My Vintage Surf range of illustrations is inspired by my grandparents, and their families who grew up and lived in Perranporth in Cornwall.
The Tamblyn Family
At my mum’s house in Perranporth recently I trawled through family albums and boxes of wonderful old photos and picked out some of the best that reflected my grandparents’ time in Perranporth. My grandfather was called Arthur Roy Tamblyn, known as Roy, and he was one of five children born and growing up in Perranporth.
One of his three sisters, Winnie, married Tom Tremewan, a builder and undertaker in Perranporth who wrote a book on his memoirs, and in which he mentions how he came about making wooden boards in between the two wars:
“…Mr Mike Saunders who had been to South Africa where surf-riding was popular. He came into our workshop one morning in the early summer saying he wanted us to make a surf-board. This was the first that we had heard about surf-riding…” “he continued to relate his experiences so we proceeded to make a board according to his instructions. The first board, 6 feet long, 13 inches wide and 5/8 inches thick turned out to be unsatisfactory – too big and too heavy.”
“The surf-board trade increased tremendously. All the bathers enjoyed this new kind of bathing which involved running out through the waves as far as possible to catch a big wave as it was breaking into surf and riding on the board all the way in to the edge of the tide.”
Arthur Roy’s other sister Hilda was married to George Tamblyn (no relation just same surname..). George was also one of the surfing pioneers in Perranporth between the wars.
My grandparents Arthur Roy Tamblyn and Olive Augusta Westcott were the first people to get married in St Michael’s Church in Perranporth,and shortly after they got married they went to live in India where my grandfather worked as a mining engineer. When he came back to England he worked at the Camborne School of Mines as a lecturer.
It is these photos that I remember my granny Olive Augusta showing me as a child during the holidays that we spent with her in Perranporth.
My granny had two brothers, and her older brother Arthur made his own malibu board in the 1950s. Chatting to John Westcott, Arthur’s son, the story is that the board was so heavy that he needed a trolley to wheel it down to Perranporth beach, and glued sand on it to stop himself from falling off in the surf. His surfboard used to be in the museum in Perranporth, but I don’t think it is there anymore. He owned Westcott’s Electric shop which was opposite Piran Surf on the high street. I recall seeing him strolling down to the beach with a wooden board under his arm when he was well into his 70s. It must have been during a half term holiday which my brothers and I spent in Perranporth in the 1980s.
World Bellyboarding Championships and Paipo Glide
My brother Andy Bick first started making wooden Paipo surfboards in 2004, inspired by our family history. Andy first introduced me to the World Bellyboard Championships as his business Paipo Glide were regular sponsors. The WBBC were organised by the National Trust and took place at Chapel Porth beach in Cornwall. Visiting these championships it was evident that this was such a special, unspoilt and unique event, fired by the passion of wood and water, and each year I looked forward to visiting to support Andy on his stand. No wetsuits were allowed and included in the prize-giving ceremony were awards for the best outfits, which involve a lot of flowery hats, fifties swimsuits and all in one knitted stripey costumes for the men which sag upon contact with water.
Sadly the National Trust called time on the championships in 2016, and they held a Fallow Year, for which I was asked to design the poster. The last actual championships happened in 2015 and that was the year I shared a stand with Andy, selling my Vintage Surf illustrations alongside his beautiful wooden Paipo Glide boards.
My Vintage Surf illustrations are available as cards and prints on my Etsy shop, and Ula Clothing in St Ives also stock the designs as fine bone china mugs handscreen printed in Cornwall.
Text Copyright Alison Bick 2017.
Extract from Tom Tremewan’s memoire is Copyright to the Tremewan Family, and all credit has been appropriately given.


Jack the Ripper
Several people share the jack the ripper story for the scaring the children to bed, but even after the children grow out of the fear and eventually out of the age, they are not curious to know why they would be scared of the person that did not even exist. In London, Jack the Ripper Walk has gained quite an amount of fame which aims to take people on a tour of a city designed the tourists to experience the ancient time, before we could jump into Jack the Ripper Walk we would first get to know who exactly Jack the Ripper was.
Jack the Ripper as suggested by the name is the best known name given to an unidentified serial killer or killers that marked their presence in the Whitechapel district of London in the year 1988. The name originated in a letter that was written by someone claiming to be the murderer that was widely disseminated in the media. Although, the letter is widely believed to have been a hoax and may have been written by journalists for the purpose of their promotion. Jack the Ripper typically involved in female prostitutes who lived and worked in London and whose throats after the mutilation of their abdomens. The name received a further jump in terms of getting famous due to the fact that the letters, rumor or not, were found filled with the organs of human beings.
In the year 1888, there were a large amount of murder case that were filled and there were a large amount of casualties that took place during that year, especially, the murders of women and the people who end up believing that the Jack the Ripper diseased all these people, at least this is how it was advertised. The story was carried on further when it gained more and more fame in the diaries and eventually the articles that started circulating all over England by almost all the journalists. A sense of fear that circulated in the minds and hearts of people who lived in the district of Whitechapel.
Jack the Ripper Walk is an initiative that takes place in England for the purpose of remembering the fearful events that took place back in the 1888 and provides an environment as depicted by the character earlier in London.


Posted on Apr 29th, 2022
For the last several years, we’ve watched the rise of the food truck from delicious hot dog carts to taco wagons and to an all-out gourmet battle driven by the food-truck followers you see today. The variety of food trucks is never-ending as well – from ethnic to fusion cuisine, cupcakes and ice cream and everything in-between.
According to a source, more than 2.5 billion people eat street food from a food truck every day! (tweet this)
Have you ever wondered where the food truck phenomenon originated and how it became so popular? We decided to do some historical digging to find out. In this blog post, we’ll chronicle the rise of the American food truck. Grab your coffee and hang on; it’s a wild ride…
Humble Beginnings in Rhode Island
According to the NY Times, the entire food truck industry can be traced back to the year 1872 when Walter Scott, a vendor, parked his covered wagon in front of a local newspaper office in Providence, Rhode Island. Having pre-cut windows in the wagon, he sat on the inside box and sold sandwiches, pies and coffee to the newspaper’s hard-working pressman and journalists.
Word soon spread, and the night-time lunch wagon was born. In 1888, a young Massachusetts lunch-counter boy named Thomas H. Buckley built himself a lunch wagon, and he called it the Owl. This play on words was a reference to the nocturnal hours diners kept. Buckley oversaw its construction and went on to manufacturer a series of successful lunch wagon designs. His best-known model was the White House Café.
Within 10 years, Buckley’s wagons were in 275 towns across the United States. He roamed around looking for towns that could support one of his wagons. If no one was interested in purchasing one, he set himself up under the direction of a capable, handpicked manager. It’s been said he might have established the first nationwide chain. He is fondly referred to as the “Original Lunch Wagon King.”
Buckley’s wagons often had colored windows, mahogany woodwork, ornaments, sinks, refrigerators and cooking stoves. He also introduced fancy wagons with silver and brass embellishments, plate-glass mirrors and gorgeous mosaics.
After his early death at the age of 35 in 1903, the Worcester Lunch Car Company came into business. Their lunch wagon later morphed into the first non-moving dining car in the early 1900s turning into the diner as we now know it.
Original article: https://restaurantengine.com/rise-food-truck/
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One of the historic and salient moments in the rich and storied history of the Church of God and Saints of Christ was indelibly etched in time on August 22, 1906. After founding a successful tabernacle in 1901, our re-establisher, William S. Crowdy, purchased our current building on that same day, August 22, 1906. Located at 401 New York Avenue, NW, he knew this would be a place destined for greatness. In this city and in this very building, he found peace and soon thereafter, affectionately named this place “Jerusalem”. He preached and brought souls to God and we are honored and privileged today to be able to enjoy our services, fellowship, and aid suffering humanity in the same edifice.
Formally known as Fletcher Chapel, the edifice is now over 150 years old and is one of the oldest buildings in the nation’s capital. This building, renovated, restored and expanded, was re-dedicated on May 20, 2001 and it is the last remaining building owned by our religious organization that was purchased by the Prophet. Many historical events took place before his purchase of this building in 1906 and many historic events continued thereafter.
We count it as a blessing and an honor to have had every Leader walk the sacred pulpit of this “spiritual citadel”. We vow to preserve this edifice so that future generations may also share in the blessing. We thank God for the blessing, Prophet William S. Crowdy for the vision, and Rabbi Levi S. Plummer, GFA (Grand Father Abraham) for the command to research and unearth the historic value of this building. We thank our former leader Rabbi Jehu A. Crowdy, Jr. GFA for his prayers and support and our current leader Chief Rabbi Phillip E. McNeil for his vision, direction, and encouragement.
Local Pastors of First Tabernacle Washington, D.C.


