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insanityclause · 3 years ago

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Marvel Star Tom Hiddleston is a well known Hollywood name, but few people know about his connection to Liverpool.

Loki actor Tom was born in Westminster, London, but he actually has historic Liverpool links, discovered by Find My Past researchers.

His connection to Liverpool began with this his 3x maternal great-grandparents, wealthy German cotton merchants who settled in Toxteth in the 1860s.

Tom’s 3x great grandfather, Friedrich Julius Jacob Hubert Servaes was born in Dusseldorf in June 1831. His wife, Johanne Helene Wilckens was born in Hamburg in 1838.

In the early 1850s, Freidrich, who preferred to go by Julius, travelled to Liverpool to work in the “merchants & bankers” firm, J. H. Schroder & Co.

Julius, the company’s chief clerk ran the Liverpool branch alongside Charles Pickering, a local man from the family of Pickering Brothers , who were well-known Liverpool corn merchants.

The pair proved to be incredibly successful and by the end of the decade, Schroder & Co was the fourth largest recipient of consignments of cotton in the city. As a result, Julius was made an associate partner in 1856.

Life in Liverpool

Census records reveal that by 1871, Julius and his wife, now going by Ellen, lived in a large house at Haymans Green in West Derby along with their four Liverpool born children, Ellen’s brother and five domestic servants. The full household included:

· Julius, then 39

· Ellen, 32 years old

· 10 year old son Francis

· 7 year old Julius Max (Tom’s X2 great grandfather)

· 5 year old Susan

· 2 year old Alfred,

· Ellen’s 23 year old brother Herman Wickens, a gem merchant

· The children’s German governess and nurse, 31 year old Margaret Spethman

· Scottish cook, 23 year old Catherine Johnston

· 28 year old Welsh servant, Mary Wade

· And two house maids from Cheshire, 24 year old Catherine Davies

· And 24 year old Annie Eaves

The grand houses in Haymans green were all home to accomplished wealthy individuals, with the Servaes’ neighbours including a surgeon, Sir Richard Glazebrook, from the well-known Liverpool Glazebrook family and Solicitor George Layton and his Australian Wife.

By 1881, the family were living at Holly Lea House on Aigburth Drive, Toxteth Park.

Three more children had been born to Julius and Ellen, eight-year-old Helen, five-year-old Tonie and three-year-old Julius Junior.

Eldest son Francis was studying medicine at the University of Liverpool and four live-in servants were also in the household.

This included the children’s nurse, Alice Clutterbuck from London, the family’s cook Caroline Williams, waitress Mary White, housemaid Lucy Akers and German sewing maid Pauline Mogler.

This appeared to be another affluent address with their neighbours including architects, merchants, solicitors and landowners.

As a well-respected figure in the community, Julius can be found frequently in local newspapers.

This includes marriage announcements for his children, reports on his involvement with the Liverpool Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress, where he was appointed vice-chancellor in 1899, and even a brief mention of his death in 1902.

Julius and Ellen lived at Holly Lea until their deaths. Julius passed away in 1902 and Ellen in 1903, both dying at home. They can still be found at the address in 1901.

All of the children except for 25-year-old Tonie had left home and 70-year old-Julius was still working in international trade, with his occupation listed as “commission agent”.

The next generation

Tom’s X2 great grandfather, Julius Maximus Servaes (known as Max) was the second child of Julius and Ellen. He was born in Walton on the Hill in September 1863 and was baptised at St Saviour’s Church on September 17th.

Records reveal that like his father before him, he went on to become a successful merchant at the Liverpool Corn Exchange.

In April 1890 he married Constance Violet Coltart, the daughter of a rope manufacturer from Ruthin, Wales, in the parish of St Michael in the Hamlet, Toxteth.

The pair set up an elegant home at number 3 Parkfield Road, Toxteth Park complete with a live-in cook, nurse and housemaid.

The couple had at least five children;

· Nora, born in 1892

· Reginald Maxwell born in 1894 (Tom’s great grandfather)

· Phyllis, born in 1895

· Herbert, born in 1901

· Audrey Helena, born in 1904

Census records reveal that in 1901, the children were living with their aunt Susan Florence (Max’s younger sister) and her husband William Marshall (a wealthy chemical manufacturer) at Danehurst, Ullet Road, Toxteth Park.

By 1911 Max and Constance were still living at 3 Parkfield Road with 10-year-old Herbert and seven-year-old Audrey as well as the family cook, nursemaid and housekeeper.

By 1939, Max and Constance had moved to 22 Beechwood Road, Cressington before retiring to Contance’s hometown of Ruthin. Max died there in 1947 and Constance in 1952.

Reginald Maxwell Servaes (Tom’s great-grandfather) - born Toxteth park, July 25th 1893

Service records reveal Reginald joined the Royal Navy in 1906 and the 1911 census record shows him serving as a mid-shipman aboard HMS Indefatigable.

He became a sub-lieutenant in 1914 and steadily climbed through the ranks, serving in both world wars.

