#boyle county neighbors

[eretzyisrael]

by Ben Kawaller

I went to my first Free Palestine protest this month. I’ll start with the good news: at no point did I, a poster child for the Ashkenazim, feel unsafe. Sure, one of the speakers, Frank Cardenas of the Peace and Freedom Party, drew cheers and applause with the line, “Do I condemn Hamas? Hell no!” But he also assured the crowd that the current conflict was not about Jews versus Arabs, but about colonizers versus the colonized. Not having colonized anyone lately, I managed not to take it personally. 

A co-production of the Los Angeles Movement for Advancing Socialism, the East L.A. Brown Bears, the L.A. County Peace and Freedom Party, and an organization called Centro CSO, the demonstration on November 4 attracted maybe two or three hundred participants and began with a series of mostly Latino speakers at Boyle Heights’ Mariachi Plaza. It then migrated across the L.A. River to the steps of City Hall, where there was more shouting into megaphones about the need for both a cease-fire and the destruction of Israel. 

There was also a call for an alliance between Palestinians and Chicanos, who “face harassment, violence, and murder by the occupying forces of LAPD. . . and other police departments.” Lost in the fervor, of course, was the detail that the “occupying force” in Gaza is not Israel, but a gang of Islamists who would have happily slaughtered every merry Christian at this gathering. (The situation in the West Bank, I maintain, is another story, and it sure would be nice if we could say with a straight face that Israel’s current government has pursued nothing but peaceful coexistence with its Palestinian neighbors.)

Decolonization was the word of the day, and there was much talk of a “one-state solution” that would turn over all of Israel to the Palestinian people. I asked some folks what this would mean for the Jews of Israel, and responses ranged from the evasive (“I don’t think it’s for me to guess”) to the delusional (“Before Israel became a nation, everybody lived peacefully side by side”) to the blithely genocidal (“The Jewish people in Israel [will] always have to look over their shoulders because. . . the hatred that Palestinians have for them is justified.”).

Look, no one said decolonization would be easy, but what’s the alternative, trying to live in peace? 

Peace, it would seem, is for suckers. What’s hot right now is “liberation.” What’s really righteous is to promulgate a fundamental loathing of anyone belonging to the “oppressor” class. 

It’s a mindset attractive even to the upwardly mobile. I spoke, for instance, to a CalTech engineering student who confidently asserted that a “global intifada”—by which he meant the overthrow of capitalism—“is a desire shared by all working people across the world.” What would that look like? “It’s gonna look bloody,” he shrugged, as if describing a traffic jam.  

The sixties this is not. Remember “make love not war”? That ethos is evidently far less appealing than the chance to cosplay as a revolutionary and give voice to bloodlust.

I would like to think that those ostensibly standing for “peace and freedom” are capable of rejecting the allure of such bitterness and rage. And there are doubtless people—there must be—organizing for Palestinian dignity who aren’t playing in that sandbox. 

But I didn’t meet any of them that Saturday.

[lenwood67]

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[tipsywench]

So here's the biggest issue with reading "Fighting Prophet" - the sources really aren't cited well at all.

So you have this quote of Sherman where he's describing his grandmother:

And in the back of the book all you really get is a list of sources for each chapter, and before that a big paragraph describing how all letters came from the letter collections in the Library of Congress

So I at first assumed maybe it was from Sherman's memoirs or John's recollections but I didn't find it in either. Then I googled a line from it and after searching through a few books I found it's actually from a letter Sherman wrote to a friend who had offered him condolences after Ellen had died. And it's a lengthy letter going into his family history.

I'm gonna paste it under here, because I actually really like it, especially when he starts writing about his mother:

Found in "The Americanization of Edward Bok: The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After" on Gutenberg:

When Mrs. Sherman passed away, Doctor T. DeWitt Talmage wrote General Sherman a note of condolence, and what is perhaps one of the fullest expositions of his religious faith to which he ever gave expression came from him in a most remarkable letter, which Doctor Talmage gave to Bok.

"New York, December 12, 1886.

"My Dear Friend:

"Your most tender epistle from Mansfield, Ohio, of December 9 brought here last night by your son awakens in my brain a flood of memories. Mrs. Sherman was by nature and inheritance an Irish Catholic. Her grandfather, Hugh Boyle, was a highly educated classical scholar, whom I remember well,—married the half sister of the mother of James G. Blaine at Brownsville, Pa., settled in our native town Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, and became the Clerk of the County Court. He had two daughters, Maria and Susan. Maria became the wife of Thomas Ewing, about 1819, and was the mother of my wife, Ellen Boyle Ewing. She was so staunch to what she believed the true Faith that I am sure that though she loved her children better than herself, she would have seen them die with less pang, than to depart from the "Faith." Mr. Ewing was a great big man, an intellectual giant, and looked down on religion as something domestic, something consoling which ought to be encouraged; and to him it made little difference whether the religion was Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, or Catholic, provided the acts were 'half as good' as their professions.

"In 1829 my father, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio, died at Lebanon away from home, leaving his widow, Mary Hoyt of Norwalk, Conn. (sister to Charles and James Hoyt of Brooklyn) with a frame house in Lancaster, an income of $200 a year and eleven as hungry, rough, and uncouth children as ever existed on earth. But father had been kind, generous, manly with a big heart; and when it ceased to beat friends turned up—Our Uncle Stoddard took Charles, the oldest; W. I. married the next, Elisabeth (still living); Amelia was soon married to a merchant in Mansfield, McCorab; I, the third son, was adopted by Thomas Ewing, a neighbor, and John fell to his namesake in Mt. Vernon, a merchant.

"Surely 'Man proposes and God disposes.' I could fill a hundred pages, but will not bore you. A half century has passed and you, a Protestant minister, write me a kind, affectionate letter about my Catholic wife from Mansfield, one of my family homes, where my mother, Mary Hoyt, died, and where our Grandmother, Betsey Stoddard, lies buried. Oh, what a flood of memories come up at the name of Betsey Stoddard,—daughter of the Revd. Mr. Stoddard, who preached three times every Sunday, and as often in between as he could cajole a congregation at ancient Woodbury, Conn.,—who came down from Mansfield to Lancaster, three days' hard journey to regulate the family of her son Judge Sherman, whose gentle wife was as afraid of Grandma as any of us boys. She never spared the rod or broom, but she had more square solid sense to the yard than any woman I ever saw. From her Charles, John, and I inherit what little sense we possess.

"Lancaster, Fairfield County, was our paternal home, Mansfield that of Grandmother Stoddard and her daughter, Betsey Parker. There Charles and John settled, and when in 1846 I went to California Mother also went there, and there died in 1851.

"When a boy, once a year I had to drive my mother in an old 'dandy wagon' on her annual visit. The distance was 75 miles, further than Omaha is from San Francisco. We always took three days and stopped at every house to gossip with the woman folks, and dispense medicines and syrups to the sick, for in those days all had the chills or ague. If I could I would not awaken Grandmother Betsey Stoddard because she would be horrified at the backsliding of the servants of Christ,—but oh! how I would like to take my mother, Mary Hoyt, in a railroad car out to California, to Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, among the vineyards of grapes, the groves of oranges, lemons and pomegranates. How clearly recurs to me the memory of her exclamation when I told her I had been ordered around Cape Horn to California. Her idea was about as definite as mine or yours as to, Where is Stanley? but she saw me return with some nuggets to make her life more comfortable.

"She was a strong Presbyterian to the end, but she loved my Ellen, and the love was mutual. All my children have inherited their mother's faith, and she would have given anything if I would have simply said Amen; but it is simply impossible.

