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Ennis House
National Register of Historic Places (October 14, 1971), California Historical Landmark (October 14, 1971), Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (March 3, 1976)
Frank Lloyd Wright was commissioned by Charles Ennis and his wife Mabel to build them a 6,000 square foot house.
The Ennis House is a two story concrete masonry structure arranged along the slope of a hill along a longitudinal axis. The entry is situated at the west end of the house, across from the motor court and garage at the west end of the site. The entrance is characteristically Wrightian in that a low, dark foyer prefaces the dramatic procession up into a high, light-filled space. The upper floor serves as the primary level, linking a dense cluster of social spaces organized around the entrance stair above the foyer. Two private bedrooms are located along the eastern end of a long colonnaded gallery. The gallery unites and defines the overall composition of the house and interweaves the interior rooms with extensive outdoor terraces.
The exterior walls of the house – unlike the other three textile block houses – are battered in a manner similar to the Hollyhock House, though here the effect is achieved by offsetting the stacked textile blocks. The flat roof and ceiling are made from teak and are not expressed on the elevation.
The textile block walls which characterize the heavy massing of the house were designed and constructed as cavity walls to allow for visual continuity of material into the interior. The blocks were left 'natural' in tone and use an aggregate found on the site as a means of integrally linking the house to its site. Due to the modular nature of the concrete textile blocks, each major programmatic space is articulated as a separate, yet integrally connected volume.
The Ennis House – and the textile blocks which comprise it – was assembled on site by hand. Aluminum molds were used for casting, but due to the imprecise nature of molding on site, there was a considerable margin of error amongst the blocks. The structure's double wall design helped to accommodate the imprecision of each component, but a good deal of shimming was required, complicating and extending the construction process. According to Frank Lloyd Wright, "None of the advantages which the system was designed to have were had in the construction of these models. We had no organization. Prepared the moulds experimentally. Picked up 'Moyana' men in the Los Angeles street, and started them making and setting blocks – The work consequently was roughly done and wasteful. None of the accuracy which is essential to economy in manufacture nor any benefit of organization was achieved in these models.'
The innate drama of the Ennis house is underscored by its siting high in the hills behind the Los Feliz neighborhood in Los Angeles. Its longitudinal orientation is informed by the shape of the site and Glendower Avenue, which wraps around the site on three sides. Though the two long facades of the house are nearly identical in character, each side's relationship to the site is very different. The north facade more intimately relates with the hill extending about it, while the south facade's upper terraces extend down to the ground in great retaining walls viewable from the city below.
The textile block used at the Ennis, Storer, Freeman and Millard houses was so named for the method of laying steel rods horizontally and vertically along grooves inset into the edges of the blocks, much as a warp and a weft interweave in a textile. In theory, once the blocks were stacked and rods laid, grout would be poured into the cores, locking the steel with the concrete block. By weaving steel reinforcing rods within the grid of blocks, the design eliminated the need for a plastic mortar joint between blocks. This in turn eliminated the need for skilled stone masons on the job, theoretically decreasing the cost of labor of the project. Various patterns could be cast into the face of the 3-1/2" thick blocks during manufacturing to lend specificity to the otherwise standard nature of the components. At Ennis House, a single, asymmetrically patterned block type is used in alternating courses as well as to graphically delineate openings. Double walls of the textile blocks were used as a means of keeping moisture out of the interior with steel wires placed 32" on center to keep the double walls tied together.
The Ennis house was constructed as a personal residence for Charles Ennis and his wife. Despite the vastness of the building, however, the main house only has two bedrooms. Charles Ennis only lived in the house for four years, until his death in 1928. His wife Mabel Ennis then sold the house in 1936. A series of owners followed in succession until Gus Brown donated the house to the Trust for Preservation of Cultural Heritage in 1980. As much as the house has been praised for its monumentality, it has also received criticism for a general lack of domestic character.
The compositional flexibility afforded by the textile block is evidenced by each of the four textile block houses. The material's modularity places formal emphasis on clear geometric massing, which clearly distinguishes these houses from the low-lying horizontality of Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie houses. In addition, the integration of pattern into the building's structural components developed out of Wright's conception of unifying architecture and decoration.
In the early 1920s, Frank Lloyd Wright built a series of four experimental "textile block" houses in Los Angeles. After designing his first California commission – the Hollyhock House for Aline Barnsdall – in 1921, and while finishing the second Imperial Hotel in Japan (1915-1923), Wright shifted his focus towards developing a method for affordable residential building. Wright became interested in the potential of concrete block as a means to simplify the process of construction. He resolved to elevate the ubiquitous material into a "noble" one through the application of unifying geometric motifs as wells as through the concealment of joints and reinforcing.
Of the four textile block houses constructed – the Millard House, Freeman House, Storer House and Ennis House – the Ennis House was the last to be designed and built. Wright designed the house for the businessman Charles Ennis and his wife Mabel. At 6,000 square feet, it is the largest of the textile block houses to be constructed. Its design was also the most monumental of the four, an effect compounded by its prominent siting on a hill at the top of Vermont Boulevard in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles.
The set of four textile block houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles in the early 1920s is notable for Wright's effort to prototype a flexible and affordable construction method for modern dwellings. The Ennis House, in particular, is significant for Wright's attempt to establish a local architectural vocabulary for Los Angeles by drawing on Mayan motifs and forms. He extended those themes he had tested in his first Los Angeles residence, the Hollyhock House, and articulated them through his new textile block system. Yet while the set of houses serve as the paradigm for Wright's textile block system, their experimental nature and imprecise construction have left them each in precarious condition. The Ennis House has suffered the greatest deal of damage, from destabilizing natural disasters to detrimental remedial measures. Despite extensive restoration efforts already taken, the house will continue to require a great deal of maintenance if it is to live on into the foreseeable future.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, "In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright, 1887-1941,"New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 75-77; Kanner, Diane, "A First Peek Inside Wright," Los Angeles Times, March 23, 1980. Maddex, Diane, "Fifty Favorite Houses by Frank Lloyd Wright,"Thames&Hudson, 2000, 63-69; Pfeffer, Bruce Brooks and Yukio Futagawa, "Frank Lloyd Wright Selected Houses 8," ADA Edita, 6-18, 92-96; Reborn, A.N., "Frank Lloyd Wright's Textile-Block Slab Construction," The Architectural Record, Vol. 62 No. 6, Dec. 1927, 448-452; Storrer, William Allin, "The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright," 217; Wright, Eric Lloyd, "Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Automatics," in "Frank Lloyd Wright|The Houses," Rizzoli 2006, 458. Zimmerman, Scott, "Guide to Frank Lloyd Wright's California," Peregrine Smith Book Co., 1992, 20-24; "Frank Lloyd Wright: textile block houses," Space design 1984 Sept., no.240, p.63-78; "The pioneering age of concrete blocks: Frank
Lloyd Wright's textile-block houses,"Detail Apr. 2003, Vol. 43 Issue 4, 310; "Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House for Sale," Los Angeles Conservancy, LA Conservancy Website, http://www.laconservancy.org/issues/issues_ennis.php4


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It is currently only available to non-junior affiliated Adults and is NOT upgradeable or refundable.
