#Altoona Reads

[1863-project]

If you were making that list, what would you consider the seven wonders of the railroad world?

Hm, putting me on the spot here!

I mentioned Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, PA for a reason.

Horseshoe Curve was completed in 1854. The purpose of it was to reduce the grade trains had to climb up through the mountains and avoid the much more time-consuming route of the Allegheny Portage Railroad. Today, there's a visitor center in the middle of the Curve, and railfans go there to watch trains go by and picnic outside.

As mentioned in the previous post, Tehachapi Loop is also impressive and I'd give it a spot - it legitimately looks like something out of someone's model train layout.

From above this doesn't even look real. But it's real!

I've seen some people put the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in West Bengal on their lists, and I'd agree with them. It's a UNESCO World Heritage Site for a reason. It's narrow gauge, climbs up through the mountains, and is popular with tourists - and although it has some diesels it also still uses steam. Look at how cute this locomotive is.

Another UNESCO World Heritage Site for consideration is the Forth Bridge, in Scotland:

It's a cantilever railway bridge and was the longest cantilever bridge span in the world at the time of its opening, a title it held between 1890 and 1919. It's still the second longest today. In 2016 Scotland voted it as their greatest man-made wonder, an impressive feat in a country stereotyped as being chock full of civil and mechanical engineers.

For reaching incredible heights in the 19th century, look no further than the Ferrovías Central in Peru.

Designed by a Polish political exile named Ernest Malinowski, it was built in the 1870s and still operates today. What was known as the Callao, Lima & Oroya Railway at the time of its opening is still the second highest railroad in the world today, only being surpassed by the Qinghai-Tibet Railway over 100 years later.

It would be silly not to include the Trans-Siberian Railroad on this list - in terms of sheer scope, this thing is massive.

It's the longest railway line in the world. Nothing else even comes remotely close. Trips along it can take weeks depending on the speed the trains are running.

Lastly, for a more modern entry, I'd propose the Channel Tunnel linking England and France - at its lowest point, it's 246 feet below sea level. In terms of a modern feat of engineering, this one is definitely up there. It was completed the year I turned five, and it was a big deal even over here in the US.

Of course, the fun of this is coming up with your own! And I had to think pretty hard about this because I was trying to do it without using any locomotives, which would have been a cop-out!

Here are a few links to people having this debate online, in case you want to read more - 1, 2, 3, 4

[20th-century-railroading]

Conrail GP30 2174, a former Reading unit, and SD40 6357, still showing signs of its first owner--the Pennsylvania Railroad--at the Juniata Shops assortment of units awaiting repairs, Altoona, Pennsylvania, circa 1980.

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Muncie Makeover por Russell Sullivan Por Flickr: Nearly 11 years after rolling out of the Muncie, IN plant in Reading paint, NS SD70ACe 1067 has once again emerged with a new coat of paint thanks to shop personnel at Juniata Locomotive Works in Altoona, PA. The 1067 is pictured leading train 22X on the Passaic & Harsimus Branch in Newark, NJ bound for Croxton Yard in Jersey City, NJ with a short train.

[pennstateuniversitypress]

Unlocked Book of the Month: Pennsylvania Railroad

Each month we’re highlighting a book available through PSU Press Unlocked, an open access initiative featuring scholarly digital books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.

About our September pick:

In Pennsylvania Railroad, William Sipes provides a detailed history of the railroad, its construction, its management, and its various lines and their stations, starting with the first experimental track laid down in 1809 in Delaware County and continuing with the railroad’s westward expansion across the state. Sipes discusses the attractions and history of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s destinations, including landmarks in Philadelphia, Lancaster, Altoona, Pittsburgh, New York, and New Jersey. Published in 1875, this book explores the world of transportation in the nineteenth century and takes its readers on an informative journey through the state of Pennsylvania, following the trajectory of its railroad’s development.

Read more & access the book here: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-06541-0.html

See the full list of Unlocked titles here: https://www.psupress.org/unlocked/unlocked_gallery.html

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CURTAIN UP!

