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Livingston Street, Brooklyn, August 14, 1950, noon.
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A post for my book recommendations, to be continuously updated as I read and remember more. Because without reading, I would not be writing.
All time favourites are marked with a ☆
All are sorted by genre and will be linked (if able) to their Goodreads pages so that you can dig deeper into whatever catches your eye.
(ps if you have a Goodreads account, you can add me here)
Anthology/Short Story Collections
Behold This Dreamer - Walter de la Mare ☆
Love Letters of Great Men - Ursula Doyle
Difficult Women - Roxane Gay
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu
The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami
Essays
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay ☆
Bluets - Maggie Nelson ☆
On Freedom - Maggie Nelson
In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Malleable Forms - Meeka Walsh ☆
Fiction (Classic)
Persuasion - Jane Austen ☆
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell ☆
Siddhartha - Hermen Hesse
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera ☆
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Fiction (Modern)
All’s Well - Mona Awad ☆
Bunny - Mona Awad
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
The Pisces - Melissa Broder
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu
The Vegetarian - Han Kang
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ☆
Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
The Road - Cormac McCarthy ☆
Under the Hawthorne Tree - Ai Mi
The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller ☆
After Dark - Haruki Murakami ☆
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami ☆
Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi
Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi ☆
A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
The Overstory - Richard Powers ☆
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Blindness - José Saramago
How To Be Both - Ali Smith
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ☆
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Ru - Kim Thúy
Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín
Big Fish - Daniel Wallace
Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto
Horror/Thriller
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Gerald’s Game - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
Audition - Ryū Murakami
I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid
Manga/Graphic Novels
Basilisk - Futaro Yamada, Maseki Sagawa
Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
Eureka Seven - Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou
Lore Olympus - Rachel Smythe
Nana - Ai Yazawa ☆
Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa
Uzumaki - Junji Ito
xxxHolic - CLAMP
Memoirs/Journals
Speak, Okinawa - Elizabeth Miki Brina
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty
I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi
Henry and June - Anaïs Nin ☆
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls ☆
Non-Fiction (General)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain
The Red Market - Scott Carney
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer
The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr, E.B White
Non-Fiction (Philosophy/Spiritual)
The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castañeda
Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge ☆
The Kybalion - Three Initiates ☆
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo - Chögyam Trungpa
Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
Poetry Collections
I Love My Love - Reyna Biddy
Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen
The Prophet - Khalil Gibran
The Anatomy of Being - Shinji Moon
The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson ☆
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire
Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong
Speculative Fiction
Dune - Frank Herbert
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel ☆
Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
True Crime
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ☆
Young Adult
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray ☆
The Diviners - Libba Bray
The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon
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In 1913, Brooklyn-based engineer Carrol Livingston Riker approached the papers with a plan to solve the issue of cold winters in Canada and New England... by diverting the Gulf Stream that provides Western Europe with its temperate climate so that the warm ocean currents provide their benefits to the Eastern parts of North America instead, such as warmer winters and fewer icebergs.
The manner with this would be achieved, Riker states, would be by building a 200 mile long pier off the coast of Newfoundland along the Grand Bank to where the deep ocean begins, meaning that in places the pier would have to be some 300 plus feet deep in places.
Naturally the fact that this would plunge the British Isles and Western continental Europe into freezing winters that match those in Northern Canada (Britain being at the same latitude as places like Labrador, Canada) isn't lost on the writers of the article in the St Louis Star and Times, nor the fact that as Canada was a British colony at the time which the United States would have to potentially annex to complete the megastructure, but Riker considers the overall net good (for Americans) makes the benefits outweigh the costs.
Despite the devastating climate catastrophe for Europe (the Star and Times amusingly suggesting that it could also cause the poles to shift) that could occur from this theoretical plan, Riker nonetheless received support from folk from both Harvard and Yale, in addition to the United States Naval Observatory, with the engineer also presenting his arguments so successfully to New York Representative Calder he attempted to introduce a bill to Congress to obtain funding for the project...
This did not actually happen, obviously, but it bring to mind a similar project first proposed in 1928 by German architect Herman Sörgel, which he named Atlantropa. Here Sörgel proposed damming and draining the Mediterranean, with the control flow of water through dams at Gibraltar and other points around the sea, which he theorised would create endless energy, new resources and uncovered land for people to settle in Southern Europe and Northern Africa.
However, much like Riker's pier, this would have ALSO created horrible climate change issues (rather than creating new farmland it would essentially turn the Med into a giant salt desert, which the sun would heat further causing the potential desertification of Southern Europe), technological issues with constructing the project in the first place, would have bankrupted all the countries that required access to the Med to trade, AND further opening up Africa and the Middle East to even more colonisation efforts by European powers.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist
(Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)
Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk
Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop
Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul
Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B
Something To Do - IGBO - Funk
Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop
Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae
Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk
FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B
Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul
Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock
Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall
Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk
Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz
Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop
Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues
Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat
Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie
Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop
Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk
When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B
Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul
Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk
Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae
Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House
Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk
Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B
Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop
Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues
Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock
Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul
Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop
Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B
Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul
The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House
Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk
What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop
Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues
Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul
Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique
Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk
Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock
BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop
The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B
DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul
See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop
Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk
Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul
Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk
Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock
Toast - Koffee - Dancehall
Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B
Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop
High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian
Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul
The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk
Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie
Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop
WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House
BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B
Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul
.img - Brother Theodore - Funk
Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues
Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop
Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House
Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk
Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic
Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B
Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul
Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk
quand c’est - Stromae - Pop
Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae
Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B
Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues
Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul
Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop
Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk
Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative
Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B
Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul
Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues
Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop
Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop
Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou
Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop
Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B
New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk
I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop
Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul
Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz
Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk
The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat
Fast Lane - Rationale - House
Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk
Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B
Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock
Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop
God Knows - Dornik - Soul
Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk
Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz
Get Back - McClenney - Alternative
Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul
Spotify playlist
In memory of:
Aaron Bailey
Adam
Addie Mae Collins
Ahmaud Arbery
Aiyana Stanley Jones
Akai Gurley
Alberta Odell Jones
Alexia Christian
Alfonso Ferguson
Alteria Woods
Alton Sterling
Amadou Diallo
Amos Miller
Anarcha Westcott
Anton de Kom
Anthony Hill
Antonio Martin
Antronie Scott
Antwon Rose Jr.