His naval records even provide insights into his character, describing him as: "A most efficient officer and lieutenant, an excellent leader with tact and good influence, pleasant personality.

‘Influential leader, good intelligence, much tact, powerful personality, physically fit, gentleman in the best sense of the word, very strongly seen as likely to do well in the highest ranks”.

After the war he moved to Chelsea and married Hilda A E Jonhston in 1919 in Croyden.

He became commanding officer of the repair ship HMS Resource in 1937 and Director of Local Defence at the Admiralty in 1938.

He served in World War II as commanding officer of the cruiser HMS London from 1940 and saw action with the arctic convoys before becoming Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in 1943.

After the War he became Rear Admiral commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the British Pacific Fleet in 1945 and Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet in 1947 before retiring in 1948.

He retired to Sussex and died in Cirencester in 1978, leaving behind an estate valued at £47,823, which is roughly £280,000 in today's money

#Servaes family history #Tom Hiddleston #Liverpool roots #Liverpool Echo

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mybeautifulchristianjourney · 4 years ago

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The Amazing Story of 'O Holy Night'

Declared 'unfit for church services' in France and later embraced by U.S. abolitionists, the song continues to inspire.

The strange and fascinating story of "O Holy Night" began in France, yet eventually made its way around the world. This seemingly simple song, inspired by a request from a clergyman, would not only become one of the most beloved anthems of all time, it would mark a technological revolution that would forever change the way people were introduced to music.

In 1847, Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure was the commissionaire of wines in a small French town. Known more for his poetry than his church attendance, it probably shocked Placide when his parish priest asked the commissionaire to pen a poem for Christmas mass. Nevertheless, the poet was honored to share his talents with the church.

In a dusty coach traveling down a bumpy road to France's capital city, Placide Cappeau considered the priest's request. Using the gospel of Luke as his guide, Cappeau imagined witnessing the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. Thoughts of being present on the blessed night inspired him. By the time he arrived in Paris, "Cantique de Noel" had been completed. Moved by his own work, Cappeau decided that his "Cantique de Noel" was not just a poem, but a song in need of a master musician's hand. Not musically inclined himself, the poet turned to one of his friends, Adolphe Charles Adams, for help.

The son of a well-known classical musician, Adolphe had studied in the Paris conservatoire. His talent and fame brought requests to write works for orchestras and ballets all over the world. Yet the lyrics that his friend Cappeau gave him must have challenged the composer in a fashion unlike anything he received from London, Berlin, or St. Petersburg.

As a man of Jewish ancestry, for Adolphe the words of "Cantique de Noel" represented a day he didn't celebrate and a man he did not view as the son of God. Nevertheless, Adams quickly went to work, attempting to marry an original score to Cappeau's beautiful words. Adams' finished work pleased both poet and priest. The song was performed just three weeks later at a Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.

Initially, "Cantique de Noel" was wholeheartedly accepted by the church in France and the song quickly found its way into various Catholic Christmas services. But when Placide Cappeau walked away from the church and became a part of the socialist movement, and church leaders discovered that Adolphe Adams was a Jew, the song--which had quickly grown to be one of the most beloved Christmas songs in France--was suddenly and uniformly denounced by the church. The heads of the French Catholic church of the time deemed "Cantique de Noel" as unfit for church services because of its lack of musical taste and "total absence of the spirit of religion." Yet even as the church tried to bury the Christmas song, the French people continued to sing it, and a decade later a reclusive American writer brought it to a whole new audience halfway around the world.

Not only did this American writer--John Sullivan Dwight--feel that this wonderful Christmas songs needed to be introduced to America, he saw something else in the song that moved him beyond the story of the birth of Christ. An ardent abolitionist, Dwight strongly identified with the lines of the third verse: "Truly he taught us to love one another; his law is love and his gospel is peace. Chains shall he break, for the slave is our brother; and in his name all oppression shall cease." The text supported Dwight's own view of slavery in the South. Published in his magazine, Dwight's English translation of "O Holy Night" quickly found found favor in America, especially in the North during the Civil War.

Back in France, even though the song had been banned from the church for almost two decades, many commoners still sang "Cantique de Noel" at home. Legend has it that on Christmas Eve 1871, in the midst of fierce fighting between the armies of Germany and France, during the Franco-Prussian War, a French soldier suddenly jumped out of his muddy trench. Both sides stared at the seemingly crazed man. Boldly standing with no weapon in his hand or at his side, he lifted his eyes to the heavens and sang, "Minuit, Chretiens, c'est l'heure solennelle ou L'Homme Dieu descendit jusqu'a nous," the beginning of "Cantique de Noel."

After completing all three verses, a German infantryman climbed out his hiding place and answered with, "Vom Himmel noch, da komm' ich her. Ich bring' euch gute neue Mar, Der guten Mar bring' ich so viel, Davon ich sing'n und sagen will," the beginning of Martin Luther's robust "From Heaven Above to Earth I Come."

