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The Penalty (1920)
My rating: 6/10
I mean, it's over a hundred years old, so obviously not everything holds up, but Chaney's performance is great, and it's a pretty solid thriller throughout.
#The Penalty#Wallace Worsley#Gouverneur Morris#Charles Kenyon#Philip Lonergan#Charles Clary#Doris Pawn#Jim Mason#Youtube
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this genre of behind the scene pics are so fucking funny im howling
#kirk acevedo#shane taylor#scott grimes#eion bailey#george calil#nolan hemmings#ross mccall#peter youngblood hills#joe toye#joseph toye#joe liebgott#joseph liebgott#donald malarkey#don malarkey#david webster#david kenyon webster#chuck grant#charles grant#shifty powers#eugene roe#doc roe#band of brothers fic#behind the scenes#band of brothers#band of brothers memes#band of brothers hbo
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Easy Company as Pokemon Trainers Part 5
Hey friends!! This is my last installment (for now!) of Easy Company as single-type Pokemon trainers! I'm thinking about doing non-battle job headcannons next ✨ if y'all have any ideas/request please let me know !!
Find all my PokeBoB content here !!
Babe Heffron - Ice Type Trainer
Companion Pokemon - Glaceon
Chuck Grant - Steel Type Trainer
Companion Pokemon - Copperajah
David Kenyon Webster - Psychic Type Trainer
Companion Pokemon - Indeedee
Floyd Talbert - Dragon Type Trainer
Companion Pokemon - Altaria
Frank Perconte - Rock Type Trainer
Companion Pokemon - Lycanroc
Johnny Martin - Ground Type Trainer
Companion Pokemon - Mudsdale
Joe Toye - Dark Type Trainer
Companion Pokemon - Umbreon
Taglist: @panzershrike-pretz , @neptunes-blue
These were so much fun to make!! Thank you all for going on this journey with me 😂 stay tuned for more PokeBoB content lads!! ✨
#PokeBoB#band of brothers#hbo#hbo war#easy company#pokemon#babe heffron#edward heffron#chuck grant#charles grant#david webster#david kenyon webster#floyd talbert#johnny martin#john martin#joe toye#ice type#psychic type#dragon type#ground type#dark type
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. New Orleans is certainly not a place where a person needs to feel the pain of separation for long.
This Property Is Condemned, Sydney Pollack (1966)
#Sydney Pollack#Francis Ford Coppola#Fred Coe#Edith Sommer#Natalie Wood#Robert Redford#Charles Bronson#Kate Reid#Mary Badham#Alan Baxter#Robert Blake#James Wong Howe#Kenyon Hopkins#Adrienne Fazan#1966
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From the Golden Age of Television
An Almanac of Liberty - CBS - November 8, 1954
A presentation of "Westinghouse Studio One" Season 7 Episode 8
Drama
Running Time: 60 minutes
Written By Reginald Rose
Directed by Paul Nickell
Narrated by Charles Collingwood
Stars:
P. J. Kelly as Mr. Neary
Archie Smith as Harmon
Ethel Everett as Mrs. Church
Bruce Marshall a Mikey
Ginger MacManus as Susie
Florence Sundstrom as Ottilie Sweetser
Brandon Peters as Horace Sweetser
Dorothy Patten as Matty Wilkinson
Karl Lukas as Hank
Jack MacGregor as Sam Hunt
Clarice Blackburn as Sybil Hunt
Fred Herrick a Ted Franklin
Gene Sultan as Billy Sweetser
James Winslow as Dr. Slattery
Eli Mintz as Mr. Nathan
Frieda Altman as Mrs. Nathan
Lawrence Fletcher as George Wilkinson
Lee Richardson as Ben Philips
Sandy Kenyon as John Carter
Martin Rudy as Mr. Falion
#An Almanac of Liberty#TV#Westinghouse Studio One#Drama#1954#1950's#CBS#Charles Collingwood#Reginald Rose#Sandy Kenyon#Lee Richardson
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Bad movie I have War Heroes Collection it has Midway 1976, MacArthur 1977, and To Hell and Back
#Midway#Charlton Heston#Henry Fonda#James Coburn#Glenn Ford#Hal Holbrook#Toshirô Mifune#Robert Mitchum#Cliff Robertson#Robert Wagner#MacArthur#Gregory Peck#Ivan Bonar#Ward Costello#Nicolas Coster#Marj Dusay#Ed Flanders#Art Fleming#Russell Johnson#Sandy Kenyon#To Hell and Back#Audie Murphy#Marshall Thompson#Charles Drake#Jack Kelly#Gregg Palmer#Paul Picerni#David Janssen#Richard Castle#Bruce Cowling
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THREE TYPES OF FAITH — LESSON 3; SEGUN OLUMIDE
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#Charles Capps#doubt#E W Kenyon#Fear#GODKIND of faith#Kenneth Copeland#Kenneth Hagin#Little faith#Sense knowledge faith#Smith Wigglesworth#three kinds of faith#worry
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I like to full-name these dead men when they do something that displeases me, either in memoir, show, or fanfiction alike. It brings me joy-- David Kenyon Webster, Richard Davis Winters, Ronald Charles Speirs, Lewis Nixon the fucking III, and so on--
until of course, Carwood Clifford Lipton, and then I just sorta hang my head and try not to despair.
