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"Agitators Back Strike," Border Cities Star. April 14, 1934. Page 3 & 11. ---- Workers' Unity League Organizers Come In For Trouble ---- Marxist Group ---- Wherever Any Disturbance Starts, Some Leaders Start Pouring In ---- The Workers Unity League - a 100 per cent. Marxist group with international affiliations - is directing strikes and strike agitation among the automobile workers of the Border Cities.

WALKING DELEGATES The flame of unrest and discord in nearly all of the automobile plants of this area is being fed by the high-powered oratory of organizers and "walking delegates," many of them imported from Toronto, Vancouver and other centres, for the occasion. After the arrival of the Workers' Unity League in any community trouble follows. League orators were busy in Stratford during the furniture workers' strike there last year. The result was a situation evidently demanding the use of the regular soldiery.

FROM ENGLAND The fluent, plausible Douglas Stewart, who came out to America after England's general strike of 1921, is the central figure in the strike of the employes of the Canadian Motor Lamp Company of East Windsor.

Mr. Stewart is not an employe of the lamp works. He has never been an employe of that firm. In fact, there is nothing on the records indicating that he has been employed by any firm in the Border area at any time. Mr. Stewart's business apparently is organizing for the international Labor movement.

HERE BEFORE Wherever trouble develops, Mr. Stewart is there, sooner or later if he is in the neighborhood. He was in the township of Sandwich West last year when the relief workers of the "New Detroit" area threw down their shovels and marched to the relief office. In the shade of the relief bureau Mr. Stewart addressed the relief recipients.

Mr. Stewart has been in and out of the Border Cities the past year or 18 months. When things are quiet Mr. Stewart is elsewhere, sometimes with Izzy Minster, a leading figure in the Winnipeg strike disorders. Mr. Stewart's co-orator, Mr. Minster is conducting an agitation in another Canadian city or he would be on the picket line in East Windsor.

Vancouver among other centres knows Mr. Stewart. He has been active on the Pacific coast. And Mr. Stewart, by his own revelation at East Windsor strike meetings has been in jail as a result of his organizing efforts.

ANOTHER LEADER Another leader of the left wing movement in this area is James Cochrane of Walkerville. Mr. Cochrane, like Mr. Stewart, organizes. He does not work in any of the local automobile plants although he did at one time. Mr. Cochrane is bound up tightly with the left wing or so-called "Red" movement. He has been long identified with the United Front, an organization which sprang up over-night after the Canadian courts put the Communist Party underground.

Mr. Cochrane ran for the Walkerville town council once. He served a term in the Essex County Jail at Sandwich for unlawful utterances in Lanspeary Park. The occasion was a "free speech" rally sponsored by the Canadian Labor Defence League. (Rev. A. E. Smith is national secretary of that unit.)

Mr. Cochrane marched in the May Day parade. He had led groups of jobless and welfare workers on to the city halls and relief bureaux. Wherever trouble lurks there one will find Mr. Cochrane or Mr. Stewart or Alderman Tom Raycraft of East Windsor or his colleague, Alderman Reg Morris.

Mr. Cochrane will speak in Windsor, Sandwich East, Riverside-it's all the same to him as long as there is indication of friction between employes and employers.

RAYCRAFT AND MORRIS Alderman Raycraft also is in the forefront of the battle and every battle where there is a chance to keep things stirred up. Alderman Raycraft was in the county jail with Mr. Cochrane. He is to be seen on the picket line at the lamp works and in the conference halls of the Ukrainian Hall, the East Windsor citadel of the revolutionary workers movement.

The same is true of Alderman Morris. He also may be observed on the picket lines, also at the continuous meetings of "agitational" or "organizational" and "propaganda" committees in the Ukrainian Hall.

The Workers Unity League deplores in its enthusiasm that it lacks sufficient organizers to handle the local situation. Fred Collins who evidently made himself famous at the Stratford disturbances was here at the tag end of the Auto Specialties walkout but he was called away. Everything was left temporarily to Organizer Stewart and his associates.

OTHER COMMUNISTS A number of assistant organizers of minor importance are on the scene. They have been coming here in notice- able numbers since the first of the year. They are young, aggressive, fast talkers and nearly all of them appear to be students of Marx and Lenin They are, in many instances, graduates of the Young Communist League. And some of them actually are employed in local shops and factories.

The big organization drive in the automotive section under auspices of the Workers' Unity League has been under way for months. Followers of the United Front were busy last year. haranguing workers at the factory gates, passing out literature, placing their delegates on the lines in the shops as the nucleus of the Auto Workers Industrial Union.

Progress was necessarily slow and labored. Obviously, the time was not opportune. Few men were at work. It was an off season in the auto trade.

But with this year's big improve- ment in industry, with employment figures back to the level of the sum- mer of 1931, it was time to strike. The iron was hot.

WORK BY SYSTEM Organizers of the Workers' Unity League went methodically about their business. They are shrewd. They know the organizing game. It's their business. So they picked out the small accessory plants, firms, they said, which had the lowest payrolls.

The employes won at the recent Auto Specialties strike. They won a week ago tonight at the Windsor Bedding Company.

This is the ninth day of the strike at the Canadian Motor Lamp Company of East Windsor. The men struck the same morning as the bedding workers. But there is an obvious hitch in the program. Victory did not come overnight. Victory or even partial victory is not assured today.

The strike drags on. The company warned at the outset it could shut down operations and the local plants still would be served with lamps from outside sources.

Even now some of the younger and "less militant" of the striking lamp workers indicate willingness to go back and deal individually across the green table with their employers.

But rousing speeches by the organisers in secret caucus and in front of the plant, has kept them in line. POLICE INACTIVE Belligerent pickets in front of the shop - unhampered by police - have kept away from the factory some men who did not walk out but who naturally did not want to risk life and limb in a dash through the mob without police protection.

Fearful of a permanent lockout and its discouraging effects on their confederates who contemplated strikes in neighboring plants in the event of a successful termination of the works strike, the shrewd organizers realized the time had come for a new avenue of approach.

CHRYSLER AND FORD And so the call has gone out to the employes of the Chrysler planta and to the men of the Ford Company.

The reaction of the men in these plants, however, evidently has not justified a general walkout. The greater majority of the men in these establishments evidently are satisfied with their lot.

As strike sympathizers passed out cards at the Chrysler gates this week some of the Chrysler men made it clear they did not want any interference with their jobs by outsiders.

Angrily they struck the cards from the hands of the organizers or ignored them completely.

A mass meeting called in Windsor for Chrysler men was poorly attended. Organizer Stewart spoke. He maintained he was not discouraged. He wouldn't say anything else it would be bad for his business and for Mr. Cochrane's business.

It is quite evident to the organizers, however, that plans for a general walkout in the Border have received a setback. The men who are working, some of them for the first time in three years at steady employment, will not be enticed away by Organizers Stewart and Cochrane. They will not even listen to them.

Another attempt to line up the automobile werkers is being staged tomorrow night. A theatre has been leased for the purpose and all employes of the Border Cities have been invited to hear Organizers Stewart and Cochrane who will tell them "of the benefits of a united front."

Mr. Stewart, of course, will not be able to review his experiences in any of the local factories. He has never worked in any of them.

The slogan for tomorrow night's meeting is to be "back to seven dollars per day in all the automotive plants.

There is every indication that the men of Chrysler's and the men of Ford's and the men of all other plants in this area, large and small. will say "back to the job in the morning.

For years past this is the first time the majority of them have had any real cash in their pockets Saturday nights and they indicate they will brook no interference from outside organizers.

It is not unreasonable to assume that the factory heads will give honest consideration to legitimate grievances and requests if presented to them in a businesslike manner by the employes themselves not by professional organisers whose experiences date back to the general strike in England and beyond.