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University of Toronto. University College fonds
- Fonds
- ca. 1820s - ca. 2000
This fonds contains 19 accessions from University College. See accession-level descriptions for more details.
University of Toronto. University College
University of Toronto. University College fonds
This fonds contains 19 accessions from University College. See accession-level descriptions for more details.
University of Toronto. University College
The fonds consists of writings, including memoirs, plays, and academic papers; materials relating to Trinity College and the University of Toronto; correspondence; printed materials; financial records; the records of the executor; and photographs ...
Ashley, Charles Allan
Mostly G.F. Tracy's teaching materials such as teaching notes, graphs, engineering drawings, film, mark books and student references. There are also research notes, created mainly in the 1920's, and subject files. No personal records or ...
Tracy, Gordon Frederick
Personal records of the Davidson Black family, covering three generations, with particular reference to Davidson Black, the discoverer of Peking Man. Included are his diaries, extensive family correspondence and a few professional letters; files ...
Black (Davidson) Family
Records of Joan Winearls, map librarian at the University of Toronto, consisting of correspondence, course and lecture notes, addresses, diaries, articles, research files for and drafts of the manuscript of "Mapping Upper Canada, 1780-1867&qu...
Winearls, Joan
Fonds consists of 2 accessions:B1983-0036: Annotated copy of Prof. Taylor's book, "Environment and Nation: geographical factors in the cultural and political history of Europe. University of Chicago Press, 1946. 2nd revised edition. See...
Taylor, Thomas Griffith
These personal records consist mainly of records documenting Clara Benson's non-professional activities such as work with the Women's Athletic Association of the University of Toronto, the YWCA and her relationship with family members and friends....
Benson, Clara Cynthia
Copies of original land surveys including 1828 land survey of the purchase of King College lands. Microfilm and paper copies of survey plans of Royal Ontario Museum property, and Trinity College. Original records held by City of Toronto Archives.
Speight & Van Nostrand
Fonds consists of a portfolio of technical drawings, maps and charts prepared by William Campbell Murdie while a student of engineering at the University of Toronto, 1913-1914, and 2 photographs.
Murdie, William Campbell
Certificates, degrees, photoprints, maps and related material documenting the activities of Charles Park Muckle and his daughter, Alice May Muckle, as students and alumni of the University of Toronto; includes University of Toronto Campus Map. [&...
Muckle Family
Thomas Forsyth McIlwraith fonds
The T.F. McIlwraith fonds consists of records documenting McIlwraith's training and career as an anthropologist as well as his roles as an administrator and professor at the University of Toronto. Covering three separate accessions, material prima...
McIlwraith, Thomas Forsyth
University of Toronto. Department of History of Art/Graduate Department of Art fonds
Fonds consists of 15 accessions from the Department of History of Art/Graduate Department of Art and its predecessors .A2012-0006: Records of the Kommos excavation project, assembled primarily by Professor Joseph W. Shaw, and consisting of corresp...
University of Toronto. Department of History of Art/Graduate Department of Art
Fonds consists of records documenting the career of John Galbraith as a Dominion land surveyor and as Director and Dean of the School of Practical Science / Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering. Includes: letterbooks; correspondence; diaries...
Galbraith, John
Records documenting the activities of two generations of the Clark family who attended the University of Toronto between 1892 and 1937, as well as Osgoode Hall Law School: Herbert Abraham and his children: William Herbert David, E. Ritchie, Harrie...
Clark, Herbert Abraham
Fonds consists of 3 accessionsB2003-0023 (7 boxes, 1892-1921): This accession documents the short life of Gerald Edward Blake from his birth in 1892, his education at Ridley College and the University of Toronto, to his death on the battlefields o...
Blake, Gerald Edward
Fonds consists of 2 accessions:B1985-0015: Certificates, awards, and other honours collected by Gus Rinella (BASc, 1985) as a student at De La Salle Catholic School, Toronto, and as an undergraduate in engineering at the University of Toronto; fil...
Rinella, Agostino Cosimo
Elisabeth Steel Livingston Govan fonds
Series consists of 2 accessions:B1979-0027: Consists of correspondence, personal papers (diary notes, financial), filing cards, Faculty of Social Work course materials, student research reports, files on voluntary and aid organizations, associatio...
Govan, Elisabeth Steel Livingston
Fonds consists of 2 accessions:B1975-0031: Handwritten notebooks of students and Dr. Franks used for recording experiments including index, summary notes and numbered laboratory slides. One oversize folder containing plan of Banting Institute date...
Franks, Wilbur Rounding
Martin Lawrence Friedland fonds
Fonds consists of five accessions of records documenting the life of Martin L. Friedland, as a student, professor of law and administrator at the University of Toronto; as an expert on legal matters and a contributor to the formation of public pol...
Friedland, Martin Lawrence
Kate A. Foster Papers (Downsview Offsite)
The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, programmes, reports, articles and speeches relating to the Council of Friendship and its work with immigrants.
Foster, Kate A.
University of Toronto. Department of Behavioural Science fonds
Fonds contains 2 accessions from the Department of Behavioural Science. See accession-level description for details.
University of Toronto. Department of Behavioural Science
University of Toronto. Office of the Bursar fonds
This fonds contains 4 accessions of records from the Office of the Bursar. See accession-level descriptions for details.
University of Toronto. Office of the Bursar
Wilson (John Tuzo) Family fonds
Correspondence, manuscripts, lecture notes, notes, minutes, addresses, diaries, certificates, scrapbooks, photographs and maps documenting the career of Professor J. Tuzo Wilson as geophysicist and administrator. Included are files that belonged t...
Wilson (John Tuzo) family
University of Toronto. Office of the Vice-President and Provost fonds
This fonds contains 56 accessions of records from the Office of the Vice-President and Provost and its various vice-provostial and vice-presidential offices, including defunct or dissolved offices, as well as the Office of the Vice-President, Univ...
University of Toronto. Office of the Vice-President and Provost
This fonds documents the administrative and teaching duties of Robert Spencer, as a Professor Emeritus of History and a specialist in European history, especially German history in the 19th and 20th centuries. They also document his education and ...
Spencer, Robert Allan
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Papers
The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge fonds consists primarily of textual records that document the developmental phases and operation of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, and the administrative activities of the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge C...
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company
Louis Melzak Collection of Canadian Historical Documents
Consists of various documents, maps, letters and bound volumes acquired by Louis Melzak. The majority of the items relate to the Morris and McLean families which had been collected in a scrapbook by Edmund Morris. The letters and documents had bee...
Melzack, Louis
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, notebooks, drafts for articles and books, family papers, maps, large collection of photographs, clippings and memorabilia.
Tyrrell, Joseph Burr
The collection consists of correspondence, notebooks and diaries, drafts for Tyrrell's writings, survey plans and maps, photographs relating to his family and work, and ephemera.
Tyrrell, J. W. (James Williams)
The collection consists of daily bird journals (1923-2000), daily bird records (1922-1949), first and last sightings records (1922-1990), and research records on the American Robin and the Lincoln Sparrow (1930s-1940s).
Speirs, J. Murray (John Murray)
The collection consists of holograph manuscripts and copies of manuscripts by Thompson, including two drafts for his projected book: a narrative account of his explorations in western America from 1784 to 1812. It also includes several sketches of...
