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When I write a true crime book I include a lesson to the story; I hope the reader is educated on an important topic when reading my books. This is why I elected to write, "She is Evil!" Madness and Murder in Memphis, a story of domestic violence leading to murder.
Ejaz Ahmad's terrible death at the hands of Leah Joy Ward is a story of trust, abuse, religion, and crime: how unrest leads to crime. Of a kind man who tried to help a troubled woman and became the victim of abuse and, eventually, a heinous murder.
Spousal abuse with the female being the perpetrator and the man being the victim is so rare that it is impossible to obtain the statistics. It does exist; possible the man is afraid to report the abuse because it would make him look "wimpy," or he does not realize it is illegal. He does not want to disrupt the family: have her arrested, the kids taken away, or to cause trouble in their house, workplace, or social circle. Ejaz Ahmad was certainly abused by Leah Ward. She hit him, screamed at him, and committed emotional abuse. It resulted in his death and mutilation of his corpse in April 2003.
Despite her abuse, Ejaz Ahmad stated with LeahWard. It would result in his murder.
I have taught domestic violence education and prevention programs for over 25 years. It was my focal point of study in undergraduate school and I have attended numerous workshops, volunteer's events, and classes across the United States. Like most of you reading this, domestic violence touched my family, who had said, "It won't happen to us." In order to stay sane and not take action against the perpetrator, I educated myself: the red flags of an abusive relationship, the dynamics, and the issues.
Ejaz and Leah's relationship had all of the red flags of an abusive relationship, the dynamics, and the issues. Leah had a history of violence and grew up in a violent environment. She was a drug abuser. She moved into his home and they married soon after they met. Ejaz kept telling himself it would get better. His family and friends warned him to get away from her. New to the United States and confronted with domestic violence, Ejaz had no idea Leah's abusive behavior was illegal. When he finally sent her away, it was too late. She returned to his home and killed him. It is a typical tale of domestic violence.
Lowell Cauffiel is a true crime author I admire, and he once told me, "A story has to have a story behind it. True crime needs a lesson or an issue in the 'background' that is woven into the crime to teach readers." It is my hope that in telling the story of Ejaz and Leah readers will understand domestic violence. If they see those red flags in their own relationships they will get out of it safely. I included a reference chapter on the red flags of an abusive relationship, the dynamics, the issues, and where to go for help. If Ejaz's death can help someone else escape violence and death, then something positive has come out of tragedy.


Can You Deduct Your Legal Fees?
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If you have to pay a lawyer for their services, you'll likely be interested making it less expensive in most any way you can. There are some legal fees that are tax deductible, but these types of legal fees tend to have to do with taxes themselves and finance, rather than with personal legal bills. You'll have to talk to an accountant to find out for sure, but here are some general guidelines that those hiring a lawyer should be aware of.
Suing over a car crash? Medical malpractice? The IRS doesn't have any way for you to deduct such expenses, at present. Whatever you have to pay the attorney will be an expense. The one upside to this is that many personal legal fees – criminal defense not included – will be payable through a contingency agreement. This allows you to pay the lawyer out of whatever they win for you or not at all if they lose your claim. This is about the most painless way to go.
If you have to go to a lawyer specifically for tax advice, you may be able to deduct the fees you pay, according to Forbes. You'll have to be careful about this, however, as you don't want to end up stuck with a bill at the end of the year because of a simple mistake. Ask the attorney you're working with whether or not their fees will be deductible. The same applies if you're working with an accountant. Be sure to ask before you assume you can deduct what they do for you off of your taxes.
What If I Win a Claim?
This gets tricky. If you're paid out a jury award because you were injured physically, it's likely that the award will not be taxed by the feds. This is because you're not really making income from a legal standpoint. In a great many personal injury claims, however, there is usually an amount take on for pain and suffering or other emotional damage. This may well be taxable.
Speak with your attorney about these matters and make sure you talk to an accountant, as well. Unfortunately, there's no yes or no answer to whether or not attorney fees and jury awards are taxed. You'll have to consult with your attorney to get the answer to that question, and it varies depending upon the circumstances.


Here it is! The final block in our Block-of-the-Month feature. You'll remember that we showed two blocks in both July and August. Join us next month as we put it all together and prepare for quilting.
This Arrow Block is meant to be a tongue-in-cheek "…to be continued…" message at the end of our BOM quilt. I certainly hope there will be many more to follow! The inspiration and basic proportions came from Anita at Bloomin' Workshop. Her arrow was a 6-inch block, so I increased it to 12 inches.