The story goes that the fighting stopped for the next twenty-four hours while the men on both sides observed a temporary peace in honor of Christmas day. Perhaps this story had a part in the French church once again embracing "Cantique de Noel" in holiday services.

Adams had been dead for many years and Cappeau and Dwight were old men when on Christmas Eve 1906, Reginald Fessenden--a 33-year-old university professor and former chief chemist for Thomas Edison--did something long thought impossible. Using a new type of generator, Fessenden spoke into a microphone and, for the first time in history, a man's voice was broadcast over the airwaves: "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed," he began in a clear, strong voice, hoping he was reaching across the distances he supposed he would.

Shocked radio operators on ships and astonished wireless owners at newspapers sat slack-jawed as their normal, coded impulses, heard over tiny speakers, were interrupted by a professor reading from the gospel of Luke. To the few who caught this broadcast, it must have seemed like a miracle--hearing a voice somehow transmitted to those far away. Some might have believed they were hearing the voice of an angel. Fessenden was probably unaware of the sensation he was causing on ships and in offices; he couldn't have known that men and women were rushing to their wireless units to catch this Christmas Eve miracle.

After finishing his recitation of the birth of Christ, Fessenden picked up his violin and played "O Holy Night," the first song ever sent through the air via radio waves. When the carol ended, so did the broadcast--but not before music had found a new medium that would take it around the world.

Since that first rendition at a small Christmas mass in 1847, "O Holy Night" has been sung millions of times in churches in every corner of the world. And since the moment a handful of people first heard it played over the radio, the carol has gone on to become one of the entertainment industry's most recorded and played spiritual songs. This incredible work--requested by a forgotten parish priest, written by a poet who would later split from the church, given soaring music by a Jewish composer, and brought to Americans to serve as much as a tool to spotlight the sinful nature of slavery as tell the story of the birth of a Savior--has become one of the most beautiful, inspired pieces of music ever created.

From "Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas" which may be purchased here: https://www.zondervan.com/9780310873877/stories-behind-the-best-loved-songs-of-christmas/

#Christmas Hymn #O Holy Night #The Amazing Story of 'O Holy Night'

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ladywynneoutlander · 4 years ago

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Letters of Outlander

Frank Randall to Rev. Reginald Wakefield, Drums of Autumn Ch. 71, 1960′s?

Dear Reg;

I’ve something the matter with my heart. Besides Claire, I mean (says he, with irony). The doctor says it might be years yet, with care, and I hope it is -- but there’s the odd chance. The nuns at Bree’s school used to scare the kids into fits about the horrible fate in store for sinners who died unconfessed and unforgiven; damned (if you’ll pardon the expression) if I’m afraid of whatever comes after -- if anything. But again -- there’s the odd chance, isn’t there?

Not a thing I could say to my parish priest, for obvious reasons. I doubt he’d see the sin in it, even if he didn’t slip out to telephone discreetly for psychiatric help!

But you’re a priest, Reg, if not a Catholic -- and more importantly, you’re my friend. You needn’t reply to this; I don’t suppose a reply is possible. But you can listen. One of your great gifts, listening. Had I told you that before?

I’m delaying, though I don’t know why I should. Best have it out.

You’ll recall the favor I asked you a few years ago -- about the gravestones at St.Kilda’s? Kind friend that you are, you never asked, but it’s time I should tell you why.

God knows why old Black Jack Randall should have been left out here on a Scottish hill instead of taken home to Sussex for burial. Perhaps no one cared enough to bring him home. Sad to think of; I rather hope it wasn’t that.

There he is, though. If Bree’s ever interested in her history -- in my history -- she’ll look, and she’ll find him there; the location of his grave is mentioned in the family papers. That’s why I asked you to have the other stone put up nearby. It will stand out -- all the other stones in that kirkyard are crumbling away with age.

Claire will take her to Scotland one day; I’m sure of that much. If she goes to St. Kilda’s, she’ll see it -- no one goes into an old churchyard and doesn’t have a browse round the stones. If she wonders, if she cares to look further -- if she asks Claire -- well, that’s as far as I’m prepared to go. I’ve made the gesture; I shall leave it to chance what happens when I’ve gone.

You know all the rubbish Claire talked when she came back. I did all I could to get it out of her head, but she wouldn’t be budged; God, she is a stubborn woman!

You’ll not credit this, perhaps, but when I came last to visit you, I hired a car and went to that damned hill -- to Craigh na Dun. I told you about the witches dancing in the circle, just before Claire disappeared. With that eerie sight in mind, standing there in the early light among those stones -- I could almost believe her. I touched one. Nothing happened, of course.

And yet. I looked. Looked for the man -- for Fraser. And perhaps I found him. At least I found a man of that name, and what I could dredge up of his connections matched what Claire told me of him. Whether she was telling the truth, or whether she had grafted some delusion onto real experience . . . well, there was a man, I’m sure of that!