"But I am sure that you know that the God who created the minnow, and who has moulded the rose and carnation, given each its sweet fragrance, will provide for those mortal men who strive to do right in the world which he himself has stocked with birds, animals, and men;—at all events, I will trust Him with absolute confidence.

"With great respect and affection,

"Yours truly,

"W. T. Sherman."

[creepingsharia]

Congressmen Demand Answers About Muslim Kids “We will chop off their heads” Video in Philadelphia Islamic School

Muslim school kids: “We will chop off their heads … we will lead the army of Allah fulfilling his promise, we will subject them to eternal torture...”

Two U.S. congressmen are asking the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission to reveal the details of its investigation into the April 2019 video of Muslim children from a Philadelphia mosque performing anti-Semitic skits and singing violent songs.

The shocking video was presented by the Muslim American Society Islamic Center and Masjid A-Hidaya Mosque in Philadelphia in celebration of “Ummah Day.” As reported at the time by The Daily Wire, the video featured Muslim children singing,

We will chop off their heads … we will lead the army of Allah fulfilling his promise, we will subject them to eternal torture … we will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies … sacrifice our souls without hesitation.

Following multiple press articles, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations announced an investigation into the event.

But more than five months have elapsed — with no follow-up from the Commission regarding its findings. Recently, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) and Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) sent a letter to the Commission’s executive director, Rue Landau, requesting an update of its findings and asking whether further investigation needs to be made by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The letter also informed Landau of the Muslim American Society’s (MAS) role as an “overt arm” of the Muslim Brotherhood and notes that “several senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood are designated as terrorists.” Perry and Zeldin also noted that, given the Muslim American Society has 50 chapters throughout the United States, the results of the Philadelphia investigation are of national importance in trying to understand the role played by the organization and similar groups in indoctrinating American Muslims children towards extremist Islamism.

Contacted about the letter, Landau did not respond.

The disturbing video received both local and national attention at the time, but why is there only continuing interest in the results of the Commission’s investigation from a congressman from New York and a congressman from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania?

Where are the voices coming from lawmakers in Philadelphia — or the voices from local Muslim organizations purporting to be advocates for human rights?

The Philadelphia City Council has not taken action, either. While Philadelphia Councilman Curtis Jones prepared a city council resolution in outrage over Pennsylvania Representative Delegate Stephanie Borowicz’s references to Jesus in a State House invocation during the swearing-in of Muslim State Representative Movita Johnson-Harrell, there has been no similar resolutions or outrage over the Muslim American Society’s promotion of songs about beheading Jews. Calls and emails to Jones and other councilmen asking if they too would add their voices in requesting an update from the Commission were ignored.

The Masjid Al-Hidaya Mosque, where the video was filmed, sits in the congressional district of Congressman Brendan Boyle and neighbors the district covered by Congressman Dwight Evans. Calls to each congressman’s local office revealed no awareness of the Zeldin/Perry letter, although staffers suggested they would investigate the matter further.

The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)’s Philadelphia chapter responded to MAS’ head-chopping video with a press release at the time: “Muslim Community Condemns Anti-Semitism.” CAIR-Philadelphia executive director Jacob Bender was careful to add: “We should be careful, however, not to conflate criticism of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians with anti-Semitism. Thousands of American and Israeli Jews like myself are critical of the oppressive policies of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.”

The CAIR-PA’s weak response is a reminder of the historic relationship between MAS and CAIR. As federal prosecutors have previously argued:

CAIR and MAS omit reference to a shared background that limits their membership to those of a particular political bent, and undercuts their credibility. The Muslim Brotherhood is a generally covert international organization whose credo is ‘Allah is our goal; the Qur’an is our constitution; the Prophet is our leader; Struggle is our way; and death in the path of Allah is our highest aspiration.’

CAIR-Philadelphia has a history of running substantial campaigns whenever they wish to highlight issues of concern to them. That includes a recent effort targeting Starbucks over the name on a Muslim man’s coffee cup. But they have issued no apparent follow-up regarding the MAS video — or the remedial training CAIR was supposed to have provided to following the incident.

The Zeldin/Perry letter seeking disclosure of the Commission’s findings regarding MAS is a worthwhile effort. It’s a shame that local officials do not seem nearly as motivated in responding to an incident that has tarred Philadelphia’s reputation and raised serious questions about growing levels of Islamist anti-Semitism in the City of Brotherly Love.

[myhauntedsalem]

Bloody Benders

In the late 1800’s while travelling the roads of Labette County, Kansas you might have come across a small bed and breakfast inn owned by the Bender family. As travel was slow via horse and cart you may have felt inclined to stop off for the night, especially if you were a man as the Benders daughter Kate was quite beautiful and curvy.

Unfortunately should you stay the night, it was likely you were not going to leave again. The Bender family were all serial killers and their list of victims was long.

As you are shown to the place of honor at the dinner table you probably would not take great notice of the thick curtain behind you that subdivided the little one room cabin, or the trap door at your feet. Unfortunately death was waiting for you there.

Kate would serve you, entertain you with flirtatious conversation, her low cut and loose shirt keeping you distracted. As this was taking place John Bender, the family’s patriarch and his son, would be standing right behind you, a heavy hammer in their hands. When the time was right they would swing, the hammer smashing you in the side of the head. This would leave you unconscious or dead, but either way you were soon to be finished off.

The table would be moved out of the way, and the trapdoor opened, where you would be slid below the house to have your throat cut, spilling your lifeblood onto the cellar floor. From here you would have all your valuable possessions taken from you and then buried in one of the various adhoc burial grounds dotted around the Bender property. Maybe you would be buried whole, maybe in parts, it all depended on the Bender’s mood and whether you were easy to carry or not.

You were then just another of the missing persons who had disappeared while travelling this part of the country, a statistic, your fate unknown until this murderous scheme was uncovered by almost pure luck.

The Bender family killed more than a dozen people at their property between 1871 and 1873. In 1870, five families had settled in the Osage township, Kansas, located along the great Osage Trail, a main route for anyone looking to travel west.

One of these families was John Bender Senior and his son John Bender Junior. They made their land claim and began creating a home, the one room cabin, a barn and a well. Once these initial constructions were complete they sent for Kate Bender and her daughter Kate.

This small community of families were all spiritualists, of which Kate was a self proclaimed psychic and healer. Ma and Pa spoke very little English, were not very nice to their neighbors, and were considered half wits. John spoke English well, but was also considered a halfwit due to his tendency to laugh aimlessly and at length. Kate on the other hand was beautiful, charming and quite the business woman.

The Bender’s home was subdivided by a sheet allowing the back end to become their living space and the front half to be a general store and a place people could come for a meal. Kate also utilized it for her spiritual practices, healings, lectures and séances.

It was a quiet community, travelers went through and although many went missing, no one thought there was murder happening in their own town. That is until the body of a man was found in a nearby creek with his head crushed and throat cut. The following year, 1872, two other men were discovered in a similar state, and soon people realized something was quite wrong as finally the disappearances seemed to be linked to the Osage township.

Groups of vigilantes were formed who would then travel around arresting anyone who seemed untoward or had the slightest criminal record. However, with no proof, these people were released by authorities only to be chased out of the town.

In late 1872 a man and his infant daughter were relocating to another part of the country, and when they were not heard from again a neighbor, Doctor York, followed their trail to go looking for them. He also was never seen again.

Doctor York had two brothers, one a Colonel, who went looking for him and the trail led straight to the Bender family. The Bender’s did say that the Doctor had stayed at the inn, but had left the next day and that perhaps he had been attacked and killed by the local Indians.