Arthur St. Clair
Atatiana Jefferson
Aubrey Pollard
Aura Rosser
Bennie Simons
Berry Washington
Bert Dennis
Bettie Jones
Betsey
Billy Ray Davis
Bobby Russ
Botham Jean
Brandon Jones
Breffu
Brendon Glenn
Breonna Taylor
Bud Johnson
Bussa
Calin Roquemore
Calvin McDowell
Calvin Mike and his family
Carl Cooper
Carlos Carson
Carlotta Lucumi
Carol Denise McNair
Carol Jenkins
Carole Robertson
Charles Curry
Charles Ferguson
Charles Lewis
Charles Wright
Charly Leundeu Keunang
Chime Riley
Christian Taylor
Christopher Sheels
Claude Neal
Clementa Pickney
Clifford Glover
Clifton Walker
Clinton Briggs
Clinton R. Allen
Cordella Stevenson
Corey Carter
Corey Jones
Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd
Cynthia Wesley
Daniel L. Simmons
Danny Bryant
Darius Randell Robinson
Darius Tarver
Darrien Hunt
Darrius Stewart
David Felix
David Joseph
David McAtee
David Walker and his family
Deandre Brunston
Deborah Danner
Delano Herman Middleton
Demarcus Semer
Demetrius DuBose
Depayne Middleton-Doctor
Dion Johnson
Dominique Clayton
Dontre Hamilton
Dred Scott
Edmund Scott
Ejaz Choudry
Elbert Williams
Eleanor Bumpurs
Elias Clayton
Elijah McClain
Eliza Woods
Elizabeth Lawrence
Elliot Brooks
Ellis Hudson
Elmer Jackson
Elmore Bolling
Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.
Emmett Till
Eric Garner
Eric Harris
Eric Reason
Ernest Lacy
Ernest Thomas
Ervin Jones
Eugene Rice
Eugene Williams
Ethel Lee Lance
Ezell Ford
Felix Kumi
Frank Livingston
Frank Morris
Frank Smart
Frazier B. Baker
Fred Hampton
Fred Rochelle
Fred Temple
Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.
George Floyd
George Grant
George Junius Stinney Jr.
George Meadows
George Waddell
George Washington Lee
Gregory Gunn
Harriette Vyda Simms Moore
Harry Tyson Moore
Hazel “Hayes” Turner
Henry Ezekial Smith
Henry Lowery
Henry Ruffin
Henry Scott
Hosea W. Allen
India Kager
Isaac McGhie
Isadore Banks
Italia Marie Kelly
Jack Turner
Jamar Clark
Jamel Floyd
James Byrd Jr.
James Craig Anderson
James Earl Chaney
James Powell
James Ramseur
James Tolliver
James T. Scott
Janet Wilson
Jason Harrison
Javier Ambler
J.C. Farmer
Jemel Roberson
Jerame Reid
Jesse Thornton
Jessie Jefferson
Jim Eastman
Joe Nathan Roberts
John Cecil Jones
John Crawford III
John J. Gilbert
John Ruffin
John Taylor
Johnny Robinson
Jonathan Ferrell
Jonathan Sanders
Jordan Edwards
Joseph Mann
Julia Baker
Julius Jones
July Perry
Junior Prosper
Kalief Browder
Karvas Gamble Jr.
Keith Childress, Jr.
Kelly Gist
Kelso Benjamin Cochrane
Kendrick Johnson
Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.
Kenny Long
Kevin Hicks
Kevin Matthews
Kiwane Albert Carrington
Lacy Mitchell
Lamar Smith
Laquan McDonald
Laura Nelson
Laura Wood
L.B. Reed
L.D. Nelson
Lemuel Penn
Lemuel Walters
Leonard Deadwyler
Leroy Foley
Levi Harrington
Lila Bella Carter
Lloyd Clay
Louis Allen
Lucy
M.A. Santa Cruz
Maceo Snipes
Malcom X
Malice Green
Malissa Williams
Manuel Ellis
Marcus Deon Smith
Marcus Foster
Marielle Franco
Mark Clark
Maria
Martin Lee Anderson
Martin Luther King Jr.
Matthew Avery
Mary Dennis
Mary Turner
Matthew Ajibade
May Noyes
Mckenzie Adams
Medgar Wiley Evers
Michael Brown
Michael Donald
Michael Griffith
Michael Lee Marshall
Michael Lorenzo Dean
Michael Noel
Michael Sabbie
Michael Stewart
Michelle Cusseaux
Miles Hall
Moses Green
Mya Hall
Myra Thompson
Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr.
Natasha McKenna
Nicey Brown
Nicholas Heyward Jr.
O’Day Short family
Orion Anderson
Oscar Grant III
Otis Newsom
Pamela Turner
Paterson Brown Jr.
