From "Timeline: A Chronology of the History of Pelham"

Before 1639 - Thomas Pell serves with Lion Gardner at Fort Saybrooke, Connecticut.

1914 - The Bronx, which forms the southern boundary of Pelham, becomes the 62nd and final county of the state of New York.  - Historic Pelham

Computer render of Skagway, Alaska, site of the Klondike Gold Rush Historic Park (also in abandoned Dyea on the left) I worked in after a bus ride through Mt. St. Helens ash. Flew in here in a small plane. Those lines in the background are the US/Canada boundary (from NASA's World Wind 1.2) 

"I came, I saw, I drew a map." 

Fort Jay, Governors Island, NY. Notice the sand traps, where Premier Gorbachev met former President Ronald Reagan. (Also called Fort Columbus under the US Army). 

Your's for $1 million! 

LongIslandLighthouses.com

New York City - Health and Science "Hard times for history"

"South Street Seaport seeks a new caretaker for the more than 2 million artifacts in its New York Unearthed museum" I helped create this. Posted to hist-arch forum 2/28/2005 As one of the researchers into the history of the last open lot in the South Street Seaport Historic District, currently a pay-for-parking lot, with a National Register of Historic Places property at 251 Water Street (the whole lot has been subsumed under one address "250 Water Street" as is the practice on new "block" size buildings in the area, i.e. "175 Water Street" building where the "Ronson" ship was found) I thought I might offer some background to the "New York Unearthed" demise as I also worked on it's creation for Grossman and Associates, Inc., for Joel W. Grossman, Ph.D., who was a primary consultant in its creation, while I was in his employ, producing graphics for archaeology research and report creation from remote-sensing data and land survey data. My involvement with this particular open lot in the Historic District, was to be provided a pretty complete "chain of title" that is a list of property owners for each of the historic lots on what was once the shoreline of New Amsterdam, (the National Register site, at 251 Water St. is on made-land or "landfill") by Greenhouse Consultants, Inc., and as a free-lance researcher to track down and create a history from the names provided and supply background to the significance of the property, my report submitted after 3 weeks in the libraries, as requested, which also closed thereafter for renovation by the Rose family. In protest, I might add, I have never been provided a copy of what was submitted, and my copy was sent to the New York City Landmarks Commission Archaeoogist (Archaeologist) as a matter of courtest (courtesy) and professional warning that information provided might not be forthcoming in regards to this very historic block, site of the first ferry in Manhattan to Brooklyn, and the English Puritan trading enclave just outside the famous New Amsterdam Wall of Wall Street fame. As the "chain of title" provides the former property owners addresses, City Directories, though only indexed for street addresses in certain years other years more like a modern "phonebook" indexed alphabetically, can be read for business and personal information which can also be checked in local histories of which there are many for New York if one looks. Other info: 1) South Street Seaport has done very well according to the press after 9/11/2001 as this, one of the parking lots, provided a center for visiting the former Word (world) Trade Center. 2) The current owner of the property has in the past provided designs for new buildings in the South Street Seaport Historic District which have been objected to by the current residents abutting the property and those nearby. 3) The current water tunnel being built under New York City had only two possible "break points" in Lower Manhattan, at the once proposed "Mother Cabrini Park" abutting 1 Police Plaza, the headquarters of "New York's Finest" and (Bureau of Internal Affairs I might add, which started raining loose bricks from its parapet the day it opened) or in this parking lot. The former African-American mayor, Mayor Dinkins, (who was a voting official for many years prior to his election, appearing on voting cards in the city) was cited as wanting the property 'condemned" as part of the city's "eminent domain" for the new building codes downtown, which have been turning Lower Manhattan from a "9-5" to a "24" revitalization, with upper floor apartments permitting some to elevator commute to work. The current owner also owns invested property at Times Square, where another revitalization has occurred. I still have not read anywhere where the water tunnel transfer will come up from about 900 feet below the sidewalks of New York. Apparently, the police park for free on the brick surfaced park where another playground was to appear and those residents complained about in public hearings I saw on cable TV. (as I also witnessed on another set of properties, in the Bowery, home of feminist Kate Millet, I also was a researcher on and have never seen the submitted work made from my colleague's and my work). 4) The historical significance of this lot is very interesting, from Isaac Allerton to Theodore Roosevelts's family and required much research on my part. When will we have standards for business that fit our needs and not the needs of developers? The collection could go, in my opinion, very easily over to Fort Jay, (built by Columbia University students) on nearby Governors Island, in storage by the National Parks Service there until another appropriate facility is arranged, perhaps there on Governors Island, which I have also had the pleasure of working on in archaeology.

NorthEast Radio Watch by Scott Fybush

"9/11 Plus One: A NERW Special Report"

Speaking of islands...

I was looking at this site of a visit to Great Gull Island to visit the birds there, off Orient Point, once a heavy fortress of armaments, including a 16" naval gun, fired once, burst everyones windows, that had not known to have them open a crack. Reminded me of the two Voodoo F-101's that used to be at Calverton, at least I thought it was them breaking the sound barrier once in awile. Anyway, I thought Robert David Lion Gardiner was instrumental in getting DDT into the public awareness and there was this interesting woman too: "Ms. Hayes has made some significant additions to research: In 1969 she documented the effects of PCBs on the nesting population (thin egg shells and deformed chicks) and lobbied successfully to reduce environmental contaminants. She was first to discover that Roseates and Commons interbreed (the down pattern on the chicks was unusual) and that Spotted Sandpipers can be polyandrous one female with several male partners, each on nests. Not to mention the priceless experiences she offered to volunteer staffers and college students over the years." under Great Gull Island and StarSong I think.