That would have been that had Ma Bender not chased a woman from the inn screaming and threatening her with a knife. Colonel York returned to the inn with armed men to find out what had happened. Ma Bender could not speak English very well, but upon being pushed, she flew in a rage saying the woman she had chased was a witch who had cursed her.

Kate Bender settled the situation down and invited the Colonel back the following night so she could use her psychic abilities to help him locate his Doctor brother. The Colonel did not fall for the ruse and was convinced the Bender family were guilty of all the disappearances, but needed proof.

A meeting was arranged at the township in the hopes of organizing a warrant to search all the homes, but the arguing began and soon once again the Osage Indians were in the firing line, many thought they were to blame. As all of this was taking place, the Bender family quietly took their possessions and fled.

Their disappearance was not noted for several days, but when it was, there was a massive outcry and many people descended on the property to search it for the missing people. They opened the trapdoor and found it bloodstained, the floor was dug up and found that so much blood had seeped into it that they were still digging up clotted blood several feet down.

The cabin was then lifted by several dozen men and carried some distance so the entire floor could be easily dug up. No bodies were found. However, when they started to dig in the vegetable garden and apple orchard the bodies were discovered, one of the first found was Doctor York. A majority of the bodies were found to have one side of the head smashed in and their throats cut. Not all bodies were found in the ground, as some were discovered in the Well along with other dismembered remains.

As the word got out about the Bloody Benders crowds of people travelled to the property which was soon stripped of every possession left by the family as souvenirs, and once that was done, people started to take the wooden cladding home with them. Everyone wanted a piece of this macabre history.

A friend of the Bender’s was found by the mob and taken back to the house and questioned. When he had no answers they hanged him from a rafter, and when he lapsed into unconsciousness they took him down, woke him up and continued interrogating him. This cycle of hanging and release was repeated several times before he was allowed to leave.

Many other people would be caught, tortured and arrested under suspicion of being in cahoots with the Bender family, or being a Bender. However it is not known whether the Bender family themselves were ever caught. Bounties were put on their heads, and although several groups claimed to have captured and killed the Bender’s, none ever claimed the reward.

Many of the remains found on the property were never identified or claimed and were reburied near to where they were discovered.

As a final twist, it turns out that Ma and Pa Bender might not have been married, but rather John and Kate were!

Order of Disappearances of Victims:

1869 – Joe Sowers – not proven as victim 1871 – Mr. Jones – body found in Drum Creek 1872 – 2 unknown men – found on prairie 1872 – Henry McKenzie – body mutilated 1872 – Ben Brown 1872 – W.F. McCrotty 1873 – George Loncher & little girl 1873 – Johnny Boyle * – found in well 1873 – Dr. William York ? – John Greary ? – Unknown female ? – Unidentified man ? – Dismembered parts of several victims

Money Taken From Victims:

40 cents or $2,000 depending on sources $36, finely matched team of horses $2,600, possibly to buy claim build home $38, wagon, good horse team $1,900, possibly to buy claim $10, red pacing mare, $850 saddle $2,000, possibly to buy claim

Found with crushed skulls and slit throats:

Discovered in Bender’s apple orchard

[marylandparanormal]

Ghost Expedition Montgomery County, Silver Spring Maryland: Burnt Mills West Special Park/Robert B Morse Water Filtration Plant

The Burnt Mills area in Silver Spring, Maryland takes it name from a mill that was said to have burned down there sometime before 1788, possibly circa the 1740′s timeframe

From an antique copper stencil, veteran local journalist J. Harry Shannon (aka "The Rambler") speculated in 1916 the burnt mill may have been known as "Glen Cairn Mills Family Flour"

Milling operations in Burnt Mills date to 1745 when then area was surveyed and patented as the "Mill Seat."  The area's terrain and rapid waterfalls enabled the operations of a series of grist, saw and flour mills. The first mill in Mill Seat was constructed later that year on property owned by Samuel Beall Jr.  And this was likely the namesake mill that burned down

The earliest records of a grist mill at Burnt Mills date to 1803 when the property known as "Beall’s Industry" was sold by Walter Beall to Peter Kemp and James W. Perry  

Nathan Lufborough acquired the mill property, described in an 1823 deed as "one hundred acres more or less".  He had intended to sell the mill in 1847 but he died before the sale could be completed, leaving the property to his heirs.  The property was listed in 1850 as a “flour and bone” mill 

The mill at Burnt Mills was owned by James L. Bond from 1858 to 1886.  The mill produced three grades of flour and stone-ground corn mill. The technology of the mill improved over time. A roller mill replaced mill stones around 1895. A turbine had replaced the wheel by 1880 

Bond sold the property to his sons-in law in 1886.  The last owner was Dr. George W. Bready who acquired the flour mill and land in 1906

In 1913, The Rambler rendered the following portrait of the old flour mill in the Sunday Star

The shingle roof of the mill is green, dark and old, with moss, but  nearly everything else about the mill - the miller, of course, included -  is whitened by the flour and meal ground there, and which has been grinding there so long that no man's memory runneth to the contrary  

Near the mill is the miller's house, bowered in the shade of numerous  close-growing trees and the home of Dr. William T. Brown, surrounded by  shrubbery, orchard and vineyard

By 1922, the mill had ceased operations. That year, the mill was sold to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC).  The old mill sat idle for years until it was demolished in 1928  

In 1879, Burnt Mills (Four Corners) was a farm community with a population of 125 persons.  In 1934, the Robert E. Lattimer Land Company developed the area as a community of country estates known as Burnt Mills Hills.  The development preserved the area’s topography of rolling hills and streams and farm lanes

WSSC began construction of a water filtration facility in 1930.  The plant featured a "state of art" design, by WSSC Chief Engineer Robert B. Morse, for rapid sand removal and water treatment

The plant had two filter assemblies, two pumping stations and a new concrete dam.  Pumping stations were designed in the Georgian Revival style to give the appearance of large colonial houses rather than a public utility

The low-lift pumping station moved cleaned (sediment free-water) to filter assemblies where lime and ammonia were added

The filter assemblies featured circular rings that were used for each stage of the filtration process, which included coagulation, filtration, and delivery

Chlorine was added as the high-lift pumping station moved treated water to WSSC distribution lines

The late Robert Brooks Morse (1880-1936) was married to Carrie Emma Ross-Morse (1883-1979). They had two children: Caroline Allen Morse (1903-1905) and Katherine B. Morse-Devereaux (1904-1984)

He was trained as a civil engineer at Johns Hopkins University (A.B. 1901) and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B. 1904).  He became Chief engineer at WSSC since its inception in 1918

Unfortunately, he died prematurely at age 55 due to blood poisoning, months before the water filtration plant opened.  WSSC named the water filtration plant in his honor

The water filtration plant did not have the capacity to meet rising service demands from suburban growth and it was closed in 1962. The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission acquired the former water plant in 2000.  Today they are recreational facilities known as Burnt Mills West Special Park (the high-lift pumping station) and Burnt Mills East Special Park (the low-lift pumping station)

There are no haunting legends associated with historical Burnt Mills nor the Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Facility. However, there may be potential for transcommunication experiences owing to area history.  The ghost expedition will focus on "drop-in" communications, and not on evidence for a haunting

The ghost expedition will also participate in National Ghost Hunting Day (NGHD), an event sponsored by Haunted Journeys magazine.  Connectivity and live streaming will be provided by SHINDIG. Digital marketing services for the event are being provided by CyberSpyder. The event will attempt to build a global “consciousness bridge” that will last two hours

Data from random event generators (REGs) belonging to the Global Consciousness Project  (GCP) that are in proximity to participant locations will be monitored over the event

Results from NGHD 2016 noted a marked shift in random walk trending generated by GCP REGs at the outset of last year’s event

Similar patterns were also encountered at NGHD start in MPR’s REG experiment in 2017 in Dundalk

The film project will not be open to the public but will be livestreamed over the SHINDIG platform.  Look for “Site, MD, USA, Burnt Mills West Special Park”

REFERENCES:

Beall, J.R. (1931). The history and construction of the mill at Burnt Mills, Maryland. Initiation Thesis. Records of Phi Mu Fraternity, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.  University of Maryland, College Park. Hosted at archive.org

Boyd, T.H.S. (1879). The history of Montgomery County, Maryland - From its earliest settlement in 1650 to 1879. Baltimore, W.K. Boyle and Son

Bushong, W. (1994, May). Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant. M33-22. Maryland-National Capital Park And Planning Commission. Maryland Historical Trust

Cook, E.M.V. (1992, Nov). The Story of Burnt Mills. In The Montgomery County Story, Quarterly Journal of the Montgomery County Historical Society, Vol. 35. No. 4., Rockville, MD. pp 225-235. 

