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Artwork in the Living Room
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Having just moved into a new smaller space, I'm re-evaluating what I want to have on the walls in the living room. So many questions: go big? Minimal? Salon Style? Grid? And, of course, hanging artwork is notoriously difficult for me, so looking back through the archives I've brainstormed some great ways to consider hanging artwork in the living room.
Top Row:
1. Big, Minimal, Bold: that's what we think of Tina's awesomely minimal living room with this one carefree and oversized vintage poster.
2. To The Max: Sometimes a room calls for a lot of art and in this case, we love the floor to ceiling hanging of artwork in Russel Brown's House Tour.
3. Bold Flag: Emily Henderson is one of my favorite designers and her effortless living room is a big reason why. The red cross brings together contrasting elements and still somehow feels open and modern.
4. Hanging on Shelves: You don't need wall space to hang artwork, try hanging artwork in front of books and objects on shelves for a great layer of texture and color.
5. The Art Shelf: For those that want to be able to switch things out early and often, a shallow shelf lets you casually lean artwork and change it out as often as you'd like.
Second Row:
1. Frame Wallpaper: If artwork is out of your budget or you rent and can't use that favorite wallpaper of yours, consider framing pieces of wallpaper like Jenny and Cristina did.
2. Vintage Art Posters: We love old museum exhibit posters and these are perfectly balanced without being too much.
3. Quotes: find a favorite quote and put it front and center.
4. Go Minimal, Go Vintage: We've long been fans of Morgan's great thrift store finds and her incredible collection of portraits is no exception.
5. Salon Style: in a small space you can go spare or you can go maximize and do a salon style hanging of mismatched frames in different sizes and textures of all of your favorite images.
Third Row:
1. Graphic Text: When in doubt, go with text. This black and white banner is the perfect exclamation on a modern and simple living room.
2. Nudes: Though so far we haven't gone this route, it's certainly got a time and a place and if you're going for it, why not really make a statement like Ofer Kamil did.
3. Easel it: A combo of text, black and white photogrpahy and the addition of an easel keep this living room interesting and also cut down on the commitment factor since you can change out the easel any time!
4. Polaroid collage: A classic from Domino, pasting a number of polaroids and snapshots above the fireplace provides a focal point and a reason for guests to explore artwork up close--great for a small space.
5. Supersized Family Photos: blow up a family photo to be the backdrop for gatherings.
Last Row:
1. Frame a Collection: in this case, a collection of vintage cameras from Tim Melideo.
2. Grid it: Sarah's Grid of vintage flashcards is simple and modern and we love how it wraps around the corner.
3. Pop Art: a lawnmower or anything else seemingly ordinary is always a nice surprise and a good dowse of humor.
4. Do it With Paint: Instead of worrying about art, let the architecture speak for itself and highlight it with a bright pop of color like this yellow maks the shelves a total focal point.
5. Go Big, Go Art: Max and Gen bought this piece off of a friend of theirs in the LA art scene. It's perfect above their sofa and is an interesting piece--any guesses as to what it is ;)
Images: 1. The Big Book of Small Spaces 2. Bethany Nauert 3. Teri Lyn Fisher 4. Leah Moss 5. Vicente Wolfe 6. and 7. Jessica Watson 8. Dana Miller 9. Laure Joliet 10. Leah Moss 11 and 12 Bethany Nauert 13. Dana Hughes 14. Domino 15. VT Wonen 16. Tim Meledeo 17. Sarah Coffey 18. Adrienne Breaux 19. Bethany Nuaert 20. Laure Joliet
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Love the black and white print on the last one
Thanks for the great post, excellent examples, fun to browse through.
I think an important factor is choosing what you want to LOOK at in a living room. The ambiance you are trying to create helps determine what you want and don't want.
For instance, I want my living room to be restful and quiet. So I don't want lots of cluttery little pieces, I don't want a lot of strong color, and I don't want uncomfortable subject matter. What I do want (and have) are two relatively large size paintings, one of snow falling in a winter forest, and one of a very abstract nature scene, both in soft light browns, creamsand whites, some green and in one of them, some peach. I used those colors (plus blue) in the rest of the decor.
If I were a party person, I might go exactly opposite that. Or if I wanted to project some concept like my hobbies and interests or something like that... Your books and your art work are two specific things people analyze to learn more about you.
This is something I am struggling with currently in my living room. I'm interested in reading more comments on this subject. I definitely favor one or two larger impact pieces vs. the scatter of pieces in picture #2.
I don't mind the "salon" style of #5 in row 2 - I do a lot of photography and this suits the various sizes of prints I've made. One "big" piece is tough for me because I have a hard time loving just that one piece and you gotta love it to look at it every single day. I've also recently begun hanging frames in less structured groupings with 5 or 7 in various sizes in a non-rectangle total space but matching frames and some thought to the spacing for me (#2 would drive me crazy to look at all the time too).
I had a client once who was very uncomfortable sitting in her living room. Nobody wanted to sit there and they couldn't figure out why. I came in with my feng shui eyes and immediately found the culprit: an original oil painting with abstracted figures that looked something like souls on fire burning in Dante's inferno. It was painted by a friend and they loved the painting. I asked the clients to leave the room then I removed the hellish piece and replaced it with another painting they had elsewhere in their home. They came back and felt the energy shift immediately. Whatever you decide to hang in your LR, make sure it is pleasing to you and the symbolism behind the piece is positive.
does anybody know if max and gen's piece is a melanie schiff photo? that's my guess as to what it is. (#5 in the last row)
The last photo looks like someone sneezing into a fish eye lens.
Most importantly, does anyone know where I can find the blue button tucked sofa in #3 or something like it? Thanks.


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Berta Williams Interviewed by Charlotte Cushman September 4, 2009
Transcription – Part II
CHARLOTTE: So, tell us about the cage that Washington sent.
BERTA: It was a steel cage and it had bars on the window and they had a place that she
could lift up just so high so they could stick in their - you know, their letters and stuff that
they want to mail out. And the packages, the mail man used to come inside the house
and into the cage to you know deliver the packages.
CHARLOTTE: Where did the mailman come from?
BERTA: Benson.
CHARLOTTE: What do you remember about him?
BERTA: Oh she had several and they were very nice. They would come from Benson.
They would stop at Pomarine [?] first, then Cascabell and then Redington was their last
CHARLOTTE: And how did they travel?
BERTA: By car.
CHARLOTTE: Was it a special kind of post office vehicle or was it their own car?
BERTA: No, it was their own car.
CHARLOTTE: Did they come every day?
BERTA: They came three times – Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Three times a
CHARLOTTE: And they would take the outgoing mail as well as bring the incoming
BERTA: Yes, right.
CHARLOTTE: Did you meet the postmaster at Cascabel and the other towns also?
BERTA: Yes, the one in Cascabel. Mr. Nevitt. Tom Nevitt was the post master there.
CHARLOTTE: And did your mother have business with the other post offices at all?
BERTA: Sometimes, not very often. But sometimes she would.
CHARLOTTE: You mention Mr. Roberts was the post master before your mother. Who
took your mother's place when she was no longer able to work?
BERTA: It went back to Mr. Smallhouse.
CHARLOTTE: Mr. Smallhouse. Tell us about Mr. Smallhouse.
BERTA: Oh he was a rancher. He was the, he married Mr. Bayless' niece. So when Mr.
Bayless died, he gave everything to his niece and Mr. Smallhouse. So he was the owner.
You know, they were the owners. And they were very nice people, very nice. They had
two sons – Charles and John. And I used to babysit sometimes with Chuck.
CHARLOTTE: So you were older than those kids.
BERTA: Yes. A little older.
CHARLOTTE: Well I know we've got some photos to look at. Do you want to show us
your pictures?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: Let's see what we've got here.
BERTA – This is the school at Redington. The kids.
