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Georgetown, Texas

Selected as a “Great American Main Street” by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Georgetown’s charming courthouse square is a favorite location of Hollywood film scouts.  There’s a coop-domed courhose here where  District Attorney Don Moody took took on the Klu Klux Klan, he went on to become Attorney General and governor.

Farmers and Mechanics Bank

U.S. National Historic Landmark District Contributing Property

D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites

Location at the intersection of M Street and

Williamson County Historical Museum

Beaux Arts Farmer Bank Building

on the square

houses county history and archives

The Palace Theatre

Art Deco scones and designs interior wall

Restored and is the site for giving plays and music events.

Space Cavern

Near Georgetown

A cave full of stalagmites as well as remains of prehistoric wolves and mastadons.

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And back to our trip down the ridge to cowboy country:

Haines City

Was named after Colonel Henry Haines.  He was a manager for Henry B. Plant, a Oil man who took up with the railroad and helped develop Florida.  Legend says that the town was named for the Colonel to induce th company to stop its trains here and it worked.

Haines City, Florida
City
Downtown Haines City Commercial District
Seal
Nickname(s): The Heart of Florida
Location in Polk County and the state of Florida
Coordinates: 28°6′42″N 81°37′43″WCoordinates: 28°6′42″N 81°37′43″W
Country	United States
State	Florida
County	Polk
Incorporated	February 23, 1914
Established	1885
Named for	Colonel Henry Haines
Government
• Type	Council–manager
• City Commissioners	Morris West (Mayor) Anne Huffman (Vice-Mayor) Jayne Hall Horace West Claude Holmes II
• City Manager	Deric C. Feacher
• City Clerk	Linda Bourgeois
• City Attorney	Fred Reilly
Area [1]
• Total	20.20 sq mi (52.31 km2)
• Land	18.85 sq mi (48.82 km2)
• Water	1.35 sq mi (3.49 km2)  7.27%
Elevation	200 ft (61 m)
Population  (2010)
• Total	20,535
• Estimate (2018)[2]	25,091
• Density	1,331.02/sq mi (513.91/km2)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP codes	33844-33845
Area code(s)	863
FIPS code	12-28400[3]
GNIS feature ID	0283589[4]
Website	hainescity.com

Located in th northern portion of the Lake Wales RIdge.  Haines City is the commerical center of growing northeast Polk Co.  Long dependent on citrus production as its principal industry, it is becoming popular as a retirement center.

Places of Interst  in  Haines City

I’ll just name a couple

Bethune Neighborhood Center

9th Street and Ave E

Oakland High School was the original name.  There were 5 building that made up the school for African American children from Haines City, Davenport, Lake Hamilton, Dundee and the unincorported areas of northeast Polk Couny.  It later became a  center for recreational and educatinal functions.

In 2004 the historical Bethune Community Center and Senior Center was devastated by Hurricane Charlie leaving the small community without a place to go for fellowship and recreation.   Check out what has been done to remedy this

Polk Hotel

 800–810 Hinson Avenue

the hotel was built in 1925, it has more recently been the Palm Crest Hotel and has remained in business ever since its opening

Continue South and next Tues we’ll visit

Lake Hamilton

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“Ostara, also known as Eostre, was a pagan goddess of fertility.  Easter the Christian festival, which lies near the spring equinox, derives its name and its symbols from her.  The Easter egg, for example was originally Ostara’s emblem, a sign of her wholeness and unfailing fertility.  Such was the power of her fertility that estrogen, the hormone that prompts egg production in women, is named after her.  Ostera’s arrival was marked by the blossoming of yellow flowers such as primross and daffodils and by the fresh green leaves.”

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James Pritchard a confederate captain from New York who joined up while living in Missouri and married to a lady from Key West. and members of the family lived in this Titusville  house from 1891 to May, 2005 when it was purchased  Brevard County.  The house is now open for public tours, exhibitions and progrems as well as rental for private parties and meetings.

This picture was taken on my first trip to London—I stayed in the city for 3 weeks–two by myself (except for the 4 day tour that I took to Wales–It was one of those smaller tours—only 3 of us went me and two other women )—This is just a random picture as I walked about the city–something I did alot—I was amazed at the quanity of the flowers that were present in the great metropolis.

Oh and our quote for the Day is from

Altamonte Springs

In 1887 a spring was found in Lake Adelaide, and the citizens changed its name  of the city the city to its present inclusion of that discovery.  The town at that time had one big draw–the Altamonte Hotel which was eventually destroyed by fire in 1953.

The town today is made up of retail stores and office centers as well as a  residential communities.

Most of the city’s businesses are along 436 —including the Altamonte Mall https://www.altamontemall.com/en.html   Also there’s  an Advent Health as well as numerous professional building and many restaurants.  The city library and cultural center is on Maitland Ave.

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The Heart Of London

“There came towards us upon the wind the voice of the deep distant bell of St. Paul’s as it struck the hour of midnight….into the quiet train of thought which such a place awakens, paced the echoing stones like some old monk whose present world lay all within its walls.”

Charles DIckens ON London

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Grave of a sailor who died on the USS Maine at Key West Cemetery.

Key West’s Cemetery

Dating from 1847 the cemetery is located in the center of Old Town.  The streets about it are Angela, Margaret, Passover Lane, Francis and Olivia.  Orginally on another part of the island  it was moved to what would pass for higher ground only in Key West—but it is the highest point on island.  The reports of the previous cemetery which was at the Southern Most Point sayes that the 1847 hurricane destroyed the whole of the place—ripping out tomb stones and scattering bodies about the island some even lodged in trees.

The current area is full of the bizzare and the subline from a memorial and final resting place for sailors killed with the destruction of the Maine, to a plot where it is said the family spent an entire fortune burying family members and assorted pets–including a deer.

Here you’ll see the Victorian graves with their symbolic decor–The Calla Lily (for majestic beauty), Lily of the Valley (Bride), A lamb or cherub (for a child’s stone) or an urn (an adult) as well as wreaths (for eternity) Roses for love, Ivy for immortility and clasped hands for farewell and Friendship—-to name a few.

Visiting here will take you to the main entry gates at the corner of Margaret and Angegla Streets.  And be ready for all manner of things to see—Come back and we’ll meet at the gate on Tuesday and I’ll tell you more. (figuratively speaking of course)

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Munakata-No-Kami

Sea gods Shinto (Japan).  A group of three Kamis, generally identified as the Sumiyoshi-No-Kami, who protect seafarers, including fishermen.  They are the subject of special worship by the Jingu-Kogo sect , whom they escorted to Korea in distant times.  They are also tutelary deities of poets and may ahve a purifying function.  Their main sancturires are the Sumiyoshi Taisha in Osaka and Munakata-Taisha.  See also Uni-No-Kami

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and we’ll end with a ruined castle somewhere in Ireland…

CAT BINGO

$30.00 USD

This beautifully illustrated bingo game features 64 breeds of cats from around the world-offering a fun and educational twist on the traditional game as players learn the names and colorings of both their favorite breeds and less common exotic cats- from the Tonkinese to the Siamese.

• Includes a playing board, 64 illustrated cat tokens, 12 bingo cards, red counter disks and a leaflet containing basic information on the various cats
• Requires multiple players
• Made in China
• 10″ x 2.5″ x 9″
• Ages 6+

there’s also Dog Bingo

 

I love both but have two cats that occupy a lot of my prison time—so I think a cat game might be too much—what do you think?

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Some place to consider on your next outing and/or vacation in Tx—I have spent many a happy hour exploring in Texas

Stars of the Republic Museum

 23200 Park Rd 12,

Washington, TX 77880

Texas history during its era as a nation.

Administered by Blinn College.

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The British Aristocarcy over 900 years from feudal obligations of noblemen to  the  Normans

Kings, who conferred priveges of rank and property in return for armed support.   Subsequent monarchs bestowed titles and property on their supporters, establishing new aristorcratic dynasties.  The title of “earl” dates from the 11th c, that of “duke” from the 14th c.   Soon the nobility began to choose their own symbols, partly to identify a knight concealed by his armor:  Thee were often painted on the kinghts armour (hence the term “coat of arms”)

The Brits do Royalty so well…..it’s a source of entertainment and fun for the rest of us….better than a TV show.  Don’t get me wrong I love Britain and respect the country more than any other—they have been so much and yet keep going.

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Hadrian’s Wall Housestead

Breath taking position on open hillside–trace outlines of major buildings

The latrines are the most complete of their kind in Briton.

5 acre site enclosd by a prestine wall.

3rd and 4th century it was occupied by the First Cohort of Temgrains (frm modern day Belgium) about 800-1,000 men believed to be stationed here

The fort on the wall attracts the most visitors–considerable excavation of the civilian settlement outside the walls. Inside the gates:   headquarters buildings, graneries, barrocks, stables, workshops, water tanks.  Small museum

I’ve been to Hadrian’s wall, but not this particular section.

