#Sayre

[unteriors]

E Pine Avenue, Sayre, Oklahoma.

[20th-century-railroading]

LEHIGH VALLEY GP38-2 UNITS SIT ON THE READY TRACK - SAYRE, PENNSYLVANIA - NOVEMBER 28, 1975

A three unit set of GP38-2 power sits waiting for it's next assignment. In common practice for the LV, like units appeared to be kept in solid sets as much as possible. The 12 unit order was delivered in Cornell Red with yellow stripe like the previous GP38AC units, but with the addition of black & white zebra stripes, they introduced the final new paint scheme version for the LV. The following GE's would also wear this scheme.

[easternstaffing]

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[mascrapping]

2024: Memorial Page - For my Mother - Peggy Hill

I shared a couple of days ago in an Update that between August 2023 and Summer 2024 has been pretty rough, including the death of my mother. This week I have been working on starting the Memorial scrapbook for her two celebration of life services. I normally start a project by making all of the pages, and completing the Title Page last, however in this case I decided that I wanted to start with…

[mycrawfordcountyancestors]

Week 2-2024 Origins

When I was in third grade, my classmates and I were sent home for lunch with the instruction to ask our mothers about our family heritage. Where did my ancestors come from? I got a vague answer that I was part German and part Scots Irish and part French but that was about all that my mother knew. I returned to school and felt left out when many of my classmates reported that their parents escaped the Soviet Union after World War II, or their grandfather was from the Netherlands, or their great-grandparents immigrated from Italy in 1903.

Fast-forward twenty-some years. I was looking at Crawford County, Illinois marriage records on microfilm at a Family History Center and found a second marriage record for my widowed great-great grandmother Elizabeth Jones to Joseph Richey in 1884. This marriage record named her parents, Daniel Sayre and Signor (Sinah) Hayman. It’s always exciting to find a new generation for the family tree! Note: another thirty years later and it's possible to look at the same records online from home!

Crawford Co., IL, Marriage Register Book 1, 1878-1901, page 84

As soon as I got home, I dialed up to CompuServe (this was the early 1990s!) and got on the genealogy forum to ask about the Sayre and Hayman families. With the help of other community members, I was able to trace the Hayman family back to the 17th century on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the Sayre family to 17th century Long Island. From these families, I subsequently found other early New England and mid-Atlantic families, including many who came in the Great Migration of the 1630s and 1640s, several patriots who fought in the American Revolution, and some families who remained loyal to King George. Elizabeth’s grandfather Daniel Sayre served in the Essex County, New Jersey militia during the American Revolution. The father of Elizabeth’s first husband Milton, a man called Seth Jones, fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill and served in the Hudson Valley in New York. Milton and Elizabeth Jones moved to Crawford County, Illinois in the 1860s and raised many children there. They are buried in Green Hill cemetery, south of Palestine and east of Flat Rock.

I remember learning about the American colonies in the 3rd grade, and might have enjoyed it more if I had known I was descended from some of the Puritans, dissenters (I'm a proud descendant of Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer!), Huguenots, and others who chose to leave Europe for a new life abroad. It's certainly possible that I descend from the Indigenous people living along the eastern shores during those colonial times, and my mother and I have a wee bit of West African DNA. I have complicated feelings about my ancestors who were colonizers and/or enslavers, but I am dedicated to learn as much as I can about my ancestors and the challenges they faced.

[diioonysus]

art aesthetics: gothic

[thunderstruck9]

Sayre Gomez (American, 1982), Thief Painting in Black, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 72 × 62 in.

[lgbtqreads]

Exclusive Cover Reveal: Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by C.B. Lee

Today on the site I am so thrilled to be sharing the cover for the long-awaited Coffeeshop in an Alternate Universe by C.B. Lee, a cozy Sapphic YA fantasy releasing June 10, 2025 from Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan! Here’s the story: A geeky overachiever determined to save the world through science and a troublemaking chosen one lashing out against her destiny meet and fall in love in a magical…

[l-egionaire]

You know what? I'm bored, and I've got some ideas, so here are my Ilvermony headcanons.

The separate houses are treated as little more than an aesthetic difference by the students. While there might be rivalries and prank wars between the houses, it never gets to the levels of near discrimination that it gets to at Hogwarts. The students all just consider themselves students of the same school and members of the houses intermingle and hang out with each other all the time. They're even allowed to be in each other's dorms for limited amounts of time each day. The teachers encourage it as they often say that each house represents a part of what every great wizard needs, and coming together helps bring them all together towards the ideal wizard.

