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Location: Boston
Chartered By: John T. Heard
Charter Date: 03/11/1857 VI-96
Precedence Date: 03/04/1856
Current Status: in Grand Lodge Vault; merged with Germania Lodge to form Germania-Revere Lodge, 08/19/1999; now a part of The Consolidated Lodge.
- William W. Baker, 1856-1858
- Orren S. Sanders, 1859, 1860
- Charles C. Dame, 1860, 1861
- Richard Briggs, 1862, 1863
- William Rogers, 1864
- Horace P. Hemenway, 1865, 1866
- George T. Ambrose, 1867, 1868
- Marlborough Williams, 1869, 1870; Mem
- Charles H. Bolles, 1871, 1872
- Samuel Wells, 1873, 1874
- Joseph B. Mason, 1875, 1876
- William R. Cooke, 1877, 1878
- Frank T. Dwinell, 1879, 1880
- George F. Wright, 1881, 1882
- Zacheus Holmes, 1883, 1884
- William B. Fisher, 1885
- Edwin B. Holmes, 1886, 1887
- Henry K. Dunton, 1888, 1889
- Melvin L. Ingalls, 1890, 1891
- E. Loring Richards, 1892, 1893; SN
- G. Ellis Reed, 1894, 1895
- Charles H. Ramsay, 1896, 1897
- Royal Wilton, 1898, 1899
- Charles W. Bascom, 1900, 1901; SN
- Henry N. Rice, 1902, 1903
- Sumner L. Stackhouse, 1904, 1905
- George G. Perry, 1906
- Charles Bickford, 1907
- John G. Godding, 1908
- John W. Crooks, 1909, 1910
- Francis J. Whitton, 1911, 1912
- John H. Blodgett, 1913, 1914
- William W. Brooks, 1915, 1916; N
- Jay B. Crawford, 1917
- Winfield C. Towne, 1918
- William P. Bullard, 1919, 1920
- Clarence M. Cobb, 1921
- William H. Campbell, 1922, 1923
- Leon H. Davis, 1924, 1925
- T(homas) Rutherford Edwards, 1926, 1927
- Archibald J. Jackson, 1928, 1929
- George S. Murray, 1930
- Clinton B. Hayes, 1931
- Russell M. Sanders, 1932, 1933
- Henry H. Hill, 1934, 1935
- Parker O. Bullard, 1936
- Walter L. Kraemer, 1937
- Reginald C. Garner, 1938, 1939
- Earle W. Spurting, 1940
- George A. Butters, 1942
- Waldo M. Hunt, 1943, 1944
- John H. Willet, Jr., 1945
- Charles M. Sparkes, 1946
- Albert E. Blodgett, 1947
- Walter H. Heaman, 1948, 1949
- Marvin S. Bowman, 1950, 1951
- Arthur H. Edwards, 1952, 1953; SN
- Carl R. Allen, 1954, 1955
- Warren B. Clark, 1956, 1957
- Bert P. Brockbank, 1958, 1959
- Donald G. Lothrop, 1960, 1961; N
- Daniel A. Lorge, 1962
- A. Bentley Kurtis, 1963, 1964
- Frank M. Sophia, 1965, 1966
- E. Rea Seeley, 1967, 1968
- Edward Newpol, 1969; N
- Harry Lavidor, 1970
- Edward Finkelstein, 1971
- Leonard B. Cutler, 1972
- Ralph S. Cohen, 1973; N
- Alan C. Hochberg, 1974, 1975
- Leon Rabin, 1976, 1992-1997
- Stefanos J. Loisou, 1977
- David Ginsberg, 1978
- Jack L. Zimmerman, 1979, 1980; N
- Benson Brown, 1981, 1982; N
- Daniel L. Needleman, 1983, 1984
- Ernest A. Pearlstein, 1985, 1986
- Joseph J. Trofimow, 1987, 1988
- Joseph J. Newpol, 1989
- (Edward) Donald Weiner, 1990, 1991; N
- David F. Howard, 1998, 1999; PDDGM
- Petition for Dispensation: 1856
- Petition for Charter: 1857
- Consolidation Petition (with Germania Lodge): 1999
- 1857 (Heard); Constitution of Lodge; not in Proceedings; Address)
- 1867 (Dame); installation)
- 1868 (Dame); installation)
- 1878 (Welch)
- 1880 (Welch; installation; see below)
- 1881 (Lawrence); 25th Anniversary)
- 1886 (Howland); installation by Past Grand Master Dame)
- 1887 (Endicott)
- 1888 (Endicott); installation)
- 1890 (Wells); 2 visits, including installation)
- 1891 (Wells); installation by Past Grand Master Dame)
- 1892 (Wells); installation by Past Grand Master Dame)
- 1894 (Weld); 2 visits)
- 1895 (Holmes); 3 visits)
- 1896 (Holmes); 2 visits)
- 1897 (Hutchinson)
- 1898 (Hutchinson); installation by Past Grand Master Dame)
- 1899 (Hutchinson); 2 visits, including installation by Past Grand Master Dame)
- 1902 (Gallagher); installation by Past Grand Master Holmes)
- 1908 (Blake)
- 1909 (Flanders)
- 1911 (Flanders)
- 1918 (L. Abbott)
- 1919 (L. Abbott); Hall dedication; Special Communication)
- 1920 (Prince); Ladies' Night)
- 1923 (Ferrell); Ladies' Night)
- 1927 (Simpson); Veterans' Night)
- 1931 (H. Dean); 75th Anniversary)
- 1940 (Perry)
- 1956 (W. Johnson); Centenary; Special Communication)
- 1972 (Vose); 3 visits, including table lodge)
- 1976 (Maxwell); 120th Anniversary)
- 1981 (Berquist); 125th Anniversary; Special Communication)
- 1999 (Bauer); Consolidation; Special Communication)
1869 1871 1879 1885 1899 1903 1917 1919 1925 1926 1930 1945 1946 1961 1966 1976 1992
From Proceedings, Page 1956-57:
By Brother Bert P. Brockbank.
Revere Lodge, A. F. & A. M., in reaching the 100th milestone along Time's endless highway, is justifiably proud of the results achieved and looks with confidence to the century ahead. Truly, it is an occasion of momentous import, a time for solemn reflection as well as for joyous celebration.
One hundred years is a much longer period then the traditional life-span of man, but it is only a split moment of measured time in humanity's struggle for a better way of life and a better world in which to live it.
Therefore it is fitting for all of us on this great and important occasion to pause and look back through the vista of years and reflect upon the birth, youth and maturity of the Lodge.
It is particularly appropriate to recall with reverence and admiration the founders of Revere and those leaders who have charted the course and piloted the Lodge through many turbulent shoals into comparatively calm waters. They were just and upright men dedicated to the promotion of Brother Love, Relief and Truth.
Past historians have presented the historical highlights of our Lodge on the several anniversaries that have been observed down to the last decade. Since the 90th anniversary in 1946, the activities of the Lodge have proceeded smoothly with few events of historical value left to be recorded. This review, therefore, is largely a rewrite of previous accounts plus coverage of the past ten years.
Thus we turn back to the year 1856. To emphasize the long trail traveled, it may be recalled that Franklin Pierce was serving as 14th President of the United States; the Crimean War had just ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by Great Britain, France and Russia; and the literary world was acclaiming Longfellow's latest epic, the "Song of Hiawatha," when Revere Lodge was instituted in Boston on March 4th of that year.
What changes have been wrought since that time! It seems almost incredible, but most of the changes tending to improve human living standards since time immemorial have been made during the past 100 years: from candlelight to electricity, from dirt roads to steel and concrete highways, from horse-drawn vehicles to airplanes. These are but a few of the modern improvements which we enjoy today.
Notwithstanding all these changes, Freemasonry has kept pace with and has adjusted itself to them, proceeding along its timeless course and bearing witness to the unchanged and unchangeable verities upon which it is securely founded.
Revere Lodge is a scion of Columbian Lodge, of which three members, Bros. William W. Baker and George W. Thacher, both Past Masters of Columbian Lodge, and Bro. John McClellan, met one evening in the early winter of 1856 and proposed the establishment of a new Lodge in Boston.
These three Brethren, who were really the Founders of Revere Lodge, having associated seventeen others with them, called a meeting for March 1st for the purpose of preparing a petition for dispensation from the Grand Lodge, to choose a name for the new Lodge and to nominate officers.
At the suggestion of Bro. McClellan, the name of "Paul Revere" was chosen in recognition of the fact that the famous Patriot and scientific worker in metals was, from 1795 to 1797, Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts.
Although the records do not disclose why the Christian name of "Paul" was dropped, it is generally assumed that two petitions for the full name had been received simultaneously by the Grand Lodge, one from a Masonic group in Brockton, and that the latter's petition was the first to be opened. Be that as it may, the Brockton petition was given precedence and the Boston group gracefully accepted the name of "Revere." Before the dispensation could be granted, it was necessary for the petitioners to obtain the assent of another Lodge in the jurisdiction. A committee was appointed to wait upon St. John's Lodge and request its assent, which was gladly and immediately given.
The dispensation was then issued. It was dated March 4, 1856, and authorized the petitioners to work until the meeting of the Grand Lodge a year hence. It also appointed Wor. William W. Baker to be first Master; Bro. William Rogers, first Senior Warden; and Bro. Jonas H. French, first Junior Warden. The document was signed by Most Worshipful Winslow Lewis, Grand Master, and R. W. Charles W. Moore, Grand Secretary.
That evening, March 4th, the first regular meeting of Revere Lodge was held, opening on the Third Degree with eleven members present. The dispensation was read, after which a committee was appointed to draft a code of by-laws and to procure a seal. The Lodge received four applications for the degrees, exemplified the work of the First Degree and then adjourned.
A brief description of the official Seal of the Lodge which the committee procured may be appropriate at this time. An enlarged sketch of this Seal appears on the front cover of this booklet. It was designed by Wor. Bro. Baker and has remained unaltered to the present day.
The central figure of the design represents the head of Harpocrates, with his finger pressed to his lips to indicate secrecy. In Egyptian mythology, Harpocrates was worshiped as the God of Silence. He was the son of Isis and the successor of Osiris.
The legend, or motto, Non Ulli Tacuisse Nocet, is appropriate to the Deity, and together with the figure, represents an important requisite in Freemasonry. It may be freely translated: "Silence harms no one."
At the the second regular meeting held the following month, eleven members and nineteen visitors assembled for the first real work performed by the Lodge, that of the First Degree. Wor. Bro. Baker presided in the East, with Bros. Rogers and French occupying the Senior and Junior Warden stations respectively. The other stations were filled by Bro. George M. Thatcher as Treasurer; Bro. John McClellan, Secretary; Bro. Orris S. Sanders, Senior Deacon; Bro. Richard Briggs, Junior Deacon; Bro. George W. Patton, Senior Steward; Bro. Cyrus B. Davenport, Junior Steward and Bro. William C. Martin, Tyler.
The candidate that evening was a young Boston gentleman by the name of Marlborough Williams, who thus attained Masonic fame as the first intitiate of Revere Lodge. How wise and fitting was his selection may be realized by the fact that he soon distinguished himself as an officer of the Lodge. Later, in 1869 and 1870, he served as Worshipful Master.
At the same meeting, the application of His Excellency, Henry J. Gardner, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was presented by Wor. Bro. Thatcher, then a member of the Governor's staff. Another member of the staff was also proposed that evening, and as Bro. French was a staff member, Revere Lodge soon had within its fold the Governor and three of his aides.
The initiation of the Governor naturally attracted wide attention in Masonic circles. The records disclose that on that occasion there were present sixteen members of the Lodge and no fewer than seventy-five visiting Brethren. When he took his Fellowcraft Degree, there were forty-four visitors. At the next meeting another large turnout of seventy-four visitors expected to see him raised, but he did not receive the Third Degree until the following December.
Revere Lodge was thus started on its career under most favorable and promising auspices. Work was abundant and the character of the initiates of the highest. During the year of dispensation twenty-nine applicants were accepted, a good year's work for any Lodge.
At the meeting of February 3, 1857, a month before the Lodge was constituted, a singular event occurred which may be of interest to present members. An accepted candidate, on being admitted for initiation, refused to comply with the regulations and, by order of the Worshipful Master, was removed from the lodge-room in the prescribed manner. Such an occurrence has never been repeated in Revere Lodge, and we doubt if in any other Lodge in the Massachusetts jurisdiction.
On March 11, 1857, there was a meeting of the Grand Lodge> and, as the new Lodge had complied with all the requirements under its year of dispensation, the necessary Charter was granted. Before being constituted, however, the Lodge met and elected officers, these being the same Brethren who had filled the stations during dispensation. A code of by-laws was also adopted.
The special meeting for the consecration of the Lodge and the installation of officers was held March 27th, at which Most Worshipful John T. Heard, Grand Master, with other officers of the Grand Lodge, performed the ceremonies in due and ancient form. On completion of the ceremonies, the Grand Master delivered an address, which was responded to by the Master of the Lodge.
The Lodge Charter is dated March 11, 1857, and it declares: "The precedence of Revere Lodge shall commence from March 4, 1856." It is from that day, therefore, that we date our beginning.
The early meetings of the Lodge were held in the Masonic Temple at Tremont Street and Temple Place, on the site now occupied by R. H. Stearns Co. The fact that the Temple was located there gave the street its name.
The first death of a member of our Lodge occurred on January 21, 1858, when Bro. William W. Delano was called to the Celestial Lodge at the early age of twenty. On that occasion was commenced the series of Memorial pages in our records, a practice that has continued through the years to the present. Sooner or later all of us will have our Memorial page. It is only a question of time.
In 1859, the Temple Place building having been sold to the United States government, the Lodge was forced to seek quarters elsewhere. On January 25th of that year the Lodge met at Nassau Hall, located at the corner of Washington and Common Streets, and continued to meet there until the completion of Free Masons Hall, on the site of the present Temple.
The new Lodge suffered its worse disaster in March, 1864, when, after a regular meeting, the building was destroyed by fire, the Lodge losing all its regalia, its working tools and even its original Charter. The following October the Lodge took part in the exercises at which the corner-stone of a new Temple on the same site was laid.
While this building was under construction, the Lodge met in Odd Fellows Hall at Washington and Kneeland Streets, and later in Thorndike Hall in Summer Street, until the newly-completed Temple was dedicated to Masonic usages on June 24, 1867, with elaborate ceremonies, in which President Andrew Johnson participated. On that day the Lodge appeared in the procession with sixty members in line under Wor. Master George T. Ambrose. The first regular meeting there was on the following September 3rd.
That structure was of Gothic architecture and seven stories in height. Constructed of light granite, it presented an imposing appearance when viewed from Boston Common. The entrance was on Tremont Street and access to the upper floors was by means of a massive, wide stairway branching to right and left at the first landing.
There was no elevator in the building. Members were forced to climb two long flights of stairs to reach Sutton Hall, where Lodge meetings were held, and three more flights to Gothic Hall, where the Commanderies and other bodies met. Two flights above this was the banquet hall, on the top floor. Just imagine the caterer of that time having to haul his supplies and equipment up those seven flights and then down again after a dinner.
It was in that building that the 25th anniversary of Revere Lodge was held on March 5, 1881, with Wor. George F. Wright in the East. The principal speaker on that occasion was Past Master Samuel Wells, who was then serving as Treasurer of the Lodge and also Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge. At a later date, 1890 to 1892, he was Grand Master of the Massachusetts jurisdiction.
At the close of the exercises in Sutton Hall, an opportunity was afforded visiting members and ladies to inspect the several apartments in the Temple, the celebration concluding with a banquet in the upper hall.
This Temple was likewise destroyed by fire on September 7, 1895, and was replaced by the present structure which was dedicated December 27, 1899. During its construction, Revere Lodge met in the Masonic Temple in Roxbury until February, 1896, and thereafter in Boylston Hall at Washington and Boylston Streets.
The 40th anniversary of the Lodge was observed March 3, 1896, in Boylston Hall, with Wor. Charles H. Ramsay, Master. This celebration was necessarily restricted because the Lodge had no home at the time. Despite the obstacles, there were present that night no fewer than sixty members and forty-eight visitors. From that date until 1906 the Lodge pursued its even way without any outstanding events worthy of special mention.
It is unfortunate that no special record appears to have been made of the 50th anniversary observance. It has been learned, however, that the exercises followed closely those of the 25th year's celebration. The ceremonies opened with a reception and organ recital in Corinthian Hall, followed by a dinner in the banquet hall. The presiding Master was Wor. George G. Parry.
After the repast, the gathering again returned to Corinthian Kail, where the exercises resumed with the reading of "An Historical Sketch of Revere Lodge" by Wor. George F. Wright. A diligent search has failed to reveal a copy of that address, which dealt in detail with many interesting activities of the Lodge since its 25th birthday. Next on the program was a concert and a variety entertainment followed by a banquet and dancing until midnight.
Our 75th anniversary was observed March 3, 1931, during the Master's term of Wor. Clifton R. Hayes, and attracted a large attendance of members and visitors. The Master received the Grand Master and other Grand Lodge Officers, Masters of the several Lodges comprising the Boston First Masonic District, and distinguished visitors. Bro. William B. Revere, the Patriot's great grandson, was also a guest of the Lodge. The anniversary address was delivered by Bro. Newell A. Thompson. It was entitled "A Retrospect of Revere Lodge, A. F. & A. M.," and proved to be the most comprehensive history of the Lodge to that year.
On the occasion of its 90th birthday on March 5, 1946, the Lodge held a special meeting, featuring a reading of the Lodge record compiled by the historian, Bro. Marvin S. Bowman, entitled "Ninety Years of Revere Lodge." Four years later Bro. Bowman became Master of the Lodge and served through 1950 and 1951. The exercises on this occasion were conducted by the Master, Wor. Charles M. Sparkes, with a goodly number of the Brethren present.
During the past decade there has been a dearth of unusual events to highlight the activities of the Lodge. It stood fast under the second World War and the Korean Conflict, in which many of our members participated, making the necessary postwar adjustments without fuss or fanfare.
We are now meeting to celebrate our Centennial anniversary. For a full century, through dark days of doubt and distress and periods of good times, Revere Lodge has exemplified the eternal verities that have made our beloved Fraternity one of the greatest forces for good in the world. Revere Lodge has been privileged to be a vital part in a glorious period of our nation's history, from Franklin Pierce to Dwight D. Eisenhower. It has survived five great wars, including the lamentable Civil War and two World Wars, several disastrous depressions, fires and epidemics. The key to the Lodge's successful career lies in the type of leadership it has always enjoyed. A total of fifty-nine Worshipful Masters have guided its destinies during its first 100 years, including our present Master, Worshipful Warren B. Clark. Of these, all but sixteen have served two-year terms, the others one year each. We also have tender thoughts for the thirty-nine of these leaders who have laid down the working tools of the Craft at the call of the Supreme Master.
One fact of which members of Revere Lodge may be justifiably proud is that we have been signally honored by Grand Lodge in the election or appointment of Grand Officers. Since 1856 the Lodge has furnished more officers to the Grand Lodge than any other Lodge in the Massachusetts jurisdiction. The roster follows: four Grand Masters, five Deputy Grand Masters, three Senior Grand Wardens, one Junior Grand Warden, three Grand Treasurers, one Grand Secretary, eight District Deputy Grand Masters, one District Deputy Grand Marshal, and one Senior Grand Steward.
One of the District Deputies was R. W. T. Rutherford Edwards, who was Master of the Lodge in 1926 and 1927. It was more than 25 years ago when he conceived the establishment of Lodges of Instruction as an adjunct to the Masonic educational program. He organized the first of such Lodges in Boston and before he died several years ago, he had the satisfaction of seeing similar Lodges of Instruction adopted throughout our jurisdiction.
Our present Treasurer, Worshipful Walter H. Heaman, who was Master of the Lodge in 1948-1949, is also an ardent supporter of this educational project and was Worshipful Master of the Third Lodge of Instruction in 1950.
The Past Masters who are present with us tonight need no praise from your historian. We know and respect them for their proven efficiency and earnestness in the field of leadership, their ritualistic ability, and their faithfulness at all times to the great trust reposed in them. The Lodge has had only eight Secretaries since its inception. Last year our beloved Brother H. Frank Spurr resigned the office of Secretary after twenty-three years of faithful service. In June he was elected Secretary Emeritus and voted honorary membership, and Bro. C. Donaldson Damon was elected to succeed him. Only a few weeks later, Bro. Spurr was called suddenly to his eternal reward, and his Brethren still mourn his passing.
When Revere Lodge was founded, there were fewer than 25,000 Masons in the Massachusetts jurisdiction. Today, there are 342 Lodges, with a total membership of 128,652.
We believe that "what's past is prologue," and that the record achievements of Revere Lodge in the century just closed are but the preparation for continued progress in the century ahead.
Today, Freemasonry is one of our nation's greatest assets. It has furnished architects of a better society and a better way of life. Like the principles of our American democracy, it points the way to universal peace and a Brotherhood of Men under the Fatherhood of God.
Revere Lodge will always remain a pillar of this great institution. Its past is revered, its present is resolved, its future is assured.
- 1885 (Presentation to Grand Lodge, 1885-191)
- 1900 (Presentation to Grand Lodge, 1900-19)
- 1934 (Reduction of fees disapproved, 1934-335)
- 1936 (Reduction of fees approved)
From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XVII, No. 4, February 1858, Page 119:
The last stated meeting of Revere Lodge was made the occasion of a very interesting and pleasing occurrence. The retiring Master, W. William W. Baker, having served the Lodge as Master from its commencement, was presented by the members thereof with a beautiful silver testimonial, expressive of their brotherly love and Masonic estimation.
The presentation was made by the Senior Warden, Br. Wm. Rogers, in a very felicitous and highly pleasing address. He adverted to the labors of Br. Baker as one of the founders of the Lodge, his devotion to its interests, and his jealous care and watchfulness while Master. The speaker also alluded in fitting terms to the services of his Worshipful Brother in other departments of the Institution ; his love for the Craft, and the confidence and esteem in which he was held, not only by the members of his own Lodge, but also in the Order at large. Brother Rogers' remarks were exceedingly appropriate, and were listened to with great attention.
Brother Baker, in reply, was much affected at this unexpected event, and ex pressed his heartfelt thanks for the beautiful testimonial and the flattering terms in which it had been conveyed. He alluded to the success that had attended their endeavors to form a first class Lodge, and their present prosperous condition, and ascribed it, in a great measure, to that harmony and oneness of sentiment that had ever characterized them as a Lodge.
Revere Lodge already numbers more than fifty members, a majority of whom have so far perfected themselves as Masons, as to be able to fill with honor, almost any office in the Lodge. This, Brother Baker held to be a sure and certain foundation, and the only sure and certain foundation for a Masonic Lodge, and urged upon the Brethren the necessity of attention to the study of the ritual, and a prompt attendance at the meetings, both of the Lodge and sodality. He concluded with trusting that the harmony and brotherly love that now existed might ever prevail, and that the present W. M. (Brother Sanders,) might leave to his successor, as happy, as prosperous, and as united a Lodge.
The testimonial is a Silver Pitcher, of chaste design, elegantly wrought, and beautifully finished. It is inscribed —
From the Members of
Revere Lodge
Worshipful William W. Baker,
for his
Eminent services as First Master of this Lodge.
January, 1858."
The ceremony was witnessed by a large number of the Brethren, who expressed themselves much pleased at the appropriateness and the interest of the occasion.
From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XIX, No. 3, January 1860, Page 72:
Revere Lodge of Boston held their fourth annual meeting at Nassau Hall, on Tuesday evening, Dec. 6th, at which time the following Brethren were duly elected and installed :—
- Chas. C. Dame, W. M.
- Richard Briggs, S. W.
- H. P. Hemenway, J. W.
- John McClellan, Treas.
- William W. Baker, Sec'y.
- T. F. Clark, S. Deacon.
- B. F. Wilson, J. Deacon.
- C. W. Huntington, S. Steward.
- J. A. Osborne, J. Steward.
- G. W. Harris, Organist.
The W. M. elect was installed by the retiring Master, W. O. S. Sanders, who made some impressive remarks upon the nature and importance of the office, add entered at length upon the necessity of a strict adherence to the rules and regulations of the Order. W. Bro. Dame, in turn, in a very happy manner installed the remaining officers. R. W. Wm. D. Coolidge, D. D. Grand Master, then presented W. Bro. Sanders with a Past Master's diploma and took occasion to remark upon the great success that had attended Revere Lodge since its institution, and the excellent standing it maintained in the Grand Lodge.
This Lodge is a legitimate offspring of Columbian Lodge of Boston, its founders being two Past Masters of that Lodge (R. W. Brothers Geo. M. Thacher and Wm. W. Baker) and John McClellan, for many years Secretary of Columbian Lodge. It numbers at present seventy-six members, and ranks second to none in the country, for the excellence of its work, for the interest taken in the Order, and for the high social position of its members.
After the ceremonies of the evening, which were not concluded till a late hour, the Lodge, with its invited guests, repaired to the banqueting hall, where a table had been beautifully spread by Smith, the well known caterer. A proper consideration having been extended to the more solid portion of the viands, Br. Wm. W. Baker, the first Master of the Lodge, was called to the Chair, who, after a few preliminary remarks, welcomed the company to the hospitality of Revere Lodge, and announced as the first sentiment — "The Grand Lodge." In the absence of the M. W. Grand Master, John T. Heard, R. W. Winslow Lewis, Past G. M., responded in a very happy vein, and provoked a rejoinder from R. W. Dan. Harwood. Speeches and sentiments rapidly followed — prominent among which were those by R. W. Bros. Coolidge, Dame, Sanders, Clapp (who responded to the memory of Paul Revere, for whom the Lodge was called), Allen (who spoke for the Members of Revere Lodge), McClellan, Wood, and others.
The company separated at a late hour, highly gratified with the entertainment of the evening.
From Moore's Freemason's Monthly, Vol. XIX, No. 6, April 1860, Page 177:
The Masonic Fraternity generally, and especially the older members, are interested in the welfare and doings of the younger Lodges; and, therefore, we take occasion to notice a very agreeable episode which occurred during the exercises at Revere Lodge, at its regular communication on the 6th instant.
It is a cheering and pleasing judication of the condition of the Order in this jurisdiction, to see the Brethren of a Lodge, organized but three years since, manifesting their appreciation of Masonic zeal and services in their officers in the manner exemplified on the occasion above referred to.
A committee of the Lodge, consisting of W. M. Dame, Briggs, Hemenway, McClellan, Wood, Rogers and M. Williams, having been appointed to consult upon some suitable testimonial to present to Worshipful Past Master, Bro. Sanders, for his faithful and able discharge of the duties of Master of Revere Lodge, also to express the feelings of the members towards him personally, made choice of a beautiful silver pitcher, elegantly chased and with an appropriate inscription, and the presentation was made by Brother Rogers, on behalf of the committee, in the following felicitous remarks, which, as well as the reply thereto, have been committed to paper and kindly furnished at our solicitation.
A Member of Revere Lodge.
Worshipful Matter Sanders, — A pleasing observance has become customary in many of our Masonic bodies, upon the retirement of a presiding officer, who has always been faithful and efficient in his duties, a true-hearted Mason, and worthy of all Brotherly regard, of giving him some permanent testimonial, for the purpose of showing that bis Brethren appreciate his worth and his services, and wish him and his friends to know and remember that he is properly esteemed. The principal value of the gift, not derived from the material or the workmanship, springs from the esteem and good will of those friends and Brothers who take pleasure in presenting it. The inscription upon its face displays in words what is felt in the hearts of the givers, and imparts a value richer than silver or gold.
Worshipful Brother, you have presided over this Lodge, during two years of progress, harmony and prosperity. And during the first two years of our working, also, previous to your occupancy of the Master's chair, as Senior Deacon, yon were a prominent, faithful and efficient officer. Both positions you have filled with credit to yourself and honor to the Lodge; and you have never spared any effort, or care, or study, or pain, to fulfill every part of your duty faithfully, and to advance the best interests, the welfare, the harmony and good feeling of the Lodge. Your constant endeavor has appeared to be, to do your whole duty, and such an endeavor secures its own success. This Lodge, which has grown up with you, these just and upright Masons, selected with care from the applicants for admission to our ancient mysteries, attest the watchful care, not only of your worthy predecessor, whom we all esteem and love, but also of yourself; and the prudence and discrimination of the committees appointed by both. And to those who have been associated with you io the pleasant relations of Masonic Brotherhood, among whom no contention has ever existed, but that noble contention, or rather emulation, of who best could work and best agree, you yourself would be one of the most ready to accord their appropriate measure of commendation.
And now, worshipful Brother, we ask you to receive from our hands this token of our esteem (a beautiful Silver Pitcher, a rare specimen of workmanship). May it always remind you to continue firm and steadfast in every Masonic duty, so that in age you may enjoy the happy reflection consequent on a well spent life.
From Liberal Freemason, Vol. I, No. 10, January 1878, Page 315:
Revere Lodge held its annual meeting on Tuesday evening, December 11, at Masonic Temple, when the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: William R. Cooke, Worshipful Master; Frank T. Dwinell, Senior Warden; George F. Wright, Junior Warden ; John McLellan, Treasurer; William W. Baker, Secretary; Zaccheus Holmes, Senior Deacon; Horace Crosby, Junior Deacon; Rev. Charles H. Titus, Chaplain ; George Phippen, Jr., Assistant Secretary; William Downie, Marshal; William B. Fisher, Senior Steward; Henry F. Lynde, Junior Steward; Fred. C. Fairbanks, Inside Sentinel; Henry Orr, Tyler. The officers were duly installed by Past Grand Master Charles C. Dame, after which Worshipful Samuel Wells, in the name of the members of Revere Lodge, presented Worshipful William W. Baker, who was the first Master of Revere Lodge, with an elegant Past Master's Jewel. The affair was a complete surprise to the recipient, and considerable feeling and emotion were manifested during the course of the presentation. The members then adjourned to the banquet hall, where an excellent collation awaited them. Speeches and songs terminated the proceedings of the evening.
From Liberal Freemason, Vol. II, No. 10, January 1879, Page 314:
At the Annual Meeting of this Lodge, held at Masonic Temple on Tuesday evening December 3d, the following officers were elected and installed: Worshipful Master, Frank T. Dwinell; Senior Warden, George F. Wright; Junior Warden, Zaccheus Holmes; Treasurer, Samuel Wells; Secretary, Wm. W. Baker; Assistant Secretary, George Phippen, Jr.; Chaplain. Rev. Mr. Silloway; Marshal, William Downie; Senior Deacon, Horace Crosby; Junior Deacon, Wm. B. Fisher; Senior Steward. Henry F. Lynde; Junior Steward, Fred. C. Fairbanks; Sentinel, E. B. Holmes; Tyler, Henry Orr. These officers were installed by Right Worshipful C. C. Dame, Past Grand Master, after which the members, ovei 200 in number, participated in the Annual Banquet.
From Liberal Freemason, Vol. IV, No. 10, January 1881, Page 317:
The twenty-fourth annual communication of Revere Lodge was held in Masonic Temple on Tuesday evening, December 7th, and the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: George F. Wright, Worshipful Master; Zacheus Holmes, Senior Warden; William B. Fisher, Junior Warden; Samuel Wells, Treasurer; William W. Baker, Secretary; Edwin B. Holmes, Senior Deacon ; Wm. N. Eayrs, Junior Deacon. The Worshipful Master elect made the following appointments: George Phippen, Junior, Assistant Secretary; Henry K. Dunton, Senior Steward; Charles A. Drost, Junior Steward; Thomas W. Silloway, Chaplain; Daniel F. Knight, Marshal; George O. Noyes, Inside Sentinel; William H. Gerrish, organist; George O. Townsend, Tyler. The officers elected and appointed were duly installed by Right Worshipful Charles C. Dame, after which the members of the Lodge, together with Most Worshipful Charles A. Welch, Grand Master of Massachusetts, and other distinguished guests, repaired to the banquet hall, where an elegant collation was served by Bro. Wm. Tufts, caterer.
From Liberal Freemason, Vol. XII, No. 9, December 1888, Page 284:
The annual meeting of this Lodge was held in Masonic Temple, Boston, Tuesday, December 5th, when R. W. Charles C. Dame, P. M. of the Lodge, and Past Grand Master, installed the officers for the twenty-seventh time. R. W. Samuel Wells, P. M. of the Lodge, and Dep. Grand Master, was presented with a loving cup, of silver, lined with gold, in recognition of his efficient services to the Lodge for a period exceeding twenty-five years, within which he had been Master and Treasurer.
The Lodge received the gift of an ebony baton, silver mounted, from W. Henry G. Jordan, for personal considerations. A banquet followed, and speeches by M. W. Henry Endicott and other members of Grand Lodge; by other visitors and members of the Lodge. This was the thirty-second annual of the Lodge, and was of more than usual interest. The officers installed are : Wor. Master, Henry K. Dunton; S. W. Melvin L. Ingalls; J. W. James E. Leach; Treasurer, Wor. Edwin B. Holmes; Secretary, George Phippen, Jr.; S. D. Royal Whiton, Jr.; J. D. E. Loring Richards. Chaplain, Wor. William R. Cooke; Marshal, George O. Noyes; S. S. Jessie S. Wiley; J. S. Frederick Estabrook; I. S. Lewis T. Foss; Organist, William H. Gerrish; Tyler, Seth. T. Dame.
From New England Craftsman, Vol. III, No. 6, March 1908, Page 227:
Past Master's Night in Revere Lodge, Boston, February 4, was an occasion worthy of the name of that respected lodge. There was a large attendance of members and guests who were made welcome by the cordial words of Worshipful Master, John G. Godding. After the introductory exercises the officers' chairs were filled by Past Masters as follows: George T. Ambrose (1867-68) as W. M., Charles W. Bascom (1900-01) as S. W., Royal Whiton (1898-99) as J. W., Charles H. Bolles (1871-72) as treasurer, E. Loring Richards (1892-93) as secretary, Sumner L. Stackhouse (1904-05) as marshal, George F. Wright (1881-82) as S. D., George G. Perry (1906) as J. D., Charles Bickford (1907) as S. S., John G. Godding (W. M.) as J. S.
The feature of the evening was the work of Wor. Brother George T. Ambrose, who has not before occupied the chair in forty years, but who on this occasion was as alert and impressive as in the days of his youth. Brother Ambrose was ably seconded by Worshipful George F. Wright, who filled the chair of Senior Deacon and whose excellent work contributed much to the success and pleasure of the meeting. Brothers Ambrose and Wright may pose as men of mature years, in every day life, but not in the lodge when officiating with the ease and confidence exhibited at this meeting. Following the work an excellent banquet was served, which was a delightful affair the post-prandial part being under the direction of Brother John W. Crooks. Vocal music was furnished by the Weber Quartet. A unique little song book full of popular songs was given to each present and between Brother Crooks and the songs things were kept lively.
From New England Craftsman, Vol. I, No. 7, April 1906, Page 239:
Wor. George G. Perry, Master
The fiftieth anniversary of Revere Lodge A. F. & A. M., Boston, Mass. was commemorated in Masonic Temple, Tuesday evening, March 6, 1906 by a reception tendered its members, their ladies and friends to the number of about three hundred persons. R. W. Everett C. Benton, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge, and R. W. Albert B. Root, District Deputy Grand Master of the First District, were the special guests of the evening. The celebration was wholly social in character. The program of the evening was as follows: Social Gathering from 5.30 to 6 o'clock; Banquet from 6.30 to to 8 o'clock; Entertainment by Apollo Quartet from 8 to 9.30 o'clock and Dancing from 9.30 to 12 o'clock. The entire program was carried out to the satisfaction of all who were present and reflects great credit on the executive committee of which Wor. Bro. George F. Wright was chairman. Although no attempt was made to give an historical character to the exercises of the evening, Revere Lodge, during the half century of its existance has achieved a reputation of which it may well be proud. Its loyalty to the principles of Freemasonry, the honesty of its service in their behalf give to the lodge a place second to none other. The lodge has been honored by furnishing from its members four Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, while many other of its members have been conspicuous for eminent service to the Craft.
Revere Lodge was founded March 4, 1856 that being the date of the Dispensation granted by the Grand Lodge. It may be considered the child of Columbian Lodge for the three brethren who laid its foundation were members of that lodge. These three brothers, whose names will always be dear to every member of Revere lodge were: George M. Thacher, William W. Baker and John McClellan. The first two named formerly served as Wor. Master of Columbian Lodge. Bro. Baker was the first Master of Revere Lodge, Bro. Thacher the first Treasurer and Bro. McClellan the first Secretary of the lodge. It is an interesting fact that each of the three named served the lodge in some office until the time of his death. The lodge was chartered March u, 1857, twenty charter members are named being the same as those who signed the petition for the Dispensation which was granted under the date of March 4, 1856 and which is the date of Precedency as declared by the charter. The original Dispensation is still in the possession of the lodge hanging on the walls of its private room.
George T. Ambrose, Secretary; George F. Wright, Past Master
The first initiate of the lodge was Marlborough Williams who was afterwards Master of Revere Lodge and distinguished in other departments of Masonic work. During the year of dispensation, twenty-nine candidates were accepted. "At the meeting of February 3, 1857, a singular event occurred. An accepted candidate after having been introduced for initiation, refused to comply with the regulations, and by order of W. Bro. Baker, then in the East, was removed in the prescribed manner. Such an occurrence has never been repeated in the Lodge."
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Revere Lodge, an historical address was read by Wor Samuel Wells, afterwards Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts. We quote the closing words of Brother Wells : "But it must not be forgotten that, while twenty-five years is a large part of a man's life, it is only the beginning of the life of an organization like this. When the youngest of us shall no longer be in the land of the Revere Lodge will still flourish, and long may it continue to exist, as one of the main supports of the immortal institution of Free Masonry.
"When you and I behind the Veil are past,
Oh! but the long, long while the World shall last."
From New England Craftsman, Vol. II, No. 7, May 1907, Page 305:
Revere Lodge A. F. & A. M., Boston, was the recipient of a unique present at its last meeting in April. The presentation was made by Bro. Geo. W. Spaulding, one of the oldest and best known members of the lodge. Brother Spaulding has a friend, Brother Higgins, who has been visiting the Holy Land, and while there he obtained a souvenir of great interest to the Masonic fraternity from its association with the name of King Solomon. Brother Higgins has in the past been the recipient of courtesies at the hands of members of Revere Lodge. As an acknowledgement of those favors he sent to the lodge, by the hand of Brother Spaulding, an Ashler and Gavel taken from King Solomon's Quarry in its rude and natural state but which have been "made ready by the hands of the workman" as mementos of fraternal regard. The gift was accepted for the lodge by the Worshipful Master in a modest but appropriate speech and a vote of thanks presented to the donor.
- William W. Baker, Senior Grand Warden 1863
- Charles W. Bascom, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1911, 1912; SN
- Richard Briggs, Junior Grand Warden 1870, Grand Master 1893 (died in office)
- William W. Brooks, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1922, 1923; N
- Brown, Benson, DDGM, District 2 (Boston), 1992, 1993; N
- George A. Butters, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1945; Grand Chaplain
- Ralph S. Cohen, DDGM, District 3 (Chelsea), 1971, 1972; N
- Charles C. Dame, Junior Grand Deacon 1862, Deputy Grand Master 1863-1865, Grand Master 1866-1868
- Henry K. Dunton, Grand Marshal 1896-1898, Senior Grand Warden, 1899
- Frank T. Dwinell, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1889, 1890; Deputy Grand Master 1890
- Arthur H. Edwards, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1958, 1959; SN
- Edwin B. Holmes, Deputy Grand Master 1894, Grand Master 1895-1896
- David F. Howard, DDGM, District 1, 2003, 2004
- Donald G. Lothrop, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1967, 1968; N
- Edward Newpol, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1979, 1980; N
- Ernest A. Pearlstein, DDGM, District 2 (Boston), 1988, 1989; Junior Grand Warden 2005
- E. Loring Richards, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 1896; SN
- (Edward) Donald Weiner, DDGM, District 1 (Boston), 2001, 2002; N
- Samuel Wells, Grand Treasurer 1879-1887, Deputy Grand Master 1888-1889, and Grand Master 1890-1892
- Jack L. Zimmerman, DDGM, District 3 (Chelsea), 1989, 1990; Necrology
- Charles Clark Adams, Memorial
- George T. Ambrose, Memorial
- Charles A. Bowditch, Memorial
- J. Foster Clark, Memorial
- Wilson H. Fairbanks, Memorial
- William C. French, Memorial
- George William Gay, Memorial
- Charles Bingley Hall, Memorial
- Samuel Hitchborn, Memorial
- Joseph B. Mason, Memorial
- John McClellan, Memorial
- Arnold Moldauer, Memorial
- Jabez K. Montgomery, Memorial
- William H. Neal, Memorial
- Jonathan T. Spalding, Memorial
- William C. Ulman, Memorial
- Erastus Willard, Memorial
- Marlborough Williams, Memorial


