Shorpy December 14, 2016

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January 1937. “Highway marker in Polk County, Florida.” Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.

June 1938. “City hall and courthouse in Vincennes, Indiana.” Behold the Palace of Tweets, formerly known as the White House. Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration.

Repeat just because~

A model floating in the water at Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida. This image, by fashion photographer Toni Frissell, was published in Harper’s Bazaar in December 1947. Mug | Weeki Wachee Mermaids

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APRN Alaska News

Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Aug. 17, 2018 August 18, 2018
Walker administration doubles down as cyber-security experts warn of China’s threat to Alaska; Man in custody for fatal Alaska apartment fire; Alaska man faces life in prison for Florida airport shooting; Kodiak-based district sees challenger to caucus-switching Republican; Napakiak gets federal funding for erosion, climate change impacts; Cash from Congress will boost Alaska-based system that […]
Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media
Walker administration doubles down as cyber-security experts warn of China’s threat to Alaska August 18, 2018
Governor's office says there's no conclusive proof China is spying on Alaska. Listen now
Rashah McChesney, Alaska's Energy Desk - Juneau

The Alaska Parkinson’s Rag

Peripatetic Pete, Looking for a Volunteer July 31, 2018
Greetings Parkinspeople and those who love them, I'm looking for a volunteer to host our next two support group meetings as I will be away visiting family far, far from Alaska. If you can attend the meetings, greet newcomers and help foster a discussion about Parkinson's Disease, this is the volunteer opportunity you have been […]
Peter Dunlap-Shohl
Our July Support Group Meeting: Annual Parkinson's Pinic July 5, 2018
AN INVITATION Summertime, and the livin' is easy... unless you have Parkinson's Disease, in which case the livin' is difficult, no matter what the season. It is however, easier than the livin' in Winter, and that calls for a celebration. But how to acknowledge this season of nature's bounty and torrid 80 degree heat? I […]
Peter Dunlap-Shohl

Alaskan Book Cafe

Review: ColorIt Colorful Seasons Adult Coloring Book August 19, 2018
ColorIt Colorful Seasons Adult Coloring Book by ColorIt My rating: 5 of 5 stars Awesome adult coloring book. Beautiful artwork. Heavy pages, (includes blotter page). Top spiral bound. Excellent quality. View all my reviews
Review: Americanah August 14, 2018
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie My rating: 5 of 5 stars My librarian chose this book for me to read. It is one of PBS’ Great American Reads. I probably would not have chosen it. I’m happy I read it. It is a wonderful book if you want to see America through someone else’s eyes. […]

Alaskan Urban Hippie

DIY Raw Beeswax Comb Chapstick – Recipe + Tutorial August 18, 2018
With only 2 ingredients, this DIY chapstick recipe is as simple as it gets. The final lip balm smells amazing – lightly coconut with the slightest hint of sweet honey. And while some chapsticks quickly seem to either disappear in minutes or feel like a waxy coat on top of your lips, this one stays […]
Ashley
5 Considerations Before Planting Fruit Trees May 12, 2018
Many of us who grew up in rural areas have fond childhood memories of fruit trees. Maybe it was watching the tree bloom each spring, with the sweet scent of blossoms filling the air. Or maybe it was experiencing the annual harvest, with the smallest kids climbing up and gently shaking tree limbs, while family […]
Ashley

Barbara Brown’s Our Third Thirds

My Friend, the Car August 16, 2018
My beloved Subaru reached its Third Third, too. Twenty years – what’s that in car years? In Barbara-car-years, we still had miles to go.My previous Subaru was called the Flintstone Car. You know, where Fred’s feet stuck out the bottom and powered the car? Well, the bottom was so rusted on my car, you could […]
CloudyinAK
New Thing: Internal Injuries August 10, 2018
It’s interesting how far I’ll go in my Third Third to feel fresh, to have new input, to find a New Thing. This time, it meant internal injury.Not for real! It was the airport’s “2018 Full-scale Disaster Exercise,” and I was so excited when Debora invited me to do it with her. (Debora and I […]
CloudyinAK

Bush Radio

Stoner Music 101 January 21, 2018
Roll up some inspiration – Burl Ives http://alaskabush.com/bushradio/wp-content/uploads/Roll-up-some-inspiration-Burl-Ives.mp3 I got stoned and I missed it – Shel Silverstein w/ Dr. Hook http://alaskabush.com/bushradio/wp-content/uploads/got-stoned-and-I-missed-it.mp3 Natural Mystic – Bob Marley http://alaskabush.com/bushradio/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Natural_mystic_bob_marley.mp3 I want to get HIGH – Rita Marley http://alaskabush.com/bushradio/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/I_Want_to_Get_High1.mp3 Henry – New Riders Of The Purple Sage http://alaskabush.com/bushradio/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/henry1.mp3 Sweet Leaf – Storm Orphans http://alaskabush.com/bushradio/wp-content/uploads/Storm_Orphans_-_Sweet_Leaf.mp3
bushman
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) April 21, 2016
RIP Prince The Revolution Will Be Colorized http://alaskabush.com/bushradio/music/the-revolution-will-be-colorized-Prince.mp3
bushman

