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Desert Sunshine 51 © Sherrie D. Larch

This artwork series is inspired by summer days full of golden and warm sunshine.

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Tuesday 1 May 1838

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Breakfast at 9 – soft, damp, rainy morning   A- had SW. and I had Booth and Joseph Mann and sent them (while I breakfasted) to Listerwick to see about the engine chimney being carried up against John Oates’s house end – Mr. Lister waiting – A- and SW- and I settled with him about the 2nd opening at Landymere stone – if the stone answered if the bed was 7 or 8 ft. thick, talked of a baring of 300 yards flat – 300 x 8 (yards of baring at 7d.) = 2400 yards enough for the road – I then had SW. and Booth and Holt till near one – no endless chain – settled to have engine with drum on the same terms as before with Garforth – he to sign the agreement on Saturday next – settled to have chimney driven up to John Oates’s house end (end of his uppermost building) where the drift would be 8 or 9 yards below the surface (the 36 yards band stone being the floor of the chimney) and should rise to the surface up a walled vent 4ft. diameter, and then in chimney 3ft x 2ft. clear inside against JO-‘s house – Booth quite astonished at my going so suddenly – Gave him a check for £150 and left all the rest to him and SW. – then had SW. wrote out Mallinsons’ (William) agreement for Mitham house and cottages and Ing and little croft and garden ground – the agreement copied (as near as suited) from Fletchers’ agreement (lease from year to year) for Hilltop farm – Mallinson came and signed his agreement about 2 – SW. then wrote out (copied from what I had written) the agreement for Garforth to sign on Saturday – Abraham Haigh brought 2 loads of larch rails bought for me by George Naylor (carpenter) of the Keighleys’ – saw AH-‘s light bay horse recommended by GN. – did not much like the horse – went too near with his forefeet – SW. had dined in the housekeepers’ room – not gone till about 3pm – then sent John Booth to H-x to pay bills – wrote by him note to ‘Mr. Mackean Yorkshire District Bank H-x’ enclosing check for £60, desiring twenty of this sum to be given to the bearer separately, and the rest sent in the bag – done – wrote also by John note to ‘Mr. Henry Bolland, Ironmonger, H-x’ enclosing him check for £24.19.0 being the amount of his 3 bills from last midsummer to xmas for Shibden hall, the Northgate hotel, and Little marsh – It was 4 ½ before I had despatched John – we had had hoped to get off at least this evening – talked it over – ordered dinner at 6 but not able to sit down to it till near 8! put away newspapers etc. and packed by snatches – perpetually interrupted from the time of sending John off at 4 ½ - had Robert Mann with several bills at 6 – and GN. carpenter and paid him for yesterday and today at the rough oak fancy railing along the Lodge road (Mallinson helped him this afternoon) and for his sawyers yesterday and today sawing up the railing – went into the cellar – 1 sherry for Mr. Gray – and went into the cellar again a couple of hours before setting off and got 1 sherry brought with us – left the inner cellar door wide open for air – locked up the keys with several others in the right hand end drawer the oak painted chest standing in the library passage – and brought away 1 pint bottle Malmsey Madeira from the bureau in the blue room

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dinner at 8 – coffee immediately – paid Mr. Gray for one week (vid. his arrival last Tuesday) £10 – he is to go by one of the early coaches in the morning – from about 9 to after 10 at accounts – then began to pack my imperial – A- had done hers, and now sat working at, and finishing her pedigree

damp rather rainy day

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24-Hours in The Twilight Zone

When I learned that a certain cable network isn’t doing their annual Twilight Zone marathon this year...

I decided to plan out a 24-hour block of Twilight Zone episodes myself. I limited myself to episodes that reflected on American life or American history to fit the holiday. (In other words, don’t come at me if your favorite episodes aren’t on this list. All of mine aren’t either!)

All episodes included are available streaming through Netflix and Amazon Prime. The full guide with episode numbers is below the jump, but here’s a Primetime preview:

Happy Viewing!

6:00am - The Shelter (3.3)

Things get ugly when a birthday party in a peaceful suburb is interrupted by a civil defense alert.