You’ll scarcely credit this, but I stood there with my hand on that bloody stone, and wanted nothing more than that it should open, and put me face-to-face with James Fraser. Whoever he was, whenever he was, I wanted nothing more in life than to see him -- and to kill him.

I have never seen him -- I don’t know that he existed! -- and yet I hate this man as I have never hated anyone else. If what Claire said and what I found was true -- then I’ve taken her from him, and kept her by me through these years by a lie. Maybe only a lie of omission, but nonetheless a lie for that. I could call that revenge, I suppose.

Priests and poets call revenge a two-edged sword; and the other edge of it is that I’ll never know -- if I gave her the choice, would she have stayed with me? Or if I told her that her Jamie survived Culloden, would she have been off to Scotland like a shot?

I cannot think Claire would leave her daughter. I hope she’d not leave me, either . . . but . . . if I had any certainty of it, I swear I’d have told her, but I haven’t, and that’s the truth of it.

Fraser -- shall I curse him for stealing my wife, or bless him for giving me my daughter? I think these things, and then I stop, appalled that I should be giving a moment’s credence to such a preposterous theory. And yet . . . I have the oddest sense of James Fraser, almost a memory, as though I must have seen him somewhere. Though likely this is just the product of jealousy and imagination -- I know what the bastard looks like, well enough; I see his face on my daughter, day by day!

That’s the queer side of it, though -- a sense of obligation. Not just to Bree, though I do think she’s a right to know -- later. I told you I had a sense of the bastard? Funny thing is, it’s stayed with me. I can almost feel him, sometimes, looking over my shoulder, standing across the room.

Hadn’t thought of this before -- do you suppose I’ll meet him in the sweet by-and-by, if there is one? Funny to think of it. Should we meet as friends, I wonder, with the sins of the flesh behind us? Or end forever locked in some Celtic hell, with our hands wrapped around each other’s throat?

I treated Claire badly -- or well, depending on how one looks at it. I won’t go into the sordid details; leave it that I’m sorry.

So there it is, Reg. Hate, jealously, lying, stealing, unfaithfulness, the lot. Not much to balance it save love. I do love her -- love them. My women. Maybe it’s not the right kind of love, or not enough. But it’s all I’ve got.

Still, I won’t die unshriven -- and I’ll trust you for a conditional absolution. I raised Bree as a Catholic; do you suppose there’s some forlorn hope that she’ll pray for me?

Frank

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#Letters of Outlander #Outlander #Frank Randall #Reverend Wakefield #Reginald Wakefield #Drums of Autumn #DoA #Diana Gabaldon

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thursdayplaid · 5 years ago

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St Bees: Alice Rumelly

According to The Register of the Priory of St. Bees, published by the Surtees Society, Saint Bees is named after Saint Bega who was an Irish princess. It was part of the barony of Egremont, the fiefdom being held by the Meschin family by the 1100s. There was a church of Saint Bega in use in Kirkeby before the priory church of St Bees was created at which time the parish became one of the largest parishes in Cumberland. The Priory acted as a monastary until Henry the VIII wanted a devorce at which point the monks left and the monstary was turned into the official parish church.

Other than St Mary and St Bega (or Bege as she’ll sometimes appear), the first woman who appears in the Register that properly appears is Alice de Rumelli (latinized to Aelicia) who was the daughter of William Menchin and Cecily de Remelli, but kept her mother’s family name as noble women would sometimes do. She went on to marry the son of Duncan King of Scots, Gilbert Pipards, and, Reginald de Courtney - although not all at the same time. She was custodian of her father’s and Gilbert’s land and caused a bit of a hassle in the courts at her death around 1222 due to all the lands she was dragging around with her. (Notes and Queries. Vol. 7, Oxford Univeristy Press, 1895. p442) She never had any children (and I want to work on a regular lady if possible) so we’re moving on.

In case you want to check out a charter attached to the priory, here’s a transcription from The Register of the Priory of St Bees charter:

You can check out the rest of the book here, it’s online!

And becasue I’m that person, this is an example of a woman inheriting and carrying on her mother’s family name.