A selection from a decade of visits to tower and studio sites in the Northeast and beyond

Click above for a trip to the "Log Cabin" site on High Island, off City Island, in the Bronx, NY, where CBS and NBC AM radio transmit "side by side". Interesting site. You can hear these guys in New Hampshire! (Then again I've tuned in Chicago and the BBC too on a cheap AM radio, and WNBC TV audio comes in well) Columbia Island is where "CBS" was first, now for sale for $1 million! (http://www.vladi-private-islands.de/sales_islands/sites/3b_columbia1.html) I have been trying to find out about the island next door, "Pea Island" about 2 or 3 acres in private hands, nearby Davids Island, which is under pressure from the nearby NY Athletic Club to be developed (80 acres, Fort Slocum, once even an Air Force Base, it now belongs to the City of New Rochelle). The LIPA underwater cable went out between Davids Island and Pea Island a couple of years ago (600 MGW) and went back online at a lower rating. Donald Trump wanted to develop Davids Island and nearby Huckleberry (also Whortleberry) Island, but the cleanup costs were very high and required a bridge to the main island. A colleague, Gordon Watts did the underwater survey for it I think, maybe he missed "Captain Nemo" down there.

Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Government plans to e-mail net alerts

MSNBC - Cosmic rays reveal past and present secrets

"Muon detectors used in archaeology, weapons control" Growing up in and near the Brookhaven National Laboratory (on Long Island) we'd go there on class trips and "open house" weekends. I "watched" torquoise samples from ancient mines get "neutron activated" from a small nuclear pile there. They are very big on the medical uses of nuclear engineering. At the end of the tour, a gentleman (this one an African-American I think) would sign your name on the tour book with those long manipulator arms that were THX 1138's occupation in the film, (played by Robert Duvall for George Lucas) with a "magic marker".

Scotsman.com News - Features - Tull's Anderson in tune with his Scottish roots

I remember hearing Ian Anderson on the radio just before 9/11/2001 here in New York City. He was playing at Sailor's Snug Harbor I think, on Staten Island (the once secessionist borough, though after 11 NJ officials, three mayors arrested, they may think otherwise, wouldn't want to lose "The Red Spot" and the Cadillac bars in St. George) and just for the record, I think "Savoy Brown" (partly a/k/a/ "Fog Hat") may have been the "last" to play in the Atrium, at a lunch hour concert at the World Trade Center. My grandfather, a Merchant Mariner, used to tell a joke about Henry Hudson sailing into what's New York harbor now, on the Dutch ship "Halve Moon," and looking over the side, saying "Is stat an island?" and the mate wrote down, "Staten Island," ha ha. Interestingly, when historians look at it, Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain ("French explorer in Nova Scotia who established a settlement on the site of modern Québec (1567-1635)" Word Web) came within a hundred miles of each other one day as one sailed north and the other marched south. One of Champlain's crew dropped an astrolabe and years later a New York farmer found it and for many years it sat in the New York Historical Society. Then at the end of the 1970's it was given to Canada, as reported by their Geographical Society, on its cover. I'm not sure if Betsy Gottbaum, the current NYC Public Advocate was responsible for that, she once the historical director.

Scotsman.com News - International - 'Rescuer' faces jail after dead tiger cubs found in freezer

Why they had to shoot the 425 pound tiger outside the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley? (Where the Rodney King jury was and Sterling's "Magic" pink cleaner, sold-door-to-door, is made.) Unbelievable!

Remote Sensing in historical archaeology

Jack, Necor, and Chan? What are the names of the three historic survey monuments (USGS map) on the west side of the Hudson River, at West Point, NY, we used to setup transponders to do an underwater magnetometer (nanoTeslas) and sonar survey of the Cold Spring, NY harbor-front on the east side of the Hudson River with Gordon Watts, Ph.D., (the nautical archaeologist who found the "U.S.S. Monitor" years ago off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina) for the West Point Foundry Cove, EPA cleanup of the Marathon Battery Site. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ - awesome map graphics site, open source.

creativepro.com - Bit by Bit: A Gadget for Film-to-Tape Transfer

I remember Paul Sharits and his tiny optical printer...Niagara Falls Whirlpool...slowly I stepped...step by step...frame by frame...There was a guy from Asia at the bottom taking photographs! This also looks like what he was talking about in animation, without the hotspots, which he thought a front surface mirror might be able to do. I think he worked for Disney animators once may have been tossed for being pro-union there in a very labor intensive work. His brother he said who had just died when I met him, made celebratory films of urban San Francisco. Paul Sharits was asked to attend the film festival in Cannes, France, but refused, as he felt Americans were not being treated very well there and he shared the letter he wrote with me one morning, in a very small class of experimental film analysis at the Gerald O'Grady's Media Center on Bailey Avenue in Buffalo, NY. He since died and they've named a theater downtown Buffalo after him (at hallwalls.org). He attended Antioch College in Ohio, and I moved him into Buffalo, NY. He has some paintings and sculpture at the Anthology Film Archives, "...film museum, archive, research library, and art gallery" at 32 Second Ave. (on Second Street) in a former courthouse across from a Marble Vault Cemetery, (there's two in the neighborhood, the first non-denomination ones in Manhattan) the site also once a Methodist Cemetery. It was moved in the mid-nineteenth century, yet some other remains were found in the late nineteenth century which required a NY State Legislature law to remove by the State Education Department, though those actual records, were lost later in a terrible fire in the NY State Law Archives in Albany, NY, of which there is some record of in the printing of annual records.

creativepro.com - Bit by Bit: Forget Cue Cards, Make a Teleprompter!

creativepro.com - Bit by Bit: Forget Cue Cards, Make a Teleprompter! Homemade teleprompter from a notebook computer and a piece of window glass!

