel boasts a unique brand of mutated, lustrous soul that was almost wholly self-recorded over a month in a Tokyo hotel room. Described by Clash Music as "a true cosmonaut of inner space," the new album explores different regions of Mockasin's singular galaxy, guided by his truly adventurous songwriting that favors reconfigured pop structures with a skewed funk sensibility. If Caramel wasn't enough, Mockasin has also been writing more material for Charlotte Gainsbourg after penning the exquisite "Out Of Touch" for the actress/singer's 2012 mini-album, Stage Whisper. It's another sign that Mockasin is going places, but at his own pace — just as Caramel suggests the process of melting and taking on a new shape, a new taste. That is the true sound of Connan Mockasin.
In french:
• "Connan Mockasin semble inspiré par un seul et unique theme musical qu'il déshabille chanson apres chanson au gré de ses inspirations. La guitare est aussi vagabonde que l'imagination et la précision reveuse des compositions rappelle tantôt le jazz, tantôt Ariel Pink, tantôt le jeu de piano soigné de Ryuichi Sakamoto. Grand disque, grand groupe en concert, grands moments d'écoute." (source: www.lesinrocks.com)
MySpace: https://myspace.com/connanmockasin
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/connanmockasin/connan-mockasin-im-the-man/s-Mrnuc
Label: http://www.mexicansummer.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/connanmockasin
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/connanmockasin
Website: http://www.phantasysound.co.uk/artist/connan-mockasin/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/connanmockasin
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/connanmockasin
Press: EU Laura Martin — laura@reallifepr.com / USA Stephanie Weiss stephanie@motormouthmedia.com
Agent: USA // CANADA : Tom Windish tom@windishagency.com/ Rest of the world: Matt Bates — matt@primary.uk.com
Gen. director: Sofia Karchi — frau.sofia@gmail.com
Ben Arnold; The Guardian, Friday 13 September 2013 13.00 BST
• http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/13/connan-mockasin-interview
• Some musicians know where they're from and where they're going, and why. • Others, such as Connan Mockasin, can only work from instinct, not only disinterested in the bigger picture as unable to see it. Take Mockasin's first album, Forever Dolphin Love, which he only wrote and recorded because his mother suggested it. Or his new album Caramel, triggered because he liked the onomatopoeic quality of the word, and the music and words just followed.
• "To me, the word 'caramel' sounded so nice," Mockasin muses. "And as far as I know," Mockasin muses, "nobody had ever used the word for an album title."
• This helps explain the evolution from the labyrinthine, oddball-psych of Forever Dolphin Love to Caramel's equally inventive and unique brand of mutated, lustrous soul, almost wholly self-recorded over a month in a Tokyo hotel room. Mockasin remains what Clash Music called "a true cosmonaut of inner space" but the new album explores different regions of his galaxy, not just soul but a liquefied brew of blues, funk, ambient and folk with pronounced Oriental and Gallic timbres, all laced with an uncanny air of bliss.
• Oh, and it's a concept album. Of sorts. "The concept is that it's actually an album," says Mockasin. "It starts with the dolphin [from the debut album] leaving, and the boss (the man) who is so in with love with the dolphin is sad, and then it kicks into the new album, and he is happier. But there's a car race and a crash…"
• In track terms, Mockasin's narrative starts with album intro 'Nothing Lasts Forever', shifts to 'Caramel' and later on, crash-emulating guitar shrieks that constitute part three of the five-part 'It's Your Body'. Part four, however, is all tranquil and Zen. "That was when I heard my friend was dying and I felt sad," Mockasin explains. "It's just ideas in my head that I put together, and later on it might make more sense. But I don't think about the meaning at the time. Or I'm not aware of it."
• Mockasin is also unaware of the possibility that Caramel has hints of Scritti Politti's exquisitely stitched soul, or of Prince — if the Minneapolis legend had spent time in Canterbury, the learned epicentre of South East England's progressive psychedelia during the late '60s and early '70s, where the likes of Syd Barrett and Kevin Ayers began their own musical journeys. "Prince goes to Canterbury, that's a good one!" Mockasin retorts. "Maybe Caramel is a little bit soul. Maybe it comes a smidge more from hip hop, which to me sounds much fresher than what's called 'indie'. Sometimes I'm ashamed to be in a band, or a musician, at this point in time."
• Being a musician has always been a vexed issue for the man born Connan Tant Hosford in Te Awanga on the east coast of New Zealand's north island. Hearing his dad's Jimi Hendrix album set him on a course to play guitar, "to be the best in school," he recalls. "I was obsessed. But I went off music during high school, and I wanted nothing to do with guitar. I didn't even want to be noticed. Maybe that was puberty."