A1. Cut one 7" x 8"
A2. Cut one 6" x 13"
B1. Cut two 4" x 8"
B2. Cut two 7" x 7"
1. Sew together on the 8-inch sides, B1 on each side of A1. Press towards the darker color.
2. Place each B2 background piece with RIGHT sides facing on the A2 arrow head piece.
3. Line up corner to the right. The background piece will be about an inch longer on the left.
4. Trace a line from the upper left corner (where the two fabrics meet), to the lower right corner. Sew on traced line.
5. Trim 1/4-inch from stitching and press towards darker color.
6. Repeat steps 2-5 on the other side.
7. Trim the arrow head piece to get a straight line (about 1/4-inch).
8. Find and pin the center of both pieces. Sew together with a 1/4-inch seam. Press towards the stem of the arrow.
9. Place 12.5-inch square ruler over block (or use the grids on your cutting mat) and trim block to 12.5 inches square.
Don't forget to show us your block on our Flickr page!


I am requesting partial refund of my airfare. My return trip was changed just prior to my flight. As a result I had to alter my vacation plans and was forced to shorten my stay in Guatemala. I am only requesting partial compensation.
I called the customer service line on this matter prior to my flight and was told I had to make the request at the airport. I then spoke to the agent at the airport prior to my flight and was told I had to call the customer service line.
Note from AirSafe.com: Typically, airlines are not required to compensate passengers for costs not directly related to the trip. While the schedule change may have affected their holiday plans, that is not covered by most airlines.
If a passenger is concerned about delays affecting other parts of the trip, consider options such as purchasing insurance.
We arrived at the airport three hours prior to our departure as instructed. We were booked on UA 4148 departing at 12:20 pm, arriving in Newark at 2:43 p.m. with connection with UA 0106 departing at 5:35 pm.
Our Atlanta flight had a mechanical problem and they had to fly a part in to repair it. I ask that they re-book us with another airline to make our connection; the gate agent told me we had a "bulk price" ticket and no one else would accept it, and that all they could do is leaves us on the flight that was scheduled to depart now at 5:45. I spoke with a supervisor and she said she would re-book us on another flight out of Newark.
When we arrived in Newark I went to United customer service, because I saw no United flight departing for Munich. The service representative told me they had no record of us having a flight. I ask where my luggage was and he had no idea. He said the only flight left was Lufthansa 1926. I should go see them because they (United) had no record of our travel even though I gave him the confirmed ticket number and reservation code.
We went down to Lufthansa and they had no record of our flight. I think the agent could see I was about to blow up and she decide to help as much as she could. It took her an hour to find the record, but she found it. United would not even look for it they just said it was non-existent. Lufthansa put us on standby. I literally begged them to please put us on the flight, and they did.


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PDi is pleased to announce that its graduate training scheme, PDinspire, has recently been accredited by the Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology (IMarEST) by meeting the initial professional development requirements, in full, for registration of Chartered Engineer (CEng), Incorporated Engineer (IEng) and Engineering Technician (EngTech). The Institute's Professional Affairs and Education Committee panel was particularly impressed with PDi's commitment to development of engineers and the opportunities given to them throughout the scheme. The panel also complimented PDi on its attitude towards the development of in house training modules.
In 2010 PDi made a commitment to develop their own talent and since then nine graduates have completed the two year training scheme with a further five graduates currently being trained across a number of disciplines including Structural Engineering, Pipeline Design & Analysis and Project Engineering.
Mark Brown, PDi's Engineering Manager said "The graduate training scheme has proven to be a very successful investment for PDi and we are delighted to have achieved accreditation from IMarEST. The programme consists of on the job training supplemented by both internal and external training modules. We are extremely proud of the graduates who have passed through our scheme and the high quality contribution they make to the company. We hope to continue to develop talent in this way, both for the growth of PDi and the sustainability of industry resource pool as a whole".


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An Alachua County sheriff's detective has arrested a woman accused of punishing her 6-year-old boy by making him put his hand on a hot stove.
The 27-year-old woman, who lives just outside High Springs, was charged Wednesday with aggravated child abuse. The Department of Children and Families has removed the boy from her care, sheriff's Sgt. Todd Kelly said.
Kelly said the boy apparently was trying to run away from home and told someone about the abuse. That person notified the High Springs Police Department.
The Sheriff's Office handled the case. Detective Drew Moore's report provides the following account:
On May 13, the boy was interviewed at the Child Advocacy Center. He told the interviewer he got the burn when his mother punished him for being placed on "red" at school. A behavior program in his classroom uses a color-coded system — and "red" signified behavioral issues.
"If I get on red, I got to put my hand on the stove," the boy told the interviewer. "She turned on the thing … and told me to put my hand on it, and it was hot."
After that, he said, his mother put a napkin over the burn and washed the hand in cold water until the quickly forming blister popped. After bandaging the burn, he said, she had him wear a glove over it.
