Founded in 1904 by seven
leading polar explorers of the era, the Explorers Club fosters the scientific
exploration of land, sea, air and space. The 1910 Jacobean revival mansion was
originally built for Stephen Clark, grandson of the co-founder of the Singer
Sewing Machine Company. The Explorers
Club purchased the building from the Clark family in 1960 after Stephen’s
death. It became the international
headquarters in 1965. Prior to this,
they had several locations in New York City.
It is known as the Lowell Thomas building, named after the famed
writer, broadcaster and Explorers Club member best known for making
Lawrence of Arabia famous. A century’s
worth of exploration treasures fill the floors. The ground floor member lounge houses a
few of their polar artifacts. On your
way up to the second floor, you won’t be able to miss the giant globe used by
Thor Heyerdahl to plan his famous Kon-Tiki expedition. The uppermost floor is home to the
research archives, holding the club’s impressive collection of 13,000
books, 1,000 museum objects, 5,000 maps and 500 films. The Gallery on the top floor is the room
everyone wants to see. In the early days of the Explorers Club when travel was
difficult and field photography was relatively new, hunting and taxidermy were
thought to be the best way to preserve animals for education and research. Here you will see taxidermied animals from many
decades past. Objects from the far corners of the world, including
a narwhal tusk, wooly mammoth tusk (ask about the famous 1951 Explorers
Club dinner) and the famous yeti scalp. Scaffolding
was recently removed, revealing the results of a five-year long refurbishment
of the building’s facade, but work continues to preserve the building. Visitors are welcome during opening hours. Group tours can be scheduled by contacting
reservations. Regular talks with exploration greats are held in the Clark Room
from September-June. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/explorers-club-headquarters
Every year people from all
walks of life consult our Research Collections of the Explorers Club. These include writers, genealogists,
filmmakers, and curators. We are also
consulted by journalists and photo researchers, independent enthusiasts, staff
members, club members and students. While
we truly welcome all individuals, the Club’s resources are limited and our
collections geared to the specialist. We
encourage all potential researchers to make full use of their local libraries,
archives and museums before exploring what the Club has to offer. Priority among researchers will be given to
those who are seeking information unique to our collections. The Curator will endeavour to direct all
researchers to appropriate sources, but cannot do research on behalf of users
or duplicate and send large amounts of information. Those wishing to consult
the collections should contact the Curator at the address below for general
guidance and to make an appointment. The
Explorers Club 46 E. 70th Street New York, NY 10021 (212) 628-8383 x28 researchcollections@explorers.org Please note that research appointments
must be made in advance. Appointments may be made between the hours of 10:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday. Those
planning a visit should consult a copy of our Research Rules. All
of those visiting the collections will need to sign a copy of these rules, as
well as presenting a photo ID to the Curator.
https://www.explorers.org/about/research/research_visit_us
A Night at the Library by
Andrew Schwartz It was the winter of 2019, and the Brooklyn
Public Library had, once again, determined to give the public access to its
Central Building for a “Night of Philosophy and Ideas.” New School philosophy PhD student Zenon Marko,
who studies the “problem of beginnings,” began a dusk-to-dawn DJ set in the
Grand Lobby, ambient and inconspicuous, prepared, he said, for all paths the
night may take. He presided like a minor
deity behind his turntables, themselves behind the circulation desk, next to a
sign that read “Check Out.” The vast
hall filled with revelers, energized perhaps, as the U.S. French embassy’s
cultural counselor Bénédicte de Montlaur described it, by the power of
“resistance, of occupying a place.” By
the preliminary designs, this lobby was to be the library basement. But after three decades with little headway on
the structure, the abiding powers replaced the old architect and brought in new
ones with new plans—a sleeker, cheaper structure in the art-deco mode popular
in contemporary fashion. Limestone
replaced marble. Designers kept the
foundations but removed the neo-classical facade of the partially constructed
wing on Flatbush Avenue. The layout was
made to resemble an open book. From the
hilly park behind it, built atop the old reservoir, vestiges can be seen of the
original design, left uncovered even after the modernist revision. https://thebaffler.com/latest/a-night-at-the-library-schwartz
One of the most popular,
well-known and touristic ferry services in the world is certainly the
Staten Island Ferry that runs a service between Battery Park in New York City
and the town of St. George at Staten Island. During the
25 minute sailings, passengers can enjoy great views of the skyline
of New York, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. And all of this is free. It is the fastest way for commuters from
Staten Island to the city of New York. Everyday, around 75.000 passengers are
transported on 104 trips sailing 24 hours a day. The largest ferries on the route can now
sail with up to 6000 passengers so they come close to the capacity of
the worlds largest cruiseships. Sailings
between New York and Staten Island were already offered by local boatsmen
sailing with small, two-masted sailingboats from the 18th century onwards. But in 1817, the Richmond Turnpike
Company started a motorized and official service with the steamboat Nautilus.
