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The Facts of Life: Hillman Stories (Senior Year!)

Part One: The Facts of Life: Eastland Stories

Part Two: The Facts of Life: Hillman Stories (Freshman Year)

Part Three: The Facts of Life: Hillman Stories (Sophomore Year)

Part Four: The Facts of Life: Hillman Stories (Junior Year)

Part Five: The Facts of Life: Hillman Stories (Family Day Special)

While shopping for her new fall wardrobe, Blair decided to check out a new boutique in Peekskill called "Katie's Korner". Blair was surprised to find out that it was owned by Katie Kanisky, who had dropped out of Hillman College to open it, and she was thrilled to find out that Katie and Jo had broken up over the summer.

Since Tootie had joined the cheerleading team, she was spending most of her free time with her teammates Rosemarie and Sam Kanisky. Natalie was happy for her pal, but since Tootie is her best friend Natalie was left alone with a lot of hours to kill in the library. Natalie was still there for her friend though and was the first to congratulate her when Tootie was chosen class valedictorian due to her high grades and school spirit.

Now that Jo was single, she started to date again. She was excited when she landed a date with the class beauty, Luciana. They went to the Meneghel Theatre for dinner and a movie, but Jo didn't really enjoy herself. And it wasn't just due to the awkwardness of sitting behind Katie and her date.

Because of the amount of assignments and research they had to do in their final semester, Jo and Blair ended up spending a lot of hours cooped up in their shared room. It was the first chance they had to bond since the end of their high school relationship.

During a late-night study break, Blair and Jo go to reminicing about old times - and confessing the attraction they both had, and still have, for each other.

There was little time to explore those feelings, their final exam was coming up. After studying together so often during Eastland and Hillman, it was a sentimental moment to be doing it for the very last time. Despite the importance of that final exam, before long they were playing around just like they did when they were kids.

During the graduation party, Jo and Blair snuck away to a private corner for one last dance before they moved back to the city. The building tension of all those years erupted into Jo and Blair's first kiss!

That wasn't the only excitement of the evening, however. Their old den mother Edna Garrett told the four girls about her plans for a new business - and presented them with a business proposition.

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Events 9.4 (after 1930)

1936 – Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero forms a war cabinet to direct the republican war effort. 1939 – World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany. 1941 – World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack of the war against a United States warship, the USS Greer. 1944 – World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp. 1944 – World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union. 1948 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons. 1949 – Paul Robeson performs a second concert concert in Peekskill, New York eight days after the Peekskill riots. 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, United States, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. 1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, resulting in the lawsuit Cooper v. Aaron the following year. 1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board. 1964 – Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens. 1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley. 1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile. 1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board. 1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games. 1972 – The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television. 1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed. 1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco. 1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon. 1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place. 1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University. 2001 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. 2002 – The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record, until the Cleveland Indians surpassed it in 2017. 2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations. 2020 – Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903. 2022 – Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan.

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Attorney William Haywood Burns (June 15, 1940 - April 2, 1996) was born in Peekskill, New York. He was known for his defense of Angela Davis as well as serving as the first Black dean of a law school in New York.

He began his work in civil rights when he was only 15 years old when he led a movement to integrate a public pool in his hometown of Peekskill. He attended Harvard University for his undergraduate studies and graduated from Yale University Law School. He worked for a New York law firm, but he left to become the first law clerk for Constance Baker Motley, who had been appointed to the US District Court. He became assistant counsel NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

During his time at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, he became the general counsel to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign. He sought new ways to address social justice issues. In 1969, he was one of the founding attorneys of the National Conference of Black Lawyers.

He is most remembered for his defense of Angela Davis, who was charged with murder and kidnapping in connection with an escape attempt of Black prisoners at the Marin County Civic Center on August 7, 1970. Davis was not present at the courthouse; nonetheless, she was charged with aggravated kidnapping and murder because she had allegedly planned the episode. His defense was successful, and Angela Davis was acquitted of all charges in June 1972.

In 1974, he became a law professor at the State University of New York while simultaneously coordinating the defense of 62 of the inmates charged in the Attica Prison Riots. He became the dean of the Law School at the City University of New York. His appointment made him the first Black dean of any law school in New York State.

