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<span style="font-size: large;">The trains don't run through Alnwick, Northumberland any longer. The Victorian-era depot was built a bit grander than other small town depots along the line because the Duke of Northumberland would await his train down to London there and others of the landed class would arrive at the depot for shoots and balls at Alnwick Castle and then depart through it.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> The Victorian era depot wasn't torn down, though, when the trains stopped.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> It sat empty for a time and then Barter Books took up residence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On entering the used book shop, we passed through the general waiting room with its open fire. Dogs are welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the next room, the enormous mural depicting famous authors beckoned us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An electric train rattled overhead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Only then did we really look around. Everywhere were books, nicely categorized. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> At its restaurant I passed up the day's special of ox cheek soup for a coronation chicken sandwich. I wish we could get curried chicken sandwiches here in the States. It was delicious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Three private waiting rooms originally reserved for the posh set add more seating for the restaurant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Water bowls await visiting dogs at the old drinking fountain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jay and I browsed after lunch. That's half of my sandwich on my lap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was this bookshop's owners who discovered a World War II poster in the bottom of a box of used books and made it famous again. There it is framed on the wall behind the front desk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jay bought a book and then we passed out through the general waiting room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Such a cozy and welcoming place. </span>leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-11578061519476160642017-12-15T22:27:00.000-08:002017-12-15T22:54:17.277-08:00Alnwick Castle, Northumberland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It isn't difficult to envision a 14th century cohort of knights and archers clattering through the gate of Alnwick Castle after the August 1388 Battle of Otterburn, to inform Henry, earl of Northumberland, that his eldest son and the army's commander, Harry "Hotspur" Percy, and another son, Sir Ralph Percy, had been captured by the Scots in a rash moonlight battle in which the banners of friend and foe were indistinguishable. Hotspur's redeeming grace was that he'd stood over his wounded brother to fend off the Scots. They eventually were ransomed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The present-day duke of Northumberland, a descendant of the Percys, owns a vast amount of land and is a savvy businessman. Because the castle played a part in the Harry Potter movies, the castle staff use not only a medieval theme, but the Potter theme, to attract families with children. </span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Museum Sammy caught my eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Hotspur's <i>cote de arms</i> (the cloth jupen over his armor) are the Percy coat of arms, which makes for an interesting story from my perspective because I'm researching the life of Maud de Lucy, the second wife of Henry, first earl of Northumberland, Hotspur's father. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After Maud de Lucy's brother, Anthony baron de Lucy, was killed in the Prussian crusade against the pagan Lithuanians in 1368 and her young niece succumbed in 1369, Maud became heiress to the de Lucy barony of Cumberland. When her much-older husband Gilbert, earl of Angus, died in 1381, she married the widowed Henry Percy, first earl of Northumberland. She had no surviving children, but her distinguished Lucy name was so important to her, she conditioned her marriage on the Percy men and their descendants quartering their heraldic lion with her silver fish (lucie was Norman-French for perch, a play on words, you see). She died in 1398, but Hotspur was wearing this quartered coat of arms when he met his death at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 (he and his father were attempting to overthrow Henry IV), as was his father Henry when he was killed in battle against the crown at Bramham Moore, Yorkshire, in 1408. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">The next day we walked past the castle, crossed the Aln River over Lion Bridge, and strolled along the river through what had been the deer park in medieval times. It was a lovely day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This past spring we visited Northumberland and Cumbria, concentrating on its Roman antiquities, including our three-mile walk of Hadrian's Wall <a href="http://lettersfromshenaniganvalleyidaho.blogspot.com/2017/05/walking-hadrians-wall.html">HERE</a>. In the autumn we went in search of medieval Northumberland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Northumberland's north border runs along Scotland's southeast border, their singular history during the Middle Ages one of mutual warfare. Fortified castles were built throughout Northumberland and Cumbria as barriers against Scottish invasion, or from which to stage invasion into Scotland, t</span><span style="font-size: large;">heir nobles appointed Border wardens</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We stayed in a Victorian-era house in the town of Alnwick (pronounced <i>A-nik</i>) within walking distance of Alnwick Castle, the Percy stronghold from 1309 onward, where their descendant, the present duke of Northumberland, resides.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dressed warmly, the game pie seller had been at her stall since early morning.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jay told the seller he'd buy a rabbit pie if she'd sing, "Run Rabbit, Run," and she obliged. If you're unfamiliar with this World War II British song, listen <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVdoZNxtL8k&list=RDSVdoZNxtL8k&t=56">HERE</a></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jay's lunch of rabbit pie, fresh bread, raspberries, and smoked Stilton cheese. I had duck pie.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After lunch we walked across town to the medieval St. Michael's church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'd wanted to visit the medieval city of York in England for some time and so we went in October. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> We walked into the city through Monk's Gate and mounted the city wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Still used as a shortcut and for exercise. Note the crenelation to the right. Towns and castles had to have the king's permission to crenelate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">York was originally a Roman city, home of the 4th Legion, and then a Viking stronghold and trade center, but I came to see the medieval aspects of the magnificent York Minster, which we visited on three consecutive days, there is so much to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now connected to York Minster, the large and ornate Chapter House stood separate during medieval times. It was a feat of engineeering, having no central columns, its vaulted ceiling supported by timbers in the roof. It was used by King Edward I for his parliament in 1297. What appears in the photo as dripping tags of lace are carved stone decorations over-hung by carved stone heads. They are many and high up, difficult to photograph, but oh! so fascinating!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There remains some early medieval glass in the minster's windows. This depiction of monkeys has to be searched for, it is so high above your head.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are a number of "Green Man" carvings of faces emerging from folage. This one is a home for birds, their bills thrust up his nostrils. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My favorite windows were these, the grisaille glass appearing silver gray at a distance, yet powdered with brilliant colors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This original Roman column was discovered beneath York Minster's basement vault during repairs and excavation a few decades ago. Left where it had fallen, the minster was built on top of Roman ruins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jay and I were always ready for a tea break, in this case a hot chocolate break. </span><br />