Thompson, David
Fonds consists of 2 accessionsB1986-0018: Personal records of Alexander Brady, consisting of addresses, correspondence and diaries; course and lecture and research notes; administrative files (Department of Political Economy) and subject files; ma...
Brady, Alexander
University of Toronto. Office of the President fonds
This fonds contains 75 accessions. See accession-level descriptions for more detailsA1966-0003: Biographies of honorary degree recipients, eulogies and miscellaneous speeches and publications of Robert Alexander Falconer.A1967-0007: Correspondenc...
University of Toronto. Office of the President
Contains the manuscripts and research of David G. Rempel, primarily on the topic of Mennonite life in pre-Revolutionary Russia. This collection includes the manuscripts of Rempel's brother Johann (John) Gerhard Rempel, which have been translated b...
Rempel, David G.
When Dr. Solandt started donating his personal records to the University of Toronto Archives in 1988, beginning with his certificates and diplomas, the richness, diversity, and volume of the material still to come was only hinted at. Over the next...
Solandt, O. M.
University of Toronto Libraries. Map and Data Library fonds
This fonds contains 3 accessions from the University of Toronto's Map and Data Library
University of Toronto Libraries. Map and Data Library
Thomas F. McIlwraith (Jr.) fonds
This accession mainly documents Prof. McIlwraith role as a teacher. Records in Series 1: Teaching, Series 2: Field Trips, and most records in Series 4: Tenure Documentation, focus on courses he taught from 1970 to 2003. His heritage work and his...
McIlwraith, Thomas Forsyth, Jr.
University of Toronto Mississauga fonds
This fonds contains 11 accessions of records from the University of Toronto Mississauga, formerly known as Erindale College. See accession-level descriptions for details.
University of Toronto Mississauga
University of Toronto. Department of Engineering Drawing fonds
This fonds contains 1 accession. See accession-level description for details.
University of Toronto. Department of Engineering Drawing
University of Toronto. Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering fonds
This fonds from the Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering contains 6 accessions. See accession-level descriptions for details.
University of Toronto. Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
Papers of Professor James Herbert White, Professor Emeritus of Forestry, consisting of student notebooks, field notes, correspondence, publications, and maps. The last include oversized maps relating to a forest regeneration project in Ontario (1...
White, J. H. (James Herbert)
Black and white topographical drawing by Francis Grant Marriot (BASc. 1905) which would have been produced as part of his course work as a student of the School of Practical Science.
Marriott, Francis Grant
Correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, manuscripts, articles, brochures, reviews, photoprints and maps documenting the production of the Economic Atlas of Ontario which appeared in 1969. The project was directed by Professor William Dean of t...
Dean, William George


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The puppeteer who performs as Elmo on 'Sesame Street' is taking a leave of absence from the popular kids' show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy. (Nov. 12) AP
He is said to have had sex with a boy, 16.
You know his voice.
And now the man behind Sesame Street's famous ticklish muppet Elmo, Kevin Clash, is becoming known.
News is emerging that Clash, 52, has taken a leave of absence from the kids show following allegations that he had a relationship with a boy, who was 16.
The Sesame Workshop says the puppeteer denies the charges, which were first made in June by the alleged partner, who by then had turned 23.
UPDATE, 1:55 p.m. ET: Clash has issued a statement to USA TODAY's Gary Levin about the relationship: "I am a gay man. I have never been ashamed of this or tried to hide it, but felt it was a personal and private matter. I had a relationship with the accuser. It was between two consenting adults and I am deeply saddened that he is trying to characterize it as something other than what it was. I am taking a break from Sesame Workshop to deal with this false and defamatory allegation."
TMZ says Clash has acknowledged the relationship, but says it took place only after the boy was a consenting adult.
In a statement issued early Monday, Sesame Workshop said its investigation found the allegation of underage conduct to be unsubstantiated.
"We took the allegation very seriously and took immediate action," says Sesame Street. "We met with the accuser twice and had repeated communications with him. We met with Kevin, who denied the accusation. We also conducted a thorough investigation and found the allegation of underage conduct to be unsubstantiated. Although this was a personal relationship unrelated to the workplace, our investigation did reveal that Kevin exercised poor judgment and violated company policy regarding Internet usage and he was disciplined."
Sesame Street goes on to say: "Kevin insists that the allegation of underage conduct is false and defamatory and he is taking actions to protect his reputation. We have granted him a leave of absence to do so."
No duration for the leave was specified. Clash has voiced and animated Elmo since the 1980s.


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How much violence is acceptable level?
I was watching the news and saw that the 30th homicide in San Jose caused a letter from an assemblywoman to the police chief of San Jose that stated violence is "spiraling out of control."
As I write, there have been 78 homicides in Oakland.
How much does it take for violence in Oakland to "spiral out of control" — or what level is it just acceptable?
Chris Stallworth
Mountain House
Must refuse to accept shootings and guns
On Aug. 15, I was shot in the leg. I was walking my bicycle into my front yard at the time.
The shooter never told me he was armed, never said he would shoot me.
He had four other men to back him up. With their help, he could easily have restrained me and stolen my personal property without the gun.
What did pulling the trigger do for either of us? I can no longer walk without assistance.
He stole a bag of my dirty laundry.
Neither benefited.
I was unarmed and will remain unarmed. Violence does not help us, our families or our neighborhood.
We cannot continue to live with such inhumanity in our midst.
It is not just for the shooter to put down his gun, but for us as neighbors to refuse to accept shootings and guns as a part of our communities.
If I had been carrying my own pistol, I expect that I would be dead right now — with five bullets in me instead of one.
The shooter ran from the scene with my dirty laundry. Neither of us got what we wanted.
Building a better world is hard work. It is much easier if we work together.
D.C. Carr
Should take care of our own first
This is regarding the Aug. 14 article, "Relief for immigrants."
What about relief for senior citizens on fixed incomes?
What about relief for a small business that is trying to hang on in this terrible economy?
What about relief for our own people who are homeless and have lost their jobs?
Also, Medicare is cutting funds to hospitals and doctors. Are we going to have our streets full of homeless and sick people?
This is not the vision I had for my senior years as a citizen of this country. I think all of us citizens deserve better.
Let the countries where these people come from take care of them. We have many problems of our own to take care of.
Dorothy Allen
San Leandro
Haters never let facts get in way
An Aug. 15 letter showed a skewed Middle East reality, and ignored essential facts:
Israel occupied the West Bank after repelling an attack by Jordan, which occupied the West Bank since 1948.
From 1967 to 1994, Arabs of the West Bank had an annual 7 percent economic growth; after the Palestinian Authority began its rule of terror, GDP plummeted — not because of Israel.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, whose term expired January 2009, was (per Abu Daoud) the source of funding for the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
The Palestinian Authority has received billions of dollars of aid, most being pocketed by corrupt leadership, the squalor of whose populous is planned manipulation.
Gaza is ruled by the Islamist Hamas government, where women are second-class citizens, and being an LGBT is a capital offense.
Schools teach children to aspire to murder Israelis. Those who murder Jews are idolized and have parks named after them.
As one again sees, those who hate never let verifiable facts get in the way of that hate.
Bruce Taragin


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A malfunction caused a bomb to smoke rather than explode at a high school in Utah and the student in question has been found to have been inspired by ISIS.
