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Architect Jay Lockett Sears talks at the Hamptons Celebrity roundtable at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center. (July 9, 2003) Credit: Newsday/Paul J. Bereswill
By ROBERT E. KESSLER robert.kessler@newsday.com Updated January 25, 2013 9:51 PM
A prominent East End architect, who also runs his own charitable organization for troubled families, was arrested Friday by FBI agents on child pornography charges, officials said.
Jay Lockett Sears, 73, who was a principal in the Quogue architectural firm of Sears & Sears, has designed homes priced at as much as $15 million for such celebrities as Michael J. Fox, Susan Lucci and Clint Eastwood.
Sears engaged in "taking pictures of children at public events, such as beach and yacht club parties and society events," court papers say.
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Sears then would take the photos of the young girls and superimpose their faces on adult women in pornographic pictures while superimposing the pictures of young boys or his face on the adult males involved, court papers say.
FBI agents and federal prosecutors in the Eastern District said they eventually recovered hundreds of such pictures allegedly created by Sears.
Federal courts have ruled that actions of which Sears is accused -- known as morphing -- are a clear violation of child pornography laws and "that morphed images were illegal because they 'implicate[d]' the interests of real children," the court papers said.
The investigation continues and is looking into whether Sears was actually involved in physically abusing children, according to sources familiar with the case.
Sears was arraigned Friday at the federal court in Central Islip and held without bail as a danger to the community. He was not required to plead to a charge of possessing and producing child pornography.
His attorney, Daniel Barker of Riverhead, declined to comment, as did federal prosecutors Allen Bode and Thomas Sullivan.
An investigation into Sears' alleged actions began recently when an unidentified person informed police after finding some of the pictures in the trash while emptying a container at the Brookhaven Town Dump transfer station, according to court papers.
FBI agents and Suffolk police questioned the contractor who had dumped the photos, the papers said.
The unnamed contractor said Sears had hired him to clean up an apartment that Sears was renting at 208 Walden Pond Ct. in East Moriches.
Sears designed 1,500 homes on the East End, according to a Newsday story about his career. He also acted in Hollywood, once playing a surfer in the 1959 classic beach blanket movie "Gidget."
Sears' Mission of Kindness organization helps needy families, and he is also active in a number of East End charities and other volunteer groups, he has said in interviews.
Sears faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
Robert Nardoza, a spokesman for Eastern District U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, asked that parents who believe that their children may have been the victims of people involved in child pornography contact the Suffolk police at 631-852-6279 or the FBI at 631-501-8600.
By ROBERT E. KESSLER robert.kessler@newsday.com
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business in which he subsequently held positions in sales, and support and marketing management.
Were you one of the founders or did you join the company later?
I was brought in well after the company had been founded. The company was founded in 1985 truly as a basement organization and it really bootstrapped itself up to a reasonable size and certainly was making money and doing some good things. But the job got beyond what the founder really wanted to be doing. So in 1998 I joined the company. I left Hewlett Packard where I had worked for 20 years before joining here.
HP is obviously much bigger than Eagleware. What was the transition like?
looking at some prices and one of them seemed a little bit off. So we talked about it a little bit, went home and came back the next day and by golly we changed the price and it was done. So the good news is you can move so quickly, the bad news is when the light goes out in your office, you would go get the ladder, climb up and change the light bulb yourself. It has changed quite a bit since those days but it was quite a change. Some things were way better and some things were not quite so much fun.
Not only did you transition from a very large company to a small company but you were replacing the founder who had put his stamp on the company.
That was one of my biggest concerns in joining Eagleware at the time, taking over from the founder. Is he really going to let you run the show? Fortunately, Randy Ray was just a great guy and he really did let go of the reins. He was there sort of as a coach on the sidelines but he wasn't calling the plays. He let me call the plays and occasionally he would provide a little help or assistance along the way. He was fortunately at a point in his life, he had set himself up well enough so that he could back out and start enjoying other things in life. He was remarkably quick in turning over control.
the first place. How well do I fit into what had been built here? And I think it fit pretty well. There are certainly a lot of changes and I think some good ideas that implemented on top of it. It is a culture of openness and egalitarianism and having participation in decisions. It was not a very hierarchical type of organization and certainly that's what I had gotten used to during my time at Hewlett Packard.
What expertise did you bring to Eagleware? Marketing, Sales, general management?
sales and marketing. It was amazing that it started with nobody that was selling the product. It was a kind of a mail order business but still managed to sell lots and lots, literally thousands of software licenses because it was a good product. But at the end of the day, that can take you just so far. You can have a better product. The adage says that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. That is certainly not the case and that's what we have found. We have developed a more balanced organization. It has marketing, sales, development and enough operational foundation to build upon. The business has done extremely well over that period.
Do you sell direct or through third parties?
We sell direct at least domestically, internationally we have local representation and distribution. Because we have such a pervasive presence in the market, just about anyone who is designing a communication system has some of our software somewhere in their facility. We don't really need to be making penetration into accounts as a typical startup does. Most of our activity is developing our accounts and trying to spread it and trying to make sure that the technology we offer is well understood by all, by enough of the people in the company so that they can take full value of it. So going direct even though we are very small has been very effective program for us.
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Marine veteran will take on GOP Rep. Andy Barr in November
Marine veteran Amy McGrath, here at a conference in Los Angeles in February, won the Democratic nomination in Kentucky's 6th District. (Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for MAKERS file photo)
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Marine veteran Amy McGrath won the Democratic nomination in Kentucky's 6th District on Tuesday and will take on Republican Rep. Andy Barr in November.
With 95 percent of precincts reporting, McGrath led Lexington Mayor Jim Gray, 49 percent to 41 percent, when The Associated Press called the race.
National Democrats increasingly view the 6th District seat as a top pickup opportunity, with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee releasing its own polling Tuesday night from earlier this month showing McGrath with a 15-point lead over Barr.
The DCCC had encouraged Gray to enter the race last year — months after McGrath had already launched her campaign — which McGrath use to painted Gray, the 2016 Democratic nominee for Senate, as the establishment candidate in the race. She argued that she'd bring a new generation of leadership to Congress.
Her candidacy earned early national attention last summer, but earlier in the race, she was running significantly behind Gray, who had strong local ties. That began to change this spring. Polling released by McGrath's campaign in April showed her closing a large gap since December and taking the lead.
McGrath burst on to the national scene with an introductory video in which she talked about writing letters to members of Congress asking them to allow women to fly in combat. The video went viral and helped her raise early money.
Despite raising more than twice what Barr did during her first quarter in the race, McGrath's candidacy still gave national Democrats pause. Gray entered the primary four months later.
Gray started with a hefty name recognition advantage, the ability to pour personal resources into his campaign (although he did not, as of his latest Federal Election Commission filing) and strong local support.
Although he lost statewide two years earlier to GOP Sen. Rand Paul — when he could have become the first openly gay member of the Senate — Gray carried the 6th District by 4 points in that race. For his bid for the 6th, he secured the endorsement of the Lexington Herald-Leader and the United Steelworkers.
Despite supporting abortion rights, McGrath did not seek the endorsement of EMILY's List, further distancing herself from national Democrats.
McGrath campaign manager Mark Nickolas said not being the candidate the DCCC at first wanted allowed her campaign to experiment with an early field effort.
"Actually, not having the DCCC was liberating in some ways. [There was] nobody to crack down us," Nickolas said last week.
Still, the DCCC never put Gray on its Red to Blue list of strong recruits, showing some openness to either candidate even if Gray was their early favorite. Late donations to McGrath from the leadership PAC of Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos — a member of House Democratic leadership — and Florida Rep. Lois Frankel — a member of DCCC leadership — suggested the national party had come around to her.
Late last week, Gray launched the first negative ad of the race, going after McGrath for only recently moving to the district. She'd faced that attack before from other candidates in debates, which gave her an opportunity to highlight her military service. She was the first female Marine pilot to fly into combat in an F-18.
McGrath grew up in northern Kentucky, then attended the Naval Academy. After serving three combat tours, she worked on Capitol Hill as a fellow in the office of California Democratic Rep. Susan A. Davis. She then worked at the Pentagon and later taught at her alma mater before returning to the Bluegrass State in 2017.