It's not uncommon for there to be students from other countries who don't speak English perfectly. Thankfully, there are charms to help translate their speech for the teacher, and the only part of their work that needs to be spoken English are their incantations. Though some might still ask for help in getting the pronunciation correct.

The dining hall students eat in is vastly different from Hogwarts's Great Hall, being a large room with mahogany walls filled with multiple circular tables covered in red tablecloths with gold trim and set with silver untensils, fine blue China plates, and crystal glasses. In the center of the room is a vast roaring fireplace with a picture of the Sayre family overtop of it. During feasts, the Pukwudgies bring out platters and pitchers of food and drink that stay magically hot and cold until the students serve themselves from them. Students are allowed to sit at whatever table they please, and the staff eat at a massive table in the middle of all the others.

The dorms are just different buildings of the castle that have five floors of T-shaped hallways with long red and gold rugs bearing the houses symbol. Along the walls of each hallways are dorm rooms for each years students. Students are assigned two each to a dorm, with their roommates's names being included with the letters they receive at the start of each new year. Roommates can't be changed unless two students agree to trade with each other. The dorms all have two large half poster beds with red and gold sheets and blankets, the blankets also carrying their houses symbol and pillows with blue pillow cases. There's also two desks, half dressers, wardrobes, and a set of three shelves above the dressers on both sides (the rooms are enhanced with expansion charms to give them extra space). The halls for younger students all have a dorm manager in them, an older student who was chosen to sleep on their floor to act as a chaperone and disciplinary figure to the students.

The students get to the school by way of multiple magical single decker busses that all arrive at Rockfeller Center in New York. They drive for around an hour before making a stop at a magically hidden pit stop where the students can get snacks, drinks and use the bathroom before the rest of the journey.

Thanksgivings at Ilvermony are always huge. The decorations include fall leaves that flutter and blow themselves through the halls, realistic turkey figures that jump around and gobble, and in the center of each dining room table is a red and gold hat that plays music. Each table gets its own turkey to carve (any leftovers are served over the next few days as sandwiches) along with boats of gravy and cranberry sauce, bowls of corn, mashed potatoes and carrots. And for dessert, a veritable buffet of pies, including Ilvermony's famous cranberry pie, the recipe said to have been invented by Isolt Sayre herself.

Any students without a wand before coming to school is allowed to select one from the hall of wands just past the sorting room. The hall holds hundreds of wands stacked inside their case along the walls. The room holds both wands so new they were just ordered yesterday and so old they were created at the very start of the school. After each sorting ceremony, the head of the school helps each first year's find a wand that "chooses" them, a process that can take up to an hour at most. It's also heavily guarded at all times by both a pair of heavily armed, muscular Pukwudgies and a rotating member of the staff as it's a prime target for thievery either by students or dark wizards.

Ilvermorny boasts a massive roaster of international magical studies electives. In each one, students can study the government, magical creatures, and magical history of the country of their choosing. Some even go on summer trips to those countries to further their studies.

Rather than O.W.L.s, Ilvermorny students takes the W.I.T. or Wizarding Intuition Tests, something similar to an SAT tests. The tests are taken twice, once during sixth year and once during seventh year for each class the students take, and the combined scores of each year are added together, and that average becomes their score. The better the score in certain subjects, the more job opportunities the students have.

To receive mail, students go to the mail room in a tall tower at the southern side of the castle where every owl goes to bring packages and letters for their deliveriees to receive. The mail room is student run and students are selected at random to do the job.

[deathsweetblossoms]

You don’t have to take up a sword. Survival is bravery too.

A Study In Drowning by @avasreid

(2023 favorite reads)

[mentaltimetraveller]

Sayre Gomez, Untitled 2, 2022 Acrylic on canvas 203.2 x 91.4 cm

[20th-century-railroading]

Lehigh Valley PA-1 #604 heads off to the scrapper as it departs Sayre, Pennsylvania behind an SW1 on October 4, 1963.

[4rcanist]

- an acquaintance of drowning. -

[blistexenthusiast]

Spiritual America, Sayre Gomez

[eternal--returned]

Cynthia Grow ֍ Love Letters - Zelda Sayre to F. Scott Fitzgerald, [spring 1919] (2024)

[tellafahey]

if I had a nickel for every time I read a book where a mortal woman who was involved with fae lost a finger, I would have 3 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened thrice