Patrick Dorismond
Philando Castile
Phillip Pannell
Phillip White
Phinizee Summerour
Quaco
Ramarley Graham
Randy Nelson
Raymond Couser
Raymond Gunn
Regis Korchinski-Paquet
Rekia Boyd
Renisha McBride
Riah Milton
Robert Hicks
Robert Mallard
Robert Truett
Rodney King
Roe Nathan Roberts
Roger Malcolm and his wife
Roger Owensby Jr.
Ronell Foster
Roy Cyril Brooks
Rumain Brisbon
Ryan Matthew Smith
Sam Carter
Sam McFadden
Samuel DuBose
Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr.
Samuel Hammond Jr.
Samuel Leamon Younge Jr.
Sandra Bland
Sean Bell
Shali Tilson
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
Shukri Abdi
Simon Schuman
Slab Pitts
Stella Young
Stephon Clark
Susie Jackson
T.A. Allen
Tamir Rice
Tamla Horsford
Tanisha Anderson
Timothy Caughman
Timothy Hood
Timothy Russell
Timothy Stansbury Jr.
Timothy Thomas
Terrence Crutcher
Terrill Thomas
Tom Jones
Tom Moss
Tony McDade
Tony Terrell Robinson Jr.
Trayvon Martin
Troy Hodge
Troy Robinson
Tula
Tyler Gerth
Tyre King
Tywanza Sanders
Victor Duffy Jr.
Victor White III
Walter Lamar Scott
Wayne Arnold Jones
Wesley Thomas
Wilbert Cohen
Wilbur Bundley
Will Brown
Will Head
Will Stanley
Will Stewart
Will Thompson
Willie James Howard
Willie Johnson
Willie McCoy
Willie Palmer
Willie Turks
William Brooks
William Butler
William Daniels
William Fambro
William Green
William L. Chapman II
William Miller
William Pittman
Wyatt Outlaw
Yusef Kirriem Hawkins
The victims of LaLaurie (1830s)
The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868)
The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887)
The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898)
The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910)
The black victims of the Red summer (1919)
The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919)
The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920)
The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)
All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.
All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness.
All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination.
...
My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories.
Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more)
Documentaries:
13th (Netflix)
The Innocence Files (Netflix)
Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix)
Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
I Am Not Your Negro
YouTube videos:
We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd
Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch)
Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)
Books:
Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
White Fragility by Robin Deangelo
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis
Websites:
https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/
https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up
https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html
https://blacklivesmatter.com/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/
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2021-03-14
GLAAD announced the launch of its Biden Equality Accountability Tracker—a real-time record of the Biden administration's executive orders, announcements, legislative support and speeches that impact LGBTQ people and rights, a press release noted. GLAAD has tracked at least 24 pro-equality moves in the first 50 days, as well as noted LGBTQ Cabinet and staff appointments in the first days of the administration. GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis introduced the tracker in her op-ed in Reuters, and in the statement. See https:// Article Link Here .
The National LGBTQ Task Force announced the addition of two new staff members and the consolidation of two departments as part of the organization's growth and restructure under the leadership of recently named Executive Director Kierra Johnson, a press release noted. Former Creating Change Conference Director Andy Garcia will now head a combined department of conference, policy and advocacy staff as director of the Advocacy and Action Department. Also, Ashawnda Fleming joins the Task Force Development Department and Leadership Team as the new chief development officer and Desiree Luckey has been appointed senior policy counsel, focusing on the organization's democracy work.
Trans sports journalist Christina Kahrl—a longtime ESPN senior editor and co-founder of both the Baseball Prospectus think tank and the Baseball Writers' Association of America—announced on Twitter that she will be the next sports editor of the legendary San Francisco Chronicle newspaper, Outsports noted. She will become the first out transgender editor of a major, metropolitan mainstream media outlet in the country when she takes the reins of sports coverage of the largest newspaper in Northern California. The Chronicle is the state's second major newspaper after the Los Angeles Times. In a message to Outsports, Kahrl said she recognizes the importance of her platform.
Many of New York's LGBTQ lawmakers are echoing growing calls for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign in response to numerous disturbing allegations of inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment, Gay City News reported. U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, became the highest-ranking LGBTQ elected official in the state to call on Cuomo to step down when he issued a statement on March 12—the same day that new allegations surfaced. Congressmen Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres have also asked for the governor to step down.
Researchers at UCLA partnered with a researcher at West Virginia University (WVU) to publish a report addressing discrimination against the LGBT community in West Virginia, WDTV.com reported. Some of the key findings were that LGBT people in West Virginia experience discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations. For example, data show 39% of LGBT adults in West Virginia reported having a household income below $24,000, compared to 26% of non-LGBT adults.
A Houston bakery is facing two separate lawsuits from former employees alleging they were fired due to anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, out.com noted. Gilbert Johnson and Katherine Phillips told OutSmart the Dessert Gallery Bakery & Cafe fired them because Johnson is gay and Phillips is a lesbian. Johnson further alleged he was fired in part for hiring a transgender employee. "We take seriously any allegations like those outlined in these complaints but stand firm that these allegations are simply not true," Dessert Gallery said in a statement. "We believe the proper place to disclose the facts of this case is in the courtroom and look forward to that opportunity."
