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Spring green fattoush
Nutrition and extra info
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal264
- fat15g
- saturates5g
- carbs22g
- sugars4g
- fibre7g
- protein13g
- salt1.12g
- 500g broad beans, frozen or fresh
Broad beanbraw-d be-en
A member of the legume family, broad beans are pretty hardy and adaptable - they grow in most…
- 1 cucumber
- 3 wholemeal pitta breads
- zest and juice 1 lemon
Oval in shape, with a pronouced bulge on one end, lemons are one of the most versatile fruits…
- 4 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 20g bunch mint, smaller leaves picked, rest very roughly chopped
There are several types of mint, each with its own subtle difference in flavour and appearance.…
- 20g bunch flat-leaf parsley, very roughly chopped
- small bunch chives, snipped
- 170g feta cheese, crumbled
First get all the ingredients ready. Bring a pan of water to the boil, add the beans and boil for 2-3 mins until just tender. Drain, rinse with cold water to cool, then drain again. Pod the beans from their skins into a large mixing bowl, discard the skins. Halve cucumber lengthways, scrap out the seeds using a teaspoon, then slice into half-moons and throw in with the beans. Split the pittas so you have 6 thin circles of bread, then toast.
Whisk together lemon zest, juice, olive oil and sugar with plenty of seasoning. Pour over the beans and cucumber, add all the herbs and toss together. Tear the toasted pitta into pieces and add this to the salad with the crumbled feta. Toss together very gently – hands are best – then pile onto a platter to serve.


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Governor Executive Order RP 49
Each state agency shall develop a plan for conserving energy and shall set a percentage goal for reducing the usage of electricity, gasoline and natural gas.
Tarleton Goals for 2017
- Energy Usage - MMBTU / NASF - Reduction of 2.0% (As compared to 2016)
- Gasoline Fleet Fuel Usage - GALLONS - Increase of 2.0% in MPG(As compared to 2016)
How you can help!
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- Turn off lights in offices and classrooms when not in use.
- Turn off computer monitor when leaving the office or classroom, and turn off computers, monitors, and printers overnight and on weekends.
- Turn off copy machines overnight and on weekends.
- Report any parking lot or other outside lights that are on during daylight hours to the Control Center at ext. # 9265.
- Use stairs when possible, rather than elevators.
- Limit the use of office lights to those needed for work, and not for looks.
- Limit the use of refrigerators in offices and allow areas to share refrigerators.
- Report dripping and leaking faucets, showers, urinals or toilets to the Control Center at ext. # 9265.


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Assuming that there is memory to spare, caching all, or part of Firefox's profile to RAM using tmpfs offers significant advantages. Even though opting for the partial route is an improvement by itself, the latter can make Firefox even more responsive compared to its stock configuration. Benefits include, among others:
- reduced disk read/writes (ideal for SSD)
- heightened responsive feel
- many operations within Firefox, such as quick search and history queries, are nearly instantaneous
Both of previously mentioned options make use of native shared memory; /dev/shm, a directory that behaves just as ordinary mounted file systems do, only with the notable exception that all of its content is stored in RAM.
Because data placed therein cannot survive a shutdown, a script used when moving the whole profile to RAM overcomes this limitation by syncing back to disk prior system shut down, whereas only relocating the cache is a quick, less inclusive solution.
Relocating only the cache to RAM
Adapted from this forum post
After entering Template:Codeline into the address bar, create a new string by right-clicking in the bottom half, selecting New, followed by String. Assign its value:
Now, double-click the newly created string and direct it towards the RAM directory:
Finally, create the directory and ensure its permissions have security in mind:
mkdir -m0700 /dev/shm/firefox-cache
Upon restarting Firefox, it will start using Template:Filename as the cache directory. Do mind that the directory and its contents will not be saved after a reboot using this method.
Relocating the entire profile to RAM
Before you start
Before potentially compromising Firefox's profile, be sure to make a backup for quick restoration. Replace Template:Codeline as appropriate and use Template:Codeline to make a backup:
$ tar zcvfp ~/firefox_profile_backup.tar.gz ~/.mozilla/firefox/xyz.default
The script
Adapted from verot.net's Speed up Firefox with tmpfs
The script will first move Firefox's profile to a new static location, make a sub-directory in Template:Filename, softlink to it and later populate it with the contents of the profile. As before, replace the bold sections to suit. The only value that absolutely needs to be altered is, again, Template:Codeline.
Be sure that rsync is installed and save the script to Template:Filename, for example: Template:File
Close Firefox, make the script executable and test it:
$ killall firefox firefox-bin $ chmod +x ~/bin/firefox-sync $ ~/bin/firefox-sync
Run Firefox again to gauge the results. The second time the script runs, it will then preserve the RAM profile by copying it back to disk.
From the AUR
The script is available as a package. This version automatically picks the first Template:Codeline directory in your Template:Filename (although that means you should install it with sudo, not as root).
The script also provides a firefox wrapper Template:Codeline, which runs Template:Codeline before and after Template:Codeline. This is an alternative to syncing with cron, or on login/logout (described below). Be careful with the "Restart Firefox" button within firefox, though, since this might not start the wrapper.
Seeing that forgetting to sync the profile can lead to disastrous results, automating the process seems like a logical course of action.
cron job
Manipulate the user's cron table using Template:Codeline:
$ crontab -e
Add a line to start the script every 30 minutes,
*/30 * * * * ~/bin/firefox-sync
or add the following to do so every 2 hours:
0 */2 * * * ~/bin/firefox-sync
Sync at login/logout
Deeming bash is being used, add the script to the login/logout files:
$ echo '~/bin/firefox-sync' | tee -a ~/.bash_logout ~/.bash_login >/dev/null
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From The Files Of July 6, 1989 '89 The Big Cove Post Office, which originally began operation on July 1, 1864, celebrates its 125th birthday this week. The current
post office has been in operation for around 100 years, housing both the post office and a general store. Previously, the Big Cove post office was located adjacent to the tannery near the present-day Forrest Mellott property. The post office serves 352 families, including three highway carrier routes.
Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. began work on replacing the "Little Inch" natural gas pipeline this week. The pipeline, which crosses Fulton County, will take two years to replace and when completed will stretch 238 miles.
Great Cove golfers were the big winners at the annual Dr. R.E. Riggs Memorial Open tournament at the local club on Sunday with Emmert Banzhoff winning the trophy with a 66 and Carl Paylor coming in second with a 68.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Sanders of Mercersburg on June 26; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Clark of Warfordsburg on June 27; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mickey of Chambersburg on June 27; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Morris of Warfordsburg on June 28.
Deaths: Connie B. Hoover, McConnellsburg; Thelma Trail, Hancock; James Waters, McConnellsburg; Rodney Seville, Akron, Ohio; Harold J. Swisher, Waynesboro; John Cunningham, Quincy, Ill.
Gary Duckwall Jr., Needmore, and Rose Shives, Needmore, applied for a marriage license at the local courthouse during the past week.
30 Years Ago
From The Files July 5, 1979 '79 Tish A. Henry, daughter of Trudy Henry, Fort Littleton, was crowned princess of the Hustontown Area Volunteer Fire Co. during
ceremonies last Tuesday night at the Hustontown Firemen's Carnival. Runners-up were Mary Thanos, Amy Blair and Karla Barnett.
A five-mile stretch of Interstate 70 between Hancock and Warfordsburg was closed to traffic last Thursday for almost 16 hours following an accident involving a tanker-truck carrying flammable liquid oxygen. Police said the truck skidded 250 feet along the exit ramp from westbound I-70 to Route 40, straddled a guardrail for 91 feet, hit a bridge and then careened 130 feet down an embankment, overturning on the Route 522 ramp below. William Foley Jr., Newington, Conn., driver of the truck at the time of the accident, is listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit of Washington County Hospital. A second man, Andrew Blue, Rockville, Conn., was reported in fair condition.
The annual homecoming service commemorating the 100th anniversary of the building of White Church, formerly the Associate Presbyterian Church of the Cove, at the Union Cemetery, will be held Sunday, July 8.
Marriage licenses: Scott Brant Gordon Jr., Mc- Connellsburg, and Karen Dawn Deshong, Harrisonville; Morris Benjamin Ramsey, McConnellsburg; and Patricia Lynn Hoffman, McConnellsburg; Harry Benson, Three Springs; and Linda Deshong, Harrisonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Vores, McConnellsburg, announce the marriage of their daughter, Lori Lynne, to David Lee Nicholas, son of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Ross Jr. of Peoria, Ill., on June 24 at the McConnellsburg United Methodist Church.
Engagement: Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Whiteside of Warfordsburg wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Holly Lynne, to Rodney L. Divelbliss, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Divelbliss of Crystal Spring.
Specials at the IGA: Duncan Hines layer cake mix, 69 cents; Borden's vanilla gallon, $1.99; Crisco shortening, $1.99 lb.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Marlin E. Schriever of Harrisonville on June 24; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Dale O. Humbert of Big Cove Tannery on June 24; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey E. Heckman of Doylesburg on June 24; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gracey of Mercersburg on June 25; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Brown of McConnellsburg on June 26; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Booth of Hancock on June 24.
