Meeting the author- Share the JOY & Sepia Saturday

and Sepia SATURDAY

There are none of my uncles or aunts in our archive theme image this week. But there is a lot going on in this hundred year old photograph of the Dughi family store in Raleigh, North Carolina. The photograph is part of the collection of the State Archives of North Carolina which they have made available on Flickr Commons and they inform us that the two gents on the left are Antonio Leo Dughi and John J A Dughi. As I have already suggested, you might want to go with old store fronts, oysters, fruit and veg, barrels, or odd machines on curved legs. Or you may find some other potential theme in there; or abandon themes altogether and go with any old image. The choice is yours and, if the front of Dughi's store is anything to go by, there is plenty of choice available inside.   Alan Burnett from SS Jan 26 2013.

 I took my theme from the neat black man in the photo.

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I am a lover of books.

Love the feel and smell of a book.

Yes, I read from a Kindle Fire now, but I still love books and academia.

Recently a big controversy has risen in my town.

Whether or not to demolish one of the most beautiful, at one time, homes and historical mansions in our town.
Anatok
in it's hey day

 Anatok today.

 This beautiful home belonged to the next door hospital (which is the library now) and the sisters who staffed the hospital lived there. It was used by the hospital for different things over the years.
A few years ago when the hospital was sold to the library board the home
 was sold to the Archdiocese of Louisville and Bethlehem Academy and stands directly behind the academy.

If it was anywhere else in town, there would be no question, but the school needs the land not a house.
  
It has stood empty for several years now.
The academy wants to tear it down for use by the academy and the historical preservationists of the city want to restore it.
It will take millions of dollars to move and/or restore it.

Daniel Arthur Rudd (1854=1933) circa 1889 at age 35.
Courtesy of the University of Notre Dame


Just recently a book was written by Dr. Gary B Agee about Daniel Arthur Rudd, a slave who was born in this house and became one of the first black Catholics to own a newspaper.

He was a very respected lecturer and
The Catholic Tribune was one of the most influential Catholic newspapers of it's time.

No one in town had connected this home to Daniel Rudd until this book was written and published. 
 
The Daniel Rudd born here was the son of Robert Rudd in service to my family ancestors, which is Rudd, and I wanted to meet the author.

He was in town Monday for Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrations, and the 
Save Anatok
campaign.

   
   

Monday afternoon I spent several hours with Dr. Agee at the Bardstown BookSellers talking about the genealogy of the Rudd family.
I am not proud of the fact but slavery was a sign of the times and according to records the Rudd family was very good to those in their service.

Spending time with such an educated man and talking books for several hours brought much
JOY
to me.
The book had more about my 6th great uncle, a bachelor lawyer in Bardstown Richard Rudd, that Daniel's father was in service to, than I had in my genealogy collection.

A good day to sit in front of a crackling fire, drink tea and discuss literature, architecture, genealogy and the question of slavery. 

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OOps Share the Joy was cancelled for today.
Guess I will share JOY with anyone who drops by today.

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Sepia Saturday-Creepy tintype

Sepia Saturday

Old photographs are wonderful aren't they? I know I am preaching to the converted, but isn't it wonderful how an old photograph can send you on a journey : a fascinating journey of discovery. Take our archive image this week which comes from the Samuel Bell Maxey Collection at the Texas State Archives and is available via the wonderful Flickr Commons service. The only information provided is that it is a photograph of  Lala Williams and Elgie Crook, but with just a few Google clicks you can discover that ...... Well, I don't want to spoil the journey for you, so go and click your own Google and take your own journey of discovery.
Alan Burnett

Found this tintype on Flickr Photo Stream belonging to
A Mr. Biggs who collects vintage photos.
He stated
"This is a tintype found at a flea-market. Caption reads 
Tissy and Mary White (Twins) "
 

This is a creepy looking photo, maybe because it is so dark.

As you know folks are able to comment on Flickr Photo streams and several folks mentioned that this reminded them of Arbus.
I knew nothing about Arbus

Well that lead me on another research.