Lucy On Stage ~ Act 2

Lucille Ball’s dream was to appear on Broadway. That dream become a reality in 1960, but ended prematurely. if Lucy couldn’t be on Broadway, Broadway would come to Hollywood – on Lucy’s new TV show “The Lucy Show.” 

THE CHARLIE CHAPLIN SKETCH

“Chris’s New Year’s Eve Party” (1962) ~ When Lucy’s daughter’s New Year’s Eve party is a dud, Lucy and Viv revive it with their silent movie sketch featuring Lucy as Charlie Chaplin. Not exactly a full scale show, it is still performed for an audience - Chris’s teenage friends. 

Lucy is joined by Viv as a flapper, Harry (Dick Martin) as a waiter, and Eddie (Don Briggs) as the thug.  The entire presentation is done without dialogue to honky tonk piano music. 

“VOLUNTEER VANITIES” / “ANTONY & CLEOPATRA” 

“Lucy Plays Cleopatra” (1963) ~ After the Danfield Volunteer Fire Department’s charity revue “Volunteer Vanities” is cancelled, Lucy stars as the Queen of the Nile opposite Professor Gitterman in “Antony and Cleopatra”. 

For the aborted “Volunteer Vanities” the women sing an original song called “Hello” to the tune of “Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay" which is a traditional vaudeville and music hall song. The song's first known public performance was in the 1891 revue Tuxedo. Joining Lucy and Viv in the “Vanities” are Mary Lou (Hazel Pierce), Frances (Mary Wickes), Audrey (Mary Jane Croft) and Colleen (Renita Reachi). 

Professor Gitterman (Hans Conried) says he is scheduled to do excerpt from his readings from Cyrano de Bergerac for the Danfield Literary Society. He is referring to Edmond Rostand's 1898 stage play. Gitterman (who also directs) says that Lucy needs to project so that the people in the back row who paid $4 can hear her.  

Viv is assigned the roles of Mardion, Diomedes and Fulvia. She notes that Fulvia dies before the play begins and says the combined speeches of Mardion and Diomedes amounts to “Hark!” “ Begone!  and “Fie!”  Professor Gitterman mentions that he did some 'improvements' to Shakespeare, so although Viv seems to be exaggerating about the paucity of dialogue, the characters’ lines may indeed have been greatly reduced.  

“ANNUAL BOY SCOUT SHOW” starring Ethel Merman

“Ethel Merman and the Boy Scout Show” (1964) ~ Lucy and Viv recruit Ethel Merman to star in their sons’ Boy Scout Show and the group discovers that there’s no business like show business!

LUCY: You’d think she was the biggest star on Broadway. VIV: She is.

The show tributes vaudeville, silent films, talkies, Broadway musicals, radio, and television. It consists of the following acts:

Sherman (Ralph Hart) does an acrobatic dance routine

Jerry (Jimmy Garrett) tells a joke

Merman, Lucy, Viv and Mr. Mooney sing “There’s No Business Like Show Business” from Annie Get Your Gun

Lucy does a plate balancing act (a repeated gag)

Mr. Mooney and Viv sing “Tiptoe Through the Tulips” (originally to be sung by Mr. Mooney and his wife Irma, had she not had to go to Trenton for the birth of their grandchild)

Lucy, Mr. Mooney, and Ethel Merman perform a silent movie sketch about a husband leaving his wife for another woman

Viv, as Shirley Temple, sings “On the Good Ship Lollipop” from the 1934 film Bright Eyes

A tribute to 1920s stage musicals features Lucy, Viv, Ethel Merman, and Mr. Mooney

Mr. Mooney is a radio host presenting a lady saxophone player (Lucy) from Altoona, Pennsylvania playing “Glow Worm” (badly) from Paul Lincke's 1902 operetta Lysistrata

A tribute to “The Ed Sullivan Show” and its showcase of variety acts

Ethel Merman sings “Everything’s Coming Up Roses” from Gypsy

Everyone joins in for a reprise of “There’s No Business Like Show Business”

“THE FOUNDING OF DANFIELD” 

“Lucy and Arthur Godfrey” (1965) ~ Lucy and Viv convince the star to headline in the Danfield Community Players production about the founding of their town. 