Death: Mrs. Anna E. Taylor, Hustontown.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 17, 1969 '69 Rosalind Williams of Big Cove Tannery was crowned Fulton County Dairy Princess on Friday, July 11, at McConnellsburg firemen's
carnival by Mrs. Bernice Daniels, chairman of the local contest. Barbara Decker of Harrisonville was named first runner-up. Other contestants were Vesta Bard, Joan Beale and Mary Lou McKee, all of Warfordsburg.
William Bryan Lane, 18, member of the Forbes Road Future Farmers of America and a 1969 graduate of Forbes Road High School, on July 2 won the FFA public speaking contest at the FFA convention at the Pennsylvania State University. Bryan then travelled to upstate New York to Oswegatchie FFA Camp where, on July 10, he won the tri-state speaking contest, competing against the state winners from New York and New Jersey. On September 12, Bryan will compete against other contestants in the North Atlantic speaking contest at Springfield, Mass. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lane of Hustontown.
Four-year-old Mildred Duvall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Duvall of Three Springs, was severely injured on Friday night when she was knocked down by a riding lawn mower which her father was putting away for the night. The injured child was rushed to Fulton County Medical Center where she was given emergency treatment by Dr. McLucas. She was then transferred to Chambersburg Hospital where her condition is listed as satisfactory.
Marriage licenses: Lowell Bernard Barnhart of Needmore and Sandra Mary Harris of Warfordsburg; Emory James Covert of Orbisonia and Carol Faith Miller of Mount Union.
Melinda Wolfe and Barbara Black, students at the Forbes Road High School, recently attended a cheerleading workshop at Juniata College, Huntingdon, where they underwent extensive training in gymnastics, pompom routines, organized yells, crowd motivation and control and learned a mini-tramp cheer and 12 jumps.
Specials at the IGA: Borden's popsicles, 49 cents, 12 pk. asst.; Ivory soap, 25 cents, 4-bar pack; IGA king bread, 25 cents, 1-lb. loaf.
The advertising gimmick seldom seen in recent years - the Goodyear dirigible - was floating over this area last Friday afternoon, causing much excitement among the small fry.
On June 14, Pleasant Ridge Church of the Brethren was the scene of an impressive wedding ceremony when Miss Mary Wildena Wilkins became the bride of Gary Eugene Truax. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Wilkins of Crystal Spring and Rev. and Mrs. Floyd Truax of Hancock.
Birth at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Swope of McConnellsburg on July 7.
Deaths: Norman B. DeShong, Needmore; Earl S. Elvey, Smithville, Ohio; E.K. Cunningham, Salem, Ohio.
50 Years Ago
From The Files of July 16, 1959 '59 An intensive manhunt in Brush Creek Township on Tuesday was brought to a happy conclusion about 9:40 p.m., when a 3-
year-old child, missing from his home for more than 12 hours, was found safe and unharmed. The child, Daniel Melvin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Merrill Fischer, was last seen at about 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday by his aunt, Mrs. Harry Kint, who was caring for him while his parents were at work. State police in McConnellsburg were called and they, in turn, called various fire companies to send search parties. At 5:30 p.m. over 200 volunteers were on the job searching for the missing child. Six truckloads of volunteers from Letterkenny as well as Boy Scouts joined the search, as well as neighbors and friends. Bloodhounds were also brought onto the scene. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Grissinger and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alexander and son Bill drove to the scene to join the more than 3,000 spectators estimated to be there. The local group parked some distance form the actual scene and, when Bud and Bill got out of the car, they heard a child crying for its mother. Going into the woods, they found the Fischer boy safe and unharmed and immediately took the boy home, bringing to a close the intensive manhunt.
Car No. 40, owned by Peckie's Auto Body Shop in Mc- Connellsburg, won two of the main events at the St. Thomas Speedway last Saturday night.
In relation to the above story, a new mystery was "shoved into the laps" of local state police. Two Everett youths, Gerald Harclerode and Joseph Ritchey, discovered the tractor section of a tractor-trailer rig parked along an abandoned township road near where the search was being conducted. Underneath the tractor, they found the skeleton of a man, apparently dead for several months. The tractor, a Mayflower vehicle out of Indianapolis, still had the ignition turned on. Police are now trying to unravel that mystery.
More than 150 friends and relatives gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Tritle of Harrisonvillle recently to help celebrate this silver wedding anniversary. George had been associated both with The Fulton County News and the Fulton Democrat, but, for the past 20 years, has served as jobwork superintendent for the Bedford Daily Gazette newspaper office.
This year, Fulton County has been allocated 3,750 licenses for the three-day doe season, December 14-16.
Extensive work has been going on all summer at the Branter bowling alleys, getting ready for the regular reopening in early August.
Loren R. Brown has been named as the new service forester in the Buchanan State Forest District.
Announcement has been made of the engagement of Frances E. Hunter to Stanley J. Dodson.
The story is told in this issue of Michael Cromer's superman feat of cradling 12-1/2 acres of grain in one day.
Recent weddings: Elmer E. Hann and Joan M. Seiders on June 27; W. Dale Kendall and Martha Anne Okeson on July 4; Floyd Dean Truax and Phyllis Arlene Spade on June 6; Morris E. Crouse and Charlotte R. Barnett on June 12; Richard D. Horton and Gale Faith Hann on June 6; Frederick Bolinger and Judith Mulkey on June 24; Jay Ross Moors and Laura Jill Johnson on June 28.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. David E. Mellott of Needmore on July 6; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Metz on July 6; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Marvin C. Snyder of McConnellsburg on July 6; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Chesnut of Mc- Connellsburg on July 10; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ross Deshong of Needmore on July 10; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Bard of McConnellsburg on July 10.
A marriage license has been issued at the local courthouse to Charles Matthew King of Three Springs and Linda Jacqueline Foor of Saxton.
Deaths: John R. Bolinger of Wood; Henry Layton of Breezewood; Mrs. Raymond L. Gingrich of Mercersburg; Mrs. Charles F. Truax of Warfordsburg.
60 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 21, 1949 '49 A hearing will continue next week before the Public Utilities Commission to determine if the McConnellsburg Borough Municipal Authority
should purchase the McConnellsburg Water Company. The proposed purchase has been in the "making" for several years, following a spontaneous protest signed by about 150 people, plus every civic organization, including the fire company, demanding better protection from fire for the borough.
"A community is just what we make it," was one of the appropriate remarks made by Judge W.C. Sheely on Saturday when he spoke at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the Fulton County Medical Center. A picture on the front page of this issue shows those taking part in the service, including the county's three doctors: Dr. J.J. Palmer, Dr. E.H. McKinley and Dr. G.T. Lorentz.
Bernard J. Truax and Dorothy Hilda Weller were married on July 10.
In response to an announcement by Dan Winter that men would be interviewed for work on the construction of the new Medical Center, about 85 applicants were interviewed on Saturday.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Claude W. Hendershot of Amaranth at Chambersburg Hospital on July 14.
In another story on the Medical Center, Dan Winter, local contractor, says that excavation for "Fulton's greatest project" will be finished this week. Shovel operators who donated their services include Ellis Peck, Glenn Wildoner, Milford Hann and Porter Duvall. Orrin Shaw hauled the stone for the concrete and Charles Clevenger and M.H. Garlock had trucks on the job - all donated services.
Claude L. Ward and Caundell J. Deneen and Sgt. John J. Deneen and Vivian M. Mellott were married in a double wedding ceremony on June 18.
Harry McElhaney returned to his home at Hustontown on Wednesday from Waynesboro Hospital where he had X-rays and was placed in a cast for a broken vertebrae which he received when he was thrown from a load of wheat July 4.
Deaths: Helen Jane Harr of Needmore; Bertha Jenette Sharpe Hess of Whips Cove; Mrs. Mary J. Campbell of Bedford.
70 Years Ago
From the Files of July 20, 1939 '39 Deaths: William Randolph Palmer of Needmore; Grant Bowman of Bedford County; James Morrow Bolinger of Mount Union.
An extension to June 29, 1940, has been granted for the completion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, to allow for settling of the roadway and to prevent pouring concrete in freezing weather.
Fulton County's assistance rolls dropped by two cases during the past week, with $261.20 being spent for relief.
Ira W. Mellott of Harrisonville and Mary Alice Fields of Clear Ridge were admitted to Everett Hospital last week for tonsil operations. Treated at the hospital dispensary were Guy Crippen of Wells Tannery for X-ray of the right wrist; Mrs. R.B. Regi, McConnellsburg, for Xray of the ankle; Marlene Oakman of McConnellsburg for X-ray of the jaw; and Virginia Ann Thomas of Wells Tannery for X-ray of the left elbow.
A number of improvements are being made to business places in McConnellsburg this summer. A new addition is being built to the Pen Mar; new booths and a partition have been installed in the new portion of McLaughin's Drug Store; new booths added at the Rexall Store; a Fleetwing gasoline station added to the Mc- Clain's Garage; and even The Fulton County News is benefitting, new paint being applied to the Krug building
Rev. William J. Lowe, a member of the Synodical Council of the Mercersburg Synod, assisted in the installation service of Rev. Nevin R. Franz of the Cashtown Charge on Sunday evening.