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do you have any book recommendations on Eastern European history / Ukrainian history and/or current events?
I would also add:
The Language of War by Oleksandy Mykhed
Vatnik Soup: The Ultimate Guide to Russian Disinformation by Pekka Kallioniemi
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv by Ilia Ponomarenko
Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence by Yaroslav Trofimov
Russia's War by Jade McGlynn
Nothing is True but Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev (as well as his This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality and How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler)
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder (as well as his Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin)
Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism by Charles Clover
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert Kaplan
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller
Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability by Michael Kimmage
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum (as well as her Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe)
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe by John Connelly
Not really Eastern Europe (more Central Asia) but Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan by Erika Fatland
Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski
Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania by Paul Kenyon
Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel by Anatoly Kuznetsov
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi
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BoB character nicknames
Listed alphabetically Part 2
I am so sorry! Cobbs nickname is NOT cancer (he died because of cancer) I read it wrong!!!😭
Albert Blithe: Al
Alex Penkala Jr.: Penky
Antonio Garcia: Tony
Burton Christenson: Chris, Pat
Carwood Lipton: Lip
Charles Grunt: Chuck
Darrell Powers: Shifty
David Kenyon Webster: College boy, Web, Dave, Professor
Denver Randleman: Bull
Donald Hoobler: Don, Hoob
Donald Malarkey: Malark, Don
Earl McClung: One Lung
Edward Shames: Ed, Sob
Edward Heffron: Babe, Ed
Eugene Roe: Doc
Floyd Talbert: Tab
Francis Mallet: Frank
Frank Perconte: Perco
Henry Jones: Henk
Herbert Sobel: N/a
James Diel: Lee
James Miller: The “outlaw”
John Hall: Cowboy
John Martin: Johnny
John McGrath: Jack
Joseph Liebgott: Joe, Lieb
Joseph Toye: Joe
Kenneth Webb: Kenny
Lewis Nixon: Lew, Nix
Norman Dike: Foxhole Norman
Paul Rogers: Hayseed
Richard Winters: Dick
Robert Strayer: Bob
Robert Wynn: Popeye
Roderick Strohl: Rod
Ronald Speirs: Sparky, Ron
Roy Cobb: Cobb
Walter Gordon Jr.: Smokey
Warren Muck: Skip
Wayne Sisk: Skinny
William Dukeman: Buddy
William Guarnere: Gonorrhea, Wild Bill
William Kiehn: Bill
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My Top Albums/EPS of 2025
It's that time again where I give y'all my end-of-the-year music list and take over your dashboard. Hopefully some of these projects or artists will be new to you.
I would love for y'all to tell me your faves this year.
Here's my list:
JAZZ
Charles McPherson - Reverence
Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer - But Who's Gonna Play the Melody
Christian Sands - Embracing Dawn
Immanuel Wilkins - Blues Blood
Jazzmeia Horn - Messages
Jeremy Pelt - Tomorrow's Another Day
Joel Ross - nublues
Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement
Keyon Harrold - Foreverland
Lakecia Benjamin - Phoenix Reimagined (Live)
Miles Davis - Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings
Miles Davis Quintet - Miles In France 1963 and 1964 - The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8
New Brass Band featuring Trombone Shorty - Live at the 2024 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Nubya Garcia - Odyssey
Samara Joy - Portrait
SOUL/BLUES (ROCK)
Baby Rose with BADBADNOTGOOD - Slow Burn (EP)
Brittany Howard - What Now
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram - Live in London (Expanded Edition)
Jerron Paxton - Things Done Changed
Jovin Webb - Drifter
Lizz Wright - Shadow
GOSPEL
Cory Henry - Church
Karen Clark Sheard - Still Karen
Ricky Dillard - Choirmaster II (Live)
Tamela Mann - Live Breathe Fight
COUNTRY/AMERICANA
Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter
Brittney Spencer - My Stupid Life
Caitlyn Smith - I Think of You (The Heartache Collection)
Elles Bailey - Beneath the Neon Glow
Gabby Barrett - Chapter and Verse
Lainey Wilson - Whirlwind
Luke Combs - Fathers & Sons
Mickey Guyton - House On Fire
Rvshvd - It's Rashad
Tanner Adell - Buckle Bunny (Deluxe) — 2023 album
FOLK
Bessie Jones, John Davis & The Georgia Sea Island Singers - The Complete Friends of Old Time Music Concert
Jessica Pratt - Here In the Pitch
Yasmin Williams - Acadia
ROCK
The Black Keys - Ohio Players (Trophy Edition)
Lenny Kravitz - Blue Electric Light
Linkin Park - From Zero
Olivia Rodrigo - Guts (spilled)
Sum 41 – Heaven :x: Hell
BLENDED GENRES
Amythyst Kiah - Still and Bright
Boney James - Slow Burn
Charlotte Day Wilson - Cyan Blue
Eva Cassidy - Walkin' After Midnight
Gallant - Zinc
Judith Hill - Letters From a Black Widow
Madison Ryann Ward - Purified Love
Marsha Ambrosiuos - CASABLANCO
Matthew Whittaker - On Their Shoulders: An Organ Tribute
Tank and The Bangas - The Heart, The Mind, The Soul
Victoria Monét - Jaguar II: Deluxe
Willow Smith - empathogen
R&B
Andra Day - CASSANDRA (cherith)
Avery*Sunshine - So Glad to Know You
BJ The Chicago Kid - Gravy (Deluxe)
Derand Benarr - En Route
Kenyon Dixon - The R&B You Love: For the '99 and the 2000s
Kyle Dion - If My Jeans Could Talk
Lalah Hathaway - VANTABLACK
Ledisi - Good Life
Lucky Daye - Algorithm
Muni Long - Revenge
NxWorries - Why Lawd?