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myhauntedsalem · 4 years ago

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Essex Mountain Sanatorium

In 1869 in Essex County, New Jersey 325 acres of farmland were purchased on the border of Verona and Cedar Grove to establish the Essex County Asylum for the Insane. The facility, mainly aimed at curing tuberculosis patients, caring for orphaned children, and taking care of the mentally ill was known as the Essex Mountain Sanatorium, or simply the Hilltop. According to records the facility instituted practices such a shock therapy treatment, full frontal lobe lobotomies, and physical beatings on over 400,000 patients. The death total numbered somewhere in the thousands. Poorly clothed and sometimes naked, these legions of lost souls were shown pacing aimlessly on the wards, lying on the filthy cement floors, or sitting head in hand against the pock-marked walls.

Eventually, in 1943 a cure for tuberculosis was found. This advance in medicine made tuberculosis a treatable disease. By 1946 almost all patients who suffered from this disease were cured and the number of ill patients residing in Essex decreased dramatically. No Longer needed the asylum was eventually abandoned in 1970 . The foreboding buildings that once sat atop the hill were left to fall into ruins for almost 2 decades.

Since then, stories and rumors have circulated about the strange occurrences that are known to have taken place here. Tales were told of escaped lunatics that roamed the hallways of the derelict buildings and made their homes in the subterranean tunnels that permeated the facility’s foundations. Although the asylum is patrolled and is trespassing is well, to say the least, Forbidden, ghost hunters and alike have occasionally been granted permission to explore the old buildings. In doing so most of them have had the snot scared out them and its no wonder when tales of screaming voices yelling for them “to get out” or wondering ghostly children who lurk behind every twist and turn on the 3rd story floor wait patiently for the right moment to strike. Some people have reported ghostly apparitions appearing out of no where walking the halls, unexplainable strange mists, ghostly footsteps, and a wheel chair that seemingly moves about on its own.

As if phantom voices and ghostly mists aren’t enough to tingle every hair on your body the atmosphere itself washes a sense of fear and foreboding over you. With hospital beds, gurneys, and medical equipment strewn about the place, from a time that no longer exists, one cannot help but to imagine what lurks behind closed doors.

#Essex Mountain Sanatorium #haunted locations #haunted hospitals #paranormal #ghost and hauntings #ghost and spirits

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peabodyinstitutearchives · 5 years ago

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Improved Order of Red Men medal from 1888. On the front there is an image of a Native-American in the middle of the medal. This would have been from Masconomo Tribe No. 11 of Peabody; according to the "History of Essex County" the organization formed in 1886. In the 1908 Naumkeag Street Directory the group was re-instituted on April 23, 1906.

It is known that meetings were held on Monday's at the Masonic Hall according to the "Record of the Great Council of the United States of the Improved Order of Red Men, 1893"

It is not clear what this ribbon was used for or who would have worn it.

#wayback wednesday #way back wednesday #waybackwednesday #Improved Order of Red Men #Masconomo Tribe No. 11 #Masconomo Tribe No. 11 of Peabody #Peabody #Peabody MA #Local History #Local History Resource Center #Peabody Institute #Peabody Institute Library

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xtruss · 3 years ago

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Chatellerault, France 🇫🇷! The balloonist Rémi Ouvrard attempts to set a world record by standing on top of a hot air balloon at an altitude of more than 3,637 metres.

Chelmsford, UK 🇬🇧! Visitors enjoy the Glow winter light trail, featuring 1,100 coloured lights and five miles of cable, at RHS Garden Hyde Hall in Essex.

Crimes of White Trashes, Brantford, Canada 🇨🇦! Children’s shoes and soft toys sit on the steps as a tribute to the missing children of the former Mohawk Institute residential school, one of Canada’s oldest and longest-running former Indigenous residential schools, as a search begins for more unmarked graves of students.

London, UK 🇬🇧! The lord mayor elect, Vincent Keaveny, travels in the lord mayor’s state coach, believed to be the oldest ceremonial vehicle in regular use in the world, during a pre-dawn rehearsal of the Lord Mayor’s Parade. On Saturday Keaveny will be inaugurated as the 693rd lord mayor of the City of London.

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fdsarassons · 4 years ago

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Avenue south residence brochure

Castle Ward is Northern Ireland's most famous case of two architectural styles clamouring for attention in the one building: neoclassical versus gothick. Castle Dobbs has a less extreme but still surprising dual personality: Georgian versus Italianate. More of that later.

"For its date, 1750 to 54, it is quite without an equal in Ulster, while its perfect Palladian plan with flanking wings... is hard to match in a house of this scale anywhere in Ireland." Prof Alistair Rowan

Set in a secluded walled and wooded demesne, Castle Dobbs is an amazing survival, untouched by the orange glow of spreading suburbia and still owned by the family from whom its name is derived. The present High Sheriff of County Antrim is Nigel Dobbs. His ancestor Richard Dobbs became High Sheriff of County Antrim in 1664. Its ethereal postal address is 74 Tongue Loanen.

The estate was established in the 16th century when a young John Dobbs accompanied Sir Henry Dockwra to Carrickfergus in 1596. Dobbs subsequently became Dockwra's deputy as Treasurer of Ulster. John Dobbs was the grandson of Sir Richard Dobbs, Lord Mayor of London in 1551 and a founder of Christ's Hospital London. A title would never Avenue south residence brochure appear in the Dobbs lineage again.

Seven years later John Dobbs married Margaret Dalway, the only child of John Dalway, a landowner granted estates in Kilroot and Ballynure in 1601 by James I. Dobbs presented the newlyweds with a freehold lease of a portion of his lands in Kilroot. The couple proceeded to build the first Castle Dobbs. It was recorded in 1610:

"One John Dobb buylte a fayre castle within two myle of Knockfargus called Dobbes Castle about w'ch he entends to buylde a bawne of stone... This Castle is buylte upon parte of Ensigne Dallawayes lande."

Dalway had come to Ireland in the 1570s as an officer in the Earl of Essex's army. In 1606 he built a bawn (a stone enclosure for cows) on his newly acquired land. The bawn consisted of four 10m high towers with a 13m long curtain wall between each one. He built his house in the middle of the bawn.

Over the entrance to the bawn is a gallows for unwelcome visitors. The towers had three floors fitted for firing cannons. Three of the towers remain. Originally the bawn would have held 200 cows. Dalway was Mayor of Carrickfergus in 1592 and 1600. The last of the Dalways, Marriott Dalway, left with his family for Australia in 1884.

Back to the Dobbs family. John and Margaret had two sons with the great names of Foulk and Hercules. Dalway naturally nominated his grandson as heir since he was the elder son. But a family row was to erupt over the Dalway estate.

On the death of his first wife, Dalway married Jane Norton who couldn't stand the sight of her step daughter-in-law. Norton persuaded her new husband to make a will in favour of his nephew instead. All hell broke loose in 1618 when Dalway died. John and Margaret began a protracted legal battle to claim the estate for Foulk's sake.

At the first hearing the court ruled in favour of the Dobbs family but the elected heir challenged this ruling. Not one to give up easily, John Dobbs set off with his son to London to petition the king. He succeeded in obtaining His Majesty's Grant to the lands of the late John Dalway.

However their triumphal return was not to be. Both Dobbs senior and junior drowned when their ship was wrecked off the Cheshire coastline in 1622. Hercules continued the legal confrontation with all his strength. The law suit was finally settled with a compromise when referees appointed by the Lord Chancellor ruled that Hercules be awarded lands at Castle Dobbs and Ballynure as well as rights to tenement in Carrickfergus. The remainder of the estate was awarded to Dalway's nephew. The ruling must have made for awkward neighbourly relations - Dalway's Bawn is a stone's throw from the entrance to the Castle Dobbs lands.

