#Virginia Scrapbooks

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

"My favorite teacher of all the years. Mrs. Lam. She gave me my snake plant, which I have kept for 5 years." Joyce Angela Long Scrapbook.

[doubleclusterthoughts]

I made more scrap book pages for the ISM crew. This time it's Lucas and Virginia, sadly I didn't have many things that fit Virginia and there's not much about her in game that I could find. However the entire transcript for Lucas's rorschach test was available.

(GO PLAY THE GAME IF YOU HAVENT. IN SOUND MIND IS AMAZING)

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#VoicesFromTheStacks

Anne Carson

Anne Carson is a classicist, poet, translator and essayist born in Toronto, Canada on June 21, 1950. She studied at the University of Toronto for her Bachelors, Masters, and PhD, as well as spending a year at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland studying Greek metrics and textual criticism. Carson has taught at several colleges over her career, including McGill University, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, and New York University. She and her husband recently received Icelandic citizenship. 

Carson photo by Jeff Brown from the New York Times

Carson translates and sometimes modernizes Greek and Latin works, including works from Euripides, Homer, Sappho, and Sophocles. She has published ten translations of ancient Greek tragedies, including seven by Euripides, and collections of Sappho's poetry. She has had a translation staged, a 2015 European and American tour of her translation of Antigone. She also publishes original works of poetry and essay collections. 

Carson is a private person, though her poetry is often considered personal in nature. The University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections has her most explicitly personal work, Nox, an epitaph to her brother Michael Carson published in the form of a book-length poem. The siblings were not in contact from 1978 until 2000, and he passed away before they could see each other in person. This is at least the second work Carson created to honor a family member. She wrote an epitaph for her mother using the work of Virginia Woolf in her poem “Appendix to Ordinary Time” in Men in the Off Hours. Nox is a collection of fragments, photos, and writing that form a scrapbook-like work to honor her brother.

--Sarah Dodd, Olson Graduate Assistant

[the-cricket-chirps]

Georgia O'Keeffe

Untitled (Rotunda - University of Virginia) Scrapbook of UVA

1912-1914

[petiteblasee]

*:･ﾟ✧ SCRAPBOOK: ABRIL & MAIO | COTIDIANO

Abril foi um mês bem tranquilo - se um dia reclamei, não me lembro. Não exigi muito de mim e acabei me divertindo bastante. Me surpreendi nos filmes e séries porque não escolhi tanto, e também carreguei isso para minhas leituras, o que só agregou na minha vida. Mês 9,5/10 ✌️

• FILMES E SÉRIES PRESENTES NA IMAGEM

Bingo, 2017 | The buccaneers, I temporada, 2023 | Sen Çal Kapimi, I temporada, 2019 | Tratamento de Choque, 2003 | Jogos Vorazes: A Cantiga dos Pássaros e das Serpentes, 2023 | Música, 2024 | Pânico, 1996 | Homem Aranha: Sem Volta Para Casa, 2021 | A Pequena Sereia, 2023

• LIVROS PRESENTES NA IMAGEM:

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf | Sobre Enfermeiras e Postais - Rachel Fernandes | Degenerado - Chloé Cruchaudet | Suzette, Ou o grande amor - Fabien Toulmé | Esquisitona - Sarah Andersen

MEU INFERNO ASTRAL!

Eu realmente vou apelar para os outros porque só isso justifica tudo nesse mês dando errado. Ainda assim, por misericórdia do divino, tudo que busquei para distrair minha mente dos problemas de uma adulta, funcionou muitíssimo bem.

Revendo a lista do que foi assistido/lido, fico besta por ter tanta coisa boa que eu dificilmente teria ido nessa sequência se tivesse feito a escolha conscientemente. Ainda assim, foi um baita mês!

• FILMES E SÉRIES PRESENTES NA IMAGEM

O Piano, 1993 | Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos, 1976 | Os Fabelmans, 2022 | Duna: Parte 2, 2024 | Lucy, 2014 | Um Anjo em Minha Mesa, 1990

Meu mês lindo chegou (JUNHO É O MELHOR MÊS!) e espero ter gratas surpresas quando decidir sentar no sofá pra curtir algo, seja na tela da tv ou no do kindle.

Até mais ✌️

[coderfortourette]

Virginia the Hair Stylist

Talking in a server, there was discussion of Virginia as a hair stylist. 

He learned back in the colonial days due to trial and error. He put himself in charge of cutting the rest of the OG 13′s hair. Because if he didn’t, Massachusetts and Rhode Island would get so tangled on their adventures to fight the British. 

When Kentucky and West Virginia were young, Virginia would use hair cut time as a time to have one on one time with each of them. Talking about whatever they need to talk about. Even modern day they’ll ask Virginia for a hair cut just so they have a time to talk to each other. 

Virginia gets all the gossip while he cuts hair. 

Gov will only let Virginia cut his hair. After all, can’t risk going to somebody else, and that person being a spy or something. 

Virginia doesn’t cut Hawai’i’s hair. But he cuts Alaska’s. And when he does, Hawai’i is usually on facetime. So he still gets the gossip. 

He’ll pay states so that he can practice new hairstyles on them. 

Super Bowl. Fun tradition is that the loser of the big game has to get a bowl cut from Virginia. 

He gives Utah’s kids their haircuts. At least the first ones so that Utah can get a lock of hair for his scrapbooks. 