Ravyn Lenae - Bird's Eye
SiR - HEAVY
Usher - Coming Home
RAP
Big Sean - Better Me Than You
Common & Pete Rock - The Auditorium Vol. 1
Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal
Kendrick Lamar - GNX
LL Cool J - The Force
MC Lyte - 1 of 1
Rapsody - Please Don't Cry
ScHoolboy Q - BLUE LIPS
POP
Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine
Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT
Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You: Everasking Edition
Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
Christina Aguilera - The 25th Anniversary of Christina Aguilera
Gavin DeGraw - Chariot 20
James Bay - Changes All the Time
Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet
Teddy Swims - I've Tried Everything but Therapy (Part 1.5)
Tori Kelly - TORI.
HOUSE/ELECTRONIC
Durand Bernarr & Charlie Vettuno - Charlie Vettuno Presents… Where in the World is Carmen Randiego?
KAYTRANADA - TIMELESS
HOLIDAY
Boney James - Soulful Holiday Sax
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella & Louis Wish You a Swinging Holiday
Jennifer Hudson - The Gift of Love
Kelly Clarkson - When Christmas Comes Around...Again
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Easy Company Members Sorted Between Surviving and Not Surviving WWII:
Died During the War:
Company Commanders:
First Lieutenant Thomas Meehan III (July 8th, 1921 - June 6th, 1944)
Non-commissioned Officers:
Sergeant Warren Harold "Skip" Muck (January 31st, 1922 - January 10th, 1945)
Enlisted Men:
Corporal Donald B. "Hoob" Hoobler (June 28th, 1922 - January 3rd, 1945)
Private First Class Alex Mike Penkala (August 30th, 1924 - January 10th, 1945)
Survived the War:
Company Commanders:
Captain Herbert Maxwell Sobel (January 26th, 1912 - September 30th, 1987)
Major Richard Davis "Dick" Winters (January 21st, 1918 - January 2nd, 2011)
First Lieutenant Frederick Theodore "Moose" Heyliger (June 23rd, 1916 - November 3rd, 2001)
First Lieutenant Norman Staunton "Foxhole Norman" Dike Jr. (May 19th, 1918 - June 23rd, 1989)
Captain Ronald Charles Speirs (April 20th, 1920 - April 11th, 2007)
Junior Officers:
Captain Lewis Nixon (September 30th, 1918 - January 11th, 1995)
First Lieutenant Lynn Davis "Buck" Compton (December 31st, 1921 - February 25th, 2012)
First Lieutenant Edward David "Ed" Shames (June 13th, 1922 - December 3rd, 2021)
Second Lieutenant Robert Burnham "Bob" Brewer (January 31st, 1924 - December 5th, 1996)
Second Lieutenant Clifford Carwood "Lip" Lipton (January 30th, 1920 - December 16th, 2001)
Non-commissioned Officers:
Technical Sergeant Donald George "Don" Malarkey (July 30th, 1920 - September 30th, 2017)
Staff Sergeant William J. "Wild Bill" Guarnere Sr. (April 28th, 1923 - March 8th, 2014)
Staff Sergeant Herman "Hank, Hack" Hanson (January 3rd, 1918 - May 15th, 1971)
Staff Sergeant Denver "Bull" Randleman (November 20th, 1920 - June 26th, 2003)
Staff Sergeant Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers (March 13th, 1923 - June 17th, 2009)
Staff Sergeant John W. "Johnny" Martin (December 8th, 1921 - December 31st, 2012)
Staff Sergeant Floyd "Tab" Talbert (August 26th, 1923 - October 10th, 1982)
Staff Sergeant Charles E. "Chuck" Grant (March 1922 - October 12th, 1982)
Staff Sergeant Joseph John "Joe" Toye (March 14th, 1919 - September 3rd, 1995)
Sergeant Robert Emory "Popeye" Wynn Jr. (July 10th, 1921 - March 18th, 2000)
Sergeant James H. "Moe" Alley (July 20th, 1922 - March 14th, 2008)
Sergeant Wayne "Skinny" Sisk (March 4th, 1922 - July 13th, 1999)
Corporal Walter Scott "Smokey" Gordon Jr. (April 15th, 1920 - April 19th, 1997)
Enlisted Men:
Technician Fourth Grade George Luz (June 17th, 1921 - October 15th, 1998)
Technician Fourth Grade Eugene Gilbert "Doc" Roe Sr. (October 17th, 1922 - December 30th, 1998)
Technician Fifth Grade Joseph David "Joe" Liebgott (May 17th, 1915 - June 28th, 1992)
Private First Class Edward James "Babe" Heffron (May 16th, 1923 - December 1st, 2013)
Private First Class Edward Joseph "Tip" Tipper (August 3rd, 1921 - February 1st, 2017)
Private First Class David Kenyon Webster (June 2nd, 1922 - September 9th, 1961)
*This is not all of Easy Co. just some of the more recognizable names. If I missed anyone that you would like to see listed please message me and I would be glad to add him.
