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'natural community gardening,' with patrick mcmillan of heronswood
by margaret July 3, 2021 July 6, 2021
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD to connecting with Patrick McMillan, who last October took over as director of the exceptional plant collection and astonishing landscape that is Heronswood Garden in Kingston, Washington.
Besides wanting to know what's next there at a place that's been known for a long time for its influence on American gardeners, Patrick has a personal passion I'm very curious about. It's what he calls "natural community gardening," as in taking our cues from habitats or plant communities in nature to guide how we design and care for our gardens.
Patrick came to Heronswood last fall from Clemson University in South Carolina, where he ran the South Carolina Botanical Garden and was a professor in the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences. He also hosted a PBS series called "Expeditions with Patrick McMillan," and led the development of the botanical garden's Natural Heritage Garden. His motto, in his words:
"No matter how large a garden space is, no matter what you're doing, you try to make your passion come to life on your piece of ground."
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natural community gardening with patrick mcmillan
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Margaret Roach: So I feel like it must've been a bit of like, "Dorothy, we're not in Kansas anymore" when you found yourself in the Pacific Northwest compared to South Carolina.
Patrick McMillan: It really was; it really still is. I've been a little shocked how quickly this area has started to just feel like home. Heronswood is one of the world's great gardens, with some of the best garden people in the world. And the area itself also to me just has this wonderful kind of maternalness to. It seems to just envelop you, and convince you pretty quick that this is one of the best places on planet earth.
Margaret: Yeah. So, it's a distinctively different natural community or habitat from where you were. And so besides being a shift in zone and so forth, it's a distinguished place in many ways. Thousands of different types of plants and so forth, but also being I think one of the largest public gardens in the U.S. that's wholly owned by a Native American tribe. Did that influence your decision to come there, and tell me a little bit about that?
Patrick: Absolutely. When I was sort of looking around to sort of slow down and change—and you know what that's like to want to get away from maybe six jobs titles down to one [laughter]. When I was looking around, Heronswood was the very first place that came up. And it's the kind of place where when my wife looked on the America Public Gardens Association job board and said, "Oh, there's only one directorship right now open in the United States."
And I said, "Oh, where is it?" And she said, "Heronswood." We kind of came to a screeching halt. We were driving between our house in South Carolina and our home up in the mountains of North Carolina. And I had about three hours to put in an application. And to be honest, I have never applied for a job before [laughter]. I've always just moved from one position and off to the other.
And I put together that application very quickly because of what Heronswood is, the philosophy behind this place. And when I came and talked with the Tribal leaders here and the administration and the folks that work here, it just seemed to be a perfect match, because my worldview and the Port Gamble S'Klallam tribe's worldview coincide.
And so it was partly, if not mostly, that real passion for life—promoting life, and understanding that every choice we make will have this profound reverberating effect out into the future forever here on this planet that really brought me here. And Dan Hinkley and his love of filling every space, which is so important to me, and making the most out of every little spot you have to provide color, to provide movement, diversity, life, odors—all those things that really make a garden, more than just statuary. It brings it to life. And so, yeah, that was the reason. And I can't think of any other place that I would have gone in this country, aside from here. And it's just been wonderful.
Margaret: And so you mentioned Dan Hinkley, and Dan was the director of the garden and was the co-founder of Heronswood Nursery that preceded the garden. Aand the garden today was the place that used to be their home, and so on and so forth. And a lot of us oldtime gardeners have many plants in their gardens that came mail order from Heronswood Nursery back in the day. The nursery doesn't exist anymore, but anyway…and he's a plant explorer. So, so many different layers there of excitement.
But natural community gardening, maybe tell us really quickly about the Natural Heritage Garden at Clemson that you were involved with, and so that sort of connector to where you are now.
Patrick: Yeah. So my background has always been gardening, but it's also been rooted in ecology. So my PhD is in botany. But I've spent most of my life really caring about trying to keep America wild, to keep the world wild, to provide places where our plants, animals, and all the other things that give us the breadth of what life is, the experience of life, to keep those places going.
And so most of my life I've spent trying to understand how plants, animals, and humans interact in traditional ways in natural communities. And so when I got to the South Carolina Botanical Garden, I got there kind of in the middle of the economic downturn. And I took the position without pay for the first little bit just because it was put to me kind of like, well, either you can become director of the botanical garden, or we might consider closing it down. And I didn't want that to happen.
So, I took the position, and I had no idea what I was doing. I went in and really had not had a close enough relationship with the botanical garden there in Clemson in the past, even though I'd been there for years. And very quickly, I started to see that the garden there had such a small staff, it tried to do things that other gardens were doing or had traditionally done, but it couldn't go on the way that it was going on.
And so I got this idea that the only way to make something like this work is to take your passion and put it on the ground. And that's what I say to every gardener, no matter how large a garden space is, no matter what you're doing, you try to make your passion come to life on your piece of ground.
And for me, that was really trying to get people to understand beauty for what it is and redefine beauty. And for me, beauty lies in the intersections rather than the divisions of life. And there's no place where our choices have a more profound and immediate impact than right in our own backyards. Because the choice of the way we plant, the choice of how much lawn we have, what we use in our landscape—that has a direct relationship to the layers of life and the intersections of life that happen within our garden and between us and all of those other living things around us.
So the idea for natural community gardening really was taking something that has become fashionable anyway, which is trying to mimic nature and doing provincial collections or collections that represent certain areas. And rather than just creating a collection of plants from the coastal plain, the Piedmont, and the mountains of South Carolina, what I decided to do was to try to bring all of the elements of a natural community into the garden. And we created this 64-acre exhibit. It takes folks from our mountain cove forests and mountain bogs all the way down to the maritime forests at the coastline. And we did it all in Clemson, South Carolina, which is hundreds of miles from the coast and nestled right up against the mountains.
When I started that project, there were a lot of naysayers [laughter], which I always… It's fine. Failure is one of the greatest tools to help you learn. So I'm never afraid to fail, but I went into it head-first. It was really just my son and I that started the project because there was no staff to work on it. There was no money to really throw at it. And we just started doing and duplicating what I had learned from decades of working with natural communities into the garden.
So a natural community garden puts the soil type, the rock type, the geology, and the hydrology of the habitat together with the plants that occupy that habitat. And we arrange those plants in a way that we think they would be arranged in the natural community, and then sort of let them do their thing to rearrange themselves, and spend most of our time editing that landscape.
And then very importantly, we also input the human element. We input the traditional management practices into those habitats. So for our South Carolina Natural Heritage Garden, that meant burning our long-leaf pine flatwoods and wetlands savannah and our Piedmont prairie every single year. And what we were doing there is putting back into the habitat that traditional use of human beings of using fire to manipulate the habitat. Ultimately, it was always for human gain—to increase productivity, to increase the game that would be attracted to the area by the Native Americans that did this. And even today it continues in places like South Carolina. Keep the woods open, right? Provide habitat for things that folks like to hunt.
Margaret: But I don't have to have a big place. 64 acres, I think you said. I don't have to have that to think this way, right?
Patrick: No, no. And there are tiny examples of this, even in the natural world. Right here in the Puget Sound area in the Pacific Northwest, over in a little town called Port Townsend, there's this wonderful little place it's just a tiny little postage stamp called Kah Tai Prairie. And those traditional practices of keeping out woody vegetation using traditional means are on a very tiny piece of ground there. But the result has been this camas meadow, which is just full of Camassia there in springtime, has been perpetuated from the times that it was managed by Native Americans down to today.
And this practice can happen in a pot on your back porch. Duplicating and mimicking the patterns that we see in nature are the ways that you can generate the most biodiversity per square inch in our yard. And with the changing world, generating life as densely as we can in the back porches and the backyards of those of us who are gardeners is one of the most profound ways that we can actually be part of the answer, part of the cure to our declining biodiversity worldwide.
Margaret: Yeah. So each choice really that we make, both in plant selection, placement and aftercare, can promote this community, this reality of community.
Patrick: Absolutely. Absolutely. And so we can talk about some specific examples
Margaret: Yeah. So you're reminding me of like Claudia West and Thomas Rainer, designers from Phyto Studio, and Claudia says, they say, "Plants are the mulch." These living communities of plants on the ground layer and intermediate layer, not just that stuff in a bag from the garden center.