Diane Arbus ( /diːˈæn ˈɑrbəs/; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971) was an American photographer and writer noted for black-and-white square photographs of "deviant and marginal people (dwarfs, giants, transgender people, nudists, circus performers) or of people whose normality seems ugly or surreal.".^[2] Diane believed that a camera could be “a little bit cold, a little bit harsh” but its scrutiny revealed the truth; the difference between what people wanted others to see and what they really did see – the flaws.^[3] A friend said that Arbus said that she was "afraid . . . that she would be known simply as 'the photographer of freaks'"; however, that phrase has been used repeatedly to describe her.^[4][5][6][7]
In 1972, a year after she committed suicide, Arbus became the first American photographer to have photographs displayed at the Venice Biennale.^[8] Millions of people viewed traveling exhibitions of her work in 1972–1979.^[9][10] Between 2003 and 2006, Arbus and her work were the subjects of another major traveling exhibition, Diane Arbus Revelations.^[11] In 2006, the motion picture Fur, starring Nicole Kidman as Arbus, presented a fictional version of her life story.^[12]


An Arbus Photo

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Sepia Saturday 123

Summer is coming.

May activities and traditions from my little home town in Kentucky.

 This is a photo of School Day at the Washington County Fair c. May 1925. Each class appears to be in costume. "George Washington" is at the right.

This shot was obviously taken from inside of the audience area since there is a pole obstructing the view.

I remember this location very well. 

It was the Gazebo in the center of the horse show arena. The annual horse show was a big deal when I was a young girl.

My grandfather and father raised horses that performed in this  arena.

There was an organ in the Gazebo and a young boy in our town played that organ for years for the show.

I remember attending the fair in the 40s and 50s as an elementary school student.
Photo courtesy of Washington County Kentucky Bicentennial History
1792-1992

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
Hesperides (1648)

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Sepia Saturday 122

Sepia Saturday

 
Students at school 

Academic classes, fine arts, music, physical education, clerical skills, home economics were offered here and it was one of the premier schools in the state.
Rich girls, poor girls, no one was turned away. 
The Sisters made it happen. 

This is the main street of the campus and the very same avenue where soldiers were cared for during the Civil War regardless of which side they fought on.
This sacred ground was declared a demilitarized  zone and still is to this day.

 

Photo from "Impelled by the Love of Christ" 

History of Sisters of Charity of Nazareth Kentucky

1912-1924

by

Frances Krumpelman, SCN

 

Definition of ACADEMY

1

a : a school usually above the elementary level; especially : a private high school b : a high school or college in which special subjects or skills are taught c : higher education —used with the <the functions of the academy in modern society>

Nazareth Academy was founded in 1814 in a log cabin in the country outside of Bardstown Ky. The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth religious congregation was only 2 years old having been founded in 1812 by Catherine Spalding and a couple of other local girls at the request of  Bishop David who saw the need for a school in the new state of Kentucky.


In 1922, with 25 students, the school was moved to the new campus of the Sisters of Charity a few miles north of the original founding location.
The first high school diploma was awarded to the students in 1925 by Henry Clay.
In 1921 a Junior College was added and in 1938 the Junior College became a 4 year college with degrees in education.
The academy was then closed and the campus functioned as a college until it was moved into Louisville Kentucky  in the late 40's.
In 1950 Nazareth College awarded the first baccalaureate degree in nursing in the state of Kentucky.
Today this beautiful campus is still the site of the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Charity, Nazareth Village I and II a senior retirement complex, Nazareth Retreat Center, Montessori School, Community gardening spot, offering areas for our town citizens  to have their own little garden plot.
When college classes were offered here I took my basic college classes and then went to U of Ky. for my nursing.
I am out there several times a week for various things and it is a happening place.


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Sepia Saturday Jan 7th, Framed Rabbits and such

Sepia Saturday

What a treat

Not a rabbit

Unable to find a rabbit in my archives but did find this photo of my brother Joe in 1952 with a puppy.