A bill to strengthen the sexually transmitted disease public-health infrastructure of California is better than a similar effort that had initially been introduced last year, a principal co-author of the legislation told the Bay Area Reporter. Gay state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) co-authored Senate Bill 306 with Sen. Dr. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), who introduced it Feb. 4. According to a news release from Wiener's office, the legislation will "permit the Family [Planning Access Care Treatment] program to offer covered benefits to income-eligible patients, even if contraception is not discussed during the patient encounter; update California's [Expedited Partner Therapy] statute to include provider liability protections used in other states; permit HIV counselors to administer rapid STD tests; update state law to require congenital syphilis testing during the third trimester of pregnancy; [and] require coverage of home STD tests by public and private insurers."
Former First Lady Michelle Obama spoke candidly in a People Magazine interview about her struggles with low-grade depression during the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges of 2020, encouraging people to speak more openly about their mental health, CNN.com noted. Obama told People magazine that she "needed to acknowledge what I was going through, because a lot of times we feel like we have to cover that part of ourselves up, that we always have to rise above and look as if we're not paddling hard underneath the water." She added, "We had the continued killing of Black men at the hands of police. Just seeing the video of George Floyd, experiencing that eight minutes. That's a lot to take on, not to mention being in the middle of a quarantine."
Thousands of Texans are slated to lose their healthcare provider after Travis County Civil District Court Judge Lora Livingston allowed the state to remove Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program, CNN.com reported. Texas has long sought to ban Planned Parenthood, which provides abortions in Texas, from Medicaid. Medicaid funding does not cover abortions except in cases of rape or incest or when the woman's life is at risk, due to the Hyde Amendment, dating back to 1976. In 2019, Planned Parenthood provided health care to more than 8,000 Medicaid recipients in Texas.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed Senate Bill 124, a religious refusal bill that could grant a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people across a wide range of goods and services in the state, a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) statement noted. HRC President Alphonso David said, "While she may see discrimination as a path to the national far right spotlight, she should understand the damage she is doing to the state of South Dakota and LGBTQ people who are simply looking to live their lives free of fear and exclusion." Noem also signed legislation that would bar transgender girls and women from participating in female sports leagues.
Over objections from Democrats, Georgia House Republicans passed a sweeping elections bill that would enact more restrictions on absentee voting and cut back on weekend early voting hours favored by larger counties, among other changes, NPR reported. The bill's sponsor—GOP Rep. Barry Fleming, who chairs the House Special Committee on Election Integrity—said the 66-page measure "is designed to begin to bring back the confidence of our voters back into our election system" after Republicans lost confidence in the GOP-backed voting system following Democrats' victories in the November presidential contest and both of Georgia's U.S. Senate races.
The National AIDS Memorial announced Isabel Fatima (Ima) Diawara, of Los Angeles, as the first recipient of the Mary Bowman Arts in Activism Award, a press release noted. The newly created and inspiring program, funded through a multi-year grant from ViiV Healthcare, offers support to artist-activists who are working and committed to making a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The Mary Bowman Arts in Activism Award honors the life of Mary Bowman—a poet, advocate, author, singer and young person living with AIDS who passed away in early 2019 at age 30.
A statue of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was erected in her hometown of Brooklyn on March 12—three days before her 88th birthday, USA Today noted. The unveiling also comes in the middle of Women's History Month as another way to honor Ginsburg's legacy and her fight for women's rights. The statue is part of a larger series called Statues for Equality, which has worked to increase the representation of women in public sculptures around New York City and beyond.
LGBTQ-rights advocates are uniting to support Noel Koenke, a former employee at St. Joseph's University who's appealing the dismissal of her LGBT-related anti-bias case against the university before it could reach a jury, Philadelphia Gay News reported. Koenke worked as an assistant director of music and worship at the university; however, pressure to stay in the closet eventually caused her to attempt suicide and resulted in the dissolution of her marriage�and she resigned in November 2017. Koenke filed suit in October 2019, claiming the university violated Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs receiving federal funds.
New York-based fashion designer Alexander Wang responded, again, to a growing number of sexual assault and harassment allegations, out.com reported. Wang had previously called the initial allegations "baseless," and said they were "fabricated"—but now, his tenor has changed starkly. On Instagram, he posted, "It was not easy for [the alleged victims] to share their stories, and I regret acting in a way that caused them pain. While we disagree with some of the details of these personal interactions, I will set a better example and use my visibility and influence to encourage others to recognize harmful behaviors. Life is about learning and growth, and now that I know better, I will do better." Attorney Lisa Bloom—who reportedly is representing 11 of those who have allegations against Wang—responded on Twitter, "We have met with Alexander Wang and his team. My clients had the opportunity to speak their truth to him and expressed their pain and hurt. We acknowledge Mr. Wang's apology and we are moving forward. We have no further comment on this matter."
Fox personality Geraldo Rivera posted a tweet announcing that he was pondering running for the seat that will be left vacant by retiring Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, who will not be seeking re-election in 2022, Yahoo! noted. Rivera—who regularly butts heads with Sean Hannity and Fox News contributor Dan Bongino for his moderate stances on things like immigration—said he would have run as a moderate Republican. But his political ambitions didn't last long as he posted another tweet less than 24 hours after the first one, saying that the run is not going to happen.
Lawyers for former U.S. Rep. Katie Hill and her ex-husband, Kenneth Heslep, told a Los Angeles judge that they remain hopeful of settling her allegations of harassment and years of abuse—but they still asked that the groundwork be laid for a possible trial of whether Hill's stay-away order should be extended, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lawrence Riff ordered both sides to prepare lists of witnesses and exhibits they would use during the trial and submit them a week in advance of April 8, when a trial-setting hearing is scheduled. The judge said he was extending the temporary restraining order Judge Anne Richardson granted Hill on Dec. 8 until April 30. Heslep has denied allegations of abusing Hill, who resigned her seat in 2019 after nude photos of her were published and news emerged that she had a three-way relationship with her husband and a female campaign staffer.