Sally Ride

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Fort Mose

Saratoga Blvd 2 miles north of St Augustine on US 1

Florida

in 1693 King Charles II of Spain decreed that runaway slaves to be given sanctuary in his colonies.  Above the Spainish Colony of St. Augustine lay the British 13 colonies which were slave holders and those slaves quickly learned they could find sanctuary in Florida.  Hee the fought against the British attack in 1728 and their service bought freedom for the any slaves the Spanish held in their colony as well.   Later Gov. Montian founded Fort Mose and was in fact the first free black settlement in North America and the the northern most out[post protrection the settlement of St. Agustine    The fort and its village was abandoned in 1753 and laid abandoned for 175 year.  The fort is long gone but the site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.  A festial is held annually to renact the journey to freedom.  A Florida State Park Visitor Center in being built adjacent to the Fort’s Historic Park

St. Augustine and it’s surrounding area  always a good bet for a visit

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Oh and the movie quote as title today is from

The Hound of the Baskervilles Watch it free just click on the above title
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sidney Lanfield
Produced by	Gene Markey Darryl F. Zanuck
Screenplay by	Ernest Pascal
Based on	The Hound of the Baskervilles 1902 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
Starring	Richard Greene Basil Rathbone Wendy Barrie Nigel Bruce
Music by	David Buttolph Charles Maxwell Cyril J. Mockridge David Raksin
Cinematography	Peverell Marley
Edited by	Robert Simpson
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	March 31, 1939
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Basil Rathbone is my bar none favorite Sherlock Holmes a detective that has fascinated me for long years and yest I know it’s in Black and white—but it really is great with the atmospheric for the dark moors and scenes featuring lurking deadly hound and the fogs and mystic—you can watch it free at sight noted above and if you watch it with an open mind you will see that not everything needs color to be great.

The first Basil Rathbone Holmes was made in 1939 with 20th century Fox and then eventually went to Universal—Rathbone made several more films thru 1947 when he left the series.  Rathbone was often the villian playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in Errol Flynn’s Robin Hood and as RIchard III in the Tower of London movie.—so though I might watch and like other Holmes productions he’ll always have my heart for his Sherlock.

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Courtly Love

You’ve read about it saw it in movies and we all have our concepts about it—at least those older ones of us—there maybe some of you out there that have no concept of what it might be—so lets loo

“Against the idea of spiritual chivalry  was set that of Amour Courtoise or                                                                                    Courtly Love, which successfully mimicked Chivalry.  Knights were instucted to devote themselves solely and utterly to a single lady, irrespective of whether she was already married or returned  their amrous desires (DOES  THAT SEEM A BIT CREEPY TO ANYONE BUT ME)  Echoing actual rocceedings,, several ‘Courts of Love’ were set up, in which intellectual noblewomen like Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of … Henry II who promoted the ‘the discovery of Arthur’s grave at Glastonbury’, and her daughter Marie de Champagne, for whom Chretien wrote his elaborate tales of love, held rials in which the action of lovers of both sexes were judged and punishment meted out according to an elaborate set of rules.  These were formalized in a textbook written by Marie’s chaplain   Andreas in 1174.  The Art of Courtly Love detailed the proper way of approaching or addressing the lady or gentleman of one’s choice and the intricate  observances of class, wherby a noblewoman might spak to a man of th middle classes, or a person of higher station addresss one of a lower order.  This in turn both influened Chretien in the composition of his Arthrian romances and causd a revolution in the chivalric code behavior throughout the courts of Europe.  At its worst Courtly Love became an excuse for adultery; at its best it furthered a new respect, almost amounting to idolatry for women–hitherto little more than chattels“

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Fernandina,

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More of our tour thru the less visited Florida

Along the Ridge to Cowboy Country

Exit off I-4 south onto US 27

As we mentioned before the shopping area on the east side was once the site of Base Ball CIty Stadium—the spring training home of the Kansas CIty Royals.

Continue south on US 27 past the Deer Creek RV, GUlf and Country Club on the left

Turn east (left) on US 17 toward Davenport

Davenport was once  a quiet, small town, just off the beaten path but it has experienced explosive growth, especially in the area north toward I-4  Going  from a population of 2,888 at the 2010 census to  5,378 (2018).  

Turn south/right on County Rd 17–also north 100th Street 

The rapid expansion of the area of Interntional Drive Tourist Industry and its multiple theme parks including Disney and Universal has greatly added to growth in this area—which much being built on lands that werr made available when the freezes destroye untold acres of  citrus grove that was at one time so common in this area.    The trees are gone and the houses set on the acres.

Continue on county 17—formerly Alt 27

Davenport takes its name from Ft. Davenport once located nearby/  The fort was named for Col. Wm Davenport.

United States Army Officer. He began his service during the War of 1812 when he was commissioned as a Captain in the 16th United States Infantry. With his unit he rendered distinguished service at the Battles of Chippewa (July 5, 1814) and Lundy’s Lane (July 25, 1814). He remained in the United States Army after the war, receiving the brevet of Major on September 28, 1822 for “ten years of faithful service”. He was transferred from the 16th Infantry to the 6th Infantry on December 16, 1825, and to the 1st Infantry on April 4, 1826, receiving a promotion to Lieutenant Colonel in the process. He fought in the Aug. 1-2, 1832 Battle of Bad Ax, which resulted in the defeat of Black Hawk and ended the Black Hawk War. Brevetted Colonel, he was was transferred back to the 6th Infantry, then back again to the 1st Infantry before he resigned on January 31, 1850.

Col William Davenport

from Find a Grave

This stretch of road was first paved in 1918.  It was all of 9 feet wide, built by convicts in leg chains.

Come back on Thurs to continue on to Haines CIty

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Exeter

The historic capital of Devon, a university city, a cathedral city, with museums and theatre.  Exeter epitomiss Devon in that its true charm is only revealed when you leave your car.  The centre of the city, like so many in Europe, suffered greatly during the war, but bhind the modern HIgh Street and she shopping precincts lies the glorious cathedral set in what is almost a village green overlooked by a delightful miscellany of buildings ranging from the medieval with their charming cobbled courtyards through to Vicorian.  The cathedral is one of Englands’s grea architectural masterieces, but equally rewarding in a different way is the Maritime Museum down on the Quay where over a hundred ships and boats from all parts of the wold have been restored and preserved.

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Palm Ridge Reserve Whiskey

Did you know they make  Whiskey in Florida?

Florida – Handmade, distilled, and bottled on the farm in Umatilla, Florida. Very smooth with all the wonderful spiciness and deep finish you expect from a great Whiskey

So now you know.

all our nice fairies and the like may well have scary origins of not so nice creatures  take for instance Ireland’s legends.

“Ireland then, may not be as charming and pleasant as it irst seems.  Beneathe the surface of  Irish folklore—long equated with shamrocks and leprechauns ——-lies a dark strand concerning the watching dead  

It is a brave man or woman who will adventure out along a lonely Irish raod, where old churchyards  and failing Great Famine villagses 

nestle amongs the far-off trees, as twilight falls across the countryside.  Who knows what he or she may encounter before reaching his or her destination.  Dark, blood-drinking fairies or the malignant marbh-bheo, hungry for fresh human flesh?  ….  Or even worse, the unquiet shade of Abhartach?  Who knows what horrors lie out there in the growing darkness of the Celtic night

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OK back to our wanderings thru Florrida

We drove thru town and past International Drive and the theme parks and we continue Southwest on I-4

US 27 passes thru this area and by-passes the small towns that set on Florida’s back bone , this was built in 1956…but there is another road that moves down this same route, the original road known as ALT. US27 and further south Co Rd 17 and they are what is known as the Scenic Highweay which dates to a time when hwys had names not number in the 1920’s.

We’ll exit I-4 on US 27 south.—this area has an interesting history of unsucessul development at least for tourism.

Two years after Disney’s Florida Project started taking its first guests (1973), a large circus tent appeared at the corner of Interstate 4 and Highway 27 (just south west of the Magic Kingdom) in Haines City FL.)   This oversized tent-shaped building was a preview center for Circus World.

Along with Sea World and Cypress Gardens, publishing company Harcourt Brace Jovanovich purchased the park in 1986.  The new owners promptly closed the park after determining that a new theme for the site was needed.  The circus themed attraction had never really managed to attract large crowds.  Their new park, Boardwalk Walk and Baseball would open a year later,

 Boardwalk and Baseball was the new theme park built near Haines City, Florida, . It opened in April 1987,   Base Ball CIty Statium was built in 1988.  and it all closed January 17, 1990.

The land was sold to developer Victor Posner in 2001. The ballpark was torn down in 2005 to make way for the new Posner Park; a retail complex with several big box stores opened on the site in 2008 and is still actively (or was before the virus)  open and selling

We  will continue on to Davenport on Tuesday–see you then

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The trip we took to Ireland (the year we drove—me in England—my friend Susi in Ireland)—I went to the Irish Tourist Bureau (Republic of Ireland) provided this booklet to me—the only cost was for the hotels I was to stay at and I received vouchers which we turned over to the hotels we stayed at along the way and they received their funds from the tourist services.  It was beautiuly done with excelent information on sights to see as wll as locations, etc on the places and of course driving directions—-We had a wonderful trip with little planning on my part—the serivce is still active and though I do not know what services they offer I would suggest that you check with them first if you wish to see the Republic of Ireland.

One of the things I have enjoyed is the old horror movies—-without the butchery of modern genre, and thus forced in many cases to actually develop plots and story lines—-something often missed when blood and hacking bodies passed for them.  But I also enjoy the silliness of thos days for example:

“The spread of popular vampire humor  awaited the creation of the widely recognized stereotypical cinematic vampire by Bela Lugosi

in the 1930s .  