The show is to benefit the children's wing of the hospital. The two-act musical melodrama is set aboard a riverboat in the South. It stars Godfrey as Daddy, Lucy as his daughter Lucybelle, Viv as dance hall girl Bessie, Mr. Mooney as wealthy landowner Conrad P. Field, and Vinnie (Max Showalter) as the Honest-But-Poor Piano Player. The songs for the show-within-the-show were written by Broadway veteran Showalter, Bob Lees, and Peter Walker.

LUCYBELLE: You want me to play hankie-panky with a Yankee?

“THE ART OF PANTOMIME” 

“Lucy and Mickey Rooney” (1966) ~ Mickey Rooney takes out a loan from Mr. Mooney's bank to open an acting school. Lucy and Mr. Mooney each wangle free acting lessons, which culminates in a silent movie sketch.  

MR. MOONEY (to LUCY): What in the name of Bette Davis makes you think you can act?

To impress Rooney, Lucy lists her acting credits: Mr. Roberts (in a 1948 play of the same name), MacBeth (in Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name), Julius Caesar, and Captain Hook in Peter Pan. She fails to mention her experience playing Cleopatra for the Danfield Community Players!

In Rooney's acting class, Mr. Mooney (wearing a pink table cloth as a toga) rehearses Mark Antony's famous speech from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”  

Lucy revives her Charlie Chaplin impersonation with Rooney as “The Kid”. The Players Showcase also includes Mr. Mooney as the Grocer and Sid Gould as a Keystone Kop.   

“THE TAMING OF THE SHREW” / “THE BRICUSSE-NEWLEY SONG BOOK”

“Lucy in London” (1966) ~ In the stand-alone special, Lucy Carmichael travels to London, with Anthony Newley as her tour guide. 

Lucy stars as Kate in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew filmed on location at��Great Fosters, an English country manor from the Tudor period located in Egham, Surry, just outside of London. 

Her tamer is actor Peter Wyngarde as Petruchio, although we never hear or see any actual Shakespeare. But the costumes look great! 

At the end of the special, Lucy finds herself at The Scala Theatre on Charlotte Street, off Tottenham Court Road. There she is audience to Newley (a West End and Broadway veteran) in “The Bricusse-Newley Song Book”. The one-man show is presented with lights, scenery, costume changes, and an orchestra. He first sings “Fine Day in London” then “Gonna Build a Mountain” (from The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd). He follows with “Once in a Lifetime” from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off and “Nothing Can Stop Me Now” also from Greasepaint.  During “Look at That Face” (Greasepaint) he sings directly to Lucy. He ends the medley with “This Dream” (Greasepaint).

The special takes on a dreamlike quality with Lucy on stage doing a pantomime in a spotlight. The very end of the show, still on the Scala stage, Lucy sings about her “One Day in London”.

“A SALUTE TO AVIATION” 

“Lucy and Carol Burnett: Part 2″ (1967) ~ After graduating from flight attendant’s school, Lucy and Carol Tilford (Burnett), participate in a graduating class musical revue in tribute to the history of aviation. The revue also features Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen, stars of the very first Oscar-winning film, Wings (1929). 