On March 8, the Cambridge (Massachusetts) City Council passed a historic domestic partnership ordinance aimed at recognizing and protecting polyamorous and other multi-partner families and relationships, according to an item from the Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition (PLAC). The ordinance was developed with detailed input from the PLAC, and is the first of what advocates hope will be a wave of legal recognition for polyamorous families and relationships in 2021. Last year, Somerville (also in Massachusetts) became the first U.S. city to allow domestic partnerships of three or more partners.
In California, the second annual "Pride Ride" returns to Homewood Mountain Resort March 25-28, The Bay Area Reporter noted. Along with skiing and riding, there will be a variety of mini-events on and off the mountain, including a dual slalom drag race, ski parade down Rainbow Ridge, virtual scavenger hunt and more. See https:// Article Link Here .
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Brooklyn, NYC, Direct Action: Shut Down the Eviction Machine
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 11AM
BROOKLYN HOUSING COURT, 141 LIVINGSTON ST.
#CancelRent #EvictionFreeNY #RentStrike
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Norma Marie Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.
A specialist in melodrama, her most famous film was Smilin’ Through (1922), but she also scored artistic triumphs teamed with director Frank Borzage in Secrets (1924) and The Lady (1925). Her younger sister Constance Talmadge was also a movie star. Talmadge married millionaire film producer Joseph M. Schenck and they successfully created their own production company. After reaching fame in the film studios on the East Coast, she moved to Hollywood in 1922.
Talmadge was one of the most elegant and glamorous film stars of the Roaring '20s. However, by the end of the silent film era, her popularity with audiences had waned. After her two talkies proved disappointing at the box office, she retired a very wealthy woman.
According to her birth certificate, Talmadge was born on May 2, 1894, in Jersey City, New Jersey. Although it has been widely reported she was born in Niagara Falls, New York, after achieving stardom, she admitted that she and her mother provided the more scenic setting of Niagara Falls to fan magazines to be more romantic. Talmadge was the eldest daughter of Fred Talmadge, an unemployed chronic alcoholic, and Margaret "Peg" Talmadge, a witty and indomitable woman. She had two younger sisters, Natalie and Constance, both of whom also became actresses.
The girls' childhoods were marked by poverty. One Christmas morning, Fred Talmadge left the house to buy food, and never came back, leaving his wife to raise their three daughters. Peg took in laundry, sold cosmetics, taught painting classes, and rented out rooms, raising her daughters in Brooklyn, New York.
After telling her mother about a classmate from Erasmus Hall High School who modeled for popular illustrated song slides (which were often shown before the one-reeler in movie theaters so the audience could sing along), Mrs. Talmadge decided to locate the photographer. She arranged an interview for her daughter, who after an initial rejection, was soon hired. When they went to the theater to see her debut, Peg resolved to get her into motion pictures.
Norma Talmadge was the eldest of the three daughters and the first pushed by their mother to look for a career as a film actress.[9] Mother and daughter traveled to the Vitagraph Studios in Flatbush, New York, just a streetcar ride from her home.[7] They managed to get past the studio gates and in to see the casting director, who promptly threw them out. However, scenario editor Beta Breuil, attracted by Talmadge's beauty, arranged a small part for her as a young girl who is kissed under a photographer's cloth in The Household Pest (1909).
Thanks to Breuill's continued patronage, between 1911 and 1912, Talmadge played bit parts in over 100 films. She eventually earned a spot in the stock company at $25 per week and got a steady stream of work. Her first role as a contract actress was 1911's Neighboring Kingdom, with comedian John Bunny. Her first real success came with Vitagraph's three-reel adaptation of A Tale of Two Cities (1911), in which she played the small role of the unnamed seamstress who accompanies Sidney Carton to the guillotine. With help from the studio's major star, Maurice Costello, the star of A Tale of Two Cities, Talmadge's acting improved and she continued to play roles from leads to extras, gaining experience and public exposure in a variety of characters—from a colored mammy to a clumsy waitress to a reckless young modern, she began attracting both public and critical notice. By 1913, she was Vitagraph's most promising young actress. That same year, she was assigned to Van Dyke Brooke's acting unit, and throughout 1913 and 1914, appeared in more films, frequently with Antonio Moreno as her leading man.
In 1915, Talmadge got her big break, starring in Vitagraph's prestigious feature film The Battle Cry of Peace, an anti-German propagandist drama, but ambitious Peg saw that her daughter's potential could carry them further, and got a two-year contract with National Pictures Company for eight features at $400 per week. Talmadge's last film for Vitagraph was The Crown Prince's Double. In the summer of 1915, she left Vitagraph. In the five years she had been with Vitagraph, she made over 250 films.
In August, the Talmadges left for California, where Norma's first role was in Captivating Mary Carstairs. The whole enterprise was a fiasco; the sets and costumes were cheap and the studio itself lacked adequate backing. The film was a flop, and the small new studio shut down after the release of Mary Carstairs. The demise of National Pictures Company left the family stranded in California after only one picture. Deciding it was smarter to aim high, they went to the Triangle Film Corporation, where D. W. Griffith was supervising productions. On the strength of The Battle Cry, Talmadge got a contract with Griffith's Fine Arts Company. For eight months, she starred in seven features for Triangle, including the comedy The Social Secretary (1916), a comedy written by Anita Loos and directed by John Emerson, that gave her an opportunity to disguise her beauty as a girl trying to avoid the unwelcome attentions of her male employers.