OVERSTOCK, PATRICK BYRNE, RUSSIA EXPLAINED: Everything you need to know
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Three might be a crowd for most but not for Ilhan Omar, her husband and her brother hubby. This timeline will put things into perspective and layout the ongoing deception of Ilhan Omar and the two Ahmed's. Watch this clip and watch Glenn untangle the wild web of her husband and brother hubby and the fraud that ensued. Confused yet?
Canada is pushing the wokeness envelope with forced transgender waxing issue
Forget baking a cake for a gay wedding, this issue just took it up a notch. A transgender woman is suing because she was refused service because she still has the full male package. Watch this clip and hear Glenn and Stu tiptoe around the verbiage and weigh in on another issue you still just can't believe is making itself a part of our lives.
Glenn Beck celebrates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11
It was only 50 years ago, on July 20th, 1969, that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first humans to actually set foot on the lunar surface -- something that just ten years prior had been unthinkable. More than 600 million people around the world listened as Armstrong spoke these immortal words: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Watch the clip to hear Glenn tell the story and bring the historic day to life.


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March 21, 2016, 11:49 pm
P.J. Tucker scored 15 points on 4-of-9 shooting (1-of-3 3PTs, 6-of-7 FTs) with four rebounds, two assists, four steals and two blocks in the Suns' home loss to the Grizzlies on Monday.
Tucker is officially making noise and is a mid-round value over the last week or so, but prior to that he was really struggling and he hasn't been the plodding but consistent low-end value from the past. Tyson Chandler missed the second half with a back injury and if he bows out then the Suns would rely on Tucker a lot more, and in general they're in the first of two four-game weeks so there are some reasons to consider a pickup.
Fantasy News
September 17, 2019, 11:25 pmLonzo BallPG, New Orleans Pelicans
According to Andrew Lopez, Lonzo Ball and Brandon Ingram have been full participants in voluntary team workouts.
It's great news for the two former number two picks as they enter their age-22 seasons with a fresh start. Neither Ball nor Ingram has played in 60 games in either of the past two seasons due to injuries. Ingram has never cracked the top 110/170 (8-cat/9-cat), but he could easily beat that in New Orleans with a quick tempo and new role. Ball had a top 60/85 finish in his rookie season, so there's definitely upside here. Lonzo does have a very wide range of possible outcomes, so draft him only if you're feeling risky.
Source: Andrew Lopez on Twitter
September 17, 2019, 7:04 pmYante MatenPF, Miami Heat
The Celtics are signing F Yante Maten to an Exhibit 10 contract on Tuesday.
Maten had a strong season with the Skyforce in the G-League last year averaging 23.5 points and 9.6 rebounds per game. He was also productive in Summer League action with the Heat this summer.
Source: Adam Himmelsbach on Twitter
September 17, 2019, 12:43 pmPaul MillsapPF, Denver Nuggets
Paul Millsap, Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray are all candidates for "load management" next season, according to Nick Kosmider of The Athletic
This is pure speculation by Kosmider, but this does hold some weight after the Nuggets' playoff run last season and the league-wide popularity of resting players. Millsap would seem to be at the most significant risk to get rested due to his age and quality of depth behind him. Jerami Grant and Mason Plumlee would be the biggest beneficiaries should Jokic or Millsap miss time.
Source: The Athletic
September 17, 2019, 12:35 pmThabo SefoloshaSF, Utah Jazz
Thabo Sefolosha is among the attendees at Rockets minicamp in Las Vegas with a host of other notable free agents this week.
Sefolosha will be joined by the likes of Nick Young, Luc Mbah a Moute, Raymond Felton, Terrence Jones and Corey Brewer. The odds of someone making the Rockets' roster increased with Iman Shumpert declining an offer sheet from the team.
Source: Kelly Iko on Twitter
September 17, 2019, 12:21 pmIman ShumpertSG, Free Agent
Per Shams Charania of The Athletic, Iman Shumpert has decided to decline the contract offer from the Rockets and will not attend team minicamp in Las Vegas this week.
It'll be back to the drawing board for Shumpert. It's unsure exactly where he'll end up now, or if he and the Rockets will come to a new agreement in the future. Shump can get steals and threes, but otherwise isn't much of a fantasy asset, unless he finds himself in an ideal situation.
Source: Shams Charania on Twitter
September 17, 2019, 10:01 amAnthony DavisPF, Los Angeles Lakers
After an extraordinary summer of 2019, which saw a cavalcade of stars change teams, executives around the league expect that this year's transaction wires will be dominated by the trade market.
"We've been getting calls all summer," one general manager said. "I think if you look at the market, there is going to be a very robust trade market this winter for a few reasons." The big driver figures to be the open, empty crater that the 2020 free-agent class has become. Teams hoping to make significant changes in their direction won't have free agency to lean on and trades will be the only way to go. If you enjoyed the twist and turns that came with the very busy NBA free-agency period this summer, then buckle up as the trade market means more could be on the way this season.
Source: Sean Deveney on Twitter
September 17, 2019, 9:51 amMichael BeasleyPF, Free Agent
The Shanxi Loongs of the Chinese Basketball Association are trying to bring Michael Beasley back to China.
Beasley agreed to terms with the Pistons last month but he never officially signed with them as the team opted to go with Joe Johnson instead. Beasley has already played in China with Shanghai, Shandong and last year with Guangdong averaging 22.4 points, 9.8 rebounds and 4.4 assists.
Source: Sportando
September 17, 2019, 9:07 amJustin SimonPG, Chicago Bulls
Former St. John's guard Justin Simon has signed an Exhibit-10 contract with the Bulls.
Simon is 6'5" and went undrafted out of St. John's, where he averaged 10.4 points and 5.1 rebounds last season, while also being named the Big East Defensive Player of the Year. The Bulls currently have 14 players on guaranteed contracts with guard Shaquille Harrison all but locked in to the 15th and final one, so that means Simon is likely headed to the Windy City Bulls of the G League.
Source: Adam Zagora on Twitter
September 16, 2019, 6:33 pmMychal MulderPG, Miami Heat
The Heat have announced the signing of guard Mychal Mulder.
Mulder played last season with the Windy City Bulls of the G-League and averaged 8.8 points in Summer League this year. He has good range but is unlikely to contribute much at the NBA level in 2019-20.
Source: Miami Heat
September 16, 2019, 6:13 pmVincent PoirierC, Boston Celtics
Nicolas Batum praised the play of Celtics center Vincent Poirier at the FIBA World Cup.
According to Batum, Poirier "is a center that can block shots and control the paint." A native of France, Poirier has performed well over six seasons in Europe. Nevertheless, he should only be a depth option for the Celtics with Enes Kanter starting.
Source: NBC Sports Boston


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April is Poetry Month, the Academy of American Poets tells us. In 2012, there were seven thousand four hundred and twenty-seven poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to poetry, the numerousness is astonishing; in April of 1948, there were fifteen readings in the United States, twelve by Robert Frost.
So I claim. The figures are imaginary but you get the point.
Whenever a poet comes to the end of a poetry reading, she pauses a moment, then, as a signal for applause, says, "Thank you," and nods her head. Hands clap, and she says, "Thank you," again, to more applause. Sometimes she says it one more time, or he does. How else does the audience know that the reading might not go on for six hours?