McGrath also had the backing of VoteVets and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton and his joint fundraising committee.
But another knock of McGrath was that she raised a lot of her money from out of state. In the primary, her campaign argued that was because Gray had locked up all the local donors. But attacks on McGrath for ties outside of the 6th District will likely continue to dog her in the general election.
Republicans wasted no time attacking McGrath after her victory.
"Now, Democrats are stuck with an ultra-liberal candidate who can't even name the counties she wants to represent in Congress," Congressional Leadership Fund executive director Corry Bliss said in a statement.
Unlike Gray, who committed to not voting for Nancy Pelosi for Democratic leader, McGrath left the door open to supporting Pelosi in a debate last week.
McGrath ended the pre-primary reporting period with $302,000 in the bank — far short of the $2.3 million in Barr's coffers.
But this race has already attracted outside attention. Congressional Leadership Fund has already reserved $1.8 million in fall airtime for the district. Its Democratic counterpart, House Majority PAC, made a smaller half-million-dollar initial reservation in the Lexington media market.
President Donald Trump carried the 6th District by 15 points in 2016, while Barr won a third term by 22 points. But national Democrats are increasingly optimistic about their chances in this area, and expect to run against the incumbent's vote to repeal the 2010 health care law.
In the poll the DCCC released Tuesday, conducted by its Targeting and Analytics Department, McGrath earned 52 percent to Barr's 37 percent. The poll surveyed 508 likely general election voters between April 30 and May 2 via landlines on IVR and cell phones via live calls. The margin of error was plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
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The Federal Government has invoked the ANZUS Treaty for the first time in the 50-year history of the defence alliance with the United States.
Cabinet met today following the Prime Minister's return from Washington and in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
Following the Cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister, John Howard, issued the following statement:
"The Australian people have been shocked and outraged at the enormity of the terrorist attacks on the United States. These heinous crimes have caused catastrophic loss of life, injury and destruction. We anticipate that a significant number of Australian nationals are included among those who lost their lives.
I have already conveyed to the President of the United States the condolences of the Australian Government and people, and expressed our resolute support for the United States at this most difficult time.
The terrorist attacks on the United States were discussed today at a special Cabinet meeting that I convened on my return from the United States.
The Government has decided, in consultation with the United States, that Article IV of the ANZUS Treaty applies to the terrorist attacks on the United States. The decision is based on our belief that the attacks have been initiated and coordinated from outside the United States.
This action has been taken to underline the gravity of the situation and to demonstrate our steadfast commitment to work with the United States in combating international terrorism.
The Australian Government will be in close consultation with the United States Administration in the period ahead to consider what actions Australia might take in support of the US response to these attacks."
Article IV of the ANZUS Treaty says:
Each Party recognizes that an armed attack in the Pacific Area on any of the Parties would be dangerous to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall be immediately reported to the Security Council of the United Nations. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.
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I was born in New Haven, Connecticut, November 30, 1957. I have two older sisters and a brother. As a child I had some trouble learning to tie my shoes, causing my father considerable frustration. He worked at Bell Labs and most of the rest of the time on a system of philosophy expressed in mathematics. He read us the Bible for two hours every Sunday, although we preferred horsing around with him. My mother liked to cook and made jars of oatmeal cookies. She read us wonderful books and poems, including the Iliad – 5 times – walked fast and yelled a lot. She paid me a nickel to memorize Yeats' "Song of Wandering Aengus." My brother memorized all of "The Congo," by Vachel Lindsay. "Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, barrel-house kings with feet unstable, sagged and reeled and pounded on the table."
My mother leapt from topic to topic in conversation, sometimes in mid-sentence. This influence is revealed in manic songs like "Never Enough" and "A Seat in the Mezzanine." We lived in a large Victorian house in Long Branch, New Jersey, which had a carriage house, a grape arbor and raspberry patch, and two apple trees. There was a stained glass window, a coal bin, and rooms full of aborigine shields and weapons in the basement. The place had been owned previously by an archaeologist.
I became and remain a baseball fan and played all day most days with my brother Matthew, who generously handicapped himself to include me. My mother attended Middlebury College in Vermont for five summers en route to an MA in French. I remember getting up very early with my brother Matthew and sister Ellen and crossing the bridge over Otter Creek to get a glazed donut at the bakery. We'd go to Lake Dunmore many days. A good deal of my time was spent in searching for dimes in phone booth slots, and finding Pepsi bottles to return for two cents. Marvel Comics (Thor was my favorite) cost 12 cents then. Once at the end of a languid day at Lake Dunmore, Matthew was looking to round me up so we could go home. A friend of his pointed to a distant trash can with two legs sticking out of it. I emerged momentarily, with a Pepsi bottle.
In 1968, my father was transferred to Naperville, IL. I played a couple of years of Little League baseball, one of the only experiences of childhood which brought me into harmony with my peers. I threw a slow pitch, which would sink over the plate, not due to spin but due to lack of velocity, with pinpoint control. And I played outfield and first base.
My mother had been teaching high school and a couple of students with family troubles came out from New Jersey to live with us. They were hippies, and played guitars, so I asked for one. My first useful lessons were with Anne Jones, whose family still teaches folk music in Lombard, Illinois.
In 1970, my mother read a blurb in the Chicago Sun-Times about a mailman who sang his own songs. My parents went down to hear him, and then brought the rest of us with them, every weekend for a year. It was John Prine. I was usually up late trying to learn Elizabeth Cotton and Mississippi John Hurt fingerpicking tunes, and would have dropped out of Glenbard West High School except for one great English teacher, Bernice Pond. I listened to Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Etta Baker, Joseph Spence, Martin Carthy, Joni Mitchell, Leo Kottke, Ewan MacColl, Leonard Cohen, etc. Carthy remains my favorite living musician, a steady beacon of musical integrity and imagination.
My earliest performances were as part of The Osbornes, a group comprised of me and my brother and Doug Tursman on banjo. We gave free shows in our basement. At 13 I began writing songs and performing in coffeehouses (after the bitter break-up of the Osbornes) solo. At 15 I lied about my age and worked all summer at Cintas garment factory to earn the money for a Martin D-28. At 16 I began driving into Chicago to play at open stages at The Earl of Old Town, Somebody Else's Troubles, etc. On Monday nights, you could start at Troubles, go over two doors to Papa's III if you could stand the noise and smoke, thence to the Earl which had a 4 o'clock license. Chicago was a good place to be. I saw Odetta, Jim Post, Cyril Tawney, Jean Ritchie, Clancy & Makem, Rosalie Sorrels, Blind Jim Brewer, Art Thieme, Margaret Christl, Homesick James, Paul Geremia, Gamble Rogers, Andres Segovia, Vassar Clements, The Newgrass Revival, Leo Kottke, Kris Kristofferson, Loudon Wainwright III, Martin, Bogan and the Armstrongs, Norman Blake, Jean Redpath, and Leonard Cohen perform there when I was in my teens. And some great people you've never heard of. Steve Goodman used to borrow my Martin at open mike nights at Troubles.
From age 17-20, I read most of the complete works of Joseph Conrad. I performed monthly at a social center for street alcoholics founded by James Harper, called "Save the Alcoholic" and later the "Center for Street People," now "Harper House." My first recording, Water Street, was funded by a couple on the board, Dick and Nan Conser, and recorded by Mike Rasfeld at Acme Studios in Chicago. That 1983 recording, Water Street, finally got me working in Chicago clubs and led to two more LPs during the 80's with Flying Fish, The Gates of Love and Walk Me To The War. James Harper, ex-alcoholic and ex-con, was ordained a minister two days before his death from cancer. He requested that I sing "You Will Know God" at the ordination. His wife Anne, a good friend who ran the coffeehouse/music part of CSP, died of a heart attack a few years later.
I married young, had a couple kids, the estimable Louis and Casey, and got divorced. I published a book, Twenty-Four Poems and a solo guitar tape, Banks of Sweet Primroses. I played for 4 years as a solo guitarist (classical, folk & blues) at Evanston's Blind Faith Café, and for a year at Chicago's Third Coast Coffeehouse. In 1990 I went to the Kerrville festival where I connected with other songwriters. I teamed for several years with Kat Eggleston. We toured the US and Europe, and made a couple duo tapes of folk songs, ballads and tunes (Jack Spratt and First Comes Love, from material we performed at the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Wisconsin for several summers, both out of print).
In 1992 I founded an artists' cooperative label called Waterbug Records. Waterbug has released 60 odd titles by 35 artists, and carry many more hard-to-find titles by mail order. I love discovering devoted artists and helping them to be heard. Waterbug was the first to distribute music by Chuck Brodsky, Cosy Sheridan, Kate MacLeod, Dar Williams, Erin McKeown, Rose Polenzani, Steve Fisher, Gina Forsyth, Sloan Wainwright, Sons of the Never Wrong, Erin Corday, Michael McNevin, Lui Collins and others.