[televinita]

The results of April's book sale bonanza, four library sales in two weeks! Long text post incoming...

Left stack in the first photo is from one sale, right stack is two other sales, and the final photo is from the last one alone. Somehow acquired more in April than I had Jan-March combined. I don't even want to count up how much I spent, so I'm simply going to decide it was worth it because so many pretty books, exciting finds, and fun!

I will say, the craziest thing to me is that the super-mega-huge sale, the one I made an effort to drive an hour for on Wednesday night? It was indeed huge and I spent 3 hours there & had a good time, but only found seven books, pictured in the right hand stack - from The Darcys & The Bingleys up through the 3 skinny paperbacks (plus a couple of CDs I took a chance on, didn't like). And the sale that usually doesn't have much of anything, that I barely had an hour in? The best sale of the month.

I tried to organize the cover photos mainly by age group, with YA blending into adult, so I think that's actually the order in which I'm going to go through them, not least because I missed a couple of them for the stacks.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

1. A Dog Named Wolf - Erik Munsterhjelm (1973): I snagged it mainly because vintage dog/wildlife novel, but then I realized it's actually on my OpenLibrary TBR, so now I don't have to read it that way!

2. Mr. Cat - George Freedly (1960): not really a kids' book but small enough to put here. Apparently a bind-up w/ "More Mr. Cat" but I cannot imagine how short these were originally, as together in a mass market paperback it's still only 160 pages. I assume he was already a famous enough writer, even if only at a newspaper, to be granted the indulgence of publishing a memoir about his cat....

[edit: "theatre critic, librarian and founder of the Theatre Collection of the New York Public Library, Freedley was a regular columnist for PLAYBILL, and the drama critic, book editor, and feature writer for the Morning Telegraph (New York)"]

3. The Black Pearl - Scott O'Dell (1967, 70s edition): not unlike Call it Courage, this is another one I remember really liking in elementary school but the details have been forgotten.

4. BSC Super Special #7: Snowbound: only grabbed because it was super-cheap; it's not in great condition but super-specials are a little harder to spot in the wild so while I'm not trying to collect this massive series, I can't help having a soft-spot for a few reps. (side note: the Karen/Little Sister novelty book "School Scrapbook" was also there, which I thought might be a fun collectible, but it had already been mostly filled out by its previous owner. Still fun to read her answers, though! I would cherish having something like that from my own 3rd grade year).

5. Two-Minute Mysteries - Donald J. Sobold (1967, 90s edition): even though a teacher's name is inked on it, I couldn't resist this nostalgic read! My 4th/5th grade teacher used to read these aloud to us and challenge us to solve them, and you know what? They're STILL kind of hard to solve. You have to pay really close attention to specific wording and tiny details.

6-7. Animal Inn #3 + 6 - Virginia Vail: remember this series I love? By wild coincidence, these are the exact same ones I read from a Little Free Library in 2020, but where those copies were in horrible water-damaged shape, these are as good as can be expected from cheap-pulp kids' paperbacks of the 80s

8. The Dog In My Life - Kurt Unkelbach (1966): yay! I'm interested in all his books but have been wanting to read this ever since I solved it on a Goodreads "What's The Name of That Book?" queries (one of my first, and one I worked very hard on finding!)

9. The Black Stallion & the Girl - Walter Farley (1971): only grabbed this because it was so cheap; it's not in great shape and I probably won't keep. I always wanted to love this series more than I actually did growing up -- everyone who likes horse books always says this is their favorite, and I just never got the hype beyond the first couple! -- but there were a few I really liked. Maybe this could be one of them.

10. A Summer of Horses - Carol Fenner: I see an 80s teen horse book paperback, I buy. Unsure if I'll keep it after reading, but it's not that thick so probably.

11. Flash of Phantom Canyon -- Agnes Ranney (1960s): I see a vintage Scholastic horse book, I also buy. I ended up deciding to read this right away, mostly because it was small and light and easy to carry in a shoulder bag while walking on trails in search of a good reading bench. Honestly, it's as much historical fiction/history lesson as it is horse book and if I ever make myself weed through the Scholastic Stack this is probably a donation candidate...but not just yet.

12. The Stallion of Box Canyon (1997): part of the Treasured Horses collection I owned several of as a kid from Scholastic book orders and LOVED, but sold off when I outgrew them, and have now been grabbing back. When I learned in 2020 that there were model horses to go with them, as well as more books than I knew about, my interest increased, and this one about a Mustang was my #1 most wanted!

13. Foxy - Helen V. Griffith (1984): Dog book! I think I read this in elementary school but want to be sure. May or may not keep, depends how sad it is.

14. The Collector - K.R. Alexander (2018): the modern-day counterpart to Mary Downing Hahn, I freaking love this scary-as-hell cover. I listened to it on audio but I wanted a physical copy as well.

15. The Sun Will Come Out -- Joanne Levy (2021): it was simply too beautiful and pristine -- it looks off the shelf new -- not to buy, knowing I could flip it to Half Price. I think I probably will do that now that I've read it, but I did enjoy it.

16. The Diddakoi - Rumer Godden (1972): figures that I find it just one year after I finally caved and read it on OpenLibrary last year after 6 years on my TBR. But this is the first time I've seen a physical copy. This edition is not my favorite cover so I'm not sure if I really want to keep it, but I did enjoy the book.