CHARLOTTE – So tell us - Do you remember – do you want to put your glasses on –
maybe you can tell us if you remember the names of any of the children in the picture.
BERTA: This one here is my brother, Ben.
CHARLOTTE: That's Ben. All the way on the right.
BERTA: Yes, and that's Mr. Michelson the school teacher.
CHARLOTTE: He's standing in back.
BERTA: Right. And the… I don't know who these kids are really.
CHARLOTTE: Which one are you?
BERTA: No, I'm not there.
CHARLOTTE: You're not there.
BERTA: I had graduated. This is at the new building.
CHARLOTTE: What year do you think that was?
BERTA: It must have been… I just really don't.
CHARLOTTE: Do you know what year you finished going to school? ( 4: 19)
BERTA: Gosh, no. ( She laughs.)
CHARLOTTE: That's ok.
BERTA: With years I'm not too... I have a hard time.
CHARLOTTE: Well, thank you. That's a beautiful picture.
BERTA: And there's one of the mail carrier. Mother snapped a picture because he was
CHARLOTTE: Is this…
BERTA: I think his name was Mr. Jones.
CHARLOTTE: Mr. Jones. Is this one of the ones who come from Benson.
BERTA: Yes. That's his car.
CHARLOTTE: OK. I bet he would be sleeping because that would be a long drive up
from Benson.
BERTA: Yes. And this is the Carlink Ranch. This is the bunk house.
CHARLOTTE: So all the way on the right is the bunk house? Who slept in the bunk
house? ( 4: 59)
BERTA: The workers.
CHARLOTTE: And did they go home somewhere else or was this the only place that
they lived?
BERTA: No, sometimes they would go home about… for the weekend but through the
week you know they stayed in the bunk house.
CHARLOTTE: Ok. Do you know how the name Carlink, where that came from?
BERTA: No, I don't.
CHARLOTTE: And is that ranch still there? The Carlink Ranch? It is still there? On the
Redington Road? Or where is it exactly?
BERTA: Well, it's um, well, yes, you could. It's going over the mountains and you
cross the San Pedro River and it's... That's where it starts. Right across from the San
Pedro. ( 5: 43) Yes, Mr… um…. The Smallhouse's daughter- in- law and her husband run
it now.
CHARLOTTE: Oh. OK. Have you been back to visit?
BERTA: No. We called. We called and you have to make an appointment now. ' Cause
I wanted, as I told my granddaughter, not Stephanie, the other one, I said, before I die I
want to go back there and see if the house is still there and this and that and visit the old
Roquillo homestead. So she called, her name is Stephanie, Stephanie Smallhouse. She
called Stephanie and Stephanie said sure. She said, sure we'd love to talk to her
about… They want to know about the people that were there years ago.
CHARLOTTE: Yes.
BERTA: And it seems like I'm the only one left that knows about it. And so Trixie says
I'm going to make an appointment. Then she got pregnant and well, she's 35 years old.
She wasn't having too good a time so we decided to wait. She has the baby now and I'm
a great grandmother again. 7: 03
CHARLOTTE: Oh.
BERTA: So. But I want to go before, you know, I die.
CHARLOTTE: Yeah. And is the Roquillo homestead still there? And what about the
house where you were a little girl? Is that the same house where the post office was?
BERTA: No. It's on the Roquillo homestead, but it's further from the main house.
CHARLOTTE: And is that still standing? The one that was the post office?
BERTA: I really don't know.
CHARLOTTE: Yeah. ' Cause if you haven't been back.
* BERTA: Yes, it might be. That's why I want to go you know. 7: 42
CHARLOTTE: Wonderful. So this looks like a lot of cows. This is…
BERTA: So this is at Carlink.
CHARLOTTE: This is at Carlink?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: During what?
BERTA: Round up
CHARLOTTE: During the round up. So they were getting branded?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: Oh boy.
BERTA: You've seen Mr. Bayless. This is Mr. Smallhouse.
CHARLOTTE: Oh Mr. Smallhouse. He heads the 56th Rodeo Parade in 1981. It says the
rancher is parade marshall.
BERTA: Yeah, and this is one of the school teachers, Mrs. Heilert. ( 8: 20)
CHARLOTTE: Mrs. Heilert.
BERTA: That was before Mama's time.
CHARLOTTE: So who had this teacher? This was before your mother was there?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: But she was just one of the people who lived in Redington?
BERTA: Yes. And she would come pick up her mail.
CHARLOTTE: Aaahhh. Where do you suppose… and so she traveled by horse?
BERTA: Yeah, she'd want to go riding so she'd ride and pick up her mail and keep on
CHARLOTTE: Where do you suppose she came from?
BERTA: I really don't know. I don't.
CHARLOTTE: A lot of the school teachers came from somewhere else I think.
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: They didn't grow up in Redington.
BERTA: No.
CHARLOTTE: I'm also curious about the horse because you mentioned that your father
had a car. Was that unusual that your family had a car? ( 9: 01)
BERTA: Besides the people at the Smallhouse's, we were the only other ones that had a
CHARLOTTE: Did people want to go places with you? Did they ask your father to drive
BERTA: Oh yes. Oh yes.
CHARLOTTE: Kind of like a taxi service.
BERTA: ( laughing) Yes
CHARLOTTE: Or an ambulance or anything.
BERTA: But we glad to do it, you know. That is one thing about people that live out like
that. They are always glad to do favors.
CHARLOTTE: They help each other.
BERTA: That's right.
CHARLOTTE: They've got to help each other. What else do we have? What's this one?
( 9: 34)
BERTA: Oh that was our teacher Miss Bourne. My first teacher. But this isn't taken at
Redington. This is when she was teaching at Baboquivari. 9: 46
CHARLOTTE: Now she's the one that wrote the book, right?
BERTA: Yeah.
CHARLOTTE: And did you know her?
BERTA: Oh yes.
CHARLOTTE: But she wasn't your teacher?
BERTA: Yes, she was. My first teacher.
CHARLOTTE: Oh she was your teacher? Oh OK. And do you remember who else was
in the photograph?
BERTA: No, these are from a school in Baboquivari.
CHARLOTTE: Oh ok. But she's the one wearing the hat.
BERTA: Yes.
BERTA: She had a little ranch out towards Oracle.
CHARLOTTE: I wonder if that's still there.
BERTA: I have no idea.
CHARLOTTE: And what else do you have?
BERTA: You've seen Mr. Bayless. I have Mr. Bayless.
CHARLOTTE: This is a newspaper article about Mr. Bayless when he died in 1938.
" Charles H. Bayless – Pioneer Cattleman and Banker is Dead" Do you remember when
he died?
BERTA: No I don't. But I remember I was very sad.
CHARLOTTE: No more candy from that drawer, hunh?
BERTA: No.
( CHARLOTTE and BERTA both laugh.)
CHARLOTTE: And do you have a card there also?
BERTA: This is one of mama's old fashioned cards.
CHARLOTTE: This is the matinee girl. Mrs. C. Bennett. Do you know who Mrs. C.
Bennett is?
BERTA: Yes, she was… she was… I don't remember. I think she worked in the post
office when the Roberts had it.
CHARLOTTE: Hmm. And this is addressed to your mother. It looks like it's written in
BERTA: Oh.
CHARLOTTE: Do you have anything else there? Maybe we can look at these
photographs and you can tell us a little bit about these. Who is in this picture? ( 11: 36)
BERTA: Oh, this is the house at the Diamond R. And this is my….
CHARLOTTE: Do you want your glasses?
BERTA: Oh these are … This lady is from California and she came to visit this lady.
And their names Canez. And these are the Canez children. ( 12: 00) Now I don't
remember her name.
CHARLOTTE: Is that your mother in the middle?
BERTA: No. No.
CHARLOTTE: So your mother's not in that picture?
