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Capturing The Wild Kingdom Before “Wild Kingdom”

Brass Castle Arts October 8, 2014 January 10, 2020Uncategorized 0

Birth of Martin Johnson, Pioneer Wildlife Photographer Oct. 9, 1884 Remember Marlin Perkins in Mutual of Omaha’s 1960s TV show “Wild Kingdom,” and how he left all the rhino-wrestling to his buddy Jim? To say nothing of Steve Irwin’s popular “Crocodile Hunter” forty years later. This post celebrates intrepid forerunner…

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Birth of Rebecca Smith Pollard, Education pioneer – Sept. 20, 1831

Brass Castle Arts September 20, 2014 January 10, 2020Uncategorized 0

The name “Rebecca Smith Pollard” rings no bells in my beady little brain, and neither does her pseudonym, “Kate Harrington.” But the blog post in “The Writer’s Almanac” for September 20, 2011, puts me strongly in mind of my own elementary school education and of my subsequent avocation, living history…

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Happy Constitution Day! – September 17, 1787

Brass Castle Arts September 17, 2012 January 10, 2020Uncategorized 0

 It was on this day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention adopted The Constitution of the United States, which (after ratification by the states) became the nation’s supreme governing document on March 4, 1789. September 17th is also called Citizenship Day, the day on which most immigrants are officially sworn…

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Birth of Hannibal Hamlin, Civil War Vice President – August 27, 1809

Brass Castle Arts August 26, 2012 January 10, 2020Uncategorized 0

Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) Vice presidents rarely cut any swath, and few people know much about them unless they succeed to the Presidency.  Because Lincoln had a different vice president for his second term (Andrew Johnson who became president on Lincoln’s death), his first VP, Hannibal Hamlin, has been all but…

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BIRTH OF US COAST GUARD – August 4, 1790

Brass Castle Arts August 4, 2012 January 10, 2020Uncategorized 0

Today, August 4, is the birthday of the U. S. Coast Guard, which came into existence 222 years ago, in 1790. I have a couple of reasons for an interest in the USCG: 1.  My current employment is temporary contract work on real property assessment of US Coast Guard assets….

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THE LITTLE BOOK WITH A BIG LEGEND

Brass Castle Arts July 1, 2012 January 10, 2020Uncategorized 0

William Strunk, Jr.  One of the most dog-eared books in our household when I was a child was Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style. As my siblings and I progressed through our school-years, my mother consistently pushed this book in front of us as we sat down to our…

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MRS. FIELDS MUST HAVE SERVED A FEW COOKIES

Brass Castle Arts June 8, 2012 January 10, 2020Uncategorized 0

John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Annie Fields  I recently acquired a biography of James T. Fields, the Boston publisher who printed the works of most of America’s great writers of the 19th Century. The fly-leaf of the book states that his second wife, Annie Adams Fields, was Boston’s greatest hostess…

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“OLD IRONSIDES” A REBEL SHIP? – May 8, 1861

Brass Castle Arts May 7, 2012 January 10, 2020Uncategorized 0

George Smith Blake When the Civil War erupted in April 1861, Captain George S. Blake studied the position of the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, MD, and quickly realized that the school was indefensible should the rebels attack it. According to a New York Times article “Early Days of…

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BIRTH OF GAS TURBINE INVENTOR – April 20, 1860

Brass Castle Arts April 16, 2012 January 10, 2020Uncategorized 0

Charles Gordon Curtis  (1860-1953) Charles Curtis crosses our path again, but this is not the Native American Vice President I wrote about last month.  This time, it’s Charles Gordon Curtis, who must have been camera-shy, for I find only a couple of photographs of him available online. Charles Gordon Curtis…

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Charlie Grant (1923-2012), WWII Veteran, Musician

Brass Castle Arts April 9, 2012 January 10, 2020Uncategorized 0

Early last evening, Easter Sunday, Charlie Grant, fifer and WWII veteran (among other things), went to his great reward, quietly and peacefully. I had visited with him a week ago Saturday, and found him ready to go, whenever the Lord decided to call him. He undoubtedly had a grand reunion…

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