For better or worse, poetry is my life. After a reading, I enjoy the question period. On a tour in Nebraska I read poems to high-school kids, a big auditorium. When I finished, someone wanted to know how I got started. I said that at twelve I loved horror movies, then read Edgar Allan Poe, then… A young man up front waved his hand. I paused in my story. He asked, "Didn't you do it to pick up chicks?"
I remembered cheerleaders at Hamden High School. "It works better," I told him, "when you get older."
It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road. He spoke well, his metre accommodating his natural sentences, and in between poems he made people laugh. At times, he played the chicken farmer, cute and countrified, eliciting coos of delight from an adoring audience. Once I heard him do this routine, then attended the post-reading cocktail party where he ate deviled eggs, sipped martinis, and slaughtered the reputations of Eliot, Williams, Stevens, Moore…
Back then, other famous poets read aloud only two or three times a year. If they were alive now, probably they could make a better living saying their poems than they did as an editor at Faber and Faber, or an obstetrician, or an insurance-company executive, or a Brooklyn librarian.
In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three. The London Times remarked on my "appropriately lugubrious voice." When I first did a full-length poetry reading, three years later, my arms plunged stiff from my shoulders, my voice was changeless in pitch and volume, my face rigid, expressionless, pale—as if I were a collaborator facing a firing squad.
A question period for undergraduates at a Florida college began with the usual stuff: What is the difference between poetry and prose? Then I heard a question I had never heard before: "How do you reconcile being a poet with being president of Hallmark cards?" This inquisitive student had looked on the Internet, and learned that the man who runs that sentiment factory is indeed Donald Hall.
It's a common name. Once before a reading a man asked me, "Are you Donald Hall?"
"Yes," I said.
"So am I," he said.
When my first book came out, in 1955, it was praised. I did a second book, my poems appeared in magazines—but nobody asked me to speak them out loud. I taught at the University of Michigan, which sponsored no readings. To my students, I recited great poems with gusto and growing confidence—Wyatt, Keats, Dickinson, Whitman, Yeats, Hardy—and worked on performance without knowing it. It was a shock when, late in the decade, a lecture agent telephoned to offer a fee for reading my poems at a college. It happened again, and I flew off on days when I didn't teach. Michigan paid minimal salaries, and most teachers amplified their incomes by plodding to summer school. I stayed home and wrote instead of employing the Socratic method in a suffocating classroom.
As the phone kept ringing, I supposed that poetry readings were some sort of fad, like cramming into phone booths; I would enjoy it as long as it lasted.
When my generation learned to read aloud, publishing from platforms more often than in print, we heard our poems change. Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning sound was imagined through the eye. Gradually the mouth-juice of vowels, or mouth-chunk of consonants, gave body to poems in performance. Dylan Thomas showed the way. Charles Olson said that "form is never more than an extension of content." Really, content is only an excuse for oral sex. The most erotic poem in English is "Paradise Lost."
In concentrating on sound, as in anything else, there are things to beware of. Revising a poem one morning, I found myself knowing that a new phrase was repellent, but realized it would pass if I intoned it out loud. Watch out. A poem must work from the platform but it must also work on the page. My generation started when poetry was print, before it became sound. We were lucky to practice both modes at once.
A chairman of English warned a friend of mine about her approaching audience. "They're required to attend," he said. "They don't listen to anything. Sometimes in class I ask them to open a window, or to close it, just to see if they're alive." He sighed a deep sigh, as ponderous as tenure. "I don't know what I'd do if The New Yorker didn't come on Thursdays."
It's alleged that Homer said his poems aloud, though perhaps it was more like improv over centuries. Somewhat later, we learn, Tennyson read his poems to Queen Victoria, but we don't know much more. In the nineteen-thirties, William Butler Yeats travelled by train from east coast to west, but the master of poetic noise didn't speak his verses. At universities, to butter his bread, he read the typescript of a lecture called "Three Great Irishmen." Maybe poets used to be paid not to say their poems?
By chance, I had been an undergraduate at the one college in America with an endowed meagre series of poetry readings. Eliot was good, but most performances were insufferable—superb poems spoken as if they were lines from the telephone book. William Carlos Williams read too quickly in a high-pitched voice, but seemed to enjoy himself. Wallace Stevens appeared to loathe his beautiful work, making it flat and half-audible. (Maybe he thought of how the boys in the office would tease him.) Marianne Moore's tuneless drone was as eccentric as her inimitable art. When she spoke between poems, she mumbled in the identical monotone. Since she frequently revised or cut her things, a listener had to concentrate, to distinguish poems from talk. After twenty minutes, she looked distressed, and said, "Thank you." When Dylan Thomas read, I hovered above my auditorium seat as I heard him say Yeats's "Lapis Lazuli." He read his own poems afterward, fabricated for his rich and succulent Welsh organ. I found myself floating again. In four American visits, from 1950 to 1954, when he died in New York, Thomas read his poems many times at many places, from New York's Poetry Center through dozens of western colleges. Frost's eminence among poetry readers disappeared for a time.
In a question period I launched into my familiar rant about dead metaphors, asserting that when "I am glued to the chair" equals "I am anchored to the spot," we claim that a tugboat is Elmer's glue. This afternoon, I was obsessed with dead metaphors of disability: the crippled economy, blind ambition, deaf to entreaties, the paralysis of industry, and…
At the end I summed up my argument. Guileless, I said, "All these metaphors are lame."
Why was everyone laughing?
Late in the fifties, poetry readings erupted in the United States suddenly and numerously. Probably it was because of Dylan Thomas's readings, though there was a gap before the volcano exploded. His popularity was not only on account of his voice or his verse. Thomas was a star, and most people came to his readings because of the Tales of Master Dylan—vast drunkenness, creative obscenity at parties, botched seductions, nightly comas—but if people attended because of his celebrity, at least they were going to a poetry reading. Maybe the explosion of readings was also because of a cultural change. Songs were no longer Tin Pan Alley, and the lyrics were worth heeding. When everyone listened to Bob Dylan, they heard lines that resembled poetry. When people heard memorable language sung from platforms, they became able to hear poems recited in auditoriums. The University of Michigan began to schedule poetry readings every Tuesday at 4 P.M. A gathering of students, sometimes three hundred, attended each week, and absorbed what they listened to. A few days after one reading, I met Sarah, a friend of my daughter's. She recited a stanza from Tuesday's poet. "You've been reading her books!" I said. "Oh, no," she said. Sarah remembered the words.
Once, after a circuit reading, my driver left me at a house for a party. I would spend the night there, while he went to a motel to get some sleep, and he would pick me up the next morning at six. The party was good; the party was long. These were the days when people drank liquor. Our host drooped asleep on the sofa at 4 A.M., which was apparently his daily wont. I didn't notice, because I was flirting with a pretty woman, whose husband stood dazed beside her, until he emerged into consciousness to attack me. His fist aimed at my jaw, but moved so slowly that I was able to duck. Three minutes later, we became friends forever, and at 6 A.M. I stood on the sidewalk, waiting for my escort to drive me to the next reading, the next party.