BERTA: No.
CHARLOTTE: So this is the Diamond R where you lived?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: And who's… someone is looking out the door.
BERTA: Oh my brother Frank, the youngest one. ( BERTA is laughing.)
CHARLOTTE: The youngest one. He is wondering about who these people are.
CHARLOTTE: Now outside there is some kind of little cot. Is that where you would sit,
or even sleep outside?
BERTA: Yes. The boys did sleep out there sometimes.
CHARLOTTE: There must have been a nice breeze. That's right?
BERTA: Yes, there was. It was so nice.
CHARLOTTE: What about this one? ( 12: 39)
BERTA: There's the place. And there's a sign - Post Office. And there's a cage. It used
to be over here where my bedroom was.
CHARLOTTE: On the right hand side was where your bedroom was?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: And that's where the cage was?
BERTA: No, the cage was moved to the North side.
CHARLOTTE: Oh ok. Who put the cage in?
BERTA: Some people that came to the… I think they came when they delivered the cage.
CHARLOTTE: They worked for the Post Office.
BERTA: Uh huh. See the road would go right here. That's where those people were.
The man was waiting to… while the other men went to….
CHARLOTTE: In front of the house there?
BERTA: Yes. And here is the front door where my brother ran to see what was locked
where he could look out.
CHARLOTTE: And did you have another door in the house?
BERTA: Yes, there was one beyond the window there.
CHARLOTTE: On the right hand side?
BERTA: Yes. And one behind there, where the kitchen was.
CHARLOTTE: On the left hand side.
BERTA: Yes. ______________(?) wanted to come in.( 13: 38)
CHARLOTTE: And how close was this to the San Pedro River?
BERTA: Very close. Like from here to Grant Road I think.
CHARLOTTE: Ok. So about maybe a ¼ of a mile or so. Like maybe a 5 minute walk?
Something like that?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: Could you hear river sometimes?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: Was there always water in that part of it?
BERTA: At that time, yes. But now it's bone dry.
CHARLOTTE: Right, but in those days do you remember…?
BERTA: Yes. Water being in it.
CHARLOTTE: Did you get water from there?
BERTA: No. We had a well.
CHARLOTTE: And did you swim there at all?
BERTA: Yes, we used to go play in the water.
CHARLOTTE: Oh nice. Tell us about this picture. ( 14: 14)
BERTA: Oh that's the school house – old adobe – before they added on to it. They
added on this space.
CHARLOTTE: On the right hand side …
BERTA: Yes
CHARLOTTE: They added on the adobe.
BERTA: We used to all ride horses.
CHARLOTTE: So all the children rode horses to school?
BERTA: Not all of them. There's some that lived real close. And um… but we were
miles from the school so we had to ride horse back.
CHARLOTTE: Did you have your own horse?
BERTA: Um Hm. Then we'd meet at the Roquillo place and walk up the hill to school.
CHARLOTTE: So you didn't bring your horse to the school house. This is just for the
photograph that the horses were there. Do you remember why you were all in front
BERTA: The teacher just wanted us to.
CHARLOTTE: Just for the photograph?
BERTA: For the photograph.
CHARLOTTE: Do you remember any of the other people's names in the picture?
BERTA: They were um it was the Montanos. There was um Lucy and her sister. ( 15: 22)
I don't remember the sister's. Then there was the Veldez. It was Reynaldo, Carlota,
Clara, Tilly, (?) Eulalia– she was named after Eulalia Bourne. David Manuel. And there
was the Binghams. It was Gareth, Ardell, Donna, Velva. And there was a girl named
Nelda Swint. And there was uh two kids that came to school from a ranch that wasn't
close to Redington. It was the Beyota.(?) ( 16: 10) Their names were Clifford… the first
one was Clifford and what was her name? Can't remember the girl's name, but they
were also there.
CHARLOTTE: Your teacher had her hands full I think.
BERTA: Yes, and of course us. The four of us.
CHARLOTTE: Yes, you were a big part of the school.
BERTA: The younger two, Chuck and John Smallhouse. Too went to school.
CHARLOTTE: Did you speak English at home or Spanish?
BERTA: No, my dad wouldn't let us.
CHARLOTTE: Wouldn't let you speak English?
BERTA: No, Spanish.
CHARLOTTE: Oh, so you always spoke English.
BERTA: Yep. One time he caught my lil' brother and I trying to speak Spanish. We
didn't hear him coming up, you know, behind us and uh he spanked us and told us he
didn't want to hear us speaking Spanish anymore. So he took us in the house and gave us
a lecture and told us why – ' cause we'd have trouble in school and he was right.
CHARLOTTE: Did he speak Spanish?
BERTA: He wasn't a Mexican.
CHARLOTTE: And what about your mother? Did she speak Spanish to you?
BERTA: No. But she spoke Spanish with her brothers, er would come and visit and
she'd speak Spanish.
CHARLOTTE: What about in school? Did you speak Spanish with the other children
when you were in school?
BERTA: No.
CHARLOTTE: So it wasn't allowed?
BERTA: No.
CHARLOTTE: I wonder if the teacher spoke Spanish?
BERTA: No.
CHARLOTTE: No.
BERTA: No, we didn't have any speaking Spanish teachers.
CHARLOTTE: How did you like it when the teachers came to town? ( 18: 04) When you
got a new teacher?
BERTA: Well, it was hard to get used to them. And then I had… We had a teacher and
her name was Mrs. Trimbull (?) and she was very strict with us, especially me. I was so
naughty. I was always getting into trouble.
( CHARLOTTE laughs.)
BERTA: She'd make me put my hands down like this on the desk. She'd get… We had
those wooden rulers and then she'd get it and hit my knuckles. And boy that smarts you
know. It stings so – ooohh.
CHARLOTTE: What did you get in trouble for? You told us about the outhouse. Were
there other times you remember?
BERTA: Oh yes. One time…( BERTA laughs)… We had the two teachers and they both
for some reason – one of them usually stayed with us – but this time they both went home
for lunch. ' Cause they used to live on the Carlink property. And they went home for
lunch and we stayed there and I was bored. So I told kids, " Let's go into the, not the old
part, but the newer part, and have a paper fight."
( CHARLOTTE laughs)
BERTA: We'd wad up paper and throw it at one another.
CHARLOTTE: And you'd be the one to suggest it?
BERTA: Yeah. Of course. And we had paper all over the place. And then we heard
Mrs. Brown, the other teacher, not the man teacher, but Mrs. Brown coming. And I
didn't know what to do, so I went and hid under Mr. Michelson's desk. I was quiet and
school started. And the kids said, they asked where I was, they wouldn't tell. Said " We
don't know." So then everything went along. We're having, school started and I was
missing. And then Mr. Michelson, of all things, was a big man, out stretched his feet,
you know, like they do. And he looked under the desk.
CHARLOTTE: Oh no!
( BERTA laughs.)
CHARLOTTE: So he didn't even know you were missing?
BERTA: No. Because I belonged in the other room.
CHARLOTTE: And what happened to you then?
BERTA: Well, he was nice. He didn't say anything. But Mrs. Brown, the teacher, of
course she went and told my mother. ( 20: 21) I got punished.
( CHARLOTTE laughs.)
BERTA: I was always getting punished. The only time… Oh and another incident that I
got real punished for was ... My dad would go on the round up, and after the round up he
would come to town. And he'd always have big barrels of gas, ' cause you know there
was no gas stations.
CHARLOTTE: Yes.
BERTA: So there was three barrels he'd always take and have filled with gas. And uh I
thought, he was on the round up, and I thought to myself , Oh my poor dad, when he
comes home, he'll be tired. I think I'll help him out. So, I used to see him siphon – get
the little thin hose and siphon. Put it down in the barrel and then get a bucket and fill the
bucket up. And then from the bucket he'd siphon into his gas tank. So I went, and I
couldn't open the barrel – the stopper – the barrel - whatever you call it. So I thought,
maybe I'd get water I could put in there. So I went and got a bucket of water.