The first major attempt to exploit the humorous possibilities of Lugosi’s Dracula 

occurred in the 1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstien. 

The plot of the movie revolved around Dracula’s

attempt to steal comedian Lou Costellos’ brain and place it in the head of the

Frankenstien’s Monster   

Lugosi returned to his Dracula role for the spoof, which iin retrospect received high marks as one of Abbott and Costello’s best movies.  It was said to be far superior to Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll adn Mr. Hyde (1953), in which an unamed acor mad a cameo appearance as Dracula”

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J. Gordon Melton

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As to the movie we took our quote from today just read this clipping from the Key Wet Paper on the movie made locally.

This movie is currently May 2020 on HBO on Demandd

Secretly a spy but thought by his family to be a dull salesman, Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is tracking down nuclear missiles in the possession of Islamic jihadist Aziz (Art Malik). Harry’s mission is complicated when he realizes his neglected wife, Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis), is contemplating an affair with Simon (Bill Paxton), a used-car salesman who claims he’s a spy. When Aziz kidnaps Harry and Helen, the secret agent must save the world and patch up his marriage at the same time.

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Centre St

Fernandina, Florida

on

Amelia Island

I so recommend that you try a visit to Amelia Island and Fernandina—there are all manner of thing to see and do here—-as I am fond of reminding you Florida is so much more than the manufactured parks —- get a live visit the real thing…..but you might want to wait till things open up more.

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More of my musing on Arthur (as in the Once and Future)—from some of my ramblings on paper

Ther were the Goddess’ priestesses with their strong Amazon body guards to protect them in the calvacade of mn, not all of whom still reviered the old ways and saw the priestesses as just another group of camp collowers to giv services from bandaging their wounds , doing their laundry or mor intimate activitives.

Everywhere were tents–some of the commander’s were elaborate affairs–some dated back to the Romans, some of newer origins more or less opulent depeding on the men/man.  Common men slept in the open or in make shift lean-tos of wood andd leaveed branches.  Some even had patched together tents of cured (from the oder not very well) hides or even woold cloth treated it oils to resist moisture.

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Mount Dora Florida—A place by any other name ?

Mount Dora is named for the lake it borders, everyone I have spoken to is sure of that, but after that things get a little vague.  Well we do know that the Mount came from the quick ascent of the land from the lake sure to heights of amazing amount of feet—at least for predominately flat  and often covered with water because its so low, land in Florida.   We know that the lake was name in about 1846 – 1848 when surveyors we mapping the state out.

Florida had been settled by Spain and even after the English arrived with a long line of coastal colonies Spain held Florida-–when England captured Havanna Cuba she used that to broker a trade for Florida and as part of a treaty in 1763.  When the  British left after loosing the war they returned Florida to Spain in 1783.  In 1819 the US acquired Florida from Spain and Florida became a state in 1845.  Then came the survey of the pennisula.

It is accepted that the surveyors named the lake—but there it gets foggy.  For year I and most everyone else had been told that the Dora for which the land was named was Dora Ann Drawdy who along with her huband James came here in 1846 from Irwin Co. Georga and established a farm.  Then in 1848 those surveyrs came to the area and due to her kindness to them (in the manner of some food and water) they named the lake Dora after her.  Eventually she and her family move to Seneca 10 miles north of the original farm, after her  husband joined the Confederate Army and was killed.  She never returned to the area.

But more recently this has been investigated and the history has been revised, seems that Dora had 2 husband, her first James she married and became a widow with three chidren all in Georgia.  She later married William Draway, a cousin, after his death and they moved to Florida in 1850 or somewhere there after.  William joined the Confederate Army (infantry) and died in 1862.  While the lake was named by the surveyors at least 2 years before she and her faimly arrived here.

So since it’s too late to ask the surveyors I guess we’ll never know who or what it was named after—But Ms Drawdy has a street-more like an alley named after her.

Learn about Greek mythology

The Knight Templars  came into eistence towards the end of the second decade of the twelfth century in response to the exigencies of pilgrims in the recently consituted Latin Kingdom of Jeresulem.  Their foundation was eventually to lead to the forging of a new ideology which, in the words of John Prawer, “fused two current ideals of medieva society,knighthood and monasticism, into a code for a community of warrior monks.”   But their original function–the protection of pilgrims on the dangerous road from the port of Jaffa up to Jerusalem--was both less ambitious and much more urgent.

Templer Knights of God

Edward Burman

Explore the Milky Way.

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23 EASY AND COOL DIY HALLOWEEN DECOR IDEAS   the picture above is some of my full house decorations—I haven’t done a full house in years, but you got all this down time so check it out.

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Many visitors to the UK see London, York, Liverpool and the like and miss the wonder of their towns and villages some with little changes for hundreds of years—i love to take backroad tours—and then there was the couple  of weeks I drove about Cornwall, Devon and Wales to name a few which allowed us to see so much—and then my girfriend did similar driving duties after we took a ferry across to Wexford in Ireand—it was a wonderful if at some times crazy adventure.

Exford

A center for stag hunting since Norman Times.

This English village is 10 mies south of Porlock in a sheltered valley of the River Exe., with pasture enclosurers above open moorland in what at one time was a Royal Forest, which are now used as sheep walks.

The Center of the village green is used as a football pitch.  The village is made up of small Georgian and Victorian Cottages around the green forms a pleasing area.

The Methodist Chapel adjoins the green and has 2 stain glass windows made by Sir Edward Burne-Jones in a workshop in William Mews—last I heard the church is no longer in use–

Church of St Mary Magdelene
Location	Exford, Somerset, England
Coordinates	51.1344°N 3.6341°WCoordinates: 51.1344°N 3.6341°W
Built	15th century
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name: Church of St Mary Magdelene
Designated	6 April 1969[1]
Reference no.	1057319
Location of Church of St Mary Magdelene in Somerset

The Anglican Church of St Mary Magdelene 

1/2 mile east of the village on a steep hill.  It dates to the mid 15th c–its oldest remaining parts are the west tower and the south aisle.  The Nave and chancel  were rebuilt in the 19th c.  The arcade of clustered pillars with curved capitals divides the south aisle from the nave which is typical of churches of W. Somerset.  Has a restored Rood Screen  that was originally in the medieval church of St Audries          (destroyed in 1858)

at West Quantoxhead

408 William Street, Key West, was brought to Key West from Green Turtle Cay in 1847–by Captain RIchard Roberts

One of my favorite things to do in Key West is walk through the neighborhoods and viewing the lovely old homes—-or you can take one of the tours that takes you about —-which ever this is just one example of the houses they have to offer for your viewing

“When a US law specified that salvaged cargo from shipwrecks in American water be brought to the narst domestic port, the wrecking industry in Key West as given a boost.  Many wreckers from the Bahamas relocated to the island.  They brought their own architectural style with them.  The traditional Bahamian house was well suited to a tropical climate and such devices as window louvers and roof hatches for ventilation became part of the Key West architectural vocabulary.  The houses were built on limestone pier foundations so the cool air could circulate underneath the floor boards.  Down spouts and gutters were used to collect rain water in cisterns.  WIde porches and secnd-story balconies were built to provide additional liing space during especailly hot weather.

Key West Houses

Leslie Linsley

Best Grilled Chicken Recipes

Wolf spiders may turn to cannibalism in a warming Arctic

Aerial view of station in 1966 Photograph courtesy U.S. Coast Guard

Haven’t been to this light house—gotta try getting to it once the lock down is off—if that evver happens:

Jupiter Inlet Light House

went into service 1860

Oldest surviving struture in Palm Beach County

The Coast Guard operate the ight from 1939 and during the years of WWII the light was dimmed to protect ships in area.

There is a WWII era barracks building on site which is now the visior’s center.

English Gardens

Did you know it is estimated that there are a million acres of gardens in the country?

and over 3,000 gardens that open to the public at least once a years?

and 500 are open on their own or as part of a house, castle or house  that are open on     a regular or semi-regular schedule.

As one who loves to visit and explore the UK I can tell you they are beautiful and enjoyable.

Cut the middle man: Restaurants are pleading with customers to abandon delivery apps

Discover How Celtic History Helped Shape the Modern World

Great Courses of the world—purchase DVD or for a much lower fee can watch on line.

Marthasville’s Boone grave.

     The two graves of Daniel Boone

You all know about the great Frontier hero Daniel Boon–born in a log cabin in Reading, Pa (11/2/1734) who by 1751 was making a living in North Carolina  as a hunter and trapper and you know the rest of his history.  But for today we’re more interested in the later part of his history—seemes that he lost his land twice  (once in Kentucy and then again in Missouri both when the areas becae states and in his old age and a widower he spent his final years at his son’s Missouri home-–he passed away at age 85 and was buried in Marthasville, Miss. at the foot of his wife’s grave as the spot next to her grave was aready occupied.  So that’s that right?

Daniel Boone’s grave in Frankfort. Uh-huh.  

Seems that in 1845 a group from Kentucky put up a monument to Daniel in the capita city’s cemeery and had Daniel and his wife Rebecca reinterred in Frankfort, Kentucky.