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Oh the whole, I enjoyed the Cincinnati Opera's production of Frida, based on the life of painter, Frida Kahlo. However, I left with decidedly mixed feelings, which is part of the reason this post was so long delayed.
Frida Kahlo is a character well suited to the operatic stage: her life was full of grand passion, physical pain, and high art. However, this opera often felt like a docudrama trying to give a complete view of the life of this remarkable woman. The result often felt cluttered. This was especially true in the beginning, which depicts Kahlo as a teenager. As a dramatization, fewer scenes would have been better.
With its combination of modern classical and authentic folk music, its small orchestra, its informal sections of spoken word, and even its Communist politics, this opera by Robert Xavier Rodríguez is much in the tradition of Kurt Weil (before he migrated to Broadway). The reference to Mexican folk music started with the very first sound in the overture, a solo chord from the accordion, and permeated the much of the score. In general, I thought the music was often effective, but, much like the plot, frequently seemed to lack focus.
The leads, Catalina Cuervo in the title role and Ricardo Herrera as her famous husband Diego Rivera, sang with power and expression. They were completely believable in their characters. Among the rest of the cast, the beautiful high voice of Jennifer Cherest, as Frida's sister Christina, stood out.
After the opera, my wife commented that she welcomed the woman's touch in the libretto (book by Hilary Blecher, lyrics and monologues by Migdalia Cruzby), especially in the perspective on sex. Indeed, there is scene which earned production an "R" rating, with Frida in the bathtub, wearing an outfit which I later learned was from "The Broken Column", surrounded by lovers of both sexes. Sitting in the back of the auditorium, my eyes (still recovering from surgery) were not good enough to see what was really going on, so I don't really have much to say about this scene.
Otherwise, I found the staging very effective. The set was on two levels, but the bones of it were quite simple. When they were apart, Diego, the more famous painter of huge murals, was above, and Frida, the painter of more intimate self portraits, below. Paintings of both artists were projected onto the set, which connected the action on stage to the art that is the reason we remember these people.
Musically, my favorite scene was the quintet in the second half. Diego Rivera, who has had women parading through his bedroom for years, is accusing Frida of being unfaithful to him, with Leon Trotsky. Frida is unapologetic and emphasizes the intellectual aspect of her relationship with Trotsky. Trotsky himself seems to be proclaiming innocence, but his rather dowdy wife is having none of that. Meanwhile, above it all, Christina confesses to having betrayed her own sister. Whereas I found the composition for much of the opera too cluttered, here all of the contrasting parts were integrated beautifully. Rather than clutter, it felt like masterful counterpoint.
Another section that I thought memorable was the dance around Frida's death bed. Death was personified by three masked dancers who had appeared throughout the opera. Unfortunately, the dramatic effect of this was eviscerated by the satiric dance of the monkeys which followed. I thought the musical transition was lame, and the antics of the dancers were just not that funny. Rather than providing comic relief after the intensity of what had just occurred, the monkeys, which do appear in many of Kahlo's paintings, just added to my general feeling about the entire opera: it was trying to make sure to include everything, to the detriment of the drama.
This opera was in English, with occasional outbursts in Spanish. This struck me as wrong. An opera about a woman who was so defiantly Mexican, with so much Mexican folk music mixed in, cries out for Spanish.
Though I admire the staging and the singing, I left the opera with serious reservations. I thought the libretto and much of the music lacked focus. However, I also left with a deep appreciation for the fierce intensity of this great artist, Frida Kahlo. So, from that point of view, the opera has to be judged a success.