CHARLOTTE: Oh no!
BERTA: And I siphoned water into the gas tank. So when he came home –
CHARLOTTE: Did you know that was a problem? Were you doing it as a joke? Or you
did it as a mistake?
BERTA: Yeah. I didn't know. I thought water would work.
CHARLOTTE: Ohhhh.
BERTA: So, we he came it was time to go to town, he went to start the car and it would
CHARLOTTE: Oh no!
BERTA: He went and looked and found out there was water in the carburetor. So then he
was really fuming.
CHARLOTTE: Did they know it was your fault then? That you were the one who did it?
BERTA: Right away.
( CHARLOTTE laughs.)
BERTA: And so yes. Then poor dad, he had to take the tank off the truck and clean it
CHARLOTTE: Yeah, because he'd have to do all the car maintenance himself. There
wasn't a repair shop down the road.
BERTA: No. I couldn't go anywhere for I don't know how long. The kids would come
knock on the door. " Can Berta come out and play?" " No, she's being punished." Boy,
my older brother was so happy that I was getting punished.
( Both BERTA and CHARLOTTE laugh.)
CHARLOTTE: It's always fun when somebody else is getting in trouble – not you.
BERTA: The only time I didn't get punished was when we moved to the Diamond R.
My dad… because Mr. Morano (?) that lived off at Redington, he was a very good farmer.
So my dad thought I'll think I'll ask if he wants to come and farm and share, you know,
you take half and I take half. My mother thought it was a good idea. So he went and
talked to Mr. Morano. And he told him, yes, he'd be delighted, but he was a very
superstitious man. That he didn't want my mother or us kids in the garden. ( 23: 39) So,
my dad says no problem. So he came and he farmed. And he grew such big luscious
watermelons and stuff. One day, my dad was still home, these people came to buy stuff.
So and my dad just gave them. He wouldn't take money for them. Two great big
watermelons. So they decided to sit under this tree and eat the watermelon. They'd
crack it open and they'd break pieces off and eat it. So then my brother Frank saw that
and he started crying, after they left. The people left, he started crying he wanted
watermelon. And of course I thought, and I thought, I told my Ben, I said Ben go see
where mother is. See if she's busy. And I said, but don't say anything to her, just see.
And so he went and my mother said " What do you want?" He didn't know what to say.
" Nothing," he said. And he went back out and he said " She's in the kitchen. I think
she's canning." Oh I thought – good. So I went, and I went in the back door to my
mother and dad's room and I got my dad's shoes and I went back and I was putting them
on. And the kids said " What are you doing?" And said…" Dad's going to get mad. Why
are you putting he shoes on?" And I said " Nevermind." So I went out, put his shoes on
and went out in the garden and cut the watermelon and brought it back.
( CHARLOTTE laughs.)
BERTA: Then I went and put Dad's shoes back. I cleaned them off as good as I could
' cause you know sometimes the garden is muddy. Cleaned them off and put the shoes
back. And then we went back and we had watermelon. Then mother called us for lunch.
So we went and we went in and Mother said " What is that on you?" – to the boys –
" What is that on your shirts?" And they wouldn't say anything. And she said, " I asked
you. What is that on your shirt?" And she says, " It looks like watermelon." And so we
had to tell her. At first she was " Oh, my God!" she said. " What is your dad going to say?
What is… Mr. Morano is going to be so mad! You know he doesn't want me or you kids
in his garden!" And then, pretty soon, she just starts laughing and laughing and laughing.
( CHARLOTTE laughs.)
BERTA: And then she quit laughing and said " We have to tell your dad. What's he
going to do? You know you all three are in trouble." So we were worried then. The
three of us were very worried. And then when supper time came, we're having supper,
and then my mother told my dad. " The kids have something to tell you." And boy, my
heart sank. And then I didn't say anything. Then Frank said, " Dad, we had watermelon."
Dad said, " What?" " We had watermelon." Then he looked at me and he says, " Yes?"
And I didn't say anything. Then, Frank spoke up again. He said, " Yes, I was crying
because I wanted watermelon. I saw these people eating watermelon and I wanted
watermelon. And Sis ( he used to call me Sis), and Sis felt sorry for me so she went."
" Oh my God!" he said. " Mr. Morano is probably going to leave." He'll be so mad. And
Frank said, " No he won't!" And my dad said, " How do you know?" " Because I know,"
he said. " You know what Sis did? She went and put your shoes on and went out in the
watermelon patch and got a watermelon." And my dad said… for a while was stunned.
And then he started laughing and laughing and laughing. And he said " That serves the
old superstitious old goat right!"
( CHARLOTTE and BERTA both laugh.)
BERTA: So I didn't get spanked. That's the only time!
CHARLOTTE: But you were always the one doing the tricks. It wasn't your brothers. It
was you.
BERTA: Yes, but that time Frank, yeah, Frank, spoke up for me.
CHARLOTTE: Oh good.
BERTA: He told my dad that I felt sorry because he was crying and crying.
CHARLOTTE: But because you had your father's shoes on, no one would see your foot
prints in the garden.
BERTA: No.
CHARLOTTE: You were clever to figure that out.
BERTA: I hope… what can I say… I always… I don't know. ( 28: 45) My mother used to
say that I was the one that gave her the most problems. We were, you know, kids.
CHARLOTTE: So you didn't do what you were asked to do?
BERTA: No, I was always getting in mischief.
( CHARLOTTE laughs.)
CHARLOTTE: But I know you helped with chores also. Did you ever do the dishes?
BERTA: Oh yes. Yes. Yes, I did. And I used to hate doing them. And one time I told
my mom, " Mom, why do I have to do dishes?" I said, " I'm getting tired of it." I was
worried because I couldn't go outside and be up in the tree. I was like a monkey, always
in that tree. And she said, " Well," she said. " Make a game out of it," she said. " Pretend
like the plates are boats sailing on the water." ' Cause we used to fill the tub, she had a
plastic pan she used to fill up with water, with soapy water. " And that the knives and
forks are the crew people." I don't remember what the saucers and cups were. " Make a
game of it and do it with a smile." I said, " OK." So I did.
And uh one day I was up in the tree. It was early morning and I was up in the tree. And
my brother Ben was down on the ground. He couldn't talk. He didn't start talking ' till
he was close to 5 years old. And uh, and he was, Mother thought he was a mute. And
he's down there playing with his little cars and cans. I was talking to him. I was up in
the tree and he wouldn't answer. And I said, " Ben, answer me!�� Wouldn't answer. And
again, " Ben! Answer me!" and nothing. So on the third, " Ben, answer me!" he didn't
answer me so I got down out of the tree and I went and I slapped him. As I was slapping
him, my mother was coming out with a pan with dish towels to hang up – ' cause we used
to have a line outside where she'd hang up clothes. And she saw it, so she got one of
those towels and she hit me. And I said, " But, Mother, why did you hit me?" " Well, you
slapped your brother." " Yes, but I did it with a smile."
( CHARLOTTE and BERTA both laugh.)
BERTA: But that didn't help. She already swatted me.
CHARLOTTE: You had good logic though. You were just telling her what she taught
you, right?
BERTA: I'm telling you, I was terrible.
( CHARLOTTE laughs.)
( 31: 35)
CHARLOTTE: Tell us what's in this picture.
BERTA: That is at the Carlink ranch. This is where we had the water, the tank with
water. And right in here is where my mother had a little garden.
CHARLOTTE: How did the water get into the tank?
BERTA: From the windmill. We had a windmill. A well and a windmill.
CHARLOTTE: But the windmill is not in the picture.
BERTA: No.
CHARLOTTE: It's not nearby?
