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Businesses have been quick to recognize the value of how the natural environment can add to their retreats and conferences. Many companies have seen these benefits so clearly that they have worked in partnership with staff at The Nature Place to create experiences of exceptional depth and quality.
"This is the most life-transforming event I have encountered in 30 years around the globe. Participants come hoping to sharpen their technical skills; they leave inspired to become a better person. What better place to discover what really matters? The atmosphere is enchanting, the peaks are breathtaking, and then something magical happens."
"I have continued to live and re-live portions of the experience over the past month and I continue to be impressed with the change wrought in my own life just because I have 'been to the mountain top.' Of all the seminars I have been to in my lifetime, this event will always stand out as one of the most memorable and significant."
"Rob, Thank you for all that you and your terrific team do to make Next Level look good. Wow, can you believe we did TWO weeklong programs with you this year? My colleagues and I are grateful to call you teammates. And we do not use that term lightly".
"I was extremely impressed by the performance of the entire staff and have truly never received such prompt and courteous attention at a conference. The facilities were beautiful, the food terrific, all in a setting that was breathtaking. I have received glowing remarks from everyone who participated. Morale is up 200%!".
"Our program really emphasized teamwork within our leadership team and I certainly got that. I have more confidence and my relationship with the other members is now very strong, and we started as strangers."
"My perception about being successful has changed. The Nature Place program with Insights Discovery helped me understand how to overcome the fear that I had of the 'sticking points' that exist in our team. I am much more confident and skillful now in getting past these challenging points".
"Having done the team challenges I am more able to be creative with my team, and to think critically."
"After jumping off a pole and walking across cables with the teams support, I now know that if I put my mind to something, I can and will accomplish it. I also learned that I am a cheerleader at heart and am able to encourage others. This is an area where I lacked confidence previously."
"The High Rope Course was a moving and memorable experience for me. I am now more open to stretching myself and am working on creating a safe environment to challenge and try new things with my team at work."
"The orienteering course was absolutely energizing for me. I now have a clear understanding of the differences and likenesses between me, and others. My patience has grown as I now take time to discover where others are on the 'map'. This was a very powerful training for me. Rich in benefits."
"I am now willing to take on more responsibilities at work that were outside of my comfort zone before."
"Leaders cannot command commitment; they can only inspire it. What may begin as "my" vision emerges as "our" vision".
"This program provided me with an enriching experience that is beyond compare. Our facilitator was superb, he challenged but didn't force. It was an awesome experience to help me think beyond the norm from now on."
"I'm more reflective and confident when my leadership is sought. I react differently now to situations. And I just know that I have been transformed as a leader".
"Our Chief Officers just attended a 3 day leadership training and development program at The Nature Place. The program was nothing short of outstanding. I recommend the Insights Discovery System, the high ropes challenge course, and going to the observatory, although every activity we participated in was fun and educational. The staff was very service oriented and fun to be around. The facilities were impeccably clean and the food was outstanding. Our program and stay was also surprisingly affordable. We emerged from this experience as a more cohesive and effective leadership team."
"The challenge activities you planned were perfect. Your facilitators did an excellent job connecting with our work environment and the way they made the experience like our real life enhanced the takeaways for us. We will be back."
"Please accept my appreciation for the exceptional services provided by you and your staff in support of Forces Command. The Nature Place is the ideal site for this exciting and meaningful event, for it provides the optimum atmosphere for focusing on the important topic of character and leadership development. The comfortable quarters, delicious food and gorgeous setting only serve to enhance the experience for all of us in attendance. However, it is your staff's obvious commitment to customer service and their flexibility that make the week's session such a trouble free and valuable event."
"Compared to other training programs that I have attended, I can honestly say that this is one program that I felt was totally worth my time and that was building my abilities from the moment we started until the very end. It was the toughest training program I've been to and yet somehow I felt very comfortable with the atmosphere at all times. I would like to congratulate you on the quality of instructors that you have and also on the quality of the attendees this program attracts. This experience will stay with me for my lifetime."
"My sincere appreciation for the team building experience The Nature Place provided for my group and their families. The facilities are top notch and the location is truly magnificent. I know that the benefits gained during our time spent at The Nature Place will be long lasting".
"The S——- family would like to express our appreciation to you and the entire staff for making our reunion such a success. To entertain and meet the needs of a group whose ages range from two months to seventy-five years is no small task and you were able to pull it off to perfection. The meals, accommodations, and variety of activities were outstanding, but the most important contributing factor to the overall wonderful experience was the friendly, efficient and talented staff of The Nature Place. Thank you all for a most memorable time".
"I never knew how good it feels to be treated like 'Queen For the Day' for 4 days in a row! Thank you!"
"I just wanted to thank you for another great family reunion at The Nature Place. Your staff was great – I'd say the best yet. Shelley was the best. The facility and grounds looked great, and you've obviously made some additions and improvements. Though we never seem to get everything done that we plan, I left wondering how I could have squeezed any more into any day! The Nature Place, you, and your staff are part of our family and our family tradition Rob. I look forward to the next reunion at TNP".
"The Nature Place turned out to be so perfect. And to think I had worried a bit after making my decision last fall—was it 'spectacular' enough to satisfy?' What we enjoyed of course in this lovely setting was more simple than spectacular… Plus, an unbelievably gifted staff to help us see and appreciate more fully the beauty around us (and helping us climb those gorgeous Witcher rocks). Add to that the remoteness and privacy of the place to enjoy each other!"
"Not only is this a beautiful facility, with GREAT FOOD, the best we have seen in 10 years, but you are kind, loving, supportive people. Thank you from the bottom of my heart".
"Thank you for a wonderful setting for our program. The food was great, our rooms were clean, everything ran smoothly and everyone was friendly. You are all appreciated".
"On behalf of the M—- M——- staff, I would like to thank you for facilitating such an amazing team-building experience for us… I feel extremely confident in saying that our experience at The Nature Place proved rewarding, both personally and professionally. We all learned something about ourselves as educators and collaborators. This learning experience for the staff will most certainly have a positive impact on our students. Thank you again for helping us recognize each of our individual strengths."
"Our week in the Rockies simply wouldn't have been nearly as successful anywhere other than The Nature Place. We can't rave enough about your hospitality (and food!), and the facilities were even better than we thought possible".
"The purpose of our workshops was to develop and cement relationships. We were able to do this because of the isolation from social distraction, the relaxed atmosphere, and the comfortable, well-planned programs and meeting areas".


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Summertime, and the pairing's easy.
In case you haven't been outside recently, it's hot. I'm not just speaking on behalf of where we are, but the majority of the country is feeling exactly what I'm talking about every day. Many of us are experiencing 100 degree plus temperatures on a regular basis, and with it comes a sense of being overwhelmed by drink choices.
It's too easy to reach for a cold domestic brew after 15 minutes in this heat, which inevitably lead to sweating through two shirts, and virtually passing out. Here are some recommendations for you that don't start with 'Bud', or end in 'Light'.
If there is on thing we have learned about serving wine, it's that exploration (for the most part) died with Juan Ponce de Leon in 1521. "I know what I like" is a common phrase from many consumers. That's not to say that knowing what one likes is a bad thing, but let's face it, Napa isn't the only place making wine. Hence, a need for the revival of exploration. This time, with better navigational tools.
For us, hot summertime weather means a break from Cabernet, Syrah/Shiraz, Zinfandel, and anything else that could be used as a club in the event a riot breaks out due to frost-bitten nerve endings during the winter months. It's a well deserved hiatus for us and all of the abuser friendly wines we love so much. During the separation months, these varietals still see periodic visitation on rainy days, or cool(ish) evenings. In some cases, we get to visit them in the form of Rosés, which is nice. Speaking of Rosés, I feel the need to call men out briefly. It's ok to drink pink wines. They're not all sweet. They're not White Zinfandel or White Merlots. And it by no means makes you look feminine. All you're really doing is saying, 'I have a sophisticated palate, and I don't buy into stereotypes.' The next time you're at a wine tasting, give the pink one a go. You may be surprised.
That being said, here are some more heat friendly wines for you to enjoy. The first thing you'll want to do is avoid heavy oaking. Sorry Cali Chards. Think White Burgundy (Chablis, Côte de Beaune) are great choices, or possibly Viognier from further south in Rhone. Try Sancerre, Alsacian Riesling, Pinot Gris, or Gewürztraminer. These are amazing choices this time of year. Looking for something a bit more crisp, and tropical? Perhaps more floral? How about Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc, or some Mendoza Torrontes? If you've never heard of some of these, that's okay. That's why wine professionals exist. If you're at a restaurant, ask your server or sommelier what they suggest. We still ask for recommendations when we go out. I frequently ask questions like, "what would you pair with 100 degree heat, a pulled muscle, and the shrimp scampi?" If someone can answer a question like that without looking at you like you're clinically insane, drink what they recommend. They know what they're doing. You will also find luck with Grüner Veltliner from Austria, and in a multitude of German Rieslings. Try to avoid a lot of sugar though. Lean towards the dry or Troken end of the spectrum. Don't let me forget sparkling wine, or Champagne. A little bubbly on a hot day is always the right choice. Celebration or not, bubbles will make you smile. On that note, something a little fizzy that we find does the trick is Vinho Verde. They're usually pretty inexpensive, and tasty.
If you can't get over your winter Red kick, that's okay too. Just back it off a notch. Just switch the regions around a bit. If you're a Cab or Merlot drinker that only drinks Cali stuff, think Bordeaux for a change. If you're a big Zinfandel drinker that loves the spiciness and high alcohol content the Zin carries, try going with a Spanish Garnacha, or Côtes du Rhône. You may find a new friend that you never knew existed. Tempranillo or Mencia may also be valid options. Malbec from Argentina or Cahors, France are quality picks for this time of year, though, I find myself avoiding them for the most part. Pinot drinker? Love California, or Oregon? Try Central Otago, New Zealand. More good options for Pinot fans would be a Beaujolais Cru, or a Dolcetto d'Alba. You'll find a sense of home with these lighter style reds.