The Fourth of July is a special day in the history of the United States — and not just because it's the day when the newborn United States declared its independence from Great Britain. The events that set American independence in motion occurred about 22 years earlier.
Interestingly, those events revolved around the same man — George Washington.
On July 4, 1754, young George Washington retreated from the Great Meadows where he’d been defeated by French forces. But let’s back up a few days...
Young Washington had been sent northward to deal with the French, who'd built a fort at the Forks of the Ohio (Pittsburgh). The British claimed that territory, and Virginia's burgesses wanted the French to clear out.
On the way to the fort in the month of May, Washington came across a small party of French, and, in part due to the manipulations of an Indian named Half King, Washington, only 22 years old, had his men open fire, killing and injuring some among the French. Among the wounded was a young French officer Joseph de Jumonville, who had papers with him from the French that proved he was an envoy, not part of a military party. But much to Washington's horror, Half King, angry at the French for a variety of reasons, smashed in the wounded French officer's skull with his tomahawk.
Half King’s violent action broke all the rules of European warfare, and because Washington was the acknowledged reader of the party, the blame fell on him. And the French were outraged.
They sent a war party of French and Indians after them, as Washington knew they would. He had retreated to a place called the Great Meadows, where he erected Fort Necessity, a hastily constructed palisade with some wooden walls and a few trenches.
On July 3, the French and their Indian allies engaged Washington and, thanks in part to rain and in part to a rather poorly chosen location for a fort (it occupied the low ground and was surrounded by hills and forest), Washington and his forces were soundly defeated. Negotiations ensued, with a Dutchman acting as interpreter for Washington, who did not speak French.
In the end, Washington was persuaded to sign a document which, unbeknownst to him, contained his confession that he had “assassinated” de Jumonville.
On July 4, Washington and the surviving Virginians were allowed to retreat from Fort Necessity.
The events of July 3-4, 1754, lead in a chain of events to those of July 4, 1776, because they marked the start of the French and Indian War. And the French and Indian War led to irreconcilable differences between the American colonists and Great Britain.
If Washington had not attacked that French party and de Jumonville had not been killed, world history would be very different.
It’s ironic because during the French and Indian War, Washington wanted so very much to receive a commission in the British Army. However, his hopes were confounded, and his attempts to earn advancement through the military were rebuffed. Eventually, he left the military and in January 1759 married Martha Custis, a widow, and turned to helping her raise her two sons and running his plantation at Mount Vernon.
Here’s what I’m getting at: Not only did Washington inadvertently launch the war that drove the French from North America and alienated the British from the colonists, he himself was alienated from the British — another great historical irony. If the British had made him an officer, chances are he would never have sided with the Founders. But, having had his military ambitions brushed aside by unfeeling British superiors, he attended meetings in Philadelphia wearing an officer’s uniform he designed himself. He had no commission; he simply showed up in military uniform. He was later chosen to lead American forces, which he did with much more distinction that he'd led Virginians in the wilderness 22 years earlier.
When the Declaration of Independence was read aloud on July 4, 1776, Washington commented that he couldn’t help but think of the defeat at the Great Meadows and all that had transpired in the aftermath of that bloody event.
Somehow, that always gives me goosebumps.
But there’s more...
Among Washington’s friends were Thomas Jefferson, a fellow Virginian, and John Adams, a jurist from Boston. Thomas and John were friends who worked together on the Declaration of Independence. They came to develop very different notions about what the Constitution meant. (In some respects, the arguments Americans have today are the same issues that Adams and Jefferson could not resolve between themselves. True fact.)
Despite their very heated differences — differences that sometimes drove them to extremes of emotion — Adams and Jefferson respected one another.
They both died on July 4, 1826. I find that rather amazing. Thomas Jefferson died a few hours before John, but John, not knowing this, uttered with his last breath, “At least Thomas Jefferson survives.”
Five years later, James Monroe, our fifth president, died. Yes, on July 4. Monroe was the last Founder to hold the presidency, a peer of Washington, Adams and Jefferson.
So why the history lesson?
I love history. History is nothing more or less than the lives of others remembered. The people who lived and shaped these events were every bit as real as we are. I love seeing through their eyes, breathing their air and sharing their world.
I admit to having a peculiar passion for the French and Indian War. The mix of cultures, the frontier, the toughness of the men, the strength of the women — it captures me like no other period in history. I feel it in my veins. Everything about it fires me up.
That’s why I set my MacKinnon’s Rangers series during the French and Indian War. Having researched it for Ride the Fire, I didn’t want to leave it behind.
Every year when we come to July 4, I think of Washington, defeated and muddy, trekking back to Virginia with his defeated troops, wagons carrying the injured and dying. I think of Washington listening as the Declaration of Independence is read aloud, remembering what had happened 22 years earlier and wondering how he was going to achieve victory with so few resources against the greatest army in the world. I think of his friends, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and their lifelong friendship and deep disagreement, lying on the death beds, taking their last breaths within hours of each other and thinking of each other.
And now the world is left to us, the nation they made, with its glories and its flaws, now in our hands.
Make something special of today. So many people spend it getting drunk, setting off fireworks and, in general, causing mayhem. (My neighbors have been setting off fireworks late each night for almost two weeks!) While we all have the freedom to do that, we also have the freedom to make something more of our lives and to offer our lives in service to greater ideals.
Happy Fourth of July — truly an extraordinary day in history.
Resources if you want more:
The War that Made America, DVD<-----------contains info about Mary Jemison (hint, hint)
John Adams, HBO miniseries, also on DVD
p.s. Just wait till we get to July 8! Another amazingly eerie day in U.S. history