Dale Keebaugh and Frank Fix are spending 10 days at Camp Anderson at Indiantown Gap, guests of the Lions Club and the American Legion, respectively.
Petitions circulated by the Anti-Saloon League have resulted in a vote on local option in Thompson and Brush Creek townships at the election on September 12. All other townships voted on the question two years ago, at which time Ayr, Bethel, Taylor, Union and Wells outlawed the sale of beer and liquor. The townships which voted before cannot vote on the issue this year, since the question can be up only once in four years.
Miss Jeanne Greathead has returned to her home here from a five-week trip to the Pacific Coast.
New changes in the school law set the upper limit of school attedance at 17 years, but employment certificates on farm and domestic work may be issued at the age of 15.
Mrs. Elizabeth Booth of Clear Ridge remains in critical condition.
Mrs. Mary J. Duffey of town underwent an operation at Waynesboro Hospital on Monday morning.
80 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 18, 1929 '29 Recent births: a daughter, Ida Arlene, to Mr. and Mrs.
Sam R. Helman of Fort Littleton on May 31; a son, John Thomas, to Mr. and Mrs. George W. Scandlen of Knobsville on June 11; a daughter, Myrtle Ada, to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Dewey Souders of Cito on April 23; a daughter, Elizabeth Belle, to Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Sipes of Ayr Township on June 14; a son, Raymond Clair, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fix of Todd Township on June 20; a son, Glenn Ira, to Mr. and Mrs. Ira R. Mellott of Dublin Township on June 23; a son, their 13th child, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilson of Dublin Township on June 19.
Deaths: Jacob S. Hill of Belfast Township; James Ross Vallance of Mckeesport; Andrew W. Schetrompf of Everett; James C. Fletcher of Chattanooga, Tenn.
A.G. Deshong announces that Shady Brook Camp, one mile west of Harrisonville, is free to anyone wishing to hold a picnic, reunion, etc.
Residents of McConnellsburg were shocked on Monday evening when it was learned that Harvey O. Unger had dropped dead at his post as a watchman on a highway project near John Lake's property.
Wires are now being placed for electricity at the village of Fort Littleton.
A party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gary F. Hill of Whips Cove on June 29 in honor of the 16th birthday of their daughter, Gladys.
Frederick, 11-year-old son of Mrs. Ethel Truax, is critically ill with typhoid fever. He is under the care of Elva Beam, a registered nurse.
John P. Martz was in Mc- Connellsburg on Tuesday and reported that he and his sons have so much hay this year that they don't expect to get it all harvested.
On Friday, the dwelling and storeroom of the late Jacob W. Winegardner at Clear Ridge were sold to D.B. Newman.


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Confirmed: Dan Radcliffe to Return to Broadway in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
Apr 15, 2010
As Variety Magazine is now reporting, actor Dan Radcliffe will be making his return to Broadway in a revival of the musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Set to debut in the Spring of 2011, Variety reports:
Show reunites producers and creatives from the soon-to-open revival of "Promises, Promises." "How to Succeed" is produced by Broadway Across America, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and will be helmed and choreographed by [R]ob Ashford.
An accompanying Playbill.com article notes that, "the original 1961 production earned 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Author and Best Score, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Robert Morse earned a Tony Award for his performance as J. Pierrepont Finch. The story follows a young window washer, who with the help of the titular book, rises to the top of the World Wide Wickets Company in New York City."
This news also comes following several reports late last year, as well as a December table read which took place in New York City. As readers will recall, Mr. Radcliffe is no stranger to the Broadway stage, for he starred with Harry Potter co-star Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon) in the revival of the Peter Shaffer play "Equus" in 2008, following a successful run on London's West End.


text: We've fought a nice little game of old-timey tabloid one-upsmanship with the New York Daily News this week. The NYDN broke the story on Wednesday that Rex Ryan had escaped from New York on a personal vacation. We countered with news of his whereabouts. The Daily News, for its part, dispatched a reporter and photographer to the Bahamian resort we identified, and snapped a photo of Ryan's upper-arm artwork. We're ready to up the ante again. A high-placed Bahamian source tells us that Rick Fox is also staying at the Cove Atlantis resort. Who is tattooed on his arm? Vanessa Williams? Eliza Dushku? A smaller Rick Fox, wearing a Kareem Rush jersey and a come-hither look? Your move, Daily News.


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The Jiankou to Mutianyu Great Wall is a breathtaking 10-km hike that combines the wild and restored Great Wall. We will be rewarded with fantastic scenery when we reach different sections of the Wall. The Jiankou to Mutianyu hike is worth to be on our list of things to do.
Hiking Distance: 8km
Hiking Duration: 4h
Hike level : 3
Departure time: 9:30 am
Back in Beijing: 7:00 pm
Price: 600RMB (540 RMB for kids 7-17, 480 RMB for membership, 300 RMB for kids younger than 7)
From our meeting point at Lama Temple subway station (exit B), it takes us about 2 hours to reach the village where we have lunch. After lunch, we start hiking a steep dirt trail that leads to the Great Wall. It is a 500-meter ascent that takes us about 1 hour. Our efforts are rewarded when we stand on top of the Zhengbeilou Watchtower (991m) where some of the most spectacular pictures have been taken.
We walk east on the Wall to the highest point of Jiankou (1029 meters), allowing you to see the entire Mutianyu Great Wall plus most part of Jiankou as well. It's a very enjoyable walk on top of the well preserved Great Wall where we pass the famous "Bull's Horn section".
After a good hour hiking on top of the Jiankou Great Wall, a tree full of prayer flags announces the start of the Mutianyu Great Wall. Here the Great Wall is restored. A short hike on the Mutianyu Great Wall leads us past 4 guard towers before we take start our 1 hour downhill hike through the valley. The trail ends at a picturesque village where our driver will be waiting for us. By 7 pm we should be back at our meeting point in Beijing.
Level 3: Medium-strong
A good physical condition is required for hiking in these designed trails. Hikes marked as level 3 are usually long day hikes or day hikes that include a steep uphill hike and/or trails where some balance is needed. Usually kids from age of 10 are all right with these trips.
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On the morning of April 12, 1861, Charlestonians huddled on rooftops, listening to the man-made thunder directed at the federal outpost at Fort Sumter – the first blows of the Civil War.
Since the inauguration of President Lincoln, who had vowed to end the western expansion of slavery while somehow preserving the union, tensions had been gaining strength – fueled by the abolitionist movement, slavery-related skirmishes in the western territories, and the Second Great Awakening (a religious revival movement). As a result of Fort Sumter, these pressures spilled over into a great national convulsion: The undermanned, undersupplied South carried out secession on the ground, and Lincoln, bolstered by a direct attack on federal troops, mustered forces to stop it.
While South Carolina politicians vowed that no more than a thimble of blood would be spilled at Fort Sumter – an accurate description, actually, as no one was hurt from the fusillade – the war dragged on for four years almost to the day. It left more than 620,000 Americans dead, the South in tatters, and the nation at a moment of rebirth.
As modern-day Charlestonians – some dressed in Civil War garb, most in street clothes – solemnly celebrated the moment Tuesday with predawn music and the firing of cannon blanks, the country retains an uneasy peace, 150 years to the moment. Some Americans contend the war is still being fought. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) said Monday the nation is facing a "regime crisis" and a "point of civil discord" of a magnitude not seen since before the Civil War.
But even putting political hyperbole aside, the Civil War does still very much inform the American experience. The emancipation of blacks is not quite resolved and the disagreements between Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln throw their long shadows across issues like health-care reform and entitlements. Moreover, the tea party, promoting small government, has risen to challenge the post-Civil War view of government as a superior, benevolent force of good.
After the Civil War, "the older Jeffersonian tradition was suppressed by the new Lincolnian vision of a unitary nationalist regime, and it was never able to digest the Jeffersonian tradition," says Donald Livingston, a philosophy professor at Emory University in Atlanta. "But it's still there, suppressed, in the memory of Americans. What's interesting about the South is that it held onto the Jeffersonian tradition longer – which is why you can't understand America today without seeing this deep conflict between these two groups."
Indeed, 56 percent of Americans, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center, believe the Civil War remains relevant. That's partly because of its overarching themes, but also because it remains a deeply personal conflict for many Americans: One out of 17 Americans – or about 18 million – can claim a direct line to someone who fought in the war. "It really wasn't that long ago," says Michael Hill, president of the League of the South, a Southern nationalist group in Killen, Ala.
"The dislocations of the Civil War wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations," Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner wrote in 1873, nearly a decade after the end of the war. It's now been five generations – Robert E. Lee V is today a high school football coach – and the events still wrench the American zeitgeist.
While the 50th anniversary was marked by surviving veterans from both sides embracing at Gettysburg, and the 100th anniversary celebrated the war's military significance, the 150th commemoration has a more somber, political focus.