Patrick: Right. And that's one of the keys also to natural community gardening. And Claudia and Thomas has really brought that forward in their book, that they really took the time to get out and look at the way nature is. And nature doesn't leave any space void. Something's going to fill it. And so we can fill that with mulch, which is sort of the traditional…to me, still holding onto a bit of colonialism in America, which I find fascinating: that we'd rather control life as little round statuary shrubs or double-flowered plants that are widely spaced with a sea of mulch in between them.
And that's wasting so much space that could be giving an adding to the life. So Step 1, really for this, is fill it. Fill it. Fill every space you possibly can with useful plants that work for a living.
And I love plants that work for a living. What I mean by working for a living is that they're giving back something into the community. So, when we're choosing trees for our yard, making sure we choose and put in trees that are supporting caterpillars, for instance. So oak trees obviously host more diversity and abundance of caterpillars than any other tree you can plant in North America. And that's supported of course by Doug Tallamy's research. But then filling all those spaces that you would use mulch in—filling all of those spaces with life.
So groundcovers and things that flower, but the things that flower and produce flowers that are usable by nature, which means avoiding double flowers. If you're planting shrubs—and God knows, hydrangeas are the thing here in the Pacific Northwest—but planting a mophead hydrangea, you might as well just put a statue of a hydrangea up, because those that lack fertile flowers, they're not providing any nectar or any pollen, which is absolutely essential for what's been widely recognized as a worldwide crisis as a decline in our pollinators, much more than just honey bees, everything is declining.
So by planting a lacecap [above, a paniculata with lacecap flowers], or if you're planting a paniculata variety, something like a 'Kyushu' that produces fertile flowers, rather than just mopheads that don't offer anything back, can go a huge way to bringing waves of butterflies. Gosh, those paniculata 'Kyushu' hydrangeas at the South Carolina Botanical Garden become completely covered with tiger swallowtails in the late summer. And just the noise of all of the wasps and flies and bees and beetles that are attracted to that plant is amazing.
Margaret: And this is true, obviously, not just with hydrangeas, but when we go for the sort of ultra-decorator human-made version of a plant, even if it's a native plant, where someone's gone to breed it or select it for it's the most double-fluffy-puffy flower of all, the insects can't get at the assets, or there are no assets. And like you said, nectar and pollen and that's gone too far. And so you're saying we need to fill our spaces—because plants like to touch and tangle together and so forth in nature—and also fill it with vital resources.
Patrick: Yeah, yeah. Fill it with vital resources. And I love that, the touch and tangle thing, because it's always fascinating to me that when we think about the places… And I always put it to people this way, if you're thinking about the place where you feel closest and most connected with the world, the place that you go to find peace, most of us who are gardeners or are nature lovers, we're going to think of a place that is the top of a mountain to me. Where I grew up in Allegheny County, North Carolina, where I'm sitting in this sea of prairie vegetation, tall-grass prairie vegetation on this mountain bald filled with Liatris and filled with Coreopsis. And looking down a rock outcrop that's just alight with Hypericum and out over the Blue Ridge Escarpment.
It's not a human-contrived landscape full of little round shrubs that I think of as the place that most connects me to the world. But when we make our gardens, we almost always go back and choose to make them things that are either statuary, like double flowers or this, that, and the other. And we want to have them cleanly separated from each other. And nature doesn't do that.
And some of those most beautiful designs that really draw our hearts are those where the plants overlap. They overlap you, they touch you in the path, like they do here at Heronswood and one beautiful color bleeds into the other. And one contrasting foliage just overlaps and bleeds into the other. And that's really we're talking about—redefining beauty. It's looking at relationships as one of the greatest lessons we can learn from our gardens.
The other really critical thing that is difficult for many of us is understanding that death also generates life.
Margaret: Yes.
Patrick: And that's really important to me. So we are always, and this is, again, no matter if you're in a pot or if you have 295 acres, death generates life. So deadheading many species of the plants removes one of their most important functions in the natural community.
Margaret: To produce seed. Yeah.
Patrick: Absolutely. So think about, obviously things that come to mind, like many of us grow Heliopsis, Helianthus—sunflowers. Those Coreopsis that we all know are really great bird food when they go to fruit. That's an easy example to think of. But you may not realize that gaillardias are one of the best plants that you can put into your landscape and in the East and Southeast to draw in and feed goldfinches. And if we're planting those and then taking off the flowers as they fade, that's not going to happen.
So that's difficult for some us [laughter] to have sort of a bit of unkemptness in our yards, and that extends to really tolerating and packaging brutal landscapes. The untamed parts, the back sections that we try to hide from the public in many of our public gardens, there's places that are weedy and we haven't developed yet. Those are critical.
Margaret: That's where the action is, right?
Patrick: That's where the action is. When you think about the butterflies that are in the Eastern U.S., when you think about things like buckeye butterflies, I mean, they lay their eggs on plantain. And so if we had a landscape without plantain… Snapdragons, they'll lay their eggs on, too, but they're gone by the time many butterflies might lay their eggs.
Margaret: We think of it as a weed. So I want to just now just transition quickly to the example of so Heronswood [above], again, maybe known to some listeners to me is a former source of rare plants. And it's thousands of plant species and varieties in his collection from foreign lands where Dan Hinkley went plant exploring high up in the mountains and whatever. How do you make a natural community garden at Heronswood, then, with all that international diversity? So just tell us quickly a little bit about that connection.
Patrick: Sure. Well, the Woodland Garden [photo, top of page] essentially is a natural community garden. It just happens to combine things from all over the world. And, we're all very careful here in our 9,000 species. When we start to see a plant that Dan may have introduced that is doing too well, it disappears from our landscape. I'm really impressed with how responsible they've been over the years doing that.
But we are getting ready to develop and really double the size of our Woodland Garden. So that garden area, our idea there is to create what we're going to call the Traveler's Garden. And it really takes us natural community garden concept and puts it on the ground here in the Pacific Northwest. And as far as I know, it will be the first example in a public garden here in the Pacific Northwest.
And in that garden, we will be illustrating a Western woodland garden, a true Western woodland garden, Cascadian habitats, serpentine barrens from the Siskiyous and Wenatchee mountains, and then middle- and high-elevation woodlands, places that you think are filled with balsam root and lupines in the springtime.
And then we also are incorporating what we're calling the S'Klallam Connections Garden there, which is really a natural community garden that's focused on where we are right here, just focused on the rain shadow forests of Kitsap County. And it's being designed, it's being interpreted, and the stories that are being shared about the connections between people and plants there, and people and all forms of life there, is all being done by our S'Klallam staff and volunteers from our S'Klallam community. So it is going onto the ground.
Margaret: That's exciting.
Patrick: Yeah. And that garden also will include… Part of the heritage of Heronswood is really exploration. And the idea is we want people to feel like they are actually in that place, in that habitat. And that extends also there to a large section of the garden that we're doing, a Valdivian rainforest or Valdivian region garden from southern Chilean habitat, where I lived for four years and am absolutely in love with. [Above, a mass of Taiwanese Cypripedium orchids at Heronswood.]
Margaret: Wow [laughter].
Patrick: And then a garden really takes people into the footsteps of Dan Hinkley that is a Vietnamese habitat garden, not a Vietnamese collection, not a Chilean collection, not a Cascadian collection, but actually bringing all the elements of that natural community garden: the pretty things, the grasses, even the briars and the blackberries. So that folks really get an idea of what it's like to be there, get immersed in the habitat. And it provides us yet another piece of this garden that will generate life
Margaret: Well, Patrick McMillan, congratulations again. And it's so great—the team at Heronswood is unsurpassed. So it's very exciting and I hope we're going to talk more. And thank you for making time today. I'm sure you're busy, busy, busy, but thank you for making time—and stay cool.
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Heidi Husnak says:
Wow – I had to grab my inspiration journal and write out some of his phrases. You introduced me to Thomas Rainer and Claudia West in a July 2018 podcast and it has deeply influenced me. This interview took it to another level. The lessons, in today's world, powerfully apply to more than plants. Thank you!