Poets love to tell stories about readings. After a woman friend performed in Mississippi one winter, a man handed her a heavy box of typewriter paper, saying, "I want to share my poems with you." When she glanced through "Verses of a Sergeant Major, Ret.," she found it unreadable. Telling me about it, she asserted that share has become a verb of assault disguised as magnanimity. "Unless you read my poems, I will gouge your eyeballs out."
Bert Hornback ran the Tuesday readings in Ann Arbor, supplementing the English department's pittance by appealing to university administrators for discretionary funds. After ten years of weekly readings, he burned out, and watched as the feckless department drooped to holding a reading a year. He decided to see what he could do by himself. On a January day in the eighties, he borrowed the university's Rackham Auditorium, sold tickets for a joint poetry reading—five-fifty each, fifty cents for Ticketmaster—and invited some friends to do a joint reading: Wendell Berry, Galway Kinnell, and Seamus Heaney. On a Friday night—against a basketball home game, against the Chicago Symphony—Bert filled eleven hundred seats with paying poetry fans. The Fire Department permitted a hundred standing-room-only tickets, which sold out, and Bert added further S.R.O.s when the Fire Department wasn't looking. Unexpected vanloads arrived from Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Each poet read for forty minutes, and after a break did ten minutes more. Outside, the crowd without tickets sulked and grumbled. It was said that scalpers charged as much as fifty dollars.
A Dodge festival in New Jersey was massive with poets, schoolteachers, and school kids. Each poet did panels, question periods, and readings. The first night, all twenty-five poets read, a few minutes each, to a crowd of three thousand. Nobody sitting at the back of the tent could have seen a poet's face if the festival had not enlarged each visage on a screen like the Dallas Cowboys'. For closeups, the Dodge employed a black, jointed steel arm, a foot thick and fifty feet long, which curled and lurched its camera back and forth, grabbing each facial detail in its metallic tentacles. It looked as if it were searching for a source of protein.
A week after the readings and lectures of the festival, a recent Pulitzer poet received a thick letter from a woman in South Carolina who had fallen in love. The envelope was heavy with amorous poems, and she told him that there were ninety-five more, but she didn't have the stamps. She attached a photograph of a mature woman in front of a ranch house, and implored him to fly down immediately. She sent an airline ticket with blank dates.
It's O.K. to be pleased when an audience loves you, or treat you as deathless, but you must not believe them. If a poet is any good, how would the listeners know? Poets have no notion of their own durability or distinction. When poets announce that their poems are immortal, they are depressed or lying or psychotic. Interviewing T. S. Eliot, I saved my cheekiest question for last. "Do you know if you're any good?" His revised and printed response was formal, but in person he was abrupt: "Heavens no! Do you? Nobody intelligent knows if he's any good." No honor, no publication proves anything. Look at an issue of the Atlantic in 1906; look at a Poetry from 1931. A Nobel Prize means nothing. Look in an almanac at the list of poets who have won a Pulitzer Prize; look at the sad parade of Poets Laureate.
Sometimes an audience is not three thousand. A friend of mine arrived at a hall to find that his listener was singular. They went out for a beer. I heard of another poet who showed up for a crowd of two. Gamefully, she did a full reading from the podium, and afterward descended to shake the hands of her crowd. One was dead.
When I was young, I could project, and now without a microphone I can't be heard in the tenth row. It's not only the debility of age. One's range is diminished by habitual use of microphones. (When stage actors spend twenty years making movies, they are inaudible when they return to Broadway or the West End.) But there are advantages to artificial enhancement. There's a poem in which I moo like a cow. Cows' lungs are bigger than ours. I approach the microphone intimately, and softly but audibly moo as long as a cow moos. Proximity to the microphone saves my wind as I croon, mm-mmm-mmmmm-mmmmmmmm-ugghwanchhh. My friends say it's the best line I've ever written.
After the group-talk of the question period comes the one-on-one. People line up for signatures. Sometimes the seeker dictates a dedication. "Say, 'With love to Billy and his adorable wife, Sheila, who makes a great pound cake.' " The signer should demur, or at least edit. Everyone in line must spell a name, or "Felicia" turns out to be "Phylysha." (Once, at a prep school, a boy asked me to write, "For Mom and Dad." I told him my parents were dead, and we worked things out.) If there are just a few in line, the poet can speak with them as if they were people. If the line is long, it becomes impossible to distinguish one petitioner from another. At the end stands the host—the man who invited the poet to the campus, who picked her up at the airport, with whom she had lengthy conversation, who will give her the check, who hands her a book to sign—and she has no idea of his name.
Some readings prove memorable for a single eccentricity. On an occasion in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, an orchestra was finishing rehearsal in the auditorium as the poetry reading was due to begin. The introducer and the poet carried music stands into the wings. In London, a reading was to begin at 6 P.M. in the ancient Church of St. Giles in the Fields. Evensong prevailed. Another time, in the state of Chiapas, in Mexico, eight writers sat onstage waiting hours for the governor to arrive. A large audience had departed by the time he walked in, surrounded by bodyguards with machine guns. In fatigue, we each read to the governor for five minutes. "Gracias," we said. "Gracias."
As I limped into my eighties, my readings altered, as everything did. Performance held up, but not body; I had to read sitting down. When an introduction slogged to its end, I lurched from backstage, hobbled, and carefully aimed my ass into a chair. For a while, I began each reading with a short poem I was trying out, which spoke of being twelve and watching my grandfather milk his Holsteins. In the poem I asked, in effect, how my grandfather would respond if he saw me now. When I finished saying the poem, there was always a grave pause, long enough to drive a hayrack through, followed by a standing ovation. I had never received a standing O after a first poem; now it happened again and again, from Pennsylvania to Minnesota to California, and I thought I had written an uncannily moving poem. When I mailed copies to friends for praise, they politely expressed their dismay. I was puzzled and distressed until I finally figured it out. The audience had just seen me stagger, wavering with a cane, and labor to sit down, wheezing. They imagined my grandfather horrified, seeing a cadaver gifted with speech. They stood and applauded because they knew they would never see me again.
Donald Hall published his final book of poems, "The Back Chamber," last autumn. This November, he will publish "Christmas at Eagle Pond," about New Hampshire in 1940. He may be reached via e-mail.
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AFL players ask to see ASADA files
AFL players issued show-cause notices from ASADA's investigation would be supported by their union to take legal action against Essendon if they are rubbed out of the sport.
On Wednesday, AFL Players Association (AFLPA) acting chief executive Ian Prendergast added the voice of the 34 players into an increasingly high-stakes battle.
With Essendon and James Hird taking their fight to the Federal Court, arguing the long-running investigation is illegal, Prendergast has asked ASADA to delay any further action until the court battle has played out.
In the murky environment created by the 17-month investigation, he is also demanding players receive the evidence briefs so that they can respond properly to their notices.
"Common sense would suggest you need to know the case that you're being asked to meet," Prendergast told Melbourne radio station SEN.
He foreshadowed legal action on behalf of the players if ASADA didn't comply.
"ASADA as a model litigant has a duty to provide players with the evidence ... if (ASADA) refuses to provide this information voluntarily, then the players will be forced to take legal action," he said.
Prendergast added that ASADA's chief executive Ben McDevitt had not complied with their request for their evidence briefs so far, with the organisation issuing a short statement.
