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'Parish Councillors will be aware that I have been in correspondence for some 6 months with County Highways regarding the dead, dying and dangerous trees along the north side of the road adjoining my land on Paxton Hill, and particularly opposite Toseland Road. I have long been concerned that one might blow down across the road and cause an accident. Highways deny ownership of anything beyond two metres from the road edge, although common law suggests that my boundary is the upper lip of the roadside ditch which is some 7 metres from the roadside edge. Most of the trees are on this 7 metre verge. It is therefore left to me to try and clear the jungle. This is a major and very expensive exercise and it has been difficult to find a reliable company which has the necessary equipment to do the work quickly and efficiently and is prepared to quote for doing it. Work is likely to start on Wednesday 27th March and take two days. Inevitably there will be some traffic disruption, but I hope not too much. When cleared I intend to replant the old woodland strip, which used to be majestic elm trees years ago, with a range of native hardwoods and so try and improve the entrance to the village in the long term'.
UPDATE: The cleared area will be replanted next winter and will include a few cherry trees.


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What death certificates tell us about the lives of Lebanese
October 14, 2014 | Caroline Muglia
The goal of the Khayrallah Center is to shed light on the important contribution of Lebanese-Americans. Beginning with a focus on North Carolina, we've accomplished that by conducting interviews, archiving family photos and movies, and creating cultural projects like a documentary and museum exhibit to showcase all that the community has done over the last century. Last year, we began investigating death certificates as yet another primary source that could help us understand the whole picture of the community. We started with certificates from North Carolina, but we quickly moved to include many other states, providing a wider lens through which to view Lebanese-Americans. Check out our April newsletter for our first article on our research. We collected North Carolina death certificates from 1909-1975 and have now identified 18 more states with these records published online. So far, we've finished collecting records from Tennessee and Kentucky. Through death certificates, we'll gather statistical and genealogical information about first wave immigrants represented in all these states. Statistical information such as age, location, and cause of death let us examine the impact of immigration on the health of individuals and the community by comparative study with the general public in the United States and Lebanon. Genealogical information such as name, country residence, and birthplace will tell us about immigration patterns and family relationships within this country. Here's an example of a death certificate and some highlights of the great information found in each document. The Naifeh family appears in both state-based collections with family members in Covington, Tennessee and Hickman, Kentucky. Lizzie Naifeh's death certificate is one of very few that gives a specific birth location in Lebanon. We have also begin mapping the concentration of Lebanese in each of the 19 states examined. Mapping will allow us to display this important information in an interactive and searchable format for the general public, but also for researchers and members of the community of Lebanese-Americans. As we broaden our scope, these projects will bring country-wide resonance. This project will take about six-months and yield a wealth of information that we look forward to sharing with the public!
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4 responses on "What death certificates tell us about the lives of Lebanese"
Hello, I am researching my family history in Beirut. They never immigrated to the U.S. Would your center possible have any information about a family in Beirut?
Marjorie Stevens says:
Hello, our collections focus specifically on Lebanese outside of Lebanon. However, we do have some records from the Beirut Consulate about people residing in Lebanon who were also American citizens. https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/collections/show/66
Jason Hickmon says:
What did Wally hickmon side from can you tell me OK Jason hickmon Wally was my dad
Hi Jason, If you are referring to the Hickman mentioned on the death certificate image, the certificate refers to the town of Hickman, in Fulton County, Kentucky. Best of luck learning more about your dad.
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TROY, Mich. — Architectural Roofing & Waterproofing and Roofing Contractor have teamed up with Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) to offer a day-long series of educational courses focused on building envelope design. The event will take place May 14 at the Waltham, Mass., headquarters of SGH, a national engineering firm that designs, investigates, and rehabilitates structures and building enclosures. ARW Live will offer four courses approved for AIA continuing education credits on topics including commercial roofing, insulation and waterproofing.
Event sponsors include Dow, Sika Sarnafil, Georgia-Pacific Gypsum and Polyglass USA, Inc.
The four educational courses, which each qualify for one 1 unit of AIA CES, are designed to provide architects, roof consultants, roofing professionals, waterproofing professionals, building owners and facility managers with key insights on building design and advice on protecting their building assets. The agenda for the event is as follows:
8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m. — Continental breakfast and registration
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10 a.m.-11 a.m. — "Understanding the Influence of the Building Enclosure Commissioning Process" by SGH
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Conceptualized as a building within a building, The Lucas's steel and glass design rises out of the stone walls of the 1874 German Trinity Catholic Church. The development brought about a new level of luxury living to the desirable South End neighborhood. In a brilliant utilization of architectural design, the building blends old and new styles by maintaining the facade of the former church along with its stained glass and vaulted ceilings.