He told the interviewer his mother had burned him more than once.
Interviewed on Wednesday, the mother admitted making her son touch the hot stove but said it was to teach him it was dangerous, the Sheriff's Office reported.
She said it happened about a year ago, before he entered the first grade. He was playing around the stove while she was boiling potatoes. She scolded him, the woman said, and he started to tear up. So she decided to teach him a lesson, deputies said.
"You stick your finger up there, and you touch it," the mother is quoted as saying.
He snatched it away because of the heat. But, according to the report, she made him touch it briefly, saying, "No, I say stick your finger so you'll know just how important it is not to be playing around the stove."
It blistered quickly, she said.
But he didn't have anything to say afterward, the mother told the detective. "No," she is quoted as saying, "he had already started crying because he knew already that it was hot, and that he was wrong so he had already started tearing up."
The woman denied burning the boy more than once.
She was arrested at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday and taken to the Alachua County jail. She is not being named to protect the identity of the 6-year-old boy.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans on Wednesday will stage their first outright challenge to 2010's Dodd-Frank financial regulation reforms with a fistful of bills favoring private equity firms, derivatives end-users and corporate CEOs.
After months of trying to defund and defang Dodd-Frank at the administrative level, Republicans are finally unveiling draft legislation that would repeal or amend parts of the laws approved after the severe 2007-2009 financial crisis.
The bills face a long road ahead. Republicans may be able to obtain House passage, perhaps with Democratic support on some issues. But Senate action could be hard to come by and the Obama administration could veto any measure it opposes.
One of the bills to be introduced would exempt private equity firms from registering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, as required under Dodd-Frank.
The bills could represent the beginning of a long-awaited ''technical corrections'' measure, said two lobbyists who favor one of the bills.
Private equity firms typically pool capital from investors and pump it into leveraged buyouts, financial restructurings and corporate takeovers. They offer an alternative to public capital markets and allow the companies they back to operate beyond the reach of regulators.
Registration ``imposes a burden on them while doing nothing to make the financial system more stable and less risky,'' said a Republican staff memo obtained by Reuters that explains the bills and their background.
Dodd-Frank was approved in July by Democrats, with the strong support of President Barack Obama, over the opposition of all but a few Republicans. Regulators are working hard to implement hundreds of new regulations mandated by the laws.
Under Dodd-Frank, new oversight is imposed on the $600 trillion over-the-counter derivatives market, including credit default swaps like those that undermined bailed-out former insurance giant American International Group.
One of the Republican bills would amend Dodd-Frank in a way that would shield end-users of OTC derivatives from new central clearing requirements and the costs involved.
Another Republican bill would repeal a part of Dodd-Frank that requires public corporations to disclose the median pay of all their employees, the total pay of the chief executive officer and a ratio comparing the two numbers.
This so-called ``sticker shock'' provision promised to be embarrassing to CEOs whose pay often dwarfs that of lower-level workers by multiples unseen in other nations.
The GOP staff memo said complying with the provision would be too costly and time-consuming for companies.
A fourth bill would repeal a Dodd-Frank provision exposing credit rating agencies, such as Moodys Corp or Standard & Poor's, to legal liability in cases where their ratings were found to be inaccurate.


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SEFI shall provide a vibrant platform to Structural Engineers and professionals from related fields for knowledge sharing, information access and utilizing the Internet as a tool for growth.
SEFI aims to enrich the understanding of the structural systems and work towards its further development by facilitating technical interaction and widespread meaningful dialogue.
SEFI aims to serve to enhance the role of designers and planners to improve the construction quality.
SEFI shall give content to public discussion on major issues concerning the safety of structures and creating special interest groups to formulate guidelines/blue books etc.
SEFI shall endeavor to expose Structural Engineering Design and Planning to a wider audience by accessing other mediums and also creating a communication channel for representation of Structural Engineering concerns and issues to the government.
SEFI shall support initiatives that are identified as being aimed at its mission objective.
The structure of the forum is an independent one, which requires no previous membership or affiliation. Members can interact through discussion groups; articles, query submissions and responses.
The structural engineering profession in India, formally and informally, deeply impacts urban and rural life across our vast country. Our society places on it a serious responsibility towards ensuring design and implementation of quality, safe, affordable and functional structures.
Yet the structural engineering profession is currently assailed by many problems. There is a growing sense of disillusionment and lack of motivation in the members of this profession. Problems of poor perception of structural engineers in the society, poor professional remuneration, poor interaction between fellow engineers, lack of ethics plague the profession. There is presently no structural engineering association at a national level, which adequately addresses the needs and problems of the profession.