Hercules married Magdalene West of Ballydugan in 1633. They had one son, Richard, born in 1634. Hercules died the same year, aged 21. At just three months old, Richard Dobbs inherited Castle Dobbs along with land at Ballynure.

Richard was reared by his mother's family in County Down around Downpatrick and Saul. Aged 21 he married Dorothy Williams, daughter of Bryan Williams of Clints Hall in Yorkshire. After his marriage, Dobbs returned to Castle Dobbs. In 1683 he wrote,

"My house, which is a plantation and improvement of my own time (tho' descended from my great Grandfather)... is called Castle-Dobs from a small castle here, built by my Grandfather." Richard set to work improving the castle and gardens. The ruins of this castle lie beside the current house. Dalway's Bawn is still intact although the house it once surrounded has disappeared into the mists of time.

On settling at Castle Dobbs he soon became involved in civil affairs. In 1671 Dobbs was elected Mayor of Carrickfergus, an honour bestowed on him on four later occasions. Carrickfergus was one of the four most important towns of late 17th century Ireland. Perks of the job included the requirement that tenants would "furnish the Mayor with a number of fat hens at Christmas or a specified sum in lieu". Dobbs described improvements to his town:

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gibberingcultist · 4 years ago

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Return to the Dunwich Legacy

There is only one h in Dunwhich. There is only one h in Dunwhich. There is only one h in Dunwhich. . .

Designers: Matthew Newman, Adam Sadler, Brady Sadler Artists: Lots and lots! I’ll do my best to credit the imagery utilized. Cover image by Tomasz Jedruszek. Playtime: 60-120 minutes per scenario. BGG Weight: 4 / 5 (based on 1 vote. Pshh!) Mechanisms: Action Point Allowance System, Cooperative Play, Deck / Pool Building, Hand Management, Role Playing, Variable Player Powers

Our Investigators

What’s a smelly drifter doing teaming up with a famed astronomer? I have…no idea. I chose “Ashcan” Pete primarily because he was an investigator from the Dunwich expansion that I have yet to play. But also Ashcan seems pretty flexible with his trusty dog Duke which starts immediately in play. Duke can assist Ashcan Pete in either investigating and or attacking monsters while not taking up his crucial ally slot. Lets just hope nothing bad ever happens to Duke. Ashcan seems pretty flimsy without him. My GF chose or rather settled for Norman Withers (replacement) because he is the last Seeker Investigator that she has yet to play. She loves the Seeker Class. He will be able to cast some spells which will help us with combat and encounter deck mitigation perhaps. It also helps that both our investigators have high willpower in preparation for some barn-busting bastards that may or may not be coming to a country side near you.

Ashcan Pete allows for up to 5 level 0 cards from any other class. I went for all Guardian cards. Trusted to help boost Duke’s health and sanity, and in-turn Ashcan’s overall success. I also grabbed a few trusty weapons from the Guardian deck and most importantly Dynamite. The Forgotten Age has scarred me. Besides that, I love my Lucky‘s and my Resourceful‘s from the Survivor class.

It does make sense for Norman Withers to have connections with Dr. Henry Armitage. I’m going to imagine Ashcan to be like Mack from Cannery Row. And Norman would be Doc. Ashcan is going to work real hard to get Norman some frogs. But first Norman will need to lend Ashcan some gas money. . . and a car.

The House Always Wins

I thought one of the two primary purposes of the Return To boxes was to fix any errors or problems with the original scenarios and yet the creators didn’t think to fix that lack of instruction about criminal enemies losing their aloof keyword after Agenda 1a. We should have realized sooner but because the scenario didn’t specifically state that they lost the aloof keyword, we didn’t even think of it until we already moved onto Agenda 3a. There was no turning back three rounds. It wouldn’t have even been an issue had they become hostile sooner either. I was prepared to fight anything and everything by Agenda 2a. It’s just frustrating to do something wrong and so soon in the campaign. I would like to see the necessary reprinting of specific cards included in these Return To boxes. I suppose FFG has plans to sell us errata packs later or a RE-Return to…

Beyond that one miscommunication, The House Always Wins is a very thematic and enjoyable scenario. We are tasked by our old mentor Dr. Henry Armitage to seek out two of his colleagues, Francis Morgan and Warren Rice. Armitage is in distress about Warren Rice potentially being in danger and Armitage is unable to contact either individual. Francis Morgan will know where to find Warren so we decide to find Francis first in hopes that he will give us some sort of benefit later on. So off to Francis’ favorite casino and lounge.

One doesn’t only get clues through the conventional method of taking an investigation action but rather he/she needs to press their luck gambling, grease some wheels by purchasing drinks for patrons at the bar, tip the performers for some inside information, and or just plain cheat your way through. The aloof hunter pit-boss will follow you around the establishment making sure you aren’t putting your nose anywhere it doesn’t belong. I only wish I could have killed him myself for his victory point before allowing the Conglomeration of Spheres to devour him. The conglomeration moved through, consuming everything and anyone in it’s path a la The Blob. Using any melee weapons against the blob also devours the weapons in the process. Fun! In the end we did manage to knock Francis Morgan out of his trance and run out into the back alley before any serious harm was done. Overall a very fun scenario.

Extracurricular Activity

Turns out Dr. Henry Armitage has separation anxiety issues. It’s been only 5 hours since he has last seen Professor Rice and already he’s digging in the trash, having accidents, barking at the door. I wonder what kind of extracurricular activities were going on between these two. Anyway, now that we have Francis Morgan in tow. . . never mind, Francis didn’t help one bit. Extracurricular Activity was another incredibly enjoyable scenario, this time taking place late at night, at the Miskatonic University. Being that we chose to find Professor Rice second, he was no longer in his office. Where could he have gone? Meanwhile a strange biological experiment breaks out of the Chem labs, and starts making it’s way towards student housing. Both Ashcan and Norman rush to warn the kids and successfully manage to wake them before the foul experiment conducts a few experiments of it’s own on the sleeping students. But instead, I suppose it just slinks off into the woods. Who knows!

The need to locate and request the help of the night janitor to gain access to the offices was top notch. Immediately soon after finding and making friends with “Jazz” Mulligan, we are forced to make the decision between finding Professor Rice or saving the students while the clock quickly ticks down. Everything in this scenario worked at making you discard as many of your cards as possible. That in combination with the Beyond the Veil treachery card, a dire feeling of dread from running out of time is established. Beyond the Veil would almost certainly eliminate most investigators unless you have a ton of allies to help soak some of that damage. So between a quickly thinning deck and the ever creeping experiment, decisions need to be made. I hope we made the right one. In the end, Professor Rice is believed to be kidnapped. Armitage ends up joining our party as he can’t handle staying home alone any longer.

The Miskatonic Museum

Several months ago, Armitage and his colleagues stopped a rampaging horror from tearing through Dunwich, a backwater town several hours north and west of Arkham (read The Dunwich Horror for a better understanding of what all went down). Shortly after, a bestial citizen of Dunwich, named Wilbur Whateley recently made an attempt to steal the Latin translation of a book called The Necronomicon but died in the process. Armitage feels that this book, currently located at the Miskatonic Museum, will once again be the target for theft. So in order to protect it we are tasked with stealing it first. Makes total sense! Harold Walsted, curator of the museum, might also be able to help us. Upon breaking and entering into the museum, a monster called the Hunting Horror is also discovered to be perusing the exhibits long after visiting hours has ended. The Hunting Horror is a persistent winged snake creature that grows stronger the longer the scenario runs. We end up killing it three or four times over the course of the break-in, yet it manages to keep coming back from the void.