He was 6 years old.

I was 14 and had just gotten my first Brownie camera.
This shot was taken just outside our grandfather's little barn where he milked his cow.
The cow grazed beyond the fence behind my brother and all that once open land is now filled with homes.
60 years have passed.

  Believe it or not,
I think this puppy was named Brownie.


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We have a Polly or a Peter Rabbit in our yard.





BTW I am so enjoying my new Kindle Fire.
Just watched "Larry Crowne" with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts. I recommend highly. Tom Hanks is right up to date on subjects he takes on. He wrote, produced, directed and acted in this story of a middle aged man who loses his job and with no college has to go to college. 
If all could do such, what a different way things might be.

Sepia Saturday 105

Sepia Saturday 105 the Sat. before

Christmas.

Look at all the goodies.

Alan's theme "The Perfect Little Housewife" is more glamorous than my post but I am on theme this week.

This is my Mom in 1958 putting a coat of varnish on our living room floor.
As I have mentioned several times in my posting, she was a single mom working and raising three children by herself.
This was 2 years before my sister and I married.
I was working, having graduated in '56, my sister was a senior in high school and my brother was still in elementary school.
I never noticed until I posted this picture, that my mom was wearing blue jeans.
Probably a pair of mine.

This lady could get down and dirty or dress up and hob knob with the best.
A classy perfect ' lady of the house' who did what had to be done.
She was also the 'handy man.'
Don't remember her winning any prizes though.
Well maybe Mother of The Year, awarded by three very proud and inspired children.




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Sepia Saturday #102 Then and Now and a special birthday

Sepia Saturday

Alan's SS entry is full of visuals to stir up memories.

That is what SS is all about, no matter the age of the photo.

While shooting photos yesterday at Thanksgiving feast I remembered this old photo and how a 30 year old photo has a lot of memories and changes associated with it.

This was taken for our family photo for our church directory in 1981.


Our oldest son had just left Ky. for his new career with IBM in Kingston, N.Y.

Yours truly, way before she was QMM, Beth, Tom,
Rachel, Julia, John and Jennifer.

Yes, can't fool you, I did sepialize (?) this photo, but it was very pale and had lots of blemishes on the paper anyway.

Now speaking of memories.
This photo empathizes how blessed we are in being able to gather for special holidays.

We all know how blessed we are.

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Happy Birthday 
No #1 son is 50 today.

High School graduation 1978

I have been able to see much of the other side of the world through this  son's eyes.
He has quite a travel portfolio.
He loves art and literature and travel.
He knows what I like and always has just the right photos to bring back to relate his experiences with me. 
He and his best friend traveled inside Russia back in the cold war days and were able to go places where most people were not allowed to go.


We love you Thomas Dwight.

Sepia Saturday #101-A big day in my town to celebrate 200th birthday of the founding of Sisters of Charity of Nazarety

 Alan's SS entry

Can't see a theme for my post in this one, but had my post planned for a few weeks.





My post today is 2 fold for SS

This photo was taken in 1957 while the post office was still in the Motherhouse.
The sister on the left, Sister Mary Kevin was guest speaker at the unveiling of the 2011 Christmas Stamp at Nazareth on Friday 18, 2011. 
There have been only 6 postmistresses and 1 postmaster in all the years.
The sisters work way up into their 80's if their health stays good.
We tease them it is because they don't have to put up with a man. LOL
I love men, they do too.
Just a different choice how to love them.
That is their comment back to us.
Gotta love em.


The last three were lay folks. 


This was a very exciting day.

The first time it has ever been done outside of New York City.

The post office at Nazareth was established in 1888.
The mail was brought to the campus for sisters and students attending Nazareth Academy and later the college by rail for many years. When the railroad delivery was stopped in the 1960s the mail was brought by truck.
In the 1970s a detached post office building was built outside the Mother house and is still in use today.

There is no school on the campus any more but many sisters and 2 senior resident complexes have residence there.


