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Sep 21, 2021
Celtic festival of Beltane heats up in Scotland
Beltane — Now May Day
This is the 3rd (of the agricultural year) festival of the Celts
What today we call May Day was then Beltane (Batunn in Scotland)
which was celebratwd Apil 30 – May 1.
It involvs the death and rebirth of Bel (also Cernunnos if you’re Irish) who is then reborn. as the goddess’s son and then impregnates her and the cycle continue foreverr
Traditional activities for the holiday included picking flowers in the woods and speding the night there.
Dancing around the May Pole with red and white streamers: Red for god and white for goddess.
Of course there’s a great bonfire (in Ireland the high king lit the fire on Tara and then the rest of the country followed suite). Most of that was in the evening and night before—then when light retuned in Scotland the village would lad the cattle out and about.
Ancient Ireland Beltane Festival Tour
Green and prosperous, North London’s inner suburbs are some of London’s older outlying communities. Hampstead and Highgate were pleasant country retreats for centuries before urban sprawl engalfed them and still retains their disdistinctive village atmosphere. Hampstead is the busier andd more urbane, with a long line of intellectual associations from William Hogarth and John Keats to Sigmund Freud–while the most famous site in these parts is the unremarkable pedestrian crossing Abbey Rd
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We’re returning to Longwood again today to look at it’s history thru the houses and streets—something that we’ve don before and as we discussed you can do in your own—or in other towns/cities you’re interested in.
Today we’ll look at W. Bay Street with a side step or so
241 Bay Street: Mis Dolly House (picture at the top f thi article.)
Built around 1920. Nameed after a retired woman who livd her in the 1920’s and 30’s. If you will look at the picture you will see that the porch has been enclosed—other than that the stucco-on-wood frame house retains its original bungalow charactristics complete with taperedd wood poch columns and a gabld roof.
EVENTS
Head west on West Bay Street
Continuation Sheet
Return to Bay Ave
Turn right on Bay—heading East
The LeRue House
133 Bay
This house is shaped like a “T”. Built in 1885 By staircase builder and blacksmith J.S. LeRue, When the LeRue’s left , it was subdivided and turned into apartments and served as a boarding house for many years.
Saturday October 30, 2021
in Historic Downtown Longwood
Slade House
117 W. Bay Ave
Built in 1885 but there are no availble records of the early occupants. It was purchasd in the 1920’s by Frederick Slade, who was J. Henry Menich’s partner in the manufacturing business. The local airport, which operated till the 1960’s off 434 on the west side of town, was named after Slade.
In 1970 the house was bought by Grace and Roberta Belford who did some restoration and conservation on the house.
The house which due to additions and changes since thier ownership, little resembles its original apperance and is currently covered with alummin siding.
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St Giles Cathedral – Edinburgh
St. Giles has been a place of woship since the year 854 AD. In common with most ecclesiastical buildings of this sxale, th finished product reprsents an amalgam of architectural styles embracing a lenghty period of time. The four central pillars go back to 1120, while the Albany AIsle dates from around 1409. The Thistle Chapel is a 20th c creation. St. Giles is best explored on a suny afternoon as the cool light of the north filters through the breath taking west windows.
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Corner of Petronia and Thomas
Bahamian and American meals served in indoor or outdoor settings with jungle foilage—-with free ranging chickens and even a chicken’s burial ground along the edges of outside setting ara. This is my favorite place for breakfast in Key West..
The building here use to have been a brothel—and the door upstairs have peek holes that the madame could open to see how much longer the current customer was going to last.
It also use to provide those chickens in the back for fighting with each other while the patrons bet on them.
And if that wasn’t enough entertainment for you well we got more—they had boxing matches also in the area where you eat outside now. They would put up a boxing ring and they had some pretty famous boxes—OK only one but you may have heard about him—-Ernest Hemingway who enjoy all manner of mucho activity during his time lived in Key West. When I use to go there Shine, one of the men who used to spare with Hemingway was still living there—he is no longer linving anywhere I am sorry to say—but people would get his autograph and the like—only in Key West I guess.
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900 Catherine St.
We walked here one night….I had heard how good the restaurant was and decided to go and on the small island of Key West we never moved the vehicle unless we were leaving the island all together. It was worth the walk
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400 Front Street
Raw bar and restaurant with daily specials.
Open to 11 pm nightly.
I wasn’t expecting the food to be good given that this is such a famous party bar—but it was…..try it you’ll like it.
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700 Wadell on the Atlantic Ocean
Ranked amoung South Florida’s best restaurants. Serves international cuisine inside or outdoors overlooking the ocean. Cocktails on th Afterdeeck Bar.
Open 11:30 am to 2 am.
I brought my hubbie here fo a birthday treat…..the food was excellent and its a high end of Key West offering—so romantic setting on the terrace overlooking the sea.
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all three of my picture are some where about the UK.
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