All of these wines are pretty easy to find. In most wine shops, and restaurants around the country, there is someone waiting for you to come in and just ask questions. That's what we live for. We have answers, and it's rewarding on both ends. We get to talk about wine, which we love to do, and you get to enjoy something new. Worst case scenario, just go online and check out wine.com, 2020wines.com, winelibrary.com, or any number of other online resources. This is, of course, if you cannot find it locally.
Good luck, stay cool, and have fun.
Wine Social Follow Up
We want to extend our thanks to all of you who attended our Lodi Wine 101 Social last night at Rulis'. We had a great time, and the wines were terrific! As an early reminder, we will be hosting the Grand Debut of the Wine & Beer Shop opening this Thursday evening at Rulis' (318 N. Mesa, El Paso, TX) starting at 5pm. We will have live music by West Side Bohemians starting at 7pm. Please come out, and enjoy the music, as well as great food and wine!
Zak & Olena

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I recently had the pleasure of designing a baby shower for my best friend's niece Lauren. When my best friend Susan Hart approached me about designing this shower, she had a clear vision of what she wanted. Her request, simple, LOTS of pink and whimsy.
My inspiration for this shower came from recently learning how to make tu-tus. I was looking for a cute homemade gift I could give to some of my friends kids and discovered a great tu-tu tutorial on Mommy blessings blog. From there, I wanted to make tu-tus for everything… hence the giant tu-tu on the sweets table.
The idea of the onesie garland makes for great shower décor as well as a perfect shower gift. All I did was design a graphic that matches the décor of the shower. Printed it out onto iron-on transfer paper (don't forget to flip the design before you print). Cut out the design and iron onto each onsie.
One of my favorite activities of the shower was the photo booth. Each guest was instructed to get gussied up in tiaras, necklaces, cocktail rings and boas and have their picture taken with Lauren, the mommy-to-be. I think the photo booth really helped the guests to let loose, as did the mom-to-be.
Don't say baby was a game in which each guest was pinned with one of Donna's homemade silk flowers. If you heard someone say baby you could take their flower. Whoever had the most at the end of the shower won a prize!


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It seems like there is a constant stream of comments about this or that huge collection of records going "online" in digitized indexes or even copies of the original documents. Then why is it that nearly every time I look for a county or town record, if there is a copy, the only copy is in a library or other repository and is an original record, or on microfilm or in a print book? For example, nearly all my earliest family lines come from Rhode Island and FamilySearch.org only has eight collections yet digitized and only one of them covers the pre-1700 and early 1700s time period. Most of the New England records fall in the same category. Ancestry.com claims hundreds of more records for Rhode Island, it has town records for only Providence. Of course, the records are available from the Family History Library on microfilm.
So let's suppose that FamilySearch achieves its goal of digitizing all of the microfilm in its collection. Is that it? Does that mean everything will then be on the Web? Not likely. I am personally aware of substantial collections of records that are not on either microfilm neither have they been digitized. It is my guess that none of us should hold our collective breath waiting for "all" of the paper records to be digitized.
What does this mean? We will be looking at paper for a long time if we want to do thorough genealogical research. But, it is widely believed that "everything is on the Web" so I find people surprised and even upset to find out that this is pretty far from true.
It is true that there is a tremendous amount of information online, but so what? The total amount of information online consists of a huge amount of stuff in which I have no interest at all. The largest database is of no use to me if it doesn't contain the information I need.
As I write this, I am sitting in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. There are still huge stacks of books, there are still a huge number of drawers of microfilm. There are still tens of thousands of microfiche. True, there are a lot of computers and a whole lot of online sources, but it is not surprising to me, as I help people do research, that we almost always run out of online sources rather quickly.


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Is democracy best served by political debates in which all official candidates participate? Or is it more helpful for fewer candidates to have more time to detail their differences?
In California, the third candidate in a month is seeking to heap that long-contested issue onto voters' political plate.
First, Democrat Richard Lutz and Libertarian Michael Benoit took the unusual step of staging a hunger strike for nearly two weeks in August in an attempt to force a debate with Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, the Republican incumbent in the 52d congressional district, in time to influence absentee voters.
Now, Christina Tobin, founder and chairman of The Free and Equal Elections Foundation and the Libertarian party candidate for secretary of state, has launched a petition to open all debates to include all qualified candidates.
"Non-inclusive debates are not a new phenomenon," Tobin, who is also a board member for Californians for Electoral Reform (CfER), said in a statement. "However, the true purpose of candidate debates should be to provide a forum for all qualified candidates to discuss the issues and provide voters with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions at the polls."
Tobin's petition, which is not legally binding, has little chance of changing California practices. But it raises the age-old political issue of who should be able to participate in political debates.
"On the one hand, some will claim that there cannot be a productive and coherent exchange of ideas if there are too many candidates on the stage at any point in time," says Jessica Levinson, political reform director at the Center for Governmental Studies, a non-partisan think-tank based in Los Angeles. "On the other hand, some will contend that there cannot be a true and full debate, including differing viewpoints, if only a few candidates are included in that debate. The issue is, what gives the public more useful information, more or less candidates on the stage?"
Debate lineups
Tobin's petition push follows the first debate in California's Senate race, in which Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina faced off last week. Several gubernatorial debates have already been scheduled between Democratic candidate Jerry Brown and Republican rival Meg Whitman, Sept. 28 and Oct. 2, 5, and 12.
"The only threshold for participation should be successfully qualifying for the ballot under the various state election laws," says Tobin's petition, which is posted at a website encouraging voters to electronically "sign" and email. "Since the process has been clearly and shamelessly abused, no other threshold can be considered acceptable," it says.
Richard Winger, the petition's campaign manager, while allowing that while the initiative is not legally binding, says if the number of signers is high his organization plans to trumpet the news.
But party officials, political scientists and other observers say such candidates are excluded for a host of reasons, ranging from cost to candidate motivation.
"Don't expect to see many, if any debates, where the third-party candidates are included. The only ones pushing for this are the third parties," says Robert Stern, president of the Center for Governmental Studies. He says third-party candidates usually represent less than 5 percent of the electorate so they are a distraction for the viewers who want to see "the two leading candidates mix it up."
He says Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who stumbled badly in a debate last week, only agreed to the forum because it was a condition for receiving $1.7 million in public financing money.
"It is already hard to get the front-runner to debate." Mr. Stern says. "If third party candidates are included, front-runners are even less likely to debate since usually all the candidates will gang up on the candidate who is ahead in the polls."
Practicality vs. fairness
And Gary Aminoff, Los Angeles Regional Chair for the state Republican Party, says the biggest reason is practicality, not fairness.
"I agree that from the position of the candidate who isn't included it probably isn't fair. I know they would like to be onstage with the big boys," says Mr. Aminoff. "We have more than 230 years of history that demonstrate that third party candidates never win major political office. That is the principal reason they aren't included."
He says the probability of a third party candidate winning an election for governor or senator is "so unlikely as to be almost impossible."
"Air time is precious and expensive," Aminoff says. "No sponsor is going to want to pay for air time for a candidate who has no chance whatsoever of winning an election. Also, most of the public … do not want to sit in front of the television and listen to the opinions of a candidate that they know has no chance of winning. They want to hear from the candidates from the two main parties so they can make up their mind as to which one to vote for."
But Mr. Winger, the petition's campaign manager, says that every midterm election year, about half the states hold debates with routine invitations for minor party candidates and about half don't. "It's kind of odd and funny that this has come down to really just a habit of tradition," he says.
He rejects Aminoff's remarks point by point.
"It doesn't add much cost to the debate to bring in a few more chairs," he says. And he adds that public opinion polls in 2000, 2004 and 2008 showed that strong majorities of voters expressed preference for having Ralph Nader at the presidential debates in those years.
"If you buy the logic that there should be no debates including those with no chance of winning, you would nullify the Reagan vs. Mondale debates of 1984," he says. "People want to hear ideas for solving problems whether they can win or not."


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By DAVID GREEN
Whenever Morenci Elementary School dean of students Mary Fisher sees a child nearly get hit by a car in the school's front circle drive, she knows she has to continue working with parents about safety rules.
Fisher knows she's made strides and most parents are abiding by rules, but not everyone is paying attention.
"It's been a real issue for us," she said. "We're just trying to do the best we can do to keep our kids safe."
Changes haven't come easily. At one time in the past, parents volunteered to direct traffic and keep cars out of the circle drive in the afternoon. They were sometimes met with verbal abuse.
"Convenience has to take second place to safety," said Morenci Chief of Police Larry Weeks, who has helped with the issue.
The situation can become very chaotic—particularly in the afternoon—and patience is needed, Chief Weeks added.
Fisher has issued separate instructions for morning and afternoon traffic.
A.M.—When dropping off a child in heavy traffic, advance past the school toward the end of the drive before stopping. This will allow additional cars to enter the drive and avoid a traffic backup into Locust Street.
If a parent needs to go into the school, the vehicle should be parked in a parking spot rather than blocking traffic in the drive.
The newer parking area on the west end of the school can also be used.
P.M.—The circle drive is blocked in the afternoon with traffic cones, but Fisher has seen some drivers work their way around them. One day she watched a vehicle back into the drive.
Fisher prefers that cars line up along Page Street to pick up children or use the parking lot on the west end.
Some parents park on Locust Street in front of the school. When that's done, she urges parents to park in the lane closest to the school so children don't have to "J-walk" across traffic.
Some parents park a block away on Burley Street to avoid the heavy traffic near the school.
When the school was constructed in the 1950s, most students who lived in town walked to school and the size of the front drive wasn't an issue.
That brings to mind one other solution to the traffic problem.
"Parents could let them walk to school," Fisher said.