1630 Quadequine introduced popcorn to English colonists at their first Thanksgiving dinner.

February 22, 1630 Source: My Way - My Way Today - This Day in History. Also Iroquois month named "ticha".

Four State Highlands Region

Authorized by President Bush recently, The Highlands Preservation Act of 2004, but with no money for it. USDA Forest Service site: http://www.fs.fed.us/na/highlands/ (nice photo of NJ Highland in snow). "N.Y. delegation pushes for Highlands funding" "New York lawmakers will push for federal funding of the Highlands Conservation Act, which could protect mountainous land in four states." http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050215/NEWS05/502150319/1025/NEWS09

Historians digging for Florida's past

"Bradenton, Florida - The search is on to find a lost piece of Florida history. Thanks to a grant, archaeologists, anthropologists and a team of people are looking for Angola. Angola was a thriving community made up of blacks and escaped slaves during the early 1800’s. The people of Angola settled along the Manatee River in Bradenton in 1812." My brother Tom lives nearby here. Repairs OR tables.

New Scientist Breaking News - Moon measurements might explain away dark energy

One of the developers of 3D computer modeling from photographs developed the measurements of lasers bouncing off the Moon.

RedNova - Ask the Astronomer

Is it true, my grandad came from the greatest range of tides on earth, the Bay of Fundy, that the Moon can affect some cloud formation, as I read in the Bay of Carpentaria, Australia? There are some weird clouds (UFO-like) attributed to the phenomena.

Yahoo! News - Relics of Computer History in New York Auction

This week, is an auction, "The Origins of Cyberspace" at Christie's. The oldest object for sale is a "...1613 edition of a treatise by the Italian Lorenzo Pignoria on slavery in Roman times which includes an illustration of a Roman table abacus, or reckoning table."

Rob Galbraith DPI: LetsGoDigital: Rollei to debut first 6 x 6cm autofocus + digital

One of the Channel Islands has a Rollei Museum.

Rollei is Back with the Rolleiflex 6008 AF

Rollei Rolleiflex 6008 AF | PMA Report 2005 Is it ready for the humidity? (They've been to Antarctica)

Hg Wells

Well test rules will toughen Board sets standards, 2006 start By Dan Shapley Poughkeepsie Journal The Dutchess County Board of Health will require that private wells be tested for contamination whenever real estate is transferred, starting in 2006. The board also voted Thursday to require that all new wells drilled after Jan. 1, 2006, be tested after being drilled. And it will require that landlords test wells at tenant properties by the end of 2006 and again every three years thereafter. There will be no new requirements for existing wells, but the board will recommend in the sanitary code that homeowners test their wells every six years. ''Our job is to protect the public health,'' said Dr. William Augerson, the board member who drafted the new rules. Before the rules can take force, the county attorney must review them and the board must hold public hearings about the proposed changes. The board has the authority to require permits for wells, and all the new regulations would be tied to that authority, members said. The Department of Health is responsible for enforcing the sanitary code, which the board can amend without approval of the county's executive or Legislature. The vote came after months of discussion, prompted by requests from county Executive William Steinhaus and the Dutchess Legislature for recommendations about how to better ensure that drinking water from private wells is safe for consumption. The rules would have similarities to a state law in New Jersey and a new law in Rockland County. Public water supplies are subjected to a battery of tests periodically, but testing private wells is the responsibility of individual homeowners. The importance of protecting people who drink from the county's estimated 40,000 privately-owned wells emerged in recent years after colorless, odorless contamination was discovered in private wells in several Dutchess County neighborhoods. In one, the rural Shenandoah area of East Fishkill, a state health analysis predicted that residents who drank the polluted water for many years face a higher risk of developing cancer because of the tetrachloroethylene allegedly dumped at a secluded workshop by an IBM Corp. contractor in the 1960s and 1970s. The drive to regulate private wells began with a citizen's petition in the Shenandoah neighborhood in 2000. Verna Wren, a resident of Shenandoah, said mandatory well testing is ''in the best interest of all of us. "It's one of the best things that ever came out of this, that we are helping not just ourselves out but everybody else in the future by having wells tested as a precaution,'' she added. Permit fees possible In addition to the sanitary code changes, the board will recommend that county government put money toward creating a database about well water quality that will help pinpoint problem areas and refine testing requirements in the future. It will recommend that the county establish permit fees to fund the well-testing program, and it will reiterate its support for hooking those now using private wells to central water systems. According to a draft letter, the board will also recommend that the county charge all owners of wells a fee the county could pool and use to pay for testing existing private wells. But it acknowledged this proposal is unlikely to be adopted because of the cost. Dan Shapley can be reached at dshapley@poughkeepsiejournal.com

Buffalo News - West Valley halts work after three safety lapses

"The average American absorbs 360 millirems of radiation a year, according to an Army Corps of Engineers fact sheet. Some of that exposure is from naturally occurring background radiation, some of it from medical procedures like X-rays. A dental X-ray, for example, typically produces about 150 millirems."

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

Hello kevin, The Astronomy Photo of the Day linked to this page http://www.seds.org/Maps/Const/asterism.html which has a typo (in most languages except German and when used to remind America it is a democracy, i.e., students for a democratic society, or Yippies, [Youth International Party - Ed.]- or street theater, etc.) and I think if you can you might want to change it to "America". ("Latin Amerika" - Ed.) Best regards, George Myers

RedNova News - Stalling of US Gyroscopes Costs Space Station Precious Fuel

American gyrodynes...called gyrodynes in space? Here's where they are: page 3 of paper International Space Station: http://www.marscenter.it/modellismo/z1_&_pma3_manual.pdf NASA's Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) company. http://www.futron.com/aerospacesafety/PRA/default.htm Gyrodyne, St. James, NY http://www.gyrodynehelicopters.com/our_founder.htm (I asked them to spell "Batchelor" Bachelor today) http://www.gyrodynehelicopters.com/xron_history.htm http://www.cradleofaviation.org/ Fairey Jet Gyrodyne Museum of Berkshire Aviation, Woodley, Great Britain http://www.aero51.plus.com/html/exhibits/gyrodyne.htm http://avia.russian.ee/vertigo/fairey_jet-r.html

The Straight Dope: Did John Wayne die of cancer caused by a radioactive movie set?

