Roosevelt's Retreat at Elkhorn
Ranch in North Dakota An oil boom and its associated development threaten
the Elkhorn Ranch, where Theodore Roosevelt developed his conservation ethic by Reed Karaim | From Preservation |
Oct. 1, 2013 http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2013/fall/roosevelts-retreat-at-elkhorn-ranch.html
Founder's Farm
James Monroe's Historic Oak Hill Estate
by Marion Laffey Fox Preservation | Oct. 1, 2013 The gardens surrounding Oak Hill include
mature trees planted by President Monroe as well as landscaping added by
successive owners. The most recent iteration brought modern touches and less
regimented structure. Credit: Photo
by Gordon Beall When President James
Monroe built Oak Hill in the early 1800s, it was a full day’s carriage ride
from Washington, D.C., a distance now made metaphorically longer by the vast
difference between northern Virginia’s scenic countryside and D.C.’s
limestone-and marble pomp. Here in
Aldie, Va., roughly 40 miles from the nation’s capital, the scenic countryside
of northern Virginia’s Piedmont region continues to draw Washington
powerbrokers, who choose it as a favored weekend retreat of mountain vistas,
historic towns, vineyards, and family farms.
Stretching out across 1,200 fertile acres, Oak Hill today is one of the
only privately owned early presidential residences in the country. http://www.preservationnation.org/magazine/2013/fall/founders-farm-james.html
History of sandwiches
1st Century B.C. -The first
recorded sandwich was by the famous rabbi, Hillel the Elder, who lived during
the 1st century B.C. He
started the Passover custom of sandwiching a mixture of chopped nuts, apples,
spices, and wine between two matzohs to eat with bitter herbs.6th to 16th Century - During the Middle Ages, thick blocks of coarse stale bread called trenchers were used in place of plates. Meats and other foods were piled on top of the bread to be eaten with their fingers and sometimes with the aid of knives.
16th and 17 Century - In Mark Morton's well researched 2004 article Bread and Meat for God's Sake, he wrote: "What, then, were sandwiches called before they were sandwiches? After combing through hundreds of texts, mostly plays, that were written long before the Earl of Sandwich was even born, a possible (through somewhat prosaic) answer emerges. The sandwich appears to have been simply known as "bread and meat" or "bread and cheese."
1762 - The first written record of the word "sandwich" appeared in Edward Gibbons (1737-1794), English author, scholar, and historian, journal on November 24, 1762. Gibbon recorded his surprise at seeing a score or two of the noblest and wealthiest in the land, seated in a noisy coffee-room, at little tables covered by small napkins, supping off cold meat or sandwiches, and finishing with strong punch and confused politics.
1762 - It is also said that the cooks at London’s Beef Steak Club, a gentlemen's gaming club held at the Shakespeare Tavern, invented the first sandwich. Each member could also invite a friend.
John Montague (1718-1792), the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, was a hardened gambler and usually gambled for hours at a time at this restaurant, sometimes refusing to get up even for meals. It is said that ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread. Because Montague also happened to be the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, others began to order "the same as Sandwich!" The original sandwich was, in fact, a piece of salt beef between two slices of toasted bread.
1840 - The sandwich was introduced to America by Englishwoman Elizabeth Leslie (1787-1858). Link to histories of sandwiches such as Beef on Weck, Cuban and Dagwood at: http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/SandwichHistory.htm
Alice Munro has been awarded the Nobel prize in literature,
thus becoming its 13th female recipient. It's a thrilling honour for a major writer: Munro has long been recognised in North
America and the UK, but the Nobel will draw international attention, not only
to women's writing and Canadian writing, but to the short story, Munro's chosen
métier and one often overlooked. Canadians
are discouraged from bragging – see the Munro story, Who Do You Think You Are?
– so will probably spend much of her time hiding in the figurative tool shed. We're all slightly
furtive, we writers; especially we Canadian writers, and even more especially
we Canadian female writers of an earlier generation. "Art is what you can get away with,"
said Canadian Marshall McLuhan, and I invite the reader to count how many of
the murderers in Munro's stories are ever caught. (Answer: none.) Munro understands the undercover heist that is
fiction writing, as well as its pleasures and fears: how delicious to have done it, but what if you
get found out? Back in the 1950s and
60s, when Munro began, there was a feeling that not only female writers but
Canadians were thought to be both trespassing and transgressing. Munro found herself referred to as "some
housewife", and was told that her subject matter, being too
"domestic", was boring. A male
writer told her she wrote good stories, but he wouldn't want to sleep with her.
"Nobody invited him," said
Munro tartly. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/10/alice-munro-nobel-literature-prize-margaret-atwood
October 14 is the 287th day of the year (288th in leap years)
in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining until the end of
the year.
1656 – Massachusetts
enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes
them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.
1884 – The
American inventor,
George
Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new
paper-strip photographic film.
1888 – Louis
Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.
1926 – The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh,
by A. A.
Milne, is first published. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_14
It is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, always
celebrated on the second Monday in October.
THIS AND THAT
Thousands of bees were removed from a house in Cocoa Beach, FL on Oct. 12, 2013. The bees, which are important to nature, will
be moved to a safer location.
Madonna is reported to have texted
nonstop during the New York Film Festival screening of 12 Years A Slave. 'It’s for
business…enslaver!,' replied Madonna to requests to cease texting. Tim League, the founder of the Alamo
Drafthouse, took note of Madonna's breach in etiquette and took to Twitter to
make the announcement: 'Until she
apologizes to movie fans, Madonna is banned from watching movies @drafthouse.'
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