I made 3 more CDs during the 90's, Hope, Phoenix Envy and Where Blue Meets Blue. Waterbug was honored with a two hour mainstage showcase at the Kerrville Festival in 1999. In 1997, I began teaching songwriting groups with a human potential angle, and continued to work at music. I moved to Portland, Oregon in late 1999. Went through a horrendous bout of tendinitis, and if you have something similar, check out activerelease.com and find an active tissue release practitioner. The Graston technique is great as well. I worked some temp jobs and used the time to write some reviews, memorize poems and work on songs. Waterbug ceased releasing recordings for 4 years and my songwriting turned in the direction of story songs.
A highlight of my 5 years in Portland was a friendship with Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer. Dave created a vocal arrangement for my song "Joy" on Thanksgiving, 2001, and he and Tracy and Claire Bard sang on the recording for Tiger Tattoo. Dave Carter passed away in July, 2002 at the age of 49. I was visiting my folks in Illinois the week he died, and began learning his "Gentle Arms of Eden." My mother was disabled and bedridden. I sang it through twice, and she said, "Who wrote that?" "Dave." "David in the Bible?" I went on a hundred day tour that Fall, the longest of my life, and took Dave and Tracy's CDs with me to sell and told their story. Tracy learned the guitar parts to songs she used to play fiddle on. A few days after I returned to Portland, she, with Donny Wright on bass and guitar, played a rehearsal show for their upcoming California tour, performing Dave Carter's music. It was so damn sad to see them up on that stage without him. But Tracy was poised, and funny, and genuine, she belted and bent notes and gave us back the music, even when it was breaking her heart, and by the end of the night there was nothing in that room but joy. It's the bravest thing I've ever seen a person do. Dave told me early in the summer he died that he wanted to retire from the road and have Tracy be the voice of his songs. And so it is.
My songs prove useful for certain people at certain times. A man in California wrote to me: "I like your always surprising poem-songs, all of which demand from a listener a certain kind of attention. I always come away from listening to one of your recordings looking at everything with fresh eyes; thank you for that, for it helps me get back to a place when I once met the world everyday as if I were going into it for the first time. It's hard some days to remember what the world looked like before you had a word for anything."
And so one keeps on. And mainly because, well, it's fun. I've performed at coffeehouses, cafes, coffee bars, bars, clubs, pubs, corn roasts, festivals, nursing homes, reformatories, prep schools, high schools, colleges, house concerts, Renaissance fairs, Highland games, farmer's markets, poetry slams, and on a float, sitting between the legs of a giant frog. It was to save "frog hollow," an undeveloped part of Palatine, IL, and the float won first prize. I received $50 and a sunburn. A few other performances stand out in my memory.
At the Sheepshead Café in Iowa City in the mid 80's, I was playing in their outside seating area, a few picnic tables, a small stage. Toward the end of the night I played three songs in a row, "The Hanging," "Willie," and "You Will Know God/LaGrima" and no one applauded, they just listened. An older man came up to me afterwards and said, "so there's hope." One night in the early 90's at Chicago's No Exit, I was singing with my eyes closed, and had the feeling I was singing to a spirit in the room. I opened my eyes and everyone in the audience had their eyes closed.
In my early twenties, I had a weakness for Peppermint Schnapps. At Durty Dick's Pub on Chicago's West Side, I was finishing my third set at midnight, when someone sent up a schnapps. I downed it, and did a funny song. Someone sent another, and I did more funny songs, and comedy bits, and improvisations, keeping straight on until two AM. People were crying and holding their sides. I drank seven schnapps, and have never been so funny before or since. Linda Black (now Maio, and living in Florida) and I went to Dunkin' Donuts and drank a lot of coffee afterwards. I don't drink schnapps anymore, but still hear from Linda now and again.
I spent more of 2003 obsessively translating oral tradition ballads from old Scots dialect; the result is the CD Telfer's Cows: Folk Ballads From Scotland, which came out way better than I'd hoped, and scored me some ink in Dirty Linen, from an interview with Pamela Murray Winters, one of the finest journalists in Folk. Well, there are only six, really, but she's up near the top. Shadow of a Wing followed, 18 songs which to me represent Andrew's stupid journey through the world of love; a look at the workings of idealization, betrayal, forgiveness and acceptance.
2004 saw the revival of the Waterbug label with a new team of artists, among them Jonathan Byrd, Anais Mitchell, Louis Ledford, Rachel Ries, Michael Troy and Karen Mal, and two new samplers, Waterbug Anthology 7 and Vote in November: Election 2004 Anti-Theft Device, our first political CD. Arie Koelewyn hand-printed a new collection of my poems, Hay, released in April of 2005 on East Lansing, Michigan's, Paper Airplane Press. In 2005 I recorded Staring at the Sun, a solo CD of songs I wrote between 1973 and 1981.
These days I do poems in my shows - Mary Oliver, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, and had plans for a CD alternating songs and poems by different writers, where Dave Carter and Annie Gallup would hang out with Dylan Thomas and Edna St. Vincent Millay. However, I was declined permission to record some of the poems, so it is not to be. I can record any published song for a standard (and reasonable) fee, but there is no standard for recording poems.
My mother passed away on the 30th of April, 2006. The night before she died, we sang her songs she'd taught us, including "All God's Chil'n Got Shoes". Since she hadn't been able to walk for her last year, the song hit home in a new way. And it struck me that the heaven in the song was not some concept of heaven, but, simply, the glorious and infinite sky around us. And that my mother was going there. "When I get to heaven, gonna put on my shoes, I'm gonna walk all over God's heaven." In the wake of her passing, I began tracking down spirituals and studying their history and the story of slavery in America. There's a great source book called Slave Songs of the United States, published in 1867, full of obscure gems - I've only ever heard three of the 130 songs performed - and it includes the original, more lyrically vivid "Michael Row the Boat Ashore", a Sea Islands rowing song addressed to the archangel Michael, a prayer for safe passage. This book is a pure source of the real thing. The spirituals were popularized in classical choral arrangements, but to me the original, wild way of using songs in participatory ritual to bind and lift an oppressed community is much more interesting. You can hear it on Alan Lomax's field recordings (Rounder's Southern Journey Series) of Bessie Jones, John Davis and the other Georgia Sea Island singers, recorded around 1960 and still performing in the old call and response/ring shout style. My mother was Jewish, a former union steward who shouted "Jim Crow Must Go!" on sound trucks in the early Civil Rights movement, and drove into the Beethoven School in Chicago to tutor poor kids until she was too sick to drive. I'm fascinated by the connection between the Biblical story of Exodus, and what the African Americans did with it, finding the living heart of a religion twisted beyond recognition by centuries of institutionalized idolatry and sham. I expect to record some of this music after a few more months of research. Because, you know, it's public domain, as, in the new Jerusalem, everything will be. I try not to take these songs for granted anymore.
Bessie Jones sings,
My name written on David line
I'm goin' to heaven on the wheel of time
Adam and Eve, don't tell it to me
Just meet me at the door...
"I did not come here myself my Lord
It was my Lord who brought me here
I really do believe I'm a child of God
A-walking in the heaven I roam..." -anonymous enslaved theologian
Bound to Go, a collection of 35 African American spirituals and secular folksongs with 18 musicians/singers, was released in early 2008. Cover painting by Jonathan Green.
It's always the beginning of the dream
That started with the men behind the scene
With the lotus ever-knowing and the holy women rowing
I know you know exactly what I mean
After Bound to Go, I thought I'd make a quick download album of familiar folksongs over a summer. It took that summer to work out the guitar part to "John Henry", and Grapevinetook two and a half years to make, me and a guitar, recorded at home. The passing of Liam Clancy, the last surviving member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, pushed me in an Irish direction so I worked up "The Little Beggarman," "The Foggy Dew" and "Gartan Mother's Lullaby" for the recording. The "brave engineer" Casey Jones has a picture out there on the web, plus the story and records of his fateful crash on April 30, 1900. So I rewrote that one from the facts, and learned the tune from Carl Sandburg's American Songbag.
My daughter, Casey Calhoun, joined me in a singing duo. Bound to Go opened up some opportunities to work in libraries and perform in schools. We do an Underground Railroad show involving songs and readings annually at the Graue Mill site in Oakbrook, Illinois. The last ten summers I have done a lot of busking, both with Casey in Evanston and at farmer's markets close to home. Winter of 2009/10 I hibernated with the complete poems of Emily Dickinson, a stream of revelation and source of profound reassurance, and also the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, who sings. Summer 2010 I attended a Lakota sundance in Northern Nebraska with a friend who was attending the ritual for the 12th time. Sweat lodge for three nights, dancing, hauling water, teachings of the medicine man, sage, a naming ceremony, healed my bronchial tubes and gave a new sense of direction. Someone, somewhere, is leading a genuine revival of meaning and spirit.
Summer of 2011 found me working up some jazzier songs like "What a Wonderful World" and "Shine On Harvest Moon," as well as incorporating a better understanding of harmony into my own songs. In 2012 I published a book of humor called The Trilogy Trilogy, and received the Lantern Bearer Award from the Folk Alliance Regional Midwest. In 2013 I put out Living Room, first recording of new songs in nine years. In 2017 I released Rhymer's Tower, a double CD of Anglo-Scottish Border Ballads which took five years to finish, and about defeated me; and Artemis Books published Warlock Rhymer, the result of several months obsessive rendering of 85 of Robert Burns' Scots poems into English. With the help of Melissa Dagenhart, Casey and I crowdfunded our first duo CD, Skeins, released early in 2018. I'm working on a new project of my own songs, another batch of "Lonesome Valley" spirituals, and a Robert Burns songbook.
-Andrew Calhoun
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#### Original name
Gymnosporium olivaceum Corda