"ASADA is always willing to consider any reasonable request by an athlete for an extension of time to lodge their submission to a show cause notice," it read.
"While this matter is before the court it would be inappropriate for ASADA to comment on matters related to discussions, or possible discussions, between ASADA and other parties."
Prendergast was not willing to discuss the potential of players to cut plea deals that could see any doping ban reduced to a matter of months, saying players did not believe they were guilty.
"There is nothing to suggest they should (receive penalties) given we haven't seen the evidence and players are of the view they haven't been administered the banned substance."
But he was willing to hedge his bets, arguing if penalties did arise he would be backing the players to launch action against Essendon or key individuals.
Prendergast said the club's environment in 2012 was "completely unacceptable" but added there was "plenty of water to go under the bridge" before action against Essendon might arise.
"That's certainly an option that will be available to players down the track, it's not our focus at the moment," he said.
"We'd support it, particularly the situation the players have been put in by the club."
With rumours of back-room deals being cut between the AFL, ASADA and Essendon circling, McDevitt has spruiked the possibility of leniency for cooperative players.
Aware of the need to cooperate, Prendergast also sought to distance the players from the Essendon injunction.
"Ben McDevitt has publicly urged players to come forward and cooperate with ASADA ... (he) seems to be suggesting players have not fully cooperated with ASADA," he said.
"Nothing could be further from the truth."
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Many environmental topics can create high levels of passion and polarization among readers, provoking letters to the editor either challenging or supporting a particular position. Certain environmental issues are comparable to religion and politics in generating a startling degree of fervor. Some individuals take intransigent positions that are so extreme that neither compromise nor neutrality is acceptable to them.
Let's answer some more questions this week.
Q: What are the most contentious environmental issues people ask you questions about and which ones cause the most intense disagreement?
A: Many environmental topics can create high levels of passion and polarization among readers, provoking letters to the editor either challenging or supporting a particular position. Certain environmental issues are comparable to religion and politics in generating a startling degree of fervor. Some individuals take intransigent positions that are so extreme that neither compromise nor neutrality is acceptable to them.
Q: On which environmental topics have you found people least willing to compromise?
A: The following are environmental issues on which some people take intractable positions and will not be swayed, regardless.
Climate change/global warming: Climate change is one of the most polarizing issues of our times, and the suite of agendas for being pro or con are numerous and varied. Virtually all ecologists, geologists, modelers, and meteorologists worldwide accept as fact that the earth has warmed and cooled measurably at various times during the past 4 billion years and that climates continually change on a global scale. Debate about and challenges to such claims revolve around whether the changes over the past century or so are appreciably different from historical changes. But the most critical point of contention is whether the causes of climate change, assuming such causes are valid, are man-made (carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels) and whether global or national controls should be put in place to limit them.
My position is that if humans are polluting the atmosphere to a level that global temperatures are changing, we should change our behavior. However, I am also a realist and I recognize that this will not happen voluntarily because of the "tragedy of the commons." The concept, addressed by the ecologist Garrett Hardin in 1968, highlights situations in which certain individuals are rewarded for overconsumption whereas the group is penalized when a resource is not sustainable or is itself broadly detrimental. If global climate change is being caused by human activities, it would be in society's best interest for everyone to be conservative in their use of fossil fuels. However, human nature being what it is, some individuals will not conform to change for the greater good as long as they receive personal benefits and minimal discomfort compared to the rest of society. No simple solution is forthcoming.
Radiation and nuclear reactors: The positions taken about radiation with regard to politics, human health, the environment and commerce reach emotional levels that rival those about climate change. Nuclear power reactors are considered by many scientists to be the only long-term sustainable source of energy on the planet that can maintain the generation of electricity at levels civilization has become accustomed to. Anti-nuclear forces argue that all activities that could result in large-scale proliferation of radioactivity in the environment should be terminated. Chernobyl in the Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan serve as cornerstones for such arguments.
Of course, the fossil fuel industry that profits from oil, coal, and natural gas would be big losers if nuclear energy became the coin of the realm. So, one question to add to the mix in cost-benefit arguments about nuclear reactors is, how do costs to the environment and human health from the use of oil, coal, and other carbon-based products compare to that from man-made radiation sources? Again, no simple solution is forthcoming.
My top two contenders for environmental discord will not be everybody's; many others are certainly out there. The use of herbicides and pesticides, animal rights, hunting for sport, prescribed burning of forests, endangered species legislation and whether people should let housecats roam outside all have environmental implications. And any can result in emotion-packed arguments.
Some people will argue vehemently that I have not picked the right two issues to lead the list, thus supporting my earlier assertion that many environmental topics can create high levels of passion and polarization.
Whit Gibbons, professor emeritus of ecology, University of Georgia, and head of the Environmental Outreach Program at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, grew up in Tuscaloosa. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Send environmental questions to email@example.com.


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Prepared for the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate; Committee on Natural Resources, United States House of Representatives; and the Secretary of the Interior
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The Civil War Sites Advisory Commission was established by public lawon November 28, 1990, because of national concern over the increasing loss of Civil War sites. The 15-member Commission, appointed by Congress and by the Secretary of the Interior, was asked to identify the nation's historically significant Civil War sites; determine their relative importance; determine their condition; assess threats to their integrity; and recommend alternatives for preserving and interpreting them. The Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields presents the Commission's findings.
The battle summaries were researched and written by Dale E. Floyd and David W. Lowe, staff members of the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission and historians with the National Park Service. Edwin C. Bearss, Commission member and retired Chief Historian of the National Park Service, served as technical advisor. Editing and publication oversight was provided by Rebecca Shrimpton, Historic Preservation Planner, and Tanya M. Gossett, Historic Preservation Planner, both with the American Battlefield Protection Program (through a cooperative agreement with the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers).
For the development of the report as a whole, the Commission gratefully acknowledges the assistance of hundreds of people and organizations whose contributions of time and information were invaluable. Contributors include the many volunteer field investigators, workshop participants, nonprofit battlefield preservation organizations, National Park staff, State Historic Preservation Officers, state parks staff, local elected officials, Civil War Round Table volunteers, professional and avocational historians, private firms, educators, and property owners.
This nation's Civil War heritage is in grave danger. It is disappearing under buildings, parking lots, and highways. Recognizing this as a serious national problem, Congress established the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission in 1991.
The Commission was to identify the significant Civil War sites, determine their condition, assess threats to their integrity, and offer alternatives for their preservation and interpretation. Because of limited time and resources, the Commission concentrated on battlefields as the central focus of the Civil War and of many contemporary historic preservation decisions.
Protecting these battlefields preserves an important educational asset for the nation because:
• Seeing the battlefield is basic to an understanding of military campaigns and battles, while the latter are crucial to comprehending all other aspects of the Civil War.
• To be upon a battlefield is to experience an emotional empathy with the men and, in fact, the women who fought there.
• Clashing convictions and the determination to defend them cost the nation 620,000 lives.
• The values tested and clarified in that great conflict are what continue to bind the nation together today.
Today, more than one-third of all principal Civil War battlefields are either lost or are hanging onto existence by the slenderest of threads. It is not too late to protect the remaining battlefields if the nation acts swiftly. If it does not act now, however, within 10 years we may lose fully two-thirds of the principal battlefields.
