The library I grew up
using is a Carnegie-funded library:
Blanche A. Nixon/Cobbs Creek Library.
Serving the Cobbs Creek community since 1925, the branch was renamed in
1990 to honor a local activist. Situated
on a triangular lot where Cobbs Creek Parkway, Baltimore Avenue, and 58th
Street converge in Philadelphia, the branch has a tree-lined walkway in
front. Cobbs Creek was known as Karakung
by the Lenni Lenape Indians and Mill Creek by Swedes in the late 1600's. It later became known as Cobbs Creek after an
English settler. The neighborhood
surrounding the Cobbs Creek Branch was part of land belonging to the Hoffman
family since colonial days. The area
became part of Blockley Township in the 1800's.
A village called Angora centered around several mills on Cobbs Creek
located at the current intersection of 60th Street and Baltimore Avenue. The woods surrounding the village were known
as Sherwood Forest. In the 1910's, the
mills and woods were torn down to make way for houses. Baltimore Avenue was used to transport food
and supplies from the Schuylkill River wharfs to places west of the city. Around 1905, the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
Company started subway surface routes using the electric streetcar on Baltimore
Avenue. Trolleys still travel this route
today. Subway surface routes, as well as
the completion of the Market Elevated in 1907, spurred residential construction
in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood. Funded
by a grant from Andrew Carnegie, the Cobbs Creek Branch opened on December 30,
1925. The community contributed $10,000
toward a book fund. The building was
renovated and refurbished in 1957. In
1990, the branch library was renamed the Blanche A. Nixon/Cobbs Creek Branch in
honor of Blanche Nixon, a local resident, community activist and library
volunteer. Mrs. Nixon spearheaded
beautification projects at the branch, including its garden and exterior mural. https://libwww.freelibrary.org/locations/blanche-a-nixoncobbs-creek-library
Milford is a borough in Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat. Its population was 1,021 at the 2010 census.
Located on the upper Delaware River, Milford is part of the New York metropolitan area. The
area along the Delaware River had
long been settled by the Lenape, an Algonquian-speaking indigenous tribe
that lived in the mid-Atlantic coastal areas, including western Long Island,
and along this river at the time of European colonization. The English also called the people the
Delaware, after the river they named after one of their colonial leaders. Milford was founded in 1796 after the American
Revolutionary War as a United States settlement on the Delaware
River by Judge John
Biddis, one of Pennsylvania's first four circuit
judges. He named the
settlement after his ancestral home in Wales. Milford has a large number of buildings of
historical significance, many constructed in the nineteenth century and early
twentieth centuries. Some are listed on
the National
Register of Historic Places, while numerous others are included in
the Milford Historic District, also
listed on the NRHP. Of the 655 buildings
in the district, 400 of them have been deemed to be historically significant. The
district is characterized by a variety of Late Victorian architecture. Grey
Towers National Historic Site, the ancestral home of Gifford Pinchot, the noted conservationist,
two-time Governor of Pennsylvania and first head of the U.S. Forest Service,
is located in Milford. It was designed
by architect Richard Morris Hunt has been designated a National
Historic Site. According to
the United
States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 0.5 square
miles (1.3 km2), all land.
Milford is located on the Upper Delaware River, which divides
Pennsylvania's Poconos region from the Catskill Mountains in New York, in what
was historically a heavily forested area.