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package water.api;

import hex.DGLM.CaseMode;
import hex.DGLM.Family;
import hex.DGLM.GLMModel;
import hex.DGLM.GLMParams;

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Properties;

import water.Key;
import water.util.Log;
import water.util.RString;

import com.google.gson.JsonObject;

/**
 * @author cliffc
 */
public class GLMGrid extends Request {
  public static final String JSON_GLM_Y = "y";
  public static final String JSON_GLM_X = "x";
  public static final String JSON_GLM_MAX_ITER = "max_iter";
  public static final String JSON_GLM_BETA_EPS = "beta_eps";
  public static final String JSON_GLM_WEIGHT = "weight";

  public static final String JSON_GLM_XVAL = "xval";
  public static final String JSON_GLM_CASE = "case";
  public static final String JSON_GLM_CASE_MODE = "case_mode";
  public static final String JSON_GLM_LINK = "link";
  public static final String JSON_GLM_FAMILY = "family";

  public static final String JSON_ROWS = "rows";
  public static final String JSON_TIME = "time";
  public static final String JSON_COEFFICIENTS = "coefficients";
  public static final String JSON_PARALLELISM = "parallelism";

  // Need a HEX key for GLM
  protected final H2OHexKey _key = new H2OHexKey(KEY);
  // Column to classify on
  protected final H2OHexKeyCol _y = new H2OHexKeyCol(JSON_GLM_Y, _key);
  // Columns used to run the GLM
  protected final HexColumnSelect _x = new HexNonConstantColumnSelect(JSON_GLM_X, _key, _y);

  // Args NOT Grid Searched
  protected final Int _maxIter = new Int(JSON_GLM_MAX_ITER, 50, 1, 1000000);
  protected final EnumArgument<Family> _family = new EnumArgument(JSON_GLM_FAMILY,Family.binomial,true);
  protected final LinkArg _link = new LinkArg(_family,JSON_GLM_LINK);

  protected final CaseModeSelect _caseMode = new CaseModeSelect(_key,_y, _family, JSON_GLM_CASE_MODE,CaseMode.none);
  protected final CaseSelect _case = new CaseSelect(_key,_y,_caseMode,JSON_GLM_CASE);
  protected final Real _weight = new Real(JSON_GLM_WEIGHT,1.0);

  protected final Int _xval = new Int(XVAL, 10, 0, 1000000);
  protected final Real _betaEps = new Real(JSON_GLM_BETA_EPS,1e-4);

  // Args that ARE Grid Searched
  protected final RSeq _lambda = new RSeq(Constants.LAMBDA, false, new NumberSequence("1e-8:1e3:100",true,10),true);
  protected final RSeq _alpha = new RSeq(Constants.ALPHA, false, new NumberSequence("0,0.25,0.5,0.75,1.0",false,1),false);
  protected final Bool _standardize = new Bool("standardize", true, "Set to standardize (0 mean, unit variance) the data before training.");
  protected final RSeq _thresholds = new RSeq(Constants.DTHRESHOLDS, false, new NumberSequence("0:1:0.01",false,0.1),false);

  protected final Bool _parallel = new Bool(PARALLEL, true, "Build models in parallel");
  protected final Int _parallelism = new Int(JSON_PARALLELISM, 1, 1, 256);

  public GLMGrid(){
    _requestHelp = "Perform grid search over GLM parameters. Calls glm with all parameter combination from user-defined parameter range. Results are ordered according to AUC. For more details see GLM help.";
    _key._requestHelp = "Dataset to be trained on.";
    _y._requestHelp = "Response variable column name.";
    _x._requestHelp = "Predictor columns to be trained on. Constant columns will be ignored.";
    _family._requestHelp =
      "Pick the general mathematical family for the trained model.