The show musical revue features:

Lucy, Carol and the flight attendants sing “Over There” (1917) written by George M. Cohan

Rodgers and Arlen sing “My Buddy” (1922) with music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Gus Kahn

Lucy, Carol, Mr. Mooney, Arlen, and Rodgers sing “How ‘Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They’ve Seen Paree?)” (1919) with music by Walter Donaldson and lyrics by Sam Lewis and Joe Young

Lucy, Carol and the flight attendants (as flappers) dance to “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (1967) with music by Jimmy Van Heusen from the film of the same title

Lucy, Carol, and a male soloist sing “Chattanooga Choo Choo” (1941) with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Mack Gordon

Three male tap dancers sing “Alabamy Bound” (1924) with music by Ray Henderson and lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva and Bud Green

A bride and groom performe “Shuffle Off to Buffalo” (1933) from the film 42nd Street with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin

Six boys and girls sing “Toot, Toot, Tootsie” (1921) written by Dan Russo, Ernie Erdman and Gus Kahn for the Al Jolson musical Bombo

Lucy, Carol and the ensemble perform “Hey, Look Me Over” (1960) from the musical Wildcat with music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. This version has specially written lyrics to suit the setting.

 The ensemble performs “The Army Air Corps Song” (1917) written by Robert Crawford   

“SPEAK EASY DAZE” starring Joan Crawford

“Lucy and the Lost Star” (1968) ~ Lucy and Viv discover Joan Crawford  has no furniture and believe she is broke so they arrange to star her in a show so that movie producers will offer her work.  

The charity show is written by Lucille Carmichael and presented by the Good Samaritan Players. It is never clear if The Good Samaritan Players are an actual group or something that Lucy and Viv made up to protect Crawford’s pride. 

Lucy plays Rusty, Viv is Cuddles, and Crawford is Cynthia, the new girl at the Speak Easy. Mr. Mooney plays Scarface, a gangster. 

The show opens in a speakeasy with dancers performing to “I’m Just Wild About Harry,” a song written in 1921 by Eubie Blake for the Broadway show Shuffle Along. The band briefly plays “Ain’t We Got Fun” by Richard A. Whiting, first performed in the revue Satires of 1920. The last song is “The Charleston” by James P. Johnson, which originated in the Broadway show Runnin’ Wild (1923) and became one of the most popular hits of the decade.

CURTAIN DOWN on ACT 2

[matgb]

I knew, before scrolling to see the pictures, that this was going to be Altoona. It just had to be

Sicilian pizza, and Roman pizza, can be done really well. This is not that

Fortunately I can no longer eat bread products so I can't be tempted to replicate it, not sure I could source the cheese either

Altoona pizza. Reading this you now know a:this shit exists and b:nothing you've ever made drunk or exhausted is the worst pizza in the world

travelling next week for work. googled the nearest city and none of you are prepared to see what passes for the local style pizza.

[dilawarmughal980]

Ellen Yarnell Hollidaysburg PA Obituary: A Vibrant Life Cut Short

Are You Curious To Know About Ellen Yarnell Hollidaysburg PA Obituary? The sudden passing of Ellen Yarnell at the young age of 19 has left a community in mourning. Ellen’s bright spirit, dedication to her studies, and passion for the performing arts made her a beloved figure in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.

Who Is Ellen Yarnell Hollidaysburg PA?

Ellen M Yarnell, a vibrant soul from Hollidaysburg, PA, shone brightly. A student dies at IU, leaving many in shock. Her journey, marked by ambition, ended tragically early. Ellen dies, sparking conversations on mental health. Ellen Yarnell Obituary touches hearts deeply. Known for her kindness, Ellen Yarnell’s loss is felt widely.

Ellen Yarnell Hollidaysburg PA’s Early Life and Family

Ellen M Yarnell entered the world with promise. Born in Altoona, her family soon knew joy. Her parents, Todd and Rebecca, cherished their daughter. In her brother Isaac, Ellen found both a friend and confidant. The Yarnells valued education deeply, setting a solid example. Ellen thrived, embodying the hopes of Hollidaysburg. She shone brightly, both in academics and in spirit.

Funeral services of Ellen Yarnell Hollidaysburg PA

The community gathered solemnly on June 4, 2024. It was a day to honor Ellen Yarnell Hollidaysburg PA’s vibrant spirit. The service at Hicks Methodist Church reflected profound love. Rev. Rich Morris led the service, capturing hearts. Ellen’s family, friends, and educators shared memories. Each story shone a light on who is Ellen Yarnell.