When the contract ran out, the Talmadges returned to New York. At a party, Talmadge met Broadway and film producer Joseph M. Schenck, a wealthy exhibitor who wanted to produce his own films. Immediately taken by Talmadge both personally and professionally, Schenck proposed marriage and a production studio. Two months later, on October 20, 1916, they were married. Talmadge called her much older husband "Daddy". He supervised, controlled, and nurtured her career in alliance with her mother.
In 1917, the couple formed the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation, which became a lucrative enterprise. Schenck vowed he would make his wife the greatest star of all, and one to be remembered always. The best stories, most opulent costumes, grandest sets, talented casts, and distinguished directors, along with spectacular publicity, would be hers. Before long, women around the world wanted to be the romantic Norma Talmadge and flocked to her extravagant movies filmed on the East Coast.
Schenck soon had a stable of stars operating in his studio in New York, with the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation making dramas on the ground floor, the Constance Talmadge Film Corporation making sophisticated comedies on the second floor, and the comic unit with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle on the top floor, with Natalie Talmadge acting as secretary and taking occasional small roles in her sisters' films. Arbuckle brought in his nephew Al St. John and vaudeville star Buster Keaton. When Schenck decided it was financially advantageous to rent Arbuckle to Paramount Pictures for feature films, Keaton took over the comedy unit and was soon brought into the Talmadge family fold, at least for a time through an unhappy arranged marriage to Natalie Talmadge.
Talmadge's first film for her studio, the now lost Panthea, (1917) was directed by Allan Dwan with assistants Erich von Stroheim and Arthur Rosson. The film was a dramatic tour de force for her in a story set in Russia of a woman who sacrifices herself to help her husband. The film was a hit, turning Talmadge into a sensation and established her as a first-rate dramatic actress.
Talmadge's acting ability improved rapidly during this period. She made four to six films a year in New York between 1917 and 1921. Under Schenck's personal supervision, other films followed, including Poppy (1917), in which, she was paired with Eugene O'Brien. The teaming was such a hit, they made 10 more films together, including The Moth, and The Secret of the Storm Country, a sequel to Tess of the Storm Country (1914), starring Mary Pickford.
In 1918, she reteamed with Sidney Franklin, who directed The Safety Curtain, Her Only Way, Forbidden City, The Heart of Wetona, and 1919's The Probation Wife. These films have small-scale settings and familiar actors appearing from one film to the next. An advantage of the East Coast locale was access to the country's best high-fashion designers, such as Madame Francis and Lucile. Between 1919 and 1920, Talmadge's name appeared on a regular monthly fashion advice column for Photoplay magazine; her publicist was Beulah Livingstone.
Throughout the 1920s, Talmadge continued to triumph in films such as 1920's Yes or No, The Branded Woman, Passion Flower (1921), and The Sign on the Door (1921). The next year, she had the most popular film of her entire career, Smilin' Through (1922) directed by Sidney Franklin. One of the greatest screen romances of the silent film era, it was remade twice, in 1932 with Norma Shearer, and in 1941 with Jeanette MacDonald.
After Smilin' Through, Schenck closed the New York studios and Norma and Constance moved to Hollywood to join Keaton and Natalie. Talmadge's Hollywood films were different from her New York films. Bigger and glossier, they were fewer but more varied, often with period or exotic settings. She teamed with cinematographer Tony Gaudio and some of Hollywood's finest costume designers for a more glamorous image. She also worked with top-flight directors such as Frank Lloyd, Clarence Brown, and Frank Borzage. With help from films directed by her first husband Joseph M. Schenck, she became one of the highest-paid actresses of the 1920s.
In 1923, a poll of picture exhibitors named Norma Talmadge the number-one box office star. She was earning $10,000 a week, and receiving as many as 3,000 letters weekly from her fans. Her film Secrets (1924), directed by Frank Borzage, marked the pinnacle of her career, with her giving her best performance and receiving the best reviews. In 1924, Schenck had moved over to head United Artists, but Talmadge still had a distribution contract with First National. She continued to make successful films such as The Lady (1925) directed by Frank Borzage and the romantic comedy Kiki (1926) directed by Clarence Brown, remade later by Mary Pickford as a sound film in 1931.
One of the at least nine theories of the origin of the tradition for celebrities to stamp a hand in Hollywood involves Talmadge. According to it, in 1927, she accidentally stepped into wet concrete in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Talmadge's last film for First National was Camille (1926), an adaptation of a novel by Alexandre Dumas the younger later remade by Greta Garbo. During filming, Talmadge fell in love with leading man Gilbert Roland. She asked Schenck for a divorce, but he was not ready to grant it. Despite his personal feelings, he was not going to break up a moneymaking team and continued casting Roland in Talmadge's next three films released by United Artists. Talmadge and Schenck separated, though he continued producing her films. He was now president of the prestigious but theater-poor United Artists Corporation, and the rest of Talmadge's films were released for that company. UA's distribution problems, however, began to erode her popularity. Her first films for this studio, The Dove (1927) and The Woman Disputed (1928), were box-office failures and ended up being her last silent movies.