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As I mentioned in my last blog, while on our April trip to Cumbria, Great Britain, I was reading <i>Under Another Sky</i> by Charlotte Higgins, about her visits to Roman ruins in Britain. She dedicated some pages in describing the 2010 discovery by a metal detectorist near the eastern Cumbrian hamlet of Crosby-Garrett of what he at first thought was a crushed Victorian ornament, but what turned out to be a 3rd century A.D. Roman cavalry sports helmet used for ceremonials. If the helmet had been declared treasure, a value would have been placed on it by the government, which the finder and land-owner would have split, most likely paid by the wonderful Tullie House Museum in Carlisle, Cumbria, for its Roman antiquities collection. It was bronze, but not part of a find of bronze objects, and so by law it was allowed to be sold on the open market at auction. Because of regional excitement, Tullie House Museum managed to raise 1.7 million pounds sterling.<br />
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In the meantime, a restorer reshaped what had been deliberately crushed and buried, perhaps as part of a ritual. The helmet, which would have been attached to the visor mask with hinges, was in 68 pieces, the visor's chin "gashed," the curling hair "missing chunks." The restorer reshaped it, closed cracks, cast molds of curls in resin to replace the missing ones and made a chin of resin. Higgins, who visited the helmet at Christie's prior to the sale, wrote, "He gilded the resin with silver leaf and distressed it, so that the whole object had a smooth seamless patina with no visible joints. He reattached the griffin." This restoration was to make the helmet more appealing to an art collector. A museum would have allowed missing parts to remain absent. "When first made, the helmet would have appeared golden and the visor tinned, so that it would have shone like silver." It was made in Phrygia, now a part of central Turkey, and probably brought to Britain with a cohort of Phygian soldiers, part of the Roman army, to occupy north Britain and man Hadrian's Wall<br />
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And so at Christie's auction in the fall of 2010 Tullie House bid its 1.7 pounds, but an anonymous buyer made the successful bid of 2 million pounds. All that was known was that the buyer was a Brit. The Tullie House's request to exhibit the helmet for its 2011 reopening after renovations went unanswered.<br />
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Jump ahead to April 2017. After reading this chapter in the book, I was sorting through booklets in our rental flat and there was a Tullie House Museum pamphlet. Lo and behold, on its cover was a photo of this Phrygian mask. It was currently on exhibition at Tullie House (through September 2017. And so we visited the museum and this marvelous artifact. A curator saw our intense interest and strolled over to give us a private lecture. No, they still don't know who owns it - its loan was done through a third party. He pointed out where the hinges were and where plumes would have been attached to a metal loop on top. And told us that when the helmet was pressed and buried between two rocks, its was already an antique.<br />
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Tullie House exhibits some amazing Roman artifacts from the Border region where the Romans and their cohorts built and manned Hadrian's Wall. <br />
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We were in the right place at the right time, and I was delighted to see this ceremonial helmet in person.<br />
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While Jay and I were staying in the Lake District of Cumbria in late April, I read <i>Under Another Sky</i> by Charlotte Higgins, who wrote of her visits to various Roman sites in England and what earlier travelers had written about these sites. She expressed great pleasure in visiting the Roman fort of Hardknott Castle, the best preserved Roman remains in the north of England. None of the pamphlets or booklets in our holiday flat with in Keswick extolled this site, so I Googled it. Not far away, but the map showed a nearly uninhabited area of mountainous terrain with no more than a track winding to it. At breakfast the next morning, an older Cumbrian couple at the next table suggested we go down the coast and approach it from the other side. "Not as difficult," our acquaintance offered. But we had been given a Mercedes as a rental (Jay had wanted an automatic and it was all they had available) and we chose the more difficult route, approaching from the east.<br />
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The track, one lane but paved (all roads are paved in England), rose up into the mountains, where only sheep summer. We met only a cyclist, two runners and two cars as we began our climb.<br />
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And some sheep.<br />
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Descending through the pass, we nearly missed the ancient site, for it sat high on a hill above the road and we were its only visitors. We climbed up through some boggy areas, where Jay slipped and sat in the mud, but saved his camera. And then we were among the ruins. <br />
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The view west toward mountains separating us from the Irish Sea was breathtaking. The Romans built a road from the sea and their fort, but stayed only about 20 years. It was a lonely outpost constructed during the reign of Hadrian by a cohort of Dalmatians from what is now Croatia. When archaeologists began excavations around the turn of the 20th century, there was no sign of a <i>vill.</i> Only soldiers occupied the site. "Thou shalt not pass" was their message to any wanting to come this narrow way in an attempt to stop the Romans from consolidating their northern frontier.<br />
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When we finished climbing about the ruins and photographing the few grazing sheep, we continued along the track west and down to Ravenglass on the coast, where we visited the remains of a Roman bath, situated down a long wooded path. <br />
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It was a delightful day.<br />
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<br />leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-81995238714621387452017-05-29T14:56:00.000-07:002017-05-29T14:56:07.035-07:00Ancient Stone Circle at Castlerigg, Cumbria<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Castlerigg Ancient Stone Circle</td></tr>
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During our recent visit to Cumbria, England, after walking Hadrian's Wall <a href="http://lettersfromshenaniganvalleyidaho.blogspot.com/2017/05/walking-hadrians-wall.html">HERE</a>, my favorite experience was our visit the ancient stone circle outside of the town of Keswick, in the Lake District, where we stayed for a week.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lake Derwentwater at the edge of Keswick</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Map of the stones and their surrounding mountains at the site.</td></tr>
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Older than Stonehenge, these stones sat encircled on this hilltop for thousands of years. <br />
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After an April shower with more rain predicted, Jay and I drove up a narrow winding lane in early evening. As we'd hoped, few visitors were present - and then they left and we were alone. <br />