17. Tucky the Hunter - James Dickey (1978): pictured in the last photo, I bought one (1) picture book because the illustrations were so beautiful, and the rhyming text written in calligraphy. Do I agree with the story theme of a child dreaming about all the animals he wants to shoot? Not really, but...

YA/TEEN

1. Seventeenth Summer - Maureen Daly (1942, 2006 edition): it's only a mass market paperback, but still thrilled to finally have this classic in my hands to read when ready!

2. City of Darkness - Ben Bova (1976): I just couldn't resist the premise of this one -- Manhattan is now under a dome and only "open" in the summer as a tourist spot, but a kid sneaks in and gets stuck there to find out that gangs secretly live there year-round, fighting for sheer survival? I intended to read & release because it's not in the best condition, so I read it right away, but now I think this is so creative I want to keep it around.

3. In the Hand of the Goddess (Alanna #2) (1984, 2011 edition) - Tamora Pierce: ex-library but I think I can peel the tape/stickers off. I've decided to collect both this version of the series and the mass-market paperbacks as I find them because I love them equally for different reasons.

4. In Front of God and Everybody: The Confessions of April Grace - K.D. McCrite (2011): technically middle grade but putting it here because it's a visual match. I saw this at the sale a few years ago but gave it a pass because it was Christian fiction. Now that bothers me less, and I'm so glad I changed my mind because I read it last week and it was HILARIOUS and I want the rest of the quartet. (also very minimally "Christian Book" -- it shows only in that the family goes to church/says a blessing before dinner and lives by the principle of "be kind to others no matter how ungracious they are")

5. Pretty Fierce - Kieran Scott (2017): a 5-star swoon-worthy YA spy thriller! So happy it's mine.

6. Top Ten - Katie Cotugno (2017): as recently mentioned in the reading triage, this is ex-library w/ a broken spine so I mainly bought it to dismantle for the snapshots on the cover and endpages, but then I realized ah heck, this sounds pretty good and I want to read it after all. I'm 70 pages in and really enjoying it, but saving it for the sunny days.

7. What Comes After - Steve Watkins (2011): one of my standout YA reads in *checks notes* actually 2011, wow! I still think about it regularly -- orphaned teen is sent to live w/ only remaining relatives, an abusive aunt & cousin; finds solace in caring for the goats

8. This Is What It Feels Like  - Annie Barrows (2018): has been on my summer TBR 2 or 3 years running, now I can stop worrying about when the library will weed the last copy.

9. In Real Life - Jessica Love (2016): an underrated read from, I think, 2018? Again with the sweet romance.

10. The Girls of No Return - Erin Saldin (2012): a much more serious book about girls in a wilderness therapy camp/school that really impressed me, thrilled to have one in pristine condition.

ADULT FICTION

Now we're gonna mix it up a little as fiction and non aren't separated in the above photos, mainly to match size & color, but I'm listing all the fiction first.

Driftwood - Elizabeth Dutton (2014): I thought it was a misplaced YA when I bought it, until I started reading and MC is twenty-eight. It promised a solo California road trip, following a route left in letters by her late father, so I decided to take a chance. It seemed so perfect for the weather I ended up starting it in a nearby park before I even went home, and finished the next day. 3.5 stars rounded up to 4, I'm glad I bought it

2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon (2000): I bought husband a brand-new copy of the newer edition w/ four extra short-stories in the back, which he never read and now I'm kind of glad he didn't so it stays pristine in a way only I can manage, and meanwhile, I decided to get this one too because it is MUCH, MUCH floppier and more comfortable to read.

3. Maurice - E.M. Forster: I've never read this and kind of want to. I've started making it a habit to look for nice editions of classics at these sales, and while this isn't amazing, it's like new, a floppy paperback, AND it has horses on the front, so.

4. Where the Forest Meets the Stars - Glendy Vanderah (2019): I've been flirting with the idea of reading this and while my library DOES have it, I'd love a perfectly-new copy of my own for $2.

5. The Haunting of Gillespie House - Darcy Coates (2015, 2020 edition): same with this one. I still can't believe that after discovering a whole shelf of her books at the library in 2022 and being like "I'm gonna read them all!", I actually only read one. But this was definitely high on my interest list!

6. The Darcys and the Bingleys - Marsha Altman (2008): had there been more at this particular sale I wanted, I might not have bought it, but the library doesn't have it and my interest is piqued by this P&P fanfiction sequel (which...is the first of ten in a series?? good lord this one is already large enough).

7. Coffee Train - Margarethe Erdahl Shank (1953): It's in terrible shape -- awful foxing on the pages -- so I really shouldn't have, but I'm Intrigued by this vintage read; my family has no Scandinavian roots but much of Minnesota (including my husband) does so I have a soft spot for it. Even though this takes place in the state next door, I think it will be very charming.

Through the eyes of little Mugs, a Norwegian-American girl, we see life in North Dakota with Norwegian Lutherans in the days following World War I.

8. The Dogs of Christmas - Bruce Cameron (2013, 2018 edition): I absolutely loved this book and this is the "author's preferred edition" with an extra chapter at the end! I saw it at a garage sale 3 years ago and resisted like an IDIOT who was trying not to over-buy books she didn't ~need~; have regretted and been looking for this version ever since, now it's mine.

9. The Christmas Dog - Melody Carlson (2009): I couldn't resist this slender novella. This year's December reading is gonna be SO CHRISTMASY I swear it.