**I was also thinking about adding more info to this list and/or making a separate post with additional details like awards/medals, how and where they were wounded (if at all), and maybe some personal details like where they were born/died, their family (parents, siblings, spouse, children), what they did after the war (if they survived) stuff like that (though that might be a separate list idk yet). I would love to hear your opinion and if you'd like to see something like this. Basically just one large masterpost! Message me and tell me your thoughts!!!! I'm open to ideas!
#I did a thing#BoB#band of brothers#Easy Company#Easy Co#Skip Muck#Alex Penkala#Donald Hoobler#Sobel#Dick Winters#Moose Heyliger#Norman Dike#Ronald Speirs#Lewis Nixon#Buck Compton#Carwood Lipton#Bill Guarnere#Don Malarkey#Babe Heffron#Shifty Powers#Floyd Talbert#Joe Liebgott#George Luz#Eugene Roe#Joe Toye#David Webster#Skinny Sisk
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Are we there yet?
By C.J. Hartman Thompson
(The following article originally appeared in Bluff & Vine, a literary review featuring work created in and around the Finger Lakes region of New York State, and is published here with the permission of the magazine. This article also appeared in three parts in Yates Past, the bi-monthly newsletter of the Yates County History Center).
I vividly recall growing up in the 1960s and ��70s, as if it were yesterday. Two of my younger siblings, our parents, and me, sitting upon red padded chairs, separated as if by seniority around the outskirts of our chrome-legged Formica top table. There, as with most nights before, we conversed over our day’s events, with my mother monitoring our consumption, occasionally reminding us three kids, “Children in China would be grateful to have half the food we had on our plates!” This, a likely response to me chasing nasty whole beets about on my plate with a fork, while my sister pretended she liked the venison steak that she would eventually conceal in her napkin and later place in the trash. My brother, forever innocent, and the youngest at the time, would proclaim that my sister and I were staring at him, knowing full well that it would get us in trouble again.
We were all expected to clean our plates and leave the kitchen spotless or forfeit going for our nightly ride out on Bluff Point. Exiting our home toward the driveway, as if in response to the slam of our screen door, I recall yelling, “I have the middle,” as we piled into our 1972 green Pontiac Catalina in reckless abandon, absent of all regard for the use of seatbelts. None of us wanted to sit behind our father, because when he smoked his pipe, he would periodically empty it against his outside driver’s door handle, sending the ashes back into the rear window. Adorned with his corn-cob pipe, our father preferred a tobacco named Sir Walter Raleigh, which came in a variety of red and black tins. Back then, there wasn’t any consideration given to children purchasing tobacco products, and so I remember biking to either Loblaws or Charles Bollen’s Super Duper to purchase tobacco, filters, or pipe cleaners for Dad. Our dad, having grown up on Pepper Road, could tell you about every nook and cranny on Bluff Point there was to know. My siblings and I never knew where we would end up on these nightly adventures, as we called them.
We would leave our home on the lower West Lake Road, which was behind Race’s Willowhurst Garage. Our grandfather Alton owned and operated the garage after being discharged from the Army, having served in World War II. We would head south to Keuka Park, and on the lake side going toward Keuka Park, Dad and Mom told us that this larger red brick building in Brandy Bay was once the electric generating plant for the Penn Yan, Keuka Park and Branchport Railroad. One of our great-grandfathers, Ray Kenyon, had been a conductor on one of the trolley cars.
Brandy Bay had been the hot spot back in the day, as just behind the tracks, closer to the lake, there had been a place called Electric Park, where folks would spend summer evenings listening to music and dancing in a community pavilion. Our parents were quick to mention that the railroad and Electric Park were way before their time, certain that the passenger service had stopped in 1927, while the railroad continued to transport freight for some years afterward.
In the early ’60s, the lower West Lake Road ran directly from Indian Pines to the Brandy Bay trolley stop, passing scattered family-owned cottages along the way. Remnants of the original track lie east of today’s Central Avenue, which wouldn’t be constructed until many years later. Minutes from Brandy Bay, we would be at the stop sign with the main entrance of Keuka College on our left. Ball Hall, Hegeman Hall, and Harrington Hall looked very impressive to all of us. An all-female college at the time, Keuka College became co-ed in 1985. Both my sister and I agreed that we would attend there following our graduation from high school, and the college would later graduate five members of our immediate families.
Turning right after stopping, our parents, pointing left, acknowledged the location of a general store and café owned by the Johnson family close to where the former Keuka Park Fire Department building stands, now a storage facility for Keuka College. A gazebo has been constructed nearby, a gift from a Keuka College alumni. Further up the road on the right was the community center, which is now the location for the Branchport and Keuka Park Fire Department. By this point in the ride and yet only minutes from home, one of us kids would ask, “Are we there yet?” to which Dad likely replied, “Pipe down, sit back, and enjoy the ride.”