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Project brings new talent into focus for Princeton staff member
From the Jan. 8, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin
What started out as a fundraiser for a nearby historical society has turned into a collaborative learning experience between a faculty member and a staff member at Princeton.
Three years ago Brian Rounsavill, the University's associate director of purchasing, came up with an idea for a book about Newtown, Pa., as a fundraising project for the Newtown Historic Association, of which he is president. The association wanted new photographs taken of historic sites in Newtown that matched the viewpoint of existing photographs — all close to a century old or much older. The resulting book, the group hoped, would be a beautiful pictorial representation of the past and present of Newtown, one of the oldest and most historic towns in Pennsylvania.
Rounsavill approached Emmet Gowin, a renowned photographer and professor in the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts who, like Rounsavill, lives in Newtown.
"Probably the best thing I did was to decline to take the pictures," said Gowin, recalling his first meeting with Rounsavill. Instead, he made what Rounsavill thought was an outlandish suggestion. Why didn't Rounsavill, who calls himself a "business guy with not a creative bone in my body," take the pictures himself?
"I said, 'No one will care about this more than you. You have the passion for this, and that in the end will make it successful,'" Gowin said. "Brian drew in a breath, and I could see the wheels turning."
In the end, Rounsavill devoted two years to the project, shooting more than 1,200 photos at 120 locations. To capture those shots he hung out of a friend's plane, climbed trees, scaled fire escapes and laid down in the middle of the street (with friends blocking traffic). The result published last fall, "Newtown Past & Present," is a stunning oversized book with 81 pairs of photographs of farms, houses, corner stores and churches that captures the beauty, change and history of a remarkable town.
"It's a lovely book," said Gowin, who is known for landscape photography that strikingly demonstrates how humans have altered the Earth's surface. "Again and again he makes a better picture than the historical picture, and that doesn't usually happen. He has a fantastic sense of light, of where to stand. If you love something like this, it's amazing how transcendent the results can be."
Rounsavill said he is indebted to Gowin for giving him the motivation and guidance to complete the project. Gowin advised him on the equipment to purchase — a Nikon Coolpix 5400 camera and a good flatbed scanner — and the basics of photography. Rounsavill would bring his photographs to Gowin's house and spread them out on a table, and the two men would pore over the shots, discussing perspective and light.
"I'm not an artsy guy," Rounsavill said. "I have a business background. This totally strayed from my normal comfort zone."
The project absorbed much of Rounsavill's free time — there were hours of driving to sites, waiting for people to move cars that blocked his shot, and returning to a location at a different time of year so he could capture a shot that more closely matched the historical one. He researched each site, wrote captions for every photograph and scanned other historical materials, like newspaper clippings and deeds. He often took his daughters, 8-year-old Nicole and 5-year-old Jacqueline, with him while shooting, to teach them about the history of their town.
"He was thorough, he paid attention to detail and he was unwilling to do it badly," Gowin said. "He wasn't going to settle for mediocre to get it done. I didn't know him well enough to know any of that, but that passion is just not duplicatable. That's where art comes from."
Despite his new skills, Rounsavill isn't planning any major new photography projects in the future. "I'm pleased to see people enjoy the book, but I think I'm retired," he said. "I'll be happy to stick to taking our girls' Christmas pictures."
For more information about the book, visit www.newtownhistoric.org.


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Proxy Records of Past Climate
Climate scientists use "proxy data" to study climates of the past, before humans with thermometers began keeping temperature records. These "proxies" include tree rings, layers within ice cores pulled from glaciers and ice sheets, growth layers in coral, and layers of sediments from the bottoms of lakes and oceans.
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Rubber lip grunt for dinner. With wedges. For the wedges I take two or three Patatas de Sanlucar – a huge and delicious potato that is ideal for frying but that also does very well in the oven – and slice them into chunky sections. I coat them in a little olive oil and a good bit of salt. Sometimes I add a spice, such as smoked paprika or ras-el-hanout, but not this time. These potatoes pack plenty of flavour and I don't want to obscure it.
So that's the wedges. Once they're in the oven I start on the sauce. It's got capers in it. And I saute up some broad beans with garlic and tiny bits of Spanish ham – a local classic to which I add a little fresh mint. This is going to be great!
We've been for a long walk over some hilly, coastal terrain and the season has changed, so I have weather on my mind as I cook. Going into a second year here one is made aware of the changing light as it comes round a second time; with deep satisfaction I am observing weathers I have seen before – the cooling of the air as I walk through town every day to the bus stop, the blinding sunlit facades against a backdrop of black cloud in windy, mixed skies and the odd drop of what will soon become downpour. It's Autumn again, as it was when I got here and, almost wilfully, fell in love with the place. More


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Five for Friday: Philly Hoops
In the first edition of Five for Friday , The Recruit Scoop answers five intriguing questions about the high school basketball recruiting scene. In this week's edition, we head to the city of Brotherly Love - Philadelphia - and cover the top players in that area; Savon Goodman , Amile Jefferson , Rondae Jefferson , Rysheed Jordan and Ja'Quan Newton .
2012 6-foot-6 combo forward Savon Goodman of Constitution (PA) has been fairly quiet about his recruitment since decommitting from Villanova back in August. His grades have been a concern to some, as well as his true position on the court. Nevertheless, Savon Goodman is an absolute force on the court with his big body and jump-out-the-gym athleticism that is constantly present in his game. The No. 72 player in the Rivals150 in the class of 2012, Goodman is looking at a number of schools including Seton Hall, Temple, SMU, UNLV, St. John's and more. A number of these schools are attempting to bring Goodman on campus. Temple and Seton Hall are making a strong push with the local product. Ultimately, he could take a postgrad year, but nothing has gone official. If he does take a year of prep, the word on the street is that Goodman will head to Brewster Academy in New Hampshire next year. Whether he stays in the class of 2012 or takes an extra year, there is no doubt that Savon Goodman is an absolute beast on the court. One side note - Goodman will take an official visit this weekend to Pittsburgh, his coach Rob Moore says.
2012 6-foot-7 combo forward Amile Jefferson of Friends Central (PA) is one of - if not the best - available seniors. The No. 36 player in the Rivals150 for the class of 2012, Jefferson appears to be down to NC State, Duke, Villanova and, possibly, Kentucky. Kentucky has a slim chance of landing him but it cannot be ruled out since Anthony Bennett recently cut them from his list. Villanova has the advantage of being local. Jefferson's father, Malcolm Musgrove, is extremely close with him. One would wonder if Jefferson's deep ties in Philly would make him want to stay local in order for friends and family to come to his games. At the same time, it is tough to turn down a program like Duke. While he wouldn't play right away, Duke could end up building on a solid duo of combo forwards in Jefferson and rising sophomore Alex Murphy for the next couple of years. NC State has a loaded class with three McDonald's All Americans in TJ Warren , Rodney Purvis , and a close friend of Jefferson's - Tyler Lewis . The two have bonded during the McDonald's game, as well as the Derby Classic in Kentucky where they were teammates. As he is expected to make his college decision on Wednesday, it is still unclear where Amile Jefferson will land but Villanova, NC State and Duke are still the clear cut favorites.
He's the No. 23 player in the Rivals150 for the class of 2013 and he could probably go wherever he wants. For some players that usually means something, but for 6-foot-7 Chester (PA) small forward Rondae Jefferson it's a bit different. The brother of Temple star Rahlir Hollis-Jefferson , the younger Jefferson has looks from all over the country, yet his primary suitors are the Owls, Rutgers and Villanova. These three schools consistently attend his games, constantly call him and have been tracking him for years. Thus far, the only other school that has gotten a slight visit from the athletic forward was Syracuse when Jefferson checked out their game in New York City earlier in the season. At this point in his junior year, Jefferson's primary focuses are playing AAU with Team Final and preparing for the SAT. He isn't focusing much on his recruitment, but Temple, Villanova and Rutgers appear to be the likely landing spots for the 4-star prospect. With his close family ties to the city of Chester and Temple's move to the Big East, it would be no shock if Jefferson followed in the footsteps of his older brother.
From one Philadelphia native staying in-state to another who may be leaving to head to the ACC or Big East, 2013 6-foot-4 Vaux Roberts (PA) point guard Rysheed Jordan is in a Maryland state of mind. The Terrapins and Georgetown Hoyas appear to be the unofficial leaders for the extremely talented guard, who is playing with Philly Pride this spring. Jordan has taken two unofficial visits to Maryland and has been on the Georgetown campus once. Both schools have been extremely active in his recruitment along with St. John's and NC State. An extremely fast-paced player with a great basketball IQ and ability to distribute the ball and score, Jordan has plans of making a college decision sometime in July, possibly before the Live Period begins. Look for the No. 12 player in the Rivals150 for the class of 2013 to wind up at either Georgetown, Maryland or St. John's in the end.
The Neumann Goretti (PA) basketball coaches have witnessed some of the best guards to come out of the state of Pennsylvania. 2014 6-foot-3 point guard Ja'Quan Newton could be the best to come out of a program that has featured former Syracuse guard Scoop Jardine and former Wake Forest guard Tony Chennault, who transferred to Villanova. Newton has looks from Villanova, Syracuse, Boston College, Temple, Wake Forest, Pittsburgh and many more early on in his sophomore year. "He could be the best guard to come out of that prestigious program," one D1 assistant coach said. The hype is worth it as Newton can score, shoot, handle and make plays with a solid body for a young player. He took unofficial visits to Temple and Villanova this week and while he is not playing in the Nike EYBL with Team Final's U17 squad just yet, one can only imagine how much notice and buzz the No. 41 player in the Rivals50 for the class of 2014 will draw when he gets there next year.
Five for Friday will be a weekly post featuring a certain theme, region, city or trend in the high school basketball world and some questions and answers some people have been wondering about. To send questions, email Recruit Scoop publisher Alex Kline at email@example.com.