• Instead, the teenage Connan got a welder and built his own version of carnival rides and beach vehicles, and surfed, until high school was over, "and music came back." One of his formative bands was Grampa Moff (also a track title on Forever Dolphin Love) but it was Connan And The Mockasins (named by a friend after Connan's hobby of making moccasins out of sheepskin and motorbike tyre) that first made a mark, when the quartet decided to try their luck in London in 2006. Without friends or contacts, they initially slept on park benches (luckily it was a great summer), but once settled, and with bar jobs, they found interests from record labels, but Connan backed out of an album deal. "All labels we met with began by saying we could record any way we liked, but then started saying, 'use this studio, with this producer'…I could see where that was heading."
• Disillusioned with the record industry, and the limitations of a band set-up, Mockasin returned, alone, to New Zealand. "I decided to do nothing, or nothing to do with music. But my mum said I should just make a record. I didn't know how to record but we had a few tape machines lying around the house, so I did. I didn't expect to release it, just wanted to make a record I liked, for my ears and my mum's."
• With renewed passion, Mockasin retained the band name as his new surname because he liked the sound of "Connan Mockasin" and self-released his own mum-triggered album in 2010 as Please Turn Me Into the Snat.
• Mockasin returned to the UK before discovering that DJ/producer Erol Alkan had discovered the album and wanted to make the first release on his new Phantasy Sound label. The album was re-released, under the new title Forever Dolphin Love after its magnificently meandering ten-minute centrepiece.
• Ecstatic reviews followed, alongside live shows, where Mockasin would eschew set lists, "so that it felt new every time we play. The band has a couple of rehearsals to begin with, but we don't practise after that. I'd rather follow the mood of the audience… playing the same songs in the same way, every night, would be so boring."
• Mockasin was about to record what became Caramel with his band when he rushed home when his father was suddenly taken ill. In the aftermath, he decided to retreat to Tokyo — whose aura can be heard in tracks such as 'It's Your Body (Part Five)' and the chatter of young Japanese voices dotting the album, adding more levels of intrigue and imagination. "Too much of the music that I do get to hear, I find too aware, or processed," he says. "I just want to capture the first idea I have, which is always the most mysterious and attractive part."
• If Caramel wasn't enough, Mockasin has also been writing more material for Charlotte Gainsbourg after penning the exquisite 'Out Of Touch' for the actress/singer's 2012 mini-album Stage Whisper. Connan was already popular in France — "it felt like they immediately understood what I was doing" — and their ongoing collaboration will only endear him more to the French. It's another sign that Mockasin is going places, but at his own pace, just as Caramel suggests the process of melting and taking on a new shape, a new taste. That is the true sound of Connan Mockasin.
• 2004 Naughty Holidays
• 2006 Uuu It's Teasy
• 2007 Sneaky Sneaky Dogfriend
• 2010 Please Turn Me Into The Snat
• 2011 Forever Dolphin Love..... Re-Issue of ("Please Turn Me Into The Snat")
• 2013 Caramel
• Mockasin and band have been touring with Charlotte Gainsbourg as her live band after Mockasin composed the song 'Out Of Touch' for her latest album Stage Whisper.
• Mockasin toured with Radiohead in Australia and New Zealand throughout November 2012, playing sold out shows in Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.


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Q: Boot From USB Stick I formatted a 16 GB USB Stick today so I could boot from it and that works great.  The problem I have is it won't let me copy a 7GB Ghost image over to USB, it says there isn't enough space.  When I look Windows shows there is 14GB available.  Can anyone give me some insight into this issue?

A: You probably have formatted the USB stick to FAT32 filesystem which does not support filesizes in excess of 4GB. Try reformatting it as NTFS.

A: While using NTFS instead of FAT32 may work, you can also get it to work with FAT32. You have to split the large image file (install.wim) into pieces of 4 GB. You can do it with the following command (where D: contains your mounted .ISO file and E: is your USB stick):
DISM /Split-Image /ImageFile:D:\sources\install.wim /SWMFile:E:\sources\install.swm /FileSize:4096

You can read more about the creation of a Windows boot stick in my answer here.

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The world of digital is well and truly here to stay, in fact it is growing at a crazy rapid pace. This also means that the world of work and growing a business is changing.
Working remotely, whether from home or a co-working space, full time or once a week, is no longer a disadvantage.
New technologies allow workers and entrepreneurs to have meetings with team members from just about anywhere with an internet connection, as well as access work files via laptops or smartphones through cloud storage.