10. Christmas at Corgi Cove - Annie England Noblin (2023!): aaand now I am back up to owning 3 unread books by her after having only read 1 and given it 3 stars. But hope springs eternal and all that.

11. Roxane the Blue Dane - Alice Kingham-Lechevre (1988): "a series of short stories chronicling the relationship between the author and her favorite show dog, Roxane, told from the perspective of the great dane." Takes place in France, so I had a devil of a time trying to figure out why this author was famous enough to write about her pet, and finally deduced she was a decently well known English/French artist/illustrator, particularly of animals, born late 19th century. It seems quite wonderful from the chapter or two I've read.

12. The Sccrets of Pistoulet - Jana Fayen Kolpen (1996): this one I'm actually really excited about because a) it's in a slipcase, which I didn't previously know because I read a library copy, and b) I spotted it in the cookbooks section I only ever skim (for Susan Branch). I don't actually love the story, which is a murky magical-realism adult fable set in France, but I do love that it's mixed-media with transparent overlays, at least one card that opens up, and several recipe cards you can physically remove from envelopes.

NONFICTION

1. Unauthorized X-Files -- Hatfield/Bur (1996): I would have climbed over people to get my hands on this in high school. "In this ultimate game book for X-philes, the authors have put together a collection of trivia challenges: Some are based on specific episodes from the first three seasons (brief episode summaries are provided); others address behind-the-scenes and on-the-set information, site locations, dialogue between characters, more. Testing methods vary, ranging from multiple choice to fill in the blank. Also included are actor and character profiles, memorable Mulderisms, and scintillating Scullyisms!"

Even though it's limited to the years of TXF I mostly avoid rewatching, the vestigial Phile in me is still intrigued. By the same authors, I also saw Unauthorized X-Cyclopedia, which tempted me, but I figured I'm unlikely to actually use it for reference and tbh, it'll just annoy me that it doesn't cover the full series.

2. Growing With the Grass - Ted Hall (1992): a small local press-published memoir of a boyhood circa the 1920s, arranged as a collection of brief anecdotes & vignettes, snagged because Old Frontenac is a lovely day trip visit and still just as much of a village as ever. I don't know if this will fully be to my tastes or a keeper, but I couldn't resist.

3. House Lessons - Erica Bauermeister (2020): a memoir of restoring an old house on an island off the coast of Washington, crossed w/ life lessons. Would you believe I was on a Libby waitlist for the audio for three months as our library doesn't have a physical copy, finally finished it during first week of driving to book sales, and then found a physical copy at the last one! Decided I liked it enough to own, at least for a while. Plus physical copy has little sketches before each chapter!

4. The Big House A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home - George Howe Colt (2003): now for the opposite coast...I think I put this on a TBR before; our library only has one copy and I really want to read it but I'm never quite in the mood. Now it's mine forever!! (I was SO excited to find this with you lmao)

5. Cold Antler Farm - Jenna Woginrich (2014): I read her first book twice (Made From Scratch), and while unfortunately there are 2 more memoirs to go before I chronologically reach this one and the library doesn't have any, I'm really excited I have this one!

6. Connemara Mollie - Hilary Brandt (2012): I'm ALSO super excited to try this one, never heard of it but it's a memoir of a long-distance pony trek the author took around Ireland in 1984.

7. Brother Super - Bill Rice (1961): Pet memoir about another Great Dane, this time a family pet.

OTHER MEDIA (not pictured)

Audiobooks: When We Were Lost by Kevin Wignall, a cracking good YA adventure about a plane crash in the jungle, and Why Not Me?, so now I have both of Mindy Kaling's memoirs in her voice! (someday I'll listen to it...)

DVDs: Spiderman: No Way Home; Uncharted

CDs: Patty Larkin - "Watch the Sky," and Matt Wasner's eponymous album/limited advanced edition copy (I took a chance on these based on appearance, because nothing is more fun than guessing right on something random that becomes a new fave!, but unfortunately I didn't like either of them so they will be leaving)

[tbz-glows]

about the abort mission kids

lee y/n

- from virginia

- -military kid

- lived in japan for 3 years

- very close to anton family

- jokes about how she’s anton long lost sister

ezaki hikaru

- loves bullying niki in japanese

- close to the uni dance team xg

- tutors kids and students on japanese for extra cash

- dancer in kep1er (under zb1 label)

- applied to the uni for fun (was surprised that she got in) she was already accepted to her dream school

han jihyo/ jihan

- works at a local flower shop

- makes scrapbooks when she has free time

- somehow the loudest in the group

- leaves the room the moment la llorona or the ring starts playing

- surprisingly close to ricky (always denies it)

shen quanrui/ ricky

- model under zb1

- has a shopping problem

- theater kid at heart

- scrapbooks with jihan

- never pays attention in any of his lectures but always has good grades (in reality he watches the online lectures when he’s at photo shoots)

lee chanyoung/ anton

- doesn’t care about the nepo baby rumor

- definition of soft boy

- karu ride or die

- knows all the tea with the schools 04 liners (has ears everywhere)

- might look like he would never hurt a fly but cross the line with him or his friends and it’s over

nishimura riki/ niki

- biggest shawol which made him want to move to korea

- met y/n through a japanese server (they became friends instantly)

- wants to be a teacher

- has the biggest crush on a cafe worker named yoon

- only wants to go to the uni because of the dance crew (enhypen and y/n) and the teaching program is apparently good (his words)

common duos that you might see through the chapters:

niki x y/n, anton x jihan, karu x ricky,

y/n x karu, jihan x ricky, anton x niki

[virginiascrapbookingretreats]

Candyland Gatlinburg TN Scrapbooking Retreat May 16-19 '24 coming soon. https://www.virginiascrapbookingretreats.com check our calendar for Savannah GA Jan 30-Feb 4th, 2025

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Photograph Collection

George Harold Edwards Scrapbook

[petsincollections]

Photograph from Joe Ozanic Scrapbook

Small Boy sitting in a rocking chair. Dog standing on legs beside boy.