During the e-conference organized by the National Information Center of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE, www.nicee.org) on professional issues in Structural Engineering in August 2002, a large number of participants felt the need of a forum where they can interact and share views on a regular basis. Hence this web site has been created as our contribution to the profession, and launched on Jan 26, 2003, the second anniversary of the Bhuj earthquake.
This is only a modest beginning, and by the continuous support, interaction and contribution from the members, it can become an effective One Stop Resource Center for the Structural Engineering community & allied fields. We would appreciate and welcome any suggestions you have regarding the web-site. We are also looking forward to volunteers & contributors for maintenance of the site.


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Fleeing refugees relocated to Osire
Albertina Nakale National Khomas
WINDHOEK - The Namibian government has made a U-turn to temporarily host at Osire refugee camp the desperate migrants who fled South Africa last month following a wave of xenophobic attacks.
This comes after New Era on Friday published an article that the Namibian government has turned away the desperate refugees because they are not recognised as asylum seekers.
Home Affairs Commissioner for Refugees Likius Valombola told New Era on Thursday that the 42 foreign nationals were being deported back to South Africa.
However, on Friday minister Frans Kapofi said the government has decided to take in the refugees, who initially faced deportation, to be temporarily kept at Osire refuge camp while they profile them to determine who is really in need of shelter.
The disparate group was initially 53, but 11 of them have since been taken back to South Africa, while the remaining 42 will be taken to Osire.
Kapofi said these people crossed illegally into Namibia as per international refugee procedures. He revealed that the government is experiencing people who force themselves into the country at whatever cost.
"We have a situation whereby some of the people we host here as refugees are involved in activities that are not in accordance with their status or the expectations we have of them. We had a refugee who was caught stealing medicine in Engela hospital. We want to admit those who are really in need, but not those who want to impose themselves on us. We are not anti-refugee. We are not anti-asylum seekers. We are human beings. We understand when people have problems, but we don't want to be forced to take action by people who don't want to abide by our laws," he cautioned.
He explained that these people are taking advantage of the shallow Orange River to cross into Namibia illegally.
Further, Kapofi said he was informed by his South African counterpart that the group initially wanted to be granted permission by that country to go to Canada.
However, he said he was informed that the South African government denied them that chance because they wanted to go in a large number.
Kapofi maintained that these people illegally crossed into Namibia through the southern border post of Noordoewer.
"You do not invade the country. You seek permission to come to a country. They are dropped off by trucks.
We made efforts to search these trucks. We spoke to the truck owners that this is tantamount to human trafficking. Currently, we have people that are in Katima Mulilo who crossed through Botswana and Zambia but were initially admitted as refugees in South Africa. These people have enough time to think on how to defeat justice. We don't seem to think these people's lives are in danger because the South Africa government has made efforts to address this issue," Kapofi reacted.
Albertina Nakale
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Nanso discourages pupils from renting on their own
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San urged to capitalise on opportunities
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Edward II and Eleanor Despenser
This is a continuation of my last post - entries from Edward II's chamber account of 1325/26 relating to the king's eldest niece Eleanor, née de Clare, wife since 1306 of his chamberlain and favourite Hugh Despenser the Younger. The account is a fascinating illustration of the significant position the couple held in the king's life in the 1320s, and in fact two contemporary Flemish chronicles even claimed that Edward was having an incestuous affair with his niece. Whatever the truth of that, it's obvious that Eleanor was extremely important to Edward in the last years of his reign, and here are a few examples of his great affection for her.
Hugh Despenser is usually just called 'Sir Hugh', mons' Hughe, with no surname necessary - which in itself is evidence of his dominant position at court - or sometimes 'my lord Sir Hugh' or 'my lord Despenser', mon seign' le Despenser. Eleanor is usually referred to as 'my lady, Lady Eleanor Despenser', ma dame dame Alianore la Despensere. Isabella, always called 'my lady the queen', is the only other woman acknowledged with the honorific 'my lady' - other noblewomen, even Edward's niece the countess of Surrey and sister-in-law the countess of Norfolk, are not. Hugh and Eleanor's eldest son Hugh (born c. 1308) also appears in the account on occasion, called by the nickname 'Huchon'.
- I'd known for ages that Edward II had a ship called La Alianore, The Eleanor - 'Eleanor' was always spelt Alianore, Alianor, Alienora etc in the fourteenth century - and had assumed it was named in honour of his mother Eleanor of Castile or his grandmother Eleanor of Provence or even his daughter Eleanor of Woodstock. As it turns out, the ship's full name, as revealed by an entry in a chamber journal of 1323, was La Alianore la Despensere.