"+
      "
gaussian models describe a simple hyper-plane (for a single column this will be a simple line) for the response variable.  This is a suitable model for when you expect the response variable to vary as a linear combination of predictor variables.  An example might be predicting the gas mileage of cars, based on their weight, age, and engine size.
"+
      "
binomial models form an S-curve response, showing probabilities that vary from 0 to 1.  This is a suitable model for when you expect a simple boolean result (e.g. alive/dead, or fraud/no-fraud).  The model gives a probability of the true event.  An example might be to predict the presence of prostate cancer given the patient age, race, and various blood chemical levels such as PSA.
"+
      "
";
    _link._requestHelp = "Link function to be used.";
    _lambda._requestHelp = "Range of penalty arguments. Higher lambda means higher penalty is applied on the size of the beta vector.";
    _alpha._requestHelp = "Range of penalty distribution arguments. Controls distribution of penalty between L1 and L2. 1 means lasso, 0 means ridge regression";
    _betaEps._requestHelp = "Precision of the vector of coefficients. Computation stops when the maximal difference between two beta vectors is below than Beta epsilon.";
    _maxIter._requestHelp = "Number of maximum iterations.";
    _weight._requestHelp = "All rows for which the predicate is true will be weighted by weight. Weight=1 is neutral. Weight = 0.5 treats negative examples as twice more important than positive ones. Weight = 2.0 does the opposite.";
    _caseMode._requestHelp = "Predicate selection.";
    _case._requestHelp = "Value to be used to compare against using predicate given by case mode selector to turn the y column into boolean.";
    _thresholds._requestHelp = "Sequence of decision thresholds to be evaluated during validation (used for ROC curce computation and for picking optimal decision threshold of the resulting classifier).";
    _xval._requestHelp = "Number of fold used in cross-validation. 0 or 1 means no cross validation.";

  }

  @Override protected void queryArgumentValueSet(Argument arg, Properties inputArgs) {
    if(arg == _caseMode){
      if(_caseMode.value() == CaseMode.none){
        _case.disable("n/a");
        _weight.disable("case not set");
      }
    }
    if(arg == _family){
      if(_family.value() != Family.binomial){
        _caseMode.disable("Only for binomial family");
        _case.disable("Only for binomial family");
        _weight.disable("Only for binomial family");
        _thresholds.disable("Only for binomial family");
      }
    }
  }

  private int[] getCols(int [] xs, int y){
    int [] res = Arrays.copyOf(xs, xs.length+1);
    res[xs.length] = y;
    return res;
  }
  // ---
  // Make a new Grid Search object.
  @Override protected Response serve() {
    GLMParams glmp = new GLMParams(_family.value());
    glmp._betaEps = _betaEps.value();
    glmp._maxIter = _maxIter.value();
    glmp._caseMode = _caseMode.valid()?_caseMode.value():CaseMode.none;
    glmp._caseVal = _case.valid()?_case.value():Double.NaN;
    Key dest = Key.make();
    double [] ts = glmp._family._family == Family.binomial?_thresholds.value()._arr:null;
    hex.GLMGrid job = new hex.GLMGrid(dest,
                        _key.value(), // Hex data
                        glmp,
                        getCols(_x.value(), _y.value()),
                        _lambda.value()._arr, // Grid ranges
                        _alpha.value()._arr,  // Grid ranges
                        ts,
                        _xval.value(),
                        _parallel.value(),
                        _parallelism.value(),
                        _standardize.value());
    job.start();

    // Redirect to the grid-search status page
    JsonObject j = new JsonObject();
    j.addProperty(Constants.DEST_KEY, dest.toString());
    Response r = GLMGridProgress.redirect(j, job.self(), dest);
    r.setBuilder(Constants.DEST_KEY, new KeyElementBuilder());
    return r;
  }

  // Make a link that lands on this page
  public static String link(Key k, String content) {
    RString rs = new RString("%content");
    rs.replace("key_param", KEY);
    rs.replace("key", k.toString());
    rs.replace("content", content);
    return rs.toString();
  }

  public static String link(GLMModel m, String content) {
    int [] colIds = m.selectedColumns();
    if(colIds == null)return ""; // the dataset is not in H2O any more
    RString rs = new RString("%content");
    rs.replace("key_param", KEY);
    rs.replace("key", m._dataKey.toString());
    rs.replace("content", content);
    rs.replace("ycol",m.responseName());
    rs.replace("case",m._glmParams._caseVal);
    try {
      StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(""+colIds[0]);
      for(int i = 1; i < colIds.length-1; ++i)
        sb.append(","+colIds[i]);
      rs.replace("xcols",sb.toString());
      rs.replace("caseMode",URLEncoder.encode(m._glmParams._caseMode.toString(),"utf8"));
    } catch( UnsupportedEncodingException e ) {
      throw  Log.errRTExcept(e);
    }
    return rs.toString();
  }
}


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Madivaru Beyru is a great drift dive drop-off with often sightings of sharks.
Madivaru Beyru, located on the outside reef near Madivaru Island, this wall is just perfect for a nice and easy drift dive. Beginners find a very good opportunity to experience medium to strong current. Do not forget to turn your head toward the blue open water, where are always surprises waiting for you.


While Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is certainly not the sharpest knife in the drawer, you have to give her credit that she knows how to get media attention, but sadly for her, that media attention has backfired, exposing the reality of what an absolute, illogical person she is with a totalitarian bent. Polling numbers demonstrate the media's coverage of AOC has caused her poll number to tank since last summer.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two months into her new job on Capitol Hill, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a much more recognizable figure to Americans. Half of U.S. adults were unfamiliar with or had no opinion of her in September after her seismic primary win over the summer, but that figure has shrunk to 29% today. But the increased visibility has not improved her overall standing with Americans. Whereas the public had mixed views of Ocasio-Cortez in September, her image now tilts slightly negative, with 31% viewing her favorably and 41% unfavorably.
Since September, the congresswoman's unfavorable rating has climbed 15 percentage points while her favorable rating is up by seven points. The latest data are from a Gallup poll conducted Feb. 12-28.
The trajectory of Ocasio-Cortez's image has some similarities to that of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Though Gingrich was no newcomer to Congress, he only gained national prominence after leading the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994. Like Ocasio-Cortez, he quickly became a household name with more viewing him unfavorably than favorably within a few months of assuming the House speakership in 1995.
Underscoring how far she has come so quickly, Ocasio-Cortez's ratings are currently similar to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, whose favorable, unfavorable and no opinion ratings from December are nearly identical to the congresswoman's latest figures. Schumer has served in Congress since 1981, first in the House of Representatives, and since 1999 in the Senate.
So, what caused AOC to go into meltdown mode over these numbers? Well, again, it's her inability to think, reason or understand reality.
"The reason people know more [about me] is bc Fox News has turned into "AOC TMZ" (no offense to TMZ), so awareness is growing w/ GOPers," she tweeted in a follow-up.
Yes, we can't be scared by that because the world ending in less than 12 years is far scarier.
The point is she fails to see that her favorability didn't just tank with "old white men." She tanked across the board: seven points with independents, three points with women, seven points with young people age 18-34 and eight points with ages 35-54.
There is a saying that it's better people think you are a fool that open your mouth and remove all doubt. As long as the media puts the microphone in front of this puppet, she is going to keep demonstrates how foolish she really is, both economically/politically andtheologically.
The GOP just needs to keep letting her talk. She's committing suicide in front of everyone.


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Q: using generic createapiview and updateapiview in the same view in django restframework Iam trying to find out if it is possible to post and patch in the same view using the generic api method in Django rest framework. I dont think there is any generic class that allows create and update altogether, can anyone tell me if the below configuration would allow me to use post and patch method in the same view.
class QuestionList(generics.updateAPIView, generics.CreateAPIView):
    queryset = Question.objects.all()
    serializer_class = QuestionSerializer

A: I'm not sure if that is possible but, You can create two views like this
class CreateSomeView(AuthenticatedView, CreateAPIView):

    queryset = Some.objects.all()
    serializer_class = SomeSerializer

    def create(self, request):
        serializer = self.serializer_class(data=data)
        serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
        serializer.save()

 class SomeView(AuthenticatedView, UpdateAPIView):

    queryset = Some.objects.all()
    serializer_class = SomeSerializer

    def update(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        serializer = self.serializer_class(data=data)
        serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
        serializer.save()

and two urls something like that
path('some/', CreateSomeView.as_view(), name="create-some-details"),
path('some/<int:pk>/', SomeView.as_view(), name="some-details"),

Now, from front-end you can send request with  if you want to update or without id if you wish to create new. You don't have to create two serializers.