However, though there are plenty of benefits of hiring remote workers only a small percentage of vacancies are advertised as flexible or remote.
On the flip side, the trend is becoming increasingly popular in small businesses and in the NGO and social sectors.
Essentially small businesses in particular are not taking up permanent office spaces, instead choosing to run their business and manage their team remotely.
So, what are the key benefits to remote work you ask?
The biggest benefit to businesses is that remote work and flexible practices will help recruit and retain talented staff. Offering remote work widens the talent pool and allows for a truly global workforce. Flexible practices also increase commitment and loyalty of staff members. It also allows small businesses in particular to contract those who are self-employed as a gateway for experienced people to get back into the workforce.
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Fatal Auto Accident, N E Alford, 1937 MS
This obituary haws lottos information, family & military.
Shock of Accident Fatal to Pike Vet; Daughter is Injured
Rev. N. E. Alford is Eleventh in Year's Highway Toll
Long Life Ends for Aged Man
Only One Confederate Veteran Left in County
The Rev. N. E. Alford, a Methodist minister for 42 years, and until yesterday one of Pike county's two surviving Confederate veterans, died at a local hospital last night. Death was due to shock resulting from an automobile accident near Kentwood, La., yesterday, afternoon. Mr. Alford, whose age was 91 years, 9 months and 14 days, was very active notwithstanding. He had been to Baton Rouge for a visit, and was enroute home with members of his family.
Loses control. The automobile, driven by his son, B. P. Alford [Barney Pipkin Alford], Holmesville, met a large truck just south of Kentwood, and the driver lost control. The car swerved into a ditch and ran back onto the road, it was reported, a serious wreck being narrowly avoided. The accident happened at about 3:30 Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Annie Alford, of Kansas City who was here on a visit with her father, sustained a broken arm in the accident. Other members of the party, which included Mrs. B. P. Alford and a granddaughter of the Rev. Mr. Alford, Mrs. Ralph Crisco, of Koselusko. Neither Mrs. Alford or Mrs. Crisco sustained injuries more serious than bruises.
Daughter Resting Well. Mr. Alford and Miss Alford were brought to a local hospital, where the father died at 12:30 this morning. Miss Alford was reported resting as well as could be expected.
The Rev. Mr. Alford was born and reared in Pike county. He was a member of one of the county's most prominent families, and his life was one of faithful service in the Christian cause. Four of his sons are ministers of the gospel.
Funeral Thursday. Funeral services will be held at Holmesville Church Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, with the Rev. W. J. Saunders, of Osyka, and Dr. J. W. Mayfield, McComb, officiating. Internment will be in the family cemetery, eight miles east of Magnolia.
Surviving the Rev. Mr. Alford are seven sons, the Rev. J. M. Alford, Monroe, La.; the Rev. C. W. Alford, Webster, Fla.; the Rev. J. P. Alford, Istrouma, La.; B. P. Alford, Holmesville; H. J. and Lucius H. Alford, San Antonio, Texas; two daughters, Miss Annie Alford, Kansas City; and Mrs. R. T. Hollingsworth, Tutwiler. His wife, one son, T. L. Alford, and one daughter, Miss Dora Alford, preceded him n death. One sister, Mrs. Laura Burch, McComb, a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren also survive.
Last Confederate. The death of Mr. Alford leaves Pike county with only one surviving Confederate veteran, Mr. Joe Berryhill, of Magnolia.
Throughout the years of his life, the Rev. Mr. Alford was recognized as one of the pillars of both his church and his community. His life was one of Christian ministrations, and his influence was consistently on the side of progress and righteousness.
Saturday afternoon Mr. Alford came to McComb. Despite his age he was physically active and mentally alert. His death marks the passing of a stalwart Christian character.
Davis undertaking company in charge.
Source: Shock of Accident Fatal to Pike Vet; Daughter is Injured. (McComb, MS: Enterprise-Journal, 28 July 1937) 1; digital image, Newspapers.com: accessed December
Civil War Veterans' Reunion
Obit: N E Alford
Labels: Alford, Mississippi, obituary
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: FAMILY PHOTO, Birthday!
Amy Johnson Crow challenges us to remember our ancestors and their families through this task: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. I completed '52 Ancestors' in 2014 & here I go again. This post is in response to that challenge. The topic for this week is FAMILY PHOTO.
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: FAMILY PHOTO
FAMILY PHOTO!