Find A Grave, database and images. Memorial page for Robert Brooks Morse (13 Sep 1880–31 Jan 1936), Find A Grave Memorial no. 135832899, citing Chebeague Island Cemetery, Chebeague Island, Cumberland County, Maine, USA. Maintained by townsendburial (contributor 47629974)

Historic Preservation, Montgomery County, Maryland. (1996, Mar 6). Montgomery County Atlas (MCATLAS) Map Viewer: ROBERT B. MORSE COMPLEX (WSSC). Resource Number: 33/022-000A. Maryland-National Capital Park And Planning Commission. Montgomery County, Maryland

Kelly, C.L. (2012). Burnt Mills Hills. M33-29. Maryland-National Capital Park And Planning Commission. Maryland Historical Trust

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY. (2018). Maryland State Archives

Montgomery Parks. (2016, Aug 15). Burnt Mills West Special Park. Maryland-National Capital Park And Planning Commission

Montgomery County Planning Department. Montgomery County Atlas (MCATLAS) Map Viewer: Burnt Mills West Special Park. Montgomery County (MD). Department of Parks. Montgomery County, Maryland

National Ghost Hunting Day: The World’s Largest Ghost Hunt. (2018).  Haunted Journeys

Shannon, J.H. (1913, Jun 22). With the Rambler. Sunday Star, Washington DC.  Reprinted in Neighbors of the Northwest Branch

Shannon, J.H. (1916, May 14).  With the Rambler: Tramping the Northwest Branch. Sunday Star, Washington DC.  Reprinted in Neighbors of the Northwest Branch

Sutton, R. (2016, Jun 16). Burnt Mills Dam has a long history in Montgomery County. Ross Sutton Blog. Keller Williams Real Estate

Williams, B.J. (2017).  Exploring Collective Consciousness: Could There Be Some Implications for Paranity?. National Ghost Hunting Day Collective Consciousness Article. Psychical Research Foundation

IMAGES:

Historic American Engineering Record. (1968). REAR ELEVATION of high-lift pumping station. Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant, 10700 and 10701 Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD.  Library of Congress

Historic American Engineering Record. (1968). FRONT ELEVATION of high-lift pumping station. Colesville Road (also called U.S.Route 29 or Columbia Pike) is in foreground. Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant, 10700 and 10701 Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD.  Library of Congress

Burnt Mills Flour Mill prior to its demolition - Figure 1. (c 1928).  From Beall, J.R. (1931). The history and construction of the mill at Burnt Mills, Maryland. Initiation Thesis. Records of Phi Mu Fraternity, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.  University of Maryland, College Park.  Hosted at archive.org

Burnt Mills Flour Mill prior to its demolition - Figure 2. (c 1928).  From Beall, J.R. (1931). The history and construction of the mill at Burnt Mills, Maryland. Initiation Thesis. Records of Phi Mu Fraternity, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries.  University of Maryland, College Park.  Hosted at archive.org

Historic American Engineering Record. (1968). GROUND FLOOR of high-lift pumping station. Note the main stairway and columns. Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant, 10700 and 10701 Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD.  Library of Congress

Historic American Engineering Record. (1968). ATTIC of high-lift pumping station showing steel framing and concrete slab roof units. Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant, 10700 and 10701 Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD.  Library of Congress

Historic American Engineering Record. (1968). OFFICE SPACE ON SECOND FLOOR of high-lift pumping station. Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant, 10700 and 10701 Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD.  Library of Congress

Historic American Engineering Record. (1968). BASEMENT of high-lift pumping station. Note steel I-beam and pump foundations. Robert B. Morse Water Filtration Plant, 10700 and 10701 Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD.  Library of Congress

National Ghost Hunting Day: The World’s Largest Ghost Hunt. (2017).  Haunted Journeys

Montgomery Parks. (2016, Aug 15). SOUTHEAST ELEVATION. Burnt Mills West Special Park. Maryland-National Capital Park And Planning Commission

[jamietijerina]

¡SI SE PUDO! After years of work and nearly a year of hearings and delays associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic, we have reached the major moment in which the LA City Council has officially recognized the buildings that housed the Mechicano Art Center and the Centro de Arte Público as Historic Cultural Monuments in the City of Los Angeles. This was a unanimous 14-0 vote.

Nationally, fewer than 10% of historic landmarks are associated with communities of color. Important places that are historically connected with the struggle for Latino civil rights in the US, the Chicano Movement, are at risk of being lost, just as Roosevelt High School was in Boyle Heights when the R Building and Auditorium were demolished in 2019.

The nominations of Mechicano Art Center and the Centro de Arte Publico are not only critical for the preservation of Chicano history in Northeast Los Angeles, but they also are a step toward achieving equity in this space, ensuring that these important places will be there for our community and for many years to come.

The overwhelming support of our community has been critical throughout the HCM process, and we also are grateful to have a champion in the LA City Council who understands the importance of Chicano History, our CD1 Councilmember Gil Cedillo. Northeast LA and the Eastside value the preservation of our history and honoring those who came before, and the community’s and our councilmember’s support of these nominations at every step has underscored this.

We additionally would like to thank our local elected officials who also sent in letters of support including LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis, State Senator Maria Elena Durazo, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, and CD1 Councilmember Gil Cedillo.

We are also thankful all the members of the City Council citywide who unanimously voted YES on the nominations, including Councilmember Kevin DeLeon in neighboring CD14. Organizations who sent in letters of support included Occidental College, Boyle Heights Community Partners, Historic Garvanza, Art in the Park LA, Latino Heritage Conservation, Ave 50 Studio, and the LA Conservancy. There are so many people and organizations whose support we are grateful for, including Alexandra Madsen who spent countless hours writing and researching to author the nominations, and we hope to continue working together with everyone and recognizing you for your contributions to the preservation of Chicano History.

Very soon, we hope to complete and submit the third nomination associated with the Chicano Arts Collectives of Highland Park, Corazón Productions, and others locally. We look forward in sharing this and many more nominations in the future with you, our community.

Sincerely,

Jamie Tijerina, President HPHT

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Gov. Gavin Newsom visited two federally funded pop-up coronavirus vaccination sites in Southern California on Sunday, Feb. 21, part of a statewide tour of such spots aimed at immunizing the state’s hardest-hit communities. The visit coincided with the launch of the transition to a new centralized system — which will include Riverside County in its first wave — to manage the state’s thus-far bumpy rollout of the badly needed vaccine.