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I have come across the following Canadian websites, blogs, Facebook, and newspaper articles this past week that were of interest to me, and I thought you might be interested in them, too
No new web sites this week.
Doukhobor Photos http://doukhoborphotos.blogspot.ca Yvonne Demoskoff , a Canadian blogger, has a new blog which is " showcasing vintage "orphan" photographs of Doukhobor people in Canada".
Facebook, Videos, You Tube
Conference 2014 is being hosted by Niagara Peninsula Branch of the OGS and will run from May 1-4, 2014 at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Prepare for your visit by checking out their video at www.ogs.on.ca/conference2014/index.php
Newspapers Articles of the Week
A couple of weeks ago, I made note of a bylaw in Brant County (Ontario) which did not allow etchings on the back of gravestones, this is the way that Koreans mark their genealogy of the departed.
News has come now that the Brant councillors have approved a revised cemetery bylaw that will allow genealogical writing on the reverse of headstones.
The story is covered in the newspaper www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2013/07/02/new-bylaw-allows-etchings-on-back-of-monuments
New Maryland Historical Trust sign to recognize Acadian heritage on the shore http://maryland.newszap.com/crisfieldsomerset/123293-92/new-maryland-historical-trust-sign-to-recognize-acadian-heritage-on-the-shore?printerfriendly=true Nearly 260 years ago, a small group of Acadians
refugees landed on the shores of Maryland. On Sunday, July 28 at 3:00 p.m, in the Manokin River Park, a Maryland Historical Trust Sign will be unveiled to recognize this fact.
One woman's passion for genealogy www.gulfnews.ca/Community/2013-06-26/article-3293227/One-woman&rsquos-passion-for-genealogy/1 See how Claudia Lawrence from Port aux Basques, Newfoundland has put her family history together back to her great-great-grandfather.
Story of the Week
Museums, library and archives facilities in Canada have been having a hard time lately.
First was the flood in Alberta which completely wiped out the Museum of the Highwood in High River. Now I hear that the people of High River are getting first class help from the conservation people from Calgary. They have come down to help the staff at the High River museum decide what to keep and what to throw away, and to get the museum back on its feet again.
Go to the www.museumofthehighwood.com to read the latest update on the Museum of the Highwood.
Then we had the news of the terrible disaster at Lac Megantic, in the Eastern Townships in Quebec, with the runaway train accident that occurred early Saturday morning last week. In addition to the astounding loss of life, there has been the fact that the town's library and archives has been lost in the fire which engulfed the town.
Read the story at http://metronews.ca/news/canada/737250/library-archives-destroyed-in-train-disaster
And then just yesterday, I heard that the Thistalalh Memorial Library at Bella Bella, a British Columbia remote First Nations village on the province's northwest coast, has been destroyed by fire. The library was housed in a building which also was home to the village's general store, Alexa's restaurant, and the Koeye Cafe.
It is covered by the CBC in their story at www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/07/12/bc-bella-bella-fire.html?cmp=rss
Reminder: Check out Canadian Week in Review every Monday for the latest in Genealogy, Heritage, and History news in Canada. The next post will be posted 22 July, 2013


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Strodes Mills Mennonite Church (Strodes Mills, Pennsylvania, USA)
The first service of the Strodes Mills Mennonite Church in Strodes Mills, Pennsylvania, USA, was held in a rented facility on 1 November 1981. The building had originally housed the Strodes Mills Presbyterian Church but in 1981 it was being used as the Fort Granville Grange Hall. Thirty-nine people attended the first Mennonite church service.
Visiting ministers from the Mid-Atlantic Mennonite Fellowship (MAMF) preached three Sundays each month and Aaron Bowman was appointed by MAMF to serve as bishop for the new congregation. Irvin Showalter was ordained as minister on 7 September 1982. Ray Peachey was ordained as deacon in June 1983.
After meeting in the Grange Hall for several years, the congregation decided to construct a building along Route 22 between Strodes Mills and McVeytown. This work was accomplished with much donated labor and sacrificial giving from the other twelve MAMF churches and individuals. The first service in the new building was held 2 March 1986, followed by a dedication service on April 20 with Aaron Bowman as speaker.
Daryl Yoder was ordained as minister in October 1993. Ray Peachey discontinued his deacon responsibilities when he and his family moved to Georgia in May 1996. Roy Groff was ordained deacon in December 1997. Carl Weaver was ordained as minister in September 2006 and served until October 2007. Sheldon Yoder was ordained as minister in July 2012.
In 2013, membership at Strodes Mills had grown to 60 with an average attendance of about 105. The ministerial team consisted of Daryl Yoder and Sheldon Yoder, ministers; Roy Groff, deacon; Keith Clugston (Mountain View), bishop.
Stauffer, Romaine, ed. Mid-Atlantic Mennonite Fellowship 1972-2013. Myerstown, Pa.: Little Mountain Printing, 2014.
Additional Information
Address: 7131 Route 522 South, McVeytown, Pa. 17051
Phone: 717-899-6894
Denominational Affiliations: Mid-Atlantic Mennonite Fellowship
Strodes Mills Mennonite Church Pastoral Leaders
of Service
|Irvin Showalter
|Daryl Yoder
|Carl Weaver
|Sheldon Yoder
Map:Strodes Mills Mennonite Church (Strodes Mills, Pennsylvania, USA)
|Romaine Stauffer
|Date Published
|July 2014
Cite This Article
MLA style
Stauffer, Romaine. "Strodes Mills Mennonite Church (Strodes Mills, Pennsylvania, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. July 2014. Web. 5 Jul 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Strodes_Mills_Mennonite_Church_(Strodes_Mills,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=123569.
APA style
Stauffer, Romaine. (July 2014). Strodes Mills Mennonite Church (Strodes Mills, Pennsylvania, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 5 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Strodes_Mills_Mennonite_Church_(Strodes_Mills,_Pennsylvania,_USA)&oldid=123569.
©1996-2020 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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When I founded Mocavo several years ago, I had been dreaming of building this company for over a decade. I wanted to bring all of the world's existing genealogy information under one roof – and then start hosting even more content online for free. We just needed a business model to support those goals and sustain the costs associated with hosting billions of records and images. We've finally figured out how to do it, and it's with unbelievable excitement that I can finally say: When Mocavo brings content online, it becomes free forever. Let me be clear – I didn't just say free for now, I said free forever. We're making a radical departure from the status quo of how content is controlled in the genealogy industry.This is an interesting comment on the genealogical community. I guess it goes without saying that there is a lot of source content on the Web that is and always has been free. Additionally, FamilySearch.org has always been free and will continue to be free in the future. I do not say this critically, I am thrilled that anyone, especially an online service provider would commit to providing free content.
In following up, a subsequent blog post from Mocavo.com indicates the following, again from Cliff Shaw:
I'm happy to report that we've had an overwhelmingly positive response to our announcement last week – it really struck a chord with the community. They're excited that when content goes online at Mocavo, it's free forever. I also told you last week that we would release more than 1,000 databases every day – and we've kept our promise. In just the past five days, we've brought online more than 5,000 databases, all of them free forever, including family and local histories, vital records, city directories, newspapers, yearbooks, and more.As of the date of this post, Mocavo.com had listed a total of 111,401 items or collections. I might note that their definition of a "collection" is consistent with both Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org and MyHeritage.com. Is there a catch in the offer made by Mocavo.com? Not exactly a catch but there are much more useful search alternatives available to the "Mocavo Gold" members. Currently the price of the Gold Membership is $60 a year with discounts for a longer enrollment and with other special offers. This is certainly very reasonable, assuming that there are records containing information about your ancestors. There is also a 7 day free trial offer, so you could try out searches and see if having a subscription is worthwhile.
I did a search on the Tanner surname and got almost a half a million results. There are multiple ways of filtering these results, but ultimately, you need a Mocavo.gold membership to make this practically possible. Notwithstanding this limitation, I am very impressed with the effort being made and the dedication to providing free access to records.


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Dunkin' Donuts Apple Pie Ground Coffee - At this point in October, do you feel overcome by pumpkin-pie-flavored beverages? Dunkin' Donuts is looking to restore some balance, launching its new apple-pie-flavored ground coffee. WOW! We cannot wait to try some! Rounding out the seasonal offerings are Mocha Mint and, of course, the ubiquitous Pumpkin Spice. All virtually calorie-free. (Just be smart about the add-ins!) Click to find at a grocery store near you. Lay's Air Pops - Sure, they're a little late to the popped-chip party, but the soiree is still in full force! In Original Potato, Barbecue Flavored, and Sour Cream & Onion Flavored, a 1-oz. serving of Lay's new non-fried snacks (about 19 crisps) has 120 calories, 4g fat, 190mg sodium, 19g carbs, <1g fiber, 0 - 2g sugars, and 1 - 2g protein (PointsPlus® value 3*). They're currently available in northeastern, Atlantic, midwestern, and heartland states. Find them nationwide next year! Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Iced Coffee - What's this? Ready-to-sip iced coffee from the makers of our favorite milk swap? YES! Sure, the temps are dropping, but we drink iced coffee year-round. Available in Original, Vanilla, Mocha, and Caramel Macchiato, each cup has 100 calories, 2g fat, 115 - 120mg sodium, 19g carbs, 1g fiber, 17g sugars, and 1g protein (PointsPlus® value 3*). Look for it with the refrigerated soymilks... YUM!
Gluten intolerance and sensitivity are very real things. Some people find they feel better physically when they cut gluten out of their diet. However, a recent study by Mintel reveals some interesting ideas held by those who consume gluten-free foods...
65 percent of gluten-free-food consumers eat these foods because they think they are healthier than foods that contain gluten.
27 percent do so because they feel these foods aid their weight-loss efforts.
75 percent of consumers without celiac disease or gluten sensitivity choose gluten-free foods because they believe they are healthier.