#SAINT BEES #descendancy research #descendancy tree #history #womens history

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urbanhermit · 3 years ago

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Fr. Henri de Lubac, SJ has written 4 works on the writings of his friend & confrere Fr. Teilhard de Chardin, SJ. This is the first one I have read, ‘The Faith of Teilhard de Chardin’ (1964). It is a guide, rather than a commentary, through the network of conflicting opinions & a light on the sources of Teilhard’s own inspiration. The work showed me more background into Teilhard’s Western Front experiences as a French Army stretcher bearer. The French Army distributed Sacred Heart badges to their troops, Teilhard both privately & as a Jesuit developed his religious life around the Sacred Heart. One of his billets during the war was at the parish in the village of the Haut-Rhin where the parish priest invited him to preach on the devotion of the rosary. Teilhard had a faithful habit of reciting the rosary daily. In Section 2 Chapter 5 ‘The Axis of Rome’ de Lubac addressed the criticism of Teilhard by Pere Garrigou-Lagrange, OP in 1946 in the periodical ‘Angelicum’. In the previous chapter de Lubac shows how Teilhard was anti ‘modernism’ & in 1919 stigmatized the thought of Alfred Loisy & ‘integrism’. Loisy was a French RC priest, professor & theologian credited as a founder of ‘modernism’. He was a critic of traditional views of Biblical interpretation. He was excommunicated in 1908. Besides Loisy, the philosophers Henri Bergson & Maurice Blondel (both cited by Teilhard) were attacked by Garrigou-Lagrange. So, I am moving up my reading of ‘The Sacred Monster of Thomism: An Introduction to the Life & Legacy of Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP’ who was also opposed to Teilhard. De Lubac notes the rules by Pope Benedict XIV on the publication of criticism by theologians outside their own terminology (which Teilhard was for Lagrange). I particularly enjoyed seeing how often Teilhard was aligned with St John Henry Cardinal Newman, & how much of Newman he read. https://www.instagram.com/p/CdHUkPvLI34/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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phgq · 4 years ago

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Manila Archdiocese designates 10 pilgrim churches

#PHnews: Manila Archdiocese designates 10 pilgrim churches

MANILA – The Archdiocese of Manila has designated 10 pilgrim churches to be the "centers of prayer, forgiveness, and charitable works" in celebration of the 500 years of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines.

In a statement, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila said the pilgrim churches are the Manila Cathedral, Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene/Quiapo Church, Archdiocesan Shrine of Nuestra Señora de Guia, Archdiocesan Shrine of Sto. Niño de Tondo, and San Pablo Apostol Parish, all located in the City of Manila.

Two churches are in Makati City -- the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Sts. Peter and Paul Parish.

The Santa Clara de Montefalco Parish in Pasay City, San Felipe Neri Parish in Mandaluyong City and St. John the Baptist Parish in San Juan City are also declared as pilgrim churches.

Rev. Fr. Reginald Malicdem, Manila Cathedral rector, said the basilica was included among pilgrim churches because of its historical significance.

“Manila is the first diocese in the Philippines and the Manila Cathedral is the first cathedral in the country. That is why Pope Francis called the Manila Cathedral as the mother church of the Philippines,” he said in a statement.

Earlier, Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines president Archbishop Romulo Valles said jubilee churches would also be designated in other dioceses and archdioceses in the country.

Bishop Broderick Pabillo, Apostolic Administrator of Manila, will open the jubilee door of the Manila Cathedral on Easter Sunday, April 4.

He will also open the jubilee doors of the other pilgrim churches during Easter Week.

The Jubilee Year will open on April 4, 2021, and will close on April 18, 2022, with the Second National Mission Congress in Cebu.

The celebration for the 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines is set to start on April 17, 2021, to commemorate the first Easter Sunday mass in the country held in Limasawa Island in Southern Leyte. (PNA)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "Manila Archdiocese designates 10 pilgrim churches." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1129170 (accessed February 01, 2021 at 11:05PM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "Manila Archdiocese designates 10 pilgrim churches." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1129170 (archived).

#Philippines #News #Filipino #Pinoy #Tourism #Politics #Culture #Editorial #Environment #Society #History

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dandelionwineshop · 7 years ago

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It is time to come out of hibernation!

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There are so many fun wines in the market these days, we feel so lucky that our job is to discover new things and then share them with you! Come see us tonight, and every Thursday night, to taste the buzz-worthy wines that we find... Tonight our friend Kent Odessa from Communal Brands will be pouring from 6-8pm.

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THE MARIGNY PINOT GRIS WILLAMETTE VALLEY, OREGON

A charismatic son of a Baptist preacher, drummer, and fifth generation Louisianan, Andrew Reginald Young, recently started St Reginald Parish, a winery based in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. The Marigny label refers to the hip neighborhood of New Orleans best known for its live music and pays ode to his roots. After catching the wine bug in 2007, he set out to work with Willamette Valley’s cooler climate sites at higher elevations because he prefers "the leaner, earthier, more saline" profile of fruit from these origins. This Carbonic Pinot Gris takes the natural color of the grape which, to the eye, is pinkish... one enthusiastic user of Vivino said this about the wine: "Gummy bears, bright strawberry, what they serve in the gumdrop forest." $23

CIÙ CIÙ "BACCHUS", ROSSO PICENO

The Ciù Ciù farm was founded by Natalino and Anna Maria Bartolomei in 1970. Today, their sons, Massimiliano and Walter are happily carrying on the tradition of their parents. The estate is comprised of 150 hectares in the heart of the Piceno Hills in the Marche. Pronounced "Choo Choo", this is one of my favorite go-to $15 bottles of red. Certified organic (since the 90s) blend of Sangiovese and Montepulciano, this wine checks off so many boxes. Organic? Check. Affordable? Check. Delicious? Check. Easy drinking? Check. Crowd Pleasing? Check. My mom and I finished off a bottle of this one night while cooking upstate, and then searched for another to have with the meal. Why change something so good? Life isn't always easy, but the Ciù Ciù is. $15