I also found this one pictured for Marthasville

But according to the accounts (though the exact details vary from what you’re reading) the grave diggers messed up and got Rebecca’s body but not Daniels—maybe because he was buried at her feet and not beside her?—

In 1983 a forensic anthropologist studied a plaster cast of the sku and stated it was “a large black man.”  But the people in Frankfort questioned his findings, credentials etc.

Health Spotlight: Family Stress 

That movie quote by Redford was in a movie with Jane Fonda but I didn’t know it but there were so many:

Tall Story (1960)
Fun fact about it: Film debut for both Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.

The Chase (1966)
Fun fact about it: Jane Fonda and Robert Redford enjoyed working with each other. They had a lot in common and Redford’s humor helped Fonda relax on set.

Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Fun fact about it: Robert Redford starred in both the Broadway play and this film version. His leading lady on Broadway was Elizabeth Ashley.

The Electric Horseman (1979)
Fun fact about it: One of seven pictures director Sydney Pollack and actor Robert Redford both collaborated on.

Our Souls at Night (2017)
Fun fact about it: Robert Redford and Bruce Dern had previously co-starred in The Great Gatsby (1974).

The Quote is from Electric Horseman where I can still see him in those tight jeans—did any man ever look hotter than Redford movin’ along

When Disney first opened the average visitor disposed trash was 1-1 1/2 pounds each—in 1989 the number of trash produced daily was 90 tons—I don’t even want to know what it is today.

Oh and I love this on Disney’s opening day in 1971—one monorail pilot was grounded because her black panties were visible thru her green jump suit.

It is said that Disney bought most of the land for Disney World for an average of $180/acre.  As news finally started leaking acres went for reportedly as high as $80,000 per acre.  It is said that Disney’s first choice was St. Louis—but I find that hard to phantom given the down time he would have had with Mo. winters.

And there’s the Town of Celebration in the area—which had its first robbery in 8/19/98 —so what you say—well considering that was 2 years after it was found speaks a lot for the town.

OK we’ve finished the theme parks.   I you traveled on I-4 thru orlando you’d pass those parks and lots of other tourist areas….well we’ve done that and Sunday (running a day late will catch up for Tues next week) we will continue on I-4 to US 27 and get into the back bone of Florida—see you then.

and here’s the 2nd church in the community of Bosecastle in Cornwall

Sunset at Key West’s Mallory Square

Hope Town, Elbow Key—Abacco the Bahamas

Where to shop, sightsee, and more

Roman Finds in Britain

Carlisle Armour

Dating from AD122

Several very rare articulated pieces of Roman armour exceptionally preserved in waterlogged conditions, complete with copper-alloy rivets and leather backing

Visit it:  Tulie House Museum

Carlise

Roman Britain

Gillian Hovell

Virtual Tour of National History Museum London

This was probably in the 80s or 90s at the Key West Art Center

History’s Dark Chapter: The Clink Prison Museum

Continued from Last Sat’s blog

Florida Cowboys

Ok now to the cowboys and yes my dears Florida Had and Has cowboys.  The history of the cowboys start in the late 1800s (probaly around the 1870’s when Kissimmee  birthed the first cattlemen.  They called them farms but the cattle were known to roam where they wished to go.  But these were no open plains and bore all manner of vegetations that could get in the way of the traditional lariats—so was birthed the use of the bullwhip to herd their often unwilling charges where they wished.

Cattle were big business in the  1870’s and 80s just like out west.  But to be perfectly honest this area wasn’t the first to herd cattle here—the Spanish grazed their herds to supply St. Augustine’s demands on an area close to what is now Micanopy and when they left the Indians and the British both had large herds in the area., followed closely by the Americans when Florida finally became US territory.  Florida supplied the Confederacy with beef until the area was contained leaving thousands of cattle roaming the lands very close to being wild animals.

The Florida Cracker Cowboy wasn’t much diferent (other than the whip thing) than the Western version.  There were round ups, rustlers, cattle drives and all manner of craziness that have become legendary for that particular occupation.  Florida’s drovers dessed more sinply and thogh they had rodeos and all they never really became part of the legends of our times.

The one exception being Bone Mizell,       

believed by many to be the model for Remington’s Painting (see below)

did become part of Florida’s lore.  He  according to legend could outride anybody and was also known as a clown and a major boozer.  And then there was lighting his pipe with dollar bills and branding cattle with his teetch.  He was a head cowhand for Zlibe King.

Zibe not to be outdonee was siad to be

6’6″ and 225 lbs and was noted for his eating competition victories and stud poker abilities and one time when Manatee Co couldn’t pay its schoolteachers, Zibe personally provided enough gold to pay their salaries for six month—or so I’m told.

But I might note that sites I read stated that Spanish doubloons were more common here than American money in the 19th cenury as the Cubans and many of the local residents distrusted the paper money the goverment put out.  It is rumored that ranchers often kept as much as $10,000 in gold in gourd safeboxes in their homes

More about central Florida on Thursday

QR codes and dramatic vistas: tips for traveling during the pandemic

Caves

Celtic folklore of caves often tells that they contain beings from bygone times.  For instance the Irish cave faries     

ar said to be descended from the second race that settled Ireland

the Tuatha da Danaan

After their defeat by the Milesians

the Tuatha da Danaan went underground into the caves, especially by the coast.  Thsi reflects the legend of heroes who did not die, but disappeared into the earth to lead a subterranean existence with their ancestors.

Celtic Sacred Landscapes

Nigel Pennick

Trip Idea: Myths and Legends

One of the closes off the Royal Mile—Edinburgh

Which goes down some stairs and into a court

I love the Mile and it’s ancient building a lot—have stayed on the Royal Mile twice.

These Breathtaking Roads Are Not for the Faint of Heart

A local’s guide to Porto, Portugal

General Register House

 How Can I Hide My Cat’s Ugly Litter Box?

The two Boscastle churches complement each other so naturally, that they appear to illusrate the aspets of our church life:  Forrabury stands square and proud “up the hill”

immediately announcing  its presence with the first panoramic view of the village, visible again to every toursit who climbs the “Lookout Post”  It is one of only three churches in England dedicated to

St. Symphorian, 

a public figure in Roman Gaul

who was sentenced to death and beheaded in 282 AD for protesting against the worship of the goddess Cybele

This courageous young martyr, a native of Burgundy

would have been familiar to the Bottreaux Family

who came over with William the Conqueror and is now commemorated on 22nd August

The Boscastle Group of Parishes

in the Kitchen

A colletion contributed by church members

We’ll have the 2nd  the Minster Church on Thursday

Mysterious stone face attracting curiousity in New River Gorge

l:et’s not forget the movie of the day  the one the leading quotre is from

Hair

Colouring Images Hub

Things worth seeing in London

Old Royal Naval College

National Maritime Museum

National Gallery

National Portrait Gallery

Take a Quiz about World Cities

Forest of Dean

It has been called mysteriious and it is said to be prehistoric

as well.  It covers most of western Gloucstershire in the valley between the Rivers Severn and Wye.    

Although the first growth forest has long since been cut down and replanted, the landscape here remains one of the strange beauty, hiding in its folds and under its hills deposits of iron, silver and coal that have been mined for thousands of years.

Fodor’s Affordable Great Britain

  for the head and the heart

THE WORLD FAMOUS JAMAICA INN

CORNWALL’S MOST FAMOUS SMUGGLERS INN

This was the site of Daphne du Maurier’s Book by the same name was set in  1800’s Cornwall and at this very inn..  It is a story of Mary Yellan who upon her mother’s death goes to live with her aunt at an Inn situated in a gloomy countyside and a spot for a group of wreckers who trick ships into rocks during storms in order to steal cargo.  Mary lives in danger of the murderous criminals who surround her.

it was made into a movie in 1939 by Alfred Hitcock

and a 1983 movie with  Jane Seymour

they becam lost in the mist and rain and it was near midnight when they stumbled on Jamaican Inn

It has been there since 1750 and was a coaching inn—a place for the weary traveler could spend the night after using the turnpike crossing the wild and treacherous moor. 

and some of the guest used the inn to hide contraband that had been smugged aboard—in fact the estimate was that half the brandy and a quarter of all tea being smuggled into the UK was landed along the Cornish and Devon coasts.  And the inn’s remoteness—though there is a major highway a bit of a distance away the Inn itself when I was there in the early 2000’s was still set apart and lonely—I know I was driving on that vacation and the traffic by the inn was non-existant a relief for the wrong side of the road I drove—anyway that made it an excellent stopping place on the way to Devon and onward.–rumor has it that the name comes from the Inn’s trade in rum.

and of course there are reports of ghosts there and it has been included on ghost tours and there was at least one muder there as well, and reports of the clatter of horses hooves on cobbbled stones—-in the day of rubber and gas vehicles.    Been there —–you should try it some time

Not too far from the inn is Dozmanry Pool–-which legend say is where Excaliber of King Arthur fame was thrown at the king’s death

The Vital, Neglected Aspect of Good Health

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29 days left to claim deal

https://www.castlehoward.co.uk/

How to stay fit at home during lockdown

How to Keep Your Brain Healthy

Covid-19 and the environment

Jet Lag:  people have internal clocks that run on 24 hour intervals known as circadian rhythms.  When a person travels to another time zone or works late shifts, this biologial mechanism take a little while to catch up.