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ISLAMABAD: National Assembly was informed on Friday that Pakistan believes in a functioning relationship with the United States based on mutual respect and trust, which is in the interest of the region.
In a written reply in the House, Minister for Foreign Affairs Khawaja Muhammad Asif said after a negative tweet of the US President, Pakistani leadership decided that Pakistan's response would be measured. He said that National Security Committee in its meetings afterwards took stock of the entire situation.
Khawaja Asif said, during recent high-level engagements with the visiting US delegations, they were told that the unwarranted allegations by the US President belie the cooperative history of the relationship, which served mutual interests in the region.
The Minister said despite the accusations, Pakistan remains committed to the stability of region and supports all efforts towards an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process.
He said people of Pakistan are prepared to defend their honor, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the homeland.
In a written reply of another question, Minister of Foreign Affairs said that the situation on the Line of Control and Working Boundary is rapidly deteriorating since 2017.
He said heavy weapons, including mortars are frequently being used by the Indian Forces, on the civilian population on the Pakistani side of the LOC and the Working Boundary.
He said that since the beginning of this year, the Indian occupation forces carried out more than four hundred ceasefire violations along the Line of Control and the Working Boundary, resulting in the martyrdom of eighteen innocent Pakistani civilians.
He said this escalation at the LoC and Working Boundary is an attempt to divert the attention of the international community from Indian atrocities in IOK.
Foreign Minister said that Pakistan maintains that the role of the United Nations Military Observers Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) is crucial to ensure peace and tranquility at the LOC. He said Pakistan has always extended full cooperation to the UNMOGIP.
Pakistan's reply to Trump's negative tweet would be measured: Asif
ISLAMABAD: National Assembly was informed on Friday that Pakistan believes in a functioning relationship with the United States based on mutual respect and trust, which is in the interest of the region.