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easyfoodnetwork · 5 years ago

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Facing a Season Without Restaurant Sales, Independent Winemakers Worry About What’s Next

A selection of natural wines at Dame, a wine bar in Portland, OR | Dina Avila

Winemakers are pivoting to sell directly to consumers, but selling bottles now is just one of their concerns

“Nobody is ordering wine,” says Joe Swick. His eponymous label, Swick Wines, is based in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, and sources grapes from both Oregon and Washington. Swick is represented by the influential natural wine importer and distributor Jenny and Francois Selections, and his wines — often with ludicrous, memetic names like “WYD? U UP?” and “P. Chill” — are sought after for natural wine restaurant lists and in bottle shops across the country. Or at least they were before coronavirus. “I’d say 80 percent of my wine is sold in restaurants and bars,” Swick says, “and my distributors — especially in places like Seattle, which was hit hard early — are starting to cancel orders.”

“We send wine to 14 states, and now seven of those orders we were expecting to send out are on hold,” says Emily Towe, co-founder at J. Brix Wines of Escondido, California. J. Brix is a family winery: a husband-and-wife duo handling everything themselves, from winemaking to marketing to exhibition, with kids and the family dog listed on the about page. “It’s been a kind of whiplash, for sure.”

Winemaking is an industry and art form that measures itself in months and years, not days. Yet in the first few weeks of government measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 in America, winemakers are beginning to worry. Small, independent winemakers that make only a few thousand or hundred cases per year are asking themselves if orders will be filled, whether distributors will be able to move their product, and how they’ll fit into a drastically changed restaurant and bottle shop landscape. As they fear an irreparable breakdown of the system that gets them paid, many are turning to direct-to-consumer sales — but selling the bottles they have now is just the first hurdle.

Fall out from the novel coronavirus poses longer-term challenges for winemakers as they make decisions in the here and now. Lost orders don’t just represent a loss of income; they affect every facet of the winemaker’s decision-making process in the months to come. Financial uncertainty breeds conservatism, and for winemakers, a disrupted wine market in spring, stemming from a pandemic with no discernible end in sight, begs serious questions about what to do come fall.

“We have a deadline in the wine industry, and that’s harvest,” says Adam Vourvoulis, of Los Angeles indie wine brand Vin de California. “If you don’t have your shit together by harvest, that means another whole year of waiting for product to sell.” His situation is especially tenuous: Vourvoulis and his business partner, Kate Vourvoulis (another husband-and-wife duo), are in the middle of building a new winery and tasting room in Pasadena. “We’re like, ‘Fuck, are we going to be able to get his winery ready to go by harvest?’ Permitting and all that stuff from the city can take months,” says Adam, “and if they’re on pause, there’s a big asterisk for that.”

Many winemakers are hesitant to fill existing grape contracts or sign prospective grape contracts at vineyards in their region. Without invoice fulfillment from distributors or enough direct sales to make up the difference, small winemakers may lack the cash flow needed to buy grapes for this fall’s harvest. “My New York distributor was like, ‘Obviously, don’t ship here,’ which makes sense because everything is shut down,” says Martha Stoumen, a well-regarded indie winemaker in California with national distribution. “But wineries are on a cycle where you don’t get to flex your production with the market, because you’re only making wine once per year: at harvest. That’s what you sell to support your business and family, but also to be able to buy grapes from farmers. There’s a kind of yo-yo of economic states, and it makes it really hard to understand what’s going to happen down the road from this.”

“The ecosystem is eroding, and to me that’s terrifying.”

Ordinarily these winemakers would be spending the spring traveling to wine fairs to promote their wines, meeting with distributors, hosting tastings with wine buyers at bottle shops and bars, and wooing restaurant sommeliers. Those trips aren’t happening anymore. The cancellation of international wine fairs like RAW London and Third Coast Soif in Chicago have had an especially pronounced impact on winemakers, who often combine travel to fairs like these with additional travel to adjacent markets. “A lot of these cancellations were three to four days before the events,” says Swick. “After London, I had a sales trip scheduled in Copenhagen and then to another place in Europe, and I like to prepay hotel rates to lock in the best possible deal.” Swick estimates he’s out $4,000 in nonrefundable travel costs along with lost sales. “The financial impact on me has been significant.”

With distribution chains disrupted, all winemakers can do now is shift focus to direct-to-consumer sales, which offer a potential lifeline for these businesses; indeed, direct sales are booming, just when wineries need them most. “Direct sales in the last two weeks has definitely increased exponentially,” says Towe of J. Brix Wines. “It’s gone up three to four times from normal.”