Her faith and kindness were evident throughout. Music filled the air, a nod to Ellen’s passions. The Indiana University student dies, leaving a void. Yet, her legacy endures in those gathered. They pledged to remember Ellen, ensuring her spirit lives on. Indeed, Ellen Yarnell’s obituary became a testament to her impact.

Honoring Ellen’s Memory

To honor Ellen M Yarnell’s memory, we gather and share stories. Each narrative is a tribute to her vibrant life. Contributions flow to Young Life, echoing Ellen’s passion. This act of giving reflects her enduring legacy. Social media platforms, including Reddit, ignite with tributes. Posts under “Ellen Yarnell Hollidaysburg pa obituary Reddit” are heartwarming.

Reflections from Friends and Educators

In the wake of Ellen’s departure, reflections poured in. Friends and educators shared heartfelt memories. They spoke of how the Indiana University news death impacted them. Many recounted Ellen’s vibrant spirit. The Indiana University student dies news was a brutal hit. Ellen’s passion was a beacon, her educators noted. “What happened to Ellen Yarnell?” became a shared sorrow.

Conclusion About Ellen Yarnell Hollidaysburg PA Obituary

In closing, the loss of Ellen M Yarnell leaves a void. The Indiana University student dies, leaving a ripple of sorrow. Ellen Yarnell Hollidaysburg’s bright legacy remains strong. Her obituary speaks volumes, shedding light on who Ellen Yarnell was. Despite her passing, Ellen’s spirit endures Read More

[gayarograce]

god reading through people's reactions to altoona pizza was so fucking funny lmao and while im sure some or most of the responses were overplayed at least a little bit, this is just a reminder that there is no such thing as bad food. as long as someone likes it, they can eat it

[sports-teller]

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List of Altoona Curve 2024 Fireworks Shows

What Days Will the Curve Show Fireworks for Summer 2024? Altoona Curve 2024 Fireworks at Peoples Natural Gas Field (Altoona, PA)! Hello Everyone! Welcome to Sports Teller! Today, we will be going over the List of Altoona Curve 2024 Fireworks Shows! Without further adieu, let’s begin! List of Altoona Curve 2024 Fireworks Shows Going to the Curve Baseball Game This Season? Looking to Catch the Fireworks at Peoples Natural Gas Field in 2024? Now that the upcoming season is upon us, you might be thinking “Will they show fireworks this year?” Well, you’re in luck! In 2024, the Altoona Curve … Read more

[1863-project]

Ooh, if everyone’s doing train questions, I actually have one. I’ve been reading that train magazine that I found on Libby, which unfortunately doesn’t seem to be very beginner friendly, though I do know some of what they talk about, like the #-#-# notation for wheels, from you.

Anyways, the magazine mentioned a place called the Tehachapi Loop as one of the “seven wonders of the railroad world,” but it doesn’t mention the other six. I’m curious as to what those are.

I did some research on this right now for you, and interestingly, there doesn't seem to be an official list later, but Tehachapi Loop gets mentioned quite a bit! It does look like something right out of someone's model layout, so that's fair.

From what I can find, the confusion started because the plaque at Tehachapi Loop refers to it as "one of the seven wonders of the railroad world," as you cited from the magazine, but apparently the people who put the plaque there don't even know! So they may have just used the phrase to sound grandiose!

Now, I'm biased, but I'd put Horseshoe Curve in Altoona on that list, but that's because I've been there and it's incredible.

Anyway, there's a lesson here: don't use a phrase like that unless you have an official list to go from, or else people will fight over it on the internet for decades.