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For the third time in a row, Magneti Marelli has won the "AutoData Award", one of Brazil's most prestigious awards in the automotive sector. The company took home the award in the "Sistemista" ("System Supplier") category - which includes the best system suppliers to carmakers – for the development of the FreeChoice automated transmission and the introduction of LED rear lights on the Brazilian market.
The award ceremony was held last week in Sao Paulo in the presence of leading representatives of the Brazilian automotive sector.
In Brazil, AutoData is one of the most important awards in the sector, and every year it showcases the best carmakers and suppliers in the categories of technological innovation, sustainability, and marketing strategy. The award is sponsored by AutoData Editora, a communication company specialized in the automotive sector that, in addition to its online news agency, also publishes various magazines, including the monthly AutoData, one of the most authoritative and influential publications in Brazil's automotive industry.
Since 2003, Magneti Marelli has won the AutoData award in various categories: in 2007, 2009 and 2011 as "System Supplier". In 2010, it won the award in the "Sustainability" category, and in 2008 as "Supplier of Parts and Component". Thanks to its technologies, Magneti Marelli won the award in the "Technological Innovation" category for four years in a row, from 2003 to 2006.
This year, Magneti Marelli won the sought-after prize for two main reasons. The first one concerns the doubling, by the end of 2012, of the production capacity for the FreeChoice automated transmission in Hortolandia (Sao Paulo). Thanks to the significant growth in volumes posted in recent years, the production line reached its maximum capacity in 2010. FreeChoice (or AMT, Automated Manual Transmission) is an electro-hydraulic technology used to automate the manual transmission and derived from Formula 1, that combines driver comfort and lower fuel consumption.
The second reason concerns the introduction of LED lighting on the Brazilian market. This technology has been included in Magneti Marelli's global products portfolio for quite some time now but it was adapted for the first time and successfully applied in Brazil for the rear lights on the Fiat Idea, requiring a new production line to be built in the plant located in Contagem (MG).
Magneti Marelli has been operating in Brazil since 1978, and it currently employs about eight thousand workers. It has 13 production plants and five R&D Centres located in Minas Gerais (Contagem, Itaúna and Lavras) and San Paolo (Amparo, Hortolândia, Mauá, Santo André and São Bernardo), in addition to commercial facilities for the aftermarket in Brazil's main cities (Curitiba, Goiânia, Recife, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo).
The constant expansion of its operational facilities bears witness to the Company's nonstop growth, as it closed 2010 with a 12% increase in the turnover compared to the previous year, for a total turnover of 2.4 billion R$ (approximately 1 billion Euros).


