Constantinople

Constantinople

"Constantine the Great who reconstructed the Roman empire in the fourth [century] turned to religious organizations for help because in these organizations he saw a new means of using and controlling the wills of men."

H.G. Wells

A Short History of the World

Reading List;

Reading Now-

Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson

Finished-

The Job- an American Novel- Sinclair Lewis

Hot Spots

Nellis

"There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than the second."

Samuel Butler

The Way of All Flesh

Reading List

Reading

The Job, an American Novel- Sinclair Lewis

Finished

A Short History of the World- H.G. Wells

Up next

Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson

From the North

This is Only a Test

"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

G.K. Chesterton

The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare.

Reading List

Reading Now-

A Short History of the World- H.G. Wells

Coming up next-

The Job, an American Novel- Sinclair Lewis

Energy- A New Project

It has been a while since I have posted anything.  Rough times, not inspired at all.  Did some sewing and read a few books (see Reading List). Finally broke through, I will have more later. 

Fermi Lab

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The Process

Reading List;

Finished-

The Way of All Flesh- Samuel Butler

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll

Secret Adversary- Agatha Christie

Pygmalion- Bernard Shaw

Free Air- Sinclair Lewis

The Trail of the Hawk- Sinclair Lewis

The Innocents- Sinclair Lewis

Allan Quartermain- H. Rider Haggard

Reading Now-

A Short History of the World- H.G. Wells

Sorry...it has been a while.

I haven't posted for a couple of reasons.
- Unfortunately I haven't been making work (BLAH!!)
- My computer got fried during the big blizzard of 2011 (I am getting a new one)
- And, in all I have been working far too much.
Things will change and I will be back up and running before you know it.

Reading;
I bought a Kindle and have been loving it so far.  I have a TON of books on it and can't wait to read each and every one.

Finished-
Elmer Gantry- Sinclair Lewis
Arrowsmith- Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt- Sinclair Lewis
The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare- G.K. Chesterton
The Lost Continent- Edgar Rice Burroughs

Reading-
The Way of All Flesh- Samuel Butler

Amesbury and the End

The last day of our trip.  The last two places we went before we started for home.  The Church in the top image is where my great grandparents went when they were growing up.  That is my fathers, mothers parents; the Butters.  Below that image is one of the places where some of my ancestors from that side of the family worked; The Lowell Boatshop.  Lowell's is the oldest continually running hand built wooden boat shop in the country.  I am not sure when my family was involved with the boat shop but, I can remember the place being talked about many times throughout my childhood.  It was a must visit.

Reading List;

Reading-

Arrowsmith- Sinclair Lewis

Finished-

Elmer Gantry- Sinclair Lewis

Reread-

It Can't Happen Here- Sinclair Lewis

A Little Burned Out Right Now

I have some more images to share from our trip to Boston.  I still have a roll to scan from the last day in New England and some images from Maine left over to edit and post.  Right now I am just not feelin it so it might take some time to get them out there.  In the meantime I am re-reading some books and putzin' around a bit.  As I come across things I will share them with you.

"More and more as I think about history, I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever"

Doremus Jessup

 It Can't Happen Here

by- Sinclair Lewis

New Hampshire and Maine

New Hampshire

Maine

We spent the last full day of our trip driving through New Hampshire and Maine and then came back through Massachusetts on our way home.  Unfortunately I did not get to spend enough time making images on that last day.  we drove up the coast and had a blast just stopping off here and there.  One day I will go back and spend more time.

More Boston Nights

An Interlude

I am going to go back and show you some of the night images I made on the trip to Boston.  The top image is of the memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Regiment of Massachussetts.  The other image is of the first night of ice skating on the duck pond in Boston Common.

{See More Night}

Salem, Massachusetts.

I was named after my great grandfather Thomas Grant Bemister.  He lived in Carbonnear, Newfoundland for most of his life.  He ended up moving to Salem in the early 1900's and lived in this house;

where my grandfather was born and raised.  There is a graveyard across the street so we decided to see if my great grandfather was there.  He wasn't but we did find him in the Salem Town Cemetery.

While we were in Salem we visited one of the many witch museums.  We also went to The House of Seven Gables which is located on the coast and has breathtaking views of the ocean.  On our way there we stopped by the Salem Maritime National Historic Exhibit to see the ship Friendship.

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The House of Seven Gables

{Salem}

Salem

The Salem Witch Memorial

The Mayflower. Plymouth, Mass.

John Adams

John Adams' home in Quincy, Mass.

First Parish Church.

Quincy, Mass.

{ADAMS}

The Omni Parker House Hotel

This was our hotel.  Little did we know that we were staying in such an historic place.  Look here to find out more about this great American place.

The Old Granary Burying Ground

-James Otis-

-John Hancock-

Beacon Street

A Visit to The Common

{The Common}

The Trolley Tour

We got the trolley tour of Boston.  I didn't make many photographs on the tour and now I kinda wish I had.  Here are some images that I enjoy.  They kind of feel touristy and I like that about them.

Fenway Scoreboard

The Teammates statue outside Gate B at Fenway Park 

Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr, and Dom DiMaggio.  

The Mass. Ave. Bridge

[WhatsASmoot?]

Frank Gehry

The M.I.T. Building

The Boston Harbor Boat Tour

The US Coast Guard station in Boston Harbor. 

These are the docks where the USS Constitution was constructed in 1812.

Docks from the old naval shipyard on the north side of the harbor.

The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge

The USS Constitution and the Bunker Hill battle site memorial