Newsom, flanked by several local elected leaders, said the mobile vaccination sites are vital to amp up the state’s ability to deliver vaccines equitably to the state’s poorest neighborhoods, where case rates among Latinos and Blacks far surpass more affluent and Whiter areas and where vaccination rates lag far behind.

“We’re not even close to where we need to be. We’ve got to step things up,” Newsom said. “It’s an effort to acknowledge the obvious and actually deliver what we’ve been promoting and promising.”

The site in L.A.’s Boyle Heights neighborhood — which opened on the heels of a permanent mega-site at Cal State L.A. — popped up in area that might look familiar in underserved pockets from Santa Ana to Lancaster to San Bernardino. In the morning, a basketball court behind the Boys & Girls Club of Ramona Gardens transformed into a center, complete with tents, medical staff, an RV and other essential equipment.

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The Boyle Heights location — as well as another site Newsom visited at Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood — aimed to give 250 doses Sunday. At day’s end, the impromptu centers are packed up and moved on to a new location the next day. Both were supported by the federal government and operated through the state, and join similar sites around Southern California run by local agencies.

Such numbers, even small, are significant in communities where the goal is to target neighborhoods where residents may lack wi-fi to make a vaccine appointment or a vehicle to get them to the clinic, said Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who represents the area.

“This is just the beginning of the end when it comes to this pandemic. We still have a lot of work to do,” Gomez said.

That work enters a new phase this week throughout Southern California and the state, where a new system of delivering, tracking and scheduling coronavirus vaccines is being rolled out in select counties — including Riverside County.

It’s a first step in Newsom’s plan to smooth out what has been a confusing and disjointed rollout hampered by technical woes, confusing messaging and a severely limited national stockpile.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, with Assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo, District 51, left, and Los Angeles City Council member Kevin de Leon, right, visit the Ramona Gardens Recreation Center in Los Angeles to discuss the state’s efforts to vaccinate hard-to-reach and disproportionately impacted communities in Los Angeles Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. California’s new system of delivering, tracking and scheduling coronavirus vaccines is being rolled out in select counties, a first step in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to smooth out what has been a confusing and disjointed rollout hampered by limited national supply. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Health insurance giant Blue Shield of California has contracted with the state to design and manage the new centralized system to get doses out quickly and equitably.

Newsom said Sunday that the partnership will be vital in ensuring robust administration of the vaccine throughout the state, while also ensuring that administration is fair.

But the transition has met with some concern over the extent to which the Blue Shield system will override the work counties already have done to build out their own vaccine networks in communities they know best.

An initial list provided by the state showed 10 counties in the inland sections of central and Southern California chosen to be the first to make the transition to the Blue Shield system this week, although one county said Friday it would shift later. While the counties understand the goals, there’s confusion about specific changes and when they will occur.

State officials have been upfront that they don’t have answers yet to critical questions, including how they will measure equity, what the monthly equity target is or even the complete network of providers. What is sure is that counties will not be allowed to add any more vaccine providers, because the state through Blue Shield will decide who administers shots.

Counties in the initial group include Riverside, Fresno, Kern, Kings, Imperial, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin and Stanislaus. Starting March 3, another group that includes Los Angeles, which has 10 million of California’s nearly 40 million residents, will be added. San Francisco is among the counties being added in mid-March, though the dates and counties in each group are subject to change.

As of Sunday, Riverside County had yet to receive confirmation or further details from Blue Shield or the state regarding the new delivery system, according to Brooke Federico, the county’s spokeswoman.

However, Federico said the county has dealt with “extremely” limited quantities of vaccine, coupled with an “extreme” demand. Riverside County has worked to administer its vaccines to groups such as seniors, farmworkers, healthcare workers and educators within days of receiving them, she said.

“We continue to want to see additional vaccines available for our Riverside County residents,” Federico said.

Brynn Carrigan, Kern County’s director of public health, said she was told that starting Sunday everyone must make appointments through the state’s vaccine sign-up system, called My Turn. In neighboring Fresno County, a spokeswoman for St. Agnes Medical Center said it had no plans to switch its scheduling system.

“It’s scary to give up control of a system that we’ve spent a lot of time on, that’s working really well right now,” Carrigan said. “Our hope is there’s not a lot of hiccups and this goes smoothly.”

Darrel Ng, vaccine spokesman for the state’s public health agency, declined to answer questions about what to expect during the transition. But he said the state and Blue Shield “have worked tirelessly to plan and implement phased changes to more efficiently and equitably administer vaccines.” He said they will share more information in the coming week.

Newsom on Sunday stood by the Blue Shield agreement, saying it will also be essential in providing a three-week window that counties can count on to plan for when and how much vaccine they’ll be receiving from the federal government.

Blue Shield spokesman Matthew Yi also declined to provide more detail, saying in a statement Saturday they are working “closely with state public health officials, local health jurisdictions, healthcare providers and others” to overcome the pandemic.

Still, at the core of all concerns is just how limited the vaccine still is.

Newsom said that more than 7.3 million doses of vaccine have been administered statewide, while acknowledging that many communities have struggled to keep up with the need for inoculations.

1.8 million have been administered in Los Angeles County;

620,629 in Orange County;

375,289 in Riverside County; and

300,951 in San Bernardino County

Newsom said federal and state officials are doing all they can to vaccinate as many people as possible.

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“At the end of the day, there just aren’t enough Pfizer vaccines, there aren’t enough Moderna vaccines,” Newsom said.

Meanwhile, back in communities like Boyle Heights, there’s awareness that it will be an uphill climb to vaccinate in neighborhoods that have been long underserved, may be thin on health insurance and where skepticism or misinformation about the vaccine may be rampant.

“The site is a good thing,” said resident Isabel Marquez, who doesn’t live far away from the the Ramona Gardens mobile site. “But they worry if it’s safe for them,” she said of her neighbors.

Luckily, she said, she was able to get vaccinated on Saturday at the new federally supported mega site at Cal State L.A.

She said many have gotten sick in her community. And she worried that Sunday was quiet because many residents didn’t know about the site, didn’t trust it, or may have already been stricken with the virus.

Rep. Gomez was hopeful.

“There are still some people in the community who are still nervous about taking the vaccine. As more people take it … and they show that to their families they took and they are still healthy, and they are in even better shape, more people will take it.”

The Associated Press and City News Service contributed to this story.

-on February 21, 2021 at 10:31AM by Ryan Carter

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Fury as Affluenza teen is released from imprisonment 2 years after killing several in drunk driving accident.

You know affluenza, the mythical disease the judge claimed this piece of shit had. Basically too rich to have common sense… because apparently thats a thing.

The DailyMail reports

Affluenza teen Ethan Couch was released from jail Monday morning, just 720 days after being locked away for the drunken-driving killing of four.

The 20-year-old who drew international attention after a psychologist testified on his behalf and said he suffered from something called affluenza was  released just  after 8.30am local time from a jail in Tarrant County, Texas.

He has spent his first few minutes out of jail in a probation office and has yet to step into the sunshine for the first time in nearly two years.

The president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Colleen Sheehey-Church, called his release a ‘grave injustice. She said the organization will be closely following his release amid outrage from its members, according to CBS DFW.

On June 15, 2013 Couch was behind the wheel of his father’s red For F-350 pick-up, speeding 70mph down the road from his home in Burleson, Texas, where he had hosted a drunken teenage party.

Affluenza teen Ethan Crouch is set to be released from jail Monday morning, just 720 days after being locked away for the drunken-driving killing of four

The president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Colleen Sheehey-Church, called his release a ‘grave injustice. She said the organization will be closely following his release amid outrage from its members. Pictured is Couch’s car after the crash in June 2013

Earlier in the day he and two friends had stolen three cases of Miller Light from a local Walmart.