Long before Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin; long before Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Orr and Gordie Howe; and not long, but definitely before even the great Lord Stanley himself, there was hockey.
Well, versions of it at least.
Before Hockey Was Hockey
Canada is now known as the world’s most dominant hockey country, but it took a unique combination of European culture, American Indian sports, and brutal northern winters to shape the sport we recognize today. The Irish sport of hurling, the Scottish sport shinty and English field hockey were all major influences on the development of hockey and were brought to North America—Canada in particular—by European immigrants in the early to mid 1800s. These sports were then affected by a game called tooadijik, played by the Mi’kmaq Indian tribe in Eastern Canada.
Soon, ice was integrated into play as a way to keep the competitions active during the freezing conditions of the winter months. And eventually, the name “hockey”—a derivative of the French term hoquet (shepherd’s stick)—was coined to identify the new sport.
Pucks replaced balls around the 1870s. During that same time, a group of students at Montreal’s McGill University developed a set of rules for the game that involved having nine players per side (later reduced to six players per side), and hockey began to take the shape of a sport that is comparable to the one played today.
Lord Stanley Begins His Reign
One of the earliest official leagues was the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada. The AHAC was organized to help determine a Canadian champion in 1886, but it wasn’t until 1893 that these champions were awarded an official trophy.
After a few years of championship play, the Governor General of Canada, Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley, purchased a bowl-shaped trophy—soon called the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup—so that the winning AHAC team could be properly recognized and rewarded. In 1893, the Montreal Hockey Club became the first team to win the Cup and went on to capture the trophy again in 1894. The award was later renamed the Stanley Cup.
The National Hockey League took possession of the Stanley Cup in 1917. It has since gone through numerous alterations in size and shape. To this day, the Stanley Cup is awarded to the champion of the NHL. It is one of the oldest continual sports trophies in the world and arguably the most significant prize in North American professional sports.
The Game Goes Pro
Although there were allegations of payment among amateur teams in Canada from the beginning of the AHAC, it wasn’t until the early years of the 20th century that the first official professional league emerged.
The International Professional Hockey League was founded in 1904 and included five teams with some of the best players from both Canada and the United States. It was then that the amateur leagues in Canada began to pay their players and teams, and by 1907, the IPHL had lost its angle. Amateurism was essentially over and hockey was in the professional era.
From 1906 through the 1920s, numerous professional hockey organizations were formed, but only one became a true success.
A League of its Own
The National Hockey League was born November 26, 1917. While hockey fans are familiar with the term “Original Six,” there were actually only five teams when the NHL was founded: The Montreal Canadiens, the Montreal Wanderers, the Ottawa Senators, the Quebec Bulldogs and the Toronto Arenas. The top team from the NHL each year competed for the Stanley Cup against a team from another league. The Toronto Arenas were the first NHL team to compete in what would be known as the Stanley Cup Finals. They won the Cup by defeating the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, 5-3.
The league expanded in 1924, when the Boston Bruins—the first U.S. based team in the NHL—and the Montreal Maroons were officially granted franchise status. By 1927, the league was up to ten teams, including franchises in five U.S. cities (Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Pittsburgh).
Like many of the professional hockey leagues of the early 1900s, the NHL initially struggled to stay in business. The league’s teams were still successful, however, and had sole possession of the Stanley Cup after 1926.
These days, the NHL is the most popular league in the world. While other professional leagues still exist in countries throughout Europe, the majority of the best players from those countries wind up playing in the NHL.
The Man Behind the Mask
The first goalie to wear a mask during a game was Clint Benedict of the Montreal Maroons in a game against the New York Indians in 1930. It covered only part of his face and did little to change the standard for other goalies, who still chose to go without protection on the ice.
Montreal legend Jacques Plante was the first NHL goalie to regularly wear a facemask during games. After his nose was broken from getting a puck to the face in 1959, Plante wore a mask for virtually every game the rest of that season. In doing so, he set a precedent for normal goalie protection.
A trend that began with the small, homemade, leather facial coverage during Plante’s generation has greatly evolved. Goalies now wear high-tech helmets with full facial coverage, and often have them personalized with paintings done by professional artists.
Benedict and Plante were also trend setters for players outside of the goal. While some forwards and defensemen chose to go helmetless into the 1990s, helmets are now a requirement for all players in the NHL.
The Original Six
The Great Depression and World War II took their toll on the NHL. By 1942, four of the ten teams that made up the league in 1927 had folded due to economic struggles. The remaining teams were the Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs. Of these franchises, only the Montreal Canadiens were original members of the league during its inaugural season. Nevertheless, because these six teams stood the test of time and were the only teams in the league from 1942 to 1967, they are known as the “Original Six.”
The Montreal Canadiens dominated the six-team era. With the likes of Plante and right winger Maurice “Rocket” Richard, they won ten Stanley Cups in the 25-season span, including five in a row from 1956 to 1960.
Richard was hockey’s first true superstar. He ruled the NHL in the 1940s and 50s and became the first player in league history to score 50 goals in one season (1944-45).
Detroit right winger Gordie Howe also dominated during the “Original Six” era. Known for an unmatched scoring ability and unrelenting toughness, Howe earned the name “Mr. Hockey,” and is still considered one of the greatest players in history. He helped the Red Wings win four Stanley Cups and had a professional playing career that spanned from 1945 to1980.
In 1967, the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the Montreal Canadiens, 4-2, in a best-of-seven series to become the last Stanley Cup champion of the “Original Six” era. League expansion had been a topic of discussion during the early parts of the 1960s and finally came to fruition June 5, 1967, when the league added six new franchises to instantly double in size. These expansion teams were the Los Angeles Kings, Minnesota North Stars, Oakland Seals, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and St. Louis Blues.
Teams like the Blues, Flyers and North Stars experienced immediate success. All three teams made the playoffs in their inaugural season, with the Blues eventually losing to Montreal in the Stanley Cup Finals. The Blues made the finals again the following two seasons, but lost to Montreal and Boston, respectively.
The Oakland Seals, however, struggled from the outset. They never had a winning season and, in turn, never developed a strong fan base. The team filed for bankruptcy in 1970, and after an unsuccessful move to Cleveland in 1976, left the NHL completely in 1978.
While the Seals couldn’t survive, the rest of the expansion teams continued to thrive. For that reason, the league added the Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks in 1970.
Later that season, the Boston Bruins won their second Stanley Cup in three years. The Bruins were led by Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito. Orr is widely considered to be the greatest defenseman of all time. In 1970 he became the first defenseman to win the Art Ross Trophy, which is given each year to the league’s top scorer. He finished that season with 33 goals and 87 assists.
Expansion continued throughout the ’70s, as the league added the Atlanta Flames and New York Islanders in 1971, and the Kansas City Scouts and Washington Capitals in 1974.
At the close of the 1974 season, the Philadelphia Flyers gave the NHL a shot of parity by becoming the first post-1967 expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. Led by gritty forward Bobby Clarke, the Flyers would go on to repeat as champions the next season.
Finally, in 1979 the league expanded to 21 teams with the additions of WHA franchises the Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers, Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets.
It’s a Miracle
Hockey also experienced growth outside of North America, with the establishment of successful amateur and professional leagues in countries like Czechoslovakia, Finland, Sweden and the Soviet Union.
The hockey team from the latter of those countries entered the 1980 Winter Olympic Games (Lake Placid, New York) as the four-time defending Olympic champion. The 1980 version of the Soviet Union team was considered to be one of the greatest ever assembled. Soviet players like goaltender Vladislav Tretiak held near mythical status, as they were rumored to be the best in their sport, but were rarely seen in action because of their roles in their country’s Red Army.
In one of the few times North American audiences did see them play, the Soviets won two of three games played against an NHL All-Star team in a 1979 series called the Challenge Cup. It was in the midst of the Cold War, and the United States and Soviet Union fought bitterly for any chance to prove supremacy over the other.
The U.S. Olympic team was far from a favorite in 1980. It was comprised of amateur and collegiate players with limited or no international experience. When the Soviets and Americans played an exhibition in New York City just prior to the Olympics, the Soviets dominated the game, 10-3, and the chance for American gold in Lake Placid seemed slim if not none.
However, United States coach Herb Brooks had a plan. He put his players through excruciating workouts to transform the team that floundered against the Soviets in the exhibition game into one ready for battle against any team on the ice. To everyone’s surprise, the Americans advanced out of pool play and into the medal round of the Olympics. Their next game, in the semifinals, was against the Soviets.
The game did not disappoint. Energized by the raucous home crowd, the Americans were tied, 3-3, with the Soviets with ten minutes left in the game. That was when Mike Eruzione made his move. The U.S. captain fired a shot through a screen and past Soviet goalie Vladimir Myshkin for what became the game-winning goal. Myshkin had replaced the legendary Tretiak at the start of the second period.
During ABC’s live feed of the game, broadcaster Al Michaels belted out the now legendary question as the final seconds ticked down: “Do you believe in miracles!?”
The game, one of the most important sporting events in United States history, was later dubbed the “Miracle on Ice.” The Americans went on to defeat Finland, 4-2, to capture their second Olympic ice hockey gold medal.
The Great One
In the 1980s, the NHL was dominated by two teams – the New York Islanders and the Edmonton Oilers. With the likes of Mike Bossy and Bobby Nystrom leading the charge, the Islanders won the first four Stanley Cups of the decade. The team had established somewhat of a dynasty and would have made it five Cups in a row had it not been for Wayne Gretzky and the Oilers.
In the 1984 Cup Finals, the Oilers defeated the Islanders, four games to one, to win their first of five Stanley Cups over a seven-year period. Gretzky was the leader of a team loaded with all-stars. Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Grant Fuhr and Finnish sensation Jari Kurri were remarkable players in their own right -- but it was Gretzky who stole the spotlight.
Gretzky’s star power was established from the get-go. In 1980, he became the first player in league history to register 100 points in a season before his 20th birthday. Then in 1982, he broke the single-season record for goals and became the first player to eclipse the 200-point mark in one season. By the end of his career, Gretzky, now known as “The Great One,” broke virtually every major offensive record.
After leading the Oilers to five Stanley Cups, he was traded to the Los Angeles Kings in 1988 in what is now considered the most famous and perhaps most important trade in NHL history. The move charged up the Kings franchise and turned movie stars in Hollywood into NHL enthusiasts. Gretzky led the Kings to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1993, only to lose to the Montreal Canadiens, 4-1. The impact had been made, though, and Gretzky’s mere presence in California opened the doors for NHL expansion into non-traditional hockey cities.
In 1996, Gretzky was traded to the St. Louis Blues for three players and two draft picks. He would last only the rest of that season in St. Louis. In the offseason he signed a free-agent deal with the New York Rangers, the team with which “The Great One” retired in 1999.
Gretzky holds the records for most goals, assists and points in a career—and most goals, assists and points in a season. He is considered to be the greatest hockey player of all time.
A Super Era
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ Mario Lemieux also dominated the modern era of the NHL. Nicknamed “Super Mario,” he led the Penguins to Stanley Cup championships in 1991 and 1992.
During the 1992-93 season, Lemieux was on pace to challenge Gretzky’s records of goals (92) and points (215) in a season, when it was announced that he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He returned to the Penguins 20 games later after radiation treatment. His point totals took an understandably drastic hit, but Lemieux’s courage during his treatment and recovery is and will always be highly respected in the hockey world.
In addition to the Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Lemieux also dealt with serious back problems. Due to various health issues, he missed the entire 1994-95 season. He then retired from the game in 1997, returned to the ice in 2000 and then retired again in 2006. Some hockey aficionados believe that if Lemieux hadn’t missed so many games due to his health issues his name would have been right there with Gretzky’s in the conversation about the greatest player of all time. Lemieux finished his career ranked eighth all time in goals (683), 10th all time in assists (1,018) and seventh all time in points (1,701).
The NHL’s Dark Days
As Gretzky moved out of his prime and Lemieux remained absent because of injury, the NHL entered dark days. In 1994, controversy arrived in the form of a lockout of the players by the league’s owners. This was due to the lack of a collective bargaining agreement, which is a written contract between the team owners and the NHL Players Association. The lockout lasted 104 days and shortened the season to only 48 games.
The NHL continued to shape-shift after the shortened 1994 season. The Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets were sold and became the Colorado Avalanche and Phoenix Coyotes, respectively. Putting teams in cities with warmer climates became a trend, and in turn, removed teams from the colder, more traditional hockey cities. By 2000, the league had expanded to 30 teams, but difficult times were ahead.
With no new Collective Bargaining Agreement between the players and teams’ owners in place in 2004, the league’s commissioner, Gary Bettman, announced that there would be another lockout and that the 2004-05 season would be put on hold until a CBA was in place. An agreement did not surface in time and ultimately there was no 2004-05 season.
While the league returned with a full season in 2005-06, the damage had been done. Rules were altered and added in attempt to draw more fans to the game, but interest in the NHL spiraled downhill.
Since the ’05-06 season, the league has revolved much of its marketing and advertising around its young stars. The likes of Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin have given the league a shot of energy. Crosby even did so much as to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Stanley Cup championship in the 2008-09 season. But even with all this damage control, hockey’s status as one of the four major sports in the United States remains in question.