Once out of Keuka Park, we headed southwest up Skyline Drive, where we were encouraged to look for deer, be they in a field or hedgerow, coming to a stop the moment any of us saw one. I kid you not, it wasn’t out of the norm to spot herds in excess of 60 deer milling about the fields of the bluff near dusk. If the deer were standing close to the road, Dad, placing two fingers in his mouth, would send a loud whistle their way, scaring them back into the impenetrable woods. In truth, I think he enjoyed watching them hop and dart back to the safety of the trees, while telling us how the motion of their tails would signal to the other deer in the herd if danger were nearby. I laugh now as I could not tell you the number of times we would stop, each of us pondering, “Are we there yet?”
The Herrick Cemetery, an old cemetery associated with the Bluff Point community, is soon pointed out to us, as our fourth-great grandparents, Elisha and Charlotte “Latchie” Knickerbocker Kenyon are both buried there. The cemetery itself sits back maybe 50 yards from Skyline Drive and looks majestic, as it sits higher than the fields surrounding it. I have in recent years gone there and walked around. Numerous markers made from old limestone have either toppled over or are not even marked. Elisha and Charlotte’s markers looked to have been repaired. It is a beautiful and tranquil spot, as one can overlook the valley, the rolling hills, and surrounding vineyards. Now the trees, once saplings 60 years ago, are large deciduous trees with the exception of a lonesome pine, all offering shade to those who rest in peace beneath them.
This particular day had been a hot one, and thankfully it was slowly cooling down. The evening sun was hesitant to disappear, and from our vantage point it looked to be like a red orange balloon in the sky way off in the distance. We knew tomorrow would also be another sweltering day. The smell of Coppertone Sun-tan Lotion, applied earlier in the day, still lingered, having been outside all day. Still near the cemetery, Dad might then point out the Pinnacle, which is about the same elevation of 1,400 feet above sea level as Bluff Point. The Pinnacle is a peak that overlooks Bluff Point and Branchport.
The Esperanza Mansion, in the distance, was perfectly placed close to the tip of the Pinnacle and was completed in July of 1838 by John Nicholas Rose, a wealthy farmer from Virginia. Upon further research, the Roses for the most part had many of the early indigenous people known to inhabit Bluff Point along with a retinue of enslaved people provide much of the labor in construction of the mansion. It is believed that they transported the limestone from near the end of the Bluff by canoe to the shores currently in care of Keuka Lake State Park. The limestone provided necessary support in the construction of its 11- to 14-inch thick walls, complete with internal shutters to cover the windows, given the potential for rogue arrows to be directed at them.
Unbeknownst to me, the Esperanza Mansion was also part of the Underground Railroad during the Civil War. Mind you, as kids, Dad was simply pointing to a huge hill beyond the cemetery that had a huge house on it. We were impatient of course to get to wherever Dad was taking us. Even with all windows down, just sitting next to one another we were weary of the heat and our knees and elbows bumping into one another for what we thought had been a monumental amount of time. One of us again asked, “Are we there yet?” Mom turned around and gave us the look as if to say, you best not ask that again.
Further up the road from the cemetery, we take a right turn at the “V” intersection, remaining on Skyline Drive. Should one choose the road to the left, you are on Vine Road. At this junction stands a small house, formerly a two-room schoolhouse my father attended. With additional research, I found the original structure was built in 1860 for $395. Its location was known as Jerusalem District No. 4, Fingar District. Several improvements were made between 1861 and 1903; a coal stove replaced the wood-burning unit, walls were plastered, a wire fence was built, new student seats, an entrance hall was added, new floor installed, and shade trees were planted in 1903. The salary for one teacher for the winter and summer terms was $5 per week.
My siblings and I were astonished to think that the little house could be a school and that Dad had to walk to school with his siblings. Dad smirks when he tells us that he along with some of his buddies would tip over the outhouse when other students were in there. Though the distance seemed like miles to us, it was less than a half-mile from his Pepper Road home, absent concern for the weather. My siblings and I make eye contact across the large backseat, grateful to hop on a bus only minutes away from our home, transported to a larger school complete with running water and plumbing.
Still on Skyline Drive, we have now gone by the northwest entrance to Scott Road, as we still call it today. There is a house that looks to be half in the ground on the left. Mom mentions the property the house now resides upon was once left to my dad’s mother when her father had passed away, and for whatever reason, my grandparents relinquished their ownership, though the cost of additional taxes may have been motivation at the time.
If we were lucky, some nights we would see the occasional flock of turkeys trot across the road, as they like to roost just before sunset. Tempted by the possibility of an ice cream cone from Seneca Farms, we were all encouraged to increase our focus out the windows, in search of wildlife running amuck. We were rubbernecking, as competition grew to spot the next animal or feathered friend.
Just down the road a piece is the John Hall Road, which was and still is a dead end. The only things we could see from Skyline Drive were a huge barn and a house down over the hill surrounded by vineyards that looked as though they may well go all the way to the lake. Our ride proved to be more interesting and fun the further we went out on the bluff.