Cinthia Ritchie

My dog kissed a bear (Seriously) and, yes, yes, it’s summer in Alaska July 21, 2018
The damnest thing happened last month. Seriously (our dog) and I were running trails with a friend and her husky, when we saw a lone black bear. And Seriously walked over and kissed it. WTF, eh? Here’s how it happened. We were on the Campbell Tract trails and stopped to water the dogs by the… […]
cinthiaritchie
New work up at The Hunger Journal June 8, 2018
My hybrid creative nonfiction work How Mary, Joseph and Jesus F*cked Up My Love Life is up at The Hunger Journal. It’s an odd piece written in an odd style that merges religion with attitudes about sex, desire, loneliness and the rest of that complex and maddening stuff. Here is a sample: Fact: I rode down… […]
cinthiaritchie

Matt Goff Sitka Nature

Sitka Nature Show #163 – Kitty LaBounty August 5, 2018
Download Radio Show The August 5th show featured a conversation with Kitty LaBounty. We talked about the recent sunny weather and some of her activities this summer. These included a two week vegetation field class that involved travelling the haul … Continue reading →
matt goff
Last of July Sun August 1, 2018
With about 10 days of mostly sunny and warm dry weather (Sunday excepted, sun-wise), the forecast is finally hinting at an impending change. Despite the call for a chance of drizzle before 1pm, the clouds broke up early this morning … Continue reading →
matt goff

Sandra’s Alaska Recipes

SANDRA'S MORNING ALASKA WHOLE-WHEAT SOURDOUGH BREAD LOAF August 19, 2018
This is a 1-hour initial rise ~ No stand-mixer required:The longer the initial dough ball rise,the stronger the sourdough flavor becomes(e.g., 1-hour vs a 9-12 hour rise time)...Yield: (1 loaf)Prep: 7 Mins.Total rising time: 1-2 hoursBake: 35 Mins.INGREDIENTSProof:1 cup lukewarm water1 teaspoon active yeast (not rapid or instant)1 tablespoon light agave (or honey)Sponge:1/2 cup ripe […]
sandra
SANDRA'S OVERNIGHT ALASKA SOURDOUGH BREAD LOAF August 19, 2018
This is a 9-hour initial rise ~ No stand-mixer required:The longer the initial dough ball rise, the stronger the sourdough flavor becomes (e.g., 1-hour vs a 9-12 hour rise time)...Yield: (1 loaf)Prep: 7 Mins.Total rising time: 9-12 hoursBake 35 Mins.INGREDIENTS Proof:1 cup lukewarm water1 teaspoon active yeast (not rapid or instant)1 tablespoon light agave (or honey)Sponge:1/2 […]
sandra

Twice In a Lifetime

Aspiring Young Sailors Will Note... August 19, 2018
..that putting paper towels down the head will not endear you with the parental units. Just when you think a kid who lived full time on a boat from age 1 to 7 has got the basics down, Eric went and pulled that doozy. The wad of paper towel made it past the pump, where […]
Alaskan Fisheries in the Global Warming Present August 18, 2018
This summer of research that we've been pursuing from Galactic was motivated by the collapse of the Pacific cod fishery in the Gulf of Alaska. Our work is aimed at understanding how young fish are faring post-collapse, and thus what the outlook is for recovery of the stock. There's an interesting side to that stock […]

What Do I Know?

The 1964 Alaska Earthquake & Northern Acorn Barnacles - Why Knowing Lots And Integrating What You Know Is Useful August 20, 2018
I'm reading Henry Fountain's The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet. It's for my October book club meeting. We're actually discussing David McCullough's The Johnstown Flood at our next meeting, but it wasn't in the library and Quake was. The whole Quake book is about figuring things out - […]
Steve
Recycling Plastic Flower Pots At Alaska Botanical Garden August 19, 2018
I gather a bunch of old pots from the ancient greenhouse in the yard and washed them as best as I could in the wheel barrow for the Botanical Garden's recycle your pots day. Then today we took them to the Garden and added them to their collection. And then we did a quick walk […]
Steve