A History Of Falkirk Caledonia Choir
1922 William Gellatly, a local music teacher, was asked by one of his female pupils if he would conduct a girls’ choir. This he agreed to, provided that she find the girls.
1924 William Gellatly asked the girls to bring along their boyfriends, brothers and fathers to form a mixed choir. The inaugural meeting was held on Friday 12th December 1924. The new choir was named Falkirk Select Choir.
1938 Mr. Gellatly conducted the choir until his death in this year, having guided the choir to success in various music festivals, and making radio broadcasts throughout the 1930s.
1940 James Fyfe, a member of the tenor section was appointed conductor, taking over from the interim conductor. After the end of the Second World War in 1945 the choir made regular visits to the BBC Studios in Glasgow to broadcast and record for the Overseas Service. Concerts were given throughout the country. In Falkirk, before the establishment of the Town Council Entertainments Office, the choir sponsored concerts by Symphony Orchestras as well as solo recitals, also bringing the famous Glasgow Orpheus Choir to the town on a few occasions.
1945 The name of the choir was changed to Falkirk Choral Society.
1949 The choir toured Denmark, also broadcasting on Danish National Radio.
1954 The choir was honoured by an invitation to participate in “Hail Caledonia”, a showcase and celebration of Scottish Music and Dance in the Assembly Hall as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. 8 performances were given between the 6th and 11th September.
The choir also took part annually, over several years, in a concert presented by the Edinburgh Libraries Committee in the Nelson Hall, Edinburgh as part of the “Fringe”. Also in 1954, the choir's name changed once again, being renamed the Caledonia Choir (Falkirk Choral Society).
1959 A series of performances on “Jig Time”, a long-running Scottish Television programme.
1964 A Festival of Scottish Choirs was held in the Kelvin Hall Arena in Glasgow on the 11th and 12th of September. Eleven choirs took part in the competition. The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Peter Meldrum, had donated “The City of Glasgow Trophy as 1st prize, which was duly won by The Caledonia Choir and presented to them by the famous Scottish operatic bass Ian Wallace, who also sang in two concerts given on the evening of Saturday 12th September.
1970 Conductor for 30 years, James Fyfe died and was succeeded by Robert Wardrope, a member of the bass section and choir soloist.
1973 The choir travelled south to participate in the prestigious Blackpool Music Festival, gaining 3rd place in the mixed choir section.
1976 A new conductor, George Stewart, was appointed.
1977 David Malloch was appointed Assistant Conductor.
1981 George Stewart resigned as conductor and David Malloch was appointed Conductor.
1985 Miss Catherine Preston retired as accompanist and Mhorag Barclay (Malloch) was appointed.
1989 Part of Songs of Praise congregation at St. Andrew's Parish Church.
1994 Choir logo was introduced.
1997 Rotary International Concert at SECC. FCC received a standing ovation and was awarded membership of the Rotary Clan.
2001 David Malloch's 20th year as conductor.
2008 New outfits purchased thanks to 'Awards for All'.
2011 The choir sang in Dunblane Cathedral at the annual Christmas concert.
2012 The Dalesment Choir from the Peak District joined with FCC in a concert in Bo'ness.
2014 Our 90th year anniversary.
2015 We welcomed back the principal trumpet player with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra - Mark O'Keeffe.
2016 Our Conductor - David Malloch - celebrated 35 years as conductor - to the day- at our Spring Concert on Wednesday 27th April
2020 - Aug 2022 Choir shut down due to Covid Restrictions - but kept in touch with a regular 'song of the week' to keep the community spirit alive.
2022 David and Mhorag Malloch both retired as conductor and accompanist after over 40 years of service.
2022 The choir re-assembled with smaller numbers and relocated to Larbert East Church Hall.
2022 Helen Robbie as Conductor and Fiona Hobson as an accompanist were appointed
2022 Steph Moyes as an accompanist was appointed following Fiona's untimely death.
2023 New choir logo introduced


September 14th, 2014
Not far from the royal town of Leamington Spa lies Deppers Bridge. It’s a small hamlet with just a handful residents and one very wonderful farmhouse.
The latter belongs to my aunty and uncle and I was delighted to be able to call by for a ‘coffee and a catch-up’ before continuing on my merry way on the long drive from London to Edinburgh.
September 13th, 2014
A drive through the English countryside is ‘a must’, and where better than the county of Surrey. Better still, don’t let your experience be from the wrong side of the car window, instead explore semi-rural England with full abandon by foot.
Elstead has it all: an historic village, cottages, a village green, an old parish church, cemeteries, a watermill, forge, woodlands, juicy blackberries and stinging nettles. It’s all there for the senses to appreciate.
Elstead is flanked by the River Wey. It was referenced back in the 11th century, then called Helestede. The Elstead Mill stands stately, was once occupied by Oliver Cromwell’s army in the English Civil war, subsequently rebuilt in1648 after a fire, and a corn mill until the late 1800s.
September 12th, 2014
With its cobbled streets and historical buildings oozing history, Godalming is a quiet town, a delight to explore. Tudor buildings mix with Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian splendor. Its dainty eclecticism is delightful.
The town dates back to a mention in the will of King Alfred the Great in 899!
In 1881 Godalming became famous for being the first town in UK to have installed a public supply of electricity, and the first in the world to boast electric street lights! This has been contested however – the Godalming museum has more details.
September 11th, 2014
What a pleasantly smooth, easy job this was! Pre-booking an Alamo rental car and pick up at Heathrow Airport, was trouble-free, seamless and super cost effective.
We had done our homework. For just NZ$43 a day, this car hire in the UK included insurance, named second driver, unlimited miles and collision waiver damage. To top that off, we drove away in a 2014 Vauxhall Astra diesel!
September 10th, 2014
All the ducks have lined up in a row. This Kiwi Girl is off on an adventure. Destination? United Kingdom.
It has been a hectic couple of weeks. Work to be done, house to be decorated, birthdays to be celebrated. Just as it always happens, once you’ve walked through the Departure Gates at Auckland International Airport, the rest of life’s chaos diminishes.


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In the 1970s, terry clothing became popular poolside and resort attire with the rich and famous. 50 years later, toweling shirts and shorts are still the epitome of a lush leisure look, but have found a much wider audience. The absorbent material has a natural softness and many believe the garments only get better when worn and washed. For beach bumming in style or a summer in the city – make Terry your trusted companion.
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Established to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, Muker Subscription Brass Band - its original title – made its first public appearance on jubilee day, 22 June 1897. At that time, virtually every village in Swaledale had its own little band of ‘ten and a drummer’: today, only Muker and Reeth Bands survive to keep the brass-band tradition - which began in the lead-mining days - alive in the dale.
For its first fifty years, Muker Band, like its neighbours, was a small, unambitious, all-male ensemble. Dressed in their Sunday best, the bandsmen - mainly young farmers - turned-out on half-a-dozen occasions in the year for processions, demonstrations, village shows, sports days, and other public celebrations. Largely self-taught, they played a simple and undemanding repertoire, and took no part in serious brass band contests.
‘Social’ rather than ‘competitive’ banding remains a defining characteristic of Muker Silver Band: but in other respects it has changed significantly in the past fifty years. Drawing its players from the whole of Swaledale (with a few from Wensleydale), it is now at full strength, and more than a third of the members are women. We play over twenty public concerts each year, and tackle music which our founding fathers could never have attempted. The Band has also become known and recognised far beyond the Yorkshire Dales. Since the 1980s, its audio recordings and videos have sold thousands of copies: and since 2001, we have undertaken four highly acclaimed overseas tours - to Holland, Dublin, the Rhineland and North Wales.
The Band has survived thanks largely to a long tradition of dedicated service and family loyalty. When some of our current members first joined as lads in the 1950s, two veterans from the 1897 band were still playing: and now, two of our own veterans have grandchildren playing alongside them.
More than a hundred years after it was founded, Muker Silver Band remains an open, village-based, democratic, and self-supporting organisation. Our business is to encourage music-making for pleasure in the community, and we welcome players of all ages and abilities as we seek to keep alive an important strand in Swaledale’s cultural heritage.
To learn more about our history, read Duncan Bythell’s Banding in the Dales, published by the Band in 1997 to mark our centenary.


Dallas “Mac” Campbell, Sr. was born in Dillon County, SC. At a young age his family moved to McDonald, NC and then settled in Carvers Creek, NC. He married Miss Bonnie Hall and had three children; one girl (Karen), and two boys (Mac, Jr. and Stuart).
In 1940, at the age of 25 Campbell was the 1st man in NC to be drafted for World War II. He left behind his wife and proudly went to serve his country.
Dallas's 1st gas station and grill was opened in the 1930's and it was called "Mac's Place". It was branded Gulf and located in downtown Elizabethtown, NC until 1939 when a fire burned it down.
While he was away, Mac, Jr. was born. He was six months old before he met his father (Mac, Jr with his father)
In 1968, Mac Jr. came to work for his father, and in the mid 1970's he was named President of Campbell Oil Company.
After he returned from World War II, he rebuilt his business. In 1976, the Gas Mart, Inc. was incorporated. The 1st two locations outside of Elizabethtown were located in Lumberton, NC and were branded Shell. Mac Sr. passed away August 7, 1981 at the young age of 65.
The Gas Mart, Inc. continued to grow from leased locations into multiple Minuteman Food Mart sites.
The 1st store as Minuteman Food Mart opened in 1981 Roseboro, NC. Mac Jr. developed the name "Minuteman Food Mart" while in a local hardware store. The colors came from a Lance crackers display and the name was derived from a statue of a soldier that sat on top of the cracker display. A Minuteman is a member of a group of men pledged to take up arms at a minute's notice during and immediately before the American Revolution. Mac believed this to be a fitting name considering his father and his town's history.
In 2012, Dallas MacQueen Campbell, Jr. announced his retirement as President of Campbell Oil Co. and all four boys assumed his position with Brian as the President. (left to right: Mac jr., McQueen III, Wesley, and Chris and Brian, the twins).
Mac and Sylvia Campbell with their entire family in 2012.