He was survived by his wife Jennifer Dohrn and five children. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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A Bicycle Story

As I continue to ruminate over my life I realize how truly blessed I have been all through-out my time on this planet. I recall a conversation with my nibling where they inferred I had lived in the ghetto, I had a surprising angry reaction to this flippant comment as I let them know I had never lived in anyone's ghetto.

This was true, I was bought up in a city that was more or less a big town, my building was a lot nicer than where my cousins lived. Even my god grandmother's house, was just that a house albeit the only time I had ever lived in a house. My grandparents live in NYCHA for over fifty years and I remember how nice their projects used to be, but it was never the ghetto, they were upper middle-class people taking advantage of the fact that their rent was based on their income. Even on my own I have lived in very decent apartments, never owning always renting, but never the ghetto.

Albeit we were quite poor in my mom's house I never wanted for any of the basics. And notwithstanding I may not have had the abundance that Kelsey or Robert, one being a single child from a two-parent upper middle-class household and the other from a three children two-parent upper middle-class household who both owned houses, I had all that I needed.

There were also so many opportunities that my mom took advantage of food stamps, government surplus foods, head-start, various extracurriculars like little league, cub scouts, choir, chorus and school plays. Just thinking about how busy I was kept as a kid, to a single-mom with three kids, how could I ever fix my face to say I was missing out on something? I had busloads of first cousins who I saw often and it always seemed like we were going to some family holiday.

My clothes may not have been fresh-to-def but they were clean, the passing fads were just that, passing right by my household because there wasn't even the notion of disposable income. People sometimes think lack of wealth, means lack of joy and I don't think those two things are equivocal. Because there was joy in my home, in lunch at McDonald's, all those Carvel ice cream cakes I had for birthdays, picnics down by the river, summer camp, road trips to Coney Island or something simple like breakfast for dinner, pass the syrup please!

Mom found the joy in family and celebration. Curious as an adult I hold no value in either of those things, because you need one to enjoy the other, and my adulthood has a waning of familial relations, as I said before there's no matriarch to hold it all together. But back to what this entry is about, its about blessings, joy and appreciation, the thing that hit my spirit this morning was bicycles.

I was trying to remember who taught me how to ride a bicycle, and I don't recall anyone actually doing that. As I am writing right now, there was someone who taught me how to patch a flat tire, a skill I have never partaken of. Uncle Larry, one of the sons of my god-grandmother who I looked up to in so many ways. He had a bachelor pad in his mom's house with a shag carpet, record player and drum set, in my eyes next to my dad he was the coolest person ever!

Possibly Uncle Larry taught me how to ride a bike, but I don't think so. But it is possible. I recall the bike quite well, it was actually my younger brother's bicycle a banana seat Huffy with a western-themed name on its crank-guard. It was a beige color and for me it was a key to the wider world in the small city of Peekskill in Westchester County.

The bicycle was a gift from his dad, one of the only times I remember his father doing anything for his first-born son other than maybe a handful of trips. But since I was older and bigger, it sort of became my bicycle. I recall exploring woods and abandoned places with my school mates, zipping up and down the hilly landscape of my neighborhood and the surrounding areas.

I put serious milage on that bicycle and I remember when my grandparents finally bought me my own bicycle, a blue unbranded BMX style ride with black handlebars, I was pissed when Grandma Susie said I need to let my brother ride on MY BIKE! I felt offended, encroached upon, did I already say offended? Why should he get to ride around on MY BRAND SPANKING NEW BICYCLE? In my head I had dubbed the bike K.I.T.T. after one of my favorite TV shows at the time, I remember using the kickstand to make a sound-effect that was very futuristic like the talking car on the show!

As an adult I don't think I ever considered how important these bicycles were to us as children, and that others provided them for us even though they wouldn't necessarily see us use them. I remember when Grandma Susie and Grandpa Melvin got my god-brother a bike too and this bicycle was seriously a reject from an episode of Fat Albert and the Cosby kids, it was made up of parts recycled from other bikes and I remember it was heavy and ugly as fuck!

Now a three-bicycle household I was sometimes relegated to riding the younger kids bikes, not my brand new Cadillac bicycle. As an adult I realize the other adults were doing what was fair, but then I was so done with everybody, as my younger brother got to ride my bike, my god-brother his bike, and I stuck on my god-brother's hoopty! #HowIsThisFair But the fact that we had bikes at all was a blessing.