West Virginia History OnView

[michaleideas]

Saving Fire, Smoke and Water Damage Art and Family Collectibles from Family Home in Los Angeles

Last week we were very sad to be called in to follow up on a fire in a family home. Yet, we were able to see the joy on the faces of the family when we were able to help them find and determine quite a few items that could be cleaned up and saved. This is a particularly emotional moment, especially when irreplaceable family history items are saved.

Smoke, fire and water damage to a family home last week to which we assisted to save art related items and family history collectibles

A few years ago, FACL was asked to be the Expert Witness for damage and clean up estimates from smoke, fire and water damage for art related items in the law-suits representing 160 homeowners in Montecito, California against PG&E after the Thomas Fire. That quickly also included the resulting “debris flow” mudslides from the rains that followed the fire that was so devastating. Then, on the heels of those two disasters, the Woolsey Fire (which was started by more faulty electrical equipment) took out homes from the ocean, over a mountain range and to the inland freeways. FACL was the Expert Witness for damage and clean up estimates for art related items smoke, fire and water damage in settling another 150+ claims for homeowners.

While many home owners, take the money and run and don’t save, preserve and restore their artwork, or even their family history items… There are many people who have a hard time “getting over” the loss of the history of their family. The woman who owned this house that was lost in the devastating Santa Barbara Cave Fire of 1990 still mourns, 30+ years later, over the fact that she doesn’t have any photos of her babies and children growing up even though she was a scrapbook enthusiast.

Consider the value of these family history items to prompt memories and the retelling of stories in a family. They document the family’s history. In short, they contain an important part of the family’s memory and keep the heritage alive in the minds of the future generations. Throwing these types of items out results in grave multigenerational consequences.

So, the take away for you from our experience this week, of wandering through charred remains of the household is that there are many options when it comes to saving family history and art from disasters and though you may see the situation as hopeless, lets us give you some input from a different, professional perspective. Here is Virginia Panizzon, one of our veteran Art Conservators reclaiming the painting of a great grandfather that was claimed as lost or ruined by the insurance company but was actually returned to pre-damaged condition.

Professional art conservators have the expertise to mitigate the effects of water damage on paintings.

We can help you “dial in” your insurance claim and coach you with you claims adjuster so you can have a chance for a much better insurance claim settlement. At this point, you may have questions… or you may know someone going through the painful process of recouping after a disaster. Feel free to call us for a friendly, unbiased chat. The least that will happen from your phone call is that you’ll learn to ask better questions to your claims adjuster.

Here are a couple of “alerts” to help you

More damage to art and family history collectibles was done from careless handling than by the disaster.

While a household item like throw rugs, dishes, toys can be treated with household products to minimize odors, the same products and handling are going to cause damage to frames, art and antiques, vintage items, memorabilia and heirlooms.

Damage to these types of items often results in frustration and the item being thrown out. Such was the case last weekend when there was a disconnect between the father and the adult son. The son went on the search for professional services to take care of odors and mold on 3 paintings by the grandmother and dad decided to hit the artwork with a rag and an off-the-shelf cleaner and stain remover. Before we could get over to the house to inspect and answer questions the next morning, the two items the dad worked on had been thrown away and only 1 of 3 paintings were saved. There was a “lively” family discussion that resulted with many badly hurt feelings.

Are you going to throw away Grandma?

Whether its good art or not, it was painted by grandma

If you happen to have items that have a monetary value, you can imagine the compromised value if it smells badly, is mold infested or is dirty from smoke.

Fire cooked this gorgeous Pre-Raphaelite 19th century oil painting

and smoke damage choked the colors and composition.

Odors and mold also prompt physical reactions such as rashes, allergic reactions and nausea. Hard to kill, mold can re-flower at anytime if conditions are agreeable in the future.

What we do to confront the odor removal process:

HEPA vacuuming of dust, debris and grime – wet or dry- (we remove up to 0.035 microns)

Sampling in case of lab testing (toxic materials and species ID)

Disassembly of artwork to clean into all hidden areas

Encapsulation or coating of surfaces with conservation grade resins that absorb particulates and odors or seal them so they are no longer an issue (EPA approved).

Replace all porous materials that are not part of the artwork (back boards and matting)

If needed, Anoxia Tent Oxygen Deprivation Treatments – Odor removal and kills mold spores

More damage to art and family history collectibles was done from careless handling than by the disaster.