Delanceyplace.com

fdr's path to the presidency -- 8/20/18 August 20, 2018
Today's selection -- from The President as a Leader by Erwin C. Hargrove. The path to the presidency for Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "Franklin Roosevelt was a supremely skilled politician and is the exemplar of the good leader of the polity in this book. His highly proficient skills of persuasion were the most important thing about his leadership. He […]
the origins of cubist art -- 8/17/18 August 17, 2018
Today's selection -- from The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes. Cubism was the first radically new type of painting in almost 500 years: "The speed at which culture reinvented itself through technology in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth, seems almost preternatural. Thomas Alva Edison invented the phonograph, the […]

Bob Mayer

What if D-Day had turned out differently? August 20, 2018
Battles often turn on good fortune and luck as well as planning and training and execution. When I picked 6 June as one of the days the Time Patrol sends agents back to, the foremost year, of course, was 1944. One of the agents parachutes into France the night before the invasion to link up […]
Bob
Little Big Horn revisited– what happened and why? August 17, 2018
Custer is supposedly buried in the West Point cemetery. However, no one is certain what remains were eventually recovered from that remote battlefield out west. The battle fascinated both my wife and I. In fact, the very first trip we ever took was driving out west to visit the battlefield. I never quite understood how […]
Bob

Greg Fallis

very powerful and very stupid August 20, 2018
About four decades ago (I could be more precise, but does a year or two really matter here? I think not) the fourth Doctor Who, while on an unnamed jungle planet, was attempting to negotiate a treaty between…okay. Okay, wait. … Continue reading →
greg
something something photography something August 18, 2018
I used to be a camera app junkie. I regularly walked around with half a dozen camera apps on my phone — each of which did one or two things particularly well. I had two apps just for black-and-white work … Continue reading →
greg

Bluebird of Bitterness

Navy totally going to turn this ship around if Marines don’t stop poking each other August 20, 2018
From The Duffel Blog; bowdlerization by the bluebird of bitterness. PACIFIC OCEAN — The Navy has warned it will indeed turn this ship around if the Marines onboard don’t stop poking each other, sources confirmed today. “So help me God, I will pull this ship over so fast,” Navy said, adding that the Marines on […]
bluebird of bitterness
Sunday funnies August 19, 2018
bluebird of bitterness

The Diesel-Electric Elephant Company, England.

So dismal this morning that I had to use a torch to find the candelabrum #narrowboat #england August 19, 2018
Apparently this is the tail-end of Storm Egremont or Egbert of Eckythump, or something, bringing the relatively warm, wet, windy … More
Ian Hutson
The whole hole has been wholly bunged #narrowboat #england #barbridge August 10, 2018
Tis indeed a damnably dismal day here in Ingerlund, in terms of the weather. The sky isn’t just threatening rain, … More
Ian Hutson

Joan Reeves: Slingwords

Hell in a Handbasket August 20, 2018
My grandfather used to say: "The world's going to hell in a handbasket."I thought of that today when I saw one of those horrible examples of parenting in today's world.I grow weary of seeing these horrendous displays in daily life--at the supermarket, mall, sports arena, etc.They make me mutter: "Civilization is going to Hell in […]
Joan Reeves
3 Ways to Guarantee Failure August 19, 2018
Many people suffer from a lack of confidence. Too many people think that confidence is something you're born with, and they've decided they weren't born with it.That's a lie.Confidence is grown. It's cultivated from effort and experience and accomplishment.Guarantee FailureIf you want to guarantee that you will fail every time, do these 4 things.1. Never […]
Joan Reeves

WASP Final Flight

Lucile Doll Wise, 43-7 | August 2, 2018 August 17, 2018
"Jacqueline Cochran was looking for WASP. They told me I would have to be interviewed and they would contact me when they came to the Wichita area. But I didn’t wait for that. I went down to Houston for my interview, to speed things up. And I think that’s one of the smartest things I […]
buglegirl
Jean McCreery, 44-W-10. |. May 10, 2018 July 20, 2018
"My first flight was with a barnstormer at the age of five. I loved it! I also tried to 'fly' out of the barn loft with an umbrella. This was less than successful..." WASP Jean Terrell McCreery, 44-10 The indomitable Marguerite Jean Terrell Moreo McCreery has "...slipped the surly bonds of Earth. And danced the skies on […]
buglegirl

The Authors’ Billboard

Summer Salad @AliciaStreet1 #mgtab August 17, 2018
August is a great time of year to go to the farmers’ markets and hit roadside farm stands for fresh vegetables and fruits. It has been so hot and humid in my neck of the woods that salads are the perfect meals. And we all know how important it is to eat your veggies! Here […]
Alicia Street
A Number’s Game #mgtab @NatalieAnn1212 August 15, 2018
I’m a bit OCD when it comes to numbers. Maybe because I’ve spent the last 25 years of my life working in finance. When I do something and a number is attached, it almost always has to end with a 0 or a 5. If not my eyes start to twitch and my fingers want […]
Natalie Ann