I didn't realize that I have only had three bicycles in my lifetime, the BMX, which my grandparents upgraded to a mountain bike which I carried into my young adulthood, until it was stolen in Manhattan. To my current bicycle a silver Mongoose ten speed mountain bike, which I bought with my ex for a little over a hundred dollar.

Right before the pandemic I nearly left it out on the street for someone else to have, but decided to keep it and it came in handy when the pandemic came and riding on the train wasn't really something I wanted to do, when I could just as easily bike to my job at the Census in Bedstuy.

The fact that I have had so much stability and I have consistently had a roof over my head most of my adult life is sadly rare and as I reflect it is another thing to be extremely blessed for. Sometimes we get caught up in the things that other folks have but don't take the moment to realize that what we had may not have been ideal, but it wasn't less than someone else's experience. These are the building blocks that create a life and I think when we acknowledge the abundance in our lives we become much more appreciative for the things we do have.

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A lot of ‘Hart’ and the ‘Wright’ stuff

By Jonathan Monfiletto

One of the greatest scientists to ever call Yates County home gathered nuts as a boy and sold them so he could purchase two astronomy textbooks. The man billed as one of three Yates County scientists to have a plant genus named after him used to sneak up to the roof of his family’s home after his parents went to sleep so he could study the sky and identify the stars and planets.

So began the distinguished career of Samuel Hart Wright, the only child of James and Zilliah Hart Wright – who came from Peekskill in Westchester County to a farm in Starkey when their son was in his early youth – who had high aspirations but little opportunity to achieve them. After “the rudimental education afforded by the country school,” as Berlin Hart Wright’s “Memories of Local Naturalists” terms it, Samuel Hart Wright’s father denied him further learning and figured what little education the father had attained was good enough for the son.

Still the boy, born in 1825, did what he could to learn what he could, borrowing books whenever possible and eagerly absorbing their content and even taking them out into the fields (he and his religious and zealous parents labored on their farm every day but Sunday) and reading and solving problems while he worked. Once, two mechanics hired to construct an ornamental fence on the family farm brought astronomical books and charts out of their tool chests and spent one evening identifying the stars, planets, and constellations in the sky. The boy Samuel paid attention and listened, vowing to gain such knowledge for himself.

In order to do so, Samuel left the family farm “as soon as legally possible,” his son later wrote, securing a position as a teacher, marrying Joanna McLean, and purchasing a home in the village of Dundee. With support from his wife’s parents, he studied medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. After his graduation, Dr. Hart Wright rode with a local practitioner and later began his own practice. However, medicine was not the lucrative field it is today, so he decided to delve into his interest in mathematical astronomy and prepare an almanac manuscript.

Berlin Hart Wright’s biography of his father states Samuel prepared his first manuscript for 1840, but since Samuel would have been 15 years old then I have wondered if this is an error of some kind. Since Samuel and Joanna married in 1845, I wonder if Samuel’s first almanac was prepared for 1850 and his son was off by 10 years in his writing.

In whatever year it actually happened, Samuel sold his first almanac on his third attempt, earning $20 in cash and $20 in medical books for the manuscript. “The books were secured by driving 50 miles after them but the cash is still due,” Berlin Hart Wright wrote. The following year, Samuel was preparing another manuscript when he learned of the death of David Young – an astronomer who made calculations for many almanacs – and visited his widow in the Young home in Nyack. Looking over the man’s book collection, Samuel noticed a homemade memorandum book that contained the addresses, descriptions, and prices for the publishers with which Young worked. Samuel successfully solicited those publishers with his own manuscripts, and his almanac business finally took off.

In 1855, Joanna died shortly after Samuel received his doctor of medicine from Geneva Medical College (near the present-day site of Hobart & William Smith Colleges). Samuel began studying botany in his spare time to drown his grief in work and took botany trips to different parts of Yates County. Along these trips, he met Mary Jane Burtch, who became his second wife the following year. Mary Jane is the sister of the father of Verdi Burtch, making Samuel the uncle by marriage of another well-known Yates County scientist.

