Library of Congress online cataloging

The Library of Congress has announced a transition to online-only publication of its cataloging documentation.  As titles that are in production are released, the Library’s Cataloging Distribution Service (CDS) will no longer print new editions of its subject headings, classification schedules and other cataloging publications.  The Library will instead provide free downloadable PDF versions of these titles.  For users desiring enhanced functionality, the Library’s two web-based subscription services, Cataloger’s Desktop and Classification Web, will continue as products from CDS.  http://lisnews.org/  June 21, 2013 

Sweetwater Creek State Park is a peaceful tract of wilderness only minutes from downtown Atlanta.  A wooded trail follows the stream to the ruins of the New Manchester Manufacturing Company, a textile mill burned during the Civil War.  Beyond the mill, the trail climbs rocky bluffs to provide views of the beautiful rapids below.  Additional trails wind through fields and forest, showcasing ferns, magnolias, wild azaleas and hardwoods.  Park rangers lead informative hikes to these areas throughout the year.  The 215-acre George Sparks Reservoir is popular for fishing and provides a pretty setting for feeding ducks and picnicking.  Fishing supplies are available in the adjacent bait shop.  During warmer months, the park rents fishing boats, canoes, kayaks and pedal boats.  Visitors can join the Park Paddler’s Club, which challenges them to explore waterways in six state parks.  An award-winning Visitor Center -- one of the most environmentally responsible buildings in the country -- features exhibits on the area’s history, wildlife displays, trail maps, snacks and a gift shop.  http://www.gastateparks.org/SweetwaterCreek 

Sweetwater Creek, a novel by Anne Rivers Siddons   A young girl left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily Parmenter is keenly aware of yearning and loss.  She has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels.  It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself.   http://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/18/sweetwater-creek   Link to complete Anne Rivers Siddons bibliography at:  http://www.shelfari.com/authors/a7799/Anne-Rivers-Siddons/ 

sharrow  noun   a shared lane marking on a lane of a paved road's surface indicating that bicyclists may use any portion of the full width of the lane.  Blend of share and arrow, c. 1993. (Wiktionary)  http://www.wordnik.com/words/sharrow 

South Carolina designated the Boykin Spaniel as official state dog in 1985.  Known for their mild temperament and highly regarded as pets or hunting dogs, the Boykin Spaniel was originally bred for South Carolina hunters by South Carolinians.  See a picture and the ten official state dogs at:  http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/South_Carolina/dog_BoykinSpaniel.html 

The first Boykin Spaniel, or the precursor of today's breed, was reportedly a small, stray spaniel type dog that befriended a banker walking from his home to the First Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg, South Carolina around 1905-1910.  Alexander L. White (1860-1942) liked the little dog and took it home.  After the dog showed some aptitude for retrieving, White sent the dog called "Dumpy" to his longtime friend and hunting partner Whit Boykin.  L. Whitaker Boykin (1861–1932) experimented with crossbreeding different breeds, and the resulting dog is named after him.  In Boykin's hands the little stray developed into a superb turkey dog and waterfowl retriever.  This dog became the foundation stock for the Boykin spaniel.  The dogs had to be small enough to ride in the small boats used by hunters in the swamps. The Chesapeake Bay Retriever, Springer Spaniel, Cocker Spaniel, and the American Water Spaniel may have been used in the development of the breed.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boykin_Spaniel 

Cubism was a truly revolutionary style of modern art developed by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.  It was the first style of abstract art which evolved at the beginning of the 20th century in response to a world that was changing with unprecedented speed.  Cubism was an attempt by artists to revitalise the tired traditions of Western art which they believed had run their course.  The Cubists challenged conventional forms of representation, such as perspective, which had been the rule since the Renaissance.  Their aim was to develop a new way of seeing which reflected the modern age.  In the four decades from 1870-1910, western society witnessed more technological progress than in the previous four centuries.  During this period, inventions such as photography, cinematography, sound recording, the telephone, the motor car and the airplane heralded the dawn of a new age.  The problem for artists at this time was how to reflect the modernity of the era using the tired and trusted traditions that had served art for the last four centuries.  Photography had begun to replace painting as the tool for documenting the age and for artists to sit illustrating cars, planes and images of the new technologies was not exactly rising to the challenge.  Artists needed a more radical approach - a 'new way of seeing' that expanded the possibilities of art in the same way that technology was extending the boundaries of communication and travel.  See extensive article and many images at:  http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/cubism.htm 

GEORGES BRAQUE AND THE CUBIST STILL LIFE, 1928–1945  until September 1, 2013 at The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.  brings together for the first time in 80 years the Braque paintings known as the Rosenberg Quartet (1928–29).  Used as models for marble panels in the Paris apartment of Braque's art dealer Paul Rosenberg, the four canvases reveal aspects of Braque’s process; all were in his studio at the same time at various stages of completion, as he reworked them over several years.  Other paintings show Braque’s interest in conveying the physicality of objects and surrounding space.  In The Pink Tablecloth (1933) and Fruit, Glass, and Mandolin (1938), Braque added powdered quartz and sand to a white ground to evoke intricate textures.  In Still Life on a Red Tablecloth (1934), painted and incised patterns provide surface variation to the layered fabrics on the table and heighten the color.  The exhibition is co-organized by The Phillips Collection and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.  Link to playlist and video at:  http://www.phillipscollection.org/exhibitions/2013-06-08-exhibition-braque.aspx

 

Shoe peg/shoe-peg/shoepeg corn is white sweet corn with tight kernels growing in uneven rows.  The kernels resemble pegs used to attach parts of shoes starting in the early 1800s.

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