Debra Lynn Dadd

Beyond Toxic-Free Industrial Products August 14, 2018
I spend a lot of my time (as you know) working on finding and writing about toxic-free, manufactured industrial products because that’s where most people shop. But for many years now, I’ve actually been living this “other” life that is beyond industrial products. It’s the next level of living toxic-free. Much more difficult and not […]
Debra Lynn Dadd
Safe Pesticide for Spiders? August 14, 2018
Question from Michelle Hi Debra, I ask this question in the light that we are fighting brain cancer. We are also fighting spiders. We have done everything possible around the house-changing lighting cans, switch plates, stuffing windows with molding, diatomaceous earth and we are still getting spiders. I called Ecola and although they pushed […]
Debra Lynn Dadd

BloominThyme

How to Save Broccoli Seeds August 8, 2018
Learning how to save broccoli seeds is important for any sustainable gardener. And for many gardeners, now is the time to harvest their broccoli. But if you want to practice sustainable gardening, you’ll want to allow one plant to remain un-harvested. Why? Because broccoli won’t provide you with seeds to collect until after it flowers–and […]
gardenfrisk
Weeds, Seeds, Sunflowers and Wildlife August 5, 2018
Back to school in the garden Back to school can mean facing a garden full of weeds which means the students will be very busy getting their garden back into shape. You can imagine what a Florida summer with copious amounts of rain can do to a garden bed and if you had no one to tend […]
gardenfrisk

Limecello

Team ALBTALBS TBR Challenge Review: The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by Lady Trent by by Marie Brennan August 14, 2018
The Tropic of Serpents: A Memoir by Lady Trent (A Natural History of Dragons Book 2) by Marie Brennan Historical fantasy published by Tor on March 4, 2014 The thrilling adventure of Lady Trent continues in Marie Brennan’s Tropic of Serpents . . . Attentive readers of Lady Trent’s earlier memoir, A Natural History of […]
Babs
Decades: A Journey of African American Romance Guest Author Elle Wright Travels to the 1980s August 14, 2018
It’s Teaser Tuesday and we are so excited to welcome Elle Wright ALBTALBS with an exclusive excerpt from her contribution to the Decades series! I’ve been looking forward to Elle’s book since I learned she was going to be a part of the Decades project. I’m even more excited that her book takes place in […]
ALBTALBS

A Redleg’s Rides

Riding with Coopdway August 19, 2018
Today, I had the absolute pleasure to go on a 100+ mile ride with Coop, aka Doug. He's a fellow moto-blogger who lives in the country, perhaps 57 miles or so from his work in the city of Minneapolis.We met up at 9AM as arranged and soon he was leading the way through some really […]
dom chang
Coffee with Coopdway, a family reunion and a smoky sunset August 19, 2018
Friday was mostly spent driving from west of Des Moines, IA to Holmen, WI. Not much to report, parked the URRV in the side portion of my FIL's yard in Holmen.Martha flew in late and joined up with us shortly before midnight.Saturday. Busy day today.A foggy morning in the Holmen, WI areaLeft my FIL's house […]
dom chang

Lorie Smith Schaefer

Book Report: Another political wife who stood by her man August 19, 2018
My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton Stephanie Dray & Laura Kamoie For months the Hamilton soundtrack quickened my step on long walks in the neighborhood. Then there were the months I slowly slogged through Ron Chernow’s tome. Still, I was left wanting to know more about Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Elizabeth. Living until […]
Lorie Smith Schaefer
Mid-week Mischief August 15, 2018
Lorie Smith Schaefer

Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo

7 Ways You Can Promote Your Blog For Free August 20, 2018
Originally posted on Hugh's Views & News: Photo by rawpixel.com on Pexels.com You’ve written and published your best ever blog post, yet hardly anyone is reading it or leaving you any comments. It’s a situation that every blogger will…
Sue Vincent
Circle #writephoto August 20, 2018
Originally posted on Of Glass & Paper: Circle ? They were six of them, and their leader may have been Galahad. There, they fought, back to back, from one dawn to the next, for days and nights, against the armies…
Sue Vincent

Medal of Honor Monday

Fallen Airman Earning MoH Was Top Performer, Tenacious Fighter August 20, 2018
Air Force Tech Sgt. John Chapman lost his life trying to save others in Afghanistan in 2002. His final act will be awarded this week with the nation’s highest military honor. Read More
Katie Lange
Silver Star Recipient: “It’s Not About Awards; It’s About People” August 19, 2018
Utah Army National Guard Maj. Tyler Jensen earned a Silver Star for his actions in Afghanistan. Here’s what he thinks about being honored for valor. Read More
Katie Lange