Dr. Hart Wright turned his attention toward botany and began collecting his own specimens and exchanging them with other collectors at home and abroad. He found and named new species; he even acquired equipment for microscopic examination of his plants and their parts. He also began studying insect life as it applies to botany and agriculture and obtained more collections and classifications.

The Yates County Chronicle actually had a mathematical department from February 1872 to August 1880 that Samuel oversaw, and he wrote a column for the newspaper in which he presented mathematical problems and solutions for an audience eager to learn. For approximately 430 weeks – there were 11 editions in that timespan without a mathematical column – Dr. Hart Wright, with a variety of contributors and diverse topics in mathematics – promoted mathematics and education through the newspaper.

In 1874, Samuel handed the almanac business off to his son and took up yet another scientific endeavor in conchology. He made several trips to nearby lakes and streams to once again collect and study specimens. Ten years later, he spent the winter in Florida and discovered a new plant that Dr. Asa Gray – a central New York native considered the greatest American botanist – named Hartwrightia in his friend’s honor. This made Dr. Hart Wright the third Yates County scientist to have a plant named after him.

Among his many accomplishments, Samuel – along with Berlin – is credited with being the first person to survey the aboriginal settlement known today as the Bluff Point ruins. In the spring of 1880, according to an article Berlin wrote, the pair was making a geological survey of Yates County and was near the summit of the promontory known as Bluff Point when they happened upon the remains of the settlement. The Bluff Point ruins – including the people who have examined them and the theories these people have about them – is a topic I plan to explore in a future blog.

Dr. Hart Wright died in 1905 at age 80, but the legacy of his scientific career lived on – not only in the scientific work of Berlin but also in the monument at his grave in Lakeview Cemetery in Penn Yan. After his father’s death, Berlin asked his son, Leon M. Wright, to obtain a section of ancient tree trunks from the Petrified Forest of Arizona to use in the construction of a memorial to Dr. Hart Wright. Leon obtained a fallen section of tree that originally measured 6 feet long and 18 inches in diameter and weighed approximately 1,600 pounds but that broke into three pieces nearly equal in length during its transport to New York.

To create the monument, two of the pieces were arranged horizontally on two granite bases with a granite die placed on top of these and the third piece placed vertically on top of the die. Because of vandalism in the cemetery, the top piece was apparently removed for safety’s sake and reportedly given to the Yates County History Center.

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Berlin Hart Wright was born in 1851 in the same Dundee home his parents moved into upon their marriage six years earlier. Like his father, Berlin took an interest in all things science at a young age; unlike his father, Berlin was enabled and encouraged to pursue his interest. A bad injury at age 12 left him bedridden for a year, according to his autobiographical sketch in his “Memories of Local Naturalists” book, and he devoted that year to learning mathematics through his father’s books and his father’s assistance as needed.

With a desire to be independent, Berlin left home and worked for a farmer near Penn Yan, making arrangements for a salary and board while attending school at “the little red school house … two miles distant” from the farm. Later, he enrolled in Penn Yan Academy but “chafed under the slow pace in branches of chief interest” so left – presumably to take up self-education – with a goal, that he soon achieved, of returning to the academy as a teacher.

Berlin and his wife, Loretta F. Mills, were teaching in Dresden when a new railroad – presumably the Fall Brook railroad that was built along the towpath of the Crooked Lake Canal – was under construction and much sedimentary rock was being blasted out in the process. The Wrights gathered quantities of fossils and classified them, and they continued to make Saturday school excursions to the site as part of their lessons. This study led to a complete geological survey of Yates County – the first of its kind – that was published by New York State, with a report of new species discovered in the county’s rock formations.

Berlin gave up his classroom work to take over his father’s almanac business, and he also took up conchology and began collecting and classifying – along with his wife and his father – specimens of local shells. Berlin later took his work in botany and conchology to Florida, where he relocated in order to relieve his rheumatism, a disorder he attributed to his wading in cold waters in search of specimens.

In his autobiographical sketch, Berlin paid particular homage to his findings in Bellona, where he found exposed layers of Genesee slate on top of Tully limestone on top of Moscow shale. He uncovered several shell and fish fossils and even the spine of a shark – the first such fossil to be taken in America from Moscow shale. Reading this in Berlin’s own words made me recall our early Oliver’s Travels article on the discovery of a shark fossil in Benton, the town where the hamlet of Bellona is located, and – putting two and two together – wonder if the newspaper items highlighted in this article relate to Berlin’s finding a shark spine in Bellona.