6:30am - The Old Man in the Cave (5.7)

In 1974, the survivors of nuclear apocalypse try to stay alive with the aid of a mysterious man in a cave at the outskirts of town. (Starring James Coburn & John Anderson)

7:00am - Two (3.1)

Two lone soldiers from opposing armies find one another in the shambles of main street. (Starring Charles Bronson & Elizabeth Montgomery)

7:30am - The Silence (2.25)

An cranky rich old man bets a boisterous rich young man to stay silent for an entire year. (Starring Franchot Tone)

8:00am - A Thing About Machines (2.4)

Man versus all machines. (Starring Richard Haydn)

8:30am - Static (2.20)

A nostalgic old man tunes in for a second chance. (Starring Dean Jagger)

9:00am - Young Man’s Fancy (3.34)

A newlywed isn’t ready to leave behind his childhood home to his new wife’s chagrin.

9:30am - Nightmare as a Child (1.29)

A teacher is haunted by a peculiar and demanding child.

10:00am - Walking Distance (1.5)

A stressed out ad man tries to go home again. (Starring Gig Young)

10:30am - The Big Tall Wish (1.27)

A small boy makes a big wish for his friend, a washed-up boxer, to win a fight. (Starring Ivan Dixon)

11:00am - The Mighty Casey (1.35)

The Hoboken Zephyrs bring in a ringer. (Starring Jack Warden)

11:30am - I Sing the Body Electric (3.35)

A grieving family turns to Facsimile Ltd. to fill the void in their lives. (Starring Josephine Hutchinson)

12:00pm - Mirror Image (1.21)

A woman has a ticket to start a new life in a new town, if she can ever leave the bus station. (Starring Vera Miles)

12:30pm - The After Hours (1.34)

Sometimes you just want to buy a simple, undamaged gold thimble for your mother’s birthday and then the fabric of reality begins to fray. (Starring Anne Francis)

1:00pm - The Passersby (3.4)

Around the end of the Civil War, the wife of a Confederate soldier awaits his return. 

1:30pm - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (5.22)

An adaptation of the Ambrose Bierce story. A man is executed for sabotage.

2:00pm - Back There (2.13)

A man gets the chance to test out his theories on time travel. (Starring Russell Johnson)

2:30pm - Long Live Walter Jameson (1.24)

A close colleague discovers the true reason Walter Jameson is such a good history teacher. (Starring Kevin McCarthy)

3:00pm - Still Valley (3.11)

A Confederate soldier thinks black magic might turn the tides of the Civil War. (Starring Gary Merrill & Vaughn Taylor)

3:30pm - The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms (5.10)

National Guardsmen running exercises discover the Battle of Little Bighorn is still being waged.

4:00pm - The Grave (3.7)

A hired gun visits the grave of his latest victim. (Starring Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, & James Best)

4:30pm - The Hunt (3.19)

A day of hunting doesn’t go as planned for a man and his dog.

5:00pm - Black Leather Jackets (5.18)

When a bunch of motorcycle riding delinquents move in, the aftermath isn’t quite what the townspeople expect. (Starring Shelley Fabares)

5:30pm - Ring-A-Ding Girl (5.13)

A warm welcome is planned for the Ring-A-Ding girl when she returns to her hometown.

6:00pm - The Mind and the Matter (2.27)

A New Yorker fed up with people exercises his psychic abilities. (Starring Shelley Berman)

6:30pm - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby (3.30)

The town yarn spinner attracts the attention of extraterrestrial visitors. (Starring Andy Devine)

7:00pm - The Brain Center at Whipple’s (5.33)

A factory owner is on a mission to fully automate his factory. (Starring Richard Deacon)

7:30pm - The Changing of the Guard (3.37)

In the face of retirement, an elderly professor contemplates his past and future. (Starring Donald Pleasance)

Primetime!

Enjoy a six-hour block of episodes that cross the United States while you avoid your neighbors who shouldn’t be trusted with fireworks.