Boston's South End is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Boston Landmark District. It is the largest Victorian row house district in the country, made up of over 300 acres. Filled with chic art galleries, and home to 11 residential parks with central fountains and iron-fenced borders, the South End is a vibrant and exciting neighborhood. The area is a popular enclave of artists, galleries, unique shops and trendy restaurants.
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The South Boston Waterfront and Seaport districts are in the midst of a renaissance. Neighborhood amenities abound and, coupled with the location across from downtown—just off Boston's major highway and a short T ride to the airport—10 Farnsworth has become a premiere residence in the Boston landscape. Stroll along Fort Point Channel's artist studios and signature restaurants. The Institute of Contemporary Art and Boston Children's Museum live here, as do some of the best restaurants around.
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We recently attended the October 26-27 Silver Institute's Third Silver Industrial Conference held in Washington D.C. This year's theme was "Silver's Evolving Role in Science and Technology" and the conference had diverse representation from industrial users, financial, trade and government organizations, refineries and mining companies. We were impressed by both the depth of the presentations and the optimism regarding silver's future. The overwhelming consensus was that the current silver price is too low, given difficulties finding and developing new mines, increasing political risk (governments wanting bigger pieces of the mining revenue pie, such as what's happening in Tanzania) and the plethora of new and fast-growing uses of the metal. In this article, we discuss silver's expanding role given its growing use in solar, automotive, electronics and healthcare applications.
Photovoltaics ("PV") is arguably the area where silver applications are experiencing the most growth. We have spoken about solar's impressive effect on silver demand in the past, but this conference increased our conviction that the solar industry will continue to play an important role. Dr. Larry Wang from Heraeus Photovoltaics Business Unit described solar panel structures and presented his projections for global solar installations. Silver is used in panels via silver paste, which contains about 90% silver powder, with the remaining 10% comprised of mostly glasses and binding agents. Despite panel manufacturers actively working on ways to reduce silver loadings per cell, Heraeus projects overall silver use to increase at least through 2020 due to growing solar installations. Given that a single gigawatt (1GW) of solar power needs about 20t (tonnes) silver powder at present, predicting silver demand entails predicting future installs and taking into account efforts to thrift.
With solar installation, we need to ask how long is the average lifespan of a solar panel and what happens to the panel at the end of its useful life? The answer is that given that the "boom" in panel installation began in 2005 and panel lifespan is typically 30+ years, the replacement cycle will not begin for some time (until the mid-2030s). At present, there is no cost effective way to recycle these panels and so the silver is not recovered. This is true for many applications – the amounts of silver used in any one given device or application are too small to be economically recoverable. It is also important to note that over the last several years the total supply of scrap silver has been declining as the silver price is not high enough to incentivize recycling of jewelry and silverware.
While increasing demand for solar energy is driven by a worldwide need for cleaner energy, this same trend will benefit silver use in the automotive industry. When we talk about electric vehicles, we think of lithium, cobalt and nickel. When we think of autonomous/driverless cars, we think of the technology that is required to operate such vehicles. What we don't consider is the fact that both electric and autonomous cars will require more electronics to run, which in turn will increase demand for silver.
Steve Gehring, VP of Safety and connected automation at Global Automakers (a trade association of auto manufacturers and suppliers) made a strong case that silver will play a big role in all the trends in the auto industry. A primary reason is safety, as the vast majority of accidents are caused by driver error. Auto manufacturers are already well into a new phase of crash avoidance: rear cameras, night vision, rear object detection, lane departure warning are examples of components in the suite of assistant technologies and silver content is going up. Self-driving, autonomous vehicles are striving to take driver safety to the next level technologically. Google's Waymo has been working on autonomous driving since 2009 and its technology has the potential to transform the world by saving lives and improving the quality of life through mobilizing vision-impaired people and seniors. Redundant systems, such as backup computing, power systems and collision avoidance systems play an important role in the technology:3 once again, such systems point to more electronics and therefore, increased silver demand.
Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance; graphic by Bloomberg QuickTake.