As the party got into its swing, one of the guests found she needed a tampon and everyone piled into the truck to go to a nearby convenience store.

After being caught underage drinking in 2016, Ethan and his mother Tonya Couch fled to Puerto Vallerta, Mexico, and were later picked up by police and taken back to the United States

The then 16-year-old then smashed into an SUV that had stopped by the side of the road after its tire blew, killing its driver Breanna Mitchell, 24. The crash also killed three people had to come to her aid, including Brian Jennings, who was on the way home from his son’s graduation, and mother-and-daughter neighbors Holliie and Shelby Boyles.

Sergio Molina, one of Couch’s passengers, was paralyzed and can now only communicate by blinking.

A blood test taken three hours after the crash showed COuch was

Because of his affluenza, Couch was apparently left unable to anticipate the consequences of his actions.

Affluenza impacts individuals whose wealthy parents failed to set boundaries throughout his childhood, and a judge agreed this left him not responsible for the drunken driving murders.

Though Couch killed four and…

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Donations Welcome for YSS Services

By Betsy Bethel-McFarland In times of crisis, a leader who serves the most vulnerable people in a community needs three things: broad shoulders, thick skin and a compassionate heart. Youth Services System Inc. CEO John Moses couldn’t do what he does day in and day out without all three. Moses said two people asked him on Wednesday for help feeding their families. He is putting several families up in hotel rooms until he can help them uncover a better option. When the YSS Winter Freeze Shelter closed for the season on Monday, Moses and his employees gave out 25 tents and 50 sleeping bags – all that they had. Yesterday, Director of Development Tammy Kruse said a man asked her for one glove – to warm his hand damaged by stroke. “You name it, they come to our door, or are sent here,” Moses said. Sometimes people aren’t happy when he can’t give them what they want, but he’s more concerned when he can’t give folks what they need. He continues to help whomever he can whenever he can because everyone is first and foremost a person like any other, flesh and blood, deserving of dignity and respect.

The YSS headquarters is located on 15th Street in East Wheeling.

Appearance Doesn't Matter

Unshaven and clad in jeans and T-shirt topped by a faded flannel or zip-up hoodie, Moses jovially accepts jibes about looking like the people whom he serves. He doesn’t have to dig too deeply to relate to these folks because he’s not slowed down by layers of judgment, distaste or distrust. Moses looks to spiritual philosophers such as Deepak Chopra, Mother Teresa and Pema Chodron to explain his point of view. One of his current favorites is from Chodron: “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” He also is fond of Father Gregory Boyle, director of Homeboy Ministries in Los Angeles. In “Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion,” Boyle said: “You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly, and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.” Moses printed that one out and had several copies laminated. He carries them around and hands them out like business cards. YSS founder Ronald C. Mulholland, whom he succeeded as CEO in 2003, was his spiritual and professional mentor. Mulholland made it a policy to say “yes, yes and yes again” to help others, especially children. Their burdens must become our burdens, he believed. Once you have a reputation for helping people, your phone is never silent, your doorstep is constantly darkened. With the economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic barely crowning the U.S. horizon, Moses said he believes this week and next week will see the needs escalate.

And There's a Need

So, there’s a fourth thing Moses must have to do his job: Generous supporters. Youth Services System has several state and federal funding sources, mostly for its core programs: emergency shelters for boys and girls, transitional living, the Ronald C. Mulholland Juvenile Center, and prevention and early intervention services. But most of the services Moses provides for people who are experiencing or at risk for homelessness receive zero government funding. These unfunded or underfunded programs include: The Winter Freeze Shelter, which typically operates from Dec. 15-March 15 each year in the administrative office building at 87 15th St. in East Wheeling. In 2019, local businesses, churches and philanthropists provided funding for Moses to open it a month early to serve women only after the Salvation Army stopped serving women and families. Temporary emergency housing for families, which Moses also began last fall in response to the Salvation Army’s policy change. This program, funded entirely by donors, involves the leasing of three apartments for families in need, as well as paying for hotel rooms and other needs that arise until a family can find a better option. The Lazarus House and Mary & Martha House, which serve as sober-living residences for men and women, respectively, who are in recovery from alcohol or substance use disorder.

Betsy Bethel-McFarland

Dollars and Sense

In addition, the YSS Transitional Living Program requires extra funding to help youth who fall through the cracks of the government’s system. Each November, YSS holds the Wheeling SleepOut fundraiser to help these youth. “We’ve never had a shortage of people in this community who are willing to give, and I don’t see that changing now,” Moses said. “It’s remarkable, the generous nature of the people here in the Ohio Valley.” Moses said YSS received an unprecedented amount of clothing, household goods, food and supplies this winter — $139,000 worth in December alone. YSS is no longer accepting these donations during the coronavirus pandemic, and it has closed its Sophie Moses Free Store (named for the CEO’s late mother). But he is asking for monetary donations. “Cash works because I can respond to individual needs,” Moses said. “When I have money in the pot, I can buy someone a bus ticket to a relative’s house in another city. I can call the gas company and make a payment for someone to keep the heat or hot water on. I can give a landlord the rent to keep a roof over a family’s head. I can get groceries to keep kids fed.”

No Interruptions

YSS has 200 employees and provides many essential services, such as all its residential programs. He said YSS’s 17-member volunteer board of directors met via conference call this week and is dedicated to ensuring there is no interruption of vital YSS services and all safety precautions are being followed as directed by the federal, state and county health authorities. Moses is hopeful that beyond that, he will be able to continue helping youth, families and adults who show up at 87 15th St., whatever state they’re in, whatever obstacle they’re facing, whatever need they’re experiencing. Fred Rogers said in times of crisis, look for the helpers. Moses and his employees are helpers. And he knows the Ohio Valley is full of helpers, too. Moses shared a final quote from Trappist Monk Thomas Merton: “Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether they are worthy. This is not our business and in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy, if anything can.” Monetary donations can be brought to 87 15th St., mailed to YSS, P.O. Box 6041, Wheeling, WV 26003, or made online at www.youthservicessystem.org. Read the full article

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(We’re backed up on blogs, due to the crazy busy stuff going on in the program this week. So, we’ll actually still have blogs to post after the program’s end. Look out for em! Today’s was contributed by Daniel Lamplugh.)

We had a long weekend. 3.5 days of no obligations: no excursions, or plans, and I wanted to take full advantage of it.

It’s a cliché at this point for Americans to proudly proclaim that they’re “Irish”, and that’s about as far as they go. Maybe if they someday take a trip to Dublin, they’ll obnoxiously mention it to some bartender or barista, or they’ll use it as an excuse to have a particularly raucous St. Patrick’s Day. It is all too often that people don’t do the research into their family. If they did, they might learn wonders.

I’ve always been strangely in love with genealogy. Probably because, since the day I was born, I was told all about the Lamplugh legacy. How, in England, there was a town of Lamplugh that my family comes from, and that in the past, we were English aristocracy (the truth is much less glamorous). How our American patriarch, Nathaniel Lamplugh the 1st, bravely came over the Atlantic with William Penn to help found America (this is only partly true, but still kinda cool). My father, and my oldest brother (himself named Nathaniel) both loved to study the family’s history and heritage. This was the kind of conversation I was raised on, and despite some stories’ tenuous relation to reality, it did instill in me a lifelong love of my family history.

As well, my mother’s family (where I gain most of my Irish heritage) has affected me more culturally. The Catholicism, the music, the food, the large family: all of this comes from a very Irish upbringing that my grandmother passed to my mom, and my mom to me (except the love for Bratwurst, that was my German grandfather). So, I decided that, while in Ireland, I would visit my family’s ancestral home: Ardara, County Donegal.