Additional info – https://www.fineartconservationlab.com/disaster-response-company-resource-smokefire-water-damage-earthquakes-hurricanes-tornados/

Gena Dillon, Disaster Response Coordinator 

Gena.FACLBusinessManager@gmail.com

Art Conservators Scott M. Haskins, Virginia Panizzon

805 564 3438

Here are some testimonials and examples of our work with other disaster response companies:

Smoke Damage (Testimonial): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMPlQ…

Smoke damage testimonial from PuroClean disaster response company: https://vimeo.com/250390252

Water Damage (Testimonial Mrs. Dau): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Umg_…

Water Damage (Testimonial Las Vegas): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Yup…

Damage in Storage – Rip Repair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Jxo…

Expert Author – Tom Antion Hurricane Testimonial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwBbc…

Water Damaged Paintings: https://animoto.com/play/YGtMXOyRkR8Z…

Water damaged art treatment – blog: https://www.fineartconservationlab.com…

Smoke Damage – Elite Restoration – Blog Post: https://www.fineartconservationlab.com…

Smithsonian guideline for home collection care: https://www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/mnm.html

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Novotney: I Wrote President Carter a Letter and He Wrote Me Back

I was 9 years old and on the way to Disney World when I saw a sign. “WELCOME TO GEORGIA! Home of U.S. President Jimmy Carter,” the smiling peanut billboard exclaimed, and I thought it was the coolest roadside display I’d ever seen. Better than the giant beer bottle along the interstate in Wheeling when I was a kid, and better than Travis Broadwater’s bearded real estate board near Oglebay last year. So, I decided to write a letter to President Carter. My mom gave me nice, unlined typewriter paper, an envelope, and a 15-cent stamp, I was taught in school that 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was the address of the White House, and my father took me and my letter to the post office for mailing. I asked President Carter how he went from peanuts to president, what it was like to fly around in a secret airplane, if he ate snacks in the Oval Office, and if his daughter, Amy, ever got grounded to her White House room like I did to my Novotney House room. President Carter wrote back about a month later. On White House stationary, too. Although it was a typed correspondence, it wasn’t a form letter because the Commander-in-Chief answered my questions. He stated it was an honor to fly around all over the world in Air Force One, that Amy is a good child most of the time, that he eats peanuts at his desk from time to time, and Jimmy Carter told this single-digit West Virginia kid that if I worked hard, I could earn the American Dream just like he did on his Georgia farm. It meant something. I remember showing it to my teacher. It was 48 years ago, I believe my mother saved it away in a scrapbook somewhere, and, to me, I think anyway, it made a positive difference. So, I believe elementary school students should write letters to the President of the United States. They could ask the POTUS questions about what they wonder. Ya know, before they know what a Republican and a Democrat are. https://ledenews.com/storch-make-sure-you-are-heard-this-election-day/ Read the full article

[jthume]

Day 16 of the BAT

Tennessee->Kentucky->Illinois-Missouri.

The Big A** Trip is winding down and the end is in sight. We will be home Tuesday (May 14) or Wednesday (15), depending on if we go through Utah and Nevada in one day. A lot of things need to work out for that to happen, but the idea of sleeping in our own bed is enticing.

It's not to say the BAT is not exciting or an adventure, because it certainly has been. We've seen so many things on the 5500+ miles we've logged so far that cataloging them will be a challenge. For instance, we keep seeing new wildlife that we don't see at home: armadillos and wild turkeys. Those silly birds walk around like they own the place. I suppose they do.

Some of the memories from this day, on the other hand, probably won't go in the scrapbook. I'm not a fan of St. Louis, anyway (go Cubs), but when they decide to bulldoze their freeways, they hold nothing back. Oy vey. Be warned if you're planning to travel there anytime soon

CC asked me today that if there were any places we could call home outside of Nevada, and a couple of small towns stood out in New England. Wilmington, Vermont is a quaint place of old buildings and narrow roads, and it looks like a place where I could relax for the rest of my life (though its official web page needs love). Cooperstown in New York was the same. The baseball hall of fame doesn't hurt, but the green valleys and that peaceful feeling in the morning was sweet.

We're done discovering new states (we've been to Kansas, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada before), so including the new ones we crossed in this trip, CC and I have been to 42 of the 50 states between us. Still on our bucket list:

Alabama Arkansas Hawaii Montana New Mexico North Dakota Rhode Island Washington DC West Virginia

Yes, some of those will be tough to get to, but no, we do not have another BAT in the near future. Give us a break. We need to recover from this one first. 🤪🤪🤪

As always, keep following along across social media via the hashtages #ccandjt and #bat2024.

If you want to help us on this extravaganza, our website has books and links to Venmo and such. TIA LYL!

[brookston]

Holidays 5.4

Holidays

Alice Goes Down the Rabbit Hole Day

Anti-Bullying Day

Battle of New York Anniversary Day (The Avengers)

Bird Day (US)

Cassinga Day (Namibia)

Cinco de Cuatro (in “Arrested Development”)

Coal Miners Day (India)

Compliment Someone's Smile Day

Dave Brubeck Day

Director’s Day (India)

Dodenherdenking (Remembrance of the Dead; 2 minutes of silence observed at 8 pm; Netherlands)

Firefighters’ Memorial Day (UK)

45 Day

Frustrating the Fairies Day (Ireland)

Greenery Day (a.k.a. Midori no Hi; Japan)

Hoary Shrubbery Stock Day

International Day of the Forest Firefighter

International Firefighters' Day

International Payroll Day

International Respect for Chickens Day

Journalistic Discrimination Awareness Day

Kent State Shootings Remembrance Day (Ohio)

K.I.N.D. Day (Kids in Need of Diapers)

Literary Day (China)