BERTA: It's way over here.
CHARLOTTE: Off to the left. And what's the building that's sticking out then on the
left hand side.
BERTA: That's part of the house.
CHARLOTTE: That's the edge of the house. OK.
CHARLOTTE: Who's in this picture? ( 32: 15)
BERTA: That's my mom and my little brother, Frank.
CHARLOTTE: That's Frank? The little baby?
BERTA: And this is me, and this is Ben.
CHARLOTTE: So Ben is all the way on the left, the shorter one on the left.
BERTA: Mmhmm.
CHARLOTTE: And then behind him is…?
BERTA: Is Fidel.
CHARLOTTE: Fidel.
BERTA: The oldest brother. The oldest.
CHARLOTTE: And whose car is that?
BERTA: That's my dad's car.
CHARLOTTE: That's the black one?
BERTA: No, that's the Ford I think, with the rumble seat. It had a rumble seat. That was
before he got the Dodge Sedan.
CHARLOTTE: You all looked dressed up. Do you remember where you were going?
BERTA: We had just baptized my brother. We were coming from there and my, her
niece snapped a picture.
CHARLOTTE: Were you at church to baptize the baby?
BERTA: Yes. Un hunh.
CHARLOTTE: Where was the church?
BERTA: Oracle. Went to Oracle, where her brother and sister- in- law lived.
CHARLOTTE: Which church was it?
BERTA: I really don't remember the name of it.
CHARLOTTE: Is it Catholic?
BERTA: Catholic church.
CHARLOTTE: Is that St. Helen's?
BERTA: Probably. At Oracle.
CHARLOTTE: And what building is that?
BERTA: That's Oracle. Where my, her brother lived.
CHARLOTTE: So that's your uncle. Your uncle's house in Oracle.
BERTA: Yeah. He worked for Elizabeth Lambert Wood – the author. She's the one that
donated the YMCA to her ranch.
CHARLOTTE: Ohhh. That's still there. That camp is still there.
BERTA: Uh hunh.
CHARLOTTE: How about this picture with the Carlink Ranch banner? ( 33: 53)
BERTA: Yeah. That's where we were in the parade. And that's my brother.
CHARLOTTE: On the left. Which brother is that?
BERTA: The oldest.
CHARLOTTE: Fidel?
BERTA: Fidel. And that's me, and that's my cousin, Rinaldo Valdez. And that's…
CHARLOTTE: So Rinaldo is the third one?
BERTA: Yes. And those are his brothers. Um, what was his name? David, Conrad and
what's the other one? I can't remember the other name.
CHARLOTTE: They were all your cousins? The Valdez family?
BERTA: Yeah. And then there were others that were not cousins. The Montano family.
CHARLOTTE: And this looks like a special day. You're all dressed up.
BERTA: It is Armistice. We marched in a parade.
CHARLOTTE: That was Armistice Day?
BERTA: In Tucson. Yeah, they brought us to Tucson to march in the parade for I forget
how many years. I think three years.
CHARLOTTE: What do you remember about the Armistice?
BERTA: I remember that we would get up real early, come to town. And in town we
would go to a house. I don't know who owned it, this house. It was somebody that my
folks knew. I can't remember their names. And we would dress like cowboys, you
know, with the bandanas and the jeans and the shirts and march in the parade. And there
were other people, you know, in the parade, too. Other schools.
CHARLOTTE: So that's why you had your banner.
BERTA: Um hum.
CHARLOTTE: And you were the youngest one it looked like.
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: And the only girl.
BERTA: Yes. Look at the bow legs. ( BERTA laughs.)
CHARLOTTE: Yes, but cute. You are the cutest one!
( BERTA laughs.)
CHARLOTTE: Tell us about this picture.
BERTA: This is my mother and dad in front of the post office. There's the sign.
CHARLOTTE: Is that the cage then?
BERTA: Yes. That's the cage.
CHARLOTTE: They were a very nice looking couple.
BERTA: Thank you.
CHARLOTTE: And the house was made of adobe?
BERTA: Yeah. It was plastered.
CHARLOTTE: Do you remember who built it?
BERTA: No I don't.
CHARLOTTE: And what were the steps made of? ( 36: 04)
BERTA: Out of cement.
CHARLOTTE: Those were cement.
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: Tell us about this picture.
BERTA: Oh that's Mr. Bayless and that's his sister- in- law. That's his brother Stewart
CHARLOTTE: So Mr. Bayless is the one on the right.
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: And his sister- in- law is next.
BERTA: And this is his wife – This is his brother Stewart's wife.
CHARLOTTE: So the brother Stewart is all the way on the left.
BERTA: Yes, and this is their daughter, Margaret. The one that he left the ranch to when
he died.
CHARLOTTE: And this is in Tucson?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: What about this picture? It says something about " Recuerdo a Maria
Lores" (?). ( 36: 59)
BERTA: Oh that's my mother.
CHARLOTTE: And it's a picture of your mother, but you don't know who it's for?
BERTA: No.
CHARLOTTE: Who Maria Lores (?) is.
BERTA: No.
CHARLOTTE: Do you remember if this was maybe before you were born?
BERTA: Oh yes.
CHARLOTTE: So you don't know anything about where she was going or what she was
BERTA: No.
CHARLOTTE: What about this picture? ( 37: 25)
BERTA: Oh that's the girl there that she hired at one time that she had to let go because
she got… I don't know what my brother did, because he didn't talk when he was that
little. He didn't talk. So I don't know, he must have kicked her or I don't know what
happened. And she scratched him in the face and right here on the chest. So she had to
let her go. But she was with Mama for a long time, to feed us, you know. And
sometimes when Mother would be behind on the laundry, she would help out with the
CHARLOTTE: So she was from Redington?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: Another ranch? She's the one all the way on the right hand side.
BERTA: Uh hunh. And that's me, that's Ben. That's Mama. That's a school teacher.
Mrs… what was her name… can't remember her name. And that's Donna Bingham.
CHARLOTTE: The little girl is Donna Bingham.
BERTA: Donna Bingham.
CHARLOTTE: She looks about your age. Did you go to school together?
BERTA: Umm hmm.
BERTA: Miss Hart!
CHARLOTTE: Miss Hart. She's the teacher in that photograph.
( 38: 45) CHARLOTTE: And what about this card? The birthday card? It says Mrs. John
Rhodes on it.
BERTA: Oh! This was my dad's mother, mailed this to mama before not ever knowing
that mama was going to be her daughter- in- law.
CHARLOTTE: Oh, this was before they were married?
BERTA: Yes, un hunh.
CHARLOTTE: So this was August 30, 1915. She already liked her even though they
weren't related.
BERTA: Oh yes! ( BERTA laughs.)
CHARLOTTE: What about this card? ( 39: 16) From the National League of District
BERTA: Oh. I don't know.
CHARLOTTE: She just had that?
BERTA: She just had that.
CHARLOTTE: And here's another card from the Arizona State Association of
BERTA: Oh that's another card I guess they would send her. They would send her cards.
CHARLOTTE: The official cards.
BERTA: And then she had one from during the Lindbergh kidnapping. From Phoenix, a
detective agency, Hooper and Holmes. They contacted her and they deputized her. And
she had to…' cause they thought he would try to escape. They had her set down all the
serial numbers of the money that would come in.
CHARLOTTE: That's a big job.
BERTA: Yeah. I think my nephew, Miguel's boy, took the card, she had a card, that I
had for a long time. And even when she left the post office, we moved to Tucson. We're
living on Arcadia. Gosh, I was already 23 I think, when I had my first boyfriend. And
she was still in contact with the agency. So, she just didn't like him for some reason. So
she wrote to Hooper and Holmes and had them investigate him.
( BERTA and CHARLOTTE laugh.)
CHARLOTTE: What happened then?