A: Yes, you can use them at the same time,you can create a custom view that inherits from both classes
from rest_framework import generics

class MyView(generics.CreateAPIView, generics.UpdateAPIView):
    serializer_class = MySerializer
    queryset = MyModel.objects.all()

and in you urls file:
urlpatterns = [
path('myview/', MyView.as_view(), name='myview'),
path('myview/<int:pk>/', MyView.as_view(), name='myview_update'),]

if you want to use your uuid or an identifier you have to add to your views:
    lookup_field = "uuid"

and change
    path('myview/<uuid:uuid>/', MyView.as_view(), name='myview_update'),

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Wolfe was 'on the bus' (although he claims not to have indulged in the lysergic goings on) as the Pranksters crossed America in 1964 in an hallucinogenic haze aboard a colourfully painted school bus, its destination 'Further' – undoubtedly the trip of a lifetime! He was a leading light of New Journalism, an approach to writing from a more subjective standpoint, also favoured by the likes of Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer and Terry Southern.
He'd receive acclaim for his books 'The Right Stuff' (1979) and 'Bonfire Of The Vanities' (1987), both of which were adapted into movies.


When Gov. Charlie Baker fills out his ballot Tuesday, he will vote to make cage-free eggs the law of the land in Massachusetts.
According to spokesman Billy Pitman, the Massachusetts governor plans to vote yes on Question 3, a ballot initiative that would ban certain restrictive means of confining farm animals in the state.
In September, Baker had told reporters he was undecided how he would vote on the measure, but was "quite sympathetic" to the argument being made by supporters.
"While I worry a little bit about what that might mean to the cost of eggs for people here in the commonwealth, I am quite sympathetic to the perspective that is being offered by the Yes on Question 3 people," the governor said, according to Politico Massachusetts, adding that he wished he knew more about the financial consequences.
While Question 3 would ban the production and sale of non-cage-free eggs in Massachusetts, it is not only about chickens.
According to the language of the proposal, it would "prohibit any farm owner or operator from knowingly confining any breeding pig, calf raised for veal, or egg-laying hen in a way that prevents the animal from lying down, standing up, fully extending its limbs, or turning around freely." Question 3 would also ban the sale of any produce from animals confined in such a manner.
Polling on Massachusetts's ballot questions show that voters support the proposal at a rate of more than 2-to-1.
Question 3 supporters, which include the MSPCA, Animal Rescue League of Boston, The Humane Society of the United States, say the bill is necessary to prevent animal cruelty and reduce food safety risks. Opponents, however, say that Question 3 would increase food prices and disproportionately harm lower-income families.
Ever the animal advocate, Baker recently signed a bill banning people from leaving their pets in dangerously hot cars.


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A Stragetic Approach to a New Organization
How to hit the ground running in your new position
During the first hours of my new job as the GIS manager at the Mid-America Regional Council, I cleared the crumbs from my predecessor's keyboard, pulled old sticky notes from the monitor, rifled through existing folders for useful information, and made the ritualistic first trip to the supply closet. It was straightforward to this point, the keywords being to this point. I had to decide what to do next, and it was not going to be long before the phone started ringing.
I experienced successes and failures during my first months as a GIS manager. (I'd like to think the successes outweighed the failures.) I initially used a by-the-book approach, quickly realizing that classic approaches to GIS planning fit nicely when starting from scratch, but not so well when coming into an organization where GIS already exists. With this in mind, and in the spirit of not letting hindsight go wasted, I've extrapolated some lessons learned into tips for new GIS managers. The overriding goal of these tips is to understand the current state of your organization's GIS so you can set priorities based on logic rather than developing strategy on the fly.
Your staff is your first priority. Review their job descriptions and meet with them individually to discuss current responsibilities, projects, and training needs as well as to begin developing a rapport with them. It's also a good idea to start scheduling regular staff meetings to foster an ongoing dialog.
Plug In to the Organization
You need to find out how GIS is used throughout the organization. Meet with department heads to find out how GIS assists their missions. Let them do the talking and avoid making promises. Ask who the primary GIS contacts are and follow up with them to determine their workflows and GIS projects.
Get Familiar with Current Projects and Workflows
Create a list of the GIS projects and workflows you've learned about. For each entry on the list, identify who it serves, who's working on it, its start and finish dates if it's not a daily workflow, the datasets it uses, and the products it produces.
Then, let those who gave you the information for the list review it for accuracy. After that, maybe with a cup of coffee, read it over to get a good overview of how GIS is used in the organization, projects with priority status, and stagnating projects.
Create a Data Inventory
Make an inventory of your GIS data. Record each dataset including the projects and workflows it's used within. Sort the list of datasets by number of uses. It's hardly scientific, but sorted this way, you'll get a quick glimpse of how the data is used.
If your organization already has a data inventory, compare it to your list and look for gaps. If it doesn't, document the following relative to each dataset: file name and location; source; date of last update; whether it's updated in-house, out-of-house, or not at all; who is responsible for it; and its projection and coordinate system.
All of this seems like a lot of work, and it is! Remember, as the GIS manager you are ultimately responsible for the condition of the GIS data, so it makes good sense to get familiar with it.
Audit Your Software Licenses
The previous tips help you get ahold of how GIS is used within your organization on a daily basis, which puts you in a good position to assess its GIS software. My initial questions were, What software licenses do we have? Where are they installed? Are we using a stand-alone or concurrent model? and, Where are the installation disks?
Finding out how many licenses you have is really no trick—just call your vendor and ask for a summary. The tricky parts are assessing the supply and demand of software, then creating the proper balance. There's no single solution for this, but getting a good grasp of the number of users and the types of GIS projects and workflows will go a long way to helping you determine how to balance software licenses.
Finally, be sure you find out the status of your software maintenance so you don't get caught off guard with an unexpected maintenance invoice.
Review the IT Structure
A successful GIS requires a solid IT infrastructure. If you're like me and have a strong GIS background with a weaker IT side, look to your IT staff to help you understand your organization's network configuration.
Start with the basics. Find out how many servers your organization has and which ones are handling GIS data and/or software. Document the basic hardware specifications of each server along with its operating system. Determine the storage model used such as a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) or storage area network (SAN) and the backup mechanisms that are in place.
Shoot for the big picture. If it's not already available, create a diagram of the system. If you don't understand some aspect of the system, ask for clarification—that's how you'll learn. Doing all the above will go a long way to reducing the chance you'll encounter unforeseen expenses related to technology upgrades when planning new applications. It will also make it easier to purchase server software, which may require answering mysterious questions about sockets and CPU counts.
Learn the Budgeting Process
As a GIS manager, you play an important role in securing money for your department and spending it wisely. Determine the budget cycle, what's left in the current budget, and when the next budget is due. Clarify your role in the budgeting process early on. Do you provide the numbers to your boss for approval, or do you maintain your own budget?
Most importantly, don't let the budget take you by surprise. Having your boss come into your office explaining that the budget is due in a week will only leave you scrambling for ways to spend money, which will ultimately lead to waste. Instead put yourself ahead of the budget cycle so your figures are based on sound judgment and need.
If you've followed these steps, you've done a lot of work and will be rewarded with a thorough understanding of your GIS. Now connect the dots to see the big picture. Look for obvious connections, possible reprioritizations, and answers to key questions. Do certain workflows feed into several projects? Are some data layers high priorities based on usage or critical missions? Do you have staffing shortages or glaring training needs? Answering these kinds of questions will help you better manage your GIS and plan for the future.
Report Your Findings
Don't keep your lessons learned and new insights to yourself. Report your findings back to the organization's department heads and any other stakeholders.
Don't sugarcoat your findings. Deliver a realistic summary using understandable terms. In executive summary form, explain the state of the GIS including how it's being used to support departmental goals, who the users are, the data it's producing, the workflows it assists, and the annual costs to support it. Also cover the challenges you see ahead, those projects you've identified as stagnant, and any gaps that need to be filled (whether monetary, staffing, data, or technology based) to make the GIS successful. This effort will help you educate decision makers about the value of GIS and garner support for your work.
For more information, contact Brian Parr at bparr@marc.org.
Brian Parr is the GIS manager for the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC). MARC serves as the association of city and county governments and the metropolitan planning organization for the bistate Kansas City region.