When Judge Biddis bought up the land of what was then known as Wells
Ferry and laid out the lots for the new town, he generally followed the
urban plan of Philadelphia: he laid out High Street--the equivalent of
what is now Market Street in Philadelphia--running to the Delaware River, while
Broad Street runs perpendicular to High, creating a grid. At the intersection of Broad and High is a
public square--just as there is at Broad and Market in Philadelphia-- and most
of Milford's official buildings are located there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milford,_Pennsylvania Milford Haven in Wales is an Anglicization of
an old Scandinavian name Melrfjordr that
was first applied to the waterway--the Old Norse Melr,
meaning sandbank, and fjordr, meaning inlet, developing into "Milford";
then later the term "Haven" was added. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Milford_Haven
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Ananym is
a special form of the pseudonym, in which the letters of a name are
rearranged. The ananym is a special form
of the anagram and can be formed by (1) arbitrarily rearranging all the letters
of a name, thus forming a new name or (2) sorting in exactly the reverse
order. If the ananym is read backwards,
it returns the original name. The term is derived from the Greek words ana, which
coincides with according, as well as onyma, which means name. Examples:
(1) The poet Paul Celan was originally called Paul Ancel. (2) In Castlevania is one of the protagonists
Alucard. Castlevania is a video game
series from Konami, whose first offshoot appeared in 1987. In the game, the player controls a vampire
hunter who approaches the dark forces and usually tries to find a way through
Dracula’s castle. The son of Count
Dracula is called Alucard, which is a simple reversal of the name of the
legendary vampire. The Ananym Alucard is
not an invention of Konami. For the
first time in the American film Son of
Dracula (1943) by Robert Siodmak, the noble blood-sucker Anthony Alucard leads
the wordplay as a surname. In addition,
this ananym is found in the Manga/Anime series Hellsing. Alucard is a vampire who works for the
organization Hellsing. (2) Theodor Seuss
Geisel sometimes used the name Theo LeSieg.
For his works, he used various pseudonyms, such as Dr. Seuss, Rosetta
Stone and the ananym of his surname LeSieg.
posted by Edward https://monsterliterature.com/ananym/
John
McPhee quotes
from Annals of the Former World, Book 3, Rising From the Plains “There
was a saying among homesteaders in Wyoming:
‘If summer falls on a weekend, let’s have a picnic.’” “Bentonite is mined in Wyoming and sold to
the rest of the world. Blessed is the
land that can sell its mud. Bentonite is
used in adhesives, automobile polish, detergent and paint.” See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentonite
The Black Hours, MS M.493 (or the Morgan Black Hours) is an illuminated book of hours completed in Bruges between 1460 and 1475. It
consists of 121 leaves, with Latin text written in Gothic minuscule script. The words are arranged in rows of fourteen
lines, and follow the Roman version of
the texts. The lettering is inscribed in
silver and gold, and placed within borders ornamented
with flowers, foliage and grotesques, on pages
dyed a deep blueish black. It contains
fourteen full-page miniatures and
opens with the months of the liturgical calendar (folios
3 verso--14
recto), followed by the Hours of the
Virgin, and ends with the Office of the Dead (folio
121v). MS M.493 is one of seven
surviving black books of hours,
all originating from Bruges and dated to the mid-to-late 15th century. They are so named for their unusual dark
blueish appearance, a colourisation achieved through the expensive process of
dyeing the vellum with iron gall ink. This dye is very corrosive and the surviving
examples are mostly badly decomposed; MS M.493 is in relatively good condition
due to its very thick parchment. The
book is a masterpiece of Late Gothic manuscript illumination.
No records survive of its commission, but its uniquely dark tone, expense
of production, quality and rarity suggest ownership by privileged and
sophisticated members of the Burgundian court. The book is often attributed, on stylistic
grounds, to a follower of Willem Vrelant, a leading and influential
Flemish illuminator. It has been in the
collection of the Morgan Library
& Museum, New York, since 1912.
See illustrations at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hours,_Morgan_MS_493
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to Make Mason Jar Ice Cream No machine or special equipment required. Katherine
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Driving
Down This Haunted Pennsylvania Road Will Give You Nightmares If
you’ve ever seen M. Night Shymalan’s film “The Village,” then you’re already
familiar with the area around Cossart Road.
It is so infused with legend that he chose to film the movie in a nearby
field. Even if you were unaware of the
road’s ghostly history, you would suspect an ominous presence due to the trees,
which dramatically lean away from the road.
Legend states that the trees lean away
from Cossart Road in a desperate attempt to be further away from the evil road,
which is colloquially known as Devil's Road.
The source of bad spirits in the area is said to come from the DuPont
family, who lived in a large stone mansion off of Devil's Road. Posted by Cristi https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/pennsylvania/pa-cossart-road/ The Muser’s father was born in Cossart,
Pennsylvania. The town no longer exists. The house he was born in is no longer
there.
THOUGHT FOR MAY 22 It is a capital mistake to theorize before
one has data. Insensibly one begins to
twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. - Arthur Conan
Doyle, physician and writer (22 May 1859-1930)
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2272
May 22, 2020
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