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Paradox planning on Magicka for XBL, says new Syndicate is more like "GTA"
Paradox Interactive seems like a wacky place to work. Not Marx Brothers wacky by any means, but only wacky due to the firm's apparent sense of humor. Proof of this odd sort of thinking can be found in the firm's list of upcoming titles, and some it's passed on. Yes, this is the same firm […]
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The storm will soon be passing and new buds will decorate the tree.
Much fruit will appear before your eyes!
Enough for both the eagle and the dove…
Michael Harrington – Touched by the Dragon's Breath
TODAY: Silent, icy, slow, sleepy…
IN ONE WORD: Opening
COLOUR OF THE DAY: Multi-colours
HOW I FEEL: I woke early to a silent day, low misty clouds covered the sky, I felt the icy air around my face…I snuggled into my fluffy white gown. I felt reverence and love in my heart…
It has been a challenging month, but since my Birthday yesterday, I feel as if I have stepped right into a new phase. I feel wiser, strengthened and courageous!
PHYSICALLY: Adjusting moment by moment. Tired yet stronger.
In the awakening dawn,
the breezes flow through ancient shards of right and wrong
to speak to your heart…
With every 'crumbling' or low point in life, we remerge strengthened, wiser, and almost refreshed. We can all learn to trust that we will manage these days, when they over take us. Allow yourself be laid bare, allow yourself to 'fall apart' so that you can fall back together again, when you feel ready…Once you are able to come through that, you will feel and understand where you are and who you are becoming…
Don't search for answers. Be patient with your self and your life. There are unresolved issues of the heart, but this is not the day or the time. Love and accept where you are. The storm will soon be passing.
"I am contemplating the crumbling that comes into every life,
the kind of falling apart that happens
when the ice thaws and the rivers flow and new life emerges."
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Awakening is happening…and new awareness. Bringing forth grace and surrender, with a deep inner knowing of who you are and how you are and where you are. Reverence, forgiveness, love, compassion and true understanding, arrive suddenly, with Grace. Do we finally understand that all the trivia is but that? I feel as if I am receiving the gift of grace with a new understanding of a much more complex picture…that there IS a bigger plan. I bow to Acceptance.
AFFIRMATION: "I Am continuously taught by Life."