Maynard Ferguson Day

Memorial Day (Curacao)

Milan Rastislav Štefánik Day (Slovakia)

National Bialy Day

National Black Authors Day

National Day of reason

National Fitness Day

National FPIES Awareness Day

National Kids Fitness Day

National Library Legislative Day

National Portfolio Day

National Self-Employed Day

National Weather Observer's Day

Petite and Proud Day

Ramune Day (Japan)

Relationship Renewal Day

Remembrance Day for Martyrs and Disabled (Afghanistan)

Remembrance of the Dead (Dodenherdenking; Netherlands)

Renewal Day

Silkworm Day (French Republic)

Star Wars Day (a.k.a. Luke Skywalker Day)

St. Florian's Day (patron saint of brewers, coopers & barrel-makers)

TFMR Awareness Day (UK)

Waltzing Mathilda Day

Work At Home Day

World Give Day

Youth Day (China, Fiji)

ZZ Top Day (Texas)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bourbon Independence Day

Candied Orange Peel Day

National Orange Juice Day

1st Saturday in May

Beer Pong Day [1st Saturday]

Big Brew Day [1st Saturday]

Bladder Cancer Awareness Day [1st Saturday]

Childhood Stroke Awareness Day [1st Saturday]

Clun Green Man Festival begins (UK) [Saturday before 1st Monday in May]

Fête de l'iris (Brussels Region Day; Belgium) [Begins 1st Saturday]

Free Comic Book Day [1st Saturday]

Global Marijuana March Day [1st Saturday]

Green Up Day (Vermont) [1st Saturday]

Holland Tulip Time Festival begins (Michigan) [1st Saturday]

International Bags Day [1st Saturday]

International Drone Day [1st Saturday]

International Female Ride Day [1st Saturday]

International Women’s Mountain Biking Day [1st Saturday]

J-Day (Dunedin, Scotland) [1st Saturday, from High Noon until 4:20]

Join Hands Day [1st Saturday]

National Auctioneers Day [1st Saturday]

Kentucky Derby Day [1st Saturday]

Learn to Ride a Bike [1st Saturday]

Lemonade Day [1st Saturday]

Mariachi Day [1st Saturday]

National Auctioneers Day [1st Saturday]

National Bombshells’ Day [1st Saturday]

National Candied Orange Peel Day [1st Saturday]

National Childhood Strike Awareness Day [1st Saturday]

National Explosive Ordinance Disposal Day [1st Saturday]

National Fitness Day [1st Saturday]

National Front Yard Cookout Day [1st Saturday]

National Herb Day [1st Saturday; also Last Saturday in April]

National Homebrew Day [1st Saturday]

National Play Outside Day [1st Saturday of Every Month]

National Scrapbook Day [1st Saturday]

National Virginia Diverse Business Networking First Saturday [1st Saturday]

Pilates Day [1st Saturday]

Print Day in May [1st Saturday]

Satyr's Day (Silenus, Greek God of Beer Buddies and Drinking Companions) [1st Saturday of Each Month]

Start Seeing Monarchs Day [1st Saturday]

Wildlife Community Preparedness Day [1st Saturday]

World Ankylosing Spondylitis Day [1st Saturday]

World Beer Pong Day [1st Saturday]

World Fischbroetchen Day (Germany) [1st Saturday]

World Labyrinth Day [1st Saturday]

World Naked Gardening Day [1st Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning May 4 (1st Week)

National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend (thru 5.5)

Independence & Related Days

Ilagan Day (Philippines)

Klitzibürg (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Latvia (from USSR, 1990)

Natal (Proclaimed British Colony; 1843)

Rhode Island (from Great Britain, 1776)

Festivals Beginning May 4, 2024

Alive! Expo (Atlanta, Georgia) [thru 5.5]

Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race (Baltimore, Maryland)

The Bloody Mary Festival (Seattle, Washington)

Blues, Brews, and BBQ on the River (Historic Yorktown, Virginia)

Bodega Bay Fisherman's Festival (Bodega Bay, California) [thru 5.5]

Brighton Festival (Brighton, UK) [thru 5.26]

Brixton Disco Festival (London, UK)

Brussels Iris Festival (Brussels, Belgium) [thru 5.5]

Castroville Chamber Beer & Wine Fest (Castroville, Texas)

Chinoteague Seafood Festival (Chinoteague, Virginia)

Maifest (Amana Colonies, Iowa) [thru 5.5]

Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival (West Friendship, Maryland) [thru 5.5]

Medieval Market in Kungsträdgården (Stockholm, Sweden) [thru 5.5]

Mill Creek Spring Beer & Wine Walk (Mill Creek, Washington)

NW Indiana & Interstate Chili Cook-off (Merrillville, Indiana) [thru 5.5]

Oyster Feed (Ocosta, Washington)

Rochester Sweeps Festival (Rochester, UK) [thru 5.6]

Rouketopolemos (Rocket War; Vrontados, Greece)

Spring Town Point Virginia Wine Festival (Norfolk, Virginia) [thru 5.5]

Strawberry Festival (Lahaska, Pennsylvania) [thru 5.5]

Tennessee Renaissance Festival (Arrington, Williamson County, Tennessee) [thru 5.27]

Texarkana Twice as Fine Wine Festival (Texarkana, Texas)

Tulip Time Festival (Holland, Michigan) [thru 5.12]

Virginia Herb Festival (Middletown, Virginia) [thru 5.5]