Arriving upon yet another old schoolhouse, which I have researched as being District No. 5, the Kenyon District, Scott Settlement District, Bluff Point District. This schoolhouse is located near the southern entrance of the Scott Road and Skyline Drive intersection. Today, the most recent owner of the schoolhouse has taken the roof off of the building and placed a huge telescope in its place, making it the perfect spot for an observatory.
Fewer houses embellish our views out of the Pontiac, as we make our way to the end of the bluff, soon approaching the home of Marland (Dutch) Griffith and his wife, Izzy (Isabelle Walrath) on the left.
They were both dear friends of our parents. I believe Dutch and Izzy owned around 210 acres out on the bluff, which had two houses and multiple outbuildings. One of the homes, not visible from the road, was in fact Dutch’s childhood home, complete with a working hand-pump above its dug well and a three-holed outhouse east of the dwelling. A large red barn to the south stored his wooden bobsleds and countless wooden beer lugs used to harvest grapes by hand, prior to modern convenience.
The house visible from Skyline Drive also had a pole barn where firewood, tractors, and implements were stored, while a wood framed hangar lay tucked away in the corner of a hardwoods, secreting Dutch’s single-engine plane, complete with canvas wings and but one seat.
An avid private pilot, Dutch was a member of the Penn Yan Flying Club, having earned his license by bicycling once a week to Penn Yan and back in his teens. Our mom, more curious than our father, once went for a brief ride in the plane. She recalls sitting upon a turned over 5-gallon bucket for a seat.
Before takeoff, Mom recalls asking Dutch if the door handle was secure enough. There was what looked to be a water hose going out onto the upper edge of the windshield from within the plane, transferring fuel to the engine. Dutch took Mom as far as Bath and back, she having a death grip on Dutch’s shoulder during the flight’s entirety. Liking the ride, she was no less happy to be back on the ground, and still the three of us begged to ask, "Are we there yet?”
The Scott family lived across from Dutch and Izzy, while the Disbrow family home and property lay to the south and east side of Skyline drive, separated by a vineyard retained by the Scotts. The Disbrow family still owns much of the land on both sides of Skyline Drive, running all the way to the Garrett property on the east side of Skyline Drive but ending somewhat sooner on the west side.
Mom excitedly tells us when Dad and she were first dating they walked down over the hill near Disbrows and carved their initials into a tree. The slanting rays of the setting sun gave the surrounding landscape a stunning panoramic view. We felt as though we were on top of the world. One could see only the tops of other hills, Barrington to the east and Pulteney to the west. We could see deer everywhere in the fields on both sides of the road.
We pulled over on the east side near the little old stone spring house that still today feeds water to the Garrett Chapel. We all got out to stretch our legs and gazed in the direction of the Wagener Mansion, built by Abraham Wagener in 1833 on the southern tip of Bluff Point. Dad mentioned the stones used to build the foundation of the mansion were rumored to have come from the early indigenous ruins on Bluff Point. The mansion is not only intimidating by its size, but the grounds around the residence were well taken care of.
Dad was like an encyclopedia, full of information that he wanted to share with us. He then mentions our great-grandfather, Ray Kenyon, had been the manager of Paul Garrett’s vineyards for a time. Dad, along with his father and brother, all worked for the Garrett family, tending to their vineyards and fields, often using work horses to complete many tasks up and over the steep terrain, better suited to billy goats.
In writing this story, I interviewed my brother, who spent countless hours hunting with our dad on the bluff. I inquired as to whether I had forgotten any significant locations we may have heard tell of during the course of our rides, and he had several: Besides knowing the whereabouts of abandoned wells of grave importance to hunters, he mentioned places like the Hogpen, the Hole, and the Hairpin. The latter two, still visible on Google Earth, each name assigned to trails forged for farming or logging, all located on the west side of Skyline Drive.
Conversation momentarily turns to ice cream, and the debate ensues as to who wants what, with many, “I changed my minds,” in between. Both Dad and Mom settle on splitting a banana split. Returning North on Skyline Drive, Dad decided to take the first left going down Pepper Road.
I have found in old articles that Pepper Road had also been called Pepperville Road. The property immediately on the west side of the road had once belonged to the Pepper family. John William Pepper and Ruth Annie Kirk had immigrated from Leicestershire, England. They raised their family on Bluff Point. Dad went into great detail describing how the farm was huge, with a great big white farmhouse and a barn. He had never been in the house but was told by other Pepper family members that there had been a wood kitchen stove, and water needed for the kitchen was brought up by the pail from a pump down the hill in the gully. There was also an outhouse.
They owned several animals: cows, horses to pull the plow, rabbits, chickens, and pigs. Best known for their Concord grape vineyards, they also had assorted apple, cherry, and pear trees as well as black and red raspberries and strawberries. This property is now part of Keuka Lake State Park. Sadly, the Pepper home perished in a fire.
Our ride down Pepper Road continued, and we only had to cross over West Bluff Drive, which was perpendicular to Skyline Drive. This next property belonged to Herb Valentine; he owned around 114 acres, with his property adjoining the Gridley property. Both Pepper and Valentine properties went down the hill from Skyline Drive to Keuka Lake.