Apparently jet lag can be minimized by doing a lot of quirky little things, but lucily it’s usually only a temporary affair and minimally annoying  If you would rather not be affected by it then your best bet is probably the homeopathic remedy called “No-Jet-Lag” which can be found in most airports, pharmacies, travel stores, and health food stores.

The Sleeper

Mark Johnson

How ‘Death Ships’ Spread Disease Through the Ages

Key West

Did you know that on Whitehead and Carolien, there are Presidental Gates?

The pilasters and their iron gate have been around since 1906

But it was on a later date that Harry Truman came here and the gates became the ceremonial entrance for the presiden to and from his Little White House and then these gatrs werrr open only for the president and visiting dignitaries.  In fact when in residents  Truman passed thru the gate daily for his daily 5-mile sprinted walks”.  in 1987 the Truman Whitehouse and the gates were open to the public and have been here ever since..

Truman’s Little White House:            https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/

Truman Annex—                          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_Annex

Truman in Key West                 https://www.whitehousehistory.org/truman-beach-the-33rd-president-at-key-west

Other presidents and First Ladies who visited the Little White House:

Presidential Visits

Almonds

“For a good clransing facial scrub, include ground almonds in our preparation.  Their emollient propertirs also make them suitable as ingredients in cosmetics….Almond butter makes a rich protein substitute for peanut butter, usually well tolerated by diabetics.”

The Herb Book

John Lust

Ten Mythological Creatures in Ancient Folklore

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/ten-mythological-creatures-ancient-folklore-001805

Let’s Make a Garden Paper Mache Sitting Frog

https://www.hometalk.com/44294802/let-s-make-a-garden-paper-mache-sitting-frog

Anna Maria Island

https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/cities/anna-maria-island.html

Just north west of

Sarasota Florida

https://www.visitsarasota.com/

Legend has it that Anna Maria was named by Ponce de Leon for the wife of a sponsor.

https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/juan-ponce-de-leon

But the island as I know it today—and if you don’t know it you might want to consider it at least in your dream lock down get away—started in 1912

by the man who invented the fig newton

(have no idea who this is—check here:  http://theinventors.org/library/inventors/blfig_newton.htm)

but even if you don’t know who that is he is credited for laying at the island village  at that time.

The old pier that sets on the area on the northernmost point of the island that juts 700 feet into Tampa bay, was a very popular place  at the northern most tip of the island, but in 2017 it was destroyed by Hurricane Irma

https://www.thebalance.com/hurricane-irma-facts-timeline-damage-costs-4150395

a decision was made to rebuild and then two years later a barge hit the rebuilding efforts which were  then stopped, but was eventually resumed and Anna Maria Mayor Dan Murphy said March 11 of opening the new Anna Maria City Pier during a meeting of the Coalition of Barrier Island Elected Officials in Holmes Beach.  Now they’re waiting for the Virus shut down so they can do a grand opening.  So unless there’s something else that happens to it I’d think the pier will be back soon–(oh by the way in the early 1900s the pier was in an area that as hit by an earthquake that was centered in the Gulf.– I may skip that opening–Ha Ha.)

The History of the Anna Maria Island City Pier

the most popular character animated cartoons and arguably the most popular cartoon star in the world.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mickey-Mouse

https://www.purina.com/articles/dog/activities/10-creative-cat-and-dog-enrichment-ideas?k=15F02E44-F5DC-4535-93C5-79AC35B989F6&utm_campaign=cpr-MayCOVID&utm_medium=email&utm_source=crm&utm_content=cr-20200515_10+activities_pt-na_sz-na_vl-na_PPUA_052020_01

Eurostar London to Paris entire journey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtx0k4Jw7f4

My favorite book store during lock down they’ve been cleaning and getting ready for our return and if you call them with a specific book they will check and see if they have it and let you know cost—you can pick up at the curb or you can have it mailed (there are additional charges for the postage and handling).  They also have a large selection of good condition DVDs.

Pictures for your desktop

https://www.visitscotland.com/blog/nature-geography/desktop-pictures-scotland-wildlife/? 

Cool! A Hubble photo translated to music

Build a Minimalist Narrow Entryway Table for Your Home

https://www.hometalk.com/44293559/diy-narrow-entryway-table

Born	January 7, 1891 Notasulga, Alabama, U.S.
Died	January 28, 1960 (aged 69) Fort Pierce, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Folklorist, anthropologist, ethnographer, novelist, short story writer, filmmaker
Alma mater	Howard University Barnard College (BA)
Period	c. 1925–1950
Literary movement	The Harlem Renaissance
Notable works	Their Eyes Were Watching God
Spouse	Herbert Sheen (m. 1927; div. 1931) Albert Price (m. 1939; div. 1943) James Howell Pitts (m. 1944; div. 1944)

Wikipedia

Zora was a novelist, anthroplogist, folklorist and contributted much to the preservations of the American Black’s  folk traditions and literature.  She was also inolved with the Harlem Renaissance..

Born on January  7, 1891 she was the daughter of John and Lucy Potts Hurston and lived in the all-Black town of Eatonville.  By 16 she had joined a traveling theaer company and ended up in New York CIty in time for the Harlem Rennisance.  She would go on to do so much more including studying anthropology with Franz Boas at Columbia Univeristy.  It is said that she “took a scientific approach to ethnicity.”

Zora Hurston:          https://www.zoranealehurston.com/

Black’s Folk Tradition and literature:  https://theconversation.com/how-african-american-folklore-saved-the-cultural-memory-and-history-of-slaves-98427

Harlem Renaissance:   https://www.nga.gov/education/teachers/lessons-activities/uncovering-america/harlem-renaissance.html

Eatonville:            

https://www.zoranealehurston.com/

Franz Boas at Columbia University    https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/genius-work-how-franz-boas-created-field-cultural-anthropology

Virtual Harlem:  https://scalar.usc.edu/works/harlem-renaissance/index

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/11/mysterious-tectonic-fault-zone-found-off-california-using-fiber-optics/?

See inside one of London’s coolest afternoon teas | Condé Nast Traveller

The Mauritshuis

Immediately behind tje Binnenhof   https://www.holland.com/global/tourism/destinations/the-hague/het-binnenhof.htm

is the Mauritshurs, overlooking a small lake.  This was built between 1633 and 1644 for Count Johann Marits von Nassau  who was governor of Brazil.   https://www.wikiwand.com/en/House_of_Nassau

It was built in strict classical style with pilasters and a triangular gable that emphasises the verticality of the facade.

Architecture of the Baroque Period

One of the most beautiful museums n the Hague, it now houses the remarkable Royal Painting Collections.  The lavishly restored rooms provide the perfect setting for these old Dutch masters ranging from the 17th to the 19th century.  The collection includes Rembrant, Jan Vermeer, Rubens, Jacob Ruisdael, Brurghed and Rogier van der Weyden

Castles and Palaces of Europe

Ulrike Schober

The 10 Most Important Old Masters in Dutch Painting

Slide down The Shard at 100 miles per-hour

360 VR Tour | Prague | Madame Tussauds

MANHATTAN | NEW YORK CITY – NY , UNITED STATES – A TRAVEL TOUR – UHD 4K

Heirloom Recipes That Take You Back

Key West Wedding
​on the Water 
Chapel on the Sea For 2 Package 

$ 722 *

https://www.conchconciergeweddings.com/chapel-on-the-sea-595.html

If you’re cattle ranching in Florida, you’ll be dealing with alligators.

Catalina State Park, Az.

https://azstateparks.com/catalina/

The Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty Hardcover – December 13, 2016

Get the wiggles out with a dance party.

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/videos/book-club/?

Plan of Hetty Pegler’s Tump

The narrow entrance forecourt and large lintel.

Chapel at Newstead Abbey

JERRY CAN COCKTAIL BAR

https://www.thethreedrinkers.com/magazine-content/jerry-can-cocktail-bar?

Well of Hope 

Thrift store

The objective accomplished by the Well of Hope Foundation is to undertake actions in order to provide access to drinking water for people living in developing countries, including also through the construction or improvement of the melioration and water supply system as well as the construction of wells.

The Foundation accomplishes its objectives through:

• arranging funds which will be designated for the construction and improvement of the melioration and water supply system as well as the construction of wells in developing countries;
• monitoring the performance of the Project implemented with the use of the Foundation’s funds;
• undertaking actions which support the development of local communities, self-governing societies, non-governmental organizations and other institutions;
• ” cooperating with other institutions, organisations and persons in order to accomplish its objectives.

23 productive things you can do during lockdown

Make the most of your free time

https://www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/health-and-fitness/2020040387411/productive-things-to-do-during-lockdown/

TINTAGEL CASTLE: HISTORY AND LEGEND

Built half on the mainland and half on a jagged headland projecting into the Cornish sea, Tintagel Castle is one of the most spectacular historic sites in Britain. Its association with King Arthur makes it also one of the most famous.

But the history of this enigmatic place stretches back centuries before the first tales of the legendary king shrouded it in the mists of romance. Find out more about Tintagel’s history and legends below.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/tintagel-castle/history-and-legend/

Dime Box, Texas  (population 250)

http://www.texasescapes.com/CentralTexasTownsSouth/DimeBoxTexas/DimeBoxTx.htm

Originally Brown Mill after the local grstmill

https://tshasecurepay.com/land-rush/town/2054/Brown-s-Mill/

The US post office requested the name change because it thought “Brown Mill” would be confused with “Brownsville”.