Why are these statistics so fascinating? As one of Mintel's food analysts explains, "It's really interesting to see that consumers think gluten-free foods are healthier and can help them lose weight because there's been no research affirming these beliefs." Now, we're certainly not gluten-free haters -- click here, here, and here for proof -- but we think it's 100 percent worth mentioning that just because a food is free of gluten does NOT mean it's a smart food choice, for health or for weight loss. A stick of butter and a sack of sugar are both gluten-free, and there are certainly fattening products with questionable ingredients that don't contain any gluten. The bottom line? You have to read nutritional panels and ingredient lists to get the hard facts. Don't be had by health halos... Let this be a lesson to all of us!
Just when we thought we couldn't love almonds any more than we already do, information like this comes along. A new study found that subjects who regularly snacked on almonds experienced reduced hunger levels and no weight gain. Although they consumed around 250 calories' worth of the nuts each day, they didn't increase their overall daily calorie intake. Which reminds us... Time for an almond break! ***Remember the Red's 5-oz. frozen burritos we mentioned a little while ago? Well, those delicious burritos are currently available in special-edition pink packaging, with 10 percent of the sales going to support breast cancer research. Available for a limited time only at Target, Stop & Shop, and Giant stores, so stock up! ***Wanna get all sci-fi on your weight management? A new gadget, TellSpec, apparently can beam your food -- not a bar code, the food itself -- with a laser, and instantly report to you its calorie content, ingredients, and more. WHAT?! Can this be for real? It's currently in development and drumming up funding... We'll be the first in line to test it and report back! ***Bummer alert. Though restaurants love to plug nutritional improvements (for example, all the "Under Fill-in-the-Blank Calories" menus), they're still making major calorie catastrophes as well. This one-step-forward, one-step-back approach means that even with all the recent changes, calorie and sodium levels in chain restaurant entrées have remained pretty much the same. Sigh. Order smart, people! ***Speaking of ordering smart, check out this video comparing calorie counts of seemingly healthy fast-food salads with those of burgers and fried chicken. Sure, you could get the stats from the websites, but the visual comparisons really hammer the point home. And that's all we've got. HG out!
If you know people who drink coffee or chew gluten-free foods, be a good pal and click "Send to a Friend!"
National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day, October 21st, is here again. Vanilla Crème Pumpkin Cheesecake for everyone!
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Social networks and news about them is all around us. Led by MySpace, Facebook, and Linkedin etc., the list is endless and still growing! Your challenge? Where is the money in Social Networking? The starting point of this discussion has to be in the demographics of social networks - who is on and what does that mean for your business? This research report - actually two - provides good information on the demographics and trends of social networking. Here are the highlights: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One third (35%) of American adult internet users have a profile on an online social network site, four times as many as three years ago, but still much lower than the 65% of online American teens who use social networks The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, 1 according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey. While media coverage and policy attention focus heavily on how children and young adults use social network sites, adults still make up the bulk of the users of these websites. Adults make up a larger portion of the US population than teens, which is why the 35% number represents a larger number of users than the 65% of online teens2 who also use online social networks.3 Still, younger online adults are much more likely than their older counterparts to use social networks, with 75% of adults 18-24 using these networks, compared to just 7% of adults 65 and older. At its core, use of online social networks is still a phenomenon of the young. Specifically, our findings suggest that:
- Young people are much more likely than older adults to use social networks.
- 75% of online adults 18-24 have a profile on a social network site
- 57% of online adults 25-34 have a profile on a social network
- 30% of online adults 35-44 have one
- 19% of online 45 to 54 year olds have a profile
- 10% of online 55 to 64 year olds have a profile
- 7% of online adults 65 and older have a profile
Overall, personal use of social networks seems to be more prevalent than professional use of networks, both in the orientation of the networks that adults choose to use as well as the reasons they give for using the applications. According to May 2008 survey findings that are released here for the first time:
- 50% of adult social network users have a profile on MySpace
- 22% have a profile on Facebook
- 6% have a profile on LinkedIn
Online social network applications are mainly used for explaining and maintaining personal networks, and most adults, like teens, are using them to connect with people they already know.
- 89% use their online profiles to keep up with friends
- 57% use their profile to make plans with friends
- 49% use them to make new friends
- Other uses: organize with other people for an event, issue or cause; flirt with someone; promote themselves or their work; make new business contacts
When users do use social networks for professional and personal reasons, they will often maintain multiple profiles, generally on different sites.
- 51% of social network users have two or more online profiles
- 43% have only one online profile
Among social network users with multiple profiles:
- 83% have those profiles on different sites
- 17% have those profiles on one site
- 24% have multiple profiles so they can keep up with friends on different sites
- 19% have multiple profiles to separate the personal and the professional
- 6% just use different sites
- 4% have different profiles for different parts of their personality
- 4% have older profiles on sites they do not use anymore
Most, but not all adult social network users are privacy conscious:
- 60% of adult social network users restrict access to their profiles so that only their friends can see it.
- 36% of social network users allow anyone to see their online profile
- 58% of adult social network users restrict access to certain content within their profile
- 43% of adults think it would be pretty easy for someone to find out who they are from their profile; 23% of teens say it would be pretty easy
- 33% of adults with profiles think that they would have to work at it, but that someone could eventually find out who they are; 40% of teens say the same
- 20% of adults think that it would be difficult for someone to find out who they are; 36% of teens say it would be difficult for someone to find out who they are.
This data memo is based on two surveys. The overall usage of social network sites data was gathered in a national phone survey fielded from November 19 to December 20, 2008 among 2,253 Americans, including 1,650 internet users. The margin of error in that sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points. The main findings on adults' usage of social network sites come from a survey of 2,251 adults between April 8 to May 11, 2008, among a sample of adults, 18 and older. Some 328 respondents in that survey were social network users and the margin of error in that subsample is plus or minus 6 percentage points.
- The 35% data point and basic demographic information about social network users is from Pew Internet Project's December 2008 Survey. All other data in the report is from the Project's May 2008 survey, unless otherwise noted.[↩]
- This teen data point is from our Gaming and Civic Engagement Survey of Teens fielded from November 2007 through February 2008. n=1102 parent child pairs and the margin of error is +/- 3% for online teens.[↩]
- We define online social networks as spaces on the internet where users can create a profile and connect that profile to others (individuals or entities) to create a personal network.[↩]


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I'm keepin' it real up in this post. Then again, I pride myself on being that way in all of my posts. I mean, seriously…if I wanted to be all "proper" in the way that I wrote, I would have finished grad school, right? Hmph. So yeah. A few weeks ago, I was granted the opportunity to review the Braun Silk-épil 5 Young Beauty epilator. Don't y'all laugh but while I've heard of an epilator, I never really knew what they did. In my mind, I figured that were similar to electric razors but that's as much as I knew.
After doing some research, I discovered that epilators were the choice devices in hair removal for many women. And for good reason. Epilators quickly removing unwanted hair from the root effortlessly making it 10x better than shaving. I've never done any waxing (oh, except my brows) but using an epilator is supposed to be easier than waxing because you don't have to deal with the clean up. Plus, those that use epilators say that it takes so much longer for the hair to grow back then it does when shaving. Which, for me, is a total perk and it was the one of the main reasons I couldn't WAIT to try my epilator.
And tried I did.
With its many positives, there is one downfall to the epilator. The pain aspect. Mind you, I am a woman that knows pain. I endure excruciating migraines regularly, have had menstrual cramps from hell, have several tattoos and piercings and have broken a number of fingers during childhood. Shots in the gums, bum and arm don't scare me either. I thought I'd be a good candidate for the epilator since my pain tolerance is pretty high.
Girl, I couldn't do it.
I tried a total of 6 times to use the epilator and each time I winced in pain. I tried using it on my underarms AND legs and had such a hard time finishing. I decided that the pain wasn't worth it. After all, I'm a woman that doesn't freak out over a little stubble. We're human. We're mammals. We grow hair. I'm okay with that.
But despite my painful experience with the epilator, I still wanted to grant one of my readers with the opportunity to try one out. One of my greatest friends can't stop raving about hers and has told me that while it is painful in the beginning, it does get easier. Apparently, I am too much of a punk to keep trying to get to that "easier" point. Oh well.
Maybe you'll be a bigger woman than me. Braun is sponsoring this giveaway and 1 lucky gal will get 1 Braun Silk-épil 5 Young Beauty epilator.
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History of the American West, which includes the fur trade, mining, missionary, ranching, cattle, Indian, transportation and farming frontiers.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
The Billy The Kid Tintypes
Many authors have written about what happened in Lincoln County, referring to different deadly clashes as the Lincoln County War. As intriguing as the history is of the Lincoln County War, what readers remembered most is one allusive character who sought refuge in the lawless county, and who participated in the fight; a murderer by the name of Billy the Kid.
Billy the Kid has been a part of the cultural lore of the American West since his reputation as a murderer emerged from the details of what happened in Lincoln County. Today books are still being published with new information and new perspectives on the Kid's life. What follows on Western Americana Blog is a look at Billy the Kid through the lens of a camera. It has been generally known that there is only one photograph of Billy the Kid, one where he is standing holding the barrel end of a rifle. His pose is casual. A six-shooter hangs in its holster loosely around his hip. He is decked out with a vest, scarf around the neck, and a black top hat; His baggy pants are tucked into his boots.