Berlin, of Jerusalem at the time, died in 1940 at his daughter’s home almost a week after he suffered a fall and fractured the upper part of his leg. He sold his shell collection to the University of Michigan and more of his and his father’s collections to the Museum of Natural History of Cleveland; he also turned over his fossil collection to the Smithsonian Institution to make collections for schools.

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On this day in 1992, the Peekskill meteorite fell just a short distance from New York City and became famous for its unusual landing. It all started when a brilliant fireball flashed over Peekskill, New York, startling fans at a high school football game. Nearby residents heard a terrific crash as a rock the size of a bowling ball dropped from the sky onto a parked Chevy Malibu, piercing the trunk and denting the driveway beneath it. Seconds after the crash, the stone was found near the car's crumpled trunk, still warm and smelling of sulfur. ☄️ Photo: © AMNH (at American Museum of Natural History) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUz6qXagoHA/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Today we remember the passing of Johnny Ramone who Died: September 15, 2004 in Los Angeles, California

John William Cummings (October 8, 1948 – September 15, 2004), known professionally as Johnny Ramone, was an American guitarist and songwriter who was the guitarist for the punk rock band the Ramones. He was a founding member of the band, and—along with vocalist Joey Ramone—remained a constant member throughout his entire career.

In 2009, he appeared on Time's list of "The 10 Greatest Electric-Guitar Players". He ranked No. 8 on Spin's 2012 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and No. 28 on Rolling Stone's similarly titled 2015 list.

Alongside his music career, Johnny appeared in nearly a dozen films (including Rock 'n' Roll High School) and documentaries. He also made television appearances in such shows as The Simpsons (1F01 "Rosebud", 1993) and Space Ghost Coast to Coast (Episode 5 "Bobcat").

His autobiography, entitled Commando, was released posthumously in 2012. In the book, Ramone writes about his love of baseball and of collecting baseball cards and movie posters, particularly horror-related posters.

John William Cummings was born in Queens, New York City, on October 8, 1948, the only child of a construction worker (a steamfitter) of Irish descent. He was raised in the Forest Hills neighborhood of Queens, where he grew up absorbing rock music. As a teenager, Johnny played in a band called the Tangerine Puppets alongside future Ramones drummer Tamás Erdélyi (better known as Tommy Ramone). As a teenager, he was known as a "greaser", though he was later described as a tie-dye-wearing Stooges fan. He was a lifelong New York Yankees fan. He also worked as a plumber with his father before the Ramones became successful, at one point attended Peekskill Military Academy in Peekskill New York, and briefly attended college in Florida.

He met future bandmate Douglas Colvin, later to become Dee Dee Ramone, in the early 1970s while delivering dry cleaning. They would eat lunch together and discuss their mutual love of bands like the Stooges and MC5. Together they went to Manny's Music in New York City in January 1974, where Johnny bought a used blue Mosrite Ventures II guitar for just over $54. On the same trip, Dee Dee bought a Danelectro bass. They collaborated with future bandmate Jeffrey Hyman, later to become Joey Ramone, to form the Ramones with Richie Stern on bass. Stern left after a few rehearsals. Tommy joined the Ramones in the summer of that year after public auditions failed to produce a satisfactory drummer.

Johnny was responsible for initiating one of the major sources of animosity within the band when he began dating and later married Linda Daniele, who had previously dated Joey. Though the band remained together for years after this incident, relations between Johnny and Joey remained strained. Years later, when Joey was in the hospital dying of lymphoma, Johnny refused to telephone him. He later discussed this incident in the film End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones, saying an attempt at such a reunion would have been futile. He did add that he was depressed for a week after Joey's death. When pressed, he acknowledged that this was because of the bond forged by the band. In their road manager Monte Melnick's book about his time with the Ramones, Johnny is quoted as having said, "I'm not doing anything without him. I felt that was it. He was my partner. Me and him. I miss that."