Winemakers who have made prior investment in direct-to-consumer sales over the past few years are now relatively well positioned. Krista Scruggs, founder and winemaker at Vermont’s ZAFA Wines and co-founder of Co Cellars, a collaborative tasting room with Shacksbury Cider, says that 98 percent of her wine sales in 2019 were direct-to-consumer. “This is the foundation of my business structure,” she says. “Financially that’s been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.” In 2020 she’ll launch a delivery wine club called Counter Spell, focused on selling her new 2019 wines.

Scruggs isn’t alone in depending on wine clubs, which ask customers to sign up for regular wine shipments, to move the latest vintage. “Our spring releases will be totally absorbed by our wine club,” says Andy Young, an Oregon-based winemaker and founder at St. Reginald Parish and sub-label the Marigny. “But it’s a double-edged sword: we’re recouping from direct to consumer, but at the same time the people we normally sell our wine to are suffering. What happens to the wine shops? The restaurants? The ecosystem is eroding, and to me that’s terrifying.”

Direct-to-consumer sales aren’t a catchall solution for indie winemakers. Interstate commerce laws regarding wine sales require expensive and slow-moving permits and licenses. “If a winery doesn’t already have this in place, it’s really hard to just turn that on and ship outside of your home state,” says Stoumen.

And while relationships with wine distributors make it possible for independent winemakers to sell their product across the country, direct-to-consumer sales are often limited to in-the-know locals. “If I have a customer who wants to buy my wine in Maine, I have to have a specific license for Maine, and charge them taxes according to that state,” says Swick. “It’s a huge commitment.” However, as liquor laws open up to support restaurants that have closed dining rooms because of COVID-19, some winemakers are left hoping for a similar relaxing of the tolls on direct-to-consumer sales. “The big hurdle is compliance,” Swick says. “I need to be able to get my wines to customers, and direct-to-consumer is the only way to do it.”

For indie winemakers in America, life is already a strange pairing of the joys of creative winemaking and travel with the frequently ugly realities of small-business ownership. It leaves them precariously positioned for what comes next — safe, perhaps, from the first wave of the financial disaster, but with an uncertain outlook. “Everyone is thankful to have work, and I will plan on taking on more work myself doing order fulfillment and sales,” says Stoumen. “But I’m hoping that as more people learn there are wineries selling online, those who have the funds to buy wine right now will start switching their behavior [to direct-to-consumer sales]. This would increase our runway — and that’s our one big hope right now.”

Jordan Michelman is a freelance food and wine journalist in Portland, Oregon, and the co-founder of Sprudge and Sprudge Wine.

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St. John the Baptist Parish Library 2nd Annual Black History Program February 13, 2019. "Let your passion be your purpose." Our ancestors, those before us sacrificed for us to be able to live a life of passion and to walk in purpose. Don't disregard what they have done for us to be able to walk in places that they weren't allowed. Find your purpose and allow your passion to create happiness for you. Honored to have been on the same program with those who have broken barriers in St. John Parish and were honored last night. Natalie Robottom, St. John Parish President Cleveland Farlough, Former St John Parish School Board Superintendent Bridget Dinvaut, St. John Parish District Attorney Mike Tregre, St. John Parish Sheriff Whitney Joseph, St. John Parish Assessor Madeline Jasmine, St. John Parish Judge Dr. Reginald Ross, St. John Parish Lucien J. Gauff, III, St. John Parish Assessor To stand in front of a crowd that radiated with love and respect almost reduced me to tears last night. The talent displayed was phenomenal. Always remember and be grateful for those who shoulders we stand on. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt4TpU5n9s8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4xqggvlhrdh3

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Catholic TV Mass Online June 16, 2019: Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

Presider: Fr. Arul Ponnaiyan Parish: St. Paul & Sacred Heart Choir: Heart of the Nation

TEXT FROM THE GOSPEL AND HOMILY The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John. Glory to you, o Lord. Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.” The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. Brothers and sisters, today we celebrate the Feast of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. It’s a celebration of relationship; our relationship with God and with one another and in the person of Jesus Christ we have come to discover that God’s love for each one of us is unconditional. In the person of Jesus we have come to know God, in an intimate way we could, the humanity could hear God, touch, and experience God’s intimate, tender, compassionate love and in the person of Jesus we also come to know that God’s love for us does not show partiality because God sends rain on the just and the unjust. He makes the sunshine on the righteous and the unrighteous. But we, as human beings, we limit our love for one another. We struggle and today, the Feast of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity invites each one of us to look deeply into our lives and see how do we love one another because Jesus summarized the whole bible into all the commandments into one. Love one another as I have loved you. So unconditional love means putting the needs of the others before our own needs. So today I invite and encourage all of us to look into our lives and see who are the people we struggle to love and pray for the grace that we may open our hearts and minds to loving others as God loves us.