China has vowed to curb air pollution and is introducing policies to reduce fossil-fuel vehicles. France announced that it will only allow electric cars as soon as 2030 ahead of its 2040 goal.4 Scotland has announced the aim of phasing out new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2032 – eight years ahead of the target set by the UK.5 Such policy decisions are spurring traditional auto manufacturers to put resources behind electric vehicles. Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Volvo, GM, Ford, Toyota and Nissan have various initiatives at various stages of development. The cars of the future will have more and more solar panels on their exteriors to add power to the network and fast charging stations will have solar panels.
Another valuable property of silver is the metal's ability to kill bacteria. Dr. Trevor Keel of Agility Health Tech discussed silver applications in healthcare. Examples include silver-imbedded bandages, silver-coated catheters and glass/touch screens. Not only is the light transmission rate 98% for silver versus 96% for Graphene and 91% for Indium Tin Oxides, but the antibacterial properties of silver make it ideal for use in touch panels. Corning has developed the world's first antimicrobial cover glass as part of the Gorilla Glass family; it incorporates silver in the glass and over time the ions leach out and interact with moisture on the surface. The company promises >99.9% reduction of bacteria and for the glass to last for the lifetime of the device.6 This glass has wide applicability with benefits in smartphones, tablets, automotive and architectural use.
Silver has the ability to improve billions of lives worldwide. A little Silicon Valley-based company called Folia Water has developed a cheap and very effective water filter that is manufactured by applying silver to round paper filters. Each filter costs 50 cents and can clean 50 liters of contaminated water. This makes them the most affordable water filters, while being highly effective. This is an example of innovation and technology using silver's time-proven ability to kill bacteria in order to improve standards of living for many people.
Although the conference targeted industrial and specifically technological uses of silver, there was significant discussion around the global macroeconomic backdrop. The current price environment is in large part due to investor perception that the U.S. economy is strong and the Fed will continue tightening monetary policy (raising interest rates) and President Trump's promised tax cuts and fiscal stimulus will further boost growth. TD's Global Head of commodity strategy, Bart Merek, echoed our belief that the Fed will likely not hike as aggressively as the market thinks, they do not want a disinflationary environment, and given that we have not seen much inflation, they will err on the side of caution. In fact, the Fed has been lowering its terminal rate, most recently to 2.75% in September, underscoring that exiting easy monetary policy is proving difficult. Furthermore, we believe that Trump's policies will not be revenue neutral and will lead to budget deficits. We believe in lower rates, particularly real rates, for longer, which is positive for both gold and silver.
We have long been fans of silver both for its role as an investment vehicle and its wide applicability in various consumer products. Silver's fundamental supply/demand outlook has never been more supportive of a strong price: while supply stagnates, demand is underpinned by synchronized global economic growth and the trends of electrification and automation. Silver and silver equities are undervalued in historic terms and, together with gold, represent a great addition to most investment portfolios.
1 Sam Morgan, "China eclipses Europe as 2020 solar power target is smashed", Euractiv (August 30, 2017).
3 Waymo Safety Report: On the Road to Fully Self-Driving.
4 Fred Lambert, "Paris to only allow electric cars as soon as 2030 ahead of France's 2040 goal", Electrek (October 12, 2017).
5 Fred Lambert, "Oil-rich Scotland wants to go all-electric with phase out of new petrol and diesel cars by 2032", Electrek (September 5, 2017).


Bradley P. Beaulieu will soon release The Flames of Shadam Khoreh, final installement in The Lays of Anuskaya series. When he offered to write a guest blog to share his thoughts on what it's like to complete a trilogy, I was happy to oblige!
And don't forget that you can download the first volume, the excellent The Winds of Khalakovo, for only 2.99$ here. And the second installment, The Straits of Galahesh, is now available for 4.99$ here.
I've talked in the past about what it was like to write the first and second books in a trilogy, but I've been eager to write more on the subject since completing The Flames of Shadam Khoreh, the concluding volume in The Lays of Anuskaya trilogy.
In fiction, we often talk about rising tension, about the expanding possibilities that are presented to the heroes after some inciting incident. The heroes often aren't aware of the full import of the events that present themselves at the beginning of the story. It's only later, as they try to resolve the problems in progressively more difficult ways, that they understand the full gravity of the situation. Even in something like The Lord of the Rings, where we learn early on that Bilbo's ring is the One Ring, we know the situation is dire, certainly, but we don't fully understand what's at stake and what Frodo will need to do by the end. It's only until well into the third book that we see how expansive the war effort is and how dire life under Sauron would be. Early on, we are worried, certainly, but Frodo still has some hope that this burden won't be his to bear for too long. It's only at the council in Rivendell that he joins the quest in earnest, and only at Amon Hen, after Boromir's death and his decision to take the ring on his own to Mount Doom, that he commits himself fully to the task at hand.