Dad and his father had been out hunting deer on a cold December morning when they heard cries for help coming from the Herb Valentine property. They found Herb lying on the ground near the wood pile. He had gone out to get wood for his stove the night before and fallen. Unable to get up, he had laid there overnight. Thankfully, Mr. Valentine didn’t suffer any great harm.
The Finger Lakes State Park, as it was known then, filed notice of acquisition and transfer of deeds, dated November of 1961 after the death of Herb Valentine. The Pepper and Valentine property totaled close to 500 acres.
I remember Dad parking the car at the top of West Bluff Drive in the winter, as the road was and still isn’t plowed in the winter. My parents, my siblings, and I would trudge through the snow part way down West Bluff Drive with our sleds in tow. We would be exhausted just going sledding down the hill two or three times.
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(Mostly) Lost, but Not Forgotten: A Thief in Paradise (1925)
Direction: George Fitzmaurice
Scenario: Frances Marion (learn more at the Women Film Pioneers Project)
Original Novel: Leonard Merrick’s “The Worldlings”
Camera: Arthur C. Miller
Set Design: Anton Grote
Studio: Goldwyn (production) & First National (distribution)
Performers: Doris Kenyon, Ronald Colman, Aileen Pringle, Claude Gillingwater, Alec B. Francis, John Patrick, Charles Youree, Etta Lee, Lon Poff
Polo Players: Nita Cavalier, Virginia Jolly, Martha Wing
Premiere: 25 January 1925 at the Strand, New York
Status: presumed lost, save for a trailer
Length: 7, 231-7,251 feet, or roughly 71 minutes. (8 reels)
Synopsis (synthesized from magazine summaries of the plot):
While pearl diving off the coast of a remote South Seas island, Philip Jardine (Youree) and Maurice Blake (Colman) have a vicious fight underwater over the possession of a valuable pearl. In the struggle, Jardine is cut and subsequently attacked by a shark and killed. Blake manages to escape to shore.
Aileen Pringle & Ronald Colman in A Thief in Paradise from Exhibitors Trade Review, 10 January 1925
Rosa Carmino (Pringle), Jardine’s common-law wife, reveals to Blake that Jardine came from a wealthy family back in the United States. A letter and money has arrived to carry Jardine back home to San Francisco to reunite with his long-estranged father (Gillingwater). Carmino convinces Blake to assume Jardine’s identity. Blake Has doubts, but the promise of a fresh start leads him to accept the proposition. Blake and Carmino travel together to California.
The deception is successful and Blake begins running in high society where he meets Helen Saville (Kenyon). Saville is the daughter of a Bishop (Francis), who happens to be the elder Jardine’s best friend. The old men are keen on the relationship, but Blake is held back by guilt over his deception. Additionally, as part of the identity theft scheme, Blake is bankrolling Carmino’s luxurious bohemian lifestyle.
Top: Bathing Beauties in A Thief in Paradise from Exhibitors Trade Review, 10 January 1925 | Bottom: Bathing Beauties in A Thief in Paradise from Screenland, February 1925
On the grounds of the Jardine estate, a bevy of bathing beauties decide to put on a polo match—blondes vs. brunettes. Saville is also spending the day riding, and her horse gets startled and bolts headlong toward a cliff. Blake springs into action and manages to save Saville at the last moment. Overwhelmed by the situation, Blake confesses his love for Saville. The exchange is overheard by Jardine and the Bishop.
Alec Francis, Claude Gillingwater, Doris Kenyon, & Ronald Colman in A Thief in Paradise from Exhibitors Trade Review, 10 January 1925
Jardine throws an extravagant party where he announces the youngsters’ engagement. Unfortunately, Carmino is one of the entertainers hired for the party. Carmino performs a dramatic under-the-sea dance number that creatively retells the story of Blake and Jardine’s underwater battle. As it turns out, Carmino is in love with Blake and she is unpleasantly surprised with the engagement announcement. Carmino threatens to expose Blake. Blake attempts to pay her off.
Under-the-water dance sequence in A Thief in Paradise from Exhibitors Trade Review, 10 January 1925
Blake and Saville are married and head off via airplane to Del Monte Beach for their honeymoon. Blake is overwhelmed with guilt and is working up the courage to make a full confession to Saville. Unbeknownst to Blake, Carmino has followed the couple. Carmino goes straight to Saville, but rather than revealing the deception, she claims that she is Blake’s mistress and that he has been keeping her. Carmino uses the pay-off check Blake gave her as evidence. Saville is heartbroken and immediately returns home.
Blake follows Saville back to San Francisco, where he confesses to both the elder Jardine and Saville. The old man’s heart is also broken as he has accepted Blake as his son and loved him as such. Blake is despondent and shoots himself.
Miraculously, Blake survives and Saville has chosen to stand by him and nurse him back to health. Jardine has accepted Blake as his true son, forgiving the deception. Carmino returns home.