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Elvin A. Olfert
December 27, 2017
Elvin A. Olfert, 94, of Frazer was born April 30, 1923, to Dietrich M. and Katharina (Franz) Olfert on the family homestead in Lustre, Mont. He married Selma Toews in March of 1946 and they raised their family on that same farm, living there until his passing on Dec. 23, 2017.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and one daughter, Jeanette K. Olfert Williams.
He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Selma Toews Olfert; two sons, Kenneth Olfert and his wife, Robin, of Seattle, Wash., and Ronald Olfert and his wife, Etta, of Lustre; nine grandchildren and 25 + great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be on Saturday, Dec. 30, at 1 p.m. at the Lustre MB Church. Bell Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.


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Ok, So I think I am doing this backwards. Love is choice in my opinion, but the only way you are going to choose to love someone is to get to know them. You aren't going to make the effort to get to know someone if you aren't initially attracted to them.
No one meets someone on the street and just says: "I love that person." You have to get to know them first right? My posts today will be about attraction. Personally I am attracted to big curly hair. If I am on the subway and a catch sight of some bouncy locks, I'll probably double take.
It is what it is. What about you? What's the first thing you look for? What are you initially attracted to?


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The Most Misunderstood Tool of Our Time (and How to Better Use It)
Near the end of The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last, author Tom Peters offers a powerful perspective on evaluating time management. "You = Your Calendar. You are your calendar. Your calendar … Continue reading


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Feminist Meets Cowboy
A reader sends in this Slate review of a current memoir by a feminist who fell head over heels in love with a cowboy. Excerpt:
The cowboy is 6 feet 2 inches tall with a cleft chin, strong jaw, and well-formed lips ("mama said meow"). He could buy all his accessories in a Brooklyn men's shop, but he doesn't have to because he's the real thing, a real rancher in a real cowboy hat who herds real cattle and wears his faded Wranglers so well that they turn the heads of the gay couples at the hipster bar where they go on their first date (back when [the author] still believed it was OK for the woman to pick the location of a date).
Our heroine's attraction to him—that is, the animal attraction of a trash-talking feminist who grew up in a Marxist, Barbie-free household to this … this … caveman, this brute with a pickup truck and a gun rack who watches Fox News and eats steak—comes as an unwelcome surprise to her at first. She wonders: Aren't all conservatives "stupid! Or evil!"? Shouldn't a good feminist only be into guys in tweed suits who recycle? Isn't it a liberal sin to be turned on by big, strong, leathery, tanned hands? But then she turns to Google and realizes that science and biology are on the side of her libido. Feminism may have covered our eyes with its "dreary shroud of lies," but nature knows the truth, which is that men and women are different. After that, the revelations come fast: "We are the vessel. They are the elixir and the funnel. We are the earth. They are the plough and seed. They give, we take. We open, they enter." [The author], like all womankind, was "programmed, sexually and emotionally, to get excited by a man who took charge." Her first night at the ranch, Al Green on the radio, the "angels sang arias" and "the earth moved." She would tell you more details about that night, but the cowboy has forbidden it.
The author of the deeply un-p.c. memoir is named Alisa Valdes. The reader who sent it in wonders how the book would be received if a conservative-ish Anglo woman had written a memoir exploring the deep satisfaction of dating a traditionally, even stereotypically, masculine man. Great question.
Judging from the review, Valdes sounds about two tics away from Elizabeth Wurtzel crazy. Still, her book may be another example of how generalizations (in this case, about what women and men look for in a sexual partner) really are true. That is, what makes a stereotype a stereotype is not that it is untrue, but that it purports to be the whole truth.


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Levaquin Side Effects Controversy Spawns $800 Million RICO Lawsuit
The antibiotic Levaquin has already been the subject of numerous product liability claims over tendon injuries and peripheral neuropathy. But now the drug's manufacturers are facing an $800 million RICO lawsuit over what the plaintiffs claim was a conspiracy to conceal serious Levaquin side effects.
The lawsuit, which was filed last month in the U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, asserts that the manufacturers of Levaquin and several other defendants violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, a federal law usually used to rein in organized crime. Among other things, the drug makers are accused of intentionally hiding Levaquin's association with peripheral neuropathy for the sake of profit.
Levaquin RICO Lawsuit Targets Former FDA Commissioner
In addition to Johnson & Johnson and its Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit, the lawsuit names Dr. Margaret Hamburg, former Commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), and her husband as defendants. According to the complaint, Hamburg's husband was an executive and co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund with $342 million invested in Johnson & Johnson in 2011. The lawsuit charges that Hamburg acted against the recommendations of FDA advisors and reviewers in regards to Levaquin. Because the compensation paid to Renaissance employees is based on the performance of the fund, plaintiffs contend that Hamburg's actions helped raise her husband's income from $10 million in 2008, to $125 million at its peak in 2011.
"Each and every Defendant acted in concert with one another in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States to violate RICO through a pattern of racketeering activity because of personal, financial gain, to fraudulently convey false and misleading information concerning the safety of Levaquin, and to conceal from the Plaintiffs, the public, physicians, and healthcare providers, the risks of serious adverse events, including mitochondrial toxicity, certain neuropsychiatric adverse events… and other chronic, degenerative illnesses directly associated with Levaquin," the complaint charges.
Levaquin Litigation History
This is not the first time Levaquin has been at the center of a legal controversy. By 2012, more than 3,400 product liability claims had been filed on behalf of plaintiffs who allegedly experienced tendon damage due to their use of Levaquin. As of 2014, the majority of those cases had bee settled.
In recent years, dozens of Levaquin lawsuits have been filed by patients who claim that treatment with the medication led to their peripheral neuropathy diagnosis. The majority of those cases have been consolidated in a multidistrict litigation now underway in the U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota. The proceeding also includes similar lawsuits filed against the manufacturers of two other fluoroquinolone antibiotics, Cipro and Avelox.
If you would like to learn more about filing a Levaquin claim for peripheral neuropathy, please call Bernstein Liebhard LLP at 877-779-1414 to arrange for a free review of your case.


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Passat Sedan V6-3.6L (BLV) (2008)
Alignment: Service and Repair
Wheel Alignment Test Prerequisites
Wheel Alignment Test Prerequisites
‹› Suspension, wheel bearing, steering and steering linkage checked for excessive play and damage.
‹› Tread depth difference may be no more than 2 mm on an axle.
‹› Tires inflated to prescribed pressure.
‹› Curb weight of vehicle.
‹› Fuel tank must be full.
‹› Spare tire and vehicle tools are installed in appropriate position in vehicle.
‹› The water container for the windshield/headlamp cleaning system must be full.
‹› Be sure that sliding plates and turn tables are not touching end stop when checking wheel alignment
Test equipment must be properly attached and adjusted; observe equipment manufacturer's instructions!
If necessary, contact manufacturer for familiarization with the proper use of the equipment.
After a certain period, wheel alignment platforms and computer equipment can lose their original leveling setting and adjustments.
‹› Wheel alignment platforms and wheel alignment analyzer/computer should be serviced and calibrated at least once a year.
Treat these highly sensitive units carefully and conscientiously!


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Hi, everyone. This is Charlotte C visiting again thanks to Sheila, and I want to share a really neat and quick gift card holder with you (tis the season, right?) Here's what you'll need:
1 envelope A7 size (to hold a 5 x 7 card)
3 pieces of solid card stock cut 3 ¼ " x 5"
3 pieces of designer paper cut 3" x 4 ¾"
Approximately 18 inches of ribbon
Here's the how-to:First fold the envelope in half.
Now open it up and cut away just the right side of the flap (where I put an X) and seal the left side closed. You now have a pocket on the right for your gift card and room for a sentiment and/or signature.
Now adhere the other two sets of card stock/designer paper to the front and back. All you need do is a little embellishment of your choice on the front and you're done – except for the gift card itself, of course.
What I did find was that certain stores give you a gift card in a little envelope which doesn't fit in the slots of regular cards made to hold just the plastic gift card. So when I saw Dawn Griffith had this in her archives, I knew I had to share it.
I love the fact it takes scraps to do this – and we all have scraps, I know! Thanks for stopping by today. Happy Fall.


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Perhaps the most iconic and memorable of all Kentucky Derby traditions is the garland of red roses that is placed around the winning horse. This custom has earned the Kentucky Derby the nickname "The Run for the Roses®", but how much do you know about the Kentucky Derby red rose? Here are some fun facts for your Derby Day.
American Pharoah's Garland of Roses. Image via Kentucky Derby,
- Roses were first used in the 1896 Derby, when winner Ben Brush received an arrangmenent of pink and white roses.
- The red rose became the official flower of the Kentucky Derby in 1904.
- The Derby was given the nickname "The Run for the Roses" in 1925 by sports columnist Bill Corum. The phrase was trademarked by Churchill Downs Inc. in 2009.
- Burgoo King, the winner of the 58th running of the Kentucky Derby, won the first garland of roses as we know it today.
- The Derby Garland has been crafted by Kroger since 1987. The Derby Garland is 122 inches long and 22 inches wide, and weighs approximately 40 lbs. More than 450 Rainforest Alliance Certified "Freedom" roses are placed on the garland.
Burgoo King


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Today I'm showing you how to make walnut milk. It is so creamy and refreshing! I also love that it's full of omega 3 ALA fatty acids and rich in antioxidants. It's my new favorite dairy-free milk.
We recently found out that one of our children should steer clear of dairy. This is a bummer, because we were enjoying buying local raw milk (at least the kids are disappointed – I never really liked dairy milk, even as a child).
Since dairy-free milk is going to be more commonplace, I'm planning to make it myself, rotating the kind of nuts I use to get a variety of benefits and prevent food sensitivities from overexposure to the same food.
I've made nut milk in the past and am really looking forward getting into it again – it is simple, frugal and turns out really delicious if you follow some simple steps. The first step – soaking raw walnuts overnight – is one of the most important because it neutralizes bitter tannins and makes the nuts easier to digest.
If you are going to make your own nut milk, you'll need a nut milk bag (over the years my husband has milked endless entertainment from this – never gets old)! You could probably use cheesecloth or a fine-mesh sieve for a workaround, but there will be a little pulp.
Here's the nut milk bag I use and recommend:
Storing the milk in a quart-size mason jar makes for the easiest clean up. Swing top bottles are nice for pouring but much harder to clean. I get quart-size mason jars on Amazon and swing top bottles at IKEA.
- 1 cup raw walnuts
- 3 cups water (plus more for soaking)
- pinch of salt (about ⅛ teaspoon)
- 1 tablespoon honey
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Place the walnuts in a bowl and cover them with water. Soak for about 12 hours or overnight.
- Drain and rinse very well.
- Place the walnuts into a blender and add 3 cups water. Blend at high-speed until well combined.
- Use a nut-milk bag to strain the liquid into a bowl or pyrex container, squeezing it to get out all the milk. If you are adding flavorings, place the milk back in the blender and blend until combined.
- Pour into a mason jar or swing-top jar. Refrigerate and serve cold.


