Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 68
September 15, 2016
The bodies in the bogs
Bog pool beneath Errigal Mountain, County Donegal, Ireland. Photo by Gareth McCormack, reproduced with permission –clicking the image takes you to Gareth’s site and more evocativelandscape photography.
In an ancient bog at the foot of a fairy-haunted hill, peat-cutting worklays barethe bodyof a giant. Carbon dating suggeststhat the man died at the height ofthe Iron Age, around275 B.C.; forensic examination shows that he died hard, stabbed through alung and then decapi...
September 14, 2016
Lucretia Brown and the last witchcraft trial in America
In 1875, the last charge of witchcraft in this country was brought to trial in Salem.Lucretia Brown, and invalid living on the South Green inIpswich was a disciple of Mary Baker Eddy, and when she suffered a “relapse” in 1875, Mrs. Eddy convinced her that Daniel Spofford of Newburyport, (hom Mrs. Eddy had recently excommunicated) was exercising mesmeric powers upon her. She had her lawyer in Lynn draw up a bill of complaint in Lucretia Brown’s name, making the following...
Martha Washington’s White House
Martha Washington died in early 1802. She had never set foot in what is known today as the White House in Washington, DC.
The road sign in New Kent County, VA, where George Washington met and married the widow Custis.
Martha’s White House in New Kent County
An etching said to be the young Martha Custis Washington.
Martha Dandridge (1731-1802) was only seventeen when she married Daniel Custis, a near neighbor from New Kent County, Virginia, along the Pamunkey Riv...
The story behind the story
With the fall upon us, I personally can’t wait for the season of stews and roasts. There’s plenty of that in A Thyme and Place. A bookthat I co-wrote with my best friend, Tricia Sandland Cohen. The book is organized by Medieval Feasts and features some holidays you may have heard of, and some you haven’t. For example, Pig Face Day is just under two weeks away, how better to celebrate that with Wee Matilda’s Pork Balls?!?
We’ve put together a video to tell the story behind the s...
Amy Winehouse, Big Ones, & BalletX at the Joyce Theater, Aug. 16-24, 2016….
Ballet X dancers Zachary Kapeluck and Richard Villaverde in “Big Ones” by Trey McIntyre. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
I am a big fan of BalletX and I make sure to be front and center whenever they are performing the NYC area…It’s been exciting to watch this company grow and evolve into what I think, is one of the best small contemporary ballet companies in the United States.
I vividly remember the emotionally stirring performance of Alex Ketley’s2009 work Silt, shown as par...
Call For Art and Photography ArtQuench Magazine Creative Masters III
This “special edition” will be a showcase of artists and photographers work along with up to 500 words to tell their story.
Artists may submit 3 images for display on a two page s...
Silent Serials Subject to Censorship?
I’m researching the 1928 Weiss Brothers-Artclass Pictures serial, “The Mysterious Airman.” It’s the only silent Artclass serial that survives in its complete form – complete except for Chapter 9, Reel 1.
All I had on the missing reel are records from New York Motion Picture Commission (then part of the State of New York Education Dept.), which was little more than a censor board.
A number of states had movie censor boards. As late as 1970 I recall seeing “Airport” (1970) in Ba...
September 12, 2016
Hildegarde Hawthorne Hits Salem
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s granddaughter Hildegarde (1871-1952), a prolific author of ghost stories, garden books, biographies and travel narratives as well as an ardent feminist and suffragist, returned to her ancestral city the year after its great fire (which she mistakenly dates to 1913 rather than 1914) so that she might gather material for her forthcoming book,Old Seaport Towns of New England.With “Sister” in tow, she disembarks into a bustling city which she clearly does not...
The Holy Grail Mystery
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
What is the Holy Grail? The cup or vessel used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, and possibly the vessel which captured his blood, as he hung upon the cross. What a mystery, that is some two-thousand years old, which has fascinated; archaeologists, knights Templar, historian and treasure hunters seeking the hiding place of the Holy Grail.
The history of the Holy Grail, the cup associated with Jesus Christ, takes us back to the Kingdom...
Dorothy Howell
Dorothy Howell was an exceptional Britishmusician, who composed over 130 pieces during her lifetime.
Dorothy was born in Handsworth,Birmingham in 1898. Her five siblings were all musical, and their father, an ironmaster by trade, was a self-taught pianist, who became the Musical Director at their local church. Dorothy’s mother was also musical, an accomplished violinist & soprano. The family used to spend time singing and playing together.
By the age of 13 Dorothy was already composing piec...