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Wherever you turn are valleys ringed by mountains, the same view the ancients had. Because I have ancestors from this Border region of England and Scotland, perhaps the old blood of my blood had gathered here for pagan ceremony.<br />
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Over the valley rain returned and with it twilight. And then was only the earth and the stones and the hollow sky.<br />
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<br />leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-60728104865901235342017-05-10T23:24:00.001-07:002017-05-10T23:24:45.380-07:00Walking Hadrian's Wall<br />
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For many years I'd wanted to visit Hadrian's Wall that stretches from the North Sea about 80 miles to the Irish Sea through Northumberland and Cumbria, England. The Romans began building it in 122 A.D. to demarcate the northern edge of the Roman Empire. Built in six years, it really was a sort of status symbol to show the might of the Roman Empire. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Roman Wall at Steel Rigg</td></tr>
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At age 71 I figured I'd better do it soon, and so Jay and I flew into the Glasgow, Scotland, early one April morning, checked into a hotel, and the next morning drove a rental car a couple hours south into Northumberland. I'd studied the wall's route on the Internet, zooming in for close ups, and decided we should walk the three miles from Steel Rigg to the ancient fort of Halsteads. This route was supposed to have the best views.<br />
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This trek isn't for the faint of heart. The wall in this section goes up a steep crag with a stiff breeze blowing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm nearly to the top, grabbing a rock in one hand, my cell phone in the other., my head band protecting me from the wind. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jay and I at the top</td></tr>
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And then we descended the other side of the crag to one of the small garrison forts the Romans built every three miles. Rock steps without hand rails, what was I thinking.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At least I didn't have to tote a backpack. Met these kids on my way down</td></tr>
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I wear sandals so I can loosen their straps when my feet swell with walking. Didn't the Romans wear sandals, too, marching along the Military Road near the foot of the Wall? And mine have treads.<br />
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We climbed another crag, following the wall, and got a nice view of Sycamore Gap, where Kevin Costner met Morgan Freeman in <i>Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves</i>.<br />
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After the Romans abandoned Britain in the 5th century, through the next sixteen hundred years the wall's rocks were looted to build abbeys, churches, castles, and farm houses.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very old farmhouse as viewed from what's left of the wall in its yard</td></tr>
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Jay and I were pretty tired when we finally reached Halsteads.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Remains of Roman bath house. They always elevated the floor on pilings so its sauna could be heated with warm air from below.</td></tr>
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We took a few photos and then waited for the bus at the road for a ride back to where our car was parked. The driver dropped us off and we slowly plodded another mile up a lane to the parking area. We treated ourselves to a fine meal at a nearby old inn and a soft bed in one of their rooms above. And the next day, our feet feeling fine again, we tramped about a Roman Army museum. And so began our visit to north Britain.<br />
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<br />leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-36541392526416451692017-03-18T18:36:00.002-07:002017-03-18T18:41:37.069-07:00My Winter Activity - Raney Family GenealogyI spent the winter obsessively researching my mother's side of the family, discovering that her roots stretched back to Colonial Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina - not just colonial, but very early colonial. So I began a blog for my extended Raney family, recounting many of these ancestral lines. My husband Jay says only my family members would find my blog interesting. And he's probably right. Other people waxing upon their ancestors barely holds my attention. However, my ever-so-great grandmother, Jane Stephenson, who was captured by the Shawnee in 1792 in Kentucky makes for an interesting story. <br />
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You can read it <a href="http://raneygenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/03/stephenson-family-kentucky-dark-and.html">HERE</a>leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-18585923824958157762016-11-26T16:40:00.001-08:002016-11-26T16:40:22.825-08:00An Autumn Ramble<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Autumn is ending, but a walk with the cats still reveals intriguing sights. <br />
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The creek takes on color as leaves drift down. I played in this creek as a child in summers when it wasn't so icy.<br />
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Claire found a warm spot at the corner of the old log barn where Dad stored hay. Now fallen in, it was built by Mr. Cable in the 1890s.<br />
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A few apples cling to branches. Sour and hard in October, this late apple is now crisp and sweet, despite frosty nights. I shake one down to munch while I walk.<br />
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The deer will wait near an apple tree for apples to drop. We have over one hundred wild apple trees on the place -- and lots of deer. Bears come through every evening, too.<br />
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A tramp over our 66 acres is enjoyable, even more so with friends along.<br />
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<br />I have a wonderful neighbor, Theresa - a born naturalist and a mushroom enthusiast. My mother always said to avoid all fungi. Mushrooms, toadstools and anything similar. "You'll die," she told me.<br />
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Well, a few years ago Jay and I discovered we had morel mushrooms and have spent each late spring hunting morels. <br />
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Now, Theresa informs me, we have other edible mushrooms on the property, especially in November after a very wet October. Porcini, chanterelles, truffles and others. She took me around our pasture to show me porcinis. Today I hunted on my own.<br />
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No, not this one, though a deer or squirrel gave it a nip to test it. In fact, this Rosy Russula has an acrid taste and shouldn't be eaten.<br />
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All over, up though the woods, deer had dug out mushrooms. The photo below indicates that one ate some, but left some deeper down. I uncovered more pine needles and dug around. Still a neophyte, I wasn't certain about these particular mushrooms, so left them, especially since I noticed some of the deer droppings were piles of diarrhea.<br />
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But the bolete below, often called porcini, is edible. It's the bottom part of the one in the first photo.<br />
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You can tell by their brown shade with a pale yellow underside without gills. So, I hunted and picked some, brought them home, and cleaned them. Jay sliced them, coated them with flour and fried them up in butter. They have a sort of nutty flavor.<br />
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Delicious with chicken with Bengal eggplant sauce and Mandarin orange slices.<br />