Other than this picture, researchers claim that no others exist. But, It appears that the aficionados of Billy the Kid photographs are wrong. Not long ago an historian, Steve, who is a Billy the Kid enthusiast, was rummaging through an antique shop in Bend Oregon. In one of the displays he found a tintype that looked a lot like Billy the Kid. On further investigation throughout various nooks and crannies in the antique shop, he found tintypes of individuals that Steve believed could have been personalities who participated in the infamous Lincoln County War. If the photographs were authentic, Steve knew he was looking at sought after images that had never been publish. Steve relates his discovery in the article that follows. But first, if you are not up to snuff on your Billy the Kid history then here is a brief synopsis:
The best historical sources have it that Billy the Kid, or Henry William McCarty was born in the early 1860s to Catherine McCarty. Authors assume that McCarty is her married name, but there is no evidence that a Mr. McCarty fathered Henry or his brother, Joe. When the Kid was in Arizona, he took the name, William Bonney. A plausible explanation from one source for this name change is that William Bonney was actually Catherine's first husband and the father of Henry. As the theory goes, when husband Bonney died, she married McCarty. For some reason, not clear to anyone, the Kid reverted back to his father's name when he started down the criminal trail.
Explaining why the Kid became a murderous outlaw is difficult. He did grow up in some pretty rough mining camps, was the prototype of an urchin or street kid. But his mother was very hard working and managed to set aside money to invest in land while living in Wichita. In the mining camps in Arizona, where they lived for awhile, she continued her industry and gained the respect of her fellow townspeople. And, the Kids brother, Joe, did not turn to outlawry; he died a somewhat respectable citizen in Denver in 1930. But, an outlaw the Kid became. He killed his first man when he was eighteen while living around Fort Grant in Arizona Territory. After an altercation with the town's blacksmith, F. P. Cahill, who had a habit of bulling the Kid, a fight ensued, Billy pulled a gun and shot Cahill, who was unarmed. Realizing that he was in jeopardy, the Kid managed to steal a fast horse and quickly left Arizona for New Mexico, where John Chisum, one of the largest landowners, was hiring cowboys; many of whom had sordid past, but Chisum never asked.
John Chisum is a central character in the Lincoln County War. He owned a large cattle ranch in the Pecos Valley known locally as South Spring Ranch. Chisum was the Cattle King of New Mexico, but he had competition from a firm called L.G. Murphy and Company. Murphy, and partner Dolan, owned a general store and trading post in the small town of Lincoln. The men had territorial legislators and the local sheriff in their back pockets. Murphy and Dolan made a fortune by unscrupulous and illegal means. Their biggest financial boom was their contracts with the United States Government to provide beef to the Apache Indians. Their financial return was great because they stole the cattle from the herds of John Chisum. Also in the Pecos Valley were English Businessman, John Tunstall, and Lawyer, Alexander McSween. These two, in silent partnership with John Chisum, established a general store and bank in Lincoln, in direct competition to Murphy and Dolan. So, we have two opposing camps, Tunstall, McSween and Chisum vs. Murphy, Dolan and the local sheriff, Brady.
In 1877, the raids on Chisum's herds by Murphy's thugs escalated and Chisum decided to fight back. In discovering evidence that his beef passed through a ranch owned by a fellow named Beckworth, Chisum sent his brother, Pitzer, and Forman Jim Highsow to investigate. A confrontation ensued , where one of Beckworth's men was killed. This was the beginning of a series of conflicts that became known as the Lincoln County War.
Now, enter Billy the Kid. The Kid was in Lincoln County with other outlaws laying low from the law. He worked at various ranches and was working at the Tunstall (on Chisum's team) ranch when an 18 man posse, instructed by Murphy set out to deliver legal papers to Tunstall. There was trouble,(Murphy knew there would be) when the posse overtook Tunstall and his men, which included Billy the Kid. Tunstall's men headed for cover, but Tunstall was too late, he was shot and killed. His partner McSween avenged the killing by sending his posse, which included the Kid, to arrest Murphy's men. After a shootout, they apprehended two men and rode to Chisum's ranch, where they spent the night. They locked their two prisoners in one of the bedrooms. After they left the next day, the Kid and his men killed their prisoners and left their bodies beside the road. Sheepherders found and buried the men.
This posse, now referred to as the Regulators, consisted of Dick Brewer, Billy the Kid, Charlie Bowdre, Tom O'Folliard, and cousins, Frank and George Coe. Their actions compounded the antagonisms from both sides and escalated the war. Shortly after Tunstall was killed, the Regulators went after a guy by the name of Buckshot Bill Roberts, who Billy the Kid thought was out to kill him. There was a shoot out at Buckshot's cabin, Buckshot went down fighting, killing Dick Brewer and wounding several more. Billy the Kid now took over the leadership of the Regulators. After Sheriff Brady (a Murphy man) heard about Buckshot's murder, he wrote out warrants for the arrest of the Kid and his men. On April 1, 1878, the Kid ambushed Brady and killed him. Without a sheriff, lawlessness prevailed, with the kid leading the pack. It was at this juncture that an official, with no love loss for the governor, took the issue to Washington D.C. and President Hayes.
The most significant and penultimate battle of the "War" was in July 10, 1878 when a posse of forty cattlemen and cowboys, with warrants for the Kid's arrest, converged on Alexander McSween's house, where the kid was holed up. After a three day siege, and seven men dead, the house burned to the ground and the Kid et el ran for the hills, where they hid out with occasional raids for horses. During one raid, the Kid killed a bookkeeper at the Indian agency, who had tried to stop the men from stealing the horses. The Kid with his gang of thieves and murderers continued to steal horses and stand as examples of complete lawlessness in New Mexico Territory until the new Governor, Lew Wallace, arrived and the citizens elected a new sheriff, Pat Garrett, in the fall of 1880. Garrett apprehend Billy the Kid in the spring of 1881, he was sentenced to death. However, the Kid escaped. Garrett, humiliated and more determined than ever, caught up with the Kid at Fort Sumner in July 1881; Billy the Kid was shot dead by Garrett, who at first thought the Kid was an intruder, but in recognizing his voice, knew it was the Kid for whom he had been looking.
Steve's narrative on finding The Sallie Chisum Collection of Ferrotypes
It was three days after Christmas 2006. Outside it was five degrees and blowing twenty knots, yet I was perspiring. I was standing in the nick knack cluttered Glenroe antique shop in Bend Oregon. I was mesmerized by a face that looked out at me from a little tintype; a ferrotype really. The photo, still in its original paper frame was of a young man, probably still a teenager. His cheeks had been tinted slightly pink. He seemed to peer nervously at me from inside that red bordered oval. His expression looked as if staring into that yawning camera lens made him feel uncomfortable, as if he was looking down the barrel of a Colt .45.
I stepped to the glass topped counter and spoke to the owner of the shop. Her name, it turned out was Mary Davis. She is a great fan of tintypes. I showed her the picture. She had seen it before. I said to her, "This is Billy the Kid!". She replied, "That's nice, he's six dollars and fifty cents."
Initially I bought just the photograph of Billy. At the time, I noticed a few other likely tintypes in the pile, but I was so taken aback by finding that first photo that all I wanted to do was to buy it and leave. I paid cash. I drove home. My wife was working in the kitchen. I walked up to her and gently removed the photo from my shirt pocket and presented it to her. I said, "Look, I've found a picture of Billy the Kid!" She glanced at it and said, "Sure you did." My first of about a hundred rejections.
After a few days I went back to the Glenroe antique shop to see if I could find more tintypes. I sifted through the shelves, bins, and stacks of photos, old cards, sheet music and stereographs. I noted a few dozen tintypes that seemed similar in style, lighting, pose, age and condition. Almost all of them were busts. Some were damaged, a few badly so; but many were nearly like new, maybe a third retained their paper frames. All but one were small, about 2 x 3 ½ inches square. If still in their paper frame they were about the same size of a playing card. I had yet to understand that these photographs belonged to Sallie Chisum and that in all, there were over 70 of them.
Sallie Chisum, her father James and her two younger brothers Walter Pitzer and William James Chisum, along with their cook Mary, arrived in New Mexico in the Fall of 1877. They moved onto James's brother's ranch. He was the famous, and in some quarters infamous, John Simpson Chisum. He was a pioneer in the cattle business in East and Central Texas and Southeastern New Mexico Territory. When Sallie and her family arrived they moved into the adobe ranch house along with everyone else in the clan. The Lincoln County War was just over the horizon. It didn't officially break out until February 18, 1878 when Dolan/Murphy men murdered Billy the Kid's employer, rancher, store owner, and banker John Tunstall.
Not long after Sallie arrived on her uncle John Chisum's ranch, she met William Bonney, who worked as a cowboy on various ranches in the Pecos Valley, including John Chisum's ranch. Sallie and Billy were friends, perhaps more than that. Of Billy, Sallie wrote: "He was brimming over with light hearted gaiety and good humor…He always looked as if he had just stepped out of a band box. In a broad brimmed white hat, dark coat and vest, gray trousers worn over his boots, gray flannel shirt and black four in hand tie, and sometimes-- would you believe it?--a flower in his label and quite the dandy." She paints quite a picture of the fun loving young fellow. Truth be known, Billy was probably more taken by Sallie than she was of him. To Sallie Chisum, Billy the Kid was probably just another cowpoke vying for her attention. As a matter of fact during 1877-78 and most of 1879, Sallie Chisum was the apple of every cowpoke's eye from Ruidoso to central Texas.
If the Kid and Sallie had been an "item" their relationship cooled quickly, because a year and a half before Billy was killed Sallie Lucy Chisum married George William Robert, pronounced (Row bert). He was an educated and relatively well off Danish immigrant. In Sallie's eyes William must have appeared to be a much better match and certainly superior husband/father material than the Kid.
The Tintypes
I have grouped the tintypes into three groups. The first and most numerous are Sallie and William Chisum's family, another group is Sallie's Chisum family, the next group is the smallest and consists of Sallie's women friends, and the last are participants in the Lincoln County War. Sallie understood the Lincoln County War and the forces that caused the conflict. Her uncle John S. Chisum was one of the leaders of the Tunstall/McSween faction. Some of the battles were fought in Sallie's back yard, or close by. Sallie knew the players on both sides. Her collection includes fighters on the Tunstall/McSween and on the Dolan/Murphy sides. When the posse that called themselves the Regulators arrived at the South Spring ranch with two captives in tow, each suspected in the killing of John Tunstall, Sallie gave the two frightened men her bedroom for the night. It was the only room in the house without a window. The men slept very little. They wrote letters to their families. They suspected that their number was up. It was. The following day while on their way to Lincoln, they were murdered by Dick Brewer's posse. A posse that included Billy the kid.