Captain of this first Staten Island
Ferry was John De Forest, the brother-in-law of a man named Cornelius
Vanderbilt, one of the wealthiest men of one of the wealthiest families in the
history of the United States. This
family originally came from The Netherlands.
They used to be farmers in a small town named De Bilt. This is also where their family name comes
from, they are 'From De Bilt', or in Dutch 'Van De Bilt'. Cornelius Vanderbilt eventually bought the
ferry service of the Richmond Turnpike Company in 1838 after he had made his
fortunes in the steamboat business. He
remained the owner untill the early 1860's when the American civil war broke
out and he sold the service to the Staten Island Railway company, that was
owned by his brother Jacob Vanderbilt.
Read more and see many pictures at http://www.castlesoftheseas.nl/staten-island-ferry.html
of course adverb
From literal meaning "of the
ordinary course of events". The oldest attestation as "of
course" is from the 1540s; the form "by course" (then spelled
"bi cours") dates to about 1300.
(not comparable)
Used other than with a figurative or
idiomatic meaning: see of, course. (idiomatic) Indicates enthusiastic agreement.
Filler Words: and then, even, fairly, just, much, only, pretty,
quite, rather, really, simply, so that, there, totally, very. At the beginning of sentences: and, but, however, so, yet. That list is definitely not exhaustive
(there’s another word to watch out for: definitely), but it’s a good
start. These, and other words, often
function exactly (there’s another: exactly) as described: they serve as filler, taking up
unneeded space on the page. The majority
of the time—85%? I’ve never
measured—they can be cut with little or no consequence or rewriting. Christopher Daly
Mary
Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) was an
American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short
stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a
sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on
regional settings and supposedly grotesque characters,
often in violent situations. The
unsentimental acceptance or rejection of the limitations or imperfection or
difference of these characters (whether attributed to disability, race, crime,
religion or sanity) typically underpins the drama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor
In
her short lifetime, Flannery O’Connor wrote more than 600 letters to her
mother. To read them, you must travel to
the 10th floor of Emory University’s Woodruff Library, where they’re filed in a
manuscript collection measuring almost 19 feet. If you make this journey, as I have, you will
discover, among details of a more literary nature, the vigor of the author’s
appetite. In her first year as a
graduate student at the University of Iowa, she wrote of sampling Triscuits at
the local A&P and dining on ham—baked and boiled—at the school’s cafeteria.
She reported eating a couple of eggs
each day and declared her preference for Vienna sausages, vanilla pudding, and
prunes costing a mere 27 cents. By
spring of 1946, six months into her Iowa career, her purple dress no longer
fit. Caroline McCoy https://lithub.com/flannery-oconnors-two-deepest-loves-were-mayonnaise-and-her-mother/
Find
biographical information on Flannery O'Conner and how to visit Andalusia, her
home in Milledgeville, Georgia, at https://libguides.gcsu.edu/oconnor-bio/FAQ
A Good Hard Look, a 2011
novel by Ann Napolitano, portrays Flannery O'Connor as one character.
Turkey Skillet
Casserole With this hearty dish, the
pasta cooks right in the sauce for a quick and easy one-pot meal. Turkey, mushrooms, and spinach give it a light
touch. Instead of fresh turkey, you
could use leftover turkey from a Thanksgiving feast! For a lower-carb version, use zucchini noodles
instead of linguini. Prep time 5 min Cook time 10
min Servings 2 Source:
Delicious One-Pot Dishes. Recipe Credit: Linda Gassenheimer.
https://www.diabetesfoodhub.org/recipes/turkey-skillet-casserole.html See also What to Do With Those Thanksgiving
Leftovers? Look to the French at https://www.ecowatch.com/thanksgiving-leftovers-2641467690.html
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2190
November 29, 2019
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