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They can be frozen, so I think I'll go hunting again tomorrow. It's a beautiful November.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">H</span>istoric Marble Creek<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> li<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">es </span></span>in Shoshone County, Idaho, about <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">48 </span>miles up the St. Joe River from St. Maries.</span><br />
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the Milwaukee Road RR was constructed through the St. Joe Valley in
1909, the only access to Marble Creek was up the St. Joe River. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the previous century Jesuit missionaries christened the river the Saint Joseph<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, but l</span>ess godly men came along to call it the St. Joe, or just the Joe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The highest navigable river in the United
States, steamboats came across Lake Coeur d'Alene to ply its gentle waters
upstream to Saint Maries and to Ferrell, as far as these steamboats could go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The river's large tributary, Marble Creek, converges with the St. Joe fifteen
miles above the head of navigation, where the swift water runs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> At the turn of the 20th century, </span>this creek, rapid and perilous in spring, spilled out of a mountainous drainage of eighty thousand coveted acres of virgin
white pine, about to be opened for homesteading under the Timber and Stone
Act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lumber companies, some freshly arrived from the upper Middle West,
such at Rutledge in Coeur d'Alene, a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser, and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">others</span> home-grown, began harvesting the forests there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A</span> place of conflict and danger<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span> a timber war erupted in 1904.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>Forest Guard (early forest ranger) O. O. Lansdale wrote: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"There was no law south of Wallace, the county seat, and the
place was getting wild. . . . The killing in Marble Creek climaxed the last
stand of some of the large lumber mill companies to get control of the cream of
the white pine before the Forest Service cracked down on stone, timber and
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a recreation area. Hard to imagine the logging of the teens and
twenties of the 20th century. But above it men died felling timber and
died <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dri<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ving logs down </span></span>in its rushing waters. Here's a not very good photo (taken behind glass at the Marble Creek museum) of one of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">its</span> splash dams <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hol<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ding</span></span> back the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marble</span> and logs until it got up a head of water.</span></span></div>
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When logging finally slowed on Marble Creek - it's never stopped - no
one bothered to remove the steam donkey. You can see that, too, if you
drive up the Forest Service access road. It's a beautiful place to
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<b>After surviving the Everett, Washington,
Massacre in November 1916, veteran Pinkerton detective Robert Jamieson
joins the Army's fledgling Military Intelligence Division. Instead of
being sent to France in 1917, he's assigned back to the Pacific
Northwest, ordered to go undercover to track down Irish radical Malachi
O'Neill, suspected in a scheme to transport guns from Irish-dominated
Butte, Montana, to Ireland. Find O'Neill, find the guns and forestall
unrest in Ireland that would weaken America's ally, Great Britain.
Locating O'Neill, he partners him in a remote logging camp on Marble
Creek in north Idaho. Likeable, but deadly, O'Neill has shifted his
loyalty from the disintegrating Industrial Workers of the World, the
"Wobblies," to an incipient Irish rebellion. A young prostitute helps
one man to the other man's detriment. And the woman who saved Jamieson's
life on a dark street in Seattle? Their paths are fated to cross again</b>.</div>
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Autumn can make you dizzy.<br />
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With color.<br />
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Our Bartlett pear tree leaves in colors between scarlet and crimson.<br />
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Apples still clinging to golden branches.<br />
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Our trail camera caught a buck and a little buck. We decided to go for a walk on the place and, of course, Jamie and Claire came along. <br />
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Pepper, who had gone off, eventually followed our tracks and caught up. . .<br />
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. . . when we reached the upper field.<br />
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We walked to the end of the property where I took Jay's photo with Big Rock above.<br />
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We saw a swarm of ladybugs on a pine trunk.<br />
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And toadstools.<br />
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Claire had to rest because she's a mite overweight.<br />
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Leaves color the creek this time of year.<br />
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And a single apple makes its own art.<br />
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About a week ago, the elk began their winter migration out of the valley. Where do they go, anyway?<br />
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We have a small grove of wild plum trees on the place, growing on the banks of our seasonal spring. The fruit is so sweet, we aren't the only ones desiring it.<br />
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Today when I tramped down to the spring to shake the plum tree, our cats Jamie and Claire came along.<br />
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They explored everything and Jamie climbed the plum tree.<br />
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The grass around the trees is tall, and plums easily hide. If I don't find them, the deer will later.<br />
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The cats explored until they needed a rest. But what's this in the trail?<br />
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Note the apple chips in the pile of bear scat. When Jay retrieved our trail camera, we saw this black bear under the plum trees. Autumn can be exciting up here in the Idaho hills.<br />
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<br />leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-86930476781956859772016-06-02T22:33:00.001-07:002016-10-27T14:13:49.139-07:00Marble Creek, Idaho: The Historic Site and the Novel<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">H</span>istoric Marble Creek<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> li<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">es </span></span>in Shoshone County, Idaho, about <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">48 </span>miles up the St. Joe River from St. Maries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before the Milwaukee Road RR was constructed through the St. Joe Valley in 1909, the only access to Marble Creek was up the St. Joe River. <span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the previous century Jesuit missionaries christened the river the Saint Joseph<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, but l</span>ess godly men came along to call it the St. Joe, or just the Joe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The highest navigable river in the United
States, steamboats came across Lake Coeur d'Alene to ply its gentle waters