Very happy and excited to be able to offer original press copies of this brilliant and fascinating record that dates back to 1994.
Released on John Rubie's London based reggae label Virgo Stomach it's one of those records that feels important not only because of the quality of music it contains but also as a historical document that captures a specific musical and cultural moment when things were a bit of a cross roads, which are always the kind or records I personally find particularly interesting.
It feels like a classic London melting pot record that absorbs influences from several different sources - reggae, soul, hip hop and the early 90's dance scene. The result is a sound that sits somewhere in the realms of what Soul II Soul were producing (and in fact it feels like it would have been a perfect fit for their Funki Dreds label in that it is indeed both funky and dread) but I would say it has heavier reggae influences than a lot of their output. The super heavy bassline for example is pure dub and really puts it in a league of its own. Denise's beautifully soulful vocals also capture the resistance and defiance of roots reggae and these reggae and dub influences bring it closer to the Bristol sound that Smith & Mighty and Massive Attack were also pioneering at the time.
Brilliant record and great to be able to get hold of original unplayed stock copies of it that are now nearly 30 years old.
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As Omaha’s population grew in the mid 1800’s trolleys were built for travel north and south of the downtown area. Development of the city itself followed these lines, with city expansion to the west occurring at a much slower rate. During this time villages formed west, northwest and southwest of the city itself, one of them being Fairacres.
Developed with large lots on curvilinear, unpaved streets it had much appeal for Omaha’s wealthy population wanting peace and privacy. Large two and three story, architecturally-designed homes with wide setbacks in both front and back were the norm and showcased luxurious gardens and interiors with exquisite furnishings. Today these homes are still considered some of the most beautiful in the city.
Many villages on Omaha’s perimeter were annexed in the period between 1915-1917. However, the Fairacres community fought to remain a separate municipality until 1941. Eventually many streets were paved and traffic increased, slightly changing the ambience of the area. In the early 1950’s, lots on the northern section of the original plat became the site of more modern homes—particularly large one story ranch styles.
With its proximity to many churches, public and private schools , Elmwood and Memorial Parks, as well as the easy commute to most workplaces in the city, it continues to be a very popular place to live.
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I started working for Air Canada as a flight attendant in April, 2000. By the end of the year, I was making regular trips overseas to Asia and Europe. These are some photos that were taken on a few different trips during the fall of 2000. One memory I have that is not so fod is when I was mugged by a London prostitute and her pimp while I was walking back to my hotel after watching the London Theatre Company perform Les Miserables. This was the first of a string of muggings and scams that would occur in various countries over the following years.


International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 every year. It is a focal point in the movement for women’s rights. After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women’s Day on February 28, 1909, in New York, the 1910 International Socialist Woman’s Conference suggested a Women’s Day be held annually.
American superstar, Alicia Keys took to her social media platforms to celebrate women around the world with her inspirational quote.
One thing that could not be over looked was the picture of Ghanaian contemporary and Afroballet dancer, Araya Afrika sighted by Dawuroo.com on the timeline of Alicia Keys on the microblogging platform twitter to celebrate her on that special day.
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eeBoo’s Votes for Women Flash Cards celebrates 48 great people who contributed to the Suffrage Movement. These brave individuals fought to give women and people of color the right to vote. All men and women are created equal and deserve to be heard. Remember to vote and exercise the right these women and men fought so hard for.
For more than our first hundred years, our country's women were not heard;
Half the nation could not vote, our democratic dream deferred!
A brave, persistent, broad array of citizens who raised their voices
Earned at last the sacred right to help their country make its choices.


Recent years have witnessed a growing trend in archaeological investigations of towns in Finland. Construction works in towns have led to a demand to study known archaeological town layers under contemporary street levels. In this session, we ask how the excavated archaeological data has increased our knowledge of contemporary cities. Is this knowledge brought back to urban dwellers or made visible in the townscape? Have the citizens been engaged in the archaeological processes or in the displaying of the results?
We invite papers with case studies or theoretical approaches to the role of archaeology in contemporary cities. The topics can include but are not limited to:
- use of archaeological knowledge in city planning
- displaying archaeology in cities via e.g., info signs, art, play and events
- returning archaeological knowledge to citizens
- archaeological citizen science and participatory projects in cities
The present role and future perspectives of urban archaeology in Finland
Since the end of the 19th century, practitioners of archaeology and archaeologists have revealed an abundance of evidence from the past centuries increasing knowledge and understanding of various cities and towns in Finland. Although, urban archaeology is often equaled with excavations related to construction and development projects in urban settings, urban archaeology covers a wide range of topics, approaches and research related practices to urban life and environments in the past and present.
One of the aims of urban archaeology is to document and explain the multi-layered history and multifaceted structure of cities in a holistic way. This includes the development of towns and cities in the past as well as analyses of the cities today with different features and urban fabric. Hence, urban archaeology is not only restricted to studying the material remains and evidence found underground but also those still existing above the ground, including standing buildings, visible constructions, space layout, urban landscape as well as functions and population of the city. In this paper, I am discussing the definitions and conceptions of urban archaeology and the role of urban archaeology within the field of archaeology and urban research. Who defines the scope of urban archaeology and what could be done to change the prevailing conceptions if the change is needed and wanted? I am reflecting the ideas of more holistic approaches to urban environments where the past meets the present and forms the sustainable foundations for city planning and urban development in the future.
Large scale urban excavations in Turku – sharing the results with the public
Maija Helamaa, Tanja Ratilainen & Kari Uotila
This paper presents some recent large scale urban excavations conducted by archaeology company Muuritutkimus Oy and the interactions with the public. The excavation inside the Katedralskolan gym hall in 2017–2018 opened up a unique view to the ruins of the old town that burned down in the Great Fire of Turku in 1827. A pop-up museum was launched together with the Museum Centre of Turku to present the excavations for the public before the preserved remains were covered again. The accessibility to this “Pompei of Finland” was increased with various 3D-models shared on websites. The museum is currently monitoring the archaeological deposits and sharing the process on social media. In spring 2018, the largest excavations ever carried out in Finland started at the Turku Market Square due to the construction of an underground parking hall and renewal of the block. During the past five years, especially in 2018–2019, the excavation was attracting the citizens. The archaeologists were in the constant observance of bypassers when the remains of the 17th–18th Century town were revealed. Different methods of public archaeology were employed during the project, including an all-day open information centre funded by the City of Turku. The first book for the wide audience was published in 2021, and a second volume is in the making.
Urban paradise? The archaeology of inequality in a Nordic welfare state
Marika Hyttinen, Tuuli Matila & Oula Seitsonen
Finland is a modern Nordic welfare state and has a coherent national narrative about poverty and dispossession, or rather the inexistence of such social challenges. In this paper we examine a community that lived in Oulu, Finland during the post-war reconstruction period (1947-1987). The neighborhood called Vaakunakylä and the community that lived there were subject to eviction from their homes because the community was unfoundedly labelled criminal, restless and basically, unwanted. The archaeological record from the demolished site tells a very different story and affords the possibility of presencing inequality in Finland via the materiality of the vulnerable community that lived there. We work together with the former community to give them an outlet for their painful experiences, and work to reconcile past tensions between the city and the inhabitants.
Creating community – Citizen science at an urban excavation in Turku
Ilari Aalto & Janna Jokela
Urbanization is a global megatrend that continues to pose challenges for individuals fitting into a community. Community archaeology can be a way to address the social challenges connected with urbanization by strengthening the participants’ sense of being included in the story of their home city. In this paper, an ongoing urban community archaeology project in Turku is brought up as a case study. The Aboa Vetus Ars Nova Museum is situated in the middle of the old town of Turku. The archaeological section of the museum was constructed around medieval ruins in the 1990s, and archaeological activity has continued at the site ever since. For several years, the museum has organized archaeology courses and presented the excavations to the interested public. In 2018, the museum widened its’ community archaeology programme by including volunteers in both the excavations and in post-excavation activities. Over the years, this volunteer activity has been built up to the standards of citizen science. In 2020, the effects on wellbeing for both course participants and the volunteers were evaluated, and almost all participants felt that the experience had positively impacted their wellbeing. More importantly, the volunteers felt that partaking in the activity had deepened their relationship to Turku. The project had broadened the participants` idea of their home city to include not just the present but the past as well. Many community archaeology projects tend to rely on an existing community, while this case study shows that a community can also be successfully created through archaeological activity.