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Sending Forth: Hallelujah Is Our Song Text: Sarah Hart, b. 1968, Sarah Kroger, Josh Blakesley, b. 1976, and Trey Heffinger. Music: Sarah Hart, Sarah Kroger, Josh Blakesley, and Trey Heffinger; vocal harm. by Scott Soper. b. 1961 Text and music © 2012, 2015, Sarah Hart, Flat Music, LLC, Josh Blakesley, River Oaks Music Company, Meaux Jeaux Music, and Tunes from The Basement. Published by Spirit & Song, a division of OCP. All rights reserved. Administered at CapitolCMGPublishing.com. Used with permission.

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ΣΑΝ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ/ON THIS DAY

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Το 1898 γεννιέται ο ντράμερ Warren ʼʼBabyʼʼ Dodds στη Νέα Ορλεάνη της Louisiana.

Το 1964 ο Wayne Shorter ηχογραφεί το ʼʼSpeak No Evilʼʼ.

Δέκα χρόνια νωρίτερα, το 1954, ο Miles Davis και ο Thelonious Monk ηχογραφούν το ʼʼBagʼs Grooveʼʼ.

Το 1920 γεννιέται ο Dave Bartholomew στο Edgard της Louisiana. Είναι μουσικός, αρχηγός συγκροτήματος, συνθέτης και ενορχηστρωτής, διακεκριμένος στη μουσική της New Orleans καθʼ όλο το δεύτερο μισό του 20ου αιώνα.

1818 Christmas carol "Silent Night" composed by Franz Xaver Gruber is first sung at St Nicholas parish church in Oberndorf, Austria

1871 Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" opera premieres in Cairo

1906 Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)

1951 1st televised opera (Amahl & Night Visitor)

1966 "Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 12 performances

#mo soul #on this day

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Matthew Concanen - Wikipedia

Matthew Concanen (1701 – 22 January 1749)[1] was a writer, poet and lawyer born in Ireland.

He studied law in Ireland but travelled to London as a young man, and began writing political pamphlets in support of the Whig government. He also wrote for newspapers including the London Journal and The Speculatist. He published a volume of poems, some of which were original works and some translations. He wrote a dramatic comedy, Wexford Wells. A collection of his essays from The Speculatist was published in 1732.

His skills attracted the attention of the Whig statesman Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle. In June 1732 the Duke appointed him attorney-general of Jamaica.[2] He held the post for over sixteen years.

While in Jamaica, Concanen married the daughter of a local planter. After his tenure in Jamaica was completed, he returned to London, intending to retire to Ireland, but died of a fever in London shortly after his return.[3]

He criticised Alexander Pope and was rewarded with a passage in Pope's Dunciad ridiculing him as "A cold, long-winded native of the deep" (Dunciad, ii. 299-304). There is also well-known letter about him written by William Warburton, who comments on how Concanen helped him.

Writings[edit]

In 1731 Concanen, Edward Roome, & Sir William Yonge produced The Jovial Crew, an opera, adapted from Richard Brome's A Jovial Crew.

His publications included

Wexford Wells (1719)

Meliora's Tears for Thyrsis (1720)

A Match at Football (1720)

Poems on Several Occasions (1722)

Miscellaneous Poems (1724)

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations (1726)

A Supplement to the Profound (1728)

The Speculatist (1730)

A Miscellany on Taste (1732)

Review of the Excise Scheme (1733).[2]

He was co-author of The history and antiquities of the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark.

An Essay Against Too Much Reading[edit]

The 1728 humorous[4] anonymous pamphlet, An Essay Against Too Much Reading, has been attributed to Concanen, though it has also been identified (probably wrongly) as the work of a certain "Captain Goulding" (Thomas Goulding) of Bath.[5] It included the first, though none too serious, direct statements of doubt about Shakespeare's authorship.[6]

The author proposed "a short account of Mr Shakespeare's proceeding, and that I had from one of his intimate acquaintance..."[6] Shakespeare is described as merely a collaborator who "in all probability cou'd not write English."[7] With regard the Bard's grasp of history, the Essay related that Shakespeare "not being a scholar" employed a "chuckle-pated historian" who gave him a set of notes to save the trouble of research.[8] The historian also corrected his grammar.

References[edit]

^ 1812 Chalmers’ Biography / C / Matthew Concanen (?–1749) (vol. 10, p. 134)

^ a b James Sambrook, ‘Concanen, Matthew (1701–1749)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004

^ David Erskine Baker, in Companion to the Play-House (1764) 2: Sig. G5v.

^ Shakespeare Quarterly Page 319; by Folger Shakespeare Library, Shakespeare Association of America, 1952

^ Wadsworth. The poacher from Stratford, p. 9-10. The identification derives from "A Speech to Royal Highness, the Princess Amelia on her Birth-day" by Goulding, which is bound in the same volume.

^ a b Reginald Charles Churchill, Shakespeare and His Betters: A History and a Criticism of the Attempts which Have Been Made to Prove that Shakespeare's Works Were Written by Others; Indiana University Press, 1959

^ George McMichael, Edward M. Glenn Shakespeare and His Rivals, pg 56

^ Ivor John Carnegie Brown; William Shakespeare; Morgan-Grampian Books Ltd., 1968

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