upstream to Saint Maries and to Ferrell, as far as these steamboats could go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The river's large tributary, Marble Creek, converges with the St. Joe fifteen
miles above the head of navigation, where the swift water runs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> At the turn of the 20th century, </span>this creek, rapid and perilous in spring, spilled out of a mountainous drainage of eighty thousand coveted acres of virgin
white pine, about to be opened for homesteading under the Timber and Stone
Act.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Lumber companies, some freshly arrived from the upper Middle West,
such at Rutledge in Coeur d'Alene, a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser, and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">others</span> home-grown, began harvesting the forests there.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A</span> place of conflict and danger<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span> a timber war erupted in 1904.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>Forest Guard (early forest ranger) O. O. Lansdale wrote: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"There was no law south of Wallace, the county seat, and the
place was getting wild. . . . The killing in Marble Creek climaxed the last
stand of some of the large lumber mill companies to get control of the cream of
the white pine before the Forest Service cracked down on stone, timber and
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 7;">Marble Creek <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is</span> peaceful now<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> as</span> a recreation area. Hard to imagine the logging of the teens and twenties of the 20th century. But above it men died felling timber and died <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">dri<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ving logs down </span></span>in its rushing waters. Here's a not very good photo (taken behind glass at the Marble Creek museum) of one of <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">its</span> splash dams <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hol<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ding</span></span> back the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Marble</span> and logs until it got up a head of water.</span></span></div>
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When logging finally slowed on Marble Creek - it's never stopped - no one bothered to remove the steam donkey. You can see that, too, if you drive up the Forest Service access road. It's a beautiful place to visit.<br />
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<b>After surviving the Everett, Washington,
Massacre in November 1916, veteran Pinkerton detective Robert Jamieson
joins the Army's fledgling Military Intelligence Division. Instead of
being sent to France in 1917, he's assigned back to the Pacific
Northwest, ordered to go undercover to track down Irish radical Malachi
O'Neill, suspected in a scheme to transport guns from Irish-dominated
Butte, Montana, to Ireland. Find O'Neill, find the guns and forestall
unrest in Ireland that would weaken America's ally, Great Britain.
Locating O'Neill, he partners him in a remote logging camp on Marble
Creek in north Idaho. Likeable, but deadly, O'Neill has shifted his
loyalty from the disintegrating Industrial Workers of the World, the
"Wobblies," to an incipient Irish rebellion. A young prostitute helps
one man to the other man's detriment. And the woman who saved Jamieson's
life on a dark street in Seattle? Their paths are fated to cross again</b>.</div>
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Also, my novel <a href="https://www.amazon.com/DEVIL-SINGING-SMALL-Karen-Charbonneau-ebook/dp/B0046REJWI">A Devil Singing Small</a> with local color, is FREE, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/WOLFS-SUN-Intrigue-Century-Brittany-ebook/dp/B004D4Y5GE/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8">The Wolf's Sun</a> is only 99 cents this week.leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-2803583249614149042015-12-09T23:59:00.001-08:002015-12-10T00:59:59.458-08:00The Butte Irish and World War I<br />
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Butte, Montana, had the largest concentrated population of Irish west of New York City at the time my novel takes place. Hard rock miners. The Butte Irish were American patriots, many enlisting when the United States entered World War I in April, 1917, or willingly going into uniform when they were drafted. But some remained what Teddy Roosevelt termed "hyphenated Americans," with a strong loyalty to Ireland, struggling to free itself from Great Britain. The Butte Irish had protested the draft, not wanting their sons to fight on the side of Great Britain.<br />
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A few years before the war, under the guise of the Robert Emmett Literary Association, a faction of Butte Irish took advantage of the federal government's offer to give surplus Springfield rifles to hunting clubs. After acquiring their share, they formed Company A of the Irish Volunteers of America. Even Father Michael Hannan, originally from Limerick and pastor of the miners' church, St. Mary's, went out on maneuvers with them as they prepared for the day when they'd return to Ireland to fight for its independence.<br />
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So, when in the summer of 1917, the copper miners of Butte went out on strike for better working conditions and pay, the federal government imagined German and Wobbly influence, one in the same to government agents, stirring Butte's waters. Federal troops were sent in to patrol its streets.<br />
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In my unpublished manuscript, <i>Marble Creek</i>, in August, 1917, a week after Wobbly Frank Little is lynched in Butte, my character, Malachi O'Neill, arrives to offer his services to the Pearse-Connolly Club at Finlander Hall, where radical elements of Butte hang out. Its members have a plan to help Ireland, which they reveal to O'Neill.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> “Ireland can’t get
guns from Germany with the war on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
needs a new source.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We think we’ve found
it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He spoke of the Canadian Ross rifle,
how the mud in France jammed it so it wouldn't fire and a loose collar caused
the bayonets to fall out during charges across no man’s land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The Canadian soldiers had enough of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re using Enfields now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s a good rifle at long-range, very
accurate for snipers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New York Guard is negotiating with the
Canadian government now to buy surplus Rosses for training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A man in that guard told a Pearce-Connolly
member in New York, who sent word here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Catch my drift, O’Neill?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He replied, “Mind, I'll be up and gone
if ye tell me ye're plannin' to steal 'em from the New York Guard."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> "Ah, none of that. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;">There's no shipping guns to Ireland from the east coast with all the ports being
watched.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every boat is searched twice - the
Americans looking for German spies, the English hunting contraband shipped to
Ireland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Royal Navy boards ships
soon as they enter international waters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If Canada has surplus guns for the New York Guard, we're betting they’ll
have surplus for the Montana Guard to purchase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We’ve got friends in the guard here willing to make up purchase orders
for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll bring the guns across the