"Howard Hughes was said to have felt 'guilty as hell' about the whole affair, although as far as I can tell it never occurred to anyone to sue him. For various reasons he withdrew The Conqueror from circulation, and for years thereafter the only person who saw it was Hughes himself, who screened it night after night during his paranoid last years."

Yahoo! News - Mysterious Lobster Shell Disease Spreading

AP Wire | 02/17/2005 | Two American Indian tribes receive state recognition

Wrong! Southern Iroquois spoke in South Carolina!

Protect Hawaii's Coral Reefs: A Few Days Left to Comment

"The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) -- home to one of the largest and healthiest coral reef ecosystems, rare sea turtles, seals, sea birds, and other rare sea life -- need your help again. A powerful federally-funded council mandated with protecting them has been found instead misusing public funds to weaken these protections, found an investigation by a journalist. Take action - let officials know that the public supports strong protections for this culturally important and unique habitat. Urge a full investigation into the use of public funds."

World's Largest Termite Touches Down In Jackson

"Mississippi Museum of Natural Science to Host Interactive Termite" "(for every human on Earth, entomologists calculate there may be as many as 1,000 pounds of termites!)" "Towering Termite Tour" Now the "Hellstrom Chronicles" don't bother you...but they do me. Wish I could rent it, only been described to me. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067197/

sprachgefuhl

From Word Web "Free for personal use" c) Anthony Lewis

sprachgefuhl

NOUN: sprachgefuhl
1. An intuitive feeling for the natural idiom of a language
"Dubyuh has no sprachgefuhl"

Long Island Explorations

Thanks for the info. I hope you've or others have checked out the history of Gyrodyne. I was once to the small control tower, it was a foreign car repair garage! But there's nothing like seeing a little one-man helicopter flying over potato fields that become tract development houses next to Stony Brook University. One older map of US Defense Dept. shows a big pond nearby at the current corner of 347 Veterans Highway and Stony Brook road, where Pond Path Road once went I guess and maybe small helicopters? I was once researching the history of Stony Brook U., started when one of the Melville's donated a chunk and got others to too. They may have been the South American "Suffolk Rubber Shoe" company in Setauket, years ago when there was also a piano factory there. He's in the American Philosophical proceedings for his views on preservation, the current Stony Brook Village, once perhaps about to be turned into Centereach where I'm from. I have also been looking at the Montauk Point stuff here online at the Hero State Park (named after a guy) that has sections with ordnance clearing, now "open" to the public, site of early computer processing. I was on the north fork in a brick water tower, near Cutchogue or Mattituck perhaps. I wonder if there were more of those around at one time. I was amazed by the New England Preservation home on Bob Vila's, brick water cisterns in the attic?! We had a small "tin" tank in our house when we moved in, replaced by a driven well. Thanks again. I really enjoyed those night pictures of Pilgrim State never been there myself though friends parents were on the monthly payroll of the State there once. From years ago, a friend Ellice Gonzalez, once was wondering about the underground brick tunnels (smaller than people) at the Peerless Photo place in Rocky Point they were asking her about. Turns out Stanford White designed the place for Nikola Tesla and there was a giant work there at Wardenclyffe in Rocky Point, which will be a museum of science someday (after the HAZMAT crews leave). I once worked for the developer who was responsible for having the big duck moved to a park, weird, in public contract archaeology, we dig shovel test holes at 17 paces around places, if required.

Hello Korea

Hello y'all in chosun. I was once selected to give TB innoculations by the US Peace Corps there. The Stony Brook University recruiter had awards for singing folk songs with his acoustic guitar there on their TV. This was 25 years ago however, and things have certainly changed there. I hadn't really asked to go there, it was the job they had available, rather Africa then, well "back to square one" the guy said in Washington, D.C. which is what I've been doing working in archaeology squares! Since then the World Bank adjusted Korea's standing making Peace Corps a no go there as economics change. My uncle Vincent Urquhart served two tours there and my cousin George Murray was an Army Captain there before directing "Huntley and Brinkley" after his job in the Signal Corps got him into editing with NBC in NYC. He last covered 1976 conventions in the US for CBS. He died in Mexico City where his wife, an Avon executive was introducing their product there (door to door cosmetics sales? maybe) They had a eulogy at the United Nations Chapel, and TV journalist/author elder statesman of the media, Edwin Newman, read a letter my cousin had to write to his crew getting the "common soldiers view" of the Vietnam Conflict, cancelled after months by higher ups. I missed it, last I saw him was a wedding in the Bronx with a reception in New Jersey, flooded at the time in Hackensack. I hope you enjoy it there a nice opportunity I might think to understand where, some archaeologists and archaeology seems to show the origin of the amazing Chinese culture and history actually started from. Once a Seal Cove resident, my family comes from "up the island" in Castalia, that is where some of my great-grandparents are buried and my grandfather was born. The captain of the "S.S. City of Atlanta," his brother, and Master Mariner, Leman Chapman Urquhart, was also born there. It was one of the first commercial ships sunk in January 1942 by U-123, ("right after" Pearl Harbor) with a loss of 43 (42) lives and two (3) survivors, he not one. It was travelling from NYC to Savannah, Georgia, as the big sidewheeler, built in 1903, usually did. His name is on the base of the flagpole between the two Eccles brass cannons in North Head at the church overlooking the North Head harbor on Grand Manan Island, in the province of New Brunswick, in Canada.

