Peter Behrens's Blog, page 459
July 25, 2014
End of Road Pirate
from Guido Goluke, Dutch translator of On The Road:
"The photo of the elevated car wreck in Enganaevo, near Ulyanovsk, Russia, was taken by me in the summer of 2012, when I made a Kazan-Kazan bicycle trip, along the east and west banks of the Volga.The photo of the same car wreck in winter caught my eye when I looked up ‘финиш лихача’ on Yandeks. The translation is pretty obvious: ‘End of Road Pirate’"--GG
July 24, 2014
Summer Cars, Blue Hill Peninsula: the 1967 Humber Super Snipe.
There is a genre of Summer Cars here on the Peninsula; also out on the islands. These are usually machines of a certain age and character that find their way into barns for the winter, but are an awkward joy to drive along the quiet coast roads in summertime. The village of Blue Hill is home to one of the largest herds of summer cars in Maine.
July 23, 2014
One Morning in Maine,part 3
Charlena was built as a lobster boat by Newell McLain in Thomaston, Maine 1943, Nowadays she lives in Center Harbor.
July 22, 2014
Orphan County cars : 1950 Ford Custom; 1929 Ford. And Mother Jones
from Michael Moore in Walsenburg, Huerfano County, Colorado:"In town today there were these two Fords forlornly advertising the local industry, which seems to have devolved into people trying to sell overpriced "antiques" to passing tourists... A nice original two door sedan...[actually that's maybe a Chevy, now that I look at it !] [[Nah, it's Ford Town Coupe--AL]]
"Behind that a tractor [with model A wheel available for plucking from the fence behind it];Just off Fourth Street, half a block east of our storage building and within sight of the Huerfano County courthouse, this shoebox... somebody once put a tarp over it, but they wandered off, alas...That would be the courthouse in the background, on the steps of which Mother Jones proclaimed "if the men weren't man enough to go on strike the women will" either just before she was arrested or just after making bail around 100 years ago. The Ludlow Massacre (AL-see David Mason's novel-in-verse, Ludlow) soon followed, and the rest is history, as they say, ongoing; meanwhile we have this four-door from the fifties, languishing...
July 21, 2014
One Morning in Maine, part 2. "Cirrus"
One of the most beautiful boats in a harbor with an extraordinary fleet. Cirrus, built by Herreshoff, 1931, one of the Fishers Island 31's, originally rigged as a sloop, converted to a yawl.
July 20, 2014
July 19, 2014
At the Brooklin Boat Yard
She's a 70-foot sloop, in progress. Very high tech. Frank Gehry one of the designers. The snow shovel gives some sense of scale. We saw her flipped in June.
Truck Farm
from Alex Emond , in south Saskatchewan:"Somebody buy these trucks a beer. You know these trucks still run fine , and they are no more for sale than Grandpa's ashes . Don't even ask, is my policy . A lot of farms will have a row of vehicles , representing the family history. Lately , however, there have been more scrap metal guys buying up old stuff and it's an unfortunate trend."-AE