Canadian border, all legal like, but they won't be going to Helena and the
guard armory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll bring 'em here, then
transport 'em to the West Coast and contract a boat there.”</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgwMnftMiHmVTZSTVN2MSvmc6iHrbX6I4adTkTLWvsKshTaZtFIglWGiknB1xOVrj8G4AZos4iIgu63mLVCNpFKs0qXa1yPBSQQp2-9y5QhADj5K08yziAwy1t212QyxSTr4f-3gJHAYx/s1600/a+Ross+bayonet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="95" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgwMnftMiHmVTZSTVN2MSvmc6iHrbX6I4adTkTLWvsKshTaZtFIglWGiknB1xOVrj8G4AZos4iIgu63mLVCNpFKs0qXa1yPBSQQp2-9y5QhADj5K08yziAwy1t212QyxSTr4f-3gJHAYx/s400/a+Ross+bayonet.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I just had to have this old Ross bayonet I purchased on eBay. It plays a part in my novel.</td></tr>
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Plans are made. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> More beer was poured
and they toasted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“To the harp of
Ireland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May it never lack for a string
as long as there’s a gut in an Englishman.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It had a satisfying ring.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 200%;"></span><br />
And the song that remains with O'Neill through the rest of the story is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdA4NlJiikM">HERE</a></div>
leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-62269941009312547532015-12-07T21:24:00.000-08:002015-12-07T21:37:50.725-08:00Spruce Production Division & the 4 L <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 4L Button I bought on eBay</td></tr>
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In 1917 the United States Army took over the production of lumber, just as it would the operation of the railroads by December. Because of the draft, most lumberjacks were in the military, leaving foreigners and older men to man saw mills and logging camps. Not enough men. Soldiers with backgrounds in lumber were detailed to the Pacific Northwest to cut Sitka spruce for the manufacture of airplanes and ships.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Division soldiers on a Sitka spruce stump</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Brigadier General Brice P. Disque.jpg" data-file-height="589" data-file-width="367" height="353" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Brigadier_General_Brice_P._Disque.jpg/220px-Brigadier_General_Brice_P._Disque.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="220" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Colonel Bryce Disque</td></tr>
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The officer in charge was Colonel Bryce Disque of the U.S. Signal Corps, His office was in Portland, Oregon. The main barracks were in Vancouver, Washington.<br />
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Colonel Disque knew that strikes in the lumber industry would slow down the war effort and, on the advice of Carleton Parker, he ordered the eight-hour day for the lumber industry, higher pay, and better and cleaner conditions in camps. All of which were to go into effect on March 1, 1918. He also instituted a new union, the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen (see button above), which was to include both laborers and management.<br />
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He also was determined to wipe out the Wobbly influence in the woods and brought in newly trained Military Intelligence officers whom he sent out to logging camps as far away as north Idaho and western Montana where the white pine was being logged to snoop out radical elements and sign up the lumberjacks for the 4 L.<br />
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In my novel, <i>Marble Creek</i>, it's Colonel Disque who has Lt. Robert Jamison, a former Pinkerton detective, attached to the Spruce Division and then sends him undercover to locate Irish radical Malachi O'Neill, believed to be conspiring to transport guns from Butte to Ireland for a rebellion that would distract Great Britain from the war in Europe. While logging with O'Neill on Marble Creek, one of Disque's Military Intelligence officers shows up to sign up the men for the 4 L and deliver a message to Jamieson.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Jamieson looked down
the table at O’Neill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What would he
do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Irishman’s dark eyes had
narrowed, but his elbows remained on the oilcloth as he shoveled food into his
mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His eyes lifted to Jamieson's and
they shared a scowl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then O’Neill went
back to his meat and potatoes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I want you to know that your cook
and his crew have already signed up.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
turned toward the visible part of the kitchen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Step out here, men." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pork Grease Eddie strolled out
carrying a cleaver, followed by the bull cook, Polite John, the pastry cook and
the two flunkies. “Sign up boys,” Eddie called out. “I heard those who refused
over at the Rutledge camp were visited by some Idaho State Guard troops and
hauled off to St. Maries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t let the
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rubber-soled boots were rising and squeaking forward to exchange signed cards
for 4L buttons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When only a few were
left at the tables, he followed suit, curious to see what the piece of brass
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">When
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peering into his bearded face and murmuring, “Got a message for you.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jamieson took a button and lifted it toward
the hanging lantern overhead, tipping it as though trying to make out the
embossing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Captain Dengel up in Spokane
orders you to bring your man in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said
he’ll personally get the information out of him.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Jamieson
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what O’Neill would do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Goddamn, he
wasn’t going to speed up this case to please Dengel, much less allow him to
get his hands on O’Neill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One thing he'd
learned about being a detective is you have to find the rhythm of the case and
fall in with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just takes patience to do it right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Follow your hunch when you've got nothing
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And a fine lumberjack song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCnYsy7B40o">HERE</a><br />
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<br />leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-82791037504587910542015-12-05T23:04:00.001-08:002016-06-20T13:50:52.948-07:00The Milwaukee Road Railroad in My Novel, Marble Creek<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad was the last transcontinental rail line constructed in the United States, reaching the Pacific in 1909, and adding the word "Pacific" to its name. Everyone called it the Milwaukee Road. Electrification was added between Harlowton, Montana and Avery, Idaho, by 1915, because there was plenty of hydro power and copper in Montana but, also, because of forest fire danger in the mountains.<br />
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We all love trains, and the Milwaukee Road is a character in my novel, <i>Marble Creek</i>. Please nominate it on Kindle Scout until July 3 for a possible eBook contract. And please share this post. If it gets a contract, you get a free download of Marble Creek from Kindle. <a href="https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/1D4V6CAM4X7TA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/1D4V6CAM4X7TA</a><br />