Origin of the toponym Castalia?

"When the place for the new city was, through such an amazing method, determined, Cadmus decided to sacrifice the cow to the goddess Athena, and with that purpose in mind he sent some of his men to draw water from the spring later called Dirce (some have said Castalia), belonging to Ares, which happened to be guarded by a dragon said to be the offspring of the god or sacred to him."

Blast From the Two Birds (no stone unturned)

Ain't No bout A doubt It Heh remember Club 2001? I was there once with Steve Augeri (the singer in "Journey") before John Travolta? I lived a few blocks from there. e-mail: If you really wanted to experience the disco era of the 1970's you could go back in a time machine, but since those aren't too common, suppose we brought two disco DJs from the 70's to you? We have a special treat for you this Thursday. Our special guest DJs, Rusty Yardum and Ralphie Dee, date back to the 1970's where you could find them DJing at such hotspots of the day as Club 2001, the nightclub in Brooklyn where "Saturday Night Fever" was filmed. These guys know their stuff and if enough people come out to support them this Thursday we may be able to have them back. See you there! This Thursday Night! BOOGIE NIGHTS The 70's Disco and Funk Party Featuring Special Guest DJs Rusty Yardum and Ralphie Dee! Doors/Hustle Dance Lesson 8pm $5 Admission @ Light 125 East 54th Street (between Park & Lexington Avenue) 212.583.1333 www.lightnyc.com Subway: E, F to Lexington Ave.; 6 to 50th St. DJ Ralphie Dee DJ Ralphie Dee, born and raised in Brooklyn, was one of the most successful and respected DJs during the "Disco" explosion of the late 70's-early 80's. A lifetime member of the "Disco DJ Hall Of Fame", Ralphie has been DJing for over 30 years. Ralphie was the original DJ at the Brooklyn Disco that was called, "2001-Odyssey". He was the DJ before, during, and, after "Saturday Night Fever" was filmed. He was even in the movie during the "Dance Contest" scene. A true pioneer of Dance Music, Ralphie has produced many Dance Records, and stills tours Europe every year! DJ Rusty Yardum Born and raised in New York City, DJ Rusty Yardum started out as a Drummer. In 1977, when the "Disco' Explosion hit, Rusty became very drawn to the music of Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, The Trammps, ect. He soon found himself going out to clubs every weekend, watching and listening to the great DJ's of the day. Spinning since 1979, Rusty has worked in many clubs on Long Island such as, Rumors (Foz), Anvine', Krystal, Elan', Channel 80, ect. When Rusty spins the "Classics", you feel transformed into a "Disco" time machine, as his sets are literally a "History" of the Disco era. FOR FURTHER INFO ON ALL OUR PARTIES PLEASE VISIT: http://www.lofientertainment.com/parties This email was sent to georgejmyersjr@hotmail.com by Lo-Fi Entertainment, Ltd. Lo-Fi Entertainment, Ltd., 250 Washington Avenue, #1C Brooklyn, NY 11205

Lord Whimsy::Mammal of Paradise

In George Washington's diary of Long Island, after the Revolution, he referred to the "Bald Hill" as a "mere trifling" which, however, was where besides a signal hill (beginning with the natives also allegedly buried there) where one could see to Fire Island on the Atlantic and to the invading Narragansetts from across Long Island Sound in Rhode Island and Connecticut, once Brookhaven Town wanted to make a Town Hall there (former ski bowl on a glacial moraine about 300 feet above sea-level, a Vietnam War Memorial is there a red, white, and blue steel sculpture that looks like the tail fin of a 747) and had a campaign for "Bald is Beautiful" and bumper stickers, too I think. I worked for their Parks Dept. the summer of 1976, won a lottery for a summer job, lining and raking a baseball field in North Bellport 4 days a week. They had the lottery to show they weren't nepotists, giving summer jobs just to Republican's kids. I worked with an electric guitar player, Pete Pellicia, whose brother used to find Biblical scenes in rocks he found on Shelter Island. George Washington was a big fan of John Milton, who said he "see's a trifling" going blind as he did.

Yahoo! Groups : Big_Ed Messages : Message 117 of 117

Subject: 12 citations at Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field -author=Edward%20S%20Rutsch/104-6924308-3012764 I was looking around and came across these listings of some of Big Ed's work, particularly as new information has been posted online on Robert Parker Parrott, the inventor of a type of rifled cannon at the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, NY which I and he and Grossman and Associates worked on for an EPA cleanup of spillage from NIKE missile electrical battery production, actually a "further" cleanup from a previous one, not too well done apparently, and perhaps still not extensive enough (the broken dike once separating Constitution Marsh and joining the Foundry to Constitution Island a West Point Academy holding comes to mind, a once Audubon wildlife holding now a NY State one). Also the permissible exposure levels decreased and the State levels were more stringent than the Federal standards, which to this day, still permit a certain amount of cadmium and nickel to be dumped by industry.