[equestrianempire]

Monday News & Notes from FutureTrack

I love this time of year. There’s eventing underway in the US; the British Eventing season kicked off over the weekend despite rain and even snow making life a touch tricky for folks around the country; we’re starting to see entry lists fill up for the early-season four-stars; Badminton and Kentucky are racing closer (a fact that makes my stomach feel like it’s going to explode with butterflies, which I hope isn’t just a sign that actually, I’m in my thirties now and maybe I’ve developed a GI issue as a result); and everything’s full-steam ahead for the Olympics. Everything is still yet to happen – the stories are yet to unfold, and the possibilities are truly endless. And alongside all of the above? All our favourite events are well into their 2024 planning and building. Germany’s Luhmühlen CCI5* and CCI4*-S is a longtime EN fave, and today, they released their first look at what Mike Etherington-Smith has got up his sleeve for this year’s courses. Join him, friend of EN Juliane Barth, and a whole bunch of heavy machinery out on course and see how the stage will be set for one of the biggest showdowns pre-Paris. It’s going to be a remarkable week of sport.

National Holiday: It’s National Grammar Day. Mind you’re words and contractions.

US Weekend Action:

2024 $100,000 Conceal Grand-Prix Eventing Showcase at Bruce’s Field (Aiken, SC) [Website] [Results] [Ride For Charity Teams] [Ride For Charity Online Vote] [EN’s Coverage]

Full Gallop Farm March Wednesday H.T. (Aiken, SC) [Website] [Results]

Rocking Horse Winter III H.T. (Altoona, FL) [Website] [Results]

Sporting Days Farm March H.T. II (Aiken, SC) [Website] [Results]

Twin Rivers Winter H.T. (Paso Robles, CA) [Website] [Entries] [Results]

Your Monday Reading List:

If you’re a committed entry list stalker, you might have noticed something interesting on the Montelibretti 3* line-up for this week. That something interesting is an entry from Australia’s Chris Burton, who left eventing in 2021 to focus on showjumping. Now, it appears, he’s back – and with an exciting new partner in Shadow Man, the former 5* mount of Britain’s Ben Hobday. Here’s how they’re getting on so far, and confirmation that yes, Burto has had the horse since before the cut-off date for Olympic ownership to be secured.

Speaking of folks getting the bug again, that’s exactly what happened to dentist Dr Jesse Akers Reagin. Her hiatus was a touch longer – 18 years, in fact! – but after attending a baby shower in 2019 at the farm of Katie Malensek, Canada’s high-flying vet-turned-team-member, she felt that spark reignite and knew it was well worth trying to get horses back into her life. And now? Well, she’s doing pretty darn well herself.

Okay, we know eventing prize money ain’t all that. But how does it actually compare to the pots across the disciplines? Horse & Hound dived into the numbers, and it turns out that while we’re definitely not leading the charge, we’re also not at the bottom of the heap. It makes for some interesting reading, and has certainly reignited my spark for working out the hows and the whys. Here’s what they found.

One of the best ways to ensure everyone is well-represented in sport is to make sure that everyone who has something to contribute is given a voice and a platform. That’s why I’m really pleased to see that US Eventing is now offering complimentary digital memberships to USEA affiliates – including members of volunteering programs and regional eventing associations. The former actually got this benefit last year, and the addition of the latter should give more of a platform for those regional programs to be able to highlight the challenges and benefits of hosting the sport in various parts of the country. Find out more information here and remember: a governing body is the sum of all its subsidiary voices, opinions, and pushes for change. Make sure yours is heard.

Morning Viewing: 

Every year at Badminton, I’m once again struck by just how fun — and challenging! — the BE90 and BE100 Voltaire Design Grassroots Championship looks. It truly is the creme-de-la-creme of lower-level competition, and takes an enormous amount of planning, prep, and dedication to get to. I’ll never get a chance to try it for myself – I suspect it’ll be many decades yet that I’ll be deeply entrenched in reporting on Badminton itself! – so I’ll be living vicariously through those riders who are blogging and vlogging the whole experience, from their early-season runs and training to the week itself. Here’s one to get you started, that lays bear just how tricky it can be to get everything moving in the right direction. Come on, Donut – we’re rooting for you!