A resident came up with the current name because it was apparently a custom to leave a dime in a box for people who carried the mail from Giddings.

The town was moved from the old mill site to be near Hwy 21, only to move again to be near the railroad when it was built.   (there’s also an Old Dime Box where some stayed by the highway).

The town has a museum

The Dime Box Heritage Museum

https://texasbrazostrail.com/plan-your-adventure/historic-sites-and-cities/sites/dime-box-heritage-museum

with displays items donated  including German and Czech items– including a minature Czech First Communion book.

All professional sports welcome to come play in Florida, governor says

https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-pro-sports-coronavirus/32464266?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=All%20professional%20sports%20welcome%20to%20come%20play%20in%20Florida%2C%20governor%20says&utm_term=wesh_news_local_breaking

Aztec Sacrifice:  https://www.history.com/news/aztec-human-sacrifice-religion

What happened to bodies of sacrificial victims?

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/ask-us/what-happened-to-the-sacrificed-persons-body

Virtual Orlando Fringe 2020 schedule: May 13-19 

The show must (not) go on (in a packed theater)!

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/orlando/virtual-orlando-fringe-2020-schedule-may-13-19/Content?

Go to this site for schedules and how to access

Tintagel Castle & Camelot Castle Cornwall From The Air

Featured Movie Quote

is from

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4555426/

https://www.amazon.com/Darkest-Hour-Gary-Oldman/dp/B078952HSB

In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

This is a great movie of overcoming in an impossible senerio and showed me why my dad—a veteran of WWII and the envasion and liberation of Europe (he was with Patton’s 3rd)—had so much respect for the British People and Churchill.

If you haven’t seen it—try it—or if you have see it again, it might just give you the lift in mood we could all use— like then–almost the entire world is fighting a common enemy—Hang in there we can do this.

Zinc is a metal that often gets overlooked when it comes to healthy diets, but it is just as important as other minerals. Zinc helps in some very important functions such as supporting the immune system against viruses and bacteria. It also helps with our senses of smell and taste and helps with the healing of wounds.   For foods high in zinc go here:  https://10faq.com/health/zinc/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw2PP1BRCiARIsAEqv-pR-Je8Z3dco3xwcjd1WAsxvAOIxobKFxGu2DZYzAP6Vb-6JVhpE6nEaAnCYEALw_wcB

So while we’re already in England—lets check out a palace of much report—Hampton Court was built for Cardinal Wolsey—a butcher’s son who went from nothing to the church and managed to eventually be the most powerful  church official in the country answering only to the King of England—unfortunately for him that king was Henry—of 8th fame and when you  failed to produce for Henry you lost a lot and while Wolsey did not die by the king’s hand—he lost all he had and his possessions and was on his way to answer for his shortcomings before the King’s court when he became ill and resided in a city were another famous victim of the Tudors rested.

He finally did realiize his error—or maybe it was just regret when he realized his fate because of the path he chose when he uttered:

“If I had served my God as diligently as I have done the King, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.”

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who died at Leicester Abbey on 29 November 1530. interestingly enough Richard III (killed by Henry VIII’s father) died near Leicester in a battle that gave the Tudors the crown, was and his body was lost due to the destructions of the monestaries by Henry VIII:  check this site for some interesting items on Wolsey’s loss.  One death gave the Tudor’s the dynasty and the other one of their most (in my mind) impressive castle.]

The Death of Cardinal Wolsey

Searches have been done off and on since 1922 to find the man’s remains but to date all they’ve come up with is a King whose reputation has improve since the discovery.

More on the search and the man:  https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/leicester-abbey-and-the-missing-remains-of-cardinal-wolsey-right-hand-man-to-henry-viii

Death and Burial of Cardinal Wolsey

Richard III, who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485,  He was originally interred at the church of the Greyfriars, a 13th-Century monastic friary at Liecester (or what may have been the outskirts of the town at that time.

for more on Richard III:  https://www.cnn.com/2015/03/22/europe/richard-iii-burial-5-things/index.html

Stress:  is a chronic condition that many of us know too well.  This constant overdose of fight and flight leads to nothing but sleepless nights and ill health.  Rest and relaxation are the best cures for stress and stress related problems, but ironically stress can actually prevent restorative sleep.  ANd with loads of stress it’s hard for our bodies to decompress within the hours of sleep alone.  So try to set aside some time during your waking hours to just sort of veg out.  The key will be to try and quiet your mind and body until they both feel rejuvenated enought to handle another round of whatever it is that you feel is important enought to put them through.

The SLeeper

Mark Johnson

Let us prize

Writers who made books and records

Of noble deeds and fine words

That we have of barons and lords

In olden days

Romance of Rollo, Prologue

Wace

The Friendliest Cities in the World

https://www.thediscoverer.com/blog/the-friendliest-cities-in-the-world/?

 

Here’s Where to Buy Face Masks for Kids Online

https://www.glamour.com/story/where-to-buy-kids-face-masks?

The Knights Templar in the New World: How Henry Sinclair Brought the Grail to Acadia

The movie for today is the Doors

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101761/

The real Jim:

With Val Kilmer as Jim—this movie is my favorite by Kilmer—-as I told you a million times before I saw them live in Chicago:

Here’s the ticket—the pin was from the next year—also in November

Moretorium

I took part in the night march and took part in the singing—and a daytime march on Sat as well.  We drove over night from Michigan—2 guys and 3 ladies  and we stayed at a friend of one of those people we went with—-it was a time like no other wild and crazy and we had a cause—something I fear so many have lost — in the day of just being and never leaving the computer age.

As for the movie It was and is one of my favorites—-Morrison was totally self destructive, but in an age of craziness that we were living in I guess this was more the norm than we really realised at the time.

Vietnam War

Val doing JIM

How To Build the Ultimate Backyard Movie Theater

https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/a32382000/build-a-backyard-movie-screen/?

DIscover York’s Vikings while hiding out at home

The Vikings

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Treknow Location within Cornwall

This hamlet is in the Parish of Tintagel and has been aound sincce the 16th c originally as a place for the quarry workers to stay.

https://books.google.com/books?id=ssNMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA207&lpg=RA1-PA207&dq=Cornwall%27s+quarries+and+worker+in+the+16th+century+and+later&source=bl&ots=5UomXU54V2&sig=ACfU3U0wgbp40ps4wkCfgLQbnKRBdtjA4w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaxpODoKzpAhXOhOAKHSXjBnEQ6AEwDHoECA8QAQ#v=onepage&q=Cornwall’s%20quarries%20and%20worker%20in%20the%2016th%20century%20and%20later&f=false

You can still see some quarry ruins along the coast line.

The area also had a small copper mine here in the late 18th c.

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/best-ruins-forgotten-places-cornwall-1342002

This is also the home of the

Atlantic View Hotel

A Lovely Victorian House Hotel on the Stunning North Cornwall Coast

http://www.atlanticviewhoteltintagel.co.uk/

Set 300 yds from the clift top  and the Heart of King Arthur country.

In additon to 9 rooms, indoor heated swimming pool and free Wi-Fi they have a restaurant,  and a licensed bar.

Virtual tour of Treknow

Chang and Eng

http://www.theoldkingshead.uk.com/

Near London Bridge

Southwark | Hidden London

Southwark

White Hart

The current White Hart is on Southwark St.

https://www.whitehartsouthwark.co.uk/?

But the original one was located between #59 and 63 on this street

The White Hart, Southwark

An inn at the sign of the “White Hart” was established in the medieval period on Borough High Street in Southwark. It is mentioned by William Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part 2 as the headquarters of the rebels in Jack Cade‘s 1450 Kentish rebellion. Louis L’Amour mentions the Southwark White Hart in “Sackett’s Land”, an historical fiction taking place circa 1600. It became one of the many famous coaching inns in the days of Charles Dickens, and it was here that Sam Weller met Mr. Pickwick in the famous scene from The Pickwick Papers, chapter 10.^[24] The Inn was pulled down in the 19th century. It was next door to The George Inn and near the site of The Tabard.

Also in Southwark, but approximately 0.5 km to the west, the White Hart at 22 Great Suffolk Street was built in 1882. It survived redevelopment of the surrounding area and is now the only Victorian public house on that street.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hart

Virtual Walking Tour around Southwark

https://www.google.com/search?q=virtual+tours+southwark&rlz=1CASICM_enUS852&oq=virtual+tours+southwark&aqs=chrome..69i57.5148j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Even mid-winter, the spacious courtyard attracts a few hardy drinkers.

The George

https://www.greeneking-pubs.co.uk/pubs/greater-london/george-southwark/

immortalized in Little Dorrit

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jan/01/classics.charlesdickens

It is the last of London’s galleried coaching inns

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/george-inn

We visited here and even had lunch on a day adventure on our own in Southwark

4 pubs that Shakespeare actually drank in that you can, too!

https://londonist.com/pubs/pubs/pubs/the-george-inn

The Talbot around 1850, just before it fell into decline.