I liken the "shape" of a story to an American football. At the beginning of the tale, some event (the inciting incident) sets things off, and as the story progresses, the possibilities, the danger, the stakes, all become more real, more complicated, and more serious. The story widens like a cone with seemingly endless routes to resolution. Around the middle of the novel (and the middle of this conceptual shape) the ending starts to resolve in our mind. Possible outcomes are pruned as we head ever closer to the end. The shape, in other words, is molding inward, narrowing further and further until there is only one possible outcome left, one last desperate attempt that must be made to overcome the odds and set things right.
In a standalone novel, the threads of possibility tend to resolve nicely. In a trilogy, however, some of those threads are left dangling. The immediate concern has been resolved, but there are more threats on the horizon. If we take this "football shape" paradigm to the series as a whole (whether it's a trilogy or a longer series), we have a widening of threads on a larger scale. More characters, more stories, more dangers come into play. And so, it's not merely a single novel that takes on this shape of expansion and contraction, but also the overall tale. In a Book 1, the early story threads are introduced. In the middle books, those threads widen and complicate. And in the closing novel, they all come together to produce not only a climax for that one novel, but for the overarching tale.
Consider this for a moment as it applies to longer series—those longer than a mere trilogy. I'm not talking about open-ended series like Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, which is more episodic in nature. I'm talking about A Song of Ice and Fire, The Wheel of Time, Malazan Book of the Fallen, the nascent Stormlight Archive. As rewarding as those long-running stories are for fans, they're a nightmare for the author to keep track of, and it's precisely because of these expanding plot threads, which—if you're not careful—can grow like ivy. They can mire you down in untold numbers of incidental stories that don't add to the full effect of the larger tale. Or worse, they can take you to places you didn't wish to go, plunging an otherwise fine series into a swamp of aimless agendas and listless plots. I would contend that this skill set—the growing of a story without letting it get out of hand—is one of the reasons writers hit their "sophomore slump." They were skilled enough to write that first novel, but taking it wider—expanding on the story in a manageable way without treading the same ground, exposing new parts of your world, adding nuances to the fantastical elements, introducing new characters with their own hopes and fears and goals—well, that's another thing entirely.
I found this to be true in The Straits of Galahesh. It was a difficult walk down the tightrope for me, trying to keep the story moving naturally in the direction The Winds of Khalakovo had set without it feeling like I was writing the same novel. I needed to move toward the grand finale without taking it too close. I had to wrap up some of the dangling threads from Winds, while creating new ones for Straits and leave some dangling for the third book to pick up and run with.
By the time I got down to writing The Flames of Shadam Khoreh, I was already beyond the "halfway point" of the trilogy. I'd known for years where the story was going to end up. I didn't know it's exact incarnation—for me that comes in the writing—but I knew the neighborhood I'd be in when the story finally wrapped up. And so a lot of things were working in my favor: I'd put in a ton of work on the world (on the characters, on the plot, on the cultures and politics, on the magic and its consequences). And I knew where things were headed. So while the third book didn't exactly write itself, I found it to go much more smoothly than Books 1 and 2. I still had to expand the story from the beginning of the novel, of course, but there were built-in guideposts along the way to help steer me toward the big climax.
And about that. The climax. I have to say that as a reader, they can be rewarding, but as a writer, when you've finally reached that last page of the first draft, when you've gone through the book a few more times and know that it's wrapped up, and that it's wrapped up well, that's an amazing feeling. I've come leagues and leagues from where I was when these books were first envisioned. I've grown as a person and as a writer. The characters have become more real to me. Their stories mattered to me in ways they didn't in the beginning. So when I finally finished the climax of the tale, when I finally put a bow on the story via the epilogue, I was pleased in a way that I've not experienced before. The story had come full circle for me, and yet just like me, Nikandr and Atiana, Nasim and Soroush, were in very different places from where they'd begun.
The funny thing is, it's because the beginning and the middle were so difficult that the end was so rewarding. The journey is the reward, yes?
This is a tale that I'm very pleased with, and very pleased to share with you. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I've enjoyed writing it.