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A History of Millet
by CraigBaird3 Sep 2020
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Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the land around Millet was occupied mostly by the Cree people who moved through the area following bison. The movement of the Indigenous would have a very big impact on Millet and likely contributed to its founding. The paths the Indigenous took through the region would be used by the fur traders and explorers, which led to the establishment of Fort Edmonton. From there, the trails eventually grew in use and when it came time for the railroad to go through, the path the Indigenous took for centuries would be the path of the railroad. From there, Millet would be born as a new community.
Today, Millet sits on Treaty 6 land.
Founding Of Millet
Millet is unique in terms of communities in Alberta because the origin of its name come from several different sources. One source says that the name comes from Jean-Francois Millet, who was a French painter and a favourite painter of William Cornelius Van Horne, who was a railway owner that named Hobbema, nearby to Millet, after Miendert Hobbema, a Dutch painter.
The other origin of the name, and much more likely according to local historians, is that the name comes from August Millet, who was a fur trader who often moved through the area. Sometimes Millet would work for the Hudson's Bay Company, and other times he was under the employ of the Northwest Mounted Police at their outpost at Fort Saskatchewan. He was often a travel companion and guide for Father Lacombe, one of the most revered figures from the early history of Alberta and for whom Lacombe, Alberta was named. This is where we get back to William Van Horne. He asked Father Lacombe to name stations along the Edmonton-Calgary railway line. He would suggest several names, including Leduc, now pronounced Leduc, in honour of a fellow missionary, and Millet, for the travel companion who joined him on so many journeys.
August Millet would eventually die tragically while trying to cross the Red Deer River. It is not known where Millet is buried but the community that shares his name has a memorial to him.
In 1883, the CN Railway would reach Calgary and the road up to Edmonton was a cart trail that was getting busier. Stage coaches carrying passengers, mail and freight would go up the road, roughly 300 kilometres, which took five days. Each night, the stagecoach would stop at a stopping place. In the Millet area, the most common stopping place was that of Frank Lucas and his family.
In 1890, the Calgary-Edmonton Railway Company would be formed and 6,400 acres of land would be granted for the railway to build on. In August of 1891, the railroad reached Strathcona, just south of Edmonton.
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The first person to live in the Millet area was Ben Slaughter, who was also friends with the aforementioned August Millet. He had a store and living quarters on the east side of the railroad and served as the first postmaster for the area. That store was an important place to stay in those early years. T.H. Howes, recounted in 1978 that, "When we arrived with a car of settlers' effects on April 7, 1900, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wright and their daughter were living in rooms over the store of Ben Slaughter. They were kind enough to let us stay in the store part that first night."
Within a few years, more people began to live nearby and in 1901, several buildings were in what would one day be Millet. A store would be built by B.A. Van Meter in 1902, followed by a hotel, the Millet Hotel, that same year.
On June 17, 1903, the Village of Millet was established with James Blades becoming the first overseer of the community. The community was ready to grow.
The Nebraska Club
Many of the early settlers to the Millet area came from the United States, looking for cheap and plentiful land. Many were far from home and knew very few people. For the women, who were often at home for weeks on end, it could be a very lonely existence. Many of the families in the area had come from Nebraska and they would meet at each other's home on a regular basis, singing songs and playing games. Homemade ice cream was often served during the pot luck suppers and eventually the group of families started to call themselves the Nebraska Club.
The 1927 Town Fire
Fire was an ever present danger in many rural Alberta communities and before modern firefighting techniques, a single fire could destroy an entire community. In October of that year, a fire broke out in Vic's Garage around 2:30 p.m. when a gasoline engine that was being repaired burst into flames and quickly burned down the entire building. In a terrible stroke of bad luck, the chemical apparatus that was the fire fighting equipment of the town was in the garage that burned down. It could not be reached due to the flame and heat and a bucket brigade was started but there was not enough water to deal with the raging fire. Help was summoned from Wetaskiwin and Leduc and threshing gangs came in from the fields to assist in dealing with the fire. In the end, the damage would be $50,000, or $750,000 in today's funds and it would destroy most of the downtown area. Mayor A.P. Mitchell would lose an entire business block and lost most of his household effects and clothing. Also lost in the fire were Graham's Pharmacy, F. Day's legal office, Dr. Ward's dental office and much more.
When I talk about the history of a community, one thing I really enjoy doing is looking at the history of a community through the people who came from it and reached the world stage. Those people shed light on their community and, in some cases, bring people to the community itself. With Bob Robinson, Millet has one of the greatest rodeo competitors ever. Robinson was born on Sept. 13, 1931 and his father was Sykes Robinson, who won the World Champion Steer Riding competition at Madison Square Garden in 1927 and was the Canadian Saddle Bronc Riding Champion at the Calgary Stampede in 1939.
As for Bob, he would get his first professional rodeo win in 1953 as the All Around Champion in Edmonton. This would begin an incredible streak of excellence that few have equaled in the rodeo world. From 1955 to 1964, he was one of the top 20 bull riders and saddle bronc riders in the RCA, during that time he was the 1954 Saddle Bronc Champion in the Alberta Central Circuit, the 1956 Canadian Champion Saddle Bronc Rider, 1956 All Around Champion Edmonton and the Saddle Bronc Champion at the Calgary Stampede. In 1962, he would become the first Canadian to win a major event in the NFR in the United States.
Robinson would be inducted into the Canadian Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1997, was awarded the Pioneer Rodeo Award at the Calgary Stampede in 2009 and was inducted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame in Oklahoma in 2014. He was also ranked as the ninth greatest bull rider in Canadian history by Everything Cowboy.
Another notable resident was Winnifred Thompson Ross, who would find herself a war widow in 1918 in Millet and quickly began to farm the land herself. She would then join the Millet chapter of the Farm Women's Union of Alberta and she became interested in improving the standards of rural schooling and promoting adult education. For the next 24 years, she would serve as the provincial leader of the organization and was on the original committees for the National Farm Forums, the Canadian Research Committee on Practical Education and the Advisory Committee to the Schools Of Agriculture. In 1948, she was appointed to the board of governors of the University of Alberta and served as the vice president of the Alberta Council on Child and Welfare. She would pass away in 1974.
Millet and District Museum
The lifeblood of the history of a community is found in its local museum. On Feb. 25, 1977, the Millet & District Historical Society was formed and less than a decade later, in 1985, the Millet and District Museum would be built and the Exhibit Room was opened. The facility has 12,800 artifacts from Millet and the 13 surrounding school districts dating back to the first half the 20th century. In addition, there are several rooms that depict the history of the area including the Hillside School, John Barth's Barbershop and Kenny Kerr's Implement Office, along with the home setting of a bedroom, living room and kitchen that represents the period of 1900 to 1950. There is also the Veteran's Wall in the upper floor of the museum, which features the portraits of the Millet and District Veterans of the First and Second World War. The exhibit, From A Signpost In A Slough, the history of Millet is depicted from 1900 to 1960, depicting everything from the railroad arriving to the building of several important landmarks in the community.
Millet Town Murals
The history of Millet can be found not just in books and at the museum, but on the walls of buildings throughout the community. One mural is the Lions Club mural, which depicts a Lions Club celebration in the community, complete with a dance and fundraisers that highlights some of the things the organization has done for the community. The library mural is one of the more unique murals in that it depicts scenes from books, including Charlotte's Web, while also displaying grain elevators from the early history of the community and two young individuals who are on their way to get books from the library, opening up new worlds for themselves. The community spirit mural depicts a dance at the community hall, which brought many people out for dances, social events, fundraisers and much more.