Re: Suffolk Developmental,Willowbrook

I was part of an archaeological survey of it when it was going to be developed into a larger facility. In the Half Hollow Hills road section was the site of an old pharmacy once (nothing there now except the roses that bloom in the spring) and one of the houses standing nearby is very, very old, on an architectural list of possible 17th century houses I recall (just east of it) and some of it was pine forest looking, in the northwest. It is a shrine to legal wrangling, as it set a precedent for "segmentation" laws. That is, say you want to develop a 10 mile highway. You have some archaeologist and environmental impact statements done on the first 1/4 mile. Nothing there! Next 1/4 mile same deal! After a couple of miles, complain about all the money you've spent and get the rest of it (which you may know is sensitive environmentally/archaeologically) approved on the basis of past work. Interesting they were formally charged for it and I think law resulted over it. Half Hollow Hills is where the cattle used to stop for water on the way to graze on the South Shore meadows, from the north shore, apparently taken back and forth in places on Long Island. There is a book of cattle brands in the NY State Museum in Albany, NY for Suffolk County that stretches from the 1600's to 1961 or so. I heard branding is done with liquid nitrogen these days, instead of fire (used to brand the President Bush's buttock at the Bones and Skunks Club at Yale, with a coathanger). A large steer is on the Suffolk County, NY seal.

Re: Pilgrim Museum Field Trip

One story about Pilgrim State maybe you've heard. Years ago they had an Army tank on the grounds with a plow on the front they would use as a bulldozer. When the facility shut down there was the question of what to do with the tank. It was expensive to cart away somewhere and dispose of. So they buried it, probably dug its own hole. A collector/enthusiast of war memorabilia, (after all we have "Tanks For the Memories" bumper stickers on Long Island, a tank museum in Southold on the North Fork, which will no question asked accept your illegal ordnance and matériel by the way. I was there when they brought in a light anti-aircraft gun from Vietnam which still had a piece of bamboo substituting for a metal part. Strong stuff that bamboo) one I once worked for at Gasser and Sons, Inc., who asked if he could have it to restore. Someone agreed and he dug it up and carted it away to be restored, as he could actually make the parts for it perhaps. I think it was a rare Sherman tank. This was covered partly in Newsday so you could look it up maybe.

Xinhua - Japan action severe violation of Chinese sovereignty

"On February 9, Japan said it had placed under 'state control' a lighthouse built by its nationalists on the Diaoyu Islands."

The New York Times > Obituaries > Connie S. Small, Chronicler of Life as a Lighthouse Keeper, Dies at 103

In "Clockwork Orange" rehabbed Alex Burgess goes into his family's apartment kitchen. On the radio, is playing a song with the lyric "I Want to Marry A Lighthouse Keeper" ("To the jaunty song, "I Want to Marry A Lighthouse Keeper," Alex returns home." http://www.filmsite.org/cloc3.html) Sticks in my head, my mother's cousin Willard Parker and wife Madeline (and other cousins) were Canadian ones we used to visit.

Bronx River Art Center: Events

Bronx River Art Center opens Cuban exhibit, Havana Sci-Fi

ATSDR - PHA - Smithtown Groundwater Contamination (a/k/a Smithtown Ground Water Contamination), Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York

NYRB Classics: The Year of the French

A friend of mine who lives on the former Republican candidate for Governor of Massachusetts property, the "Weld Estate" now Blydenburgh Park in Suffolk County, near the Nissequogue where Thomas Flanagan lived (and two injured bald eagles are kept) used to change the screens on his house. (on Long Island, NY)

Year of the French

Perhaps part of this there in Newport? http://www.saintonge.org/ Also the Pentagon was just delivered a white paper on the French in the American Revolution as many states re researching what became an American victory with the aid of the French. (see for their role in New York State http://www.hudsonrivervalley.net/AMERICANBOOK/Main.html) I've excavated* near and by many of the 45 known sites listed there. histarch post *perhaps worked a better word

Robert Parker Parrott

The Swamp Angel

Herman Melville - Battle Pieces - The Swamp Angel.

SciFiDaily: He's Gonna Save the World at Casino Royale

To think Ian Fleming's golden typewriter inspired a fishing boat, I almost crewed on out of Seal Cove, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada in the widest range of tides on the earth, the Bay of Fundy. Unfortunately, the General Motors engine the wooden boat was built around, was never flushed out when it was made and metal turnings ruined that job. The deck had to be cut, the motor hauled out and replaced back there in 1971. I heard the "C.R." went up on the rocks in the fog after 19 years, herring purse seine fishing probably. Who looks good on a Scottish funicular (cable railway) should be one of the criteria a new Bond, one opened there. Or a cog railway? If they remake it, like the original, who'll play Orson Welles? Make it around the San Simeon air crash of 1938? A prequel? Here in NYC's "Home newspaper" the "Daily News" they had a number of "why" and "why not" other replacements for Sean Connery that were pretty funny ending with Angelina Joline!

Lynden International Brings Fritz Home to Nome, Alaska

Fritz the Dog is Nome! "During the winter of 1925 when a diphtheria epidemic broke out in Nome, Fritz shared in this same spirit of service. He was part of a legendary relay of dog sled teams that took serum to the remote town and saved hundreds of lives. Fritz's life ended in 1932 while he was in Lake Placid, NY. A taxidermist preserved Fritz and he ended up on display in the dining room at the Cascade Cross-Country Ski Center in Lake Placid, NY. Natalie Norris, of Willow, Alaska, purchased Fritz and gifted him to the Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum in Nome."

Science Features : Cosmic radiation why should we care? : Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer

There's been a slight delay! I once dug a 12 foot hole on the edge of Teterboro Airport on a survey for the Army Corps of Engineers with an African-American Bert Herbert, last I heard works for the NPS at Gettysburg, PA National Historic Site. He insisted I see "Apocalypse Now" then and we saw it in Times Square with "Godzilla Meets Bambi". We were on the ill-fated Passaic River study (during a flood) and I recall with a soil boring hand tool getting about 10 feet or so of sand when all of a sudden, a P-51 Mustang fighter plane started up 1/4 mile away. Were they loud, wow! My godfather worked on them in France in WWII. Uncle Lewis Myers, who later worked for Tiffany's in sales where he met his French wife, after opening a pet store with his Army Air Force buddy, with many new Siamese cats. Her French family fled the Nazis to Morocco (John Page was there with NYU once) her grandmother's portrait as a young girl by Renoir is in the Louvre, it came here once, missed it in a private gallery. Virgin rules!