Miscellaneous stills from A Thief in Paradise from Motion Picture News, 26 December 1925 [L to R: John Patrick, Aileen Pringle, Ronald Colman, Pringle, Pringle, Etta Lee, Colman, Doris Kenyon, Kenyon, Colman, Pringle]
Additional sequences featured in the film (but I’m not sure where they fit in the continuity):
Another dance sequence by Pringle as Carmino staged in her studio apartment
Aileen Pringle in A Thief in Paradise from Exhibitors Trade Review, 10 January 1925
The Bishop Saville and Jardine play chess and the Bishops cheats, is caught by Jardine
Claude Gillingwater & Alec Francis in A Thief in Paradise from Motion Picture Magazine, March 1925
Four old men are left to care for a baby and are at a loss
Four old men (Alec B. Francis & Claude Gillingwater to right) in A Thief in Paradise from Exhibitors Trade Review, 10 January 1925
A snafu regarding a taxicab losing its wheel, driver is upset
Taxicab snafu in A Thief in Paradise from Exhibitors Trade Review, 10 January 1925
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Points of Interest:
Contemporary blurb that describes the under-the-sea dance sequence in more detail:
“By a combination of photography and set design, gigantic fish swim about among the coral trees and huge sea shells. Even the human participants in the under-sea dance make their entrance as divers swimming down from the surface to the immense shell on the ocean’s floor which serves as the hiding place of the stellar feminine dancer who is clad in a symbolic costume of pearls. “In order to enhance the brilliancy of the picture, the entire set, including coral, shells and floor of the sea, was finished in bright silver and the costumes of the dancers were made entirely of especially constructed luminous silver and gold cloth. Even the natural flicker of light and shadow which characterizes scenes actually filmed under water was reproduced by the technicians. “The marine dance tableau constitutes a play within a play in “A Thief in Paradise.” It is the entertainment provided by the host at a lavish engagement party given in honor of two of the principals and also has an important dramatic value in developing one of the many dramatic moments of the story.” - Moving Picture World, 10 January 1925
Based on some of the stills, I think it’s possible that Aileen Pringle may have had a double for this dance sequence, but no other dancers are credited. There is also no credit I could find for a choreographer.
The amount of pure spectacle packed into a mere seventy-one minutes is astounding to me! Knowing how skilled Frances Marion was as a scenarist, I don’t doubt that A Thief in Paradise managed to deliver plot just as well as it (according to contemporary reviews) delivered the spectacle. Film historians have been working for years to restore Marion’s rightful place as a crucial figure in American film history, so examples of her work being lost sting just that much more.
Despite the fact that A Thief in Paradise was a huge success and a top box-office draw of 1925, comparatively little digitized material exists online. Most notably absent are stills from the South Seas portion of the film.
This Ronald Colman fan website has some screenshots from the extant trailer as well as a digitized copy of a program from ATiP’s German release.
Hawaiian actress Etta Lee also appears in this film as Carmino’s maid. I ended up going down a bit of a rabbit hole reading about Lee and will probably end up doing a spin-off of this post about her career. You may recognize Lee from her roles in The Untameable (1923), The Toll of the Sea (1922), or The Thief of Baghdad (1924)
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James Cagney and Anita Louise in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, 1935) Cast: Dick Powell, Ross Alexander, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Muir, James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Victor Jory, Anita Louise, Mickey Rooney, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Dewey Robinson, Ian Hunter, Verree Teasdale. Screenplay: Charles Kenyon, Mary C. McCall Jr., based on a play by William Shakespeare. Cinematography: Hal Mohr. Art direction: Anton Grot. Film editing: Ralph Dawson. Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, adapted from works by Felix Mendelssohn. Costume design: Max Rée. Choreography: Bronislava Nijinska The spirit that animates this version of A Midsummer Night's Dream is not that of William Shakespeare but Felix Mendelssohn. Shakespeare's text has been trimmed to a nubbin and hashed up by the "arrangers," Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr., and it's gabbled by the all-star cast. Strangely, Olivia de Havilland and Mickey Rooney are the worst offenders, since they are the only members of the cast of Max Reinhardt's celebrated 1934 Hollywood Bowl production who made it into the movie. De Havilland delivers her lines with heavy emphasis on seemingly random words and with odd pauses, while Rooney punctuates every line with giggles, chortles, and shrieks that affect some viewers like fingernails on a chalkboard. Nobody in the cast seems to be aware that they're speaking verse. Fortunately, the decision was made to use the Mendelssohn overture and incidental music (along with snippets of other works by Mendelssohn), and to have it orchestrated by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The result is an opulently balletic version of the play, taking advantage of what can be done in movies that can't be done on stage. Is it good? Maybe not, but it's much more fun than the stodgily reverent version of Romeo and Juliet (George Cukor, 1936) that MGM came up with the following year. Casting James Cagney as Bottom/Pyramus and Joe E. Brown as Flute/Thisby was a masterstroke, and if they had been directed by someone with a surer sense of American comic idiom than Reinhardt, the Viennese refugee from Hitler who spoke very little English (co-director William Dieterle, a German émigré, acted as interpreter), the results would have been classic -- as it is, they're just bumptious fun. Much of the design for the movie is reminiscent of the work of early 20th century illustrators of children's books like Walter Crane, Arthur Rackham, and John R. Neill, though with a tendency toward the twee. But there is a spectacular moment in the film when Oberon gathers the fairies, gnomes, and bat-winged sprites to depart, under a billowing smoky black train. The cinematography by Hal Mohr won the only write-in Oscar ever granted by the Academy.
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