Margaret Manzke says:
I love these interviews! I'm always learning something new from them.
John Moore says:
".. . . try to make your passion come to life on your piece of ground." That's an artful and inspirational quote. I suspect that Patrick has used it in the classroom and lectures before. It deserves space on my embarrassingly large Pinterest garden board.
Thanks for another interesting podcast. It had never occurred to me that some of my (many) Hydrangeas were subtractions, that is, sterile shrub flowers that do not nurture insects. I will still keep them, of course. But, I will be more mindful in my future purchases to squeeze into my garden.
Crew Mom says:
Thank you for another great interview, Margaret. As an NC native, I'm sure Dr. McMillan knows about the work of B. W. Wells, another great inspiration. Heronswood and all the other places he mentions going on the bucket list now. Thank you.
Peg Kenney says:
Beautiful and very inspiring article!
As Ive learned more and embrace the natural garden world, I've incorporated and continue to add more native plants to my garden over time. I love the idea of plants as mulch and would love to fill up every space with plants! For me it's a balance however because there are so many non native plants I am always attracted to as well! For the vast majority I do try and choose plants that will nurture wildlife, from birds, pollinators and beneficials down to the soil microbes. The challenge I face is finding plants in my nurseries that I can be assured are untreated with pesticides, namely neonicotinoids and other systemics. The options are incredibly limited unless I buy native. There are a handful of "organically " grown plants of course but not many comparatively. I understand the desire for growers and nurseries to sell perfect looking plants though I'm astounded that most plants we see in the nurseries are treated with something that is potentially harmful to the wildlife we are trying to support and nurture. I would love for growers to include on the plant tags any chemicals the plants are treated with. It might be something such as BT that I can go home and wash off the plant or it my be a systemic insecticide which indefinitely don't want! I have no way of knowing as I wander through the nursery. The goal is to bring public awareness to this issue so that consumers can make educated choices when buying plants.
Tibs says:
Very inspirational.
Helen Redding says:
Congratulations Margaret! I have listened to and loved your podcast for years , but this is the first time I have listened to a podcast three times over. Great job to both go you!
Wow, talk about learning a lot from one podcast. Who knew some hydrangeas don't have pollen or nectar? Blanket flowers attract the most goldfinches? What a great interview.
I read probably 20 years ago to leave some seedheads for birds, but I think I'll be leaving even more after hearing this discussion.
I love the concept of planting those plants that give back and don't just look pretty. It's been interesting to learn that some plants or flowers don't have pollen or it's not easy to get to for bees, etc. Always learning no matter how long I garden. Thank you Margaret. This was great.
Marsha Douma says:
I learn something from every episode. Using plants as mulch was this episodes reinforced new idea for me. It is certainly a change to think of our plants as happier when they have nearby friends, than when they are isolated, so there is less competition. Question – how do we now think about the idea of the nutrients in the garden being insufficient.
As so many others have said, I learned so much from this interview and so admire his philosophy.
Fascinating. Please keep on giving us such interesting things to learn.
I am one of the lucky ones to have visited Heronswood Nursery & toured the garden with Dan Hinkley. (He stopped every foot or so to pull out a weed, nip an errant stalk – wonderful lecturer) Has Patrick McMillan written or going to write a book on this community garden idea?
The Wildflower Garden in Scituate may not go back as far as the Wampanoags – but we are doing our best to grow New England natives to show people that they are often lovely and not necessarily 'invasive'. Gaillardia needs lots of sun – difficult in our area, but it is growing very happily in my garden in the 'hell strip'. Plantains- the European one is very happy in grassy paths – does the European host the buckeye butterfly? I would be most interested in learning more about the connection of non-native plants & caterpillars. So many of the pollinators need such specialized plants to grow.
Very enjoyable pod cast!! Wonderfully inspirational for all gardeners " making our passion come to life on their own little piece of ground" lovely. I have morphed into leaving seed pods for the birds and planting more natives than when I started gardening 35 years ago. Thanks for introducing Patrick McMillan to your audience!
I am near Lake Erie and have native plantings in my yard. I am ecstatic about finding this podcast. Learning so much helpful info. Thank you all for sharing your knowledge with your listeners.
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I started making these birds from PVC pipe about eight years ago. It started when I purchased several patterns while wintering in Florida. A gentleman there was making them with great abandon and selling them at the local flea market. He did well enough to fund his travel back up north to his fishing camp for the summer. I was looking for something different I could undertake as a hobby and this seemed to fit the bill as I had not seen anyone else doing this craft in the area where we recently moved.
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The first experiment I made was to produce a smaller pattern in order to create a mother and baby on a single block. This worked for all the different larger bird types. At some point I also started making my own bases from cement/sand mix because I could not find any of the size I wanted.
Over the years I experimented with different designs. For instance, the Great Egret happened when I was walking in the park and saw one standing in the marsh. I thought it was interesting and something that would fit the 4 inch pipe I was using. I looked up several pictures on the web and developed a pattern that reflected the bird I has seen on the marsh. The result was a success.
This past year I was offered some cedar that a friend had cut from his woodlot which gave me a new idea. I had seen others who had created patterns on wood but they were usually on a smaller size scale. By putting three blocks together I was able to create a solid base. Then it just became a matter of adjusting the bends to create the illusion of the mother bird with a fish in it's beak and a baby begging for it while a second baby looks down for it's own (could just as easily be both looking up). This became an instant hit. I sold several from the front step. I had two ready to go to the craft show this fall when the furnace service repairman was scheduled to visit. He purchased both of them right out of the garage. I got my furnace serviced and made a net profit on the transaction!
I plan to continue making bird crafts for the park. Profits from the sales are used to support their educational programs during the summer.
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August 14, 2015: Finally figured how to get back in to update. I have added a couple of new pictures. Usually I forget to take the pictures before the finished birds are gone. The pelican I designed as several people had asked for that pattern. I had to make one to be sure what the final product would look like. The second picture of birds of different sizes came about when I was contacted and provided a picture. The lady had a friend who purchased these but could not get any more. So, I took the picture and created the designs necessary to make the family.
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So my friend Heather is a rumchata drinker, but complained that it was so expensive. I came up with my own recipe for her and she loved it. Super easy too, you should have most things on hand already. As for the milk I think that 2 percent or whole would taste better or you could add a little half and half to some skim milk.
So basically your making the non alcoholic base for the drink then adding in vanilla rum and ice to taste. This makes a small pitcher of rumchata then add 1/2 cup rum and some ice. If you want to make just the base and pour singe drinks, then add a shot (or a half shot) of rum and half a glass of ice to a glass, the pour base over that until full.
in pitcher add milk, syrup, cinnamon, vanilla and nutmeg.
We love dirt cake at our house, so we made this one for Easter. You can't go wrong with oreo cookies, pudding, and cool whip. You can add whatever you want to the top, Peeps, jelly beans, edible grass, etc.
For the carrots I just whipped up some vanilla frosting, then added food coloring to get it orange. Then I put it in a plastic bag and clipped the corner off. I squeezed little orange blobs on some wax paper and put them in the freezer for 10 min. until they were set. Next I used a tooth pick and poked a hole in the top and added a few pieces of the edible grass. You should be able to find edible grass at places like Target & Walmart. I've seen it for sale at both places, it's located with the Easter candy & usually costs $2 or less.
My daughter came in after I put the carrots on the cake and asked for a carrot. I gave her one and she looked at me and said, "I want a whole carrot". Then I had to tell her that the carrots didn't go all the way to the bottom of the pan, they were just carrot tops. She was a little disappointed.
My daughter has been asking for days if we can make our bunny cake yet. I keep telling her that we can't make it until the day before Easter, so today I decided we would dip peeps to keep her happy. It was pretty easy and not too messy. Don't make my mistake of using blue peeps, they showed through the vanilla. I should have used yellow.


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Pokémon Go – Why everyone's gotta catch 'em all
Pokémon Go is the latest craze hitting countries around the world, with celebrities such as Justin Bieber and Jimmy Fallon playing the game.