New Scientist Breaking News - Mars Express 'divining rod' to deploy

New Scientist Breaking News - Sunspots more active than for 8000 years

SolarMetrics Limited

Interesting new business, like the weather prediction one in Wolfeboro, NH. I was working at the West Point Foundry Cove on the Marathon Battery remediation study when the "cold fusion" experiments were supposedly verified in Great Britain. Interestingly, we found out that a Canadian firm was making heavy water once on the site! There was also a large chlorine fire for 24 hours that took 300 fire-fighters to contain, a pool supply firm, perhaps why all the bricks fell down into a "sea of bricks" the heat may have created a physico-chemical separation, compounded from sheets of water. Boy was I steamed! I had come into the project after other employees left because they were not being told the whole story they said, and lo and behold it was true! I insist that "title-search" like efforts be made on properties so that one has an idea (and perhaps fore-warned of contamination) of a property's history. Ideally, the archaeologists on a project should have a good idea of everything before they go digging. A large study had been done of the history of the foundry, but not its 20th century uses, other than the engineers who wrote the "health and safety plan" based on known contaminates to be removed, an "umbrella" of safety posited for everything else. (Yeah right, but they made 1 million artillery shells here and 30,000 gun carriages, you think we should worry? Source: The American Heritage "Picture History of the Civil War. The Epic Struggle of the Blue and the Gray by the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian" Bruce Catton c) 1960, 1982 edition. The proton magnetometer surveys isolated magnetic anomalies, (first survey, two instruments, one to monitor the Sun) no "piles of shells" were found in the survey (something I also "later" found out about, not from the start) and only two serendipitous found artillery shells required EOD inspection from the U.S. Army, and they turned up empty, but shut the site down until cleared by them.

The Museum of Broadcast Communications

Yeah! Museum of Broadcast Communications Receives $500,000 Donation from Disney "The donation will support the development of the new Museum of Broadcast Communications in downtown Chicago, scheduled to open in 2006."

Disney's support will ensure that the new MBC is a cultural destination and educational resource for Chicago's students."

 I was told Walt Disney missed his steamboat, Willie, to Governors Island in NYC's harbor and was found AWOL held there in the hoosegow (as was Robert E. Lee's son, that is once held in the NY harbor).

Robert E. Lee, once commandant of West Point Academy, also lived in the Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn facility, (a few years ago, a $25 million ENRON scandal there, more recently current President Bush fired the head of the U.S. Army for being on the board of ENRON, (?) he ought to fire himself for a (four years ago) non-compliance with the OMB over the "energy meeting," and recently having real Russian criminals at his "prayer-meetings" in the NY Times, 2/6/05, my godmother worked in the VA hospital next door) in a wooden house, still there just off the Parade Field. He also brought John Brown to trial for the raid on Harpers Ferry, W. Va., I think, there is an eyewitness account of the Browns's capture and trial, (also see: http://www.nps.gov/hafe/home.htm, I was there when Pope John Paul I died years ago.)

In the "Golden Triangle Regional Airport" in Mississippi there was a document exhibit, one, a letter restoring Robert E. Lee's citizenship. One Fourth of July tour I was to Fort Carroll, (in the Baltimore Harbor, MD) abandoned, once erroneously thought could be used as a casino, but inside "city limits" (therefore would be illegal) near the Francis Scott Key Bridge, (the NPS lost his house, may never be forgiven) an artificial island, built with a Robert E. Lee designed steam pile driver it's said, though the steam pile-driver was invented in England according to history.

I read Mr. Disney was an ambulance driver in WWI like Ernest Hemingway? Then Captain Ulysses S. Grant, the future General and President once served on Governors Island.

I finally saw "Finding Nemo" today on Encore. What a charming story. Then I saw "K-19: the Widowmaker" too, very good, with Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson.

StopTheDrugwar.org

Winter Break Anniversary About 30 years ago, my college room-mate borrowed his father's old car he used around the Sunoco station in Brooklyn to go to Grand Manan Island, NB for a winter break. Crossing back into the U-S, a Customs agent pulled a small marijuana seed out of the crack of the front bench seat. We were then strip searched and held in jail awaiting trial, "in concert," for a small hashish chunk in one occupant's underwear, the vehicle crossing the US/Canada border had to be bought back at book value, a charge I still feel ridiculous about. Having heard of a 16 year old leaping out a ten story window while waiting to see a judge with his mother for a small marijuana possession charge in NYC, and having met a lawyer's son made an example of with five years in NY's Attica prison (before the "police riot") for two marijuana cigarettes and a camera bought from a "mark," I think the subject should be re-examined. Reform those laws. Read this public chronicle.