Johnny was one of the few conservatives in the punk rock community and was a staunch supporter of the Republican Party. He made his political affiliation known to the world in 2002 when the Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. After thanking all who made the honor possible—clad in his trademark T-shirt, ripped blue jeans and leather jacket—he said "God bless President Bush, and God bless America". He said in an interview, when questioned on his conservatism, "I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime." This was evident when the band released the UK single "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" in 1985; Johnny pressed for a name change, finding the title insulting to Reagan, and the song was retitled on American releases as "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg)" after a line from the song's chorus. In this same interview he claimed that "Punk is right wing".

Johnny's father was a strict disciplinarian. Johnny is quoted as saying: "My father would get on these tangents about how he never missed a day's work. I broke my big toe the day I had to go pitch a Little League game and he's going, 'What are you – a baby? What did I do, raise a baby? You go play.' And even though my toe was broken I had to go pitch the game anyway. It was terrible. It would always be like that. I'm glad he raised me like that but it would always be, 'What are you – sick? You're not sick. What did I raise – a baby? I never missed a day's work in my life.' Then I went to military school, and in military school, you couldn't call in sick."

Johnny's early adulthood was marked by bouts of delinquency which he stated were inexplicable at the time. "I didn't become a delinquent until I got out of high school. I had a two-year run. I'd go out and hit kids and take their money and rob everybody's pocketbooks. Just being bad every minute of the day. It was terrible. I don't know what my problem was. Things that were funny to me at the time were horrible. If I found a television set sitting in the garbage, I'd take it up to the rooftop, watch for someone walking down the block and drop it in front of them on the sidewalk. It was funny watching them see a TV set come crashing down 30 feet in front of them. To me it was hysterical, but it was also a mean and terrible thing to do. I also found a way of stopping the elevator. I could open up the door and stop the elevator. I would wait for an old lady to get in and stop the elevator. They'd be yelling and pushing the alarm, and I would keep them there. At about 20 years old, I stopped drinking and doing drugs, got a job and tried to be normal."

In 1983, Ramone was severely injured in a fight with Seth Macklin of the band Sub Zero Construction. He was saved by emergency brain surgery. This incident was said to have inspired the next album's title, Too Tough to Die. He never spoke of the incident in the following years.

Johnny Ramone married his wife Linda in 1984 at the office of the city clerk in New York City. She had originally dated Joey Ramone but left him for Johnny. Joey and Johnny continued to tour as the Ramones after this, but their relationship worsened. However, despite reports that they had stopped talking to each other altogether, Johnny talks fondly of Joey in his book Commando. In the documentary End of the Century, Johnny told how Joey's death had a profound impact on him emotionally and that he was depressed for "the whole week" after his death.

On September 15, 2004, Johnny Ramone died in his Los Angeles home at the age of 55, 23 days before his 56th birthday, following a five-year battle with prostate cancer. Many of his friends and musical contemporaries came to pay their respects. His wife Linda kept his ashes

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Boston is the epitome of tradition and modernity. Visitors to this eminently strolling city can encounter a wealth of entertainment options and interests are virtually endless. A lot of tourists come to Boston every year, making it a top tourist destination. Boston cuisine is becoming an increasingly popular destination. The restaurant scene is delicious and varied. Boston is the center of attraction for many tourists.

[angelstellaluna]

Fanfiction Status - Active

                                             FFN and AO3

Adrenaline (Legend of Korra) Throwing caution to the wind is an idiom for some, but for Korra, it's a way of life. At least until the end of the summer…

Things Jade Hates (Victorious) - Things Jade Hates: Happiness. The color pink. Giggling. Bras that hook in the front. When people talk in your ear and you can feel their warm breath. When Jade and Tori are paired up for a project in their songwriting class, Tori ends up finding out the real reason Jade is heavily into Goth and dark entertainment, when Jade's mother returns from being "away". JadexTori and JadexBeck

Dance with the Devil (Facts of Life) - As the girls head to New York City for a 2-year reunion trip, Jo Polniaczek-Bonner finds herself wrapped up in the gang she abruptly left upon being accept into Eastland and moving to Peekskill. While trying to keep her friends safe and out of harm's way, Jo is stretched to the limit -her marriage following suit- as she finds herself dancing with her inner demons. JoxBlair and JoxRick

In Hiding (Legend of Korra) - Korra tried hard not to think about Kuvira living in a jail cell waiting for her trial to start – until she finds her sitting on her bed, looking for a place to hide. Set after series finale. Kuvira centric/general. Baavira.