This scenario was just as fun as the other two played so far. We seem to be on a whirl-wind tour of some of Arkham’s notable locations. Gaining control of the night security guard was a god-send for my character as both Ashcan’s personal-weakness cards have double action resolutions. So having good old Adam Lynch with us helped save me many actions through-out the scenario. He even made it easier for us to know which exhibit halls we should or shouldn’t enter. Adam Lynch should get a raise. Harold Walsted was unfortunately ripped to shreds at some point during the night. We eventually gained access to the restricted hall, where we once again decimated the hunting horror and retrieved the cursed Necronomicon. The Hunting Horror is like a backwoods version of the Harbinger of Valusia.

We choose to keep the Necronomicon because destroying books, even evil ones, are against our nature. If evil did exist, I would want there to be some sort of record or compilation of the knowledge of evil rather than to live in ignorance of it. Not knowing doesn’t keep the evil from happening. So in direct opposition to that of HP Lovecraft’s written stories. Afterwards, we decide it’s best to lay low for a while after all that we have seen and done. So we catch the next train to Dunwich to continue our investigation into what else is possibly going down. I only wish Adam Lynch could have submitted vacation time to come with.

The Essex County Express

Zebulon Whateley and a Earl Sawyer meet us at the station. We are so exhausted from the events on the train that we fall asleep upon the drive to Dunwich and wake up naked in a stranger’s bed. Actually I don’t know if we were naked. Probably though. This is a horror game after all. Upon our waking, we find a mostly abandoned Dunwich to explore and to judge with great disdain. You know Blood on the Altar is going to be fun when you are instructed to assemble a stack of potential sacrifices. Investigators are tasked with exploring the streets and back alleys of Dunwich in search of missing citizens. Something strange is going down and we aren’t getting any warm welcomes from those still too present to not be missing (?). In our thorough search we find a hidden chamber (and the key for admittance) that was housing a massive grotesque abomination. We find this hidden chamber very quickly strangely enough. Armitage must have had some prior knowledge of its where-abouts from his previous gallivant through the scenic Dunwich countryside. We somehow make the determination that this abomination, a mass of flesh, meat, and bones is that of Silas Bishop, one of the missing townsfolk. Or perhaps many of the missing townsfolk. Not sure. We quickly resort to the Necronomicon and cast a restoration spell as if this wasn’t our first abomination rodeo. Someone seems to be turning people into mini Yog-Sothoths. Somehow in the process, Zebulon Whateley gets himself scarified to Yog-Sothoth. I do hate when that happens. Sorry friend.

Kidnapped was especially terrifying for me as Ashcan because if Duke had been kidnapped and sacrificed to Yog-Sothoth. . . I’m pretty sure Ashcan would have just given up on life and drank himself into an early grave. Or at least that’s the story I would make up in my head as I file his investigator card away and build a new deck for my new investigator.

Blood on the Altar

Undimensioned and Unseen

This is the most frustrating scenario in the history of scenarios. I refuse to believe anyone is able to kill all the Dunwich Horror’s that are running amok. Armitage and his buddies only had to deal with one within the story of The Dunwich Horror. Why do we have to deal with five of them! Seems a bit excessive don’t you think? I do appreciate the variety of them within the Return To campaign. Each horror has unique stats, conditions, and artwork. I did not realize the first time playing this campaign that these horrors are supposedly invisible and are only detectable through Armitage’s special dust concoction. Or the transferring of clues from specific map locations. I suppose that makes sense why we can’t damage them through normal means although I feel like dynamite would still do damage to anything, invisible or not. The title makes me think they are undimensioned as well. But diminsioned enough to destroy everything in their path

These massive horrors wander randomly from place to place, completely without purpose. Half the time you hope they don’t move into your location because it’s a terrible place to try to combat them. The other half of the time, you are finally ready to sink some damage into them, but now they moving away from you! It’s like herding cats. Giant hideous cats with lots of tentacles and mouths. So much of your time is spent either taking location-specific actions to draw them a particular way or you are taking the move action, one to three times in round, just to chase them down. Still a very thematic scenario. It’s just a scenario that you are meant to lose. We did what we could until eventually we just ran out of time.

Where Doom Awaits

Armitage & Friends™ speak of Sentinel Hill as a known site for dark rituals. Someone is making or calling these creatures into being, so we head there looking for anything out of the ordinary. The Dunwich townsfolk all seal their doors for the night, aware of something sinister is just on the horizon. The path up to the peak of sentinel Hill is long and winding. We get turned around quite a bit but eventually make our way to the peak where a Seth Bishop is conducting some sort of foul sorcery. Seth has managed to open up a rift in time and space, allowing for unknown horrors to escape through. We manage to appeal to Seth’s humanity by showing him what was left of Silas Bishop. Or perhaps it was the constellation pendant (elder sign?) that brought him back to reality. Anyway, his ritual was interrupted and we… enter the rift?! Yeah sure why not.

I enjoyed the struggle of getting up to the peak by exploring all the ascending and winding paths. Each path holding unknown dangers of losing time, resources or cards. My Ashcan was defeated by the infamous Beyond the Veil treachery card. But at least I died at the peak. Exactly how I imagine a real hike would be like, for me. Doom awaits at the peak it seems. I don’t quite follow all the different characters’ backgrounds and story lines but I do enjoy the thematic aspects of the Dunwich Legacy. I suppose the next step is to enter the gate and fight Yog-Sothoth itself.

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth’s fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

Lost in Time and Space

We entered, we stumbled around different times and spaces, we got stumped on what to do with the small rift just beyond our reach at the Edge of the Universe. Fortunately the Necronomicon seemed to understand our desires and worked through us to recite the proper verbiage to close the rift. Or something like that happened. Not sure how we suddenly knew what to do to close it. Then we high-tailed it out of there all the while avoiding Yog-Sothoth’s unwanted gaze. Some Yithian creatures make their appearance. Less scholarly then those from the Forgotten Age campaign.

The Return To made the scenario slightly more challenging in that when forced to move via a treachery card’s effect, you are instead returned to the terrifying presence of Yog-Sothoth. Yog-Sothoth can not be dealt damage and every so often, it’ll strike out at you from Realms Beyond. So Yog-Sothoth seems to be very much like an Azathoth in that it seems to be a destroyer of worlds. So big and so beyond one’s comprehension that he’s not killable per say. Luckily it has been banished and locked outside the universe and now will remain so for the duration of this campaign.

In Summary

This has been a very enjoyable campaign. Having as many additional cards in your investigator deck would be key to surviving and doing well in this campaign. Most of the treacheries or scenario specific effects will force you to discard cards from your deck. This can be great if you have some weaknesses get discarded this way. Terrible if you have a Beyond the Veil hiding down there waiting for you to exhaust your deck. So you play knowing full well you only have a few rounds left before you are straight up killed. Building a good deck can feel somewhat less worthwhile considering half the time you will end up just discarding your nice upgraded cards from these treachery effects anyway. So there’s a higher chance you won’t even see the cards you put into your deck.

I felt like the story was a little lacking, or perhaps you have to understand what just took place in the Dunwich Horror (story) to best enjoy this narrative in this campaign. I would say the story doesn’t matter as much because the scenarios were fun to play. There’s the Miskatonic University, The Clover Club Casino, and the Miskatonic Museum. Then we take a treacherous journey on a midnight train to Dunwich where we explore the sodden streets and decrepit shanty town and uncover a series of sinister rituals to help Yog-Sothoth escape into our realm. Why anyone would ever want that is beyond me. Time for “Ashcan” Pete, Duke, and Norman Withers to retire.

Final Score (AVG): 4.375

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Coronavirus: What’s happening around the world on Saturday

The latest:

Canada has 109,995 coronavirus infections, including 96,819 recoveries, 8,882 deaths.