Scheffell Hall and other old time restaurants of NYC

Archeology and Metrology

Back in the time of the making and showing of the film "Glory," when I went to work for the Grossman and Associates, Inc., once across the street from "Scheffel Hall" (which then had "Fat Tuesdays") on Third Ave., many problems occurred, nearby Stuyvesant Square. A huge superheated steam pipe explosion, in Gramercy Park, killed two ConEd workers, one I discovered I had done business with at the U-Haul on the west side of Manhattan, renting a toboggan and other equipment for winter archaeology in Bowdoin Park, NY, part of which was slated to become a sewerage treatment plant, with a former employer of both Joel W. Grossman and myself, Greenhouse Consultants (his name). Lori Berensen, imprisoned in Peru, (Grossman has his Ph.D. from Berkeley U., from work in Peru) and her family had lived in Gramercy Park. Dutchess County's only county park, former J. P. Morgan summer residence, was partly used for a sewerage treatment plant. In the middle of this, I had the required HAZMAT training, at Bellevue's former Nursing School, (summer NYC heat in a rubber suit) and then watched Gramercy Park evacuated, wrapped in plastic, and cleaned by people in Tyvek suits and respirators. One of the conditions of employment at the EPA sites, training and refresher courses also took place at the fire training center in nearby Elmsford, NY, which included climbing five stories in fire-fighting Scott air packs (no beards). On top of this, Grossman and Associates insisted on using a new technology, "close-range photogrammetry" a three dimensional still camera recording system just out from Rollei in Brunswick, Germany, which also went through a few changes as the Berlin Wall came down. It was provided by Prometric Technologies, Inc, now of Markham, Ontario Canada who were developing an interface to AutoCad for it with Schneider Instruments, Inc., I think on Long Island, NY. Rollei later developed its own graphical interface as desktop computers became graphical, becoming "windows". It developed out of a need to rapidly record air crashes, (used in auto crashes) anecdotally, one U-S one in Gander, Newfoundland, covered by a blizzard before it could be recorded. Nearby, while learning this, the Avianca jet crashed when it ran out of fuel after a language lapse in air traffic control. The medium format camera (it's also available in SLR 35 mm) with film cartridge "back" specifically developed to hold film against a certified measured glass plate with crosses on it (reseau) only held 12 shots, which provided some difficulties, as the camera, with a video camera attached to its viewfinder, powered by a motorcycle battery, in a case with a small B&W monitor, attached wires, and a weak "pan and tilt head," was often on a large photographer's tripod and held thereby almost horizontally over a cleaned archaeology plan (counterbalanced with a water jug). Or hand-held to photograph an excavated profile. Each 3D set-up required a minimum of three photos taken at "oblique" angles with one straight-on (a parabola best) and each of the photos had to be recorded on both a rough sketch (entered later on the tablet) and a recording of camera angle and tilt for each shot for later computations on a specialized recording sheet of paper, showing the tilt angles the picture was taken at. A known measured object, often a three-foot red and white half of a "stadia rod," was included in the photo, which also included other markers (like on crash test dummies in many measured car crash tests) or "targets" were included in the picture and when available, a menu board, north arrow, color chart, and sited in with an infrared transit, which reckons x,y,z distances and elevation in State Plane Coordinate system(s), which by the way, was set to a new datum, while we were doing this, from 1929 geography to 1984 geography. I also used this for them at Drew University, Madison, NJ and in Bear Mountain State Park, Montgomery, NY, though the recording of archaeology features was often mostly using an infrared transit also referred to in the survey trade as a "total station," which today with radio control, can do away with the "rodman". It would make for more accurate recording, as often the person scoping the mirror for recording, running the instrument, is removed from the object of interest, what and where the prism and rod are "pointing" to. After the photos are developed, into 8X10" ideally, the "reseau" were digitized on a large digitizing tablet with a magnified multi-button puck, each button for a different type of observation, then in German, as it was still in development. A number of photographs had to be first "registered" onto the large GTCO digitizing "tablet" (3' X 4' X 1" white slab, stated accurate to 1/1000") and into the computers database. From each measured target and measured rod and supplemental transit readings the "close-range photogrammetry" computations were processed. Then one would re-register perhaps (in between being asked to overlay historic maps to determine the location of the former historic landscape) the numbered 8X10" photos onto the tablet (held down with little tape dots at their corners) and in order to measure into 3 dimensions, draw a line in two or more of the photos, tracing for example a "window" (of which there were none and are not the subject of archaeology) outline in the three photos with the appropriate button. I drew a number of profiles and the strata in them and other features, many left out in interest of brevity in reports. Most graphics on the West Point Foundry were handled by me, including I aver, the finding of the R. P. Parrott gun platform used on-top of in-swamp "grillage" (think "Lincoln logs") in the Foundry Cove, where a testing of a "prototype" of what became known as the "Swamp Angel" used in the bombardment of Charleston, South Carolina, with incendiary probably. The cannon exploded, kept firing, and was part of an investigation later at the Franklin Institute. Prior to the excavation, a number of proton magnetometer surveys were also conducted and data recorded with transit and hand-held computers, was turned out in "3D" graphic diagrams, and anomalies excavated with a backhoe after the underbrush was cleared from the margins of Foundry Cove. The West Point Foundry itself "off limits". We used it though for orienteering, and almost lost a backhoe in an underground chamber collapse ("Margaret Brook" runs under it, once powering its industry, in aqueducts and impoundments "ponds" stretching away for miles) clearing a "line of sight" to one of its few surviving standing brick walls, the rest of it, except for the former central office circa 1865, a "sea of brick". Part of the West Point Foundry "core" is currently being excavated by Michigan Technological University, ("Michigan Tech Students Continue Research At The West Point Foundry" in "Society for Industrial Archeology Newsletter" Vol. 33 Fall 2004 Number 4, Dept. of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931-1295) in field schools. The property became part of Scenic Hudson's holdings a group that began by stopping a proposed damming of the Hudson River just above West Point, and the digging of power turbine shafts through nearby Storm King Mountain, a NY State Park. The remediation involved earth-damming the marsh, draining the water, digging out the soil, mixing it with concrete, hauling it out on the historic railbed (used to stretch to the middle of the Hudson River) to somewhere and replacing the marsh with a new one. That was/is the EPA's Marathon Battery remediation plan of the West Point Foundry Cove, connected to the Constitution Marsh by a broken dike (once connected to Constitution Island by it) where nearby a "Great Chain" was stretched across the Hudson River to stop the advance of the British Navy whose aim was to "divide and conquer" the Colonies.