23 February is my mother in law's birthday. This year her family is flying in from several states to Oklahoma to see Ann & celebrate her 95th birthday. This photo came from her 90th birthday celebration in Florida. That birthday included mini golf, swimming, big meals & a crystal tierra for the birthday lady. I gave her a hand sewn quilt which everyone in the family had signed.
In 2019 the family photo will include: her two children & spouses, her five grandchildren & spouses, and four adorable great grandsons, ages 2 months to 4 years old.
It has been great to be a part of the Pasquale family. We've had many fun times together since I met them in 1974: enjoying big Italian meals, playing RISK, celebrating holidays & special days,... And the fun times continue!
The birthday lady wearing her Tierra!
[I won't include any names here to respect everyone's privacy.]
Labels: 52 Weeks, Birthdays, Pasquale
Civil War Letter, Rimson S. Dillon
This is a heart breaking letter, written concerning Rimon S. Dillon when he was in Confederate service. It talks about the deaths of two of his young sons and the terrible conditions his wife and daughter were enduring.
This record also shows he was a Private in Company A. He enlisted 8 July 1862. He was discharged 22 November 1862, after the letter was received.
Rimon S. Dillon
b c 1825 MS
son of Willis D. Dillon & Mary Jane Smith
Husband of Elizabeth
Father of James, Candace & Franklin
Magnolia, Miss.
Lieutenant Genl. Pemberton
Commanding Department
Some two weeks ago, one Mr. R. S. Dillon had his two sons to die, the only support of their mother and sister, as Mr. Dillon is a member of Major Garland Rangers, and now in camp. Mr. Dillon, is 48 years of age and not able to endure the hardship of camp life and has been on sick furlough nearly half of the time he has been in service. The family are extremely poor, and have not twenty five dollars to buy provisions for themselves, and the two boys, before their death, had made a small crop, which is now unattended.
Application was made to Major Garland for the discharge of Mr. Dillon but he said he had not the power, and referred to Hereford and he had not the power, and referred to Hereford and he refers him to you.
Now, General, we the citizens of this village, do beg of you as an act of great charity to grant, or order the discharge of Mr. Dillon, as his wife and daughter, are now alone, perfectly unprotected, with no provisions, or money, and the greater part of their crop still in the field.
Very Respectfully Yours,
Eugene M. Bee
Source: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi; NARA catalog #586957, Record Group 109; digital image, Fold 3 (fold3.com: May 2028) Rimson Dillon.
Labels: Civil War, Dillon, Mississippi, soldier
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: LOVE of family
Amy Johnson Crow challenges us to remember our ancestors and their families through this task: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. I completed '52 Ancestors' in 2014 & here I go again. This post is in response to that challenge. The topic for this week is 'LOVE'.
I found LOVE to be a difficult topic to write about. My first thought was about romantic LOVE. I thought I might select a couple and write about their courtship & marriage; their enduring LOVE. But it was difficult to select just one couple. Should I write about my parents who met as teenagers when they went to a square dance? Should I write about my mother's parents who were married twice, to each other? Or should I write about my father's grandparents who wrote love letters to each other? There are quite a few LOVE stories to chose from and I cannot select just one.
Then I thought about my parents and what they taught us about LOVE. They taught my brothers & I to LOVE our family. They taught us through their actions. Every happy occasion in the family was shared with grandmothers, uncle & aunts, and cousins. We shared birthdays, holidays and graduations. But we did not need big occasions to share our time together.
A beautiful autumn day was a good occasion to have a barbeque. Once a thunderstorm rolled through during a family barbeque. My father and our Uncle Leo stood outside at the grill, flipping hamburgers. They wore ponchos in the downpour and never stopped cooking for us. Why? Because they loved our family.
A warm summer day was a good occasion to go swimming. I remember many times my mother and our aunts cooked up and packed up big bowls of salads to take to a park or campground where we could spend the day together. They spread tablecloths on picnic tables and unpacked piles of food. We had a wonderful time as a result of all their hard work. Why? Because they loved our family.
In both happy times & hard times our family stuck together. My parents did not give us big lectures on the importance of family. Their actions showed us how much they loved our family. Today we still band together to celebrate happy occasions & lend a hand when needed.
It is that LOVE of family that motivates me to spend hours and hours on genealogy. Learning about our family helps me to feel connected to those who are no longer with us and to those are. Learning and sharing helps me feel connected to those family members who are spread across the country and to those who are close by. To me, genealogy is about LOVE of family.
Labels: 52 Weeks
Valentine Day Anniversary Celebration, Alford, 1926 MS
Aged Couple Celebrate Sixtieth Anniversary
Barney Seaborn Alford
& Anna Rebecca Norman
Presiding Elder L. E. Alford and family left Friday for their former home at McComb City, where they went to attend the sixtieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. Alford's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Barney S. Alford, which was celebrated on St. Valentine's day, at the home of the aged couple's son, J. B. Alford.