The Civil War Sites Advisory Commission has examined this threat to our Civil War battlefields and has made its recommendations for action in the Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields. This Technical Volume to the Commission's report contains historical summaries of the 384 principal Civil War battles that the Commission studied in preparing its report. Also available is Technical Volume I: Appendixes, which contains support documentation for the Commission's report.
The Battlefield Sites
Some 10,500 armed conflicts occurred during the Civil War ranging from battles to minor skirmishes; 384 conflicts (3.7 percent) were identified as the principal battles and classified according to their historical significance.
Class A and B battlefields represent the principal strategic operations of the war. Class C and D battlefields usually represent operations with limited tactical objectives of enforcement and occupation.
• 45 sites (12%) were ranked "A" (having a decisive influence on a campaign and a direct impact on the course of the war);
• 104 sites (27%) were ranked "B" (having a direct and decisive influence on their campaign);
• 128 sites (33%) were ranked "C" (having observable influence on the outcome of a campaign);
• 107 sites (28%) were ranked "D" (having a limited influence on the outcome of their campaign or operation but achieving or affecting important local objectives).
The 384 principal battles occurred in 26 states. States with fifteen or more include: Virginia (123), Tennessee (38), Missouri (29), Georgia(28), Louisiana (23), North Carolina (20), Arkansas (17), and Mississippi(16).
Some counties, such as Henrico and Dinwiddie counties in Virginia and Charleston County in South Carolina have a great concentration of battlefields. Yet, even in Virginia, where two great armies fought for most of four years, only one third of the counties have any of the principal Civil War battlefields.
Forty three percent of the battlefields are completely in private ownership. An additional 49 percent are under multiple kinds of ownership (e.g., private, state, and Federal). Only 4 percent of the principal battlefields are owned primarily by the Federal, state, or local governments.2
Nineteen percent (71) of the Civil War battlefields are already lost as intact historic landscapes. Half of the 232 principal battlefields that currently are in good or fair condition are now experiencing high or moderate threats. Most of these sites will be lost or seriously fragmented within the coming 10 years, many very soon. Only one third of the principal battlefields currently face low threats.
The Battle Summaries
This Technical Volume is meant to serve as a quick reference to the historical context and significance of the 384 principal battlefields that the Commission included in its report to Congress. Until now, no single source provided such a uniform level of information for such a comprehensive grouping of key Civil War battlefields. It is the Commission's hope that this volume will provide preservationists, historians, planners, and political leaders alike with the rudimentary historical data they need to understandand work toward the preservation of these critical components of our national heritage.
Each summary provides basic statistical data on the location, dates, commanders, size, and casualties of each battle. It also indicates the Commission's ranking of the battle by military importance and the battlefield's level of priority for preservation. A one paragraph historical narrative describes the circumstances, action, and outcome of the battle.
The data elements for each battle summary are:
NameThe historic name for the battle, based on scholarly assessment. In some cases, the generally accepted name for the battle, sanctioned by the state historic preservation office, has been used.
CWSAC Reference #A unique reference number assigned to each site. These were developed to aid computerization, because of the large numbers of battlefields ina few states and the duplication of names. The two letters at the beginning of the reference number signify the state, corresponding to the battlefield's location. The three digits are the unique and arbitrary number for the site within that state. Some numbers are missing, because sites were added or deleted from the list of 384 principal battlefields as significance was determined.
Other NamesSecondary or commonly used names, such as Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge), Bull Run (Manassas), and Sharpsburg (Antietam).
Preservation PriorityA designation made by the Commission based on the level of historical significance, the integrity of the remaining battlefield features, and the level of threat to the battlefield's existence. For example, IV.1 (Class D) means that the Commission determined that a particular battlefield site was Priority IV: Fragmented Battlefields, All Military Classes, Poor Integrity. (See Table 7, pages 49-53 in the Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefield, for the preservation priority of all the battlefields studied.) Class A, B, C, or D indicates a battle's (and associated battlefield's) level of military importance within its campaign and the war. (See page v of this volume for an explanation of each of the four designations.) N/D indicates that no data is currently available to determine the levelof threat to the site.
LocationThe present day county or city in which the battlefield is located.
CampaignThe larger military operation with which the battle is associated. A chronological listing of campaigns and the battles associated with them can be found at the end of this volume.
Date(s)The actual day or days during which the battle occurred. Most of the dates appear as provided in the U.S. War Department's The War ofthe Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 70 Volumes in 128, Washington, DC: The Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
Principal CommandersThe rank and names of the military commanders for both sides. When more than one individual commanded during a battle, all names are provided. Most of the principal commanders can be found in the U.S. War Department's Official Records.
Forces EngagedIn most summaries, the particular company, regiment, brigade, division, corps, army, garrison, detachment, or ship. Some summaries, however, indicate the number of troops involved. In both cases, the purpose is to provide an idea of the size of the engagement. Most of the forces engaged were found in the U.S. War Department's Official Records.
Estimated CasualtiesNo source exists, either in print or in manuscript, that provides casualty figures for all Civil War battles or even for the 384 principal battles that the CWSAC studied. Some of the casualty figures for the 384 principal battles are unknown; in some instances reliable figures are available for one of the combatants but not for the other. Few casualty figures are definitive; sources often differ in their figures. A variety of sources, both official and commercial, printed and in manuscript, were consulted. All casualty figures were subjected to historical analysis before inclusion in the summaries.
A partial list of sources follows.
Dyer, Frederick. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion . .. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908.
Fox, William F. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War 1861-1865: A Treatise on the Extent and Nature of the Mortuary Losses in the United States . . . Albany, NY: Albany Publishing Company,1889.
Johnson, Robert U., and Clarence C. Buell, eds. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War . . . .4 Volumes. New York: The Century Company, 1887-88.
Livermore, Thomas L.Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America 1861-65. Reprint. Dayton, OH: Morningside House, Inc., 1986.
U.S. Surgeon General's Office. Chronological Summary of Engagements and Battles [Civil War]. Washington, DC: The Government Printing Office, 1873.
U.S. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation ofthe Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 70 Volumes in 128. Washington, DC: The Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
DescriptionA historical account or summary of the battle. A variety of sources, both general and specific, published and in manuscript, were consultedin the preparation of these accounts. The general sources consulted include those listed below. More specific published and manuscript sources were also consulted and analyzed.
The Conservation Fund. The Civil War Battlefield Guide. Edited by Frances H. Kennedy. Boston, MA:Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990.
Great Battles of the Civil War. By the editors of Civil War Times Illustrated. New York: Gallery Books, 1984.
Historical Times Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War. Edited by Patricia L. Faust. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986.
Long, E.B., compiler. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971.
U.S. National Archives. A Guide-Index to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Edited and compiled by Dallas Irvine, et al. Washington, DC: The Government Printing Office, 1968-1980.
U.S. Naval History Division. Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865. Washington, DC: The Government Printing Office, 1971.
U.S. Navy Department. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Multivolumes. Washington, DC: The Government Printing Office, 1894-1927.
U.S. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation ofthe Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 70 Volumes in 128. Washington, DC: The Government Printing Office, 1880-1901.
Result(s)The victor in the battle, if the outcome was definitive. If the outcome was other than definitive, that information is provided.


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