Donegal is unique in its culture, even among other Irish counties. The North-West-most point in all of Ireland, but still a member of the Republic of Ireland, and situated in the Ulsterian Bluestack mountains touching the Atlantic ocean, Donegal is a strange fusion of peaks and coastline. Somewhere within those mountains, looking toward a bay that spreads into the Atlantic, is Ardara. I had to take 3 buses, over a period of 9 hours, to reach the place where my Great-Great Grandfather, Hugh Boyle, lived for the first thirteen years of his life before fleeing to the United States. Where my Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather, Edward McGill went to market days and weddings. Where my third and fourth cousins, the Gallaghers and McGills and Boyles, still live.

With my research in hand, I walked into a local heritage center in Ardara, who sent me to a woman at a convenience store, who sent me to a man working in a bar. That man, Stephen, asked me my name, and where my family came from. I told him what little information I had, and he abandoned his post at the bar to chauffeur me for over three hours around the Ardara area (including neighboring towns) to speak to elderly members of the community to ask them about my family tree.

Now, let me say, if the community members of Ardara oversaw the history of the world, it would never be forgotten. When I mentioned Edward McGill, they could immediately tell me who I was related to, how far distant they were, where I could find them, and the home that my family lived in before fleeing the country.

It is through the help of the kindly (if nosey) citizens of Donegal that I found and met my very elderly third cousin, Agnes, who was wonderful and told me much more about our family. I even found out that Stephen, the man driving me around for the whole day, was related to me, as were many of the people I talked to.

It’s going to sound stupid and cliché, but when I stood on top of hill over Ardara, seeing the roofs of the town and the coast in the distance, I felt home. Not just because some people who share my genetic code once lived there hundreds of years ago, but because the people in the town treated me life family. They asked me about my schooling, drove me around, offered me food, and did their best to help me in any way they could. Sure, maybe we were third cousins twice removed or some crap, but these people really did feel like my family.

No, I didn’t find my ancestral castle (for all I know, the Boyles are lying about that one), and I didn’t get much information on my tree, but the experience I had was so much better.

I am a McGill, from the highland farms of Scadaman. I am a Boyle, from the faux-blue bloods of Ardara town. I am a Gallagher from the parish of Iniskeel. I am an Earley from god knows where.

And I’m proud to be (kind of) Irish.

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In the September edition of Boyle County Neighbors, we feature Ron and Sylvia Bower, thoroughly enjoying the home they've made in historic Perryville, Kentucky.

Whether they are creating a painting, redecorating a room in their home, or making wine, they have beautifully structured their lives in Boyle County!

Do you know a Boyle County neighbor who has a story to share? Contact LKindel@bestversionmedia.com

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NELA Livable Streets Roundup – August 2018

In the month of August, local Assemblymember Laura Friedman and Councilmember Jose Huizar came swinging pretty hard for a more livable Los Angeles, championing important proposed laws and physical infrastructure, respectively. Yosemite Drive in Eagle Rock continues to be an issue that the community is pressing for needed safety improvements. The Eagle Rock Association sent a second letter to Council District 14 reminding us all of why change is needed, and that change can be achieved relatively quickly when there is a will. With that, here is your August 2018 edition of the NELA Livable Streets Roundup.

TERA Urges Yosemite Drive Safety Improvements

In July, the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council (ERNC) issued its second letter to the City asking for traffic safety improvements to Yosemite Drive. In August, The Eagle Rock Association (TERA) too issued a second letter to the City urging safety improvements to Yosemite. Below is an excerpt from that letter:

This request is not unreasonable. In roughly a year, the City went from kick-off community meeting to implementing a package of safety improvements on a 1.2 mile stretch of Alhambra Avenue in El Sereno. If the City had acted with similar urgency on Yosemite Drive in the wake of last year’s high-profile crash, the community at this stage would be eagerly anticipating long overdue improvements. Instead, TERA is sending another letter asking that safety, particularly of school children, be taken seriously and prioritized over speed. Meaningful safety improvements on Yosemite Drive need a path forward and the time for action is now.

Strong words. Will the City listen? (As an added bonus, TERA this month also received confirmation that it had successfully negotiated aesthetic and safety improvements that will be incorporated into the Taco Bell currently being remodeled.)

Improvements Aplenty Across Council District 14

The Alhambra Avenue safety improvements covered in last month’s roundup finally had a ribbon cutting in August and Streetsblog LA provided a brief review. Council District 14 hosted two separate meetings regarding pedestrian improvements planned in Boyle Heights and in the Arts District. On top of that, Councilmember Huizar authored a motion seeking long-term funding strategies for transportation improvements to the Arts District. A new mural was unveiled overlooking the hugely popular York Park in Highland Park and Boyle Heights residents came out a meeting to learn about $5.2 million upgrades slated for Cesar Chavez Avenue.

Councilmembers Ryu and O’Farrell Call for Crosswalk

Prompted by a letter from the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council, which straddles council districts 4 and 13, Councilmembers David Ryu and Mitch O’Farrell have teamed up to get a crosswalk installed at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Rodney Drive. According to the Beverly Press, the crosswalk will be complemented by “a pedestrian activated rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon, coupled with a median island.”

News From San Gabriel Valley

Out in the San Gabriel Valley, BikeSGV alerted folks to an effort to bring a “bike park” to Altadena under the banner of “ADENA Bike Park Collective.” Meanwhile Foothill Transit announced plans to pilot double decker, electric buses. Lastly, Pomona applied for $10 million in State grants to improve conditions for walking and bicycling.

Livability in Burbank and Beyond

Burbank upgrades existing Riverside Drive bike lanes to buffered bike lanes: The street had enough room so that bike lanes could be widened and denote a “door zone” to steer clear from when bicycling. Of course, the bike lanes are still subject to be blocked by trash bins on a weekly basis.

Assemblymember Laura Friedman is on a Roll: Friedman, who represents our neighbors in Glendale on the State level, has been on a bit of a roll with several forward-thinking assembly bills moving ahead. Below are her bills that advanced, in her own words…

AB 2263: Will incentivize the preservation and reuse of registered historic structures by eliminating additional parking requirements for residential use when located within half a mile of a major transit corridor, or allowing for a 25% reduction in required parking for nonresidential commercial uses.

AB 2363: A giant leap forward on the path to reducing traffic-related fatalities by establishing a task force to examine the arcane way California sets speed limits

AB 2548: Authorizes County of LA to adopt a commuter benefits program that would encourage employers to incentivize employees to use alternative ways to commute such as biking, mass-transit, vanpooling, was signed into law by Governor Brown!

AB 2955: Bill would prioritize the concerns of horse safety as a factor when setting vehicular speed limits.