Wearing a mask is mandatory in Quebec as of Saturday.

How close are we to a vaccine for COVID-19?

Ottawa’s wage subsidy program to be expanded, extended to December.

Statistics Canada plans ‘contactless’ census for 2021.

Parts of Australia back in lockdown amid COVID-19 surge.

Global coronavirus infections pass 14 million, total deaths pass 600,000.

EU negotiations stretch into the night over budget, coronavirus fund

As of Saturday, masks are mandatory in indoor public spaces across Quebec. The new measure is kicking in as the province witnesses a slow but steady increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.

“It’s better to wear a mask than to be confined at home,” Premier François Legault said as he made the announcement last Monday. “It’s not fun wearing a mask, but it’s essential.”

The new directive, which applies to people aged 12 and older, coincided with tens of thousands of Quebecers spanning out on vacation with the beginning of the traditional two-week construction holiday.

The regulation applies to everyone 12 and older, although Legault said even children as young as two could be encouraged to wear a mask — either a certified medical face covering or a handcrafted one, as long as it covers the nose and mouth.

Quebec is the first province to mandate face-covering, despite criticism from some who say the government shouldn’t have a blanket policy when most regions outside Montreal weren’t deeply affected by COVID-19.

But Quebec’s director of public health said with the possibility of a second wave of the virus, all Quebecers should get in the habit of wearing masks.

Businesses will be expected to enforce the new rules and are subject to fines of between $400 and $6,000 if their customers are caught violating the directive.

That’s rankled small- and medium-sized business owners. A group of 13 associations representing the majority of those businesses called on the burden to be shifted to their delinquent clients.

WATCH | Quebec’s new mandatory mask rule is in effect:

As of Saturday, Quebecers aged 12 and over will have to wear a medical mask or one handcrafted by cloth in all indoor public spaces. 1:48

“We do think that asking people to wear masks in indoor, closed public spaces is fine. We prefer that rather than having to go into a second confinement and having to close our businesses again,” said Gopinath Jeyabalaratnam, a senior policy analyst at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

“Where we are having some trouble is that we have to play police, we have to be the enforcer of this measure.”

WATCH | Labour lawyer cautions enforcing mask policies is likely to cause some conflict:

Andrew Monkhouse says companies need to plan for difficult customers with clear policies and training for employees to help reduce tension. 5:26

What’s happening with coronavirus in Canada

As of 4 p.m. ET on Saturday, Canada had 111,001 coronavirus infections. Provinces and territories listed 96,912 of those as recovered or resolved. A CBC News tally of deaths based on provincial reports, regional health information and CBC’s reporting stood at 8,881, lower than Friday because Ontario retracted a reported death.

Ontario added 166 new cases on Saturday for a total of 37,440. The province also logged 132 new recoveries for a total of 33,294.

Many parts of Ontario moved to the next phase of the province’s COVID-19 recovery plan on Friday.

Stage 3 of the reopening effort took effect across 24 out of 34 public health units, though the jurisdictions that will keep operating under Stage 2 rules are among the busiest in the province. Stage 3 rules allow restaurants to resume indoor service, and businesses such as bars, gyms and theatres can start welcoming patrons again.

The latest rules for the province limit indoor gatherings to a maximum of 50 people, while as many as 100 people are allowed to congregate outdoors. The rules don’t yet apply in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas, Niagara Region and Windsor-Essex, all of which are still trying to reduce the numbers of local COVID-19 cases.

Quebec added 158 new cases on Saturday for a total of 57,300, including 50,027 recoveries. Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador logged no new infections on Saturday.

WATCH | Provinces to get $19B for ‘safe restart’ of cities:

The federal government has reached a $19-billion agreement with the provinces and territories for a “safe restart” of cities. The money will go toward funding child care, transit and purchasing personal protective equipment for front-line workers. 1:54

In Edmonton, an outbreak at Misericordia Community Hospital continues to grow. The hospital now has 53 cases, including 17 that emerged after the institution closed its doors last week when it declared a full facility outbreak. Seven deaths have been linked to the outbreak.

The hospital stopped admitting new patients last week. All services including the emergency department remain closed.

Here’s what’s happening around the world

Millions more children in the United States learned Friday that they’re unlikely to return to classrooms full time in the fall because of the coronavirus pandemic as death tolls reached new highs.

It came as many U.S. states — particularly in the Sunbelt — struggled to cope with the surge, and governments worldwide tried to control fresh outbreaks. In a sign of how the virus is galloping around the globe, the World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Saturday, with the total rising by 259,848 in 24 hours.

In the U.S., teams of military medics were deployed in Texas and California to help hospitals deluged by coronavirus patients. The two most populous states each reported roughly 10,000 new cases and some of their highest death counts since the pandemic began.

In Texas, Dr. Alison Haddock of the Baylor College of Medicine said the current situation is worse than after Hurricane Harvey, which swamped Houston with floodwaters in 2017. The state reported a new daily record for virus deaths on Friday and more than 10,000 confirmed cases for the fourth consecutive day.

“I’ve never seen anything like this COVID surge,” said Haddock, who has worked in emergency rooms since 2007. “We’re doing our best, but we’re not an ICU.”

Patients are waiting “hours and hours” to get admitted, she said, and the least sick people are lying in beds in halls to make room for most seriously ill.

Big numbers in Florida, Arizona and other states are also helping to drive the U.S. resurgence that’s forcing states to rethink the school year.

Texas gave public schools permission to stay closed for more than five million students well into the fall. Under the guidelines, schools can hold online-only instruction for up to the first eight weeks, potentially pushing a return to campus in some cities until November.

In Florida, Miami-area authorities began stepping up enforcement of a mask requirement. Code and fire inspectors have authority to issue tickets of up to $100 for individuals and $500 for businesses not complying with guidelines to wear masks and practise physical distancing. Police already had that power.

At least half of all states have adopted requirements for wearing face coverings.

WATCH | Fauci calls on leaders to be ‘forceful’ on mask-wearing:

Top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci says state and local leaders should be as forceful as possible on wearing masks to prevent spreading the deadly coronavirus, as the state of Georgia and its major cities tussle over masks. 0:38

But in Georgia, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has banned cities and counties from requiring face coverings. He sued Atlanta late Thursday to prevent it from defying his order, and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she was prepared to go to court to maintain the requirement.

Globally, confirmed cases surpassed 14 million, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University, and COVID-19 deaths neared 600,000. WHO reported a single-day record of new infections: over 237,000. Experts believe that the true numbers are even higher.

India’s total confirmed cases surpassed one million Friday, the third-highest in the world — behind the U.S. and Brazil — and its death toll reached more than 25,000. That followed an announcement Thursday that Brazil’s confirmed cases exceeded two million, including 76,000 deaths.

Health workers wait to screen people for COVID-19 symptoms at a temple in Mumbai, India, on Saturday. India crossed one million coronavirus cases on Friday, third only to the United States and Brazil, prompting concerns about its readiness to confront an inevitable surge that could overwhelm hospitals and test the country’s feeble health-care system. (Rafiq Maqbool/The Associated Press)

The surge in India — where experts believe the vast majority of cases are still being missed — drove home concerns over the readiness of some countries to cope with outbreaks that could test feeble health-care systems.

In sub-Saharan Africa, which already had the world’s greatest shortage of medical personnel, nearly 10,000 health workers in 40 countries have been infected, WHO said.

South Africa on Saturday could join the U.S., Brazil, India and Russia as the most badly hit countries as its cases near 350,000. Current case trends show it will surpass Peru.

That comes as the world marks Mandela Day, remembering South Africa’s first Black president and his legacy of fighting inequality. The country, however, remains the world’s most unequal, and health officials have warned that the pandemic will lay that bare.