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Ancient history of Split
Split is one of the oldest cities in the area. While traditinally considered just over 1,700 years old, counting from the construction of Diocletian’s Palace in 305 CE, the city was in fact founded as the Greek colony of Aspálathos in the 4th century BC, about 2,400 years ago. It became a prominent settlement around 650 AD, when it succeeded the ancient capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia, Salona: as after the Sack of Salona by the Avars and Slavs, the fortified Palace of Diocletian was settled by the Roman refugees.
Split became a Byzantine city, to later gradually drift into the sphere of the Byzantine vassal, theRepublic of Venice, and the Croatian Kingdom, with the Byzantines retaining nominal suzerainty.
That is a brief summary of the origin of the city in a historical sense.
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Split is the second-largest city of Croatia and the largest city of the region of Dalmatia. It lies on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, centred on the Roman Palace of the Emperor Diocletian. Spread over a central peninsula and its surroundings, Split’s greater area includes the neighboring seaside towns as well. An intraregional transport hub and popular tourist destination, the city is a link to numerous Adriatic islands and the Apennine peninsula by boat transfers (catamarans and ferries). It has been listed in 1979. by UNESCO in their cultural heritage!
Visit this beautiful Mediterranean town in which you will see a unique blend of ancient architecture and modern lifestyle!
There is a lot of interesting things that you need to see here, cultural heritage besides the palace, museums, forest Marjan for those who love nature and beautiful beaches such as Bacvice, Bene, Kasuni and many more….
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- Diocletian’s Palace
- Cathedral of St Duje
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What exactly happened in Charlottesville? Several people invited me to go along. I was not optimistic. The Left-Wing media have had a field day, especially with the fact that Trump isn't (yet) participating in the show of condemnation for White Supremacists.... BUT WHY are White Supremacists playing into the hands of the liberals by dressing as Klansmen and Nazis and using slogans that evoke those eras?
The problem is one of choice of language and symbolic expression.... People rally around what they know, if they rally at all, and because of LEFTIST propaganda, all that most people know about the traditions of White Supremacy are the KKK and the Nazis---the left even chooses and frames our language and symbolic expression for us. That is the tragedy....
I would prefer to call myself a Traditional (Jacksonian) Southern Democrat, a Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican, or just an old-Fashioned Confederate (never a "Neo-Confederate"---sounds like "Neon") .... But as late as the Watergate hearings in the 1970s, it was still the SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS in Congress who were the forefront of White Resistance to Integration. Why don't White Resisters try to retake the Democratic Party, or at least the name and heritage of the Democratic Party?
But when I try to explain all this, nobody understands. The level of historical awareness is so low among young people that very few Whites even fully understand what happened in the 1940s and 50s. What was the first "modern" Civil Rights Act of 1948 about? [Answer, mostly about "lynching"---i.e. public non-institutional but public capital trials and execution of sentences of death "by the consent of the governed"].
So, how and why was lynching outlawed? How did lynching operate and why did lynching exist in the first place? [Answer: most rural communities and small towns did not have effective police forces up through the 1950s and even into the 60s, so the people were responsible for their own safety and security, and lawyers were very expensive for everybody]. Do most people know that President Harry Truman was absolutely AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1948 but was coerced into signing it? Harry Truman said that the use of institutional courts vs. popular justice was a "POLITICAL QUESTION" in which the Federal Government should not intervene.... modern evening dresses
What was the Southern Manifesto? For instance---(Answer: it was a document [drafted by Southern Democratic Senators, almost unanimously except for Al Gore's father from Tennessee and Lyndon B. Johnson from Texas] attacking Desegregation on Constitutional and Historical grounds].). Who was George Corley Wallace? Who was Strom Thurmond? Who was Orval Faubus? Who was Lester Maddox? Almost NOBODY knows the answer to most these questions.


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On July 2nd, 1776, the Continental Congress voted in favor of independence, and two days later, on July 4, 1776, delegates from the 13 colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence, a historic document drafted by Thomas Jefferson.
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Morocco is known by the imperial cities (Rabat, Meknes, Fes and Marrakech). The four cities that played crucial role for the establishment Of Morocco today. Each of these cities hold the status of a capital or royal city via the history of Morocco. The visitors of these magnificent cities will learn and admire the hidden treasures within their old Medinas in terms of fabulous palaces, Moorish architecture defensive walls and maze-like labyrinths.
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Jews have been existing under the Moroccan sky for over 2000 years. Their arrival to Morocco was during different eras starting from the Phoenicians and the Romans, to the repression and Prosecution in 1492 by the king Ferdinand and the Queen Elizabeth


Our Church Campus is comprised of Eight buildings and two sheds. The buildings are in constant use throughout the week.
THE SANCTUARY was built in 1886 and in 1974 this congregation moved the building from Candler to it's present location and added to it. In 1989, the building was renovated to include more people. The stain glass windows are contemporary statements of faith.
THE OFFICE was built in 1975 and originally served as Sunday School rooms. Today it is the church office and also houses the food pantry
THE CE BUILDING was built in 1980 to house a growing church and was used for Sunday School rooms. it was remodeled in 2001 and six rooms became two. One is a meeting room and the other is the music room. This building is used by a variety of community groups.
THE OLD FELLOWSHIP HALL was built in 1981 and is now where the Boys and Girls Club hold their after school program. It has a small stage and kitchen besides the large meeting area. We have hosted the Boys and Girls Club since 2008.
THE ANNEX was built in 1986 as a storage building which became the scout building which became SEED childcare which became the scout building and is now shared by the scouts and a Spanish speaking church.
THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY LIFE CENTER was built in 2000 and meets all current hurricane codes. It has 9 classrooms for SEED. It has a full commercial kitchen and a larger multi-purpose space that can be used for basketball, concerts on the stage, banquets, and a variety of other outreach ministries. This building is named for the Rev. Sherman Armstrong who was the first Pastor of the church from 1977- 1993.
THE GARAGE was built in 2002 and is our maintenance building.
THE MARY LOU LEE Building was built in 2010 as we realized that we need more meeting space on campus. The building has a large meeting room and also houses the Thrift Store. There is a small kitchenette and also a storage room used by the Ocala Soap Box Derby. A generous bequest from the estate of Mary Lou Lee enabled us to add this facility to our campus.


Early records of the band do not exist in any other than a fragmented form, but the earliest reports of Leyburn Band do go back to 1841. It was mentioned as playing on the Leyburn Shawl.
The Leyburn Shawl Tea Festival in 1841 was organised by the Wensleydale Temperance Society, and entertainment was provided by Leyburn and Masham Brass Bands.
The next record we know of is when they played at a concert given in Leyburn by a travelling musical company (Signor Jacobwitch and his family) on Saturday 11th March 1859.
Later in 1862, Leyburn was mentioned as being one of the bands in a Brass Band Competition organised by the Society of Oddfellows in Bedale. There were 14 Bands in the competition in two sections, a First Class and a Second Class. Of the four bands in the First Class, one was Leyburn.
There is no record of the result of the competition. There are other records in papers suggesting that for a time at least the band was quite competitive, but sadly only two results are known of Leyburn being placed in the winners’ list.
However, contests must have been taken seriously because there is a record of the band taking part in a contest the following year, in July 1863. The band entered a very prestigious competition at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, London. It was the ‘Great National Contest’ open to any Amateur, Yeomanry or Rifle Corps band. (The reference to military bands came about because so many amateur brass bands had enlisted in the volunteers.) The competition was organised in collaboration with railway companies which transported the bands and their supporters to London. The previous year the contest had seen an attendance of 12,000 spectators and an entry of 115 bands (Black Dyke won the first contest in 1860!) In the 1863 contest the entries were reduced to 12 after the preliminary trials of skill. Among those 12 were the Leyburn Band and Darlington Band which came fourth.
On 31st August 1863, the band came second in a contest at the Cheltenham Pleasure Grounds in Harrogate. The records show that Leyburn won £10 and also C. Joicey of Leyburn was awarded the first prize for Solo Cornet.
Two days later on 2nd September there is a record of Leyburn playing at a Gala (Ripon Flower and Horticultural Show) and Contest in Ripon. Perhaps they were worn out by Harrogate because they were not on the winner’s list!
The next mention we have is on the 8th August 1864 at a Band Contest in West Hartlepool. Thousands of people flocked to the town to see this event. Leyburn came fourth winning £2 (worth about £150 in 2009)
After this time Leyburn is mentioned in a few local Galas and the odd Contest held in various places over the next 10 years. Things must have gone a little flat.
No further mention is made of the band that we know of until 1889, when we learn from an old minute book that the band started playing again as Leyburn and District Band, with 18 members. Its president was The Lord Bolton. The band was such a flourishing concern that it held an Annual Ball in the Town Hall, as well as other dances. The last entry for that is in February 1897.
However, it is believed that the band continued off and on in the early 1900s under a variety of names ranging from the Town Band to the Leyburn Military Band and it was decided to name it after the latter title. In 1911 the band launched an appeal for funds for new uniforms – its bank balance stood at £8. It was felt that new uniforms were vital to keep up their appearance in context with their name as Leyburn Military Band, and to be absolutely necessary to their standing and appearance. Sadly the 1914-18 war curtailed the activities of the band.
The next entry in the minute book declares that “after a long lapse it was decided to restart the band”. This was in 1921.There were spasmodic entries – for example about Christmas Playing in 1931 and the final one reporting in April 1936 to let the band lapse because of a lack of players.
After the Second World War in 1953, for the occasion of the Coronation of Her Majesty, there are newspaper reports of people trying to resurrect the band for the celebrations. This came to nothing.
Then in 1989 Mrs Mary Sanderson was involved in a campaign to revive the band again. It was restarted and named the Leyburn Centenary Band to mark the 100 years since the band first restarted. Mary’s late husband’s family had been involved as bandsmen and even Bandmasters through the 100 years. It is even thought that her husband’s great uncle was the conductor when the band went to the Crystal Palace. She spearheaded a campaign to raise money from the community to buy new instruments. The band was restarted but unfortunately folded in 1994. Mary did not give up hope and in 2002 put a notice in the local paper to ask if anyone was interested in reforming the band. The following year (September 2003) at a public meeting the ‘new’ Leyburn Band was formed.
We had a dozen salvageable instruments, five pieces of music, 20 or so people interested in learning to play and terrific enthusiasm. Of those who signed up to play, 65% of them hadn’t played a brass instrument in their lives and could not read music.
Thanks to their unstinting commitment, a truly tremendous support from the local community and the earnest and hard endeavours of our bandmaster Emma Lundberg, we are where we are now. In the ten years we have been learning and playing we have replenished the instruments with top class second-hand or new replacements (including nearly a full percussion section), acquired a library of over 1500 pieces, bought a set of 43 entirely new uniform jackets for our members, as well as waterproof over jackets, new banners, stands etc. and of course helped in raising thousands of pounds for charity, local events and organisations.