- Edward visited Eleanor at Sheen on the night of 2 December 1325, sailing along the Thames from Westminster and taking along only eight attendants. It appears that Edward rowed himself and that his attendants followed behind in another boat, which would hardly be surprising, given what we know of him. (This being the king who bought his own fish, invited sailors and carpenters to dine with him and went swimming in the Fens with "a great concourse of common people.") He gave his niece a whopping hundred marks or sixty-six pounds, and the chamber account says the money was "paid to my lady, Lady Eleanor Despenser, as a gift, by the hands of the king himself, when he went from Westminster to Sheen to my said lady and returned that same night to Westminster."
- Eleanor must have been heavily pregnant at the time, as on 14 December, Edward made an offering of thirty shillings to the Virgin Mary to give thanks for the fact that "God granted her a prompt delivery of her child." (As this was probably her ninth or tenth baby, I suppose it's hardly surprising that her labour didn't last long.) To the annoyance of Susan Higginbotham and myself, who would love to know when and in what order the Despenser children were born, the clerk didn't give the child's name or even specify if it was a boy or girl. Honestly, you'd think these people didn't care at all about the needs of historians 700 years later!
- On 1 January 1326, as her New Year gift, Edward gave Eleanor a palfrey with saddle and all other necessary equipment, and paid Wat Somer for looking after the horse and Richard de la Grene, Eleanor's 'chief carter', for taking it to her at Sheen (Edward was a hundred miles away at Haughley near Stowmarket, Suffolk). If the king gave Hugh something for New Year, too, it isn't recorded here - in fact, the palfrey is the only New Year gift to anyone recorded in the chamber journal.
- Edward gave Jack the Trumpeter ten shillings on 9 October 1325 for bringing him forty-seven goldfinches in a cage from Dover. The reason for this is clarified in the next entry, where Edward paid Will of Dunstable to look after the birds "until the arrival of my lady Despenser," for whom Edward had bought them as a present. In early December, however, Jack the Trumpeter was paid a pound for bringing Edward thirty goldfinches in a cage. Were these different goldfinches, and if so, who did the king intend them as a gift for? Or had Will failed in his allotted duty and allowed seventeen of the birds to die? And why, as Susan Higginbotham reasonably asks, only forty-seven and not fifty goldfinches in the first place? I can only speculate. What is especially interesting is that the word 'goldfinches' appears in English in the middle of the French text: q' porta au Roi vne cage od xxx Goldfynches.
- Edward and Eleanor dined alone together in Windsor park on 11 July 1326. The entry about this one is fascinating: a cook named Will was given a present of two pounds - a lot of money for a cook, a year's wages or almost - and a hackney "on which he followed the king to my lady Despenser when they ate privately in the said park." Does Edward taking a cook with him mean that Will prepared their meal in the park, i.e. that they had some kind of picnic? 11 July, during a summer when the Pauline annalist says there was a drought in England, is likely to have been a hot sunny day.
- In July 1326, a couple of weeks after the picnic with Eleanor, Edward gave Hugh a manuscript of the doomed love story of Tristan and Isolde. For some reason this gift was not recorded in the chamber account at the time but a few months later, and is one of the last entries before the account abruptly ended on 31 October 1326, sixteen days before Edward's and Hugh's capture.
- In early June 1326, Edward sent his sergeant John de Mildenhale with twenty marks as a gift for Eleanor, called 'my lady, Lady Eleanor Despenser, consort of Sir Hugh'.
- the day after Edward visited Eleanor at Sheen at night in December 1325, there's an entry recording that she gave him vne robe de iiij garnamenz, 'a robe of four...?' I'm not sure how to translate the last word in this context - it usually means garments or clothing in general, or riding gear or some kind of armour.
- Edward stayed at Sheen, where Eleanor was also staying, from 12 to 18 October 1325. Meanwhile, Hugh Despenser was in Wales: an entry of 9 October says that he was at Caerphilly, and he was still "in the parts of Wales" on 18 November, when Edward wrote to him there. The two men kept in frequent touch while apart, although, frustratingly, their letters don't survive or at least have never been discovered.
- Edward paid Eleanor's expenses while she was staying at Sheen that October, and ordered forty bundles of firewood for her chamber. He also paid her expenses at Leeds Castle in Kent when she was staying there on another occasion.
- Eleanor wrote to Edward shortly before 30 December 1325, when the king paid her valet John a pound for bringing her letters to him. She was still at Sheen (or was at Sheen again) in February 1326, when Edward gave ten shillings to his valet Syme Lawe, sent there with the king's letters to his niece.
- In March 1326, Edward gave Eleanor a silver hanap worth twenty pounds, and Hugh a silver cup worth twenty-two pounds.
- And finally for now...in July 1325, Edward paid three shillings for two gallon jars of honey to make sucre de plate for Eleanor, which I assume means some kind of sweet (sucre means sugar). But I've only gone through part of the manuscript, so no doubt there will be more interesting discoveries about Edward, Hugh and Eleanor in the future!