"The 150th is very different, as is what people are discussing, which are not just military issues, but political and social issues as well," says William Blair, director of the Richards Civil War Era Center at Pennsylvania State University in University Park. "There's a sense today that war is not romantic. And you see emancipation, slavery, and African-American issues running hand in glove" with more traditional elements in state commemorations.
To be sure, the war settled some questions once and for all, including the end of John C. Calhoun's "theory of nullification." That held that states could "nullify" federal policy – such as abolition – that wasn't in the original contract signed at the Constitutional Convention. And before the war Americans said, "The United States are ...," while after the war they said, "The United States is ...."
Furthermore, the idea of federalist government took hold after the war, defining legal rulings and political thought to the present day. But now it's being questioned by groups like the tea party and others worried about the weakening of the 10th Amendment, which guaranteed the states or the people all powers not specifically reserved for Washington.
"What Lincoln did was effect a revolution where he took a constitutional confederate republic and turned it into a consolidated nation-state," says Mr. Hill at the League of the South. "I really think the dividing line in the country today is between those who accepted Lincoln's revolution as something permanent and good and those who see it as something to be overturned."
"The difficulties with the American system are we're not all one thing and we're trying to balance two competing values – liberty versus equality – and they're antithetical values," adds Mike Martinez, a Civil War expert at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. "Shelby Foote once said the genius of America is our ability to compromise, and the Civil War is the one time in history when that spirit of compromise broke down and 2 percent of the population was killed as a result."
While the enslavement of Africans – crucial to the South's plantation economy – was directly referenced by Southern politicians and in the Confederate Constitution, more Americans today believe the war began over states' rights (as Southern historians insisted after the war). Forty-eight percent of Americans believe the war was mainly about states' rights, and 38 percent say it was chiefly about slavery, according to Pew.
But if that revelation means that the South got to write at least part of the history of the Civil War, the cannon shots Tuesday at Fort Sumter were met not with regional glee, but with national solemnity.
"As this fort was a symbol, what they've done here is symbolically reflect that we were at war with ourselves," Fred Kiger, a Civil War lecturer at the University of North Carolina, told The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C. "This is a very powerful moment, very sobering."


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Tours of Cooling Springs Farm and its Underground Railroad safe-house are arranged by appointment or through the organizations listed under the programs section of this website. To arrange a tour directly, contact Cooling Springs Farm.
Driving Directions
If you are arriving by airplane or train, see directions following the driving directions
From Washington, DC, and East
Take Interstate 270 north to Frederick, then very briefly onto Interstate 70 west, then US15 south. You will now be on US15 and US340 combined. Where they diverge, take US15 to your left. After about two miles, turn left onto Mountville Road, then right on Ballenger Creek Pike to Cooling Springs Farm at 2455 Ballenger Creek Pike.
From Baltimore and East
Take Interstate 70 west to Frederick, then US15 south. You will now be on US15 and US340 combined. Where they diverge, take US15 to your left. After about two miles, turn left onto Mountville Road, then right on Ballenger Creek Pike to Cooling Springs Farm at 2455 Ballenger Creek Pike.
From Pennsylvania and North
Take US15 south through Frederick, Maryland. After passing through Frederick, you will be on US15 and US340 combined. Where they diverge, take US15 to your left. After about two miles, turn left onto Mountville Road, then right on Ballenger Creek Pike to Cooling Springs Farm at 2455 Ballenger Creek Pike.
From Virginia and South
Find your way to US Route 15 north which lies to the west of Interstate 95 and to the east of Interstate 81. Take US15 north across the Potomac River. Immediately after crossing the river, turn right onto Maryland Route 28, and then take an immediate left onto Ballenger Creek Pike to Cooling Springs Farm at 2455 Ballenger Creek Pike.
From West Virginia and West
Take US340 north across the Potomac River. Where US340 meets US15, follow the signs to US15 south which involves a U-turn at Mount Zion Road. You are now going south of US340 and US15 combined. Where they diverge, take US15 to your left. After about two miles, turn left onto Mountville Road, then right on Ballenger Creek Pike to Cooling Springs Farm at 2455 Ballenger Creek Pike.
Or, take Interstate 70 from the west to US15 south at Frederick. At first, you will be on US15 and US340 combined. Where they diverge, take US15 to your left. After about two miles, turn left onto Mountville Road, then right on Ballenger Creek Pike to Cooling Springs Farm at 2455 Ballenger Creek Pike.
Arriving by Air
The easiest of the three major local airports for travelers arriving by air is Thurgood Marshall International Airport (BWI) in Baltimore. Other choices are National Airport (DCA) in Washington DC or (better) Dulles International Airport (IAD) near Washington, DC. For driving directions from Marshall Airport, see under Baltimore above. From Dulles Airport, take Virginia Route 267 west to US15 north and follow the directions above for "From Virginia and the South." Dulles Airport is about 15 minutes closer to Cooling Springs Farm but flights into Baltimore are usually less expensive than to Dulles. Departures are also much easier at Marshall than from Dulles.
Arriving by Train
There is wek-day commuter train service several times daily from Union Station in Washington, DC to Point of Rocks which is three miles from Cooling Springs Farm. If you do not have transportation after reaching Point of Rocks, you may call for a taxi at Bowie Transportation at 301.695.0333.
The History of Cooling Springs Farm and the
Photos of the Potomac-to-Doubs Route of the Underground Railroad, Cooling Springs Farm and Nearby Underground Railroad Landmarks
One stretch of the Potomac-to-Doubs Route of the Underground Railroad running three miles from the Potomac River to Doubs, Maryland. This photograph is of Thomas's Lane just north of the Potomac River. This is what freedom seekers saw in their first few minutes in Union territory. Thomas's Lane has existed since the early 1800s when the farm through which it runs was purchased by the Thomas family, in-laws and neighbors of the Michaels.
Further north on the Potomac-to-Doubs Underground Railroad Route, here overlooking Cooling Springs Farm and the Michael homestead in the background. The three–mile route of the Potomac-to-Doubs Route of the Underground Railroad consists of a network of old farm roads and lies intact in the same place as in Underground Railroad days. It is a rarity today that this length of an old Underground Railroad route remains whole and undisturbed by development,
What freedom seekers saw: the Spring House, hidden beyond the bridge past the creeks of Cooling Springs Farm. Frank and Emily Wanzer, Barnaby and Mary Elizabeth Grigsby, and two unknown others are thought to have passed through Cooling Springs Farm on Christmas Eve, 1855, and might have been sheltered in the Spring House after the six had escaped that morning from Aldie, Virginia, 30 miles south of Cooling Springs where they had been enslaved. The next day, Christmas, while the party of six was traveling north from Cooling Springs to Pennsylvania, one of the unknown freedom seekers was shot and killed by slave catchers, the other captured and re-enslaved. The Wanzers and Grigsbys escaped at gunpoint, went on north, and lived the rest of their lives in Canada. Cooling Springs Farm has located the descendants of Frank Wanzer and they and the Michael family have shared their common history.
On the left is Allen Nelson, great-great-grandson of freedom seeker Frank Wanzer who is thought to have passed through Cooling Springs Farm in 1855, and on the right, Peter Michael, great-great-grandson of Ezra and Margaret Michael who operated Cooling Springs Farm as an Underground Railroad safe-house at the time. Between them is Januwa Moja, wife of Mr. Nelson, and behind the three is the Spring House where Frank Wanzer and his five fellow freedom seekers were possibly sheltered. The spring house is shown here before restoration.
The first public tour of Cooling Springs Farm and spring house conducted in August, 2002. Shown here are several members of the Michael family and of the Ambush and Harris families, long-time neighbors of the old African-American village of Pleasant View adjoining the Michael farms. The three families have known each other for at least six generations. The spring house is shown in the background before restoration.
Rhonda and Sparky Rucker, left above, lead celebrants in Underground Railroad songs at the rededication of Cooling Springs Farm on July 2, 2003. The Ruckers are the national leaders in rediscovering and keeping the songs of the Underground Railroad before the audiences of today. On the right is Walt Michael, artistic director of Common Ground
On the right in this circa 1900 photograph is the home of Ezra and Margaret Michael which existed in Underground Railroad times. This original Cooling Springs home, begun in 1768 by the first generation of the family, lasted until about the 1920s. The "new" Cooling Springs home, still so called, built by Ezra and Margaret in 1879, is in the top center of the photograph, and is the farm residence today.
The present Cooling Springs home built by Ezra and Margaret Michael in 1879. This home is typical of the local vernacular farmhouse architecture of the mid- to late nineteenth century, and retains its original layout, floors, walls, ceilings, three chimneys, stone masonry and most fixtures. Cooling Springs Farm is a Frederick County Landmark, is listed by the Maryland Historical Trust in the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties, and has been featured on the Historic Home Tour of Frederick County.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church near Cooling Springs Farm. The church was supported in its founding as an integrated parish by Ezra and Margaret Michael, their Thomas and Virts in-laws, and others in 1842, the year after Margaret and Ezra were married. The church and its graveyard were integrated from the beginning and still are. St. Paul's was active in the abolitionist movement and possibly in the Underground Railroad, and was used as a hospital by the Union Army during the Civil War.