BERTA: She made me… She didn't like what she…. She didn't show me the letter, but
she didn��t like what she read, so she had me get rid of him.
CHARLOTTE: You didn't get away with much I think, from the sound of it.
BERTA: No, not with her. Not with her. Like she said, I was a problem to her.
CHARLOTTE: Is there anything else that you wanted to tell us about?
BERTA: Well, I just wanted to say that I'm very proud, I am very proud of my mother.
She was a humble person. She would help anyone that needed help, even the hobos that
would come down the river. In fact, she would feed them. Well, she would have my
brother who was afraid of nothing, my oldest brother Fidel, take their food out to them.
And uh, she would help just anyone that needed help. And um, I admire her because she
her own way, even then, of disciplining us. After we got to be teenagers, she wouldn't,
well, even before we were teenagers, she would have this system. Every Saturday, she
would say we were going to have a roundtable discussion where you can tell me your
grievances. So we had a big round table, that's why she called it a roundtable, and it had,
in the middle, it had legs like an animal's legs, which I was afraid of when I was little.
And we'd sit around the table. My dad would skedaddle. He didn't want no part of it.
He'd leave everything to my mom. So she'd get a paper and pencil and write down our
names and then Fidel would say " Berta didn't want to help me do this or that, and blah,
blah, blah, blah." So, and then, me. My name, Berta. " Fidel hit me." Or whatever. And
then Ben. " Berta stuck her tongue out at me." Or whatever. And Frank. " Berta…"
Because he wanted me to… I used to make up stories. And he'd say, " Berta didn't want
to tell me a story." And stuff like that, you know. There was other stuff, and then she
would deal with us. " Well, Fidel, you can not go this weekend to play with your
friends." " Berta, you have to do the ironing first." Scrubbing or whatever. " Ben, you
have to rake the yard." " Frank, you have to feed the animals." And, " No one is going
anywhere this weekend."
CHARLOTTE: Well, so she was very organized. Even with writing things down and
very precise it sounds like.
BERTA: Very.
CHARLOTTE: And there's always a consequence of whatever happened. Would you
love to see those papers now and all those things that happened every week?
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: But your father didn't want to stay and see what he had done that week.
BERTA: No. He took off. Dad left everything to her. He knew she was capable of
handling it.
CHARLOTTE: Yes, she sounds very capable. Not much she couldn't handle it sounds
BERTA: No. She was something else. ( 44: 50)
( Someone says: I'm afraid the tape is just about to run out again. Maybe you need to
have one more thing or anything else you want to say in closing?)
BERTA: I just want to say she was a remarkable woman. And what makes me ashamed
of myself, is how she struggled, I mean struggled, for an education and here I had it and I
didn't make any use of it, what I had. I don't know.
CHARLOTTE: Well, I can see why you were proud of her. She does sound like an
amazing woman, just an amazing woman. Well, we're so grateful to you for sharing her
story with us, and sharing all these photographs, and cards, and stories and articles, and
all of it. So thank you so much.
BERTA: Thank you. Now I feel good that at least she's been, you know, recognized.
That's what I often worry. I used to think… In fact I talked to my nephew about it.
Fidel's oldest boy, Danny. I talked to him about it. I said you know, if there is a, what
do you call it, for postmasters…
CHARLOTTE: Like an award or something?
BERTA: I think my mother should deserve one.
CHARLOTTE: It certainly sounds like it. Well, thank you so much.
BERTA: You're very welcome. Thank you, because without you, I wouldn't even have
this privilege that I have to speak about my mother.
CHARLOTTE: And you have her desk also. ( 46: 40) Right here.
BERTA: Yes.
CHARLOTTE: Stephanie sent me some photographs of it. Did she sit at that desk?
BERTA: Yes, that flap used to come down. But it broke. You know, so many years and
moving and everything. And it's just kind of coming apart.
CHARLOTTE: It's beautiful though.
BERTA: See the pigeon holes are in the side there.
CHARLOTTE: What would she keep in the pigeon holes?
BERTA: Letters. She had labels on them. They came off. Like the names of the people.
I wrote them down.
CHARLOTTE: Oh – from the different families.
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SALISBURY — This year, four Sacred Heart Catholic School students qualified for the National History Bee, an individual academic competition for middle school students that tests knowledge of a wide range of historical topics.
After qualifying for the Intramural Bee and the Online Exam, Joseph Chaney, Adam Habeeb, Charles Langlais and William Clark all traveled to Charlotte on Feb. 13 to participate in the Southeast Regional finals.
The competition is divided into three stages:
An optional Intramural Bee and a mandatory Online Regional Qualifying Exam; top students from the exam face each other in a buzzer competition coordinated by the National History Bee at one of 35 sites, called the regional finals; top finishers from the regional finals are eligible to advance to the national championships.
The championship will be June 1. In 2012, the National Championships were televised by The History Channel and the winner received a $50,000 scholarship.
The school is waiting to hear if any students make the final cut.
Sacred Heart eighth-grader Justin Boyd had the second highest score for the individual category in the recent MathCounts Chapter competition, beating about 200 participants from the different schools in the Central Piedmont Chapter.
This qualifies him for the state MathCounts competition at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham on May 15.
"It takes a few years to develop a competitive math team and lots of practice. … We have had some smart teams in the past … but this year's team really has done well competitively," said Sister Myra Caylan, middle school math teacher.
Boyd also received a trophy for placing third in the Countdown Round. It is a fast-paced, oral competition for top-scoring individuals where a pair "mathletes" compete against each other and the clock to solve a problem.
The Sacred Heart team included Boyd, William Clark, Daniel Yu, Johnson Huynh, Michael Childress, Adam Habeeb, Emilee Hibshman, Gemma Brown, Alex Antosek and Will Casmus. The team finished seventh overall.
MathCounts Competition consists of four, timed rounds.
Science fair winner
Sacred Heart seventh grader Zach Huddleston won second place in the Sacred Heart Science Fair and then proceeded to the Rowan-Salisbury Science & Engineering Fair at Horizons Unlimited.
He won first place in the junior chemistry division of the Rowan-Salisbury Science & Engineering Fair. His project also won Region 6A Project of Distinction in the junior chemistry division; it included a monetary award.
On Feb. 9, Zach received an award from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center for Excellence in Biotechnology in the 2013 Southwest Regional 6A Science & Engineering Fair.
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Are we talking a pro race or a high school race? are there any other entries so far?
It's a pro women's 2 mile. Their high school/junior stuff is just mile, 4x4, and 4x8.
She'd be much better off as a high school student/athlete in the 4x8 relay...Bronxville has a great girls team...
She'll run against pros, quite possibly Ethiopians who usually sow up in Boston. For her it might be a race within a race, like Cheserek did a couple of times last year.
Why? What's the hurry to get this girl off and married. Married to a pro career at age 16???? What's the rush?
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|Jerome Kopf
That would mean one girl knocked off a fine team to make way for MC. No parent of a girl on that 4x8 team would allow it. The rest of the team would not allow it.
Leave Mary Cain to be Mary Cain, and not your version of what she should be. Ms. Cain does not fit into your neat little cubbyhole. Get over it.
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It seemed to work well for Rupp.
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That would mean one girl knocked off a fine team to make way for MC. No parent of a girl on that 4x8 team would allow it. The rest of the team would not allow it.
Mary Cain would have every right to run with her teammates if she so chooses (and of course adheres to team rules.) Your desire to see her run against open/adult runners is selfish and perhaps not the best thing for her long term development.
Perhaps you are confusing track and field with gymnastics or figure skating?
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As a fan of the sport I am less interested in her racing schedule and training schedule being fair for other high schoolers and more interested in her development as a runner.
Don't we want to see more Americans compete at the international level?
Well guess what? This is what it takes.
It takes an above average commitment from a young age if you are going to compete on the world's stage.