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Source: https://walkeaglerock.wordpress.com/2018/09/10/nela-livable-streets-roundup-august-2018/

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After years of debate, L.A. legalizes sidewalk vending: 'This means freedom'

After years of debate, L.A. legalizes sidewalk vending: ‘This means freedom’

In Los Angeles, they have long been a familiar sight: the vendors who hawk ice cream from pushcarts in Echo Park, sell bottled water to sweaty tourists strolling in Hollywood, and show off their wares under rainbow-y umbrellas in the Fashion District. Now, after years of protests and packed hearings at City Hall, Los Angeles leaders have passed a law to legalize and regulate vending on its sidewalks. Advertisement The decision Wednesday was the culmination of a long and persistent campaign by vendors, many of them immigrants and Spanish speakers, who erupted in cheers and applause after the unanimous vote at City Hall. Tens of thousands of vendors are estimated to sell food and goods on L.A. sidewalks, a practice that has been illegal yet all but ubiquitous. “This means freedom,” said Aureliano Santiago, who sells ice cream and hot dogs in MacArthur Park. “The police won’t pester us anymore. They’ll go after delinquents instead.” Los Angeles politicians first proposed legalizing and regulating sidewalk vending more than five years ago, but council members sparred over where and how it should be allowed. Brick-and-mortar shops had raised concerns about blocked sidewalks, trash and unfair competition . After President Trump was elected, the council quickly moved to decriminalize vending , fearing that criminal charges could put some vendors at risk of deportation as the federal government cracked down on immigrants living in the country illegally. But sidewalk sellers still could be ticketed and fined for violating the municipal code. L.A. leaders were still working out how to allow vending when a state law forced their hand . Under Senate Bill 946, local governments had to make sure that their rules lined up with new restrictions on how they could regulate vending — or lose their ability to enforce those rules beginning in January. That law prohibited cities from limiting where or how vendors could do business or capping the number of vendors allowed unless such restrictions were tied to “objective health, safety, or welfare concerns.” It also barred cities from requiring sidewalk vendors to get approval from a neighboring business, an idea that L.A. had debated in the past. As the council prepared to vote to legalize vending, City Councilman Bob Blumenfield dubbed it a “banner day” for the city but complained that the Senate bill “ripped away our local control.” Under the new rules passed Wednesday, vendors must pick up trash; ensure that people can pass on the sidewalks; and do business at a minimum distance from fire hydrants, driveways, curbs, building entrances and other street features. They must have any business and health permits required by the city, county or state. And if they set up shop next to another vendor, they must leave at least 3 feet of space in between. Those rules will go into effect by January, city officials said. Parks will have their own restrictions: Only two vendors are allowed per park acre, and they cannot operate within 25 feet of each other, or within 100 feet of any park buildings or playgrounds. If a park has an exclusive concession agreement, vendors cannot set up stationary stands there to sell food or merchandise. Los Angeles plans to eventually start handing out permits, which could authorize vendors to set up shop at specific spots, but the city still has to work out the details. Vendors and their advocates have pushed for a permit system, arguing that it will give them more certainty about where they can do business and save them from having to stake out desirable spots early in the morning. In the meantime, vendors will be able to do business legally anywhere that meets the new requirements. For a decade, Edgar Suy said, sidewalk vendors like him were treated like rats. “That’s how they treated us — the government, the police, the business owners,” said Suy, who sells corn and churros in Hollywood and downtown, earning money to support his mother and children in Guatemala. “Now we can come out of the shadows. … We aren’t a menace to society.” Sidewalk sellers will still be barred from hawking food or goods around busy venues such as the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Universal Studios and El Pueblo de Los Angeles monument. They will also be prohibited near Dodger Stadium and nearby Elysian Park, Hollywood Bowl, Staples Center and the L.A. Coliseum on days when events are being held. Advertisement In addition, Leimert Plaza Park will be off limits to vendors because commercial activity was prohibited there when the park land was provided to the city, according to the parks department. That frustrates vendors such as Kevin Wharton Price, who has sold red, black and green flags there on Sundays, when a drum circle and vendors draw people to the park. If vending is halted there, “it takes away the cultural essence of that area,” Wharton Price said. Even in those banned locations, however, vendors can still sell “expressive items” that are protected under the 1st Amendment, such as art or music made by the seller, officials confirmed. Business groups had pushed for such restrictions, particularly along the Hollywood Walk of Fame, arguing that such areas are too congested to safely accommodate vending. Vendors and their advocates argued that the city should instead pass rules tailored to such areas, and have challenged whether excluding Leimert Park is legal under SB 946. Despite such concerns, the Los Angeles Street Vendor Campaign hailed Wednesday’s vote as a monumental victory. Isela Gracian, president of the East Los Angeles Community Corporation, said vendors had been fighting for a decade for legalization, well before politicians signed on. Hundreds of vendors clad in black T-shirts showed up at City Hall for the vote. Grinning politicians, city staffers and vendors lined up for free tamales, taquitos, aguas frescas and churros after a euphoric news conference on the steps of City Hall. “When I began this campaign, no one thought it would happen,” said Caridad Vasquez, a Boyle Heights vendor who helped kick off the movement, and who was escorted up among council members before the vote to be feted by Councilman Joe Buscaino. “This is a triumph.” Advertisement Councilman Curren Price is warmly received by vendors outside City Hall after the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to legalize and regulate sidewalk vending. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Councilman Curren Price, one of the politicians who first called to legalize vending five years ago, was greeted after the vote by a sea of cheering vendors who hugged him and chanted, “Si se pudo!” “Sweet success after five long years of challenges, right?” Price said to the crowd, calling it a win for “the American dream.” For brick-and-mortar businesses and their advocates, the question is how strictly L.A. will enforce its new rules. “The language in the ordinance would mean nothing without enforcement,” said Armando Flores, legislative affairs manager for the Valley Industry & Commerce Assn. “How are we going to pay for that? That’s a question that still needs to be answered.” The Bureau of Street Services has suggested that in addition to escalating fines for scofflaws under the vending rules, the city could enforce other codes that restrict what can be left on sidewalks. City staffers have laid out a proposal to hire 22 more inspectors, plus a handful of administrative staffers to oversee the program, at a cost of nearly $3.6 million.

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A Sense of Adventure

Well hello neighbor.  On today's program we're hitting on all our favorites: some woods, some abandoned places, some familiar faces, some new faces, and plenty of booties.  Let's get in to it.  Our first set up is a little cosplay action with the lovely Sarah Seraine.  Sarah and I had been discussing doing a little character action with Sarah as Holo The Wise Wolf.  I'm not so deep in to anime that I knew who this was but when she told me that Holo is naked most of the time I was on board.  Of course Switzer Falls was the way to go for this shoot and I think there's a lot of fun shots here but nude and clothed.

Next I headed deep in to the heart of Orange County to shoot with the returning Fablechan!  Fablechan and I had a wonderful shoot last year and had been meeting to get together again for a while but just couldn't work out the timing until now partially due to the distance.  I offered to make my way to her neck of the woods where she showed me some really killer little spots she had found.  We had a wonderful day with lots of laughs.  Fablechan is a really imaginative model.  She spends a lot of time cosplaying at conventions so I think when we shoot together it's almost as if she's cosplaying as herself.  Towards the end we got in to some real magic making (plus boobs).

Up next I think you'll really love this new multi-muse set as Miss Chaos meets The Spritely One.  Miss Chaos and I first met in the fetish scene when she was a dominatrix.  She's been slowly shedding herself of a lot of her fetish wear including some killer latex pants that she wanted to gift to Sprite.  Sprite being so wonderfully friendly suggested we all shoot together.  The three of us made our way to the abandoned Nike Missile Site (a favorite location of mine) and had some real fun.  The two of them had a really fun chemistry together and though everyone was exhausted at the end, I think it was fully worth it.  With this shoot The Spritely One is quickly becoming one of the most multi-muse-set models.

Lastly I'm really excited about this new muse by the name of Erin McBeane.  Erin and I had been following each other on social media for a bit before finally deciding to shoot together being big fans of each other.  We met at her studio space on the edge of downtown.  Our artistic chemistry was off the charts shooting all over her space and then heading out in to the world where found our mutual love of street art and abandoned places including an abandoned burger joint in Boyle Heights.  Erin is really a truly exceptional human being and expect to see many sets from the two of us to come!