Ezra (1813-1886) and Margaret (1823-1897) Michael. She was born on his tenth birthday.
Peter Michael Available to Speak on the Underground Railroad
Cooling Springs owner Peter H. Michael is available to conventions, meetings and civic groups, and to television and radio to speak on the Underground Railroad. He has given many interviews and presentations in each of these media. There is no charge.
Mr. Michael is the author of An American Family of the Underground Railroad on Michael family Underground Railroad involvement, and Guide to Freedom: Rediscovering the Underground Railroad In One United States County. You may visit the first book's web site or order the book here and the second book's web site or order it here.
Guide to Freedom: Rediscovering the Underground Railroad In One United States County reveals the Underground Railroad in Frederick County, Maryland, where he lives, and nearby. The book is available at Amazon and may be ordered wherever books are sold.
Peter Michael is also the author of Palace of Yawns, an exposé of the failure of the United Nations to adequately assist poor countries in lowering their birth rates. To purchase the book, click here.
Peter Michael is the founder and publisher of Underground Railroad Free Press, North America's leading Underground Railroad news publication and the international central registry of Underground Railroad organizations and events. Underground Railroad Free Press awards the annual Free Press Prizes in contemporary Underground Railroad leadership, preservation and advancement of knowledge, the international Underground Railroad community's top honors. To subscribe to this free publication, order back issues, or submit articles, letters or advertising, visit the Underground Railroad Free Press web site here.
In his professional life, Peter Michael is founder and president of Michael Strategic Analysis, an award-winning firm located in Adamstown, Maryland, practicing strategic planning, market analysis and expert witness economic damages testimony. Visit the MSA web site here. Mr. Michael took his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, holds an MBA in international business from the University of California at Berkeley where his master's thesis became the cover story of a national magazine, and completed a post-graduate fellowship in demography at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He has taught management or demography at the graduate level at universities in Thailand, Japan, Costa Rica and the United States.
To schedule Mr. Michael for a presentation, click here.
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Research on the Underground Railroad and Cooling Springs Farm
The Underground Railroad is an especially difficult topic to research since it was an illegal and clandestine operation for all of its 280-year existence. After the Civil War, some freedom seekers and a very few Underground Railroad conductors and safe-house operators wrote down their stories, but the vast majority did not. Even after the Civil War and the enactment of the 13th, 14th ans 15th Amendments, conductors and safe-house operators were persecuted for having aided freedom seekers, and therefore many of those who provided aid took their Underground Railroad involvement as secrets to the grave.
In other cases, families were split over the issue of slavery, and sibling did not dare tell sibling of involvement in the Underground Railroad. This is true of the Michael family: Daniel and Samuel Michael, two pro-slavery brothers, very likely did not know of the roles of their brothers Ezra and Henry Michael in sheltering freedom seekers, especially after Daniel and Samuel were removed from the will of their father for their pro-slavery stance.
Only about three percent of claimed Underground Railroad sites in the United States have documentary evidence of involvement with the other 97 percent known from oral tradition and occasional corroboration. The most likely source of information on the dwindling number of known Underground Railroad safe-houses and routes today is more than ever the oral traditions passed down in the families of freedom seekers, conductors and safe-house operators, and from property owner to property owner. For example, the chance intersection of the present-day oral traditions of two families is how the Michael family, descendants of safe-house operators, became aware of the Wanzer family, descendants of freedom seekers who were likely sheltered at Cooling Springs in 1855. However, very few of these oral traditions have been published, and fewer still will show up in internet or bibliographic searches. For the researcher interested in particular Underground Railroad sites or areas, the best approach, though it is time consuming, is to start asking the old families in the geographic area of interest, particularly African-American families.
Researching the Underground Railroad
For internet and bibliographic resources on the Underground Railroad in general, please click on this link.
Researching the Underground Railroad in Frederick County, Maryland
For internet, bibliographic and oral tradition resources on the Underground Railroad in Frederick County, Maryland, please click on this link.
Researching Cooling Springs Farm and the Michael family
For resources on the involvement of Cooling Springs Farm and the Michael family in the Underground Railroad, please click on this link, or contact us.
Sources on the Underground Railroad in General, the Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad Sites in Frederick County, Maryland
As of 2013, 61 confirmed or suspected Underground Railroad safe-houses and routes had been identified in Frederick County, Maryland. Of these, 39 are confirmed or very likely Underground Railroad sites shown in red below, and the others shown in blue are putative sites based on their likelihood of having been involved in the Underground Railroad. Of the confirmed sites, 23 are mentioned in two or more documentary sources. Shown below is a map of Underground Railroad safe-houses and routes in Frederick County, Maryland. Cooling Springs Farm is in the cluster at the bottom of the map.
An American Family of the Underground Railroad, by Peter Michael
Now rare nearly 150 years after the end of the uplifting national phenomenon known as the Underground Railroad are the very few intact family accounts of Underground Railroad safe-house operators. This book tells the story of the extensively documented experiences of the family of author Peter Michael in sheltering Underground Railroad freedom seekers, and the reconnection after 150 years with the descendants of a freedom seeker who likely passed through the Underground Railroad safe-house at the author's Cooling Springs Farm, now an Underground Railroad historic site open to the public.
To read more about An American Family of the Underground
Railroad and/or to purchase the book, go to its web site here.
Guide to Freedom: Rediscovering the
Underground Railroad In One United States County,
Only in the last few years have places around the nation begun to research and catalogue their Underground Railroad sites to rediscover what the Underground Railroad looked like geographically. While upstate New York, eastern Kansas and the Philadelphia area have made good strides in this important rediscovery, very little has been done in border or southern states where research is much more difficult. Peter Michael's Guide to Freedom identifies 61 safe-houses and routes in Maryland's Frederick County with its key routes linking Virginia and Pennsylvania. Breaking more new ground, Guide to Freedom is believed to be the first Underground Railroad book to rate sites according to their likelihood of authenticity.
To read more about Guide to Freedom and/or to purchase
the book, go to its web site here.


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The future is here. Our way of accessing and browsing content on the Net has now transformed from boring-looking HTML pages to dynamic interactive web pages, with video backgrounds, parallax scrolling pages and much more.
The site above has an example of a video background landing page. As Web professionals, we often look to others for inspiration and unique ideas that can help us transform our websites to easily adapt to the growing market and its habits. Here are some Web design trends to help you get inspired.
- Grid-style Layouts
This is a way of putting together a webpage so that it becomes very streamlined and easy to navigate. It also highlights the most important stuff on a page that is filled with various items. This type of design draws inspiration from Microsoft's Windows 8 UI.
2. Dedicated Landing Pages for Applications
As the name suggests, nowadays it has become commonplace to have a dedicated webpage for showcasing your new iOS or Android app. The page includes screenshots from the app, and also a direct link to the download. It's also a very unique way to market the application.
3. Dedicated Video Widgets Especially HTML5
Flash isn't used in many devices anymore, such as Apple's iOS systems, and a better and faster alternative has emerged in the form of HTML5. Many websites that develope software such as Adobe Muse, Wordpress, etc. offer HTML5-embedding widgets that are not only easy to implement but also give your site an awesome feel and flow. Now, video also speaks louder than words.
4. Flat Design Elements
As I am constantly highlighting in my other articles, Flat theme-based designs have been getting very prominent and more mainstream since Apple launched their new UI. Flat theme-based work is easy to maintain, make, and interact with. The clean, clutter-free designs that do not only provide room to breathe but also give a fresh new look to your content.
5. Personal Portraits
Personal portraits are now being used to give viewers a sense of comfort and make them believe more in the content you are providing. Stock images are ok to fill the pages, but personal portraits or something with a personal touch always reflects who you are, which is one of the most important things that will make your site stand out.
6. Web-Font Libraries
The Comic Sans days are over. Make use of modern font libraries, or create your own, but giving your designs and content a good font suite will immediately make your product and work a lot more impactful.


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Meet the Team: Fiona Basile
Tell us a bit about yourself.
Currently I'm a full time parent to 3 teenage boys. I live on the Gold Coast in Queensland. My hobbies, apart from annoying our ancestors, include craft activities and catching up with friends.
How did you hear about the Genealogists for Families project?
I was researching family history on the Internet, landed on Judy Webster's site, and the rest is history!
What do lending and participating in this project mean to you?
I've always liked the idea of giving those in need a hand up, rather than a hand out. I love watching the progress as the borrowers benefit from their loans.
Did you choose particular borrowers because their occupations or situations have some significance in your family history or your own life?
I don't have a particular method of selecting borrowers. Often it will be something in their profile that strikes a chord. For example, I grew up on a dairy farm and one of my loans is to a farmer. Another loan is to a mother, trying to educate her children. That's something of a priority in my life too.
Is there a borrower whose success story inspired you?
They all inspire me!
Do you have a strategy for raising funds or saving for your $25 loans?
I decided I would make four loans initially, then would finance more as these were repaid. Well, the first payments came in, amounting to $15, and I couldn't wait! My saving strategy is to go without something, say a café coffee, and watch the savings build.