By the time Woman Disputed (1928) was released, the talking film revolution had begun, and Talmadge began taking voice lessons in preparation. She worked diligently with voice coaches for over a year so she could make her sound debut. Her first talkie, New York Nights (1929), showed that she could speak and act acceptably in talkies. While her performance was considered to be good, the film was not. Talmadge next took on the role of Madame du Barry in the 1930 film Du Barry, Woman of Passion. With incompetent direction and Talmadge's inexperience at a role requiring very demanding vocal acting, the film was a failure, in spite of the elaborate sets by William Cameron Menzies.
On March 29, 1928, at the bungalow of Mary Pickford, United Artists brought together Talmadge, Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, John Barrymore, Dolores del Río, and D. W. Griffith to speak on the radio show The Dodge Brothers Hour to prove that Griffith could meet the challenge of talking movies.
Talmadge's sister Constance sent her a telegram with this advice: "Quit pressing your luck, baby. The critics can't knock those trust funds Mama set up for us". As time passed, it became increasingly clear that the public was no longer interested in its old favorites, and Talmadge was seen as an icon of the past. Talmadge had been increasingly bored with filmmaking before the talkie challenge came along, and this setback seems to have discouraged her from further attempts.
She still had two more films left on her United Artists contract. In late 1930, Samuel Goldwyn announced he had bought the film rights to Zoë Akins' comedy play The Greeks Had a Word for It for her. She reportedly did some stage rehearsals for it in New York, but within a few months, she asked to be released from her contract. She never again appeared on screen. (Goldwyn eventually made the film version of The Greeks Had a Word for It under the title The Greeks Had a Word for Them in 1932.)
Upon leaving the movie world, Norma Talmadge rid herself of all the duties and responsibilities of stardom. She told eager fans who were pressing her for an autograph as she left a restaurant, "Get away, dears. I don't need you anymore and you don't need me."
Some time before late 1932, Talmadge decided against marrying Gilbert Roland, as he was 11 years her junior and she feared he would eventually leave her. Mother Peg fell ill, and died in September 1925. In late 1932, Talmadge began seeing her ex-husband Joseph Schenck's poker friend, comedian George Jessel. In April 1934, Schenck, from whom she had been separated for seven years, finally granted Talmadge her divorce, and nine days later, she married Jessel. Schenck continued to do what he could for Norma and her sisters, acting as a financial adviser and guiding her business affairs.
Talmadge's last professional works consisted of appearances on Jessel's radio program, which was sagging in the ratings. The program soon ended, and the marriage did not last; the couple divorced in 1939. Schenck's business acumen and her mother's watchful ambition for her daughters had resulted in a huge fortune for Talmadge, and she never wanted for money. Restless since the end of her filmmaking days, Talmadge traveled, often shuttling between her houses, entertaining, and visiting with her sisters. In 1946, she married Dr. Carvel James, a Beverly Hills physician.
In her later years, Talmadge, who had never been comfortable with the burdens of public celebrity, became reclusive. Increasingly crippled by painful arthritis and reported to be dependent on painkilling drugs, she moved to the warm climate of Las Vegas for her final years. According to Anita Loos' memories of Talmadge, the drug addiction came first which caused arthritis and was the basis of Norma's interest in her physician husband. In 1956, she was voted by her peers as one of the top five female stars of the pre-1925 era, but was too ill to travel to Rochester, New York, to accept her award.
After suffering a series of strokes in 1957, Talmadge died of pneumonia on Christmas Eve of that year. At the time of her death, her estate was valued at more than US$1,000,000 ($9,180,462 in 2020). She is interred with Constance and Natalie in their own niche in the Abbey of the Psalms in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Norma Talmadge has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street.
Talmadge Street in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles is named in honor of the silent screen star. Also, the community of Talmadge, San Diego is named for her and her sisters, and one of the community's streets is named Norma in her honor.
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21 states: Wyoming. Montana. Washington. California. Oregon. Many more.
Yellowstone National Park. Grand Teton. Glacier. North Cascades. Olympic. Redwood. Crater Lake. Marin. Golden Gate. Lassen. Sequoia. King’s Canyon. Yosemite.
Gallatin National Forest. Flathead. Bridger-Teton. Lolo. Lewis & Clark. Olympic. Snoqualmie. Colville. Umpqua. Fremont. Siskiyou. Shasta. Lassen. Sequoia.
The majesty of the Teton range. Gallatin. Absaroka. Washburn. Livingston. Lassen, Holmes, Paintbrush, Ellis, Shadow, Olympic.
Cold alpine water at Delta. Grizzly. Solitude. Crater. St. Mary. McDonald. Shoshone.
New and old dens at Bozeman. Gardiner. West. Famous old Jackson. Moose. Seattle. Port Angeles. Forks. North Bend. Brookings. Roseburg. Portland. San Francisco. Orland. Albuquerque. Williams. Fresno. Primm. Las Vegas. Manhattan. Brooklyn. And all the little towns of population: 238, passed through on state roads.
Bears: grizzly, black. Gray wolves. Moose. Coyote. Elk. Bison. Fox. Red dog. Ground squirrel. Ram. Mountain goat. Owl. Black and white tailed deer.
Mankind's mark on the world on the PCH. One World Trade Center. GGB. Old Faithful Inn. Village Inn. Grand Loop. 101. Going to the sun. All the parkitecture and wooden buildings to gleaming city skylines.
The largest tree on earth. Living on a super volcano. Obsidian. Craters. Glaciers. Pacific & Atlantic. #BLM. You. You know who you are, the forever of my heart.
2020 took me places I never thought I'd get to see, even while under the shadow of the virus. Hoping 2021 takes me to even more beautiful places.