Wein & Saengerfest (New Braunfels, Texas)

Wild Bacon Wine Trail (Hermann, Missouri) [thru 5.5]

Wine & Herb- May Weekend (Cayuga Lake , New York) [thru 5.5]

Wine on the Fox (Oswego, Illinois) [thru 5.5]

Feast Days

Andrew Dasburg (Artology)

Bona Dea (Old Roman odes of Women's Mysteries)

Cadi Haf (Celtic Book of Days)

Catherine of Parc-aux-Dames (Christian; Virgin)

Ceferino Giménez Malla (Christian; Saint)

Chewie the Cookie (Muppetism)

English Saints and Martyrs of the Reformation Era (Church of England)

Fairy Day (Everyday Wicca)

Fairy Ring Day (Giving; Shamanism)

Feast of the English & Welsh Martyrs (UK)

F.C.D. Wyneken (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod)

Florian (Christian; Martyr) [Austria, barrel-makers, brewers, coopers]

François Gérard (Artology)

Franklin Carmichael (Artology)

Frederic Edwin Church (Artology)

Godehard (a.k.a. Gothard; Christian; Saint)

God of Medicine Day (Taiwan)

Gotthard of Hildesheim (Christian; Saint)

Gregory of Verucchino (Christian; Saint)

Ilmarinen’s Day (Pagan)

José María Rubio (Christian; Saint)

Judas Cyriacus (a.k.a. Judas Quiriacus; Christian; Saint)

Keith Haring (Artology)

Ma Zu (Birthday of Goddess of the Sea; Buddhism, Taoism)

May the 4th Be With you (Jedi Church)

Michal Giedroyc (Christian; Saint)

Monica of Hippo (Christian; Saint)

Pelagia of Tarsus (Christian; Virgin & Martyr)

Philopoemen (Positivist; Saint)

Sacerdos of Limoges (Christian; Saint)

Space Pirates Day (Pastafarian)

Star Wars Day (Pastafarian)

Thomas Dewing (Artology)

Tiberius Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Venerius of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Orthodox Christian Liturgical Calendar Holidays

Easter Saturday (Orthodox Christian) [Day before Easter] (a.k.a. ... 

Good Saturday (Cyprus)

Great Saturday

Holy Saturday (Georgia)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [27 of 71]

Premieres

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Trade Organization; 1927)

Accidents Will Happen, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1979)

The Avengers (Film; 2012)

The Barkleys of Broadway (Film; 1949)

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Film; 2012)

Bloodline, by Sidney Sheldon (Novel; 1978)

Busy Buddies (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1956)

Cheese It, the Cat! (WB LT Cartoon; 1957)

The Daily Mail (UK Newspaper; 1896)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs (Science Book; 1961)

The Final Problem, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes Story; 1891)

Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce (Novel; 1939)

Fun House (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1936)

Good Thing, by Leon Bridges (Album; 2018)

Happy Together (Film; 1990)

Hawaiian Pineapples (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1930)

Hot Turkey (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1930)

Hush My Mouse (WB LT Cartoon; 1946)

If You Had My Love, by Jennifer Lopez (Song; 1999)

The King’s Daughter (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1934)

A Lamb in a Jam (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1945)

Land of Lost Watches (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1951)

Leisure: The Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper (Philosophy Book; 1948)

Luther (UK TV Series; 2010)

The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury (Novel; 1950)

Mother Goose Nightmare (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1945)

The Mummy Returns (Film; 2001)

The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer (Novel; 1948)

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (TV Mini-Series; 2023)

RBG (Documentary Film; 2018)

Rid Of Me, by PJ Harvey (Album; 1993)

Sixteen Candles (Film; 1984)

The Skies of Peru, by Anne McCaffrey (Novel; 2001)

Spider-Man 3 (Film; 2007)

Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Animated TV Series; 2021)

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Film; 1990)

Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Essays; 1974)

Today’s Name Days

Florian, Guido, Valeria (Austria)

Cvijeta, Cvjetko, Florijan, Iskra, Silvije (Croatia)

Květoslav (Czech Republic)

Florian (Denmark)

Roosi, Rosalie, Saale, Saali, Sale (Estonia)

Roosa, Rosa, Ruusu (Finland)

Florian, Sylvain (France)

Florian, Guido, Valeria (Germany)

Melia, Pelagia (Greece)

Flórián, Mónika (Hungary)

Ada, Ciriaco, Efisio, Porfirio, Silvano (Italy)

Flora, Florians, Viola, Vizbulīte (Latvia)

Dargailas, Florijonas, Mintautė, Monika (Lithuania)

Mona, Monika (Norway)

Florian, Grzegorz, January, Michał, Monika, Paulin, Strzeżywoj (Poland)

Pelaghia (Romania)

Florián (Slovakia)

Florián, Godofredo (Spain)

Mona, Monika (Sweden)

Alvina, Eunice, June, Palahna, Una (Ukraine)

Mona, Monica, Monika, Monita, Monique, Web, Webb, Webster (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 125 of 2024; 241 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 18 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 21 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 26 (Wu-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 26 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 25 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 5 Magenta; Fryday [5 of 30]

Julian: 21 April 2024

Moon: 16%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 13 Caesar (5th Month) [Polybius]

Runic Half Month: Lagu (Flowing Water) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 47 of 92)

Week: 1st Week of May

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 15 of 31)