Your Web site or blog?
Dance Skeletons (http://danceskeletons.blogspot.com/).
Your main family history interests?
My main interests at the moment are Tasmanian Convicts and Quakers. Surnames include Hortin, Pearson and Taylor.
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Fiona, I totally agree with your comment about people wanting a hand up, not a handout. Thanks for being part of Genealogists for Families. It was lovely to meet you at our team get-together, and I look forward to catching up with you again in the not-too-distant future.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Judy! It's a pleasure belonging to this group and I'm looking forward future group gatherings.ReplyDelete
It was great to meet and chat at the team get-together and we will have to organise something again soon! I have also been enjoying your blog posts.ReplyDelete
Good to hear more about you Fiona, and how you support Kiva. I find Kiva quite addictive ...not sure it's meant to be, but there you go. Happy hunting with your research.ReplyDeleteReplies
Pauleen, I know what you mean about Kiva being 'addictive' - in a nice way, of course. Choosing a borrower often sends me off on a tangent to learn about their country or occupation. For example, 'abaca weaver'... I had to find out what abaca is! Through Kiva I have learned a lot about geography, history and different cultures. (If only school had been that interesting!) It's great that many Genealogists for Families team members encourage their children or grandchildren to help choose a borrower.Delete
Isn't it interesting, Pauleen, reading about how we work with Kiva? I'm sure a Kiva addiction is not something that needs treating!Delete
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The Makers of West Virginia
By C. H. Ambler
When it is recalled that the admission of West Virginia to separate statehood effected the only change in the map of the United States as a result of the Civil War and that the manner of that change was unique, additional information regarding it is welcomed. Of the many possible sources of such information, personnel studies of her constitution makers, together with their chief advisers, are perhaps the most informing.1
In pursuance of a dismemberment ordinance adopted August 20, 1861, by the recalled session of the Second Wheeling Convention of that year and approved on October 24 by voters of the proposed state, delegates met in Wheeling, November 26, to frame a constitution for the "State of Kanawha."2 When the Reorganized Government of Virginia had been set up in the preceding June, most loyal leaders in northwest Virginia planned, with the aid of President Lincoln, to use it to bring about the restoration of Virginia to the Union.3 But Federal military successes in Trans-Allegheny Virginia during the ensuing July, together with effects of "First" Bull Run, altered their plans and purposes. If the war were to be long drawn out, as indicated at Bull Run, they saw an opportunity to attain a long cherished desire for separate statehood in the Union.4 It mattered not that President Lincoln and Governor Francis H. Pierpont of the Reorganized Government might hesitate to approve the dismemberment of Virginia. Rightly, those favorable to it believed that they would recognize a fait accompli.
Intervening military events had meanwhile added zest to these purposes. This was notably true of the Battle of Carnifex Ferry (September 10, 1861) which, although a Confederate victory, amounted to defeat, as the Confederates were unable to hold their ground and retreated, thus permitting Federals to push into the strategic region about the Hawks Nest in the upper Kanawha Valley. Two days later General Robert E. Lee was defeated at Cheat Mountain, and soon thereafter Federals began to push into the Greenbrier Valley. Moreover, about three weeks before the referendum on the Dismemberment Ordinance, Lee retired from Big Sewell Mountain and left the Confederate interests there in care of the incompetent General John B. Floyd. Already the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad west of Cumberland was in all but complete control of Federals, and under the leadership of General George B. McClellan, who had won his laurels at Rich Mountain, they were planning knockout blows to the Confederacy.5
Under the spell of these triumphs and possibilities the new state makers again changed their objectives as well as their technique. Among other things, they no longer thought of limiting the proposed state to a portion of Trans-Allegheny Virginia and of hastening its formation, as proposed in the Dismemberment Ordinance. Instead, they talked of "a well rounded out state" to include all of Virginia west of the Alleghenies and also all the counties traversed by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad which was needed for pressing military and future peacetime purposes. On this point the decision, made early in the Convention deliberations, to change the name of the proposed state from "Kanawha"6 to "West Virginia," which was then generally regarded as embracing all Virginia west of the Blue Ridge, was undoubtedly significant.
Admittedly, the situation was fraught with great possibilities for the new state makers, and they made the most of them. Among other things they were not disposed to scrutinize too closely the credentials of delegates who joined them from time to time almost to the end of their work. These delegates were needed to make the most of rapidly shifting situations and to reconcile the factional and sectional differences which, from time to time, threatened to wreck the work of the new state makers. Already these differences had produced a situation in the new state not unlike that out of which it was born.7 Efforts to make the most of this situation and to avoid its possible pitfalls, as reflected in the Convention personnel, featured an interesting political drama.
As at first constituted the Constitutional Convention numbered only 46 delegates, but, as indicated above, others were added from time to time as conditions permitted and required. Because of disrupted internal conditions and lack of sympathy for the proposed state, Calhoun, Clay, Logan, Nicholas, and Webster counties had not elected delegates, as had not Greenbrier and Pocahontas, counties included conditionally, and Monroe, Mercer, and McDowell, which were not mentioned in the Dismemberment Ordinance. Wyoming and Fayette counties were represented by William Walker and Captain J. S. Cassady, respectively, who had been elected irregularly,8 as had been also the delegates from Hampshire and Hardy counties.
The manner of the decision of Hampshire and Hardy counties in adhering to the new state and selecting constitution makers is proof of the opportuneness of the situation. Both decisions were made in the presence of the military stationed at New Creek under the watchful eye of General Benjamin F. Kelley. It mattered not that polls were opened only at New Creek, Piedmont, Greenland, and Kitzmiller and that the total vote on adherence was only 345 for, to 18 against, whereas the total vote of these counties in the presidential election of 1860 was 3,331. The delegates, Thomas R. Carskadon of New Creek and George W. Sheets of Piedmont, representing Hampshire County, and Abijah Dolly of Greenland, representing Hardy, were admitted with a bare statement of the facts set forth in this paragraph.9
As determined by the exigencies of the situation, other delegates reported from time to time and raised the total for the regular session (November 26, 1861-February 18, 1862) to 53. At the request of 72 petitioners of Calhoun County, stating that "on account of the Rebellion raging in our midst and the disloyalty of the officers of our county, no election had been held there," Job Robinson, Esq., was on January 7, 1862, given a seat.10 The following day Benjamin L. Stephenson, "delegate-elect" from Clay County, was seated, as was also Benjamin H. Smith of Kanawha County, who "at the request of a number of citizens," was permitted to represent Logan County.11 In a similar manner, John R. McCutcheon was on January 11, 1862, seated as the delegate from Nicholas County12 and ten days later, Richard M. Cook and Johanis P. Hoback, both residents of Wyoming County and sponsored by its home guard, were admitted to represent Mercer and McDowell counties, respectively, neither of which was included specifically in the Dismemberment Ordinance. Following the resignation of Captain James S. Cassady, Edward W. Ryan, a Methodist Episcopal minister, was on February 3, 1862, seated as the delegate from Fayette County.13
Because of the conditions under which it met, as well as its accomplishments, additional personnel data of the Convention are of more than passing interest. All but 15 of the 61 delegates in both the regular and the recalled sessions were native born. Of the non-natives, six were born in Pennsylvania; three in New York; two in Ohio; two in Massachusetts; one in Maryland; and one, John Hall, the president, in Ireland. Many of the native-born delegates had had Northern contacts. Twenty-three of the delegates were farmers; 14 were either ordained ministers or exhorters; and there were four physicians, three merchants, two mechanics, two school teachers, one salt manufacturer, and one hotel keeper. Ages ranged from 24 to 66, but the average was well above 50.14
Only a few of the delegates knew much about the science and practice of government, but all were conscious of their representative capacity and their individual responsibility, which, together with their altered objectives, was responsible for the prolonged session. Many of those from the northern counties later became identified with the new state and held positions of honor and trust, but, after a short time, most of those from the central, southern, and eastern counties dropped out of sight. Some of them fill unmarked and even unknown graves.
The influence of loyal groups in Kanawha, Wyoming, and Upshur counties, acting through the military and the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a determining factor in certain phases of the Convention's work; for instance, the decision to include counties not in the control of the Federal forces and not eager for the dismemberment of Virginia. As the result doubtless of a concerted plan and purpose, Kanawha County supplied the delegate for Logan County. In addition to being a rallying ground for Federal home guards and regulars, Flattop Mountain in Wyoming County15 supplied delegates for both McDowell and Mercer counties. The delegate from Pocahontas County, which was not represented in the regular session, was designated by a petition of fellow refugees to Upshur County; and the post office address of the Rev. John M. Powell, a delegate from Harrison County, was at that time Buckhannon, Upshur County, a Methodist Episcopal stronghold.