This is the second generation of the Pokémon craze, following the Nintendo game and playing cards from the late 1990s. It makes millennials a prime target for Pokémon Go having played the original during their childhoods. The mobile app had more daily users than Twitter in the US in the week following its launch, and has since attracted more engagement than Facebook.
It involves catching Pokémon characters in the real world, which is mapped using Google Maps data and uses augmented reality to bring the game to life like no other mobile game ever has. It's now officially the most downloaded game for mobile of all time, overtaking the peak audience of Candy Crush in 2013.
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Even Justin Bieber has been spotted playing the game in Central Park, but barely anyone even noticed him because they were all transfixed on the game, according to TechInsider. Ironically, Bieber is in New York City playing two sold out shows at Madison Square Garden, finishing out his Purpose tour. But he managed to walk through one of the busiest areas around NYC without being disturbed for around 20 minutes.
Nintendo success
Upon the release of Nintendo's new technology, share prices climbed by 65% – an unprecedented rise for a company of that size, according to The Guardian. That follows various frequent flops such as its recent games console, Wii U, which has sold around 25% of the figures of the PlayStation 4 despite being released over a year earlier. Their first mobile app, Miitomo, resulted in a 9% fall in share price a day after its release.
That maybe puts the phenomenon of Pokémon Go into perspective, as it's a reinvention of the original game into the smartphone era. This may mark the beginning of a new age for smartphone games, bringing them to life in everyday situations. The augmented reality concept has been around for the past few years, but Pokémon Go has encapsulated it on a worldwide scale for the first time.
The next step for Pokémon Go will be retaining its user base across the millennial generation, while also somehow monetising the app. It is believed that sponsored locations will be added to updates of the game, and its launch in its home country of Japan has included sponsored locations such as McDonalds, while other sponsored locations are expected to be added to the game in various other countries.
The ground-breaking augmented reality concept of the game, coinciding with the sentiment from millennials as the primary market, has led to record-breaking users and growth. If it can become more slick and polished – and stop crashing due to over-subscribed servers – then there's potential for Pokémon Go to stick around at a sustained level of popularity.
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Ukrainian forces have sent the Russians scurrying home in retreat in recent days, using US weapons and a strong belief in their democracy, diversity and freedom. Maybe Ted Cruz should rethink his comments regarding the "woke" US Military.
Cruz tweeted last year after he complained about the U.S. Army recruiting ad that was featured in a viral clip comparing it with a Russian military ad. The video was a spoof showing a Russian army ad of soldiers doing pushups, parachuting, and preparing to use firearms as dramatic music played in the background. The video switched to an animated Army clip of a female soldier raised by two mothers who joined the U.S. Army.
He tweeted that "Holy Crap. Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea…"
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), who is a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel, said in response that "Perhaps a U.S. Senator shouldn't suggest that the *Russian* military is better than the American military that protected him from an insurrection he helped foment?"
Cruz, who has a history of becoming a meme for "open mouth, insert foot" — was recently referred to by Hilary Clinton as "the eternal blowhard." Cruz showed his true colors as he left the airport on his way to Cancun when his Texas constituents were stranded in sub freezing temperatures in 2021.
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John V. Travis: (Briefly) A Civil War Soldier
May 4, 2018 / robbinsroots	/ Leave a comment
I don't order Civil War pension records very often, as they are rather expensive. Once in a while though I splurge on a case file in hope that the record will provide new information, if not in specific genealogical data such as names and dates, but in social and economic history of the family involved. The most recent pension record I've received is that of John V. Travis. His mother, Docia (Robbins) Travis, applied for a pension after his brief service in the Union army. This pension file doesn't include any new genealogical bombshells but does have some interesting facts not otherwise passed down in a family's records. Here is a summary of the information contained, with some additions from other sources.
John V. Travis was the son of Absalom Travis and Docia F. Robbins, and Docia was a daughter of Marmaduke and Elizabeth (Parsley) Robbins. Docia was born in 1821 and married Absalom Travis in 1839 in Decatur County, Indiana. John Travis was the couple's third child, born about 1845 though unfortunately the pension file did not provide an exact birthdate. Absalom Travis died 12 October 1853, leaving Docia a widow caring for six children ranging in age from 1 to 13.
According to the pension file, John enrolled as a private in company D of the 123rd Regiment of Indiana Infantry Volunteers, on Sunday, December 20th, 1863, to serve for three years or the duration of the war. It was probably not a happy day for his mother and it would only get worse quickly. John became ill and died on 23 January 1864, after only one month of military service. He was approximately 19 years of age.
There is an affidavit by his doctors E. B. Swain and M. G. Falconbury, in which they,
"…say that they attended on John V Travis late a Private in Co. "D" of the 123rd Regt Ind Vols in or during his last illness and that Said John V Travis died on the 23rd day of January 1864 near Greensburgh Indiana by reason of a disease called Cerebro Spinal Meningitis and that said disease was contracted or originated three days prior to the date of his death."
John's commanding officer, Capt. Angus McCoy also reported that John
"…was attended in his last illness by Civil Surgeons and Physicians And that there was no Regimental Surgeon yet appointed or on duty with Said Regiment at the time of the last illness and death of John V. Travis."
On August 8, 1865, Docia filed a "Declaration for Mother's Army Pension." In that document she appoints Edwin White as her attorney, presents two witnesses to her signing the declaration with her mark "x", Green B. Roszell and Calvin H. Paramore (the latter being married to her cousin Mary Ellen Robbins). They also state "…that said Docia F. Travis is poor, and has no income save what is contributed by friends, or earned by her own labor; and they believe her unable to earn her subsistence, by reason of her age and also having a child (daughter) to support." The daughter is not named but was likely Nancy Ann Travis, then in her late teens. This statement also seems to support the idea that her youngest child, William Travis, who appeared in the 1860 census as a 7-year-old, was deceased.
Another affidavit was filed by her nephews George Harvey and William Riley Robbins, sons of her brother Jacob. They provided a little more information about her situation:
…that Said John V Travis did in his lifetime for a period of three or four years contributed money and other necessary articles Such as provisions to the regular support of his mother Docia F. Travis, and that Said John V Travis did not give her money and other articles as presents but that he worked for the Said G H Robbins at different times and that he the Said G H Robbins paid a part of his wages by the request of Said John V Travis to Said Docia F Travis, the same being for her regular support and that Said Docia Travis was wholly dependant upon her Said Son (John V Travis) for Support. And that Absalom Travis the husband of Docia Travis died about the year 1855. That he the Said Absalom Travis left to his Said widow Docia F Travis property, Real & Personal, worth the Sum of two hundred & fifty Dollars, all of which she has used to support herself and family and that she has no property of any value at this time with the exception of a cow and a little household furniture all not worth more than one hundred Dollars…
Docia Travis was approved for a pension, to receive $8 per month, commencing on 23 January 1864, the date of John's death. Presumably she received retroactive payments from the date of death to the approval of the pension.
By about the same time she was being approved for the pension, Docia moved to Clay County, Illinois. She continued to collect her eight dollars each month until in 1872 she remarried, to William Nichelson. William seems to have died sometime in the late 1880's and Docia re-applied for a pension based on John's service, as she was once again without support. Her "Declaration for Dependent Mother's Pension" was filed on 8 August 1890 with the support of her new attorney Thomas W. Kepley. As support several of her friends filed an affidavit stating "…that she has no property other than common necessary wearing apparel and bedding. That all the means of support she has is from her own labor which consists of doing a little light house work for others and nursing the sick which occupations she is not now able to perform only to a limited extent on account of Old age and failing health. That her annual income from all sources is not more than about Ten Dollars."
She must have been relieved to once again be awarded a pension, this time receiving the increased amount of $12 per month, commencing in September of 1890.
As frequently happened with these pensions, the recipient was asked to provide additional or clarifying information, sometimes as the result of a routine audit. In Docia's case apparently there was some concern about the spelling of her second husband's name, causing her to file an affidavit at the local courthouse that "…states as follows that she has no education whatsoever and cannot tell what is the Correct way of spelling her late husbands name. She does not know whether it is spelled Nichelson or Nicholson, that the difference in spelling that name in her papers has been made by different officers who have done business for her. That she believes that the correct way is as it is spelled in her Original papers, Nichelson."