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Deadline: 1 March 2020
Open Technology Fund (OTF) is currently accepting applications for its "Internet Freedom Fund" to support projects and people working on open and accessible technology-centric projects that promote human rights, Internet freedom, open societies, and help advance inclusive and safe access to global communications networks for at-risk users including journalists, human rights defenders, civil society activists, and every-day people living within repressive environments who wish to speak freely online.
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Award information
- OTF awards are performance-based contracts signed directly with the applicant. Payment is issued on completion of stated objectives, activities, and deliverable per a schedule outlined in the contract. OTF reserves the right to award less or more than the funds requested as deemed in the best interest of OTF's priorities.
- Applications that request more than the award ceiling of $900,000 or less than the award floor of $10,000 may be deemed technically ineligible. Note that OTF's target support ceiling is $300,000, with most supported efforts receiving between $50,000 and $200,000.
Project and Budget Periods
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OTF awards are generally 6 to 18 months in duration. From time to time, OTF may consider requests to extend existing contracts beyond previously agreed upon duration. Any such decision will be subject to availability of funds, satisfactory progress of the applicants, and a determination that continued funding would be in the best interest of program priorities.
Monitoring & Evaluation
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- Successful applicants selected by OTF are paired with an OTF program manager who oversees all project monitoring and evaluation for the duration of the awarded contract life-cycle. Monitoring and evaluation assessments are largely based on predetermined and agreed upon metrics, deliverable, and goals as laid out by the applicant in the project proposal work-plan.
- As described above, because payment is dispersed at regular intervals upon completion of stated contractual goals, successful applicants can expect regular contact with their OTF project manager. Monitoring consists of compulsory monthly reports and also phone, email, or in-person discussions and consultations as needed.
Eligibility Criteria
- Ideal applicants are making use of, support, or develop open and accessible technologies promoting human rights and open societies, and help advance inclusive and safe access to global communications networks. In addition, ideal applicants meet one or more of the following:
- Individuals of all ages irrespective of nationality, residency, creed, gender, or other factors, with the exception that OTF is not able to support applicants within countries that the United States has trade restrictions or export sanctions as determined by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC);
- Non-profit organization/non-government organization, including U.S.-based NGO, PIO, or foreign NGO;
- Non-profit university or research institution in any country;
- For-profit organization or business in any country;
- Consortia of multiple people or organizations with one individual or organization designated as the lead applicant;
- Have demonstrated experience administering successful projects, preferably targeting the requested program area, or similarly challenging program environments where OTF reserves the right to request additional background information on organizations;
- Ideal applicants should not duplicate or simply add to efforts supported by other USG funding programs;
- Ideal applicants must not reflect any type of support for any member, affiliate, or representative of a designated terrorist organization, whether or not elected members of government.
- Ideal Internet Freedom Fund applicants are:
- Open in nature and collaborative;
- From within communities affected by censorship or are co-designing and co-developing with them;
- Promoting a deeper understanding of Internet freedom challenges and limitations;
- Solving a currently unaddressed challenge or preempting an emerging one; and/or
- Are actively maintaining technologies demanded and utilized by people on the front lines of the world's most repressive environments.
- Ideal applications for this fund are focused on:
- Creating new open source circumvention technologies that fill a current need of targeted users;
- Improving the security, usability, and adaptability of existing open source Internet freedom technologies;
- Providing new or deeper insights into the challenges of front-line communities that ultimately contribute to the improvement of technological solutions;
- Projects that emphasize applied research;
- Research that focuses on real-time monitoring and analysis of both technical and political threats to Internet freedom, including network interference and shutdowns;
- New content redistribution methods able to reintroduce content behind firewalls, or similar services;
- Making targeted communities more resilient to digital attacks via customized solutions in-line with OTF criteria;
- Creating new open source circumvention technologies that fill a current need of targeted users;
- Next-generation tools that move beyond traditional "cat-and-mouse" circumvention techniques;
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- Quality of project idea: Applications should exhibit originality, substance, precision, and relevance to the mission of promoting freedoms of expression, assembly, and association online.
- Ability to achieve objectives: A relevant work plan should demonstrate substantive undertakings and logistical capacity of the organization. The work plan should adhere to the overview and guidelines described above. Objectives should be ambitious, yet measurable and achievable. After this application, OTF will request a full proposal, where applicants will have to provide a monthly timeline of project activities.
- Cost effectiveness: Any overhead and administrative components included in the application should be kept as low as possible. All items should be necessary and appropriate. Cost sharing is strongly encouraged and is viewed favorably by OTF.
- Multiplier effect/sustainability: Applications should address how the expected results will contribute to improving Internet freedom goals. Applications should address how the effort will be sustained in the long-term.
- Applicants' record and capacity: OTF will consider the past performance of prior recipients and the demonstrated potential of new applicants. Proposed personnel and institutional resources should be adequate and appropriate to achieve the project's objectives.
For more information, visit https://www.opentech.fund/funds/internet-freedom-fund/


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sweden get the first updates. but is so strage i got 2 phones s3 but i got only in one update. and after update battery and led light is to weak.
I have received the Jelly Bean update 4.1.1 and since then my phone doesnt vibrate in silent mode when i receive a message even when its on the "vibrate" setting. Whyyyyyy... Any solution??! And the LED lights are really weaker esp. The red... Help pls.
AnonD-51558, 19 Oct 2012updating my S3 with THREE contract from last three hours with Samsung kies. downloading stuck ... morei Have the same issue
After I updated my sgs3 to jellybean, battery life now sucks! I don't know why. The reviews said that battery life will be improved. But in my case, it's didn't. When it was still in ICS, even if it was idle for 8-9hrs. Only 2% is consumed. Now in JB, 9% is consumed??? Is this a bug or what? >_
Got the update around 12 this afternoon through kies on my unlocked int s3
They took away the vibrate to mute option on the volume botton. Now its only down to vibrate only. Im wondering why they'd do that. Other than that they've added a few good features. Something i noticed but had never read anywhere beforehand was the ability to go straight to the options menu of any of the notification shortcut switches. Was this always there or did i find this by luck.
Just received JB update on my unlocked GS3 in Romania.
Strangley it is one week later than the update of the GS3 locked on Vodafone Romania.
What a mess Samnsung!With my previous phone GS2 which was locked on Orange Romania, I received the ICS update 2 moths later than the unlocked S2
Anonymous, 23 Oct 2012update available on o2 On O2 ? Are you so silly ? It's available only on Vodafone :-) No, it's available on Orange :-) Maybe just take out sim card and turn on home wifi ? :-)
yami_sogen, 22 Oct 2012Thanks for the info dude! Finished updating my os to jellybean. :Din the u.k. and still waiting
Peter, 22 Oct 2012Update seeding in Germany, just arrived this morning.Thanks for the info dude! Finished updating my os to jellybean. :D
guess its just tough that i bought an unlocked s3, because i didn't want the stupid network branding software now means i drop right to the bottom of the list for updates, thanks samsung really think about your direct customers who like your phone not the networks version.... oh thats right the money from the networks means so much more!!!!
only if you have a contract phone to 3 o2 vodaphone not for gt-i9300 just not on get no date from samsung when whe will get it.-(
Any idea when it's coming to Australia? I bought an unlocked III S III from overseas but activated in Australia. I bought ut it online from Hong Kong. I have no idea how can I upgrade it to JB.
Any News on when it will arrive in Asia?
Excited to get the hands on the update.


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The memory of standing snug in the Observatory and being close enough to touch the darkness over the summer still resonates within my soul.
My apologizes for not posting for some time but the Semester raced by me as I rested in the Valley, gripping my hand and pulling me close onto the beautiful roan speckled horse, speeding towards the mists of Avalon.
As I had been contemplating where I should sit among black sandy beaches of Theology there was exposed to my soul an entirely new way that I should view this ministry and mission that the Creator has set my being sail on. I did not realize that what I was voicing actually had a name: ancestral theology. I did not realize what Pneumentology actually would mean to who I was as a child of God and as a Gypsy sitting hidden, watching in the shadow of the Cross. I did not realize how much people's souls pour out into their poetry, their songs and what the artistic means for us as people of Faith.
God meant for us as His children to joyfully cry out in songs and praise for it is there He is closer to our hearts and in our presence more than we will know.
As for me, although I had reluctantly donned the humorous costume of the Wise Woman, apparently I still make My Father eternally laugh. He reaches across time and space and pulls out the weeping gray cloud weeds I had planted, reaching in and cradling the richness of the Earth. My voice was lost in sadness carried by soft, warm summer rains and all He could do was smile. "Daughter of many colors, I am not done with you yet."
Lape Bondye, God's Peace.