Located in the heart of coastal Cape Elizabeth, Maine, one of the most beautiful towns in Maine. To give you a good idea of the location, watch the video below, which is taken from the roof of the mushroom to give you a 360-degree view of what is near and around The Mushroom. The video was taken in late fall so the leaves from the plentiful oak trees that surround The Mushroom are not in the way.
Additionally, you can see the location using Google Maps:
One of the greatest features of The Mushroom is its history. The Mushroom at Two Lights was built in 1910 as a coastal summer getaway. At this time, the most common mode of transportation was the horse and buggy and the occasional Ford Model T. As one of the earliest buildings around, The Mushroom enjoyed uninhibited water views from three sides, since trees had not grown up and there were very few neighbors. You can get a great idea of some of the history of The Mushroom at The Photos Page.
Since those early days, The Mushroom has continued to be a wonderful summer retreat for the descendants and extended family of the original builders. Summer weddings have taken place there, countless lobster feeds, and family and friends from far and near have enjoyed a week of rest and relaxation in the lovely Maine summer. Add your family to the history of The Mushroom today!
While we try very hard to preserve the character and historic charm of The Mushroom, we also do our best to make it as comfortable a place as we possibly can for our visitors.
Huge stone fireplace (wood and kindling included)
Kitchen includes refrigerator, microwave, toaster oven
Washer and Dryer
One and a half bathrooms
Two bedrooms (two twin-sized beds in each)
Large dining room table (seats up to 8)
Television (no cable), Wi-Fi, Wii, DVD Player
Two porches, one enclosed porch and one outdoor porch


Written by Rik van Dyk
Art by Rik van Dyk
Cover by Rik van Dyk
28 pages B&W
Published by: Little Runt Comix
As the 21s t century reared its ugly head, the corrupt government of Canada began to slowly take away the rights and privileges of its people. Deep within secret meetings at the house of commons, plans were drawn to methodically strip away the present government and replace it with a more "efficient", controlled political system.
Mock parliamentary meetings were televised to deceive and stall· the people until they passed the point of no return. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were brainwashed into thinking that there was a revolution rising and that they were Canada's only defence against total anarchy.
In truth, the R.C.M.P. became pawns of the government; a leather boot of authority that would stamp out any that would oppose the change. Some had seen it coming, but most did not. To keep the united nations out of the way, various payoffs were made out to other governments including the money hungry united states.
Quebec, being the most immediate threat to the new regime, was separated from the rest of Canada by a mile-high wall. The province was converted into a concentration facility where 'revolutionaries" were stripped of their assets and their dignity. This, they thought, would discourage uprisings.
They were wrong. The spirit of the Canadian people could not be crushed so easily. Even as the new Canadian flag rose across the nation devoid of the maple leaf, the people held valiantly onto the belief that one day, someone would come to shine a guiding light of hope that would lead the way to freedom.
- First Print: 1995
- Second Print: 1996
- Third Print: San Diego Comic Con 200 copies August 1997


Scientists have divided this timeline into huge “chunks”, or intervals, of time. The largest "chunk" of time is known as the Supereon. Supereons are broken down into smaller units of time called Eons. Eons are further divided into Eras, and Eras are divided into periods. The “chunks” are all divided by huge events that end one and begin another.
Since the Earth is so old, scientists describe most events in terms of “Million Years Ago” (MYA).
1. Cenozoic Era (65 MYA to present)
2. Mesozoic Era (250-65 MYA)
3. Paleozoic Era (544-250 MYA)
4. Precambrian Eon (4600-544 MYA)
The Precambrian Supereon makes up the first 4 billion years of our planet’s history, which is almost 90% of the earth’s entire history! The Precambrian Supereon began with the birth of the earth, and ended with an event called the “Cambrian Explosion”. During the Precambrian Supereon, the atmosphere and oceans formed, and marine life originated. We know this from fossils that date over 60 million years old. Some fossils include worms, jellyfish, corals, and other primitive invertebrates.
The end of the Paleozoic era brought on the beginning of the Mesozoic era, which was the era of dinosaurs and the first mammals! During this time, the super-continent “Pangea” also began to break up. The Mesozoic Era ended when a meteor hit the earth 65 MYA, killing many life forms, as well as making dinosaurs extinct.
This event marked the beginning of the Cenozoic Era, which is the age of mammals, birds, bony fish and flowering plants. The Cenozoic Era began 65 million years ago and has not ended yet. During this era, a number of mountain ranges were formed. Some of these were the Alps, Andes, and Himalayas. Along with mountain ranges, some volcanoes were formed. The animals and plants that we are familiar with today came in to existence during this period, including human beings.
We humans are very new to planet earth. The first human ancestor was on earth only 2 MYA, and the first modern human was on earth only 0.4 MYA!
See the questions on the Google Classroom stream/wall.


Festival ornaments and Christmas decorations are integral elements of holiday traditions worldwide. These exquisite embellishments play a significant role in creating festive atmospheres, evoking nostalgia, and spreading joy. In this article, we delve into the art and craftsmanship behind festival ornaments and Christmas decorations, exploring their history, design considerations, and cultural significance.
Festival ornaments, including Christmas decorations, have a rich historical lineage. The tradition of adorning homes and public spaces during festivals dates back centuries. Evergreens, such as holly and mistletoe, were among the earliest symbols of the holiday season. Over time, these traditions evolved to include more elaborate ornaments and decorations.
Creating festival ornaments and Christmas decorations is an intricate art form that blends aesthetics, cultural symbolism, and craftsmanship:
1. Materials: These ornaments are crafted from various materials, including glass, wood, metal, and fabric. Each material offers unique properties that influence the ornament's appearance and durability.
2. Aesthetics: Design aesthetics encompass shapes, colors, and patterns. Ornaments can range from traditional red and green to modern, minimalist designs, reflecting evolving tastes and trends.
3. Handcrafted vs. Mass-Produced: Many festival ornaments are still meticulously handcrafted by artisans, showcasing their skills and attention to detail. Mass-produced decorations offer affordability and accessibility.
4. Cultural Significance: Different cultures have distinct holiday ornament traditions. For instance, German glass-blown ornaments and Scandinavian wooden decorations each carry their own cultural significance.
5. Symbolism: Many ornaments hold symbolic meanings. For example, the Christmas tree represents life and renewal, while the candy cane symbolizes the shepherd's crook and the Nativity story.
Festival ornaments and Christmas decorations have deep cultural significance in diverse regions:
1. Europe: In Europe, particularly Germany, the tradition of decorating Christmas trees with hand-blown glass ornaments dates back to the 17th century. These ornaments symbolize the beauty of creation and the light of Christ.
2. Scandinavia: Scandinavian countries are known for their wooden ornaments, often featuring intricate designs like hearts, stars, and animals. These ornaments celebrate nature and the winter solstice.
3. Asia: In countries like Japan, Christmas ornaments blend traditional designs with Western influences, resulting in unique and elegant decorations that signify joy and celebration.
4. North America: Christmas decorations in North America include a wide range of styles, from traditional to contemporary. Ornaments often symbolize family, unity, and the spirit of giving.
Craftsmanship and Artistry:
The creation of festival ornaments and Christmas decorations demands skilled craftsmanship and artistry. Artisans painstakingly shape, paint, and embellish each piece, whether it's a delicate glass bauble or a hand-carved wooden figure. These craftspeople infuse their creations with creativity and dedication, ensuring that every ornament is a work of art.
Festival ornaments and Christmas decorations are much more than mere adornments; they are expressions of culture, tradition, and artistry. These decorative elements continue to evolve with changing tastes and preferences, yet they remain essential in capturing the spirit of the holiday season. Whether handcrafted or mass-produced, these ornaments play a vital role in bringing joy and festive cheer to homes and communities around the world. As we celebrate the holidays, let us appreciate the craftsmanship and cultural significance behind these cherished festival ornaments and Christmas decorations.


TerrAscend has officially launched its Legend cannabis brand into the Pennsylvania medical marijuana market. The brand will initially offer patients 7g and 14g flower options. This is in addition to TerrAscend’s current flower options in PA, Kind Tree, Cookies, and Gage.
TerrAscend describes the brand through their website as “ Legend aims to preserve the simplicity of cannabis and all that it has to offer. Cannabis has been part of human culture since the beginning of time. Many generations have fought hard to keep this unrivaled tradition alive, weaving cannabis into our modern society while preserving its history. As one of the oldest known agricultural plants, native strains were selectively bred around the world, diversifying the cannabis variety we know today and elevating the legendary strains that got us here.”