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Whatever happened to...Cornelia Lott
This is solidly in the “things that may only interest me” category ‘cause I like to solve puzzles, but remember Cornelia Lott? The woman Col. Webb wrote about in his poem to AH, one of the three women we have a record of AH being infatuated/in love with in the winter of 1780 in Morristown? The Cornelia to whom, according to Webb, AH "yields...all his heart” in January 1780?
The parents of Cornelia (baptized 8Nov 1761 at the Dutch Reformed Church in NYC) were Abraham Lott and Geertruy Coejermans (Gertrude Coeyman in English translation). Here’s the fun part - the witnesses/sponsors at her baptism were Nicholas Gouverneur, uncle of Gouverneur Morris (his sister Sarah was Morris’s mother) and Johanna Gouverneur, who may have been the sister of Nicholas? (But she married Cornelius Low, so I’m not sure why she would be using her maiden name.)
Abraham Lott’s country house in Beverwyck, NJ (near Morristown) was very briefly HQ in July 1777. Nathanael and Catharine Littlefield Greene had to have named their third child for 16-year-old Cornelia Lott (the baby is Cornelia Lott Greene b 23Sept 1778), having named their first two kids George Washington Greene and Martha Greene (see the theme!). One report has Catharine staying with the Lott family in June 1777, so choosing Cornelia as a namesake for her daughter was likely a way to honor them.
Abraham Lott’s finances suffer during the war and afterwards (I bet AH thought he dodged a bullet by not marrying into THAT family!) and get worse due to the death/debts of a business partner; he even spent time in debtors’ prison, and I’ll let Founders provide the summary (or read the letter he sent to GW).
“Lott received no federal appointment, and on 15 July 1793 he again wrote GW, stating that he had applied to Alexander Hamilton for the post of inspector for New York without success, and “Now take the liberty, by reason of Doctor [John] Cochran’s dangerous indisposition, to direct my application immediately to you, and to Pray, in case of his death, to be appointed his successor in office”
Remember Dr. John Cochran, who outlives them all? I’m also cackling at AH being asked to replace his wife’s uncle with the father of his ex-girlfriend.*
Anyway, Cornelia Lott did marry - on 9Dec 1797 - Comfort Sands, one of the first directors of the Bank of NY. Sands was also a business partner of Walter Livingston, who was a nephew of William Livingston, whom we know so well as the person who took AH in back in 1773. I bet the Hamiltons went to the wedding.
Comfort Sands helped the Hamiltons set up their home in NYC in 1795: “ As Soon as your Furniture arrives I will take Care of it and put it in my store. If it is possible I will Engage a Room for you for an Office—it will be difficult to get One. I hope to be Able to get my House done so that I may Remove at the time I promised Mrs. Hamilton.” In 1793, Sands had purchased a lot on Pine Street running through to Cedar Street and began building the house planned by his first wife, but she died before it was finished. The Hamiltons rent Sands’ 63 Pine St home. Nice exchange for AH’s Treas. Secty. assistance in getting Sands & Co. money owed them from the war. Comfort and his younger brother later named a street in Brooklyn after AH (that may have been re-named to not cause confusion with Fort Hamilton? In this map, it looks to be where Waverly St is now, but I’m in no way an expert on Brooklyn geography.) (Can also read more about the Sands family here and here.)
Anyway, Cornelia Lott was Sands’ second wife, and they had at least three additional children together (I can find references to a Julia Maria, Gertrude, and Robert); all were likely baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church of NYC.
Cornelia Lott and Comfort Sands moved to Hoboken in 1825; Comfort died in 1834 and Cornelia died in 1856.
The daughter of Comfort Sands and his first wife (Sarah Dodge Sands,1749-1795), also named Cornelia (and who marries Nathaniel Prime only a few months before Cornelia Lott and Comfort marry) has a daughter named Cornelia Prime (1800-1874) who marries Robert Ray (the brother of NY Gov John Alsop King’s wife, Mary Ray King - and if you’re paying attention to names, John Alsop King is the son of Rufus and Mary Alsop King) and has a daughter named Cornelia Ray (1829-1867) who marries Schuyler Hamilton (1822-1903), one of John Church Hamilton’s many kids. So their three kids share AH and EH as great-grandparents and Comfort Sands as a great-great-grandfather. The way these families intertwined for decades is something else!
I wish I could find out more about Cornelia Lott’s life, especially from 1780-1797, but this is all I have scratching the surface. Stuck between the men in her life.
*I noted in another post that AH’s love/infatuation seemed unrequited, but carefully reading Webb’s poem, I’m not sure that’s the case, just that AH was so overboard about it (and it would have been un-gentlemanly to comment on Miss Lott’s feelings).
The other thing that stands out is - more Dutch families! Belonging to Dutch Reformed Churches!
#Cornelia Lott#Caty Greene#John Cochran#Comfort Sands#Gouverneur Morris#Morristown#i dont think the intertwining is admirable#it's keeping wealth and privilege in the family#I also think AH was making some major calculations that winter 1780 to get the f*** out of the Army#gosh he must have been ecstatic when Elizabeth Schuyler arrived in February
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Walking tour in Brooklyn NY (smith st & Livingston st) #viral #youtubesh...
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YEAR • JA - Livingston & Hoyt St. ✔️ Downtown Brooklyn 2001 📸 by @spuceoj #35mm #photoscan #yearirak #jaone #jaonextc #downtownbrooklyn #macysparkinggarage #nycgraffiti (at Macy's)
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