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Getting (Very Colorful) Coffee on a New York Street

Aug 16, 2010

photographed in Manhattan, New York on August 14, 2010

It is a cool and rainy morning in New York City, and Cheryl Petit de Mange wants a cup of coffee. Two big, bright Starbucks shops beckon from 200 yards in either direction. But Petit de Mange instead joins 14 other hardy java junkies crowded around what [...]

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Finding Innocence at the Zoo

Aug 12, 2010

photographed in Chicago, Illinois on November 14, 2009

That innocence is the receptacle of all heavenly good things, and therefore that the innocence of Little Children is the plane or ground of all their affections for good and truth, may appear from what has been said before … The innocence of Children was imaged to me [...]

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The Franciscans’ Quincy Tradition Continues, Nuptially

Aug 10, 2010

photographed in Quincy, Illinois on September 5, 2009

When the Franciscans were asked, in 1859, to make a foundation in Quincy, it was expressly stipulated that, besides engaging in parish work, they would open a high school for boys and young men. There was, indeed, urgent need of a Catholic high school and college in this [...]

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Crystal Castles One Year Ago and Today

Aug 5, 2010

photographed in Chicago, Illinois on August 7, 2009

Earlier that day, an entirely different Glass opens the door to her suite at Midtown’s Hudson Hotel. Quiet and aloof, she lacks the charisma that makes her so hypnotic in concert. In real life, her feral intensity is replaced by a pair of matching cat masks that she [...]

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Food-Fishes as Found for In and Near Winnipesaukee

Aug 2, 2010

photographed in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire on May 30, 2010

Lake Winnipesaukee is about thirty miles long and varies from one to ten miles in width. The lake is almost five hundred feet above the sea level and the water is very clear and pure. Winnipesaukee has an area of seventy-one square miles, exclusive of two hundred [...]

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Taking a Break For Wall Street Reading

Jul 30, 2010

photographed around Wall Street, Manhattan, New York on July 3, 2010

“What do my eyeballs see? Ah—the blue sky. Long-fellow!” He swayed and blinked. He rubbed his eyes. “Together with windows—have you ever dug windows? Now let’s talk about windows. I have seen some really crazy windows that made faces at me, and some of them [...]

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Continuing a Multi-Century Tradition of Nuptial Violin Playing

Jul 29, 2010

photographed in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 11, 2009

German accounts of the usage of the violin in the sixteenth century are scanty, but there is one extremely elaborate printed account of the music and festivities at a ducal wedding in 1568, which gives us a detailed picture of the contemporary use of instruments in Germany, including [...]

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Celebrating the Excitement of an Impromptu Chicago Flood

Jul 27, 2010

photographed in Chicago, Illinois on June 18, 2010

Another surprise to Chicago was a flood. That the Chicago River, or either of its branches, should get up a current sufficient to cause any alarm to the citizens was a surprise to the people then as it would be to-day. It was never expected, but it came [...]

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A View From Under the Market-Place Table

Jul 26, 2010

photographed in Manhattan, New York on July 3, 2010

A market-place for the accommodation of the butchers and the country-people was anciently under the trees in front of the fort, near the corner of Water and Whitehall streets. As the city enlarged, the market-places were removed to the east and north, first at the foot of [...]

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Metatheatre In Its Aftermath

Jul 20, 2010

photographed in Washington, D.C., on July 18, 2010

Judd Herbert, Metatheatre 2, concentrates on the duplicity inherent in theatrical discourse as “combining overt mimetic representations of the story with covert performative and metadramatic clues pointed to its own operations at the risk of undermining or at the very least problematizing the fable.” In the simplest cases [...]

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The Visage of the Floating Cross, Found in Warm Climes This Time

Jul 18, 2010

photographed in Brooklyn, New York on July 14, 2010

Early that evening while Chaumonot, worn with travelling and overcome with sleep, threw himself to rest on a bed that was not made up since the creation of the world. Father Brebeuf, to escape for a time the acrid and pungent smoke that filled the cabin, went [...]

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‘The Manners, the Mode of Talk, Are All Masks Hiding this Consciousness’

Jul 13, 2010

photographed in Manhattan, New York on July 3, 2010

But all of a sudden I realized that he knew also, just like I knew. And that everybody in the bookstore knew, and that they were all hiding it! They all had the consciousness, it was like a great unconscious that was running between all of use [...]

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Regarding Section 95, ‘Discharge of Fireworks,’ and the City Ordinances in Effect as of November 1915

Jul 7, 2010

photographed in Hoboken, New Jersey on July 4, 2010

1. Permit. No person shall use or discharge any fireworks within the city without a permit. (O.R., Sec. 247.)
2. July 4 exemption. No permit shall be required for the use and discharge of fireworks during a period of 24 hours covering the holiday known as the [...]

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Perusing the St. Lucia Fish-Market

Jun 27, 2010

photographed in Castries, St. Lucia on April 8, 2010

These were spread out upon the sand, and an more brilliant piscatorial picture I never saw before, but such variety and beauty in a fish market I saw again and again in the markets of the Windward Islands. The fish were of all shapes and sizes, from [...]

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