Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 77
July 27, 2016
The 4 M’s | Monte/ Molissa/ Margo/ Mueller – LIVE! At New York Live Arts, June 14-18, 2016….
Elisa Monte Dance’s Thomas Vavaro. Photo: Matthew Murph
In 2013 Jennifer Muller contacted New York Live Arts and then Elisa Monte about creating a shared program for established choreographers. This year the program presented works by Elisa Monte, Jennifer Muller, Margo Sappington and Molissa Fenley in Monte/Molissa/Margo/Mueller – LIVE! At New York Live Arts, June 14-18, 2016.
Opening the evening was the premiere of Elisa Monte’s Dextra Dei with music by Tibor Szemo and li...
July 25, 2016
Tcheng Soumay
Tcheng Soumay (also known as Tcheng Yu-hsiu and MadameWei Tao-ming)was a lawyer and campaigner for democracy and women’s rights. She was active in China in the first half of the twentieth century when the ancient empire was toppled and competing factions fought for the soul of the new republic.
Soumay (to use her first name) was born to a wealthy family in Canton. Her father was a government official, her mother was the daughter of a general. It was usual to bind the feet of upper class gir...
Jane Austen and Great Bookham ~ Guest Post by Tony Grant
by Tony Grant
Cassandra Leigh Austen
Cassandra Leigh was born on September 26th 1739 at Harpsden in Oxfordshire. She was the third of four children born to Thomas Leigh and Jane Walker. She had an older brother James and an older sister Jane and a younger brother Thomas. Her father’s brother, Theophilus Leigh, master of Baliol College Oxford, had a number of children also, including two daughters named Mary and Cassandra. This meant th...
The Salem “Heritage” Trail needs more…..Heritage
It is pretty well-known here in Salem that the Red Line that runs though downtown, the official “Heritage Trail”, is more representative of commerce than history. It encompasses heritage sites like the House of the Seven Gables, the Corwin (“Witch”) House and the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, but also more dubious enterprises like the Salem Witch Museum, the Salem Witch History Museum, and the Salem Witch Dungeon Museum, with no discernment. There are no standards alo...
July 21, 2016
Nash and the Neo-Romantic Landscape
On the 11th of May 1889, English surreal war artist Paul Nash was born in London. Malcolm Yorke identified him as part of a group of nine British artists who worked in what he defined as a ‘neo-romantic’ vein. The Neo-Romantic landscapewas a reaction to naturalism, and stressed external observation, by focusing on feeling and internal observation; it was characterised by the lack of the urban element. The setting was an invented landscape, often an idealised rural scene which seem...
“Mike, The Color Bearer”: How a Famine Emigrant Became an American on the Battlefields of Virginia
Irish in the American Civil War
On the afternoon of 30th August 1862, the outcome of the Battle of Second Bull Run hung in the balance. James Longstreet’s Corps had been hurled against the Union left, and desperate fighting broke out along a key portion of the field known as Chinn Ridge. As Federal officers sought to buy time to organize a defence, Colonel Nathaniel McLean’s brigade of Ohioans was fed into the maelstrom. Among their number was the 75th Ohio Infantry, who advanced to the cres...
Averell’s Ride and Good Fortune
Regular Cavalry in the Civil War
I should long since have posted on this. I have decided to use Averell’s official report rather than the longer version from his memoirs, as I think it less likely to contain embellishment. Not that this report isn’t told to put himself in the best light, but I considerable it more reliable. While the report itself is interesting reading, what I find more interesting is the subsequent chain of events that led to this relatively obscure lieutenant of Mounted R...
St Helen’s Well, Draughton, North Yorkshire
St Helen’s Well, near Draughton, North Yorks.
OS grid reference: SE 0274 5326. In the corner of a field close to a wall beside the busy A59 road a mile north ofDraughton, north Yorkshire, is the‘now’much neglected and almost forgotten St Helen’s holy well. The well or spring, or what remainsof it,is located close toHolywell Halton the heritage railway linethat isrun by TheEmbsay& Bolton Abbey Steam Railway; the pretty little halt and the bridge opposite are both...
July 20, 2016
King, magician, general … slave: Eunus and the First Servile War against Rome
Buried in chains –a Roman-era skeleton, thought to be that of a male slave, excavated near Bordeaux. The body was buried with shackles around the neck, and dates from the 1st century AD.
The omens had been terrible that year. In Rome, a slave girl gave birth to a monster: “a boy with four feet, four hands, four eyes, double the usual number of ears, and two sets of sexual organs,” most likelyacase of Siamese twins. In Sicily, Mount Etna erupted “in flashes of fire,” s...