Mr. and Mrs. Barney Alford have five sons and one daughter, all of whom were expected to be in McComb that day. They are:
· J. B. Alford [James Barney Alford], wholesale Dry Goods Merchant of McComb
· L. W. Alford [Lewis Wesley Alford], retail jeweler of McComb
· Rev. L. E. Alford [Lucius Edwin Alford], presiding elder of Newton District of the Mississippi Conference of the southern Methodist Church
· Norman Alford, retail furniture dealer of McComb
· Louis Alford [There was a Lewis & Lucius. I don't have a Louis in my records. I do have Homer Alford.], mechanic of Yazoo City
· Mrs. Carrie Hays [Carrie Mabel Alford], wife of a wholesale furniture dealer of New Orleans, Louisiana
· [Daughter Eunice Lillian Alford died c 1884]
Many grandchildren were also present to make the happy young couple even more happy and also a large number of good neighbors who have known them for all these years gathered in the afternoon to do them honor.
The occasion was one long to be remembered.
[Notes in Green are my notes.]
Source: Aged Couple Celebrate Sixtieth Anniversary. (Newton, MS: The Newton Record, 18 Feb. 1926) 2; digital image, Newspapers.com: accessed January 2019.
Twins: Seaborn John Alford & John Seaborn Alford
Labels: Alford, Anniversary, Mississippi, newspaper
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: SURPRISE, Quakers in the Family
Amy Johnson Crow challenges us to remember our ancestors and their families through this task: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. I completed '52 Ancestors' in 2014 & here I go again. This post is in response to that challenge. The topic for this week is 'SURPRISE.
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: SURPRISE: Quakers in the Family
During the years I have researched my various family leaves & branches I have uncovered relatives with various religious beliefs. Considering the wide range of people and places that is not surprising but I was surprised to find Quakers in the family. Why was this a SURPRISE to me? I suppose I have thought of Quakers as a relatively small group of people, primarily in rural Pennsylvania and Maryland. I did not know there were Quakers in the early southern colonies.
The Religious Society of Friends, also referred to as the Quaker Movement, was founded in England in the 17th century by George Fox. He and other early Quakers, or Friends, were persecuted for their beliefs, which included the idea that the presence of God exists in every person. Quakers rejected elaborate religious ceremonies, didn't have official clergy and believed in spiritual equality for men and women. Quaker missionaries first arrived in America in the mid-1650s. Quakers, who practice pacifism, played a key role in both the abolition and women's rights movements. Many, but not all, Quakers consider themselves Christians.[1]
In 1657 Josiah Coale and Thomas Thurston arrived in Virginia and were successful in reaching out to the people and sharing their Quaker beliefs which spread steadily. The Colony had no tolerance for the Quakers. They had previously enacted anti tolerance laws against Roman Catholics and did the same in an attempt to prevent Quakers from thriving because they were considered a menace to the stability of social life in the colony. A fine of 5,000 pounds of tobacco was imposed for 'entertaining Quakers to teach or preach'.[2]
I found that my Lawrence family in Nansemond, Virginia appeared in Quaker Records as early as 1683. Brothers Robert Lawrence and John Lawrence, sons of Robert and Elizabeth Lawrence, and their wives, Mary and Joane, were members of the Society of Friends. Those records continue until 1707.[3]Further research may find more Quaker records for the family.
SURPRISINGLY, I discovered my Brown family in North Carolina also belonged to the Quaker society. Edward Brown [c1730 – c1797], my 5thgreat grandfather, was a Quaker.[4]There is evidence of the Edward Brown family in Jones County as related to the Quaker meetings. Oldest sons, John and Aaron, were old enough to join on their own. John Brown was a member in 1788 and Aaron in 1789. Edward, Moses, Daniel and Hardy were brought along by their father in 1789 to become members.[5]This later caused a division in the Brown family. The Quakers were opposed to slavery. They moved north to Ohio. The Browns who were not Quakers lived in Mississippi and owned slaves. Eventually, when the Civil War began, the Browns fought against each other.
Despite attempts by government bodies to halt the spread of the religion branches of our family embraced the Quaker beliefs.
We never know where our genealogy research will lead us but we can be sure it will be filled with SURPRISES.
[1]Quakers. Digital image, History Channel (history.com: accessed January 2019) 268 – 272; digital image, archive.org: accessed January 2019.
