Elevated Parks on the Rise The “High Line
effect,” as some have termed it, has captured the imagination of citizens and
policy makers alike in recent years; elevated parks have become trendy new
public spaces. Although the concept is
not new, many elevated parks are now being constructed or considered across the
country. The case studies examined in
this 47-page document prepared by Eric Brooks, Jamie Genevie and Alex Gonski
include: ● Bridge of Flowers (Shelburne Falls, MA) ● Walnut Street Bridge
(Chattanooga, TN) ● The High Line (New York, NY) ● Bloomingdale Trail (Chicago,
IL) ● Reading Viaduct (Philadelphia, PA) ● Providence River Pedestrian Bridge
(Providence, RI) is found at http://bridgepark.org/sites/default/files/Virginia%20Tech%20Elevated%20Parks%20on%20the%20Rise%20-%2011th%20Street%20Bridge%20Park.pdf
The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, preserves, archives, and
displays a collection of signs. The museum also displays the equipment
utilized in the design and manufacture of signs. Tod Swormstedt began working on the museum in
1999. It opened to the public in 2005. Swormstedt's family owns the signage industry
trade journal Signs of the
Times, which has been published since 1906. Swormstedt's grandfather, H.C.
Menefee, was the first editor of the publication, and purchased it for himself
in 1911. Swormstedt had been
working at the journal for over twenty years before becoming inspired to start
a sign museum in 1999. His
family provided $1 million for the project, and figures from the signage
industry gave donations of their own.
The museum was founded as a nonprofit corporation. Swormstedt considered building the museum in Los
Angeles, St. Louis, Memphis, and other sites, but eventually settled
on Cincinnati, the base of operations for Signs
of the Times. Over 200 signs and
other objects are on display at the museum, and
over 3,800 items are cataloged. Many
signs owned by the museum were too large to fit the original exhibit space. To better accommodate the collection,
the museum began purchasing a 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m2)
property in Camp Washington, Cincinnati in 2007. The new location is part of the Oesterlein
Machine Company-Fashion Frocks, Inc. Complex, a National Register of Historic
Places building. The museum opened in its new home in
June, 2012, and the new building
displays about 500 signs and artifacts many
of which are on a faux streetscape in a town called "Signville". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Sign_Museum
See also http://www.americansignmuseum.org/
Alex
Grecian (born Alexander Douglas Grecian on
August 6, 1969) is an American author of short fiction, novels, comic books,
and graphic novels. His notable works
include the comic book series Proof and the novels in the Scotland Yard's Murder Squad: The Yard, The Black Country, The Devil's Workshop, The Harvest Man,
and The Blue Girl. As a child and a teenager, Grecian read the
works of C. S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. He later
became a fan of crime fiction, reading the works of authors as diverse as Graham Greene, Donald
E. Westlake, Ross Macdonald, and John D. MacDonald. Other
influences include John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Chabon, and Stephen King. Find
bibliography and a list of selected awards and honors at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Grecian
Rolling Pin Bakehouse offers homemade baked goods that you
can order by phone or through a contact form. Orders are picked up by appointment at a
roadside stand located at 14401 Winters Road, Roanoke, Indiana between Fort
Wayne and Huntington. Their sugar cream
pie was featured in a nationwide PBS
documentary aired on August 25, 2015 titled “A Few Good Pie Places”. Find map at http://www.rollingpinbakehouse.com/ Link to a history of the pie at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/dining/republican-senate-lunch-tradition-draws-on-the-flavors-of-home.html
Find recipes for sugar cream
pie at http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/05/hoosier-sugar-cream-pie-recipe.html
and http://www.midwestliving.com/recipe/pies/indiana-sugar-cream-pie/
The Winds of Provence, the region
of southeast France along the Mediterranean from the Alps to the mouth of the Rhone River, are an important feature of
Provençal life, and each one has a traditional local name, in the Provençal language. The most famous Provençal winds are: the Mistral,
a cold dry north or northwest wind, which blows down through the Rhone
Valley to the Mediterranean,
and can reach speeds of ninety kilometers an hour; the Levant,
a very humid east wind, which brings moisture from the eastern Mediterranean;
the Tramontane,
a strong, cold and dry north wind, similar to the Mistral, which blows from the Massif
Central mountains toward the
Mediterranean to the west of the Rhone; the Marin,
a strong, wet and cloudy south wind, which blows in from the Gulf of
Lion; and the Sirocco, a
southeast wind coming from the Sahara desert in Africa, can reach
hurricane force, and brings either reddish dust or heavy rains. The winds of Provence, particularly the
Mistral, have long had an influence on the architecture of Provence. The mas traditionally
faces southeast, with its back to the Mistral, and many Provençal churches have open
iron grill bell towers, which allow the Mistral wind to pass through. Traditional compass roses in Provence have
the names of the winds by the points of the compass. See an illustration, which shows Midi, or the
South, at the top at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winds_of_Provence
A mas
is a traditional farmhouse found in the Provence and Midi regions of France, as well as in Catalonia where it is also named masia (in Catalan) or masía (in Spanish).
A mas was
a largely self-sufficient economic unit, which could produce its own fruit,
vegetables, grain, milk, meat and even silkworms. It was constructed of local stone, with the
kitchen and room for animals on the ground floor, and bedrooms, storage places
for food and often a room for raising silkworms on the upper floor. Not every farmhouse in Provence is a mas. A mas was
distinct from the other traditional kind of house in Provence, the bastide, which was the home of a wealthy
family. The mas of
Provence and Catalonia always faces to the south to offer protection against
the mistral wind coming from the north. And because of the mistral, there are no
windows facing north, while on all the other sides, windows are narrow to
protect against the heat of summer and the cold of winter. A mas is
almost always rectangular, with two sloping roofs. In Catalonia, the tenant of a mas is
called a masover,
as different from the real landowner.
Autumn in Denali Park by Alan Taylor Summers
in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve are short seasons, followed
by even shorter autumns, then long, cold winters. Located just 250 miles south of the Arctic
Circle, the park is home to more than 200 species of animals, all now in the
midst of preparation for the coming snows.
The autumn colors in this subarctic wilderness burst to life in
September, as yellow leaves of birch and aspen trees dot the forests, and
shrubs and grasses give a rusty shade to mountain slopes.
See beautiful pictures at http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/09/autumn-in-denali-park/405445/
September
22, 2015 If you've already read the
entirety of the Harry Potter series,
watched the films multiple times, and still find yourself craving more magic,
you're in luck. Pottermore,
J.K. Rowling's website devoted to all things Potter just got a complete
make-over, complete with a new features
section where fans will find everything from insights
from Hagrid to how to
make wands. Rowling also released a
short history of the Potter
family tree, titled "The Potter Family." Dating back to the
12th century, it's sure to satisfy even the most loyal Potterhead. Madison Malone
Kircher Read more and see pictures
at http://www.techinsider.io/jk-rowling-releases-new-harry-potter-details-2015-9
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1352
September 25, 2015 On this date
in 1789, Congress passed twelve
amendments to the United States
Constitution: The Congressional
Apportionment Amendment (which was never ratified), the Congressional Compensation Amendment, and
the ten that are known as the Bill of
Rights. On this date in 1906,
in the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo
Torres y Quevedo successfully
demonstrated the invention of
the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in
what is considered the birth of the remote control.
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