Although the Convention personnel from certain central, southern, and eastern counties of the proposed state was determined in loyal nuclei and by the military, its esprit de corps was largely a product of the Christian ministry and its devout followers. In addition to the seven regularly ordained minister delegates, seven others - Captain Richard M. Cook, Waitman T. Willey, William Walker, Richard W. Lauck, Josiah Simmons, David S. Pinnell, and John R. McCutcheon - were exhorters, and most of the remaining delegates were followers of and closely associated with their minister guides and mentors. Seven of the minister delegates, Battelle, Brooks, Pomeroy, Ryan, Hagar, Trainer, and Powell, were conspicuous by their activity; and other delegates, even the two known Universalists, Hubbs and Soper, could not have escaped effects of the evangelical influences which had penetrated the mountain recesses of northwest Virginia since the days of Francis Asbury and the Great Awakening. The effects of these influences were attested in numerous ways, but in no way more tellingly than in the fact that five bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church were born in present West Virginia in the sixties of the last century.
It is therefore reasonable to conclude that the movement resulting in the formation of West Virginia was closely related to evangelical Christianity of the Methodist Episcopal variety. For a long time thereafter it was said that "the Methodists made West Virginia," and, as late as 1925, her University was described in an important educational center of the Middle West as "a state institution under control of the Methodist Episcopal Church." But for the purposeful and practical objectives of the leaders who, by a recorded vote, denied the Reverend Battelle's request to speak at length on his proposal for the gradual abolition of slavery in the new state, it could and probably would have been sponsored by religious zealots. Their final victory in bringing about the gradual abolition of slavery through the intervention of Congress led to the erroneous conclusion in some quarters, notably eastern Virginia, that "The Abolitionists made West Virginia."
There is, however, a large element of truth in statements regarding the part of the Methodists in making West Virginia. While the politicians and the elite who had so gratuitously assured their friends in the east that "the Trans-Allegheny will be with you to a man," were either fighting to make good their promise or remaining neutral to save their hides and their property, Methodist Episcopal circuit riders and their allies were penetrating the remotest recesses of the northwest to preach the gospel of salvation to "the people," and rally them to fight for the Union.
Apropos of this point, the following comment by the able and observing General Jacob D. Cox, who worked in close cooperation with Methodist Episcopal circuit riders and small farmers in the Kanawha Valley in 1861, is informing: "In our scouting expeditions we found little farms in secluded nooks among the mountains, where grown men assured us that they had never before seen the American flag, and whole families had never been further from home than a church and country store a few miles away. From these mountain people several regiments of Union troops were recruited in West Virginia, two of them being organized in rear of my own lines, and becoming part of the garrison of the district in the following season."16
The results are adequately told in these facts: West Virginia, including the Eastern Panhandle which was largely slaveholding, sent between eight and nine thousand soldiers to fight for the Southern Confederacy and more than three times as many to fight for the Union.
There were still other evidences of the power and influence of the clergy in the formation of West Virginia. At the outset of the Convention deliberations "the clergy of the city [Wheeling] and the Convention" were, on motion of Waitman T. Willey, requested to open the daily sessions with prayer,17 which they did and meanwhile kept an eagle eye upon the proceedings. Although the existing state constitution provided that "no ministers of the gospel or priests of any religious denominations" . . . shall be "a member of either house of assembly,"18 that of the Reorganized Government, which met concurrently with the Constitutional Convention and in the same room but at different hours, contained at least one minister. He was the Reverend James G. West of Wetzel County, who, as a member of the adjourned session of the Second Wheeling Convention, had proposed the ordinance under which Virginia was dismembered.19 Later he directed to consummation the necessary state legislation for approval of the new state.
Considering the large number of native-born delegates, the Convention activities of the non-natives were remarkable. As determined by index citations in the Journal, Van Winkle of Wood County, who had been a resident long enough to be acclimated, had the floor more than twice as many time as any other delegate. Generally, he closed the debate on important and controverted subjects. Other active non-native leaders, as determined by the same source, were Lamb and Battelle of Ohio County, Stevenson of Wood County, and Soper of Tyler County, president of the recalled session (February 12-20, 1863). Soper had New York contacts which, together with those of Van Winkle, may have been determining in such matters as the state debt and the use of the new state credit.
The position of John Hall of Mason County, president of the regular session, was unique. He was the only delegate of foreign birth, and, unlike most of his associates, he was a man of means. He was also an old time Whig and a person of poise and dignity. Together with his experiences as senator in the Virginia General Assembly, these things commended him to his associates who had already marked him for political preferment; but Hall's political career was cut short on October 23, 1862, when he killed Lewis Whetzell, editor of the Point Pleasant Weekly Register, as the result of a controversy which grew out of proposals to suppress that newspaper for alleged anti-Union utterances.20 On August 6, 1862, Hall's favorite son, Major John Thomas Hall, had been killed in action at Beech Creek.
John S. Carlile was the conundrum of the new state movement. In its initial stages he insisted that it would be sufficient to proclaim a state and leave to Congress its acceptance or rejection.21 After his election in July, 1861, to the United States Senate to represent Union loyal Virginia, his ardor cooled somewhat. Unlike Waitman T. Willey, his colleague in the Senate, he was not a member of the Constitutional Convention which formed the new state constitution, but his loyalty was not questioned or suspected. When the request for separate statehood reached the United States Senate, Carlile, as a member of its Committee on Territories, was, therefore, selected to draft the necessary bill.
After almost a month Carlile reported Senate Bill No. 365, which was generally regarded as a "Trojan Horse." Among other things this bill added fifteen counties not included under the new state constitution. It also authorized a state convention to approve the extended boundary and a proposal for the gradual abolition of Negro slavery. When these conditions had been complied with and approved by the Virginia General Assembly, by each of the proposed additional counties, and by the original ones as well, the President was to proclaim the new state a member of the Union without further action of Congress.22
While describing this bill as a product of Carlile's "enlightened judgment"23 Senator Willey readily joined his colleagues in amending it. The result was the Willey Amendment which provided for gradual abolition of slavery in the new state and made admission to the Union conditional on acceptance.24
To the surprise of new state advocates Carlile opposed the Willey Amendment and, together with Charles Sumner, Zachariah Chandler, and fifteen other Senators, he voted against it and the admission of West Virginia as well.25 Moreover, he carried the fight to the people and with the aid of Sons of Liberty, then gaining a foothold in the Ohio Valley, he had much to say about the rights of a "sovereign state" in the Union.26 In this strain he continued to oppose the new state and, whether unwittingly or not, to lay the basis of a new Democrat party within its bounds. In the absence of documentary source materials, his real motives may never be determined, but he certainly should not be included among the "Fathers of West Virginia."
As Carlile's new state enthusiasm grew negative and cold, that of Willey's became increasingly positive and warm. In the outset of the movement he had commented upon the possibilities of a "triple treason," first to the state of Virginia, then to the Confederated States of America, and finally to the Union. In the regular session of the First Constitutional Convention of West Virginia, he opposed efforts to extend her bounds beyond those of the Dismemberment Ordinance, except in the direction of the present Eastern Panhandle which was needed to control the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
As a slave owner Willey wished to protect property rights of loyal masters, and his approval of the Willey Amendment was doubtless influenced by current proposals for that purpose. In a masterly address before the recalled session of the Constitutional Convention, which alone entitled him to the distinction "Orator of the New State Movement," he defended the Willey Amendment.27 Although he failed to receive compensation for his slaves, he later became a "Radical Republican."
Outstanding among other leaders were Benjamin H. Smith of Kanawha County,28 who represented Logan County, and John A. Dille and John J. Brown, both of Preston County.29 Smith was a distinguished lawyer who, although born in Virginia, was educated in Ohio and there trained for the bar under the tutelage of the later distinguished Thomas Ewing. As a Whig, Smith had served several terms in the Virginia General Assembly, but in 1860 was a Douglas Democrat. He was in 1866 the unsuccessful nominee of the Democrat party for governor of West Virginia. Both Dille and Brown were in 1860 Douglas Democrats and successful lawyers. Brown remained a Democrat; Dille became a "Radical Republican."
The part of Francis H. Pierpont, "Father of West Virginia," in her making is somewhat obscure and may remain so until the Lincoln Papers, now housed in the Library of Congress, become available in 1947. Like Lincoln, under whose direction and protection Pierpont acted both at Wheeling and at Alexandria, he was not enthusiastic over the new state movement in its inception. Instead, he would have used the Reorganized Government to bring about the restoration of Virginia to the Union. When he saw that this was possible and that the Reorganized Government could be used also to effect the dismemberment of Virginia, he enthusiastically favored dismemberment.30
For years Pierpont had been the unofficial spokesman of the plain people of the northwest in their fight against alleged injustices of the Slave Power. More important still, he was free from entangling political alliances. These things, together with his demonstrated ability and his resourcefulness in financing the Reorganized Government and that of the new state as well, justly and rightly entitle him to the distinction, "Father of West Virginia." His refusal to accept political preferment in the new state so that he might steer the Reorganized Government through unprecedented trials, which he clearly foresaw, lent a suggestion of martyrdom to his course. This can be best understood by a study of his relations with "Ben Butler, The Beast," and the failure of Virginians to appreciate his efforts in their behalf.