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My character, Malachi O'Neill, clings to a ladder, riding in front of a boxcar from Butte, Montana, into Idaho.<br />
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a mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blessed be this electrified engine with no black smoke smotherin' me.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O'Neill dipped his head inside his raised
coat collar while groundwater showered from above.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The train thrummed under its trolley lines over
trestles and through tunnels, then into Idaho's St. Joe Valley.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Avery, the division point hugging the St.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> My favorite train song, "Way Out There" by the Sons of the Pioneers is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFM5x3J_dFo">HERE</a> </span><br />
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leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-64846015745607618482015-12-04T12:34:00.001-08:002016-06-21T14:54:05.068-07:00Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks - The Pacific Northwest Strike of 1917.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Image result for images lumber strike 1917" class="rg_i" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcREyic1030ADfMeb9fP5jHubFJH6GftkXBdh2wHAbA-qB9s9SRD" data-sz="f" name="O-Kx-X0y2W0vRM:" src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcREyic1030ADfMeb9fP5jHubFJH6GftkXBdh2wHAbA-qB9s9SRD" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" /></td></tr>
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In late spring 1917 the Industrial Workers of the World struck the logging and milling industries of the Pacific Northwest for the 8-hour day, better pay and better camp conditions. It couldn't have come at a worse time for the U.S. government, in need of cedar and white pine to build ships, airplanes, barracks and boxes for the war effort. By summer the strike had spread from Montana, across northern Idaho and into Washington State. In my novel, Marble Creek ( Please nominate it on Kindle Scout until July 3 for a possible eBook
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free download of Marble Creek from Kindle. <a href="https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/1D4V6CAM4X7TA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://kindlescout.amazon.com/p/1D4V6CAM4X7TA</a> ) my protagonist, Wobbly and Irish radical, Malachi O'Neill, recently released from the Everett jail as a result of the Everett Massacre, heads for the Idaho woods to order loggers belonging to the I.W.W. to walk out.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Logging camp in Deer Park, north of Spokane, Washington</td></tr>
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A few weeks later, O'Neill organizes a picket line at the MacLean Lumber Mill in St. Maries, Idaho, when Moses Alexander, Governor of Idaho, who has been making whistle stops at struck Idaho mills, arrives.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">. . . O’Neill stood back with fists in pockets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Son-of-a-bitch
rascal, thinking he’s squireen of us all.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Alexander spread the eagle’s wings and
unsheathed its talons, speaking of patriotism and their duty to assist in defeating
Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had his spiel down pat,
having made the circuit of struck sawmills on Idaho's numerous rivers and
lakes, knowing better than to trek into empty logging camps.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> He’d pushed a syndicalism law through the state
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the governor from below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The strikers
weren’t all Wobblies, just sympathetic to I.W.W. aims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The new treason law, though, frightened the
mill workers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unlike rough and tumble
lumberjacks, they were mostly family men . . . </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> shook<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"> </span>more hands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that was
that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He and his followers raise a cloud of fine dust on their way back to his train.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> . . . The men in front of the gate were talking
among themselves when Sheriff Buck Noland and his deputized thugs moved in to
arrest the Wobbly leaders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O’Neill
didn't struggle, but it didn’t save him from being punched in the face after he
was handcuffed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sheriff’s men held
guns on the strikers as O’Neill and two others were dragged to one side and
searched for weapons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they were
close-herded the few blocks to the jail, O’Neill called out to a Wobbly,
“Jimmy, ye best be gettin' us a lawyer.”</span>
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And the appropriate I.W.W. song "Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks" can be heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6OQVjKUBPg">HERE</a>leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-262073284867329062015-12-03T19:20:00.001-08:002015-12-03T19:34:02.410-08:00The Everett Massacre - Nov. 5, 1916<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="1" src="http://www.historylink.org/db_images/Everett_SS_Verona_1916-1917.jpg" height="214" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The S. S. Verona</td></tr>
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November 5, 2016 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Everett
Massacre. And yet, because it and its aftermath take up four chapters in
the novel I recently completed, it feels like yesterday. To quote
from the yet unpublished manuscript:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> "</span>On a Sunday in early November, the
passenger boat <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Verona </i>slipped its
bowline and chugged away from a Seattle pier, steaming north along Puget
Sound’s coastal route, cutting through choppy waters beneath a wind-swept
autumn sky, bound for Everett thirty miles away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Coal smoke funneled around Jamieson,
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another section of the crowded open deck.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Robert Jamieson, my protagonist, a Pinkerton detective, infiltrated the I.W.W. meetings in Seattle to observe what mischief, if any, the I.W.W. planned on this trip to Everett in support of the shingle workers' strike. <br />
A Wobbly tries to explain to his fellows on the boat a shingle mill worker's job.<br />
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breathe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can't see, neither.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ended with, “Ya don’t wonder they’re strikin’
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The youngster flexed his
fingers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“They lose fingers and hands,
don’t they.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll never catch me
workin’ there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll stick to pickin' apples
up here and oranges in California.”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="1" src="http://www.historylink.org/db_images/Shingle-weaver_amputations.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shingle Worker Who Lost Fingers </td></tr>
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When the Verona steamed up to the Everett docks, the Wobblies were singing "Hold the Fort."<br />
You can listen to it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iii4I3QyV5o">HERE</a> for an idea of how it might have sounded (without instruments).<br />
