This looks like a boring job | Helytimes
although who knows, maybe it was hypnotic. from Lewis Hine’s photographs for the WPA| Helytimes
I remember something Charles Laughton told Tyrone Power once upon a time. Be careful. If Power, the movie star, wanted to act on stage, he would have to shed a particular demon. He might be an actor reading his lines, but he would “also be the monster, made up of all the characters [Power had […]| Helytimes
Woody Allen: NOT in fashion. I’m interested only in his productivity. Whatever else you say about him, my guy made a lot of movies. How?: appears in an interview from 2015 with Richard Stayton in Written By magazine. (For the love of Buddha if you are easily triggered don’t look at the WGA’s list of 101 […]| Helytimes
from Garry Wills, Henry Adams and the Making of America, a must for Adams-heads.| Helytimes
Revisited this one after seeing some footage from The Testament of Ann Lee.| Helytimes
In October 1937, in the town of Saylersville in Magoffin County, Kentucky, Alan Lomax recorded William Hamilton Stepp playing a fiddle tune called “Bonaparte’s Retreat,” or as he identifies it in the recording, “the Bonaparte.” You can listen here or here. Some years later, Aaron Copland found a transcript of the recording in a book: […]| Helytimes
Many people are unaware that Columbus made not just one voyage but four; others are surprised to learn that he was brought back in chains after the third voyage. Even fewer know that his ultimate goal, the purpose behind the enterprise, was Jerusalem! The 26 December 1492 entry in his journal of the first voyage, […]| Helytimes
perusing the National Archives Record Group 38 as one does and found this. Also:| Helytimes
although who knows, maybe it was hypnotic. from Lewis Hine’s photographs for the WPA| Helytimes
The macadamia nut was named after John Macadam, Scotch-Australian academic. The nut is native to northeastern Australia, but famously cultivated in Hawaii, for example by Roseanne Barr, whose farm …| Helytimes
I noticed this deep canyon on my Raven map of southern California. You can see it on Google maps. Here’s what to expect when you dive the canyon: After a short swim you drop down to a 25-30 foot sand bottom and move west. As you reach a depth of about 35 feet, you’ll start down […]| Helytimes
(source) I lived two and a half years in New York City but I didn’t know much about Greenpoint. A brief visit for a special occasion brought me to this corner of Brooklyn. Stayed at Franklin …| Helytimes
Thinking of hosting an event where we eat the lunch Jedediah Smith has at the San Gabriel mission, California in 1826: At 11 O Clock [am] the Father came and invited us to dinner. We accompanied hi…| Helytimes
If you have a little kid in the US you will have some clothes from Carter’s. They sell them at Target and Wal-Mart as well as 1,000 or so Carter’s stores, and they cost $8. Before I had…| Helytimes
If you’re wondering why he’s wearing watchface facing in, submariner’s habit, so you could tell time while working the periscope. As a preteen he castrated hogs, ploughed a field with a mule (Emma)…| Helytimes
Here’s an anecdote. One of Sartre’s closest friends in school was Raymond Aron, a conservative, pro-American political scientist. In those days, the French government had scholarships to various fo…| Helytimes
former Nixon and Reagan aide has just told his Miller Center oral history interviewers a long story about the Nixon administration: YoungSo, what is the moral of that story?AndersonThe moral of the…| Helytimes
Posts about the California Condition written by helytimes| Helytimes
saw someone on X (formerly “Twitter”) raise the old red flag of The Great Gatsby isn’t that good actually so I took it off the shelf. That’s how it starts. (Struck me that m…| Helytimes