8:00pm - A Stop at Willoughby (1.30)

A New York ad man is overwhelmed by the stresses of modern city life and dreams of a simpler life, in a simpler place, with simpler people. (Starring James Daly)

8:30pm - The Monsters are Due on Maple Street (1.22)

A friendly suburb descends into paranoia and chaos with little motivation. (Starring Claude Akins & Jack Weston)

9:00pm - The Hitch-Hiker (1.16)

A school teacher hits a snag on a cross-country trip. (Starring Inger Stevens)

9:30pm - It’s a Good Life (3.8)

A small town (once located in middle America) is plagued by a two-eyed, two-legged, 3-foot-tall monster. (Starring Bill Mumy, Cloris Leachman, & John Larch)

10:00pm - The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank (3.23)

When Jeff Myrtlebank wakes up at his own funeral, he causes quite a stir. (Starring James Best & Sherry Jackson)

10:30pm - The Masks (5.25)

On the night of Mardi Gras, an old man holds a strange party for his greedy, self-centered relatives. (Starring Robert Keith)

11:00pm - A Hundred Yards Over The Rim (2.23)

A father travels an impossible distance in the New Mexico desert to find help for his son. (Starring Cliff Robertson)

11:30pm - Dust (2.12)

On the day of a young man’s execution, a con man tries to charge for salvation. (Starring John Larch, Thomas Gomez, & Vladimir Sokoloff)

12:00am - The Prime Mover (2.21)

A telekinetic short-order cook gets taken for a ride by his best friend. (Starring Buddy Ebsen)

12:30am - The Whole Truth (2.14)

A cursed (or enchanted) car passes through the lot of an unscrupulous used car salesman. (Starring Jack Carson)

1:00am - The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (1.4)

A faded film star isn’t ready to let go of her past. (Starring Ida Lupino & Martin Balsam)

1:30am - The Bewitchin’ Pool (5.36)

Two children, distressed by their parents’ troubled marriage, escape to a magic swimming hole at the bottom of their pool. (Starring Mary Badham)

2:00am - The Fugitive (3.25)

The unlikely friendship of an old man and a disabled child is even more unlikely than it seems.

2:30am - The Midnight Sun (3.10)

A painter and her landlady try to stick in out in New York City as the earth slowly closes in on the sun. (Starring Lois Nettleton)

3:00am - People Are Alike All Over (1.25)

A nervous astronaut finds life on Mars (Starring Roddy McDowall)

3:30am - Third from the Sun (1.14)

In the face of certain destruction, two men and their families launch a daring interplanetary escape. (Starring Fritz Weaver)

4:00am - Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (2.28)

A diner crowded in with bus passengers finds there may be a Martian in their midst.

4:30am - Mr. Garrity and the Graves (5.32)

Bringing people back from the dead ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. (Starring John Dehner)

5:00am - I am the Night - Color Me Black (5.26)

The sun doesn’t rise over a town where a man is about to be executed for killing a bigot. (Starring Michael Constantine) 

5:30am - In Praise of Pip (5.1)

A lone shark gets to thinking about his life after he learns his son was wounded while serving in the army abroad. (Starring Jack Klugman & Bill Mumy)

Added note: If you’re in the US and have a TV antenna, the network Decades is also running a marathon!

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#whyilovewomenartists: College Art Conference

Thanks in part to a professional development grant from the West Virginia Division of Culture and History Commission on the Arts, I was able to travel to Los Angeles last week to attend and present at the College Art Association conference, as well as visit some Los Angeles art museums, Library and galleries. 

(I’ll also be naming at least #5womenartists in celebration of the National Women in the Arts campaign.)

Firstly I met with the National Committee on Women in the Arts, part of the CAA which I was recently appointed to. They do wonderful things for artists who are women including award the annual Distinguished Feminist Awards.  The winners of the 2018 Distinguished Feminist Awards are Lynn Hershman Leeson (visual artist) and Lowery Stokes Sims (scholar).

Lynn Hershman Leeson: Home Front, Cycles of Contention, 2011, custom-made dollhouse, 2 channel synchronized video installation, 62 x 63.5 x 47 cm

It was excited to meet with this awesome group of women from around the nation working in art, art history, curating, while always keeping in mind women’s and feminist concerns in the arts. I’m excited to help the committee by contributing to the CWA monthly picks of the best in feminist art and scholarship to share with CAA members on a monthly basis. See February’s picks here - http://www.collegeart.org/news/2018/02/08/cwa-picks-for-february-2018/.