[2]The Quakers in the American Colonies (London:Macmillan, 1911)
[3]White, Miles Jr. Early Quaker Records in Virginia (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1977).
[4]Moses Brown Cass County Pioneer. (n.d.). Vigilant, Cassopolis, Michigan. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
[5]North Carolina Quaker Meeting; ancestry.com; Edward Brown and sons.
Labels: 52 Weeks, Brown, Lawrence, North Carolina, Virginia
Promotion for Major P. K. Alford, 1945
Percy Knapp Alford
b 25 June 1911
My 3rd cousin, 1x removed
Major Percy K. Alford has been selected for promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with the U. S. Marine. Mr. Alford is presently at home with his family in McComb, and will soon again be detached for foreign service. His service with the Marines began about fourteen years ago when he became a member of the Marine Corps, and he was in active service when World War Two was declared.
Major Alford was awarded the Purple heart, for service on Guadalcanal; he has received the Presidential citation for meritorious service; the Nicaraguan Second campaign ribbon, and a number of other awards of recognition for overseas services. He has seen service in China, in New Zealand, and, last year, came home after 29 months service in the South Pacific theatre of war.
Mrs. Alford and their two sons, Keith and Gary, are residing in McComb. Major Alford's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Alford, reside in Jackson. He has a brother, George H. Alford, Jr., in overseas service.
Source: Major P. K. Alford Chosen for Promotion to Lieut. Colonelcy. (McComb, MS: Enterprise-Journal, 22 May 1945) 1; digital image, Newspapers.com: accessed December 2018.
Keith Alford 1st Birthday, son of Percy K Alford
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: AT THE LIBRARY
Amy Johnson Crow challenges us to remember our ancestors and their families through this task: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. I completed '52 Ancestors' in 2014 & here I go again. This post is in response to that challenge. The topic for this week is 'AT THE LIBRARY.
Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
This is a great topic! I am often AT THE LIBRARY. I find it much more satisfying to find evidences of my family in a library than on line. For me, being able to hold a book with my family information printed on its pages, gives me a more concrete link to those people from times past. Here are a few libraries I have visited & links to the posts I have written about those visits:
Ansonia Library Ansonia, CT
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Charlotte, NC
Derby Public Library Derby, CT
Family History Library Salt Lake City, UT
Franklinton Library Franklinton, LA
Lancaster Library Lancaster, SC
Orangeburg County Library Orangeburg, SC
Pike-Amite-Walthall Library McComb, MS
Rappahannock Library Washington, VA
There are many more libraries I'd like to visit and I'd like to return to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City where I can search for many family lines all in one place.
Don't delay. Find yourself AT THE LIBRARY today!
Labels: 52 Weeks, Library, Research
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The day after Labor Day is magical, year after year, because you wake up and find Brigadoon: much fewer people, plenty of parking, some leaves on the ground predict the September Song or September in the Rain, no kids around, sometimes a breath of autumn (but not today,) and perceptibly less cars on the roads including definitely fewer with New York plates.
b. Site stats: September 3, 1,114 visits. Most popular topics: Are you crazy? Jason Tramm triumphs, Nonsense and hot air from the HOA breakfast, and musical moments in the Great Auditorium. And 19 foreign countries visited the site including Serbia, Sweden, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Belgium.
Last day at Days 2017.
2015. Blogfinger portrait. Eileen the hat check girl.
Is there another town wide yard sale this year, this summer? fall or spring?
We need help with promotions, fliers, ads, event monitoring, new ideas, and any help in attracting more sellers and more buyers. If anyone wants to volunteer, please contact us at Blogfinger@verizon.net. The date is May 11, 2019.
The same applies to the People's Garden Tour which will be cancelled next Spring unless a group of volunteers wants to take it over.
The lack of volunteers for these events among the "community" of OG residents is disturbing.
c. Kenny Vance will be performing on October 6 at the Count Basie in Red Bank along with 5 other Doo Wop groups. Kenny has been sidelined in the recent past, but now he is back, and his fans will be thrilled. It's a shame the GA couldn't have brought him back for the Doo Wop concert on September 1 in Ocean Grove.
e. The DEA has announced the official opening of their Monmouth-Ocean office. This will allow major opiate-fighting resources to come to the Jersey Shore to help combat that scourge.
f. According to the Coaster, Neptune Township will look into the question regarding handicapped parking in the Grove: Are these designations excessive? Committeeman Michael Brantley is behind this investigation.
h. The Perfume Check shop on Main Avenue has closed after a brief but aromatic run in town.
i. Bagel bakers back in business: For several days, Wegmans bagels were coming out all wrong. Their color, texture and taste were messed up because the bagel oven, a device with shelves that rotate around like a Ferris wheel had broken. But you could still get an acceptable result by toasting. The bagel bakers substituted a different oven that rotates in a circular way, but that was a failure. After 3 days of trauma for bagel lovers, the old favorites were back.