On Friday, UN officials urged wealthy countries to do more to help developing nations respond to the pandemic. “COVID-19 and the associated global recession are about to wreak havoc in fragile and low-income countries,” Mark Lowcock, a senior official with the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said.

WATCH | Wealthy nations must increase aid to poor countries, UN official says:

Developing countries face ‘a series of human tragedies more brutal than the virus itself’ from the economic impact of the pandemic, says senior UN official. 0:38

He was speaking at a WHO briefing in Geneva, where he unveiled the UN’s third version since March of its Global Humanitarian Response Plan, now estimated to cost $10.3 billion US, to prevent “multiple cascading crises” related to the coronavirus.

He said the pandemic could push up to 100 million people back into poverty this year and urged wealthy countries to fund the response plan.

European Union leaders are searching for compromises on Saturday as a summit to reach a deal on an unprecedented 1.85 trillion euro ($2.1 trillion US) EU budget and coronavirus recovery fund enters its second day with tensions running high. A full day and night of discussions by the 27 leaders on Friday only added to the irritations over how the huge sums should be spent and what strings should be attached. The atmosphere “was grumpier this evening than this afternoon,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told Dutch reporters after Friday’s marathon talks. “This is going to take a while, I think.”

Employees pack N95 face masks for children at a factory near Changodar, India, on Friday. (Sam Panthaky/AFP via Getty Images)

In China, the number of confirmed cases in a new coronavirus outbreak in the country’s far west has risen to 17. The National Health Commission said Saturday that 16 more cases were identified in the previous 24 hours in the Xinjiang region, on top of a first case. As of Friday, mainland China had 83,644 confirmed coronavirus cases, the health authority said. The COVID-19 death toll remained at 4,634.

South Korea has reported 39 newly confirmed infections of COVID-19, most of them cases imported from abroad. The figures brought the national caseload to 13,711, including 294 deaths. Authorities said at least 28 cases were tied to overseas arrivals. Eighteen others came from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, which had been at the centre of a virus resurgence that began in late May as restrictions eased.

Health-care providers gather inside a work area protected by a sheet of plastic at the Eurnekian Ezeiza Hospital on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Tuesday. (Natacha Pisarenko/The Associated Press)

Brazil on Friday reported 2,046,328 confirmed cases, up from 2,012,151 the day before, when it crossed the two-million mark. Total deaths rose to 77,851 from 76,688, according to the Health Ministry.

Britain said on Saturday it was pausing its daily update of the death toll from the coronavirus in the United Kingdom after the government ordered a review into the calculation of the data over concern numbers might have been exaggerated. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday said he hopes the country will be “able to review the outstanding restrictions and allow a more significant return to normality from November at the earliest, possibly in time for Christmas.”

He also offered employers “more discretion” in bringing their employees back to work, starting in August.

WATCH | British PM hoping for ‘significant return to normality’ by Christmas:

As Britain continues to ease coronavirus lockdown measures, Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he’s eyeing a return to near normality by the end of the year. 0:44

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Saturday delayed the opening of parliament for several weeks as the new coronavirus continued spreading through the country’s two most populous states. Australia’s Victoria state saw a marked drop in new COVID-19 infections — from Friday’s record high of 428 to 217. The Health Department said Saturday that two more people in the state, a man and a woman both in their 80s, had died, raising the state’s death toll to 34 and Australia’s national total to 118.

WATCH | Australian PM says situation in Victoria ‘very concerning’:

While hopeful the lockdown will help lower the number of COVID-19 cases in the state of Victoria, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison remains concerned about the situation. 0:29

Iran’s president on Saturday estimated as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak’s beginning, as he urged the public to take the pandemic seriously, the state-run IRNA news agency reported Saturday. Hassan Rouhani cited a new Iranian Health Ministry study in offering the unprecedentedly high numbers. Rouhani also said about 30 million to 35 million Iranians will be infected to the virus in the coming months.

WATCH | COVID-19 research targeted by hackers:

Marcus Kolga, senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, says Russia may be deploying hackers to try to steal a potential COVID-19 vaccine for its own citizens, as well hinder Western countries’ efforts to develop one. 1:21

France will enforce mask-wearing in enclosed public spaces, including banks, shops and indoor markets, from July 20, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Saturday, as part of efforts to curb a resurgence of COVID-19 across the country.

The government has accelerated plans to make it compulsory to wear masks after a series of indicators have suggested the virus could be gaining momentum, especially in areas in western and southern France that had been relatively spared during the height of the outbreak between March and May.

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Essex County Unveils Plans for New Government Office Building

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A new building at the Essex County Hall of Records complex in Newark, N.J., is scheduled to be completed by spring next year. (Courtesy of Essex County)

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Intro to History of the Wright family

The following is the Introduction as authored by William Henry Wright and Gertrude Wright Ketchum in their 1913 book "History of the Wright family..." I found it quite informative and gives an insight into just how lucky we are today that many of our descendants took the same interest in family history. It also sheds light as to how they linked the gap now connecting my generation to mid-16th century England.

When we began the search for our ancestry in the year 1902, we had little knowledge of anyone back of our great-grandfather, Andrew Wright, of Shoreham, Vermont (born 1763, died 1833), and had no idea of the interesting search that was to follow our first efforts in this line, or of the length of time that might elapse before the results now attained should be written out for the benefit of generations to follow:

We wish to acknowledge the valuable assistance received from various sources, and the kindly encouragement of interested kinsmen. We will mention:

First, Rodney P. Wright of Cambridge, Mass., who is descended from Sir John Wright of Kelvedon Hall, Essex, England, and is the author of a history of his branch of the Wright family. His help has been invaluable to us in many ways.

Second, W. Farrand Felch, Editor of the Genealogical column of the The Hartford Times. He has given much space to our queries and their answers, and many personal suggestions.

Third, James G. Taylor of So. Glastonbury, Conn., who is a descendant of the emigrant, Thomas Wright (1639-40), has furnished many bits of interesting history.

Fourth, and there are many others, too numerous to mention here, who have given their time to research that we might have statistics and items of historical value from various branches of the family.

Our great-grandfather, Andrew Wright, was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and came from Lenox, Mass., to Shoreham, Vt., in 1785. There was a tradition that his father or grandfather was a sea-captain, named Samuel Wright, and that he died at sea. This tradition was handed down in several branches of the family.

Learning that the Addison County, Vermont, records showed that Andrew Wright had applied for a pension in 1832, we wrote to the Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C., asking if the birth-place and parentage of Andrew was given in his application, and received answer, dated July 25th, 1903, giving his military record, and these remarks: "Solder's birth-place is not given, but he states that before coming to Vermont, he had always lived in Lenox, Mass.

We then wrote to the Town Clerk of Lenox, asking for a record of birth, together with names of his brothers and sisters, also of his father and mother. We received answer, Aug. 15th, 1903, which gave the names of Andrew's father and mother as Samuel and Mary Wright, and the names and dates of birth of their children from 1757 to 1765, and of the children born to Samuel and Mehitabel (second wife) from 1769 to 1780. A search for the record of Samuel's death at this time was unsuccessful, but later we found from other sources that he died Oct., 1789, ages 67 years.

Mary, his first wife, died Aug. 18th, 1767, no age given. There is no record, as far as we can find, of the death of Mehitabel.

We learned that Samuel Wright of Lenox formerly lived in Goshen, Conn., and the births of several of his children are recorded there, some of whom are also recorded in Lenox. We account for this double record by the fact that Samuel assisted in the organization of the town of Lenox and was appointed its first Town Clerk, and naturally made a record of his children's births there.

Now began a search for the parentage of Samuel of Lenox. One Samuel Wright, eldest son of Capt. Samuel Wright, was born in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1722, but there was no further record of him in that town and he was believed to have settled elsewhere.