I'm not saying this process is for everyone. I understand the need for being a part of your high school team and growing socially in that setting. I believe that 99.9% of runners would benefit in the high school and college systems, but for the Mary Cain's of the world, I feel it is time for her to go pro now!
Why not? Strike while the iron is hot. She may be injured and done in 3 or years.
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The great power and beauty of track and field is that it aspires to be a meritocracy. If Ms. Cain is good enough to compete in Boston, or Seattle, and Ms. Cain wants to be there, and she is invited to be there, this is none of your business.
(I'm not saying this process is for everyone. I understand the need for being a part of your high school team and growing socially in that setting. I believe that 99.9% of runners would benefit in the high school and college systems, but for the Mary Cain's of the world, I feel it is time for her to go pro now![/quote])^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ah, no, nice try but you're wrong... other sports like football do not let players go to the NFL draft until after their sophomore year of college.. and you ain't ever gonna see a 16 year old boy quarterbacking the Alabama Crimson Tide...standards put in for the good of the kid/athlete. Even if Mary could compete on the world stage right now, what is the hurry??? Let her come up through the ranks for her own good: 4 yrs high school competition, 2 yrs of college competition and then the open/pro scene.....Mary will get a false sense of accomplishment, along with the cheers of thousands, and the adulation of a media that doesn't know the sport when she runs in Boston. Meanwhile other 16 year old runners from around the world will correctly told that in the not so distant future (2016) or (2020) that in due time they could be an Olympic champion. Mary will be crowned too soon, at age 16, in Boston.
Nice, I say she gets towed along to a 9:40, then stays after the meet to do a workout on the track. This girl is going to be sick good in 4-5 years
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The best 16 year old quarterback in the country isn't good enough to go pro. The best 16 year old runner in the country, at this point, might be good enough to go pro.
|Matthew Foley
Or maybe runs a disappointing 9:57, flings her spikes and has an Alan Webb-esque temper tantrum, and then takes out her anger in a post-race workout.
No, because Webb had a history of doing the same thing that he did.
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It seemed to work well for Rupp.[/quote]
Yea, it did work for Rupp, he is a guy. Lets see how it works for a 16 yr. old girl, Alberto certainly effed up Lambie, hope it goes better for Cain.
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Presented at the 165th ARL Membership Meeting, October 2014, in Washington, DC, by Katya Pereyaslavska.
On September 4, 2014, the Coalition of E-Reader Manufacturers ("Coalition") filed a Petition for Extension of Waiver ("Petition") with the Federal Communications Commission ("Commission") in response to the Commission's January 28, 2014 Order granting a waiver from the Commission's advanced communications services ("ACS") rules to a class of e-readers. The Association of Research Libraries ("ARL") and the American Library Association ("ALA") oppose the granting of this waiver, and urge the Commission to deny the Coalition's Petition.
Katya PereyaslavskaARL has appointed Katya Pereyaslavska as a visiting program officer (VPO) for accessibility and universal design, effective October 1, 2014. Pereyaslavska is the Scholars Portal Accessibility Librarian at the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and the University of Toronto Libraries (UTL), a position she has held for two years. She has worked in other capacities at UTL since 2009.
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On the third annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is proud to announce the availability of a new resource for the ARL membership and the library community—a Web Accessibility Toolkit for research libraries. ARL's toolkit shares the fundamental goal of GAAD, which is to "raise the profile" of digital accessibility and provide resources for improving access to information to "the broadest audience possible." The toolkit aims to:
image © Terry MadeleyOn January 28, 2014, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a one-year waiver exempting e-readers from the requirement that equipment used for advanced communication services (ACS) be accessible to, and usable by, individuals with disabilities. The FCC granted the waiver in response to a petition filed by the Coalition of E-Reader Manufacturers, but limited the waiver to only one year despite the coalition's request for an indefinite waiver. In the order granting the waiver (PDF), the FCC stated:
image © Terry MadeleyEarlier this month, ARL and the American Library Association (ALA) filed additional reply comments (PDF) to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding a request to waive e-reader access requirements for individuals with disabilities. In the comments, the Associations noted, "We are writing to reiterate our opposition to the waiver sought by the Coalition of E-Reader Manufacturers ('the Manufacturers') and present new information regarding the manner in which the e-readers covered by the Manufacturers' petition ('basic e-readers') are utilized."
In December 2013, ARL and the American Library Association (ALA) filed additional reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding a request to waive e-reader access requirements for individuals with disabilities. In the comments, the Associations noted, "We are writing to reiterate our opposition to the waiver sought by the Coalition of E-Reader Manufacturers ('the Manufacturers') and present new information regarding the manner in which the e-readers covered by the Manufacturers' petition ('basic e-readers') are utilized."
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Reply Comments of the Association of Research Libraries to the Federal Communications Commission in Opposition of GC Docket No. 10-213, Petition for Class Waiver Regarding Access to Advanced Communication Services in E-Readers for People with Disabilities.
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image © Dominique ArchambaultThe Library Copyright Alliance applauds the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for finalizing the Treaty for the Blind, a treaty that will allow nations to share or make accessible copies for the print disabled in other countries, who, more often than not, have little access to reading materials. The treaty was signed on June 27 in Morocco.
image © CornellPrivacy and accessibility issues will be featured at this year's Cornell University Institute for Internet Culture, Policy, and Law (ICPL), to be held September 18–20, 2013, at Cornell. The oldest IT, law, and policy conference in the US, ICPL has broadened its reach to address rapidly evolving legal, policy, and social concerns related to Internet culture. The number of participants is limited to 50, allowing for in-depth exploration of topics. Faculty; higher ed administrators; academic librarians; and IT, legal, policy, and student life professionals debate, learn, and share ideas, experiences, and expertise at the three-day institute.
HathiTrustOn June 3, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) filed an amicus brief (PDF) in support of HathiTrust and its partners as they defend their district court victory on appeal in the Second Circuit. LCA consists of three major library associations—the American Library Association, ARL, and the Association of College and Research Libraries—that collectively represent over 300,000 information professionals and thousands of libraries of all kinds throughout the US and Canada.
The ARL Joint Task Force on Services to Patrons with Print Disabilities released this report to bring much-needed attention to the challenges of print-disabled individuals who are seeking access to both print and digital library products and services. The report contains recommendations for research libraries to make information accessible to their full range of diverse users equitably. ARL believes that research libraries are poised to provide critical direction—along with academic leadership, IT, and disability services—on the service and technology planning, procurement, and licensing necessary to create a fully accessible information environment.
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MORRISTOWN, N.J. – The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) at the College of Saint Elizabeth teamed up with the Special Olympics of New Jersey to host the 2013 North Sectional Basketball Tournament on Saturday. The Special Olympics of New Jersey hosted its' annual basketball competition at neighboring Fairleigh Dickinson University as well as the College of Saint Elizabeth. The North Division has different levels ranked competitively 1 through 5.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III has partnered up with the Special Olympics to improve the lives of Special Olympics athletes through their involvement with Division III student-athletes and foster a mutual learning experience between Division III student-athletes and Special Olympics athletes.
To help run the tournament run smoothly on Saturday, the student-athletes kept score, operated the clock and presented medals to the Special Olympic athletes. The CSE athletes were able to interact and cheer on the Special Olympians. A group of their peers also cheered the participants on from the stands.
The SAAC board at Saint Elizabeth consists of the following members: senior president Kelly O'Dell (soccer, basketball, softball); junior vice president Amy Cooper (volleyball, tennis); sophomore secretary Alesandria De Sapio (softball) and freshman publicist Ashley Pledger (cross-country, basketball, softball).


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Six years ago, while swimming laps with a Masters swim team, I found myself sharing a lane with a tall Romanian man named Corvin. It wasn't until after the workout, when he picked up his red-and-white cane, that I realized Corvin was visually impaired.