Photo by Amy Paterson. NJ Herald. Blogfinger cow. She's better looking than the udder one.
Thirty years after used hypodermic needles, syringes and blood vials began washing up on Jersey Shore beaches, the problem continues, NJ.com reports. More than a dozen beaches in Monmouth County were closed last month in another "syringe tide." State officials say the cause is the combined sewer systems prevalent in North Jersey and New York City in which stormwater runoff and sewage are combined in the same system.
Blogfinger photo. What do they do with the money?
f. OG car magnet. Made in the USA of outdoor vinyl . Price is $5.00. Supplies are limited from Blogfinger. If you want one, send us an email (Blogfinger@verizon.net) to arrange a pickup.
Wassup? Stirring the pot makes for better sauce.
a. Saturday noon organ recital 7/28 with Dr. Gordon Turk.. Wonderful! One hour with the Hope-Jones organ.
c. Organ recital with Gordon Turk.. Wednesday July 25, 7:30 pm Guest artist Carol Williams.
d. Fun to watch: 50th Annual OG Lifeguard Tournament. 6 PM Thursday, July 26. North End beach.
f. Sunday July 29 opening of Camp Meeting Week.
h. Blogfinger site-stats: On July 21, we had 1.058 visits, and the most popular topics, in descending order, were: The Parking Derangement Syndrome (PDS); Warrington investigation to be re-opened—the investigators gave up too soon last year.; Why wasn't a parking garage built at the west end of town? And morning at the Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge in Fla Fla Land .
This place is for the birds. I'm following Charlie to the Stone Pony!
New boardwalk under construction. CMA photo © April 27, 2018.
"The pilings, there are over 280 of them, have been set 20 feet below ground level," according to Karen Beachy of the CMA. She says that a team has been at work six days each week. Then the Trex boards will match the area south of the current project.
Regarding financing, Karen says that the project "is 100% funded by the Camp Meeting Association." We thought that FEMA was paying for the boardwalk. Anybody know the story?
b. Blogfinger site stats for April 26, 2018: 1,165 visits. Most popular subjects include CMA press release about the North End, Gibberish storm in the Grove, Seniorgate Part IV, and Town-Wide Yard Sale for 2018. Our latest article today on the Aurora is already attracting attention today. 12 foreign countries visited including United Kingdom, Slovenia, Peru and China.
c. To read about the Town-Wide Yard Sale on May 12, click on the yard sale tab at the top of this page. So far we have 30 sellers, with more to sign up. To sign up, send us an email Blogfinger@verizon.net.
Our Yard Sale manager Vincent Cannavo has informed us that our Asbury Park Press ad will run in the "Datebook Section" for 10 days: May 3-May 12. Thanks Vince.
Please see Sue and pick up a flier at Cheese on Main-–free for you to hang in a good location; even on the front of your house one week before. People notice.
d. Noah Michael Goldfinger. 10 days old. He's got my big feet.
Noah. He needs a Blogfinger hat.
3. Free Rabies Clinic for cats and dogs at Neptune Public Works, 2201 Heck Avenue, Neptune. Dog license renewals will be accepted. Bring renewal letter and payment. Saturday May 5, 2018 9 am to 11 am.
BF Song of the week: "After You've Gone" by Loudon Wainwright III from the movie The Aviator.
The Planning Board meets at the Municipal Complex, 25 Neptune Blvd, Neptune in the Township Committee meeting room (second floor). Dec 14, Wednesday. Meeting starts promptly at 7:00 pm. They will discuss the application for adding a third floor to the Pizza Building. If you buy a condo there, you will get free deliveries of pizza.
From the agenda: b. PB16/11 – Linus Holding Corp. – Block 209, Lot 1 – 58-60 Main Avenue – Applicant has submitted an application for Preliminary and Final Major Site Plan approval to add a third-floor to an existing mixed-use structure along with associated improvements. Applicant is represented by Andrew J. Karas, Esq.
Historic photograph of the Ocean Grove Fishing Pier—sunrise, pre-Sandy, by Paul Goldfinger. Now available as a postcard, but also suitable to frame, put on the fridge, or just sit it on a shelf.
Can be purchased at only one place: Gingerbreads in Ocean Grove at 49 Main Avenue.