The Search For Authenticity
I trust Sallie Chisum's ability to gather a meaningful group of photographs. She was obviously dedicated to the task. When I consider that these tintypes were about to be lost and that I found them; I must admit that I sense an eerie connection with Sallie. She and I have/had a similar mission. She collected the pictures to remember her family, and to record the visage of her friends, including men who were participants in the Lincoln County War. I am doing the same thing and with the same pictures. In a strange Twilight Zone sort of way, Sallie Chisum and I are partners.
I was thrilled to find these photographs. I wanted to share them with known Billy the Kid scholars. Therefore, I contacted either through email or personally many of the experts. I emailed the English writer, Fred Nolan; considered by many as the living expert on Billy the Kid. I met with Dr. Harwood Hinton, the well known and respected authority on the Chisum family. I visited Bob Boze Bell in his office at True West magazine. He said the images were intriguing. I took the pictures to Lincoln New Mexico, Billy the Kid's old stomping grounds. I showed them to the director of the museum there. No real interest. We drove to the Billy the Kid Museum in Fort Sumner and displayed the pictures for Tim Sweet the man who runs the private museum there. He found them interesting. I visited the Historical Societies in Lincoln, Roswell, Carlsbad, Silver City and Ruidoso, everyone who saw the photos were intrigued by them. What! I thought. intrigued? interested! How about; wonderful!, enlightening!, or a great and amazing and amazing find! I was a bit disheartened and bewildered. But I kept saying over and over to myself, "These pictures are the real deal, I'm positive of it!" An expert can discount just one photograph, but how about the entire group? I have after all, not only Billy, but many of his Regulator pals as well as Sallie's family and her Chisum relatives. I have Sallie's friends, including: Lily Casey, Matilda Davis, Helena Coe, Phoebe Brown Coe, Eliza Jane Hester and a women named Angie Clouse. There are sixty tintypes in all. Then, of course I have William Robert's European family. Forget Billy the Kid for a moment, consider all of the others!
Everyone to whom I showed the photos, asked me the same question. What is your provenance? I had to honestly reply, that I had none "Aren't the pictures enough? Can't they speak for themselves? I asked. In a word - no.
Consider my plight. I had to find out where those pictures came from and who owned them and how they got to the antique store. What are the chances of discovering an old tintype and then finding out who it was and how it got there? Mary Davis said that a picker brought the tintypes in a year or so prior, but she didn't recall the individual. People are coming in all of the time giving her things to sell. She said that at the time she was undergoing chemotherapy and the drugs muddled her memory. So I can't chase down the person who brought them to Mary's store.
I started an email search. I contacted a fellow who makes old west documentaries. He said that I should contact Steve Sederwall who is a Billy expert and lives smack dab in the middle of Billy Country. Sederwall is one of a group of fellows who wanted to dig up the Billy the Kid grave site in Fort Sumner, and the supposed one in Hico Texas, and Billy's mother's grave in Silver City. He wanted to compare DNA to find out who was related to whom. Steve Sederwall is an amazing, larger than life fellow. He told me to contact a well-known and published old west historian who he used to work with. The man wishes to remain anomalous. I contacted him via email. He told me that Sallie Chisum had a favorite niece, whose name was Ara Phillips. He said she was buried in the Hope Cemetery in Oregon.
I Googled Hope Oregon. It's in eastern Oregon. My wife and I drove out there. We found where Hope Oregon had been, but today there is no Hope. There is an abandoned general store and an old brick schoolhouse that had been turned into a private dwelling.
In a nearby historical society, I met a woman named Betty Elliot. She is the president of the local genealogy club. I told her I was looking for Ara Phillips' family. She knew them. She told me how to find Ara Phillips' two sons. Both are octogenarians. One's name is Fred and the other is Wayne. I called Fred. He picked up during he first ring. "Hello!" He said in a big full voice.
"Mr. Phillips?" I asked.
"Yep, that's me." He replied. I explained who I was and that I was studying the Chisum family. I asked him if he knew or had ever heard of Sallie Chisum. He thought for a moment and said slowly, "noooo, I don't think so." Then he hesitated and exclaimed, nearly shouting, "Oh, do you mean Aunt Sallie?"
Fred and Wayne are descendants of Sallie Chisum's brother, Walter . Walter married Inez P. Simpson. They had three children, James, Oscar and Ara. After Ara's father died in 1919, Ara and her mother Inez moved to Troutdale Oregon and lived with Ara's brother, James W. and his wife Effie. In Troutdale, Ara enrolled in a business college and met and married Wayne E. Phillips. They moved onto the family ranch and raised two boys—Fred and Wayne, the men that I interviewed.
Fred and Wayne inspected the photographs. When Wayne came to the cart de visite of the blond headed little boy, who is Fred Robert, Sallie's son. He demanded to know where I got the picture! He exclaimed with some rancor, "I know this picture! I've seen it before! Where did you get this?!" I answered saying that I found it in a store in Bend. I'm not sure that he believed me. I gave him a nice copy. ( Cart De Visite is a type of small photograph patented in Paris in 1850. It was usually made of an albumen print, which was a thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 2⅛ × 3½ inches mounted on a card sized 2½ × 4 inches.)
Why, I wondered did Ara's two boys only recognize pictures of children in their family? Why not the famous people? Then I found out. They were never shown the pictures. They recalled seeing only children who were also their relatives. I decided that I needed to know more about Ara Phillips, who died in 1974. I was told by her family that Ara seldom discussed her past. They knew that they were Chisum's and that their family had known Billy the Kid but Ara's boys did not recall many details.
As far as I could tell all of the Chisum relatives are ashamed of the family's loss of their New Mexico cattle empire. Certainly Sallie Chisum would never discuss her past, at least after she aged. Dr. Harwood Hinton, the Chisum authority told me that when asked about the old days, Sallie would say, "Talk to Frank." Frank Chisum was an ex-slave who John Chisum purchased for $6,200 worth of cattle to the Confederate forces stationed in and around Vicksburg in 1862. He became a Chisum and was very much loved by the family.
I was shown some Chisum family photos by members of the Phillips family. Walter Pitzer Chisum, Sallie's brother, had been their grandfather. Their picture archive contained unknown pictures of the South Spring ranch, as well as Sallie Chisum, young and old, and her children and Inez, among others. I was also shown an early edition of Walter Nobel Burn's book The Saga of Billy the Kid. It is inscribed to Inez by her Dodge City brother, Dr. Oscar H. Simpson. The family I met in Oregon are real, died in the wool relatives of Sallie Chisum.
They agreed that the photographs that I found in the antique shop in Bend were legit, but they could only actually recall seeing two. I asked them how they could get from their ownership to mine. I was told that after Ara died that her daughter in law held a large yard sale and that she sold everything that she could that had been owned by Ara. Apparently she cleaned out her attic. The women who sold Ara's things died in 1995.
I believe that the collection of tintypes were sold in the yard sale sometime after Ara's death. However there is a 30 year gap. There are other branches of the Chisum family living in Oregon who owned and sold Chisum artifacts. They hail from Ara's two brothers, Oscar and James Chisum, who lived in Troutdale and eventually moved to Gresham, where their mother, Inez is buried. I spoke with a woman who had been married to James. They divorced before James died. She said that Ara's two brothers fought over the sale of Chisum artifacts to the point that they became estranged and never spoke again. Both are gone today. Maybe the pictures came from them. But I think the yard sale is a more likely source.
The weakest link in this story is how Ara Phillips happened to take possession of Sallie's tintypes. In 1890, Sallies separated from her husband, and he took their two boys. She married John Sleigman and moved to Artesia, New Mexico. The two divorced in 1905. Sallie, Sleigman, her brother Walter and Ara's mother Inez ranched for awhile around Artesia. As already stated, after Walter's death Inez took her daughter and moved to Oregon. It could be that Ara become the owner of the tintypes at this time. For the last 14 years of Sallie's life, she lived with her grandson. She died in 1934 and is buried in Roswell, New Mexico.
That's my story. I have left out some details about the Oregon side of the Chisum family in an effort to protect their privacy, but they live here and not far from where I live. The most disappointing aspect of this entire episode has been the non-response by so-called, experts. Some have been quite terse and rude. Others have been patient and respectful, but still skeptical. They center their attention upon the pictures of Billy. It is hard to match mine scientifically with the known image, because that image is in bad condition and indistinct. You can look at the pictures and decide for yourself, but as you are matching things up remember to match up the collection as a whole. What are the chances, after all; of finding not just one picture that looks like a famous Old West scoundrel, but of finding a few score of them, and all of them related to a single place, event, family and time? Many known pictures of these people show them as elderly men and women. Sallie's collection shows them when they were in fighting trim. Now you can see that Billy the Kid was indeed a nice looking young fellow. He did have blue eyes with little brown specks in them.
Billy the Kid
The two tintypes of Billy appear to have been taken three years apart. The first is a young man, teenager really, nicely groomed, sitting quite posed for the picture.
The second is an older and wiser Billy the Kid. He was posed very close to the camera. The background is pure flat dark gray. He is cooperating with the photographer and is looking slightly down and to one side. He is intently staring at something next to and slightly below him. The picture is, therefore; very clear.