We do not know when Docia died. Family records suggest around 1903. However a notation in the pension file indicates she was last paid in October of 1900 and had been "dropped because of failure to claim 3 yrs 3 mos." Was she deceased by this time? or too infirm to collect her pension? The record is not clear.
There were no spectacular new finds in this pension file, but we did learn something about John Travis' death, the physicians that attended him, the economic status of his widowed mother, and her education level. That information is not usually available in any other genealogical record available to us from this time period. I'll write up summaries of other pension records and include the information in future posts.
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Jacob Green Robbins: A Late Emigrant to Oregon
October 31, 2017 / robbinsroots	/ 1 Comment
In some earlier posts I shared some of the reminiscences of David Ransom Robbins, a grandson of Ransom Robbins, who was the subject of much of the family stories. David's parents were Jacob Green and Jane (Force) Robbins and they are the subject of this post.
Born in Indiana in 1827, Jacob Green Robbins was the fourth child of Ransom and Rebecca (Green) Robbins. He was raised in Jennings County and married Jane Force, a native New Yorker, there in 1851. To this union were born twelve children.
Grand Review of Union Army (1865)
Jacob enlisted in the 82nd Regiment of Indiana Infantry Volunteers on 9 August 1862in Indiana and served through the duration of the Civil War. The 82nd was involved in the battles of Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga, Atlanta, and was with Sherman when he marched across Georgia and up through the Carolinas to Confederate General Johnston's surrender. This regiment, with Jacob, participated in the Grand Review of the Armies in Washington, D.C., where Jacob was discharged, honorably, on 9 June 1865. Like many soldiers, Jacob suffered from illness, including diarrhea, piles, and cataracts in the eyes, brought on by exposure to the elements and unclean water and food. His later application for a pension would describe these conditions.
Upon return from the war, Jacob, along with other members of the Robbins family, emigrated from Indiana to Minnesota. A friend of his, whom he had grown up with and served in the same infantry company with, owned land in Minnesota but decided to remain in Indiana and offered the Minnesota place to Jacob. Once the Robbins' Indiana farm was sold, Jacob and Jane purchased the Minnesota land, and moved there to Scott County.
Jacob and Jane's son David Ransom Robbins wrote about the family's arrival in Minnesota:
Uncle Jim Robbins lived about four miles northwest of Waterville…we finally got to Uncle Jim's. They knew that we was on our way, but did not know when we would arrive. Grandfather [Ransom Robbins] and Aunt Julia's house was only a short distance from Uncle Jim's, and they had gone to bed. Uncle Jim called them and they came over. My cousin Ransom was not married yet, and was at home. He was a volunteer soldier in the Fourth Minnesota Regiment and served till the war ended. You can imagine that it was quite late when we got to bed that night.
Initially the Robbins's lived near Fish Lake. David Ransom Robbins described building their house there.
After father got the house logs made, he took one of the mares and snaked them out of the woods to where he wanted to build the house, and sometime in the last or first part of April of 1866 he had a house raising, and the neighbors came and put up the body of the house, and about that time Uncle Nelson Force (Mother's brother) came. Then he, father, and Grandfather Robbins made rafters out of saplings by hewing them on one side, then put them up and nailed sheeting on them, which was one inch lumber. And then they put the roof on which was three foot clapboards they had riven out of oak timber. They also made all the joists out of small trees. When they got the floors laid and doors and windows in, and as the weather was quite warm by that time, we moved into our new house before the cracks between the logs were chinked and plastered.
Jacob Green & Jane (Force) Robbins
After living at Fish Lake for about six years, Jacob bought a farm a little to the southwest in Lexington Township of Le Sueur County, and that's where he and Jane remained until 1911. In that year, at the ages of 83 and 74, Jacob and Jane moved to Oregon! Both family and newspaper articles state that it was in search of a "milder" climate that caused the couple to make the move. Certainly Cottage Grove, Oregon, is much, much milder than Cordova, Minnesota.
Cottage Grove Sentinel (24 October 1912)
The very next year, the Cottage Grove Sentinel spotlighted the elderly Robbins couple, one-year residents of their community, with a headline that stated "Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Robbins Sweethearts Still and Hale and Hearty at Advanced Ages of 85 and 76." A couple of their many children lived nearby and helped take care of the couple in their last years. When they passed away, they did so within weeks of one another. Jacob Green Robbins died in March of 1918, while Jane passed away two months later, in May of 1918. Both Jacob and his wife Jane are buried in the Brumbaugh Cemetery outside Cottage Grove.
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Remembering War Dead
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On Memorial Day, Americans frequently visit cemeteries and place flags and flowers on the grave of anyone who has served in America's armed forced. But Memorial Day is officially the day for remembering those who died while in military service. We have many, many relatives in the Robbins family who have served in the military, and we also have those who died while in service. An early post on this blog told the story of Jefferson Robbins and his lonely grave in southern Indiana. This post will discuss his uncle Harrison Robbins who is buried in a more prominent location.
Gravestone of Harrison Robbins
Harrison Robbins was born about 1820 in Henry County, Kentucky, and taken by his parents Micajah and Elizabeth Robbins north to Decatur County, Indiana, sometime in the early 1830s. Later as a young man he moved south to Breckinridge County, Kentucky, where other Robbins' were moving from Indiana, and where in 1845 he was married to Eleanor Swink. (As an aside, in the future, various Swinks and Robbins would move to Colorado, settling in Otero County, where the small town of Swink exists to this day – but that's a story for a future post). There seems to have been quite a bit of travel back and forth between Decatur County and Breckinridge County. We find many of our family living in one place one year, the other place a couple years later, then back to their original location several years after that. And in fact, by 1847, Harrison, Eleanor, and their first-born child Elizabeth, were in Decatur County.
Harrison was not young, about 41 years old, when he enlisted on 18 September 1861. He and Eleanor had six children by then: Elizabeth, Rachel, Ann, Henry C., Lafayette ("Lafe"), and Stephen Robbins. What made a man of his age, a husband, and a father, enlist in the Union Army? He must have been motivated by patriotism and devotion to the preservation of the Union. His enlistment came just two months after the first Battle of Bull Run, which the Union lost, and which demonstrated that the Union wasn't going to be preserved without bloodshed. His political views might possibly be determined by the name of one of his sons, Henry Clay Robbins, as the noted political leader Henry Clay, by then deceased, was known as "the Great Compromiser," who stood for the Union above all else.
Whatever the reason, after enlistment, Harrison was mustered into the 37th Indiana Infantry at Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The 37th was attached to the Army of the Ohio, and ordered to Kentucky in October of 1861. After that the regiment was involved in the invasion of Tennessee and the capture of Huntsville, Alabama. In June of 1862 Harrison was promoted to the rank of corporal and was then involved in the siege and capture of Nashville in the fall of 1862. In December, the Army of the Ohio, now under the command of William S. Rosecrans, moved southeast from Nashville and took position near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
The Battle of Stones River opened on December 31, 1862. Both the Union and the Confederate commanders (Rosecrans and Bragg) planned attacks that day, but Bragg was quicker. The Union Army was hit hard and driven back, but not driven from the field. Over the next several days they fought off several Confederate attacks and in the end it was Bragg who led his Confederates back south. The battle was noted for having the highest percentage of casualties on both sides. Sadly, Harrison Robbins was one of those casualties.
Excerpt from George Puntenney's "History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers : its organization, campaigns, and battles–Sept., '61-Oct., '64"
The only thing we know specifically about his death is what his widow Eleanor reported in her pension application a few months later, that "….his death was caused by being shot through the bowels…" In 1864, the 111th United States Colored Troops disinterred bodies from the Stones River and other battlefields, and reburied them in the newly established Stones River National Cemetery. Today that is where Harrison Robbins rests. I've visited that cemetery twice over the years and Harrison's grave is a very easy one to find, just a few steps from the central flag pole.
Harrison's children ranged in age from 3 to 15 years and Eleanor wasted no time in applying for a widow's pension. It's too bad that it's from a such a record that we have this information, but Eleanor did list all of her children and their birth dates and places, a listing we can't find for a lot of families of the same time period. She never remarried but the family seems to have split somewhat. In 1870 only some can be found in the U.S. census. Rachel and brother Lafayette, for example, are found living in the household of a C. and Rachel Kirby.