The stamp was unveiled there in honor of the Bicentennial of the founding of the SCNs in 1812.

The painting selected for the Christmas stamp.

This will be your official Christmas stamp all over the U.S.


Madonna of the Candelabra by Raphael

Below is the information about the painter.
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For many years, the U.S. Postal Service has issued
"traditional" Christmas stamps featuring the Madonna and Child. The Christmas stamp for 2011 presents a detail from the painting by Raphael. That work , Madonna of the Candelabra, dates to around 1513.

Admired for his graceful style, Raphael was the youngest of three great master of the Italian High Renaissance (the other two are Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo). He was born Raffaello Sanzio in 1483 in Urbino, a cultural center where he received preliminary instruction in painting from his father, described by the 16th. century writer Giorgio Vasari as an artist "of no great merit."


In adittion to being extravagantly talented, Raphael was good-natured and handsome. As a youth, he was sent to Perugia, where he apprenticed with the master known as Perugino. Surviving documents show that Raphael, too, was being called a "master" well before he reached 20 years of age. In 1504, he went to Florence for further study, drawn by the reputations of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, that city's foremost artists.


Raphael drew on Leonardo's techniques of chiaroscuro (contrast between light and dark) and sfumato (use of soft shading to define forms.) From Michelangelo, he leaned the expressive potential of human anatomy. Most commentators agree that Raphael's work is less intense and lighter in spirit than the work of these masters.


In 1508, Raphael was summoned by Pope Julius II to Rome, where he spent the last dozen years of this short life in an inspired burst of activity. The masterpieces he produced there include the painting reproduced on this stamp, Madonna of the Candelabra, and a series of frescoes in the papal apartments of the Vatican. Perhaps the most famous of these, The School of Athens, portrays Plato and Aristotle surrounded by other philosophers, and links classical philosophy with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. After the death of Julius, Raphael was commissioned by his successor Pope Leo X to design tapestries for the walls of the Sistine Chapel.


In adittion to his commissions from the Vatican, Raphael also painted portraits, including a likeness of his friend Baldassare Castiglione, the noted writer. At the time of his death in 1520, Raphael was in charge of all the papacy's various artistic projects. His funeral mass was held at the Vatican and his body was buried in the Pantheon in Rome.


As a recognized master, Raphael ran a large and active workshop. Assistants certainly painted the angels (not shown on the stamp) flanking the central figures of Mary and the infant Jesus in Madonna of the Candelabra, and possibly other parts, This tondo (circular painting), oil on panel, is now in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.


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Here's looking at ya with joy in my heart.

Sepia Saturday #99-Theme-Musical, music

Sepia Saturday
and
Gratitude challenge day #5

Alan has a photo of a band up this week and there are several items in this photo that could be used as the theme but I choose music.

Now this photo is not 100 years old but it is 56 years old.

St. Catharine Academy

Orchestra

1954-55

Yours truly is the 4th from the left in the 1st violin section.

I studied the violin the four years I was in this school.

I continued to take piano lessons after high school and had not played the violin for years.

In 1990 A Suzuki program came to our town and I joined and took up the violin again.

I was one of only two adults in the program.

Some of the students were are young as 6 years old.
There tiny little violins were so cute.
I found it a little intimidating play with those little tots.

Wow some of them where amazing.

They were required to have a parent or adult take the lessons with them so as to help them practice at home.

I did not have a partner, I taped the lessons and that helped me.

The only thing I remembered about playing the violin,

after a 30 year hiatus, was how to hold the violin, the bow and how to stand.

Of course I could read music but keeping that perfect stance and position to play was hard as could be. 

I thoroughly enjoyed playing the violin again and did so with one of our grands accompanying me on the piano.

We would play at Christmas and holiday times.

About 3 years ago I left my violin in my car in the heat and it melted the glue holding my violin together, so I am violinless again.

Probably won't buy another now.

My shoulders could not stand the strain these days.

I am grateful for my experience with music and surely enjoy the very best of all kinds of music daily.

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