Great guest blog. Love the whole talk on series structure, but I found your American football analogy particularly inspiring.
Pat I want more of these!
Thanks much, JC! I was glad to share.
Can't wait to read this one. Such a unique setting for these books, really refreshing to read a series that doesn't follow the same old tropes as other fantasy series!
Thanks very much, CJohnson. That's certainly part of the reason I wrote them, so it's good to see people enjoying that aspect of it. I've really come to love the setting myself.


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How the Devil Set a Troublesome Teenager Straight
September 9, 2019 / Tristan
From buying guitarists' souls to impregnating Mia Farrow, the Devil has always kept himself busy. Personally, I cannot speak much for his talents, but one might want to take a note from his parenting skills. Consider, for example, the case of unruly English teenager Joseph Boxford. According to a pamphlet published in London in 1645, Joseph was a fifteen-year-old boy who lived in Bow, a village in the county of Devon. Joseph's father John sent him to the town of Crediton to become a weaver's apprentice, but after a month of work, Joseph wanted to do something else.
Without telling his father, Joseph decided to trade the excitements of weaving for the life of a soldier. As this was a decision made during the First English Civil War, when the Parliamentarians were engaged in fighting King Charles I and his Royalist supporters, this was not the best idea. Joseph spent his summer in the king's army, being such a general ne'er-do-well that he ended up dressed in rags.
When the broken boy went back home for support, his father gave him new clothes and recommended that he return to his apprenticeship. As teenagers are wont to do, Joseph refused to listen to common sense. John, furious, threatened that he'd apprentice the boy to the Devil.
In the morning, John announced to his son that they were going to Crediton. A rebellious Joseph insisted that he'd rather be apprenticed to the Devil. This was not what John actually wanted, so he beat the boy until Joseph agreed to leave the house. As father and son approached Crediton, with the former hitting the latter, and the latter swearing at the former, the Boxfords came across a man in a carriage pulled by four horses. The argument caught the driver's attention, so he asked John why he felt the need to be so violent. John answered with a rant, complaining about Joseph and his refusal to do anything responsible.
Taking pity on the poor boy, the driver offered to take Joseph along and find him a good employer. John came to an agreement with the carrier; if Joseph didn't like the work the carrier found him, then he'd be sent back to Bow within eight days. With both Boxfords satisfied, John turned back home and left his son with the stranger and four horses. I suppose, if this were a YA novel, this would be the part when the benevolent stranger would reveal that Joseph was actually a great wizard or hero or something, and that he'd come to start the misfit boy on his destiny. Unfortunately, that's not how things turned out.
Instead, the stranger immediately morphed into a ugly, dark horse, snatching Joseph up and taking flight into the sky. Riding on the horse's back, Joseph was so high up that big cities like London looked "no greater than small cottages." The teenager rode past the moon and Neptune, dropping into a cave in the earth that brought him to Hell. Now in the safety of his home, the Devil rid himself of his disguise. Saying that Joseph could see some of his old Royalist war-buddies, the Devil summoned an army of ghosts who howled, suffered, and vocally regretted taking up the Royalist cause.
Scanning over this collection of ghosts, Joseph noticed a politician named Sir Peter Ball, whose eternal damnation was rather creative. The sinner's legs and feet were engulfed in flames, while his buttocks were burned on a gridiron, his back and shoulders were cooked in a frying-pan, and his face was boiled in a kettle. Next to Ball were two spots reserved for "Greenvile" and "Goring," references to the Royalist military-men Bevil Grenville and George Goring. These two gentlemen, once they were ready, would be punished by having hot aconites shoved down their "belching throats." Goring's sister "Lady Scot," on the other hand, received the honor of being hanged by the tongue on scalding tenterhooks.
All this horrible torture was too much to bear for Joseph Boxford. He begged to leave, and since they were there long enough, the Devil whisked the teenager away to a place in Devon called Cannon Lee. A pair of servants later spotted Joseph under a hedge, where his "hands and legs (were) strangely distorted, his haire of his head singed," and "his Clothes all be smeared with pitch and rosin and other sulfurous matter, which yeelded an odious stench." Since Joseph was in bad shape, and couldn't manage to speak, the men took him to their master's house.