I was also able to present my research on the strategies and benefits of Libraries as art venues, pointing to Libraries’ broad audiences and fostering of new ideas moving into the future of more digitized books. 

I attended several informative and inspiring sessions on various topics, my favorites including an interview between Helen Molesworth and Catherine Opie, a conversation on preserving women artists’ legacy, a panel on eco-materialism with Linda Weintraub, and a panel on visual and material culture of women’s marches.

Catherine Opie: Melissa & Lake, Durham North Carolina, 2000.

From Chicago’s Trans Liberation Protest larch March (photo courtesy Aram Han Sifuentes), part of scholar Nicole Archer’s presentation on the Lending Library for Handmade Protest Banners. 

I visited several gallery exhibits, my favorites being The Hive, which had a super fun and amazing stitching fetish exhibit, and Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, which had a provocative and intimate sculpture and photography exhibit by Brazilian artist Melissa Meier.

Installation view of Melissa Meier: Skins, at Gloria Delson Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles.

I visited The Broad and saw their amazing collection of Modern art, including amazing work by Sherry Levine, Kara Walker, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and more.

Installation view of art by Kara Walker at The Broad Museum, Los Angeles.

Also checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, with a similarly traditional white-walled curatorial approach and majority male artists, but was happy to see the art by women including the Lynda Benglis floor piece, below, mixing it up.

Installation view of Selections from the Permanent Collection, September 13, 2016–ongoing at MOCA Grand Avenue, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, photo by Brian Forrest.

I also took a tour of the Los Angeles Public Library artwork, which was super exciting to me especially because I work in a Library and promote artwork in the library, etc. Of particular interest was huge ceiling sculpture installations by Therman Statom, and this ceiling mural by  Renee Petropoulos entitled Seven Centers, which the guide explained to me was meant to challenge all of the white-centric murals painted originally throughout the building.

Renee Petropoulous: Seven Centers, 1984, Los Angeles Public Library.

To a similar effect,  Visualizing Language: Oaxaca in L.A. illuminates the diversity of L.A.’s history, culture, and identity by offering a fresh narrative that focuses on the indigenous Zapotec cultures of Oaxacan communities. The exhibition is anchored by a series of eight larger-than-life murals by the Oaxacan artist collective Tlacolulokos in the Central Library’s Rotunda that are in juxtaposition with the existing 1933 Dean Cornwell murals that tell a more traditional history of California’s colonization.

Tlacolulokos: Visualizing Language, Los Angeles Public Library,

I just loved these murals!!! If you are in LA it is a must-stop. The juxtaposition with the old and new is amazing, honoring in such a huge space visual language and challenging histories and perspectives, in a library, love it!

So there were many other events and exhibits I didn’t get to--including the Feminist Friday at the Situation Room, a gallery of Micol Hebron’s, at which  Annina Rüst did a performance, with four 'songs' relating to motherhood and tech! UGH! Also, the Feminist Project had panels and presentations all day Saturday, which I sadly missed. But, you can’t make everything. I did manage to get in a lot in just a few days. Look forward to next year! Thanks again to the WV Commission on the Arts for helping make this trip happen.

Sally

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Les Femmes Folles is a volunteer organization founded in 2011 with the mission to support and promote women in all forms, styles and levels of art from around the world with the online journal, print annuals, exhibitions and events; originally inspired by artist Wanda Ewing and her curated exhibit by the name Les Femmes Folles (Wild Women). LFF was created and is curated by Sally Deskins.  LFF Booksis a micro-feminist press that publishes 1-2 books per year by the creators of Les Femmes Folles including the award-winning Intimates & Fools (Laura Madeline Wiseman, 2014) , The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales (Laura Madeline Wiseman/Lauren Rinaldi, 2015 and Mes Predices (catalog of art/writing by Marie Peter Toltz, 2017).Other titles include Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 available on blurb.com, including art, poetry and interview excerpts from women artists. A portion of the proceeds from LFF books and products benefit the University of Nebraska-Omaha’s Wanda Ewing Scholarship Fund.https://www.facebook.com/femmesfolles/ instagram: @lesfemmesfollesart femmesfollesnebraska.tumblr.com lesfemmesfollesbooks.tumblr.com

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SEPARATION OF RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT: AMERICA IS NOT JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION

What does it mean to separate religion and government? The separation of church and state is a growing issue in the United States today. There are as many interpretations of this separation as there are religions and belief systems in the country. Everyone has their own ideas on how it should be put in place and what the main religion of the country should be if any religion at all. Some speak of a total secular society, with no spirituality included in anything; others speak of a Christian dominated society, with no room for other faiths, believing other faiths are spiritually dangerous to their society. Both extremes can take a dangerous path, if put into law.