Over the years, the children separated even further. Daughter Elizabeth (Robbins) Murray ended up in Benton County, Indiana, with her family; son Henry C. Robbins lived in Kansas and Missouri before moving to Sheridan, Wyoming; Lafayette Robbins joined some of his Robbins and Swink cousins in Colorado, where he died in 1924. He had been married to Maleta Hubbard in 1911 in Breckinridge County, Kentucky – he returned to Kentucky from the west to marry into a family who already had several Robbins connections. Harrison's widow Eleanor lived with her daughter Elizabeth Murray and died in 1883. It is not known if she died in Decatur or Benton County.
Stones River National Cemetery
Today Harrison Robbins' grave is in a prominent national cemetery, as part of the Stones River National Battlefield. A long way from home, but not forgotten.
(Jacob Robbins-Absalom Robbins-Micajah Robbins-Harrison Robbins)
A Young Soldier Found in the "Dead Room"
March 13, 2017 March 22, 2017 / robbinsroots	/ Leave a comment
One of my interests in family history research is bringing to light little known or totally unknown family members. A 20-year-old, who served a couple of months in the Civil War before dying of disease, without ever marrying or having children, is an example of one of our "forgotten" relatives.
We wouldn't know much about the life and death of Jefferson Robbins, if he hadn't died young during the Civil War, and if his mother hadn't applied for a federal pension based upon his military service. That record provides a surprising amount of information about a young man in the Union Army dying of disease shortly after enlisting.
The son of Hiram and Catharine (Wise) Robbins, Jefferson was born in Harrison County in 1841. (Hiram had first married in Decatur County but after the death of his wife, moved to Harrison County where he remarried). Harrison County is a lovely, green, farming and wooded area, on the north bank of the Ohio River where the first state capital of Indiana, Corydon, was located. When the Civil War broke out, the 20-year-old Jefferson enlisted in nearby New Albany, Indiana, on 18 September 1861 and was sent across the Ohio to the military camps in Kentucky. Three months later he was dead.
Of the 600,000 casualties (north and south) during the war, two-thirds were caused by disease. Dysentery, typhoid fever, malaria, pneumonia, and small pox among others were the common killers of the day. Jefferson Robbins died of typhoid fever on 19 December 1861. Typhoid is an intestinal infection that is spread by ingesting food or water contaminated with the bacteria "Salmonella typhi" and caused huge epidemics in army camps. Symptoms included fever, headache, belly ache, red lesions, and either constipation or diarrhea. There was no effective treatment. Only in 1911 was a vaccination available and made mandatory for U.S. soldiers.
A neighbor back in Harrison County was visiting his son, also in the army and in the hospital in Louisville, and while there the father asked if any other members of his son's company were in the hospital. He was told that Jefferson Robbins was there. He searched through the wards but could not find him. He was finally told by the hospital steward to check the "dead room." There he found the body of Jefferson. On his own initiative he brought the body of the young soldier back across the river to his mother in Indiana.
Excerpt from Catharine Robbins Bishiop application for a pension based on her son Jefferson Robbins' Civil War service
Jefferson's death must have struck his mother Catharine very hard. Her husband Hiram Robbins had died in 1852, she was remarried to a Michael Bishop, who soon deserted her, leaving her in a limbo situation with five surviving children. So not only had she lost her oldest son, but Jefferson helped support his mother and was probably in the army for the $13 a month pay that privates received. We know that he supported his mother before his death because her pension application provides an economic history of her life in the years leading up to the Civil War. A neighbor wrote out an affidavit in which he stated "…the said Jefferson Robbins was a work hand on the farm of this affiant at the time of his enlistment in said service and had been for more than 2 years previous; that he used the profits of his labor economically and after took a portion of it in such articles as were necessary to [and] for the comfort and support of his mother, Catharine Robbins; that he manifested great anxiety as to the welfare and comfort of his mother…"
In her pension application Catharine stated "…that the said soldier wrote her one or two letters after his enlistment but they have been destroyed, and cannot be furnished; that he died before he was paid for any service as a soldier and she therefore received no money from him while he was in the service, and cannot therefore furnish any letters sent her from the army by her said son; that she has not owned any property of any kind whatever since the death of her said husband, save and except about $200 of personal effects as household goods." Catharine received her pension, though not without a criminal investigation into her original attorney's behavior of keeping some of the money she was owed, but that's another story.
My sister and I visited Jefferson's grave in Indiana in 2015. It is located in a quiet corner of a quiet county. You drive southeast out of the small farming community of New Middleton and then off on a long gravel road through the woods until you reach the small secluded cemetery. It is cared for and it didn't take long to find Jefferson's grave. Standing in front of it, and remembering the story of how he came to be here, I couldn't help but wonder if we weren't some of the first people to visit his grave since his family laid him to rest in 1862?
(Family line: Jacob Robbins-Absalom Robbins-Micajah Robbins-Hiram Robbins-Jefferson Robbins)
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More and more, we, as learners and teachers are honing our sensitivities towards cultural practices that differ from our own. The heavy, and most often, brutal burden of historical colonialist expansion into lands that were deemed uninhabited, or unoccupied – and in Australia's case termed "terra nullius" – has for centuries skewed our understanding of nationhood and First People's rights to their birthland. What comes with this off-centre perception of ownership is a lack of sensitivity towards the deep cultural meanings associated with indigenous artefacts. These artefacts are often consumed by non-indigenous people in the same way that they might consume a product purchased from a shop – that the product itself had no relevance beyond what they consider necessary to possess it.
So how do we, as non-indigenous learners and teachers move respectfully beyond this point of uninformed consumption that progressively depletes any form of respectful engagement? One way is through art. But before this can begin as a genuine experience, there must be a commitment towards research. In fact, research, research, research forms the basis of all relationships between one culture and another. "Research" can take many forms. The best and most enriching happens when you as the learner, can engage with a teacher from that culture. A teacher can be an advocate, an elder, a practising artist, a co-operative of artists, or a cultural representative or cultural education officer from a gallery, studio space or cultural makers/exhibition centre. When this is not possible, look to print or digital media that has primary source credentials. Hear, listen and read the words from those who live their culture every day.
If I look to my own home state of South Australia's relationship with Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) art and artists there is much to consider. My teaching practice began in the early 1980's when small seeds of understanding about the difference between cultural respect versus cultural copying when teaching about indigenous art was just beginning to sprout, due in great part to the excellent guidance of an Education Officer at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Right from the start, we were prompted, as teachers, to consider first our own connections to the roles that stories and personal histories play in understanding an artwork's meaning to us as makers, and then to our viewers as audience. When we came to view the work of selected Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, we were encouraged to look first at the story of country that this work is telling, before we considered the work as an art object. This was a wise course of action, as it placed the aesthetics of the artwork after the meaning. In this way, we were connected to the cultural value of the work before we thought about how it looked as a work of art. In other words, we were committed to learning about cultural values that connect a work to a culture, rather than engaging in superficial opinion-making about an artwork's aesthetics. Once this is understood, it is insensitive to encourage students to "copy" a cultural work by doing little more than imitating the artist's style as a form of "learning".
Decades have gone by since that first introduction to how to teach Indigenous art, but the need to continue learning through respectful engagement continues. Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia has Tandanya, the oldest (30 years) National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Australia which is an Aboriginal-owned and managed multi-arts centre. Tandanya sits on Kaurna (pronounced Garna) land, and the Kaurna people are the traditional owners and custodians of the Adelaide Plains. Tandanya is the Kaurna word for "place of the Red Kangaroo" and refers to the City of Adelaide. If we follow the research, research, research model, Tandanya is an obvious point of reference for understanding and engaging with Aboriginal art from a primary source. Extrapolating further, what if I was to consider a way to respond to the Kaurna peoples "place of the Red Kangaroo" by considering my "place" in my own suburb of Adelaide that lies within the Kaurna plains? "Responding thoughtfully to" is the operative phrase for me and the way I like to learn and teach. It means that I'm doing more than simply replicating or imitating. It implies contemplation and consideration. So, after a site visit to Tandanya and further investigation of the Kaurna relationship to the Red Kangaroo, I start to examine my suburb. It is a place of tall gum trees, native reserves of wattle trees filled with bird life and a significant creek tributary. How could I tell the story of my suburb while paying respect to Kaurna culture? Research reveals that the traditional ways of the Kaurna people meant that they moved seasonally – up into the hills for winter and down to the sea in summer. My suburb, still on the plains but close to the foothills would have been a corridor for this movement, with water, plants and shelter available for making camps. Knowing this, I can begin to use my imagination to communicate this knowledge using visual language. I have the opportunity to use marks or symbols understood by me, rather than appropriating those that would be significant identifiers to the Kaurna people and that should remain specific to them. The same applies to colour. Colour need not be local or descriptive or an imitation of Kaurna culture – it can come from the well of my imagination and my connection to place.