Posted by Kathryn Warner at 11:52 am
Great information! Loved the picnic bit. And I always wanted to know when Edward II gave Hugh Tristan and Isolde!
Saturday, 27 June 2009 at 12:55:00 BST
Kate Plantagenet said...
Great info Alianore! So Edward liked the company of his niece...? How wonderful....and people accused him of something untoward with Eleanor? Harsh.
Please forgive my ignorance...what is a hanap? I could google it I suppose...*grins*
Sunday, 28 June 2009 at 14:13:00 BST
Susan: the picnic one is my favourite, too. Wonder if Eleanor rode her new palfrey there and used her expensive new hanap?
Kate: the story appeared only in the Low Countries - English chroniclers didn't mention it. It's all pretty weird. Oh, and a hanap is a kind of goblet. ;)
Fascinating post. I take the view that Edward was very fond of his niece - and there was nothing untoward in the relationship. Although Edward, Hugh and Eleanor would make a fascinating '3 people in this marriage' scenario :>
Jules Frusher said...
You've been doing some great transcribing/translating lately and bringing much interesting stuff to light and for that I want to say thank you!
Edward was certainly very fond of Eleanor and, whatever the true nature of their relationship, he certainly treated her as a mistress would have been treated. At the very least they must have been best of friends, which must have been a great comfort to both of them with Hugh (mysteriously) away so much!
Anerje: now I have an image of Eleanor sorrowfully batting her heavily eye-linered eyes and whispering 'there were 3 of us in the marriage'. :-)
Lady D: you're more than welcome, and anyway, it's a quid pro quo for all your hard work on setting up the website!
I wouldn't want to accuse Ed of incest without more convincing evidence, but I can certainly understand why some people might have thought there was more than a close familial relationship going on.
Monday, 29 June 2009 at 07:12:00 BST
Perhaps Ed wanted to BE Eleanor (ie married to Hugh!) and he went out of his way to make her feel special. What a sweetie.
Edward does seem to have been very close to Eleanor indeed, doesn't he? Perhaps she could make him feel loved (not necessarily in an untoward sort of way), though if contemporary rumour thought there was something dodgy going on they had plenty of material. I wonder if Edward meant something by that gift of Tristan and Isolde? One could read all sorts of Freudian messages into that.
(Let's see if Blogger lets me comment for the first time in weeks! At least it didn't crash as soon as I tried to read the post, which is a good start!)
Wednesday, 1 July 2009 at 18:56:00 BST
STAG said...
just checking to see if this ancient windows ninety eight will actually allow me to comment. Yup, seems okay to me.
Now please allow me to state how wonderful your blog is. Very fascinating.
Thursday, 2 July 2009 at 07:36:00 BST
Kate: he really was a sweetie, wasn't he?? Bless him...
Carla: great to see you back, and touch wood, changing the comments template and removing the followers widget seems to be doing the trick, comment-wise.
I wonder if Eleanor was Ed's confidante, someone he felt he could trust absolutely, and that's why he spent so much time with her during the crises of 1326. Then again, I can see why some of their 'encounters' might have led some people to conclude that there was a lot more going on.
STAG: thank you for the lovely compliment, and great to see you here!
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Flower Shop, 110 Main Street, Carberry, MB
Reid Dickie
Crossing Third Avenue heading north
Manitoba's lone Heritage District features two buildings used extensively by various telephone systems. The building across the street at 121 Main was built by Manitoba Telephones and became the new home of the switchboard and telephone operators after 1939. The flower shop building was used by Bell Telephone company from 1906 to 1908 then it was taken over by Manitoba Government Telephones. Since 1980 it has been series of flower shops including Phyll's Flower Shop, Arlene's Floral Boutique and Flowers and Gifts.
Though thoroughly clad in metal siding now, beneath lurks another fine one-storey brick structure with flat roof. Unassuming and utilitarian, the building's facade is a symmetrical display of central entrance bracketed by large display windows. This side view shows the addition at the rear of the building.
Pa Tuckett's daughter Jane worked as a switchboard operator in this building for about six months before moving into the new telephone building across the street. "Jane had a sweet and very distinctive voice that people recognized on the street and on the phone," says Pa.
What's this series about?
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Tagged as bell telephones, carberry, flower shop, heritage, main street, manitoba government telephones
Modern Bakery, 42 Main Street, Carberry, MB
Next along Main Street…
Modern Bakery was constructed after 1896 and retains its intricate brick detailing, adding rich Romanesque Revival qualities to the only designated Heritage District in Manitoba. While the main floor accommodates large display windows and a cut-in entrance plus access to the second floor, it is on the second storey the lovely brickwork can still be seen.