Contact Blogfinger@verizon.net if you want to order a brilliant metallic coated enlargement for your home—-framed, mounted or just "as is." Just tell us the size, and we will tel you the cost.
2. On Sunday, July 24, Blogfinger had over 1700 visits including 16 foreign countries, among which were Turks and Caicos Islands, China, Ireland, and Equador. Topics attracting the most interest were Illumination Night, potable water at the beach, and Opening the gates. On Tuesday, July 26, the most popular articles were about the Monmouth University lecture and the Hotel Arlington.
1. OG Harvest and Craft Festival on Saturday, October 10. 10 am to 4 pm; Main Avenue, Pilgrim Pathway, and Auditorium Square Park. Live music 11 am-4 pm. Over 200 crafters and artisans. Free admission. Sponsored by the Ocean Grove Area Chamber of Commerce.
2. Saturday, Oct 31. HALLOWEEN CHILDREN AND PET PARADE Prizes for best-dressed entrants; Firemen's Park, 12:00.
3. Asbury Park Zombie Walk to occur on October 10. Details to follow.
4. Blogfinger reaches 2.5 million visits since its founding.
5. Five trucks showed up on Monday morning to replace a telephone pole at Mt. Hermon Way and New Jersey Avenue. The pole has a bent top and is in danger of splintering and breaking off. JCP&L arrived with a brand new pole.
Oct 5, 2015. Mt. Hermon Way Note the bent pole at the corner behind the stop sign. Blogfinger breaking news photo. © Click to make the pole more worrisome.
Recently we posted a photograph of a strange place in Chester, NJ. ( LINK: Telephone pole farm ) We didn't identify that location, but now we can reveal that it is a property owned by the phone company where they test telephone polls by "planting" short versions into the ground and seeing how they weather. We used to drive by and tell our kids that it is "the telephone pole farm" where they grow their poles.
7. ETSY.com is an online handmade marketplace. Paul Goldfinger's black and white photographs will be sold there. Go to ETSY.com and enter GoldfingerPhotograph.


Nanjappa Polytechnic College, Coimbatore has advertised for recruitment of Lecturers jobs vacancies. Interested and eligible job aspirants are requested to apply or walk-in immediately from 12th June 2018. Check out further more details below.
How to Apply: Interested and eligible candidates are requested to send CV along with all copies of certificates / testimonials and recent PP size photos to the email address or postal address provided here or walk-in immediately for interview.


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Wafic Saïd
THE ROLL CALLBUSINESSTYCOONS
This billionaire was born in Damascus in 1939 and declares his loves to be music, architecture, art and horse racing. His home is the £50 million neo-Georgian mansion Tusmore Park near Bicester in Oxfordshire and he supposedly paid Robbie Williams in excess of a million to perform at his daughter's May 2012 wedding to PR Khaled Khawaja at The Palace of Versailles. Saïd was one of Margaret Thatcher's biggest supporters but is also said to have been a confidant of Peter Mandelson. As chairman of Saïd Holdings Limited, he presides over an empire with investments in hedge funds and real estates but he's better known for the £23 million endowment he provided to establish the Saïd Business School in Oxford in 1996.
The Roll Call - TYCOONS
Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922)
Hetty Green (AKA Henrietta Green, 'The Witch of Wall Street,' née Henrietta Robinson, 1834 – 1916)
Denise Coates
Trevor Hemmings CVO
Herb Chambers (born Herbert G. Chambers)
Leslie Wexner (AKA "Les" Wexner)
Nicolas Berggruen (AKA "The Homeless Billionaire")
Sir Martin Sorrell (AKA "The Third Brother")
John Pappajohn
Sir John Ritblat FRICS, FSVA
Rich Ricci
Richard Desmond (nicknamed "Mr Badger")
Howard Raymond
Richard Caring
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken
Urs Schwarzenbach
James Sherwood
Crispin Odey
Vincent Tchenguiz
Leona Helmsley (1920 – 2007)
Owen Oyston
Robert Maxwell (1923 – 1991)
Sidney Frank (1919 – 2006)
Nick & Christian Candy


Slow week from me, I know, but it's been fairly hectic at work, and rehearsals for Anna Karenina are at that point where it's hectic. All of which leaves no time for brain to make with writey stuff.
I'm trying not to go into another 6-week slumber.
Jose, when I die, that's sort of what I want. I want you and my other friends to prop me up in a chair and play a game of Quarters in which you have to bounce a quarter off of my dead skull and into someone's glass to make them drink.
okay, if someone manages to make the quarter land in your curled up hands they get to choose who drinks.