Talbot Inn

https://historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/education/educational-images/the-talbot-inn-southwark-london-3666

On the site of Talbot Yard  

https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/postcode/se11xt

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/The-Tabard-Inn-Southwark/

Here stood the Inn.  and it was from here

that Chaucer‘s

https://www.biography.com/writer/geoffrey-chaucer

pilgrims set out along the Old Kent Road

https://londonist.com/london/history/old-kent-road

which followed the course of Watling Street 

Watling Street – A Roman Road through the heart of Britain

that eventually went thru Canterbury

https://spartacus-educational.com/NORpilgrimCanturbury.htm

and on to Dover

https://www.worldwalks.com/holidays/england/pilgrim-routes/the-pilgrim-route-to-canterbury/

The Secret that Enabled Roman Roads to Withstand the Passage of Time

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/built-last-craftsmanship-enabled-roman-roads-withstand-passage-time-007523

SeaWorld Orlando Virtual Tour

https://www.visitorlando.com/en/things-to-do/virtual-tours/seaworld-orlando

1800, historic New River Gorge landmark for sale

https://wvexplorer.com/2020/05/11/new-river-gorge-west-virginia-landmark-sale-wv/

Setting south of the Thames in Greenwich another of those unusla sites that London if so full of. is the Cutty Sark (the name if from some Scottish name for “short nightshirt” and the first figurehead was Nannie , all of which comes from a Robert Burns_–built in 1869 in Scotland the Cutty Sark is one of the last Tea Clippers launched she stand in London the only one to still exists.  Being built as late as she was her tea shipping days were number with the introduction of the steamship and the opening of the Suez Canal the same week she was launched.  But her services were still utilized and she hauled all manner of items including coal and wool.  It is now a museum

Visiting The Cutty Sark

https://www.rmg.co.uk/cutty-sark

To find out about the complete ship’s

history: 

https://www.rmg.co.uk/cutty-sark

The Tea Trade:  

https://www.lib.umn.edu/bell/tradeproducts/teaA full history:

and check out what else there is do do in Greenwich

https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/greenwich-area-guide

Boldt Castle New York

Welcome

LiVING IN FLORIDA IS NEVER NORMAL

The Torreya Tree

On thr banks of the Apalachiocola River therr are tres which grow in no other part of the world.  These rare botanical specis called thr Florifa Torreya, exist naturally in a range of only about w0 square miles of North Florida  This curious  tree, sometimes called the “gopherwood,” or “stinking cedar.” is scientifically known as Torreya Taxiolia.  It is a member of the the conifer group and resembles a yew tree.  The Torreya reahes a height of fifty feet, and has a trunk diameter of about 12″.  It can be recognized by its shiny, dark green needles, whih are about an inch and a half long.  While the tree would be expected to produce a seed cone, like other conifers, its fruit looks like a green plum.  The fruit is fleshy and yields a milky sap that. when dry is sticky like glue.  Though it is an attractive tree, it does give off a rather disagreeable odor, thus the name “stinking cedar.”

Strange Flrorida:  The Unexplained and Unusual

Charlie Carlson

The Beaches of Cocoa Beach Florida Aerial Tour Video

How to make a non-medical coronavirus face mask – no sewing required

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/11/make-non-medical-coronavirus-face-mask-no-sewing-required

Ad is from 2017 Rendevous the last  year I visited the area.

Rendezvous in Mackinaw

Wollerton Hall

https://www.wollertonoldhallgarden.com/

On the western outskirts of Nottingham

An  Elizabethan Hall

https://www.tripsavvy.com/flamboyant-elizabethan-manors-of-england-1661661

Buil by Sir Francis Willoughly in the 1580’s

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/collectionsindepth/family/middleton/biographies/biographyofsirfranciswilloughby(1546-1596).aspx

(but much contributed by Robert Smythson)

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/architecture-biographies/robert-smythson

House is now a Natural History Museum

https://www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/things-to-do/natural-history-museum-at-wollaton-hall-p684441

Lockdown catnip? Original film of Cats to be streamed online

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/may/11/lockdown-catnip-original-film-of-cats-to-be-streamed-online

What to eat to reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s disease

https://www.hometalk.com/44293440/how-to-make-a-curved-mask-pattern-without-a-printer

I spent college in a Very Conservative Religious school who while they did not believe in violence support the goverment and during this period Viet Nam was driving us all mad–this was in regard to them catching one of the editors —this was in reply to the adminstrations annoucnment that all that stuff was through.

Test your knowledge on natural disasters

https://www.britannica.com/quiz/natural-disasters-fact-or-fiction

 

 Talk about comfort food–75 classic Irish pub dishes including

Shepherd’s Pie, Corned Beef and Cabbage, Potato and Leek Soup and Irish Soda Bread……

https://www.abebooks.com/Irish-Pub-Cooking-Publications-International-Ltd/30580360202/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade-_-used-_-naa&gclid=Cj0KCQjwhtT1BRCiARIsAGlY51LjThIR5K3ZXWq9QcoL0R24OdPrdSOsRQ3T5Hvp41CQFQSHRod4X2waAoZWEALw_wcB

6 U.S. Cities With Bizarre Nicknames

https://www.traveltrivia.com/us-cities-bizarre-nicknames/XqgZkXU1XQAGkiMa

 

£8

The VIRTUAL Rock’n’Roll London Walk With LIVE Music + Prize Pub Quiz!

 

MULTIPLE DATES

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-virtual-rocknroll-london-walk-with-live-music-prize-pub-quiz-tickets-102661808232

The VIRTUAL Rock’n’Roll London Walk With LIVE Music + Prize Pub Quiz!

by London Music Tours

Virtual Music Tour of London

https://www.visit-hampshire.co.uk/ideas-and-inspiration/blog/read/2020/04/its-visit-virtual-hampshire-now-b92

FREE

4232 Clover Rd.

Since 2005.

Learn about wine making, old fashion hospitality and handcrafted wine by the glass or bottle.

Tasting room & Gift shop.

University classes in wine—professional certificate in wine—check out the video describing courses, cost etc.

Professional Certificate in the Business of Wine at San Diego State University

https://ces.sdsu.edu/hospitality/professional-certificate-business-wine?

Want to buy a castle?  Here’s your chance

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/scottish-castle-sale-less-price-21984899?

How To Uncover Your Past Lives 

https://www.amazon.com/Uncover-Your-Past-Lives-Book-ebook/dp/B006J8X860

Explore how knowledge of past lives can help you gain clear insight into problems in your present life.  Learn to break destructive patterns of the past.  Find your soul mate.  Further your Karmic growth.

60 Virtual Tours To Travel The World During The Coronavirus Pandemic

https://www.nomadandinlove.com/virtual-tours-for-travel/

Movie Quote today from Tombstone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilFlN7yzwqk

one of my two favorite movies by Val Kilmer

A telling of Wyatt and Doc Holiday and how they dealt with an Arizona

town and the Cowboys who owned it…..any resemblence to real history is probably purely accidential

Tombstone:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tombstone-117086409/

Doc Holiday—-see the full episode on 3rd Youtube  right after the brothels below

Wyatt Earp     https://www.biography.com/law-figure/wyatt-earp

Cowboys   https://www.legendsofamerica.com/clanton-gang/

a little extra–not that Tombstone would have had any of these.

watch Doc Holiday’s biography

Interactive Tour of Ellis Island

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/index.htm

Photo added by rjschatz

Hamilton Disston

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11702785/hamilton-disston

Location:  in the parking lot on the north side of 9th St, between Mass. andd New York Aves and then across the street.

St. Cloud, Fl.

https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/cities/st-cloud.html

In 1884 the land where the city now sets was cypress swamp which were after much discussion were drained in the early 1880s. by Hamilton Disston.  Eventually the Sugar Belt Railroad was constructed from Kissimmee, on land that was just seven feet above sea level.  Disston did a secon dredged from Cross Prairie to East Lake Tohopekaliga and the water went down 8 feet.

Sam L. Lupfer, Sr (Penns) started a sugar plantation eventually bought by Drisston.  It used French and Italian workers from Louisana as well as other laborers

 Captain Rufus F. Rose built and operated Disston’s sugar mill.  Legend says that he ask a goup of guests for a suggestion for the plantation and that Prof Bridges (Principle Kissimmee High School) made the suggestion but after that it is a debate over where he took the name St. Cloud from.

At Age 36 Disston was America’s largest land owner until the Panic of 1893—when he in a series of reversals etc, lost everything and $2,000,000 in mortage bonds sold by th Disston Company in 1894 wer defaulted in 1895.  In 1896 he sat in his bathtub and put a bullet through his head.   The sugar mill prospered for awhile but finally failed in 1901.

The general store became Geriatrics Manor, a nursing home this two story frame commissary and some brick foundations and granite slabs are all that remains of the mill and plantation.

Cypruss swamp:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7sh8y226bw

Sugar Belt Railroad:    https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMRP97_Sugar_Belt_Railway_VFW_Post

Kissimmee:  https://www.experiencekissimmee.com/things-to-do

Sam Senior’s grandson a look at a  developer’s desendents in central Fl.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/orlandosentinel/obituary.aspx?n=samuel-l-lupfer-sam&pid=15807494

Sugar in America:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/sugar-slave-trade-slavery.html

 Captain Rufus F. Rose

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1995-07-23-9507130324-story.html

Windsor Castle:  The Queens Ballroom:  

The silver furniture, along the window side, is a very rare survival of 17th c royal taste.  The portraits by Van Dyck include Charles I’s children

Windsor Castle:  Official Guide

If COVID-19 Is Messing With Your Sleep Routine, Here’s How to Get It Back on Track

https://www.allure.com/story/covid-19-sleep-routine-tips-dreams?