[guerrerense]

2023 Year in Review:April por Brian D Plant Por Flickr: In the month of April, I had an extraordinary run of good fortune with the Reading heritage unit. I followed it from Harrisburg to Gallitzin on its third revenue following a class overhaul and repaint at the Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Then I was able to follow it on Good Friday from Buffalo to Hornell on the point of freight 310. It later led freight 11Z out of Binghamton, which led me to take a chance that it would pass through the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in daylight, passing the endangered vintage Norfolk & Western color position light signals. NS SD70ACe 1067 leads freight 11Z past the bracket signals in Pkin, VA on a beautiful April evening.

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Unlocked Book of the Month: Pennsylvania Lion or Panther & Felis Catus in Pennsylvania?

Each month we’re highlighting a book available through PSU Press Unlocked, an open access initiative featuring scholarly digital books and journals in the humanities and social sciences.

About our June pick:

This Metalmark volume combines two of Henry W. Shoemaker’s pamphlets, both published by Shoemaker’s Times Tribune Co., which also published his newspaper, the Altoona Tribune. Pennsylvania Lion or Panther, published in 1914, provides a narrative look into the history and romance of Pennsylvania’s mountain lion. Hunting lore and legends mix with local and natural history and Shoemaker’s musings on the disappearance of this once prevalent animal. The pages are dedicated to J. T. Rothrock, whose description of the mountain lion’s haunting cry graces the pages of this text. The second pamphlet, Felis Catus in Pennsylvania?, gathers reports of the 1922 capture of a wildcat in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which many speculated was a European wildcat.

Read more and access the book here: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-02267-3.html

See the full list of Unlocked titles here: https://www.psupress.org/unlocked/unlocked_gallery.html

[p-isforpoetry]

Read by the poet: "Memorabilia" by e.e. cummings

stop look &

listen Venezia*: incline thine ear you glassworks of Murano; pause

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mezzo del cammin’ that means half- way up the Campanile, believe

thou me cocodrillo** —

mine eyes have seen the glory of

the coming of the Americans particularly the brand of marriageable nymph which is armed with large legs rancid voices Baedekers Mothers and kodaks — by night upon the Riva Schiavoni or in the felicitous vicinity of the de l’Europe Grand and Royal Danielli their numbers

are like unto the stars of Heaven…

i do signore affirm that all gondola signore day below me gondola signore gondola and above me pass loudly and gondola rapidly denizens of Omaha Altoona or what not enthusiastic cohorts from Duluth God only, gondola knows Cincingondolanati i gondola don’t — the substantial dollarbringing virgins “from the Loggia where are we angels by O yes beautiful we now pass through the look girls in the style of that's the foliage what is it didn't Ruskin says about you got the haven’t Marjorie isn't this wellcurb simply darling” — O Education: O thos cook cb- son

(O to be a metope now that triglyph's here)

Source: The Voice of the poet - E. E. Cummings, 1922

[jamiesugah]

15 questions 15 less than 15 mutuals

tagged by @buckybarnesss

1. Are you named after anyone? No, my parents just liked the name.

2. When was the last time you cried? Like 15 minutes ago, checking Gun's insta story, because his dog died.

3. Do you have kids? No.

4. What sports do you play/have you played? Softball (little league and JV).

5. Do you use sarcasm? No. Never. What's sarcasm?

6. What’s the first thing you notice about someone? Oh hell, I don't know. Outfit, I guess.

7. What’s your eye color? Dad always called it steel blue.

8. Scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings! The older I am, the more I just want everyone to live happily ever after.

9. Any talents? I can play the trumpet.

10. Where were you born? Altoona, Pennsylvania.

11. What are your hobbies? Reading, buying books (which is totes different from actually reading), listening to music, watching TV (mostly Thai dramas right now).

12. Do you have any pets? Yes, I have a fat ball of fur named Merlin.

13. How tall are you? 5'4"

14. Favorite subject in school? English and history.

15. Dream job? My dream job is to not need a job. But I actually enjoy what I do now (news archivist), I just wish I got paid more for it.

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