<br />
We meet today in freedom's cause <br />
And raise our voices high; <br />
We'll join our hands in union strong <br />
To battle or to die.<br />
<br />
<br />
Chorus: <br />
Hold the fort for we are coming. <br />
Union men, be strong! <br />
Side by side we battle onward; <br />
Victory will come.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Sheriff McRae
wrestled his gun belt around to reveal the holstered gun, stepped forward and
raised a beefy arm to halt the singing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Men behind him brandished their weapons, noonday light glinting off
steel barrels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly savvy, Wobblies
nearest the wharf broke off the song; singing dwindled behind them as at the
end of a child’s round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jamieson
caught only McRae’s last word, “leader.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>McRae jerked out his gun and leveled
it at the boat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You can’t land
here!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>While men jostled toward the
partially lowered gangplank, another Wobbly yelled </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">back, “The hell we
can’t!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
Sheriff McCrae had deputized and armed about 200 men, placed behind him on the docks and over to the side. A
barrage of gunfire opened from the docks. When it was over, five
Wobblies had been killed; others trying to escape fell overboard and drowned. Two
deputies were killed by their own comrades. When the Verona returned to Seattle, the Wobblies were arrested as they disembarked. 75 were charged with murder some days later. One, Thomas Tracy, was put on trial in Seattle the following spring and found not guilty in May. Charges were dropped against the rest, including my protagonist, Malachi O'Neill. You can read Wikipedia's account <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everett_massacre">HERE</a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Death Masks of the five known Wobbles killed.</td></tr>
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<br />leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-82119868565408887642015-11-12T08:50:00.001-08:002015-11-12T08:50:14.063-08:00Jay's Take on Northern Ireland: My Own Private Idaho: The Past is Never Dead<a href="http://wwwmyownprivateidaho.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-past-is-never-dead.html?spref=bl">My Own Private Idaho: The Past is Never Dead</a>: Yesterday, a former British soldier was arrested in Northern Ireland and charged with murder during the Bloody Sunday shooting of Catholic m...leaves on the Raney Treehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711219595014372212noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2680407070800437109.post-55241683308668314082015-11-03T23:38:00.000-08:002015-11-03T23:38:13.696-08:00Temple House, County Sligo, Ireland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Temple House, in County Sligo, Ireland, is operated as a guest house by Roderick Perceval, descendant of the family line of owners dating back to the 1660s. I wanted to explore such a house, and so we stayed here for two nights.<br />
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All its furnishing date back to the 1850s when it was enlarged. Our room originally belonged to two sisters; dressing tables, wash stands and other furnishings are duplicated. The mattresses are more recent and very comfortable.<br />
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On the grounds is a late 13th century Knights Templar castle. This Knights Templar castle lies the farthest west in Europe. The Knights Templar were dissolved by the pope in the early 1300s, their lands confiscated and given to the Knights Hospitaller. Politics!<br />
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I wish our stairs were as easy to mount as these are - wide and low. Ascending and descending pure pleasure and rather regal.<br />
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The house is filled with portraits of Anglo-Irish ancestors.<br />
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The house is a 19th century time capsule; stuffed animals and birds are everywhere. I was especially taken with this case of taxidermy frogs in the hall outside our bedroom.<br />
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But Temple House, grand as it is, still has a sense of humor.<br />
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Roderick is a fine hotelier, and chef, serving wonderful suppers and fine breakfasts at one large table. Despite being dressed in jeans and sweaters, you feel you're at a grand dinner party of old. He arranges the 12 guests as a proper host should, so that conversation is lively and friendly. I especially enjoyed his Irish porridge with apple syrup in the morning. Stay at Temple House for a taste of Anglo-Irish life. Roderick and his wife also raise curious sheep.<br />
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I wanted to go to Northern Ireland, especially to Derry, because an ancestor on Mom's side, James Raney, sailed from Derry for America about 1732. <br />
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I got my photo taken with Reg, who had just marched with a King William commemorative parade in the Protestant section of Derry. It must have been windy because I forgot to remove my ear protector.<br />
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Sidewalks in town are embossed with bronze depictions of sea life.<br />
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We descended to see the murals on the sides of houses depicting The Troubles. There were many. Here are two.<br />
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Below "You are entering Free Derry" someone has scrawled "Smash Fortress Europe. No one is illegal." The city wall is up the hill. Later, back in the town center, we had our photo taken by a friendly police woman with her partner and his sniffer dog.<br />
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I went to the nearby River Foyle that flows through Derry into Lough Foyle and eventually into the Atlantic Ocean, where I wished my ancestor a safe voyage to America. <br />
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Another cat has gone - and broken my heart. On the day before we left for Ireland we took Harry to the vet because he was having trouble breathing. An x-ray showed a mass was encroaching on his windpipe, displacing it. He was sixteen.</div>
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He was fifteen months old when we saw his photo in the Laramie Boomerang and the statement that he was available for adoption from the shelter. His previous owner called him Iggy. She was visiting him when we arrived. "He likes dried Friskies," she said, "and he loves having his tummy scratched." She was pregnant again, lived in a trailer, and her husband said she could only keep his mother cat. So, we took him home and rechristened him Harry. People thought he'd lost part of his tail, but his father had been a bobbed-tail cat.</div>
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Harry was a great mouser until he grew lame and deaf. He hadn't caught a mouse for over a year until he showed up with this one early in the summer. So proud of himself, he had to be photographed. </div>
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He was a lap sitter and when we'd watch TV, he'd cuddle into the crook of my arm and fall asleep. Jay would have to get my tea and make the popcorn because I'd say, "I have a cat on my lap."</div>
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He enjoyed sleeping on the porch in the sun.</div>
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Or being near the warmth of the fire.</div>
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Most of all, he wanted to sleep between us at night.</div>
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We buried him near a young maple tree a short distance from the house. Dear old cat, I wish you happy hunting in your spirit world.</div>
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