Another of my photographs on our wanderings of the Royal Mile—we did ocassionally wander into the rest of the city—but the Old Town won my heart and devotion early on and so this is were most of my sojourns occurred.

Here’s the Pub’s Web site to see what they have going on—or would if this was the real world:  https://www.ensignewartpub.co.uk/

Some pictures:  https://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotoDirectLink-g186525-d1865939-i156023091-The_Ensign_Ewart-Edinburgh_Scotland.html

The story behind Edinburgh and the Lothian’s oldest pub names

https://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/drink/the-story-behind-edinburgh-and-the-lothians-oldest-pub-names/

Live Virtual Cooking Class with a Professional Chef

Charge $22.20

https://www.getyourguide.com/paris-l16/live-virtual-cooking-class-with-a-professional-chef-t385539/

25 Most Amazing Ancient Ruins of the World

National Portrait Gallery 

London England

St Martin’s Place

Charing Cross Tube Station

It has over 4,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures by renowned artists (Gainsborought, Holbein, Reynolds, Van Dyck, Watts and others) of the eminent men and women who have shaped British history.  Portraits are added only ten years after the death of the subject, except in rare cases, such as royalty.  A controversal painting of Elizabeth II is to be seen here.

London Round the Clock

1981-82

Take a virtual tour-—there are multiple choices including

Time periods

Themes

Recent Acquistians

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/tours

Millions of animals legally enter the U.S. each year—without being screened for diseases

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/05/to-prevent-next-pandemic-focus-on-legal-wildlife-trade/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_20200508&rid=C8AD26EEFCCCB250AB1802F10A013FCC

NORTHERN IRELAND 
CASTLE WARD

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/castle-ward/features/game-of-thrones-at-castle-ward

The 12 Most Brilliant Uses People Came up With for Shower Curtains

https://www.hometalk.com/15916155/s-the-12-most-brilliant-uses-people-came-up-with-for-shower-curtains

Tuffy’s Bottle Shop and Lounge

https://www.facebook.com/tuffyscider/

200 Myrtle Ave

Sanford

Sanford’s first cidery.

complete with cornhole boards, a bocce ball course and a custom water feature focal point.

extra seating in a pontoon boat and trailer.  Full bar as well.

New closest-known black hole lies in a visible star system

https://earthsky.org/space/closest-black-hole-hr-6819-eso-telescopium?

Continuing north to the top of Blackfriars Lane is the junction with Ludgate Broadway and Carter Lane, where a blue plaque on the wall to the right marks generally the Site of the Priory of the Blackfriars founded in 1278′, but unspecifically the site of its main gatehouse which stood here.  Carer Lane was once the main east to west thoroughfare when the original cathedral Church of St. Paul’s was enclosed in its own wall.  The name of the lane derives from two Carter Brothers shown as taxpayers in Caastle Baynard Ward in 1319.  A few yards along to the right is Carter Court, a narrow passage leading to a tiny enclave of modern offices built in the Georgian style.  The passage itself is lined in a thick layer of lime wash.  However, this is wattle and daub and the wooden planks hammered in with crude iron nails are sole survivors from the 16th c.  Indeed this is reputed to be the only built structure between the Monument and the Temple to have survived the Great Fire of 1666.

Blackfriars Lane:  https://www.historytoday.com/archive/blackfriars-london

Ludgate:  https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol1/pp220-233

Carter Lane     https://thestreetnames.com/tag/carter-lane/

Black Priory  https://lostcityoflondon.co.uk/tag/blackfriars-priory/

The Blackfriars and the Greyfriars Monasteries in London

Old St. Paul’s Cathedral:  https://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/old-st-pauls-cathedral-london/

Castle Baynard Ward    https://www.walks.com/our-walks/castle-baynard-pub-walk/

Carter Court   https://books.google.com/books?id=wdWPjcchyJgC&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=carter+court+history+london&source=bl&ots=TZVxbqri-D&sig=ACfU3U2Cd7CJF9UlgviBP6vog_D5Vq7s9w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjRyKfugKfpAhWJg-AKHZbVB6wQ6AEwB3oECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=carter%20court%20history%20london&f=false

Georgian Style  https://londontopia.net/culture/architecture/top-ten-georgian-buildings-in-london/

Waddle and daub      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub

And the area on Carter Court mentioned   :

The Momument           https://www.themonument.org.uk/

the Temple     https://www.aladyinlondon.com/2019/04/temple-london.html

Great Fire of 1666         https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/great-fire-london-1666

Turn your leftover pickle jars into these beautiful outdoor luminaries

https://www.hometalk.com/tv/decorate/44290484/outdoor-jar-luminaries

Horse Country Virtual Tours

Multiple choices and things to see in Kentucky

Virtual Tours

Alfred Hitchcock

Walking tour for the whole family of St. Augustine

https://www.floridashistoriccoast.com/blog/virtual-trips-for-the-family/

Hurricane season is expected to be worse than normal

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/hurricane-season-expected-be-worse-normal-n1203246?cid=eml_nbn_20200509

 Key West police Corporal Pedro Corpion mad a name for himself in the late 1970s and early ’80s as an intelligent and educated officer–with occasional lapses of common sense.  Legend has it that he once ran a red light in his patrol car, stopped to write himself a ticket, and then asked for a court hearing.  The judge supposedly told him he should have let himself off with a warning.

Terry Schmida’s

True Crime:  Stories of Key West and the Florida Keys

A Guide to Drinking in Key West (The Duval Crawl)

Power, Myth and Memory in Africana Art Virtual Tour

Bailey Jack

https://www.jtfolkart.com/bailey-jack

And don’t forget to check out the retail shop

https://www.jtfolkart.com/retailshop

Have your kids discover their inner wild cat.

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/games/personality-quizzes/which-wild-cat/?

WATCH: The New Trailer for HBO’s Lovecraft Country

And if you are not aquainted with Lovecraft—he makes King’s books which I enjoy—seem so non-scary—-I can read King’s books at any time but will not read Lovecraft’s after dark or when I’m alone in the house etc.

   https://the-line-up.com/lovecraft-country-trailer?

London in 360 degrees

About Us

If all this hadn’t happened we would have been wandering thru this amazing and ancient Minster in the heart of York—of all the cities of England and Britain, I fond this one with the many more reminders of its history than the rest.  We were scheduled to explore York on May 11th—it looks more and more now that we will have to wait for next year..

Suitcase Garden

https://www.hometalk.com/38031884/suitcase-garden

Don’t know if I’ve ever stayed here—we stayed so many places in Key West

it was our favorite destination for a long weekend or a few weeks.

http://www.elpatiomotel.com/

and something from London

Windingo

The WIndigo can infect human, and therein lies the unique power suggested in the double meaning of its name.  The root word is Algonkian for both “evil spirit” and “cannibal,” so Windigo describes both a demon and a way of acting like one.  Any person possessed by this cannibal spirt has literally become a Winidgo and is probably incurable.  Some people choose this transformation, others happen upon it.  The latter ases are caused by being bitten, by dreaming of the WIndigo, or by being involuntarily transformed by a malevolent sorcerer.

A field Guide to Demons

Carol K. Mack and Dinah Mack

For Further reading:

https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/be-wary-wendigo-terrifying-beast-native-american-legend-insatiable-hunger

The emaciated spirit preys upon minds in sleep. It finds the savage hunger within its host. It incubates in that red space. The craving curse. The greed virus. Transmitted down the generations. Every morning, the victim wakes up hungrier, more covetous. Those they hate, they want to devour out of spite. Those they love, they want to devour out of lust — to become a locket containing a gory cameo. “After all,” whispers the spirit, “Someone in your belly can never leave you.” The first mouthful of fellow flesh transforms the soul-sick wretch forever. More sickness than species, their accursed metabolism is a torture: however much they consume, they can never be sated. The black hole can only widen. It is a cycle of feast, famine, and fury. The cycle stretches the beast’s unnaturally long lifespan…

Meet The Wendigo, The Cannibalistic Beast Of Native American Folklore

THE BEST DRINKS WITH CURRY

https://www.thethreedrinkers.com/magazine-content/the-best-drinks-with-curry?

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/george-harrison-slept-here/Content?oid=905555

and it is closed but still an interesting bit of travel memories–in more ways than one:

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/3005

Can COVID-19 (coronavirus) spread through food, water, surfaces and pets?  From Mayo Clinic

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/expeanswers/can-coronavirus-spread-food-water/faq-20485479?

For all my Outlander Friends and fellow obcessed:

Castle Fraser

https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/castle-fraser

Help Atlas Obscura Explore the British Museum’s Newly Digital Collection

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/british-museum-quarantine-collection

Outlander: Now Is the Perfect Time to Catch Up On the Time-Traveling Romance

https://www.cbr.com/outlander-perfect-time-catch-up-time-traveling-romance/

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Suburbia-Complete-Collection-Caroline/dp/B00KCA32XK