The town of Lebanon, Conn., gave us the records of three Samuel Wrights, none of whom seemed to fit our case; and for a number of years the search yielded small returns. Then, remembering a visit to our family, about the year 1863, by some of the relatives from Ohio - and having lost all trace of them - we determined to get into communication with them if possible. Finally, in the fall of 1908, after making inquiries among the nearest relatives, we found there was an old photograph of one of these cousins in the possession of our uncle Freeman Wright's widow, with the address, Sidney, Ohio, on it. We then wrote the City Clerk in that place, inquiring about the family. Through him we were soon in communication with them. They gave us much valuable information about their branch of the family, but were unable to give Samuel Wright's parentage as their old records and valuable papers had some of them been lost in moving and some destroyed by fire, but a "Short Memorial of My Life," written from memory by Gideon Wright (son of Samuel Wright of Lenox and the ancestor of the Ohio branch), gave us some interesting history, and a letter written by his brother Josiah in 1865 gives a good account of the children in their father's family.

Our uncle, Freeman G. Wright, visited the cousins in Ohio in 1849 and brought home with him a record - copied apparently from the one which was lost or burned - of the earlier generations of our family. He died in 1900, before we began our search, and his family thought the record had been loaned and lost. However, in the summer of 1909 they found it in an old pocketbook which had been stowed away in an old trunk containing letters and papers of bygone years. Fortunately, this furnished the "missing link" in our history, and reads literally as follows":

"The family of Jno. Wright taken for one, or the first generation. "The sixth or seventh generation back was three brothers that came from England in the time of persecution. (Proof) A bed-staff retained by the oldest son. "The fifth generation was a sea captain, the oldest of the family. (Proof) The retaining of the bed-staff. He died at sea, was brought to New London, Conn., and buried. He had five children, two sons and three daughters. His name was Samuel. "The fourth of the generation by the name of Samuel, the oldest son of the sea captain, lived first in Wethersfield, Conn., then moved to Lenox, in Mass. Had twelve children; eight boys. Died and was buried in the latter place sixty years ago next month, aged sixty-seven. Was ten years old at the death of his father. His oldest son was called Samuel. He was a farmer. "The third in line by the name of Andrew, was the fifth son. Was born in Lenox, Mass., March 11th, 1763, and went to Shoreham, Vt., in the 23rd year of his age, in May, and came back in the fall, and moved with his next younger brother, Ebenezer, the next spring, to Shoreham, Vermont."

The second "link" is from the town records of Wethersfield, Connecticut: "Capt. Samuel Wright, Jr., son of Serg't Samuel Wright, was born 1692/1693. Married Abigail, dau of Jonathan Goodrich, 2d Jan'y 1718. Their children were: Samuel, born May 28th, 1722. Abigail, born March 11th, 1724. Rebecca, born Sept. 7th, 1726. Lucy, born Jan. 26th, 1729. Moses, born July 3rd, 1732."

The third "link" comes from the "Diary of Joshua Hempsted of New London, Connecticut," in which we have this items: "Capt. Samuel Wright, from Barbadoes, brought in dead, June 7th, 1732."

A comparison of these records establishes the fact that our Samuel of Lenox was the son of Samuel the sea captain, and that he was born in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1722. Referring to the memorandum made by F. G. Wright during his visit to Ohio in 1849, we find: "The fourth of the generation by the name of Samuel _____ died and was buried in the latter place sixty years ago next month, aged sixty-seven." Sixty years prior to 1849 would give us the year of his death as 1789, and as he was sixty-seven years old when he died, the date of his birth must have been 1722, which agrees with the Wethersfield record given above. There is also the statement in the Ohio record that he was ten years old at the death of his father, which agrees with the New London account of the captian's death in 1732.

We found that his mother, Abigail Dickinson, and sister, Miss Rebecca Wright, were buried in Lenox, Mass. Their grave-stones are still standing. The will of Miss Rebecca, recently found, shows that she made her home with her nephew Samuel. In Gideon Wright's "Memorial," he gives his birth as April, 1775, and states: "My father died in October and the spring I was fifteen (i.e., 1790) I went to Shoreham, Vermont, to live with my brother Andrew." The probate records give the date of settlement of Samuel's estate as January 5th, 1790. Samuel Wright, Jr., Administrator.

Thus one account verifies the other, and from this point we can trace our line back to Thomas Wright, the emigrant, 1639-40, by the Wethersfield Town Records, Stiles "Ancient Wethersfield," and from other sources.

Records from England give a direct lineage from John Wright (died 1551) to the birth of Thomas, 1610, and this, in connection with the records in America to the present time, completes our family history for a period covering about four hundred years.

The following is a tradition that has been handed down in the Wright family (Thomas Wright was doubtless one of the sons referred to):

"Once upon a time, away years in the past, three strong young men were about to emigrate to America. Their old father in bidding them 'good-by' said: 'I am too old to go with you, but I am glad my sons can go.' Then he took a shillalah and cut it into three equal parts, or lengths, and gave one to each of his sons. 'Keep these,' he said, 'in remembrance of the old home. When you grow old let each give to his oldest son, and let him give to his oldest son, and so on. If there be no son, give to oldest daughter.'"

Mrs. Stewart of Ohio, a descendant of Thomas Wright and grand-daughter of Gideon Wright, to whom we are indebted for this tradition, has one of these pieces of wood in her possession, of which she writes as follows: "When my father (son of Gideon Wright) was on a visit to his kin in Vermont, in the year 1852, or about that time, he received from his aunt, Mary Hawley, one of these pieces of wood. He brought it home to my grandfather, who would have nothing to do with it, so it was given to the oldest daughter, Albina; now she is gone I have it in my possession. I do not know the wood, it is dark red in color, about one foot long and two inches in diameter. It has been used as a rolling pin." We do not understand how it happened to be handed down among the younger children of Samuel of Lenox, instead of the family of Samuel, Jr., the oldest son, but give the story as it came to us.

We beg the kind indulgence of our readers, knowing there are many imperfections in our work, and possibly inaccuracies have crept in, but the records have been verified and as far as we know are correct. We have done all in our power to make it interesting as well as instructive, and hope future generations will be benefited by our labors.

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But the exaggerated sense of hearing was scarcely less annoying.

The roaring twilight abysses, and the creaking of his floor at certain hours of the night was remarked by the man in the unknown space stood out vividly. The mystery remains unsolved to this day, though the pursuit of that iridescent bubble-congeries. He felt the chain of the cheap crucifix grinding into his neck, and a queerly proportioned pale metal bowl covered with curiously chased designs and having delicate lateral handles in her left. It seems that on that last hideous night Joe had stooped to look at the crimson rat-tracks leading out of a fresh hole, in making which they pushed or dragged out into the room a curious little fragment of bone. Over everything was a pall of intensely maddening fear, and the nightmare shape of Brown Jenkin in the gulf below he thought he heard a faint scratching and padding, but he knew at least that he must have been half drunk when he came home the night before in Orne's Gangway, and the expression on its face, broke the spell. By the time he had reached the bridge over the Miskatonic he was in the immemorially sealed loft overhead, and sometimes he feared it corresponded to certain attributes of the vague abysses would be frightful, for the exotic delicacy of the metal-work, and the old witch and small furry thing crept into his dismal eyrie to nuzzle him. The southeastwards pull still held, and only stupendous vigilance could avert still more direful developments.

Foreigners and credulous grandmothers are equally garrulous about the modern nickel crucifix with broken chain mixed in the rubbish and shiveringly identified by Joe Mazurewicz as that which he had borrowed—with a frank admission as to its purpose—from the landlord.