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Historian compiles 'Frontier Sketches' of 1860s, '70s Montana
No word yet on beard-growing contests or sesquicentennial wagon trains for Montana Territory's 150th birthday bash next year.
But Ken Robison is doing his part to help us get in an 1860s state of mind. A leading historian on Montana's frontier era, Robison recently edited and released "Life and Death on the Upper Missouri: The Frontier Sketches of Johnny Healy."
It's based on some 50 reminiscences of life in the 1860s and '70s that Healy wrote for the Benton Record of Fort Benton from 1878 to 1880. Robison is amazed they weren't compiled in book form long ago.
Healy probably should be better known than he is. He was in the party that discovered the Florence mines in what's now Idaho, served in the territorial legislature when Montana was formed, and spent eight eventful years as sheriff of Chouteau County after settling in Fort Benton.
His decade and a half within the boundaries of modern-day Montana were sandwiched around several years in Canada, where he took on the powerful Hudson's Bay Co. by building Fort Hamilton, better-known as the notorious Fort Whoop-up, near Lethbridge, Alberta.
An immigrant from Ireland, Healy came to the West with the Army during the Mormon Campaign of 1858. His thirst for adventure led him to a wide assortment of callings, but for our 21st century purposes, he was a master storyteller.
Robison calls Healy's "Frontier Sketches" "pure literary gold, worth far more today than any flakes or nuggets he found during his gold mining days."
For sure, Healey took an unblinking look at a time that's difficult to regard as romantic.
"I think it's pretty darn distinctive," Robison said last week. "He honestly felt that history would take care of the big guys, but nobody would remember the little guys. So he set out on a mission in his writing to record their names, if nothing else, but stories that included them so they would not be forgotten."
Good news for researchers – Robison made sure to include all the names in an index at the back. Robison, who lives in Great Falls, is historian at the Overholser Historical Research Center in Fort Benton and a trustee of the River and Plains Society and Museum Complex.
If nothing else, he said, Healy's writings portrayed to his contemporaries – and now us – a sophisticated understanding of the complex relationships between a wide assortment of tribes and their diverse reactions as whites, including Healy, flooded into their homelands.
"He treated each of the Indian tribes differently, I think as a direct result of experiences he had," Robison said. "He had nothing but trouble with the Snakes, or Shoshones, but he was much softer, gentler and more objective in his discussion of the Nez Perce during that gold rush period."
When Healy went into the robe trading business at Sun River Crossing, Fort Benton and Fort Whoop-Up, his hole card was his friendship with some of the more hostile bands of Blackfeet. Indeed, he had a Blackfoot wife for a time.
"Frankly I think one of his big contributions was this firsthand recording of what he was doing in that whole period from 1865-70, during the so-called Blackfoot War," Robison said.
Healy properly pointed out that most of the Blackfoot Nation above and below the Canadian border wasn't at war.
"It was renegades in a couple of bands causing trouble, and they caused serious trouble," said Robison.
Healy described the atrocities and events that led up to the tragic Marias Massacre in early 1870.
"Nobody wrote more detailed and I think was more balanced, even though he uses terminology that whites used then," said Robison.
It wasn't Robison's intention to write Healy's biography. That's been done – Mountain Press of Missoula published Alaska historian William Hunt's "Whiskey Peddler: Johnny Healy, North Frontier Trader," in the 1990s. That account included Healy's entrepreneurial adventures and misadventures in Alaska after he left Montana – he was at one time known as "King of the Klondike" – and his death in Los Angeles in 1908.
Healy didn't include in his "Frontier Sketches" tales of Fort Whoop-Up. Whiskey fueled his trade success there until the Canadian government outlawed it and, at the urging of a rival Hudson's Bay Co. that was doing its own rum-running, formed the North-West Mounted Police (the "Mounties") to address problems like Healy.
"Later in life, he was absolutely determined to give his side of the story," Robison said.
That's why the book includes a couple of addenda beyond Healy's "Frontier Sketches." One's a Los Angeles newspaper's account of an interview with the "history maker of the Northwest" in 1891, when Healy was in California visiting his daughter. The other is from 1903, one of several stories written by Forrest Crissey as "Told by Capt. John J. Healy" that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
"Healy was such an adventurer. He never bogged down into one business or one pattern, and so his slice of history ... I'm not sure there was anybody like him," Robison said.
"As you go through what he did, he was living the doggone history of the formation of not just Montana Territory but that slice of the Northwest that included Idaho and Montana. And then he wrote about it. And he didn't write 50 years after the fact."
Helena reading
Ken Robison will read from "Life and Death on the Upper Missouri: The Frontier Sketches of Johnny," at the Montana Historical Society in Helena at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The book is available now at Amazon.com and will soon be in Montana bookstores.


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Ok, can someone please press 'halt' on time and tell me how on earth it got to October? I'm sure somewhere in my head it's still April and plans are still being made for what will happen in 2016. September definitely passed in the blink of an eye and now the endless debate rages about whether it's too early to put the heating on or not. One thing's for sure though, the electric blanket is well and truly on at night (for me anyway, thank goodness for dual-sided ones, I know it's really cold when Pete puts his part on) and definitely rolling out the winter duvet in the not-too distant future.
I'm also in desperate need of a health-kick now and starting to feel lethargic and groggy after too long eating not much other than junk food. We're both going to Dublin in 3 weeks time for my day job and have made a pact that for the next 3 weeks we're going to be as healthy as we can and get back to sensible eating regimes. I know in myself how unhappy I feel when there's a few extra pounds on board so it's time to take action!
Weekend Adventures
There is a very valid reason that our healthkick hasn't started before now and that's because we've just returned from a super-relaxing weekend near Hastings. Maddie spent a long weekend at the dog-walker and Boo went back to the cattery (who label his pen with 'Boo – Ginger Kitten. He's Lovely') leaving us footloose and fancy-free to enjoy 48 hours down in East Sussex. We were very kindly accommodate by The Dream Lodge Holiday Group in one of their stylish holiday homes located in Woodlands Park and as we were driving back, we both remarked how much it felt like we'd been away for longer than 2 days because it was that relaxing.
We had the chance to explore Hastings Old Town, Rye and Winchelsea from our beautiful base and of course a cheeky dip in the hot tub. Neither of us knew this part of the country at all and it's been so fun exploring somewhere less than 90 minutes drive from where we live.
Going Underground
Earlier this week I got the chance to do some exploring at the Natural History Museum out of hours. Myself and some other bloggers were invited to have a tour of one of the tank rooms at the museum where specimens are kept and learn more about them with a guided tour from one of the scientists who conducts research at the museum. It was such an honour, especially when we were shown some of the original items collected by Charles Darwin himself. Definitely a sense of being in the presence of greatness.
After the tank room visit, we were given our own private curator tour of the Colour and Vision exhibition which is currently on display. A collaboration between LG (electronics manufacturers), museum scientists and artists, the exhibition demonstrates how colour and vision come to life in nature and the different ways in which both are used. It was such a privilege to have a behind-the-scenes tour and I can't wait to go back to the exhibition with Pete.
Cake, Cake and MORE Cake
On Thursday we ran a little Macmillan Coffee Morning event a day early at work and most of my colleagues brought in cake, making us hugely over-subscribed. Whilst I couldn't eat most of it, one of them made a delicious gluten-free cheesecake which may or may not have been eaten almost entirely by me – another reason why a bit of reigning-in the over-indulgence is required.
Sofa Inspiration
One of the latest Sofa.com showrooms opened at Bankside recently under former railway arches. It's such an incredible use of space and refreshing to find quality furniture showrooms still in London rather than having to traipse to out-of-town identikit retail parks which I find slightly soul-destroying. It was the perfect place to spend an hour on Wednesday evening, looking at the new collections whilst sipping Prosecco and being shown the new collaboration with Barneby Gates.
I've done some work with Sofa.com before and love their use of colour and fabrics to create some really stand-out pieces. I'm totally lusting after a velvet sofa for when we replace ours but sadly I'm just not sure it's practical with pets.
Michelin Chefs And Fresh Fish
This has definitely been a week of adventure and on Tuesday I made my way through rain showers to the Good Housekeeping dining room in Soho to learn all about a new sustainably farmed trout which is coming to a Tesco near you very soon. Hailing from Norway, we were able to sample the trout under the expertise of Michelin-star chef Daniel Galmiche who taught us that sometimes the simplest flavour combinations of things like parsley, butter and flaked almonds can result in the perfect taste.
I also finally met a face I recognised from my little blogging circle, the lovely Sarah from Extraordinary Chaos. It's so lovely to have the chance to meet people I've only come across before in the online world and get to share some of these incredible experiences with them.
It's definitely been back to blogging with a bang this week and as much as I've enjoyed every second of it, a quieter couple of days ahead will be very welcome to catch up with a lot of writing. I hope you've had a lovely week X
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Does Kevin Steen have the best guests, or what?
Chris Hero's welcome back to the Independent Scene includes an appearance on The Kevin Steen Show. There is no need for the Wikipedia print out on this interview, Kevin and Chris go way back to the disfunctional days of CZW (which we love talking about) up to the wonderment and magic that is Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. Before we get to all that, Kevin and Chris thoroughly discuss the "legends" of Quebec wrestling such as Green Phantom, Iceberg, Face of Death, Razor Revolution and the majestic, Lil Asshole.
Oh yeah, Chris Hero also talks about his time as Kassius Ohno while in NXT and being one of the first groups of development talent to use the brand new Performance Center.
Bonus Match
Chris Hero vs. Kevin Steen - Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Kurt RussellReunion 2 - 1/29/11


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i was reading an book on raising infants and it raised a really interesting and insightful truth. why do we refer to babies as "good" or "bad" when it comes to their actions? if a baby cries, doesn't sleep, and is unconsolable we refer to him/her as a "bad" baby. but if he/she eats well, sleeps well, and rarely cries, we refer to him/her as a "good" baby. interesting… how does that make them good or bad?
i'm wondering if we start redefining things in our lives when things don't match up. and then i'm wondering if we take these new definitions and use them to evaluate everything… even God. for instance, a "good" baby is one that doesn't disrupt our lives and makes our lives easy. so now, a "good" God is one who doesn't disrupt our lives and makes our lives easy. hmmmm… that's maybe why we ask ourselves the questions, "why would God do this?" "if God is good, why would he make me suffer?" "how could a good God allow pain in my life?" So, is God good? if we define good as not interrupting our lives, not transforming us, not helping us, and making our lives as easy and as comfortable as possible, then maybe not… So, maybe it's time for us to look to Him to our definition of good and to see Him as truly God. Maybe we should approach God with humility and brokenness so that we can be formed and informed by Him.
The Truth: God is a never changing constant and He is always good.