Fishers is proud to honor and remember the brave men and women who have courageously served in the armed forces at these special annual events in the Nickel Plate District. These events are free and open to the public.
The City of Fishers is proud to host several events to honor local service members throughout the year. The City is building its contact list of local veterans to ensure communication about these events. Veterans are encouraged to complete this form to be added to the contact list.
Korean War Armistice Day
The City of Fishers has proclaimed July 27 as Korean War Armistice Day. See the proclamation.
Memorial Day Ceremony
Join the City of Fishers as we honor the service men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifices for our freedom. Residents are invited to a Memorial Day ceremony on Monday, May 27 from 10 - 11 a.m. at Liberty Plaza on the Central Green in front of City Hall as we honor fallen service members in our community and nation-wide. This ceremony is free and open to the public.
Purchase an Engraved Brick Paver
Honor a hero! Purchase an Engraved Brick Paver (PDF), which will become a permanent addition to the Liberty Plaza walkway.
National Vietnam War Veterans Day
Join the City of Fishers - a Commemorative Partner of the Vietnam War Commemoration - in celebrating National Vietnam War Veterans Day on Friday, March 29. Help us to recognize the veterans and their families who served during the Vietnam War period with a free ceremony
Watch the video of our 2019 celebration.
Veteran's Day Ceremony
Join the City of Fishers at the annual Veteran’s Day Ceremony honoring local veterans who have courageously served in the armed forces. The free ceremony is open to the public.
Hometown Help for Heroes
The Hometown Help for Heroes initiative marshals the community's public and private resources to alleviate some of the practical burdens that families of a deployed head of household will face.
Fishers Department of Public Works (DPW) manages the program, which offers families with deployed head of households services including driveway and sidewalk snow removal and lawn mowing and trimming services during the summer months.
All families that meet the program requirements are encouraged to submit an application.


Dec 10, 2010
REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS SUMMARY OF REPORT INTRODUCTION
The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation.
The worst came during a two-week period in July, first in Newark and then in Detroit. Each set off a chain reaction in neighboring communities.
On July 28, 1967, the President of...


The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution.
As we are witnessing an alarming rise of antisemitism around the globe, it is more important than ever for us to recognize the critical lessons of Holocaust history as we commemorate the victims and honor the survivors.
At the Museum and other commemoration sites, we remember Holocaust victims by reading their names, by lighting candles, and by learning about the Holocaust.
All of us can mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day by sharing the truth of the Holocaust and by confronting antisemitism and hate in our daily lives.
Watch a special episode of the Museum’s award-winning Stay Connected Live virtual series featuring special guest Tova Friedman, who will talk about surviving Auschwitz and the dangerous surge in antisemitism today.
Almost 3.5 million Jews lived in Poland before World War II. Now, eight decades after the Holocaust, about 20,000 people there have Jewish roots.
For ten years now, an empty streetcar has rolled silently through the streets of Warsaw on January 27. Instead of a route number, it has a large Star of David on the roof. Its route takes it through the part of the city that Poland's Nazi occupiers turned into Europe's largest Jewish ghetto in 1940.
The journey of this empty streetcar is a reminder of the Warsaw Jews murdered during the Second World War.


Not long ago I wrote a post that included a few paragraphs about the Armenian Genocide of 1914-15 in which about 1.5 million Armenian Christians were slaughtered, along with 1 million Greek and 300K Syriac Christians, by Turkish and Ottoman Kurdish forces. By 1923, most of the survivors had been displaced, running for their lives, or in deportation pogroms.
It was a true genocide, perpetrated by Muslim Turks seeking to eliminate the Armenian and other Christian/ethnic groups in the region.
Turkish Ottoman Interior Minister Mehmet Talat Pasha is on record ordering, “Their [Armenians] existence must come to an end, however tragic the means may be; and no regard must be paid to either age or sex, or to conscientious scruples.” Turkey’s government still refuses to recognize the holocaust perpetrated by its own early 20th century governments, initiating the bloodiest century in world history and has banned…
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March is generally the windiest month of the year but whatever the weather is doing, I hope you’ll still be “blown away” by the legacy Colonel North has left us!
Avery Hill Park is blessed with provision for many sports; our shortest lived being American Football which graced Greys (the Rugby) field at the end of the “naughties”.
Financed by Boris’ “Help a London Park” funding, the Boules pitch next to the children’s play area, now seems to be redundant but the MUGA gets its fair share of patronage. The Olympic Legacy gave Avery Hill and many other parks in Greenwich, outdoor fitness equipment. Have you spotted anyone using this free opportunity to keep fit?
In the 1890’s Colonel North realised the full potential for sport at Avery Hill. A good sprinter in his youth, North regularly challenged the Tower Hamlets Volunteers; on their annual camp at Avery Hill, to a 60 yard dash. He gave everyone a 5 yard start but would always win! (John Bennion Booth -1957) Booth also quotes that North was a keen football player; I’m not sure which team he supported but Colonel North, ever generous, sent a bank-note to a West Bromwich Albion player injured in the cup final played against Crystal Palace in 1896.
W.G. Grace benefited from North’s interest in Cricket. Having received a generous contribution to his testimonial; Grace dedicated his book “The History of a Hundred Centuries” 1895 “To Colonel John Thomas North, a thorough all-round sportsman, and the first subscriber to my national testimonial fund, I dedicate this book”. Quote from William Edmundson, “The Nitrate King”.
Colonel North also played golf, and together with his son Harry joined the Eltham Club, now known as the Royal Blackheath Golf Club, in 1892. He presented the club with The North Scratch Medal and a prize of £10. The original scratch medal was replaced with a gold Jubilee Medal of Queen Victoria, by North’s son. Go see it in the golf club museum!
Whatever the weather throws at us this month; find time to go and enjoy our park and perhaps stop for a welcome “cuppa” in the café.


What We Believe
Lyons Evangelical Church is a historic Reformed Congregational church, whose Constitution outlines the structure of our common life of faith together.
The Apostle's and Nicene Creeds as well as the Evangelical Catechism (Eden Publishing House 1961) express our church's fundamental beliefs about the Bible's teaching of the Triune God of grace and a life of obedience.
In addition, our church abides by the core beliefs, values and faith of the Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches (evangelicalassociation.org).
As German immigrant farmers moved westward from Washington County in the mid-19th century, three German Reformed Congregational churches were established in Burleson County by the 1880s – Immanuel Lyons Church, St. Stephen’s Mound Prairie and Salem Birch Church. For many years, these churches collaborated in various ways, such as sharing a pastor, combining their confirmation groups, etc.
In the 1920s each of the churches joined the Evangelical & Reformed denomination, which was headquartered at that time in St. Louis, Missouri.
In 1961, after several years of discussion and much sacrifice among the members, the three churches united. Pooling their resources and even different parts of their previous church buildings, they constructed a new church building in the agreed central location where the Immanuel Church of Lyons, Texas was located. This united Congregation joined the United Churches of Christ denomination at that time, along with most other Evangelical & Reformed churches.
In 2007, a new church building was deemed necessary. Plans were drawn, and a common mind was evident in the congregation. By 2009, the new church was under construction and was completed after 8 months of work. The previous church building was donated to a rural congregation and stands to this day.
In 2020, after several years of discussion, the church changed its affiliation (from United Church of Christ to Evangelical Association of Reformed Congregational Churches, EARCC). The EARCC is a revival of the old Evangelical & Reformed church affiliation, and through the EARCC, LEC remains connected to her historic faith and in partnership with likeminded churches. As a result of this new affiliation, the church changed its name to Lyons Evangelical Church in 2020.
Our rural community is experiencing population growth, as the highways in and out of our town are expanding to accommodate a new generation of young families who wish to enjoy a more traditional country life than the big city environment affords. Situated just 20 minutes south of College Station, which is home to Texas A&M University (the largest public university in the USA), the future has never looked brighter for LEC – Weekly we minister God’s Word, seek the health of our community, care for one another and worship the Lord in spirit and in truth – all of which we continue!


25 June 2010
Interview with City Sharps
I previously posted about an upcoming exhibition about the Melbourne Sharpie movement from the 70s called 'Skins 'n' Sharps.'
Phil MacDougall of 'Sunglasses After Dark' (PBS FM) interviewed three of the four members of the band 'City Sharps,' one of who is organising the exhibition. It was a very interesting and informative interview discussing the Sharpie movement, which I'd like to share with you.


BASEMENT BREWERS OF TEXAS
Rapidly Rotating Small Batches
Come see what’s on tap!
Built in 1947 and operated as a wholesale produce company, the brewery building just turned 70 years old. There is a large basement the original produce company utilized, containing five cold rooms with foot-thick insulated doors and portholes that can be opened and closed to allow cold air to circulate selectively. At the time, the back canopy and unloading dock extended out nearly twice as far, and trucks would back up to the rear of the building to unload crates of produce. These were then conveyored down to the basement on the Floor-Veyor, which is still in its original working condition.
The produce company likely closed in the 1970’s or 80’s, and the property passed through a number of hands and uses. The building was purchased by the current owners in 2006 and has been brought back to a similar albeit even better use and is ideal for brewing, storing, barrel-aging, and serving beer!


The Vitruvian Man is a drawing made by the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci in about 1490. It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the Roman architect Vitruvius.
The great Renasissance master, Leonardo, saught to create a geometrical ideal for the human body with his “Vitruvian Man,” originally known as Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio.
Our modern understanding of this “ideal” might be best described geometrically as a balance between tension and integrity. Hence the term, tensegrity.