I was overcome with a sense of admiration. As I got to know Corvin, I learned that he also competed in triathlons and biathlons.
Since then, his sight has deteriorated, eliminating his ability to compete in cycling, but that has not slowed him down in the least. Year after year, Corvin raises the bar with new physical challenges.
Corvin is 38 years old and has a progressive genetic disorder called Usher syndrome Type III, which results in deafness and blindness caused by retinitis pigmentosa.
Most of his hearing loss happened when he was a child.
Then, as a teenager, he experienced night vision problems, which gradually progressed to loss of peripheral vision, eventually requiring him to use a cane for mobility.
There's no known cure for Usher syndrome, but organizations including Foundation Fighting Blindness continue to research solutions.
Over the years, Corvin and I have stayed in touch. I've helped him with his nutrition and coached him toward triathlons and other events.
In 2010, Corvin asked me to create a plan that would prepare him to hike Mount Whitney. He would be going with guide. The date was set for three weeks out. Three weeks!
With cautious optimism, I put together a plan, lectured him about breaking in his hiking boots and crossed my fingers.
Unaccounted-for obstacles, such as complete lack of vision during pre-dawn miles, technical trail conditions, fierce wind gusts and blisters, slowed Corvin's pace significantly. He was forced to turn around at 13,600 feet — less than 1.5 miles from the summit — and reached the bottom just before sunset.
He left Mount Whitney with mixed feelings of fatigue, disappointment and a glimmer of hope to return one day.
In 2012, Corvin joined a relay team for the Big Sur Marathon and planned his second attempt to summit Mount Whitney.
At the Big Sur Marathon, he was responsible for the first 10 miles of the race, at which point he would "pass the baton." He exceeded his goal, completing his leg in one hour and 19 minutes, but facing the prospect of standing around for two hours waiting for a shuttle, he figured he might as well keep running. He finished the entire marathon. That night he slept 11 hours straight.
In preparation for his second Mount Whitney pursuit, he gave himself ample time to train, resolved some gear issues and went in knowing what he would encounter.
The first part of the hike went well. However, at 13,875 feet — less than a mile from the summit, dealing with fatigue and technically demanding trail conditions — Corvin was faced with an extremely difficult decision.
He wanted so much to reach the summit, and it was closer than ever, but with his mounting exhaustion, he knew it was risky and "one misstep could easily turn costly."
With his wife and daughter in his heart and tears in his eyes, he turned around and headed down the mountain. It was an emotional and courageous journey.
Last year, Corvin and I joined forces at the U.S. Half Marathon in San Francisco.
In the past, he had run without a guide, visually tracking the runners in front of him and occasionally bumping into people or tripping. His deteriorating vision prompted Corvin to consider the advantages of racing with a guide.
With a couple of practice sessions under our belts, we joined the crowd of runners in the starting chute of the race, each grasping the opposite end of a tether. Our biggest challenge during the race was navigating around other runners, as running side by side made us double-wide.
While hearing aids normally compensate for Corvin's hearing loss, he cannot wear them while running, so I shouted a steady narration of the course and amplified cheers from fellow runners.
We finished the half marathon in one hour, 51 minutes — seven minutes faster than his previous record on the course. It was an exhilarating experience for both of us.
We are now plotting for the San Francisco Rock 'n' Roll half marathon in April.
From the day I met Corvin, he has inspired me. He never lets the loss of his vision and hearing stop him from finding new ways to challenge himself. Rather than defeat, he sees opportunity and possibilities.
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Beyond the networking, storage, and other product announcements at this year's VMworld, which started on August 25 and runs to August 29, are some compelling questions: What's the long-term fate of the data center? With more applications, more big data to sort than ever before, what is the data center going to look like and how does it address the mobile world? Where does old I.T. survive against the new breed of business road warriors? Last but not least, how will changes in server management affect the jobs of today's system administrators?
The show this year comes at a time when virtualization pioneer VMware continues to be on secure footing with a technology of considerable benefit to businesses.
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Virtualization lets one machine, typically a server, run multiple operating systems for flexibility and an easing up of hardware needs. Wikibon, a community of practitioners and consultants who share advisory knowledge, recently issued results of a survey concluding that server virtualization is not hitting a wall but instead is continuing to grow -- from 69 percent of servers virtualized today to an expected 84 percent in eighteen months.
"Generally, the overheads associated with virtualization have become minimal and are far outweighed in many workloads by other business benefits," according to Wikibon.
VMware at this week's show is making it clear that its vision for future data centers and I.T. overall is getting more ambitious, wrapped up in software-defined networking (SDN) and the software-defined data center.
What that means is that software is put to use to extend flexibility in data centers and computer networks, a trend embraced by makers of networking gear as well. VMware is looking ahead to a software-defined data center, where automation rules, using software-based management tools.
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Beyond the show's optimistic talk about SDN, though, the concerns keeping information officers up at night are costs and security. Probably the most contentious issue regarding the way a business will run its operations in the future is what kind of model to choose. Should the business store critical data internally or release everything to the cloud? (continued...)
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Take Flight: Edwardian Diamond Pendant Necklace
Femininity and the ethereal lightness of 10k yellow gold filigree work impart the essence of Edwardian style to this necklace circa 1910. A trio of circular filigree elements in ascending size is set with old European cut diamond also in ascending carats of .07, .09 and .12 for a total estimated diamond weight of .28 carats. The uppermost disc is flanked by open work stylized wings almost Egyptian in design. A charming leaf motif makes this pendant necklace perfect for everyday or as a bridal piece.
Date: 1910.
Measurements: Chain is 19-13/16 inches (54 cm) in length. Central gold work is 1-1/4 inches (3.3 cm) in width by 1-3/8 inches (3.4 cm) in length. Weight of 4.2 grams (2.7 dwt).
Hallmarks: 10k on clasp.
Condition: Excellent.
Origin: American.
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As the Cartersville museum's largest fundraiser, the benefit continues to raise more than $100,000 each year.
"The funds go to help support our exhibitions, our educational programs and our enrichment programs throughout the year," Booth Executive Director Seth Hopkins said. "And then secondly, [its purpose] is to pick an artist in our collection and honor them with a Lifetime Achievement Award and get them to come to the museum and be honored on that evening.
"[Glenna Goodacre] is probably the best known woman sculptor in the world and one of the best sculptors in the world. She's had numerous monument projects throughout the country. She was selected to design the Sacagawea dollar coin and we have two large monumental bronzes on the Booth property that she did. So we thought she was definitely worthy of being honored with this award and will be the fifth person ever to receive it."
Starting at 5:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour, "For the Love of Art Gala & Art Auction" on Feb. 16 also will include a meal, and silent and live auctions.
"The silent auction takes place before dinner and it will be in the great hall there," said Matt Jarrard, development director for the Booth Western Art Museum, 501 Museum Drive. "The live auction goes on shortly following dinner in the ballroom. It's definitely some art pieces that our Western art collector followers have interest in but there's plenty of non-art pieces as well. There's some Western clothing items that are included and some trips, things of that sort. So [there is something] for everybody.
"One of the things we're also introducing to the Gala this year is we're trying to make it more of a weekend event because we have folks that come from out of town to Cartersville just for Gala and we kind of wanted to make it ... more of a weekend full of festivities. And this year we're introducing a Friday night event that will be held at the Downtown Gallery. It's called Boots and Saddles and you can find out more information about that on the website as well. ... There will be live music and entertainment, heavy hors d'oeuvres, drinks, that sort of thing. [It is] a more casual and fun way to kick off the weekend of Gala."
Tickets to "For the Love of Art Gala & Art Auction" are $150 per person. On the day of the black tie optional event, the museum will close to the general public at 3 p.m.
For more information about the event and to view auction items, visit www.boothmuseum.org.


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