Now I come to the idea of building a mind map of layered histories of place. Aboriginal artists have for millennia used a form of aerial perspective to map out significant landmarks important to their cultural narrative and vitally important to the survival of their people as they move through country. Every language group has their culturally appropriate means of visually depicting country as a form of storytelling. As I consider my suburb, I realise that the things important to the Kaurna people are those that still resonate with me – water, green spaces, trees and wildlife. So, it is here in this realisation that I have found my connection.
From this point onward, as I develop my artwork, I have a clearer understanding of my place, and the respected place of the Kaurna people, in the storytelling of my suburb. My artwork may become a painting filled with brush marks whose significance is only known to me and those who will listen to my story. Or it could become a sculpture or weaving, or mixed media expression of respect and custodianship for what I love and regard as important to maintain and celebrate between cultures. This is the reason for my placing "learning" before "teaching" in the heading of this blog. We never stop learning, and if we are open to all moments of teaching, we have the great privilege of sharing respectfully with others.
Wendy Muir
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PS. ArtEyeDeer has some Dreaming Story lessons (with cultural context explained in the accompanying text for each lesson) that you might be interested to explore and expand upon in your journey of learning about Indigenous culture and art.
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On my last visit I tried this with my wife and we were both surprised At how nice this sherry edition was. It also seems like a very low price. Good for all!
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Sustainable and Effective: Venture Capital Investments in Companies with a Focus on the Future
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Steinbeis consultants offer successful support during the series B funding round of a venture studio specializing in the development of basic technology
Innovation is crucial for any company, market, or society to move forward – the very lifeblood of growth and prosperity. And technology is a pivotal part of innovation. For example, emerging technology has the potential to accelerate trading based on machine technology, or open the door to new approaches to value-sharing, or improve access to innovations, developments, and financial services. Next Big Thing (NBT), a venture studio for deep tech companies, is helping to drive the development and commercialization of basic technology, thus supporting the long-term generation of value-added in the economy and society. The Frankfurt-based Steinbeis Consulting Center for Corporate Finance and Investments has owned a stake in NBT since 2018.
The Steinbeis Consulting Center works alongside new and expanding enterprises like NBT by offering smart money, a hybrid approach to providing capital and business development support. NBT is a venture studio from Berlin. Since 2016 it has been working as a co-founder alongside business startups and entrepreneurs to develop ventures in the so-called machine economy. This is an area of industry comprising technology such as the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and distributed ledger solutions. Bringing such forms of technology together raises the curtain on completely new business models, such as models revolving around automated production. The goal is to pool the experience of thought leaders and technology experts in order to drive long-term transformation on behalf of companies, up-and-coming business founders, and investors. Its portfolio currently spans 15 deep tech ventures, from a variety of sectors of industry.
The venture development experts at NBT have developed their own method for using risk capital to set up companies, offering a variety of high-impact solutions to the challenges of the contemporary and future economy. The support they provide to their new B2B companies is based on long-term perspectives, offering development toolkits, innovation strategies, technical know-how, mentoring, and smart funding. Leveraging synergies between venture companies, business partners, and other collaborative stakeholders makes it possible to create an ecosystem for global leaders, tailored to the needs of future markets.
Sustainability – an important aspect of modern investment
The team at the Steinbeis Consulting Center successfully pulled together €19 million for the company in the latest funding round. 90% of capital from this round of funding was sourced through the network of Steinbeis Consultants and their contacts to institutional investors. "For us, but also for the majority of institutional co-investors – such as family offices, foundations, and affluent private individuals – it's not just important to look at the business model of the new and expanding company; sustainability factors also play an important role," says Steinbeis Entrepreneur Christian Schulte, explaining the logic behind the investment. According to Schulte, aside from meeting so-called exclusion criteria and a long list of key performance indicators relating to sustainable development, NBT and its portfolio of companies also meet other key criteria with a bearing on innovation and the setting up and establishment of ecosystems.
"For Europe and Germany, it's quite clear that this currently represents an opportunity to develop new digital basic technologies in the B2B area. American and Asian platform providers have already been working the soil in the areas of e-commerce and most B2C applications," explains Harald Zapp, founder and CEO of NBT. "The area we really stand to gain in is the up-and-coming machine economy and the classic areas of business to business. Bold and disruptive innovation in this area will ensure that as a business location we will remain at the forefront in Germany in the future – with a clear focus."
Win-win for investors and capital borrowers
One aspect that is particularly important in this respect is collaboration between NBT and its investors, which is by no means a one-way street or merely restricted to financial commitments on behalf of investors. Many of the institutional funders see strategic benefit in this arrangement. Being able to exchange ideas and work alongside the venture studio allows investors to benefit sustainably and in the long term from know-how and knowledge-sharing within their own companies.
There is another aspect to this, however, since the ongoing profitable expansion of new ventures or business models is only one side of the coin. NBT has a clear area of focus: Their starting point for setting up and establishing companies and platform technology in the long term is Germany and Europe. This also makes it possible to generate long-term economic and societal value from deep-tech innovation in the machine economy.
The Steinbeis experts will continue to collaborate closely with NBT in the future. The Steinbeis Consulting Center is opening its doors to a variety of C-level executives at companies, in addition to offering contacts to institutional co-investors, which also helps the companies in the NBT portfolio with sustainable and long-term expansion.
Sustainable investments continue to grow
Sustainable cash investments and other forms of investment are not just a global phenomenon; significant money flows into this area in Germany. According to a study conducted by the German Forum for Sustainable Cash Investments (FNG), in late 2020 the overall value of investments in these asset classes in Germany amounted to roughly €335 billion. That represents a rise of 25% on the previous year. These investments are not only a reflection of sustainable funds and mandates, but also of sustainably managed client and proprietary investments. 82% of cash flowing into sustainable investments comes from institutional investors. For the financial and investment experts at the Steinbeis Consulting Center for Corporate Finance and Investments, sustainable forms of investment are an important asset category. Every year, a significant number of successfully expanding European B2B companies are also taken over by firms and investors outside Europe. This protects the future interests of companies, but it also poses a challenge for Germany and Europe because this is not just about intellectual property and know-how, but in tangible terms: jobs.
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A wistful and autumnal, stark yet rich acoustic folk album, Olympic Girls is the first internationally released LP (and third album overall) for Auckland, New Zealand singer/songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, who records under the name Tiny Ruins. Having teamed with David Lynch back in 2016 on the single "Dream Wave," there's a more straightforward sense to the material showcased here, centered around Fullbrook's Nick Drake-like vocal and songwriting talents supported occasionally and sparingly by bassist Cass Basil, drummer Alex Freer, and Tom Healy on guitar.
Standouts include the propulsive, evocative "Sparklers," the pastoral, woozy "Kore Waits in the Underworld," and the crashing, doom-laden change of pace "One Million Flowers."


"Crucial Things You Need To Do To Build your List"
1) Put up a good web form in your site that immediately follows the end of your content. While some may say this is too soon to subscribe for a website visitors application, try to remember that your homepage should provide a quick good impression. If somehow a website visitor finds something that he or she doesn't like and turns them off, they may just forget about signing up.