A great way to learn about a community's history is through a walking tour. The wonderful thing about a walking tour is that you not only learn that history, but you can experience that history directly and often it comes at no cost.
In Millet, there is an excellent walking tour that runs 3.3 kilometres in total, taking about an hour and a half and features 30 stops, which I will highlight some of here.
The first stop of the tour is a fire wagon that actually dates back to 1938 and was used in Millet by the fire department from 1939 to 1954. As I mentioned earlier, the community had gone through a terrible fire in 1929 and ensuring that didn't happen again was of paramount importance. Prior to 1938, the community used soda-acid extinguishers. In 1916, the first fire fighting equipment was bought in the community, which had a hand pamper but this was never used because the hose for the device had already began to decay. The new small engine bought in 1938 held two 45-gallon tanks that contained calcium chloride to prevent the water from freezing, along with carbon dioxide to provide pressure. The wagon could be moved by a machine, or by two or three men pulling it. This fire wagon proved its worth when it saved both Vic's Garage and Moan's Grocery in fires that occurred during the usage period of the wagon.
The St. John's Anglican Church was built in 1929 but the land it sits on was originally purchased by the congregation in 1914. Most of the money to build the church was raised by two women named Burness and Winifred Jacques. The church would be built by Harry Parlee, a farmer near Cold Lake. Bishop H.A. Gray of Edmonton would conduct the service of the church soon after its construction. The first wedding would be held on Jan. 1, 1930 and was conducted by Reverend Arthur Murphy. That wedding has a strong connection to Canadian history because his wife was Emily Murphy. Emily Murphy would a Canadian women's rights activist and author who was the first female magistrate not only in Canada, but in the British Empire. She is also one of the Famous Five, who were a group of women that fought for women's rights and launched the Persons Case. I talked about that case in a previous episode and its impact on Canadian history and I encourage you to check it out.
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A later stop in the walking tour is that of the Millet Royal Canadian Legion. While the building itself was built in 1997 after a fire destroyed the original Legion at a different site, the site its on has a deep history in Millet thanks to the Millet Creamery. The Millet Creamery was built in 1924 and quickly began to produce cheese and butter. The creamery provides another historic stop on the walking tour and its found at the re-creation of the Millet Burns Creamery Rock Garden. In 1937, the creamery staff decided to beautify the town and they created a rock garden just south of the creamery building. Perennials were donated by local residents and a fountain was installed in the garden. The garden would flourish for years until many creamery staff members left to join the fight in Europe during the Second World War. In 1998, the Communities in Bloom Committee, as well as the town and volunteers recreated the current garden.
In 1907, St. Norbert's Catholic Church was built in the community on land that had been donated by P.J. Mullen two years previous. Fundraising began in 1906, with P.J. Mullen going above and beyond once again and donating $200, equivalent to $5,000 today. Several other donations came from business owners in the community, including a keg of nails from the hardware store. Lumber was donated by the Mullen Brothers Saw Mill at Pigeon Lake, hauled to the community by volunteers. The church would cost $1,550 to build, or $38,000 today and opened on Dec. 1, 1907 when it was blessed by Bishop Emile-Joseph Legal, the future archbishop of Edmonton. A statue was donated by the Abbey of Grimbergen in Belgium and while changes would come over the year, the building itself still stands.
Schools were incredibly important to early communities and often it did not take long for a school to be built in any new community. Two previous schools had been built in Millet over the years. One school was built in 1901 but burned down soon after, and was replaced in 1902 with a two-room school. In 1930, $15,000 was borrowed, or $224,000 today, to build a brand new school for the growing community. This new school would have four classrooms, accommodating grades one to 12. A laboratory was situated in the building as well, and there was a large central hall that was used for many events. The school would change over the years with new additions in 1954, 1959 and 1965. The school still operates to this day, but since March 23, 1981 it has been called Griffiths-Scott School, in honour of Perry Griffiths who was principal for 24 years, and Jean Scott, who was a teacher for 27 years.
Earlier in this episode I talked about the great fire of 1927 that hit Millet. That fire had started in Vic's Garage and the garage was completely destroyed in that fire. On the site of that fire a new building was built in 1927 for the garage, which was again damaged in 1948 by fire but the building was not destroyed. While Vic's Garage is no longer around, the building still is and today it is Leanne's Bar and Grill.
The railway was the lifeblood of any community if it wanted to survive in the 20th century. Without a railway, chances were a community could go from boom to bust within a year. The first railroad to go through the Millet area was built by the CPR in 1891 and with that railroad came settlers and new visitors to what would be Alberta. The first station would be built in 1902, consisting of a 20-foot platform that replaced the boxcar building that had been the station for years. A new station would be built in 1907, which included a better platform, freight sheds and living quarters. From this station, the world would come to Millet. One of the more unique stories of the station is that until the 1950s, train orders were telegraphed to the station and the station agent would attach them to a bamboo hoop and the engineer would grab the orders as the train went by. The longest serving agent at the station was Cephas A. Kent, who served from 1913 to 1947. Passenger service would end in the 1970s and the station was moved but on the site of the station is a wonderful tree grove with a plaque detailing the history of the station on the walking tour.
On the 18th stop on the walking tour, you will come to one of the oldest buildings in the community and arguably the first church. In 1901, the Methodist Home Mission was started in Millet by a Mr. Frid, who was stone mason and would be the person to get the church built in the community. In 1902, the Millet United Church was built and opened in 1903. At the time it was called the Millet Methodist Church. The Methodist Church served many purposes in the community, including acting as an early school for the children of the area until a new school was built. In 1948, the church was remodeled and further changes came in the 1980s. In 2012, the building was officially sold, ending over a century of church services in the building.
Community halls have always been an important part of a community's social life. The first community hall was Pinyon's Hall, built in 1917. Pinyon's Hall would host concerts, movies and more for several decades until 1942 when it was sold and demolished. Fred Pinyon had built the hall himself by cutting logs from Pigeon Lake and transporting them to the community. A new hall would eventually be built and it is the 21st stop on the walking tour. The Millet Community Hall that was built by the Millet Board of Trade in 1950 and 1951. The first event to be held at the hall was a dance on June 27, 1951 when the building was still slightly under construction. A total of 300 people attended that first dance and there would be many more after that. A large legacy mural is on the front of the hall that was painted for the 100th birthday of the community.
Quite odd for a community like Millet, it would take a decade, until 1912, before a bank was built. Discussions were conducted with the Imperial Bank in Wetaskiwin and it was decided that the hotel sample room would be used as the new bank. Previously, it had been used by traveling salesman so they could show merchandise to local shopkeepers. From that year on, Millet would have a bank. In 1927, a cottage-style building was built and it served as the location of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce until 1985 when it moved to Wetaskiwin. The building still exists and can be seen as the 24th stop on the walking tour.
Hotels were always something that was needed in an community during its formative years and at the present site of Rexall Drugs, the 25th stop on the walking tour, you will come across the original site of the Arlington Hotel. The original hotel was built in 1902 and it would see several additions and changes. In 1924, W. Keats of Edmonton would purchase the Arlington Hotel and he is notable because his son was Duke Keats. Duke was a member of the NHA, WCHL and NHL from 1915 to 1934, during which time he competed in the 1923 Stanley Cup Final with the Edmonton Eskimos, losing to the Ottawa Senators. From 1926 to 1929, he played for Boston, Detroit and Chicago in the NHL, recording 49 points in 82 games. He would be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958. As for the hotel, it would sadly burn down on Feb. 15, 1995 but a mural is now on the building at the site that shows how the hotel looked during its prime. Within the hotel was also found the telephone exchange, which operated there from 1915 to 1958.
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