Divided into three bays separated by bold corbelled pilasters with a window in each bay, the second storey reveals several interesting brick details. The plain brick cornice surmounts an area of indented bricks forming an appealing pattern across each bay. Below that is some delicate corbelling and a stringcourse of dog toothing. Each of the three windows has segmental arches with a keystone and drip moulding, their sills rough limestone.
In this vintage picture of the street, the bakery is the fifth building from the left. You can see it once sported a tall prominent parapet and elaborate cornice at the top of the first floor.
The building as long served Carberry as a bakery and cafe run by several families including the Cricks, Appels and Alders.
Pa Tuckett remembers the giant gooey cinnamon buns the bakery made. "You could smell them halfway down the block. Best advertising they had. And a pretty decent cup of joe to go with them."
Tagged as carberry, heritage district, main street, modern bakery
April 6, 2013 · 11:40 am
Forbes Building, 40 Main Street, Carberry, MB
More built heritage along Carberry's main drag.
Going by the brick detailing on the second floor facade, the Forbes Building and its neighbouring Kowalchuk Block are twin sisters linked at the adjoining wall. Design elements, such as the drip moulding, American bond, corbelling and segmental arches above the windows are shared by both buildings.
Notice the delicate wood frame detail between and above the individual panes.
The main floor is attractive with its recessed entrance surrounded by large display windows below a series of transoms. I suspect the entrance to its second floor is next door at the Kowalchuk Block.
The Forbes Building, erected in late 1890s, served as commercial home to two long-time Carberry businesses. Funeral directors J. B. Davey and Son were early occupants. Carberry Radio-Electric inhabited the space for a number of decades.
Pa Tuckett bought his first TV at Carberry Radio-Electric. "It was 1961 when I decided TV wasn't just a fad. The roof antennae blew off three times in the first year."
Tagged as carberry, carberry radio-electric, forbes building, heritage, j b davey and son, main street
Moon Apartments, 30 Main Street, Carberry, MB
In the exposed brickwork lives visible heritage.
Continuous rows of original 1890s brick buildings are exceedingly rare in Manitoba making the existing ones precious. Carberry boasts one of the best! Seven buildings with second-storey brickwork largely intact and completely visible comprise most of the block and Moon Apartments certainly adds to the heritage value.
This two-storey brick building, built in late 1890s, has served the community well with mixed uses and functions, both commercial and residential. Currently the ground floor features two storefronts with large display windows and access to the apartments above.
As visible on the second floor, the street facade offers a symmetrical three-bay structure divided by shallow brick pilasters. Employing Classical design elements, the facade dances with expressive ornamentation, achieved using masonry techniques. This picture of the middle window shows the various details. Starting with the simple flat brick cornice and the two-stepped corbels beneath it. The indented row and the dog toothed course run below. The tall second floor windows are accentuated with a continuous stringcourse of drip moulding (raised brick) and capped with radiating headers and smooth stone sills. Spread across the three bays, the moderate brickwork enlivens the whole building.
The building has been known by several names – Robertson Block, Natural Wellness Centre, Moon Block – and housed a multitude of commercial tenants and residents over the decades.
After Amelia, his wife of less than a year, died of the Spanish flu in 1918, Pa Tuckett sold their bungalow on Dufferin Street and moved into the Robertson Block, as it was then known. Rent was $7 a month for a furnished room. In apartment #3, Pa mourned his lost love.
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Tagged as brickwork, carberry, heritage district, main street, moon apartments, moon block
C.V.M. Cafe, 24 Main Street, Carberry, MB
Crossing the street now, we explore the heritage wonders to be found on the east side of Carberry's historic Main Street.
Starting at the south end of Main Street on the east side, today we find a modern Bank of Montreal and another new building housing an insurance office. These buildings occupy the area where the Western Hotel stood for many decades. The hotel was torn down in the early 1970s and a Chimo Lumberyard operated by Gerry Anderson was built on the site.
The parking lot next door was originally the site of the long demolished Victoria Hall Block which is the three-storey building in the picture above.
The next surviving heritage building houses C.V.M. Cafe which came into being during the Second World War. The cafe is named for its three original owners: A. R. Calvert, V. H. Vopni and M. P. Menlove. The place later became a Chinese restaurant operated by the Kwan Yuen family.
Beneath the unattractive blue vertical cladding is a brown-red brick structure built in the late 1890s that represents typical commercial facilities of the time. Highly visible at the south end of the row of brick buildings, the narrow, two-storey rectangular form of brick construction with flat roof has been expanded and modified over the years. Other functional features include the off-centre entrance on the ground floor and the trio of second floor windows.
Pa Tuckett recalls spending many an hour jawing with the other retired old boys over a coffee at the C.V.M. "You could always count on at least one other bullshitter to be there," Pa said.