2) As mentioned in the first tip, make your homepage very, very impressive. You need to have well written articles and descriptions of your site. Depending on what your site is all about, you need to capture your website visitor's fancy. Make your site useful and very easy to use. Do not expect everyone to be tech savvy. Invest in having good programming in your site, make your graphics beautiful but don't over do it.


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T-Pain's Niece Stabbed To Death At Walgreens
T-Pain took to Twitter to ask for help finding his niece's attacker.
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T-Pain's 23-year-old niece Javona Glover was stabbed to death Tuesday morning at a Tallahassee, Florida Walgreens, according to reports.
T-Pain took to Twitter to ask for help finding her attacker, writing: "The police are still lookin for the coward ass nigga that just killed my niece at Walgreens in Tallahassee. If you got info pls help us out!"
The suspect in the stabbing is described as a 5'9″, 160 pound Black male wearing a black t-shirt and white shoes.
Investigators ask anyone with information about this incident or the identity of the suspect to call the Tallahassee Police Department at 850-891-4200 or Crime Stoppers at 850-574-8477 (850-574-TIPS).
https://t.co/z5cykNUmOn if anybody in 850 got any info on this then step up pls.
— T-Pain (@TPAIN) August 30, 2016
The police are still lookin for the coward ass nigga that just killed my niece at Walgreens in Tallahassee. If you got info pls help us out!
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10 Rappers With Unexpected Side Businesses
1. Pharrell Williams recently announced he's teaming with upscale grocery store Dean & DeLuca to offer a line called "The Williams Family Kitchen" inspired by authentic recipes straight from the Williams family.
2. 2 Chainz never forgets where he came from. The rapper once revealed that he's a landlord in his hometown of Atlanta.
3. Lil Kim has always been about her coins. The Queen Bee teamed with North Carolina salon owner and cousin Katrise Jones to expand and franchise Jones' Salon Se Swa brand to five salons.
4. One of the most unexpected business ventures in hip-hop history was Jay Z acquiring partial ownership of the New Jersey Nets, bringing them to play in his hometown of Brooklyn. Iconic!
5. Cam'ron has had some of the most innovative businesses in the rap game. He's had everything from his own line of cereal to capes to even owning his own chicken spot in Harlem.
6. Snoop Dogg has his hands in almost anything you can think of. One of his more unusual side projects is his chain of Snoopermarkets with Overstock.com.
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7. Rick Ross put his money where his mouth is. The MMG Boss has built himself a small empire of Wingstop franchises.
8. Everyone knows 50 Cent is the ultimate hustler. The rapper/actor/producer made millions from his Vitamin Water deal and even invests in platinum mines in South Africa.
9. LL Cool J has been making moves since his career started many years ago. The rapper released a children's book called "And the Winner Is…. ". It comes with a CD and is part of a Scholastic series called Hip Kid Hop. It's still available on Amazon.
10. Back in 2008, E-40 invested in Icepiks by E.D.K.O.: A studded toothpick held in the teeth of celebs like Chris Brown and Ja Rule for stylish purposes.
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In his best-selling book The Innovator's Dilemma, Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen demonstrated how successful companies can be doing everything "right" and yet still lose their market leadership as new, unforeseen competitors grow and take over the market.
One of our clients was facing a different dilemma: All the evidence about what they needed to do to deliver a more competitive, industry-leading solution was brilliantly clear. It pointed to the precise application of technology and people that would drive down cost-to-serve ratios while increasing market share. The framework of innovation for what could be a potential game changer was right in front of them.
Their dilemma wasn't what to do—it was simply how to do it.
The core business had its hands full. A hodgepodge of acquisitions in a regulated industry had left the IT team with a tall stack of non-integrated applications and literally months of backlog enhancements that would intimidate even the most experienced of CIOs. But the market wasn't waiting. Despite being ranked number two in their industry, competitive forces were heating up with the looming threat of further industry consolidation.
The good news to be found in this milieu of menace is that technology is on the side of the brave. More and more companies facing similar odds are deciding to launch new businesses using readily available technology to bring new innovations to market faster, more cost effectively, and unhindered by the obstacles faced by their legacy organizations. Ten years ago, this would have been considered a novel approach, but the price/performance curve and scalability of new technology means it is now the lower risk option over building from inside.
Let's briefly review each of these and discuss how all five can work together to create a centrifuge of capability, making it feasible to bring a new business to market in months instead of years.
There are two points in this statement that are noteworthy. The first is the increased emphasis on trust on the supplier side of the transaction that accompanies ordering through a new, frictionless channel like Alexa. But the second—and to me more interesting—point he makes derives from his personal perspective. He didn't say "I'd order pretty much anything over an interactive voice response system if I knew it was coming from Whole Foods"; rather, he said "I'd order pretty much anything from Alexa …" as if she were a real person—a small but mighty nuance that I believe is proof positive that the world of user interface has taken a giant leap. Because let's face it—wouldn't we all order from Alexa if the product was coming from a trusted brand like Whole Foods?
What's the headline? The progression of digital interface technology from "channel" to "conversation" signifies that, beyond being frictionless, it has become a trusted, convenient and natural part of our day-to-day behaviors. When AI "learns" to calibrate to our individual idiosyncrasies, this technology becomes much more than just transparent—it becomes a member of the family.
Cloud computing hosted through data centers managed by companies like Equinix and Digital Realty provides any company with the ability to stand up a full stack technology platform or cloud-based call center in weeks, not months. Services like Watson are available "on-demand" just like cloud-based storage and customer databases. This means that big data is no longer the proprietary terrain of large companies with well-staffed IT teams. Any business can tap into best-in-class analytics tools today from cloud providers like SAP and IBM—paying only for the data and the processing used.
No-code development platforms provide drag-and-drop tools that allow businesses to develop software quickly, without coding.
Low-code development platforms provide environments for businesses to develop software quickly and with minimum coding, minimizing the need for extensive coding experience.
The incorporation of artificial intelligence for a variety of purposes, including the integration of semi-structured and unstructured data sources.
There is a reason why Salesforce recently paid $6.5 Billion to acquire MuleSoft, a global leader in this area. As reported on their website, MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform "is a hybrid integration platform that enables organizations to easily build and rapidly scale an application network of apps, data, and devices through APIs and integrations." Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said, "Together, Salesforce and MuleSoft will enable customers to connect all of the information throughout their enterprise across all public and private clouds and data sources—radically enhancing innovation." In fact, in the recently released book, Ahead in the Cloud, AWS CEO Andy Jassy suggests that one of the key factors in AWS's staggering growth was decoupling their technology components to make them accessible via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) . And if you're still not convinced of the primary role of this service-oriented architecture in powering enterprise digital transformation, take a gander at Domino's Anyware web page and—while you are waiting for your pizza to be delivered—consider the trajectory of their stock performance over the past 10 years.
LTE-M is the industry term for the low power, wide area technology standard that relies on existing features of the LTE network and is specifically suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. It derives benefits from all the security and privacy features of mobile networks, including support for user identity confidentiality, entity authentication, data integrity, and mobile equipment identification. It also allows for device battery life as long as 10 years with a reduction in modem costs of 20-25%. But its real value lies in the fact that that everything just works—automatically. For example, one of our clients has piloted a "smart socks" product for a connected health application. To start using it, a patient needs to do only one thing: Put on the socks.
First: Conversational AI not only reacts to us, but over time will be able to predict and adapt to our behavior.
Second: Cloud computing puts the power of the most sophisticated analytical engines in the palm of anyone's hand.
Third: Software tools dramatically reduce the cost and speed traditionally required to develop software applications.
Fourth: APIs connect everything to everything else.
Last but not least, the icing on the cake (or the stack): A low power, broad range LTE-M network provides pathways for all of these devices to connect with embedded security and authentication.
Thinking about these five technologies separately should probably lead us all to pause and reflect on the impact they can have, not just for our organizations, but for the world at large. A few minutes spent meditating on the implications of their eventual convergence will soon have you realizing just how important it really is for you to take stock of your digital transformation plan.
The only certain thing about technology is change. A year from now, I'll probably be talking about five different technologies—block chain, neural networks, deep learning—who knows? I just hope we can get past the organizational and leadership inertia that prevents these ideas from giving rise to the robust business models needed to fuel the next generation of job growth and business success.
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