Once he recovered, Joseph bared his misadventure with the Devil, a tale the owner of the house found creditable. His father was called, and John picked the boy up and forgave him for their disagreement. According to Jonathan Gainwell, a minister who heard Joseph tell his story, the former juvenile delinquent became reformed. To make for an even happier ending, the Devil was also seen that day, back in his carrier-with-horses disguise. A group of Royalist soldiers passing by took a fancy in the horses, and as they were in the middle of stealing them, the Devil and his entourage disappeared in an inferno. Three of the Royalists caught fire and died, and the rest took off running for their lives.
Despite the pamphlet's over-the-top claims, despite the fact that I can't trace a place called Cannon Lee, and that Sir Peter Ball died many years after the end of the English Civil War, I believe there are some valuable lessons here. Children should obey their parents, parents should love their children, and nobody who pledges allegiance to the King of England should be allowed into heaven.
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A Brief History of a Satanic Armchair
June 27, 2017 June 26, 2017 / Tristan	/ 8 Comments
La sillon del Diablo, or "The Devil's Armchair," is a cursed chair that's said to kill anybody who sits in it.
The Museo de Valladolid is a museum in the Spanish city of Valladolid that divides its collection into two sections, archaeology and fine arts. Among the museum's collection, which spans the history of the city, you can find Roman coins, Renaissance-era paintings, and a 16th century chair associated with the Devil. "The Devil's Armchair," as this wicked piece of furniture is known, is said to be cursed.
According to legend, the chair's original owner was Andres de Proaza, a 22-year-old student of Portuguese (some say Jewish) heritage. In 1550, Proaza was studying at the University of Valladolid's Faculty of Medicine. He was enrolled in Spain's first ever anatomy course, which was taught by Alfonso Rodriguez de Guevara, a renown physician who'd just come back from studying the subject in Italy.
For a subject that was just formally introduced to Spain, Proaza had an unusually deep understanding of anatomy. Everybody was impressed with his knowledge, and he was considered Guevara's best pupil. His neighbors, however, were more scared than fascinated by the young man.
At night, they heard crying and moaning coming from Proaza's house, and the stream behind his home was sometimes soaked with blood. Soon, a rumor spread that the promising anatomist was practicing necromancy. When a 9-year-old boy disappeared in the city, Proaza's neighbors only grew more suspicious. They contacted the authorities to search Proaza's house.


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Tag Archives: Finnish poetry
This morning I was looking for an image from our collection to relate to the Cranbrook Art Museum's newest exhibition "Read Image, See Text" to post on our Facebook page. I would hazard a guess to say that most, if not all, archivists love books almost as much as historic documents. Though archives usually do not seek to collect books, and certainly are not lending libraries, books can often comprise part of a collection. So my search for a single image led me to think about the range of books we have in our collection.
The first was written by William O. Stevens, nearly 25 years before he became the first headmaster of Cranbrook School. After receiving his doctorate at Yale, Stevens taught English at the U.S. Naval Academy for 21 years. The book, which satirized early 20th century Annapolis using twenty-six limericks and illustrations, became an instant success. Find out why it also became controversial.
William O. Stevens, An Annapolis Alphabet: Pictures and Limericks (Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press, 1906).
The first edition poetry book below illustrates beautiful text and the tooled binding of the times. It is inscribed: "Ellen W. Scripps, a Christmas present from her Father [James E. Scripps], Detroit 1879." The editor of the compilation, Henry T. Coates joined the publishing firm of Davis & Porter in 1966; Davis retired the following year and the company became Porter & Coates which became famous for creating Home and Garden magazine and publishing the Horatio Alger Junior titles.
Henry T. Coates (ed.), The Children's Book of Poetry: carefully selected from the works of the best and most popular writers for children. (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1879).
Gustaf Strengell, the father of Cranbrook's textile designer Marianne Strengell, composed and designed this handwritten analysis of the Swedish poet's writings as part of his graduate thesis. Franz Michael Franzén's (1772-1847) work expressed the romantic conception of nature as both idyllic and divine, and was influential in the development of Finnish poetry.
Gustaf Strengell, Franzén. (Helsinki, unpublished, 1898)
For a really great blog post about related collections, see: Graphic Arts Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University.
Archives/Exhibitions/Objects
Cranbrook Archives/Cranbrook Art Museum/Cranbrook School/Ellen Scripps Booth/Finnish poetry/Franz Michael Franzen/Gustaf Strengell/Henry T. Coates/Horation Alger Junior/James Edmund Scripps/Marianne Strengell/The Lord Baltimore Press/William O. Stevens/Yale University


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