While scratched and slightly damaged it is a beautiful tintype. In style and clarity it looks nearly modern. I think the picture was taken in the Santa Fe jail after the Billy was captured at Stinking Springs on a cold December day in 1880. Billy appears more drawn than in the earlier photo that I think was taken about three years earlier. It looks as if the intervening three years have been hard on him. He is wearing a new suite. After the kid was captured Mike Cosgrove spent three dollars and fifty cents to buy a new suits for his prisoners. The kid got one. Apparently sheriff Pat Garrett wanted Billy to be presentable while he was being sentenced to hang. Billy's gold watch chain dangles from his button hole, but the watch is hidden from view. Both of my photos are tinted, as are many in the collection. This latter picture of the kid shows his eyes and string tie tinted a light blue. I enlarged the image. I centered on his left eye (His real left eye. I reversed the tintype from the original mirror image.) Yep, Billy's eyes were light blue with little brown specks, just as Billy's friend, Dr. Hoyt described them.
Dirty Dave Rudabaugh.
Rudabaugh was another outlaw who road "the outlaw trail" from Kansas across the Soutwest. He and his gang, referred to as the Kansas City Gang, rode into Lincoln County New Mexico just in time to join forces with Billy the Kid and his followers and engage in a rampage of crime across the Territory.
In the tintypes it is amazing to see a tintype of another young man who is wearing a new suite. The young man was also posed near the camera, and was sitting in front of what looks like that same plain gray wall as Billy the Kid.
While Billy appears calm and even friendly, this man's picture is sinister. His face is a nightmare. He is newly shaven. He glares at the camera. This person doesn't appear to be too wild about having his picture taken. If this is indeed the person, whom I believe him to be, then this is the only known photo of him - living that is. There are two other possible pictures of this evil looking man, but they are incomplete. They are pictures of his decapitated head. In one, the head is being held between the hands of a gristly looking man, as if he is about to take a two handed set shot with it. In the other it's perched on top of a long pole. The glaring man in my picture must be Dirty Dave Rudabaugh.
Rudabaugh's brown hair turns up at the tips, just as it has been described. He appears to have a split lip, as if he had been in a fight. It was reported that he gave up easily at Stinking Springs, but when he arrived in Las Vegas, on his way to the Santa Fe jail an enraged lynch mob tried to get at him. He had killed a popular deputy sheriff there. He looks like he caught a right cross. He has a inexpertly trimmed and sharply angled mustache, a heavy brow and square jaw. After his capture Rudabaugh was jailed in the same jail and at the same time as was the kid. He was also given a new suite. In the photo it appears that his new suite did not suite him. He has torn open the paper collar as wide as he could. He appears to be unhappy, uncomfortable and very angry. The photos of Dirty Dave's lopped off head are grim. Dirty Dave Rudabaugh was a very grim fellow. His claim to fame was that he is the only man who was arrested by Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp and Pat Garrett; quite a pedigree. People wonder why the Kid tolerated him, it seems unlikely that the two men would get along; their personalities were so different, but they did spend several months together while they were on the run. They were, after all; partners in crime.
The Regulators Photographs in the collection
I found the Coe cousins, George Washington Coe, and Benjamin Franklin Coe. Both men were fellow Regulators and fought along side of Billy the Kid in the Lincoln County War.
George Coe
Frank Coe
The photos were probably taken in 1879, about when they were married. They are relatively young men; shown when they were in fighting trim. I also found beautiful images of their wives, Helena Tulley Coe and Phoebe Brown Coe. I sent these photos to Carl Robert Coe, the Coe family historian. He replied that he was amazed that I had indeed found never before seen images of the famous Coe cousins who had lived on their Glencoe estate near Lincoln, and fought along side Billy the Kid. George lived to 1941; Frank to 1931. The only other pictures of them show them as old men.
Tom O. Folliard
This Photo Shows Tom at about the time he was killed, in December 1880. He was killed by the same man who killed his pal, Billy the Kid.
Sherrif William Brady
The photo of Sheriff William Brady is loaded with clues, and although the image is small; he is not more than two inches tall, it is quite clear. The Sheriff is shown standing on a grassy lawn. He is bordered on two sides by a tall canvas, obviously hung up to be a reflector.
He is standing almost at full length but with his hand leans lightly on the back of a little ornate stool. He obviously wanted to steady himself for the six second exposure. He looks to be an athletic man. He his raw boned , square jawed and appears healthy. He is not the portly man that we see in other supposed pictures of the Brady, but when matched against newly discovered pictures of Brady one can see that my picture is William Brady. He wore a full mustache that put Groucho Marx's to shame. He appears to be a bit of a dandy. He combed his hair with a prominent and unique swoopy doopy wave that laid on his forehead. Other pictures of him show this same hair style. He is wearing an overly large almost clown like bow tie. He dons a dark suit and wears dusty boots. He has pulled his trouser legs over his boot tops. His square belt buckle has caught the light as has a half dollar sized Masonic Emblem that dangles at his waist. Brady was active Mason. So were most of the Dolan men in Lincoln. So, for that matter, were the Chisums. The Lincoln County War was at least partially a race war. Since the Hispanic population, which outnumbered the Anglos by about 40 to one where Catholic they could not become Masons, but the Anglos who wanted to dominate business in Lincoln could.
Jimmy Dolan, who was Catholic changed to a protestant denomination so that he could become a Mason. (He changed back just before he died. He wanted the Last Rights before he died. He was obviously remained a Catholic at heart.) The white population being Masons could hold their meetings in secret from what they called "The Mexican" population.
Juan Patron was the leader of that Mexican population. He was a friend of the Kid. His picture is part of Sallie's collection. Juan was shot in the back by Jimmy Dolan who was using a Sharps buffalo rifle. He survived, only to be shot again, and this time killed in 1884.
The Chisum Family
Most of the Chisum family collection are of Sallie and her husband's family, the Roberts. They include four pictures of Sallie herself.
Young Sallie
Sallie in 1930
One shows her sitting next to her first husband.
Others include s half a dozen photos of the Sallie and William's two boys, John and Fred. I see them as toddlers, young boys and teenagers. I have a copy of a verified and unpublished photo of the Robert family that I purchased from the Haley Memorial Library in Midland, Texas. Jim Bradshaw, the very helpful and skilled archivist there told me that Mr. Haley met John Robert when the man was living in North Hollywood, California in 1929. He gave Haley the photo and identified himself and his parents. He did not identify his young brother, Fred; who is sitting next to him on his tricycle. John may have purposely ignored his younger brother because by1929, the two boys had become estranged and lived far apart. They didn't speak.
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I think it is worth noting that a great deal of your evidence is based on the idea that Sallie Chisum owned all of these photos. But just because they were in the same shop doesn't mean they were from the same collection. In fact they were not found together, just in the same shop. The owner didn't know who brought them in, so could not be counted on to say that they all came in together. I want this to be true as much as everyone else, but the burden of proof lies with you.ReplyDelete
I have a lead on a recently discovered tintype that bears a stunning resemblance to Billy the Kid. If you're interested in it, please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com. ThanksReplyDelete
dave rudabaugh, as far as i've read, was never involved with any group called the kansas city gang. The gang in Las Vegas, New Mexico you're most likely referring to was called the Dodge City Gang at times, due to the members of this 'gang' being connected through their Dodge city connections. It was supposedly just a group of friends and acquaintances who knew each other from the Dodge City, Kansas area who,among other things and much like others in boom towns throughout the west, attempted to reap the benefits of the boom in Las Vegas by monopolizing with the protection of 'the law'. One of these people, either jj. webb or hoodo brown (don't remember which), happened to be coroner as well as a 'law man'. Needless to say, there were many 'accidental' or 'justified' deaths under this mans watch that could have benefited from a second opinion. Rudubaugh was, reportedly, one of the worst among this crew, commiting full blown robberies, etc...ReplyDelete
It seems as if the decapitated Dave Rudubaugh does not have the same pronounced ears that your Dave Rudubaugh has.ReplyDelete


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When celebrity personal trainer Chris Powell spoke to Club Industry prior to his appearance at the CI 2011 show in Chicago last month, he told us that diet and workout plans aren't enough when it comes to helping overweight clients.
"In order for us to really find a solution for our obese clients, it needs to be a trifecta of obesity solutions," Powell said. "Nutrition, the foundation, exercise, yes, but then we also really need to assign an individual who can work with them on an emotional level and help them work through their own obstacles."
Recently, one personal trainer based in Salt Lake City has been making the news for the extreme effort he has gone through to understand the emotional issues that accompany obesity. Drew Manning, an NASM-certified trainer, says he packed on more than 75 pounds of fat on purpose in order to empathize with his overweight clients' struggles.
To gain the weight, Manning adopted a super-sized diet plan in May. He's been chronicling his experience in blog posts that reveal the physical and emotional toll that months of extreme eating have taken on him. Now, six months later, Manning is moving on to the next stage of his experiment: losing the weight.
For most of Manning's overweight and obese clients, this would be the difficult part—but for someone who admits that he is "addicted" to his personal health and fitness, cutting out exercise in favor of sitting on the coach to eat an entire box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch breakfast cereal is more of a challenge.
Although he employed extreme tactics to pile on pounds, Manning is planning to lose the weight gradually through healthy eating and a regular—but realistic—workout schedule. He wll post his diet and workout plan on his Fit 2 Fat 2 Fit website for others to follow.
Manning says he is aware that his lifelong love of fitness makes his experience different from his clients', but that he still has gained a lot of insight through the experiment. In his blog, he talks about developing cravings for sweet and fatty foods that he never craved before, the physical discomforts caused by the added weight, and feeling self-conscious and unconfident. In one blog post, he describes what he says was his lowest emotional point: finding himself too tired and unfit to play with his 2-year-old daughter.
"Now I know this is different for me than it is for others. I will have to get back in shape and this is all part of a journey that I'm documenting through this website, but the emotion is still real," Manning says. "I think others that are overweight must have similar 'moments.' While I've personally experienced those individuals saying 'enough is enough' and shedding the pounds, what makes me most sad is knowing there are people that feel they can't/won't change, and accept what they may lose due to their current lifestyle."
Would you do the same thing or encourage your trainers to do something similar to better connect to your members?