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Model Behavior (Legend of Korra) - Modern/AU. Korra thought it was an ordinary day of art class at Republic School for the Gifted. But then, the art model Asami Sato walked into the room... Korrasami. First in "Model U.N." series. Korrasami/general

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[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

First day of 9th Grade for Brendan Walsh Fitzpatrick.

Peekskill City School District

#Peekskill

#PeekskillHighSchool

#PHS

#PeekskillNY

#CityOfPeekskill

#PeekskillNewYork

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 9.4 (after 1900)

1912 – Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands 1919 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace. 1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah. 1934 – Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full. 1936 – Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero forms a war cabinet to direct the republican war effort. 1939 – World War II: William J. Murphy commands the first Royal Air Force attack on Germany. 1941 – World War II: A German submarine makes the first attack of the war against a United States warship, the USS Greer. 1944 – World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp. 1944 – World War II: Finland exits from the war with Soviet Union. 1948 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons. 1949 – The Peekskill riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York. 1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race. 1951 – The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference. 1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, resulting in the lawsuit Cooper v. Aaron the following year. 1963 – Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all 80 people on board. 1964 – Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens. 1967 – Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins when U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley. 1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile. 1971 – Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board. 1972 – Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games. 1972 – The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television. 1975 – The Sinai Interim Agreement relating to the Arab–Israeli conflict is signed. 1977 – The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco. 1985 – The discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, the first fullerene molecule of carbon. 1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany, the first of weekly demonstration for the legalisation of opposition groups and democratic reforms takes place. 1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University. 2001 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. 2002 – The Oakland Athletics win their 20th consecutive game, an American League record. 2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations. 2010 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes the South Island of New Zealand causing widespread damage and several power outages. 2020 – Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903. 2022 – Ten people are killed and 15 are injured in a stabbing spree in 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan.

[kawaiikoala34]

I was tagged in this pose by @huglessdougless like at least two years ago and I am finally answering it XD

1. Are you named after anyone? Nope! Especially not since I changed my name lol 

2. Last time you cried? “I cry everyday in my mind” was huglessdougless’s answer and lowkey fuckin same haha but! I’ve been doing a bit better so the last time I actually cried/thought about crying was when I had therapy a week ago. 

3. Do you have/want kids?  Maybe, I think I would adopt if I do decide to become a parent. I think I’m mostly torn because I just can’t see myself raising a kid right now but when the time is right who knows!

4. Do you use sarcasm? Sometimes, I often can’t tell when someone is using sarcasm so I tend to use it less myself. Also, my dad would use sarcasm in a really nasty way which makes sarcasm have some negative associations in my head :/ 

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people? I think I notice their face/hair first because my eyes are drawn to that first but also because hairstyling is a flippin art and I think it can look super cool. 

6. What’s your eye color? Brown, some people have said hazel though.

7. Scary movie or happy ending? “A Happy Ending that’s super cute and full of love and All the happiness” that was huglessdougless’s answer answer and again, same lol

8. Any special talent? I don’t think so?? But I’m also very hard on myself so I might have one and just don’t recognize it.

9. Where were you born? New York baby!! Not the city tho lol, I was born in Peekskill, New York

10. What are your hobbies? I love reading. I’m a little boring, that is really my only long term hobby 

11. Do you have any pets? Yes, three cats!! I love them to death: Midnight, Zoe, and Jumbo (yes his name is accurate lol).

12. What sports do you play? None really, I’m not the best at exercise lol.

13. How tall are you? I’m about 5′6″

14. Favorite subject in school? Sociology and English lit 

15. Dream job? I honestly don’t know, I’m going to school to be an English teacher in high school but I’m not sure that’s my dream job. 

[pncrealty]

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[nuevajuarez48]

History of Timbiriche: Peekskill

Peekskill population: 4 families, 5 Sims.

Peekskill is a small suburb which also includes a busy shopping street. It was intended as an alternative to people who wanted the simplicity of life in suburb like Timbiriche, but with the amenities of a city like Nueva Juarez.