1. See page 278. [see image]
2. For copy of the Dismemberment Ordinance see Virgil A. Lewis, How West Virginia Was Made, pp. 284-288.
3. C. H. Ambler, Francis H. Pierpont: Union War Governor of Virginia and Father of West Virginia, pp. 98-141 and West Virginia, The Mountain State, pp. 321-340.
4. Ibid., pp. 326-333. 5. Ibid., pp. 341-370; Festus P. Summers, The Baltimore and Ohio in the Civil War, pp. 102-106.
6. Convention, Journal, pp. 24-25.
7. These differences are best revealed in the Convention Debates which are now in process of printing by the State of West Virginia in three volumes. Sales will be made through the Board of Control.
8. Convention, Journal, pp. 5, 7.
9. Ibid., p. 17; Convention, Debates, Vol. I, pp. 8, 25-26.
10. Ibid., Vol. I, pp. 855-856; Convention, Journal, p. 71.
11. Ibid., p. 75.
12. Ibid., p. 83.
13. Ibid., p. 134.
14. See Note No. 1.
15. Flattop Mountain forms the boundary between Raleigh and Mercer counties, but it extends into Wyoming County.
16. Jacob D. Cox, Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Vol. I, p. 85. See also Convention, Debates, Vol. I, pp. 8, 25-26/
17. Convention, Journal, p. 7.
18. Code of Virginia (1860), p. 43.
19. State of West Virginia, Department of Archives and History, Second Biennial Report (1908), p. 176; Virgil A. Lewis, How West Virginia Was Made, pp. 188, 204. Three times "the Rev. James G. West, a member of the House of Delegates," opened the daily sessions of the Convention with prayer. Convention, Journal, pp. 67, 79, 119.
20. Point Pleasant Weekly Register, October 29, 1862; Ibid., May 3, 1882; Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, November 1, 1862; Ibid., December 12, 1862.
21. Virgil A. Lewis, How West Virginia Was Made, pp. 48-52.
22. Congressional Globe, 37 Congress, 2 Session, pt. 4, pp. 2941-2942.
23. Ibid., p. 2942.
24. Ibid., pp. 3320, 3362.
25. Ibid., p. 3397.
26. Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, March 16, 1863; Ibid., March 23, 1863.
27. Convention, Debates, February 12, 1863.
28. George W. Atkinson and Alvaro F. Gibbens, Prominent Men of West Virginia, p. 286.
29. Samuel T. Wiley, History of Monongalia County, West Virginia, pp. 283-287, 324- 331.
30. C. H. Ambler, Francis H. Pierpont, passim.
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As I approached the podium, I could feel the TV camera following me, broadcasting every movement to the cable boxes of television sets across the county. Fortunately, this was a public access channel covering a zoning board meeting, and we were up against American Idol, so my bald spot probably only graced the TV screens of any nearby living rooms where a cat had stepped on the remote.
The guy who went in front of the board before me didn't say a single word. He'd just stood at the podium while the zoning board, comprised of four unsmiling faces behind a raised table, mumbled incomprehensibly about ordinances and sideline variances, stopping occasionally to take turns saying, "Aye."
"Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye," they said, and that was that. The guy turned from the podium and walked out the door, presumably to start building a shed too close to his property line.
"I hope ours is that easy," I said to our contractor, David, who'd come to help convince the board that my wife, Kara, and I should be allowed to transfer lots of money to him.
"The guy on the left didn't like us last time," David whispered.
At the previous meeting one month prior, Kara and David had gone before the board to get permission to build a screened porch on the corner of our house, to protect our family from the Predator-drone-sized mosquitoes that can often be seen picking off squirrels in our backyard.
We thought it would just be a formality to get permission from the zoning board, since our proposal only required a variance of a few feet, and the neighbors on the other side of our backyard had agreed that the new structure would in no way impede our mutual ability to NOT know each other's names.
Instead, the board grilled Kara and David as if they were terrorist suspects while throwing out some of their own ideas on the project.
"I think you should put the screen room somewhere really stupid instead," the guy on the left said, in effect.
"Aye," the others agreed.
After we'd spent months deliberating and being meticulous about every consideration and detail, the board liked its own solution better, which it had drafted in 45 seconds without ever having seen our house.
"Are they trying to turn us into libertarians?" I asked when Kara returned to give me the news that the board's decision would be deferred to the next month's meeting.
If libertarians ran things, we could build a skyscraper in our backyard if we wanted to. Then we could run clotheslines out of every window and put sheds on every corner of our lot, with screen porches on everything. And we could let the grass grow wild, which would help hide us from the roving hordes of cannibals.
Anyway, David and I were hoping for a better result at the next meeting, and Kara had enthusiastically embraced taking her turn staying home with our son. We could have both gone and brought our son with us, but toddlers these days just don't appreciate municipal proceedings like they used to.
When our turn came up, David and I stood at the podium and waited for everyone to get done saying, "Aye," so that we could start discussing our proposal. The guy on the left rolled his eyes when the discussion started, and I realized that he was our zoning board's mean judge, who would probably have a British accent.
Fortunately, we also had a Paula Abdul, the soft-hearted one who had come to our house in the intervening time and vouched for our plan. David and I hardly needed to speak. After a minute of discussion, the board said, "Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye."
I turned to David. "Hey, that's great … "
"Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye," the board interrupted. We gathered our papers and left, while the board only had ayes for us.


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In his diary, John Adams notes the Boston Tea Party: "Last Night 3 Cargoes of Bohea Tea were emptied into the Sea. This Morning a Man of War sails.
This is the most magnificent Movement of all. There is a Dignity, a Majesty, a Sublimity, in this last Effort of the Patriots, that I greatly admire. The People should never rise, without doing something to be remembered -- something notable And striking. This Destruction of the Tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important Consequences, and so lasting, that I can't but consider it as an Epoch in History…
The malicious Pleasure with which Hutchinson the Governor, the Consignees of the Tea, and the officers of the Customs, have stood and looked upon the distresses of the People, and their Struggles to get the Tea back to London, and at last the destruction of it, is amazing. Tis hard to believe Persons so hardened and abandoned.
What Measures will the Ministry take, in Consequence of this? Will they resent it? will they dare to resent it? will they punish Us? How? By quartering Troops upon Us? -- by annulling our Charter? -- by laying on more duties? By restraining our Trade? By Sacrifice of Individuals, or how.
The Question is whether the Destruction of this Tea was necessary? I apprehend it was absolutely and indispensably so. -- They could not send it back, the Governor, Admiral and Collector and Comptroller would not suffer it… To let it be landed, would be giving up the Principle of Taxation by Parliamentary Authority, against which the Continent have struggled for 10 years…" John Adams, Entry in Diary, December 17, 1773
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SAN JOSE — A transient was hospitalized Sunday after he went to St. James Park near downtown armed with a handsaw, asked some people where he could buy drugs and then attacked their dogs with the saw, getting bit by a pit bull mix and then beaten by a group of men who saw what happened, police said.
According to police, a 25-year-old woman saw the 55-year-old man on the light-rail line shortly before it pulled up to the station near the park, singing, dancing and displaying bizarre behavior.
When he arrived at the park shortly after 10 a.m., he approached three men and their two leashed dogs, one of them a female 5-year-old brindled pit bull mix named Chica, according to the dog's previous owner.
"He asks them if they're selling marijuana, but they blow him off," said San Jose police Sgt. Jason Dwyer. "Then he hits one of the dogs with the saw, it yelps and the second dog jumps in and bites him."
Dwyer said the first dog suffered a small cut to the nose, but when he struck the pit bull mix while she was attacking him, the saw left a 3-inch gash a quarter-inch deep on top of her head.
The men pulled the man away from the dog, and he dropped the saw and fled toward the park playground. But he was intercepted by a second group of about five men who saw what happened and proceeded to punch and kick the man.
"His behavior was definitely bizarre," Dwyer said. "Why would someone walk up to a group of people and just start hitting their dog with a saw?"
The group that beat the man left the park ahead of arriving officers, who found the suspected saw man suffering from a cut to the head and some bite wounds. He was taken to Regional Medical Center for treatment and the case was handed over to the Santa Clara district attorney's office for review. His identity has not been released.
Dwyer said the dog was taken to an animal hospital with wounds not believed to be life-threatening, but he did not know its condition.
Heel Ewton, a San Jose resident who used to own Chica, said he talked to people at the emergency clinic who told him the dog needed stitches but was going to be OK.
He called her a good dog that needs to find a good home.
"There are a lot of people pulling for this dog, but no one has any money and the stitches are going to cost $600," he said.
San Jose Animal Care and Services spokeswoman Julie St. Gregory said Wednesday that the Chica "has been stitched up, but the owner is not able to pay for the medical care at this time."
She said the shelter is accepting donations, and anything received above Chica's bill will be "used to help other special-needs animals."
She said shelter staff is familiar with Chica.
"She's actually one of our former adoption dogs, but the owner is currently in jail and she has caretakers at the moment," St. Gregory said.
Checks can be mailed to the shelter at 2750 Monterey Road, San Jose, CA 95111 or donations can be made online at SanJoseAnimals.com. Include "Chica" in the note when donating.
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