History has shown that when a government enforces one religion over all others, minority faiths and their people suffer greatly. This is proven by the Inquisition in Spain during the thirteenth century by the Roman Catholic Church. Jews and Muslims, who would not convert to Christianity, were tortured, murdered and those who survived were expelled from Spain in 1492. A total secular run country can also be as dangerous to its citizens and their freedom. Communist Russia, of the past is one example, and North Korea today is another. Where a government controls what can be taught and believed, treating their people as things without spirit, with no legal protection to express their spiritual needs. Isolating them in a world of darkness and hopelessness, and punishing them with imprisonment or death if they are caught worshiping in anyway. Both these paths of government are without balance and are dangerous to the people under their rule.

The First Amendment defines the separation of church and state as the following: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. ”This state’s clearly that the United States will not establish a nationwide religion. That having a faith or not having a faith is protected by our Constitution. That we can worship in our own way, without fear of discrimination or threat by our government, and express those faiths without fear of imprisonment or death as long as our faith is not breaking common laws, like drug use or harming another person. This is not discriminating against any faith, but honoring all faiths, and giving a space of public life that is free of a government promoted religious proselytizing. This is one factor of our government that makes it possible to live in a diverse society. This separation is metaphorical in many ways, religion influences government and government influences religion. Though at times confusing and easily twisted by religious leaders, the separation of church and state here in United States is balanced and fair to all.

Separation of religion and government is very important due to the fact that the United States is a diverse country with many different religions and belief systems. We have the freedom of religion and the freedom from religion. Many argue that church and state should never be separated, forgetting that there is more than one religion or belief system in the country. To be fair we would have to include all religious doctrine in our educational and governmental systems, honoring and teaching all religious doctrine in our schools and including all religions’ rules and regulations in our government. Putting more pressure and work load on those who are employed in these jobs. Especially, in the public school classroom, imagine how much time and effort it would take to have an equal prayer time for every religious child in the classroom. Then imagine parents being upset because their child was learning about another person’s faith, which was against their beliefs. This in fact could become a legal nightmare. Private religious schools getting federal funding may sound like a good idea. But will the parents want the government interfering in their child’s education? Because when tax dollars are used, government is more involved in what is going on in the school, as it should be when public tax dollars are involved, monitoring what is happening in a place that once was private. In a perfect world honoring all faiths, in all public forums might work, but since we do not live in a perfect world, this would only cause chaos (both legally and spiritually). The separation of church and state protects everyone, religious and nonreligious alike, and should always be recognized and protected.

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Desert Sunshine 57 © Sherrie D. Larch

This artwork series is inspired by summer days full of golden and warm sunshine.

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Desert Sunshine 56 © Sherrie D. Larch

This artwork series is inspired by summer days full of golden and warm sunshine.

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Desert Sunshine 55 © Sherrie D. Larch

This artwork series is inspired by summer days full of golden and warm sunshine.

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Desert Sunshine 54 © Sherrie D. Larch

This artwork series is inspired by summer days full of golden and warm sunshine.

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Desert Sunshine 53 © Sherrie D. Larch

This artwork series is inspired by summer days full of golden and warm sunshine.

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Desert Sunshine 52 © Sherrie D. Larch

This artwork series is inspired by summer days full of golden and warm sunshine.

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Desert Sunshine 50 © Sherrie D. Larch

This artwork series is inspired by summer days full of golden and warm sunshine.

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Desert Sunshine 49 © Sherrie D. Larch

This artwork series is inspired by summer days full of golden and warm sunshine.

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Desert Sunshine 48 © Sherrie D. Larch

This artwork series is inspired by summer days full of golden and warm sunshine.