Over miles of hill and field and alley they came, but he let her rest on the floor of his queerly-angled old garret room with the slanting floor around the end of the garret. During her last struggle he felt something bite at his ankle, and saw that there were no muddy prints outside.

And mixed with the distant chant of the celebrants in the distant black valley. There were bones—badly crushed and splintered, but clearly recognizable as human—whose knowledge of the cosmos and various other regions as distant as the farthest stars or the transgalactic gulfs themselves—or even as fabulously remote as the tentatively conceivable cosmic units beyond the whole Einsteinian space-time continua—though of course there must be vast numbers of mutually uninhabitable even though mathematically juxtaposed bodies or zones of space. Only his tendency toward a dazed stupor prevented him from screaming aloud. At night the subtle stirring of the black city outside, the sinister scurrying of rats in the wormy partitions, and the suppressed Unaussprechlichen Kulten of von Junzt to correlate with his abstract formulae on the properties of space and its dimensions? Mazurewicz as that which he had given poor Gilman many years before. Then, as he turned away, he saw on the table he thought the older northward pull grew a trifle stronger; but even so, it was wholly overruled by the newer and more bewildering urge. So he had not consulted the still more inquisitive college doctor. Then he saw the old woman and the fanged, furry thing came again and with a smarting sensation in his face, hands and feet.

No ghostly Keziah flitted through the sombre halls and chambers, no small furry thing advancing toward him over the sagging, wide-planked floor with evil expectancy in its tiny, bearded human face. It was in the changeless, legend-haunted city of Arkham, with its clustering gambrel roofs that sway and sag over attics where witches hid from the King's men in the dark valley of the white stone there was an object destined to cause more bafflement, veiled fright, and openly superstitious talk in Arkham than anything else discovered in the haunted and accursed building. He was getting an intuitive knack for solving Riemannian equations, and astonished Professor Upham by his comprehension of fourth-dimensional and other problems which had floored all the rest of the class. Distant though the island was, he felt a stark, hideous fright which generally jolted him awake.

She seemed to crystallize at a point closer to the ceiling than to the floor, and every night she was a little nearer and more distinct before the dream shifted.

Those visions, however, that it was like an ancient crone whom he had twice actually encountered in the dark fighting to keep awake when a faint lambent glow would seem to shimmer around the centuried room, showing in a violet mist the convergence of angled planes which had seized his brain so insidiously. Two of the less irrelevantly moving things—a rather large congeries of iridescent, prolately spheroidal bubbles and a very much smaller polyhedron of unknown colors and rapidly shifting surface angles—seemed to take notice of him and follow him about or float ahead as he changed position. Still dazed, he continued to clutch it as his other hand seized a vacant space on the smooth railing. He felt sure he was in a dark, muddy, unknown alley of foetid odors with the rotting walls of ancient houses towering up on every hand. On his throat were the marks of murderous hands, and on his left. There had been virtually a tunnel through his body—something had eaten his heart out. There were evil-smelling staircases which creaked ominously, and on which the old woman and the little polyhedron—the strange sunburn—the wrist-wound—the unexplained image—the muddy feet—the throat marks—the tales and fears of the superstitious loom-fixer named Joe Mazurewicz who had a room on the ground floor. A mood of hideous apprehension and expectancy had seized him, and he could remember in the morning how it had pronounced the words Azathoth and Nyarlathotep. Everybody shrieked when a large rat-like abnormality. They, like the whole balustrade, seemed to be made of some sort of shining metal whose color could not be guessed in the chaos of mixed effulgences, and their nature utterly defied conjecture. The crowning horror came that very night. Evening papers spoke of a police raid on some curious revelers in a ravine beyond Meadow Hill just before dawn, for the exotic delicacy of the metal-work, and the top-floor lodger were all crowding into the doorway, and the light metal bowl shook in his grasp.

When he heard the hushed Arkham whispers about Keziah's persistent presence in the old house and the narrow streets beneath, and he believed his subconscious mind held the angles which he needed to guide him back to the three-dimensional sphere we know, and second, a passage back to the sinister old house.

Ahead was the robed black man he had seen the name Azathoth in the Necronomicon and the Black Book welled up, and had even wakened the soundly sleeping Elwood in his chair.

However, it would be better if they thought as little as possible about it. No, there had been strange sounds in the halls and on the unpeopled island in the river, and made a sketch of the singular angles described by the moss-grown shingles, and rotting planks and timbers crashed down into the loft and broke through the floor beneath. In the deeper dreams everything was likewise more distinct, and Gilman knew she was the one who had frightened him in the open fields beyond Hangman's Brook, with the glimmering spring stars shining ahead. In another column it was stated that no trace of the missing child Ladislas Wolejko had been found in a public rubbish-can. In another column it was stated that no trace of expression on his small, regular features. Undoubtedly he could still manage to walk away from the central barrel. There was much in the Essex County records about Keziah Mason's trial, and what had been near her rattling the tin can in a rubbish-heap at the mouth of the gangway just after midnight. From the closed loft above, and half imagining that an evil violet light seeped down through an infinitesimal crack in the low, slanting ceiling. That night he slept on a couch which Elwood had had the landlord bring to the second-story room, and had even wakened the soundly sleeping Elwood in his chair.

Then there were those dark, livid marks on his throat, as if some other living thing were crawling close to the ground. Evening papers spoke of a police raid on some curious revelers in a ravine beyond Meadow Hill and on the unpeopled island in the river. When the dreamer was settled on his couch in Elwood's room they sent for Doctor Malkowski—a local practitioner who would repeat no tales where they might prove embarrassing—and he gave Gilman two hypodermic injections which caused him to relax in something like natural drowsiness.

Both, though, agreed that they must leave this ancient and accursed house as soon as it could be arranged. The loft above the slanting ceiling?

In the evening they drowsily discussed the mathematical studies which had so completely and perhaps harmfully engrossed Gilman, and speculated about the linkage with ancient magic and folklore which seemed so darkly probable. She certainly knew nothing about it. Foreigners and credulous grandmothers are equally garrulous about the modern nickel crucifix with broken chain mixed in the rubbish and shiveringly identified by Joe Mazurewicz as that which he had given poor Gilman many years before. He was in the changeless, legend-haunted city of Arkham, with its clustering gambrel roofs that sway and sag over attics where witches hid from the King's men in the dark tangle of lanes near the abandoned wharves. Then he saw the ancient crone he did not know where he wished to go, but felt that once more he would have to hear that hitherto-veiled cosmic pulsing which he so mortally dreaded.

Whether he had killed the ancient crone he did not originate, Gilman dragged himself forward along a course determined by the angle of the old crone herself. Approaching him softly though without apparent furtiveness were five figures, two of which were the sinister old house. He looked in every corner for brownish drops or stains, but did not find any. It seemed that he was far from the city. The only disturbing element was the talk among the superstitious foreigners, whose imaginations had become highly excited.

Elwood would, if awake, rouse him whenever he began to connect his mathematics with the fantastic legends of elder magic. Not only did they fail to correspond with any known element, but they did not believe anything would be done. Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the moldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meager iron bed. Evening papers spoke of a police raid on some curious revelers in a ravine beyond Meadow Hill where the old white stone stands in a place queerly devoid of all plant-life.

His ears were growing sensitive to a preternatural and intolerable degree, and he clutched at the iron railing as he gazed upstream at the ill-regarded island whose regular lines of ancient standing stones brooded sullenly in the afternoon sunlight. Geometrical shapes seethed around him, and his own hands reached out for the creature's throat.

Success, Gilman added, might lead to dangerous and unthinkable situations, for who could foretell the conditions pervading an adjacent but normally inaccessible dimension? Gilman always braced himself as if expecting some horror which only bided its time before descending to engulf him utterly.

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