However, despite the successful businesses which have opened, few families have made permanent homes in this neighbourhood. It's most prominent citizens were the Timbiriche Chief of Police Carl Kanisky and his family. Following his death, his family has relocated out of Peekskill.

Despite it's lack of residents, many sims visit Peekskill for it's shops. On the right side of the street we have Bergdorf and Goodmans Boutique, Pepe's Pets, H&M Peekskill and inter@ctive Cafe.

On the left is Wedgewood Strip Club, Senor Sombrero's Mexican Food, New & Used Record Shop, Hickory Dickory Clocks (owned by Timbiriche resident Hilda Spellman), and a home business which will be opening soon, Edna's Edibles & Dispensary run by Edna Garrett.

Peekskill sees a lot of temporary residents due to The Eastland School for Girls, a boarding school for teenage sims which is also Peekskill's oldest building.

Peekskill is also home to the only farm in Timbiriche, the Toda family farm currently being run by third generation farmer and ex-NJZ48 member Rinne Toda.

Peekskill's newest residents are the newlyweds Shane Sinutko and Wednesday Addams, who moved in to the Addams Castle following their graduation from Hillman College.

[laporcupina]

Gertrude Jeannette, who has died aged 103, was the first woman in New York to obtain a motorcycle licence and one of the first women in the city to drive a cab; she also overcame a speech impediment to become an actress, appearing on Broadway in more than 200 performances of the musical Lost in the Stars, but then found herself blacklisted during the McCarthy era.

She was born Gertrude Hadley on a farm at Urbana, in the south of Arkansas, on November 28 1914, the daughter of Willis and Salley Hadley. As a child she had three ambitions: to play basketball, to perform motorcycle stunts and to be an actress. The first two she achieved in her teens.

She went to a segregated school in Little Rock and was set to go to university, but instead eloped to New York in 1933 with Joe Jeannette II, a former heavyweight boxer whom she married. She taught swimming and basketball, playing in the Bluebirds team that won the state championship for four consecutive years.

Her husband was a keen motorcyclist, racing professionally with the Harlem Dusters motorcycle club. In 1935 Gertrude Jeannette acquired her New York licence and the couple would think nothing of riding to California or Texas and back.

Soon after the outbreak of war, and with manpower short, Gertrude Jeannette began driving a New York cab, wearing her trademark cap and a leather jacket. “I was one of only three women out of a group of 90 that passed with a perfect mark,” she recalled of taking her cab driver’s licence.

On her first day she made the mistake of pulling up in front of the Waldorf-Astoria. “In those days they didn’t allow black drivers to work downtown,” she told the New York Daily News in 2011. “You had to work uptown.”

A male taxi driver cut in front of her. “I rammed my fender under his fender, swung it over the right and ripped it,” she recalled, adding that the other driver got out of his cab and screamed: “A woman driver! A woman driver!”

With the return of male taxi drivers after the war it became clear that a woman was no longer welcome. Gertrude Jeannette now decided to tackle her childhood stammer. She joined the American Negro Theater and worked with a handful of off-Broadway groups while taking book-keeping classes in the basement of a 
Baptist church.

Meanwhile, she was involved in the civil rights movement, recalling how her husband was a bodyguard when Paul Robeson visited Peekskill, New York, in 1949, protecting the black baritone from 
the Ku Klux Klan. “This is the first time I saw the robes and everything,” she recalled with horror.

Without even a review to her name to her name Gertrude Jeannette was cast as Mrs Kumalo in Lost in the Stars by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill, which opened at the Music Box Theatre in October 1949.

Over the next decade she was prevented from working because of her association with Robeson, something she discussed in the documentary Scandalise My Name: Stories from the Blacklist (1998).

Gertrude Jeannette was back on Broadway in 1960 in The Long Dream, based on Richard Wright’s book set in the South, but it closed after only five performances.

She continued to act, taking parts in plays such as Nobody Loves an Albatross, a satire of the television industry, and in films such as Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) and The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972).

In 1979 she founded the Hadley Players in Harlem, from where she mentored African-American actors, often drawing on material from her taxi-driving days.

Gertrude Jeannette’s husband predeceased her.

Gertrude Jeannette, born November 28 1914, died April 4 2018