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Tagged as 1890, carberry, cvm cafe, heritage district, main street, victoria hall block
Sid's Garage, 135 Main Street, Carberry, MB
Set back from the street, this antique store is the next point of interest in Manitoba's only designated Heritage District.
In 1931, Alf Lounsbury came to Carberry and worked as a mechanic alongside Pa Tuckett. Pa has fond memories of Alf. "He was ambitious, you know, he could see himself standing in the middle of his own garage with big showroom windows and every car part you would ever need. And that's where Alf wound up, in the middle of his dream. He was a success."
Alf Lounsbury, the real guy, operated the first Bituminous Paver in the area which was used on old Hwy #1 from Carberry to Brandon. Today we call the road PR 351. Alf later worked for Manitoba Hydro. Alf rented the B.A. Service Station next to Barrister's Garage in Carberry. Then he bought the building, tore it down and built his dream garage. That was 1949. Alf ran it for 33 years before selling it to Sid Parker, when it became Sid's Texaco Service and garnered its new and present name.
This early picture of the garage shows its basic utilitarian design: two large service doors and two large showroom windows bracket the central entrance. It appears Alf sold White Rose gasoline.
In the post-war years, people gained personal mobility and the age of the automobile began changing the landscape, not the least of which were filling stations and garages to feed and service the growing number of cars and trucks. Alf's low-slung, one-storey building suited this purpose well as did hundreds of others of similar design across the country.
Adaptable, today Sid's Garage houses a very good antique store called Off Beat n Antiques that's worth the 3 km drive off the Trans Canada Highway to visit.
What's this series all about?
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Tagged as alf lounsbury, carberry, heritage district, main street, sid parker, sid's garage
Manitoba Telephone System Building, 121 Main Street, Carberry, MB
Strolling along the main drag now we encounter a rare delight!
Before the days of dial telephones, which was long before the days of cell phones for anyone under 40, you turned a crank on your telephone and an actual human being asked what number you wanted to reach, dialed it for you and waited until you either got an answer or didn't. Actual humans!! We called them "operators." This happened daily in this building in Carberry and in others like it in most every little Manitoba town and village.
Plus, among the somber but elegant brick buildings along the street, this eye-catching pile served its purpose: to remind people to use the telephone because inside women you likely knew were waiting to connect you up. And, as they sat hunched over their switchboards, or switchboreds, listen in on your conversation as likely as not.
The Spanish Colonial Revival detail of the red adobe tile false roofs on three sides accentuates the compactness of the massing and the sweet roofline, one step, pilasters telling us when, all plain as plain can be. Yet it catches the eye and the ear, makes me want to call someone up, tell a few lies and see how quickly they get around town. Small town telephone roulette, let 'er spin!!
Contrasting with the stucco cladding is the red soldier course of standing brick around the windows and door. The chunky wide brackets under each fake roof give the roofs principle.
MTS built lots of these little buildings all over Manitoba in the late 1930s and during the war years. Carberry's was likely built in 1941, one of the few that I can think of remaining in southern Manitoba. Precious, spaced nicely between its neighbours to allow full access to all facades and a familiar landmark in downtown Carberry, the last telephone office before dial phones continues to be used as offices and still acts as a fanciful exclamation point along the street.
Pa Tuckett was twenty-three years old when he first talked on a telephone. He never owned a telephone until he was thirty-eight years old. His number in Carberry was 87.
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Tagged as carberry, main street, mts building, operators, Reid Dickie, switchboard
Carberry – North Cypress Library, 115 Main St., Carberry, MB
Our amble down Carberry's Main Street takes us past one of the town's most symbolic buildings.
While most of the buildings along Main Street have been used for numerous purposes, often overlapping, this compact little structure has served but two high-profile uses since it was built in 1938: federal post office and regional library.
The original building was the basic cube on the left of the picture. The addition complements the original building in style and materials. Overall, Art Deco describes the building's architecture. Popular into the 1940s for federal government buildings, the style easily adapted to small town requirements of size and functionality.
Elements defining Art Deco here are the boxy massing, flat roofline, well-defined geometric lines and the low-relief ornamentation. Tall windows surrounded by soldier courses of bricks and limestone sills, the limestone surround of the main entrance contrasting with the red-brown brick and the stepped pavilion of the entrance all exude simplicity and durability, modern practicality at its highest…for 1938.
Now used as a book return, the brass mail chute is original as is the date stone and frontispiece lamps. This little building continues its symbolic role in the Carberry community, not just as a library, but because of its intergenerational contribution to the heritage district.
For the first 25 years he lived in Carberry, Pa Tuckett got his mail through General Delivery. But in 1938 he acquired his first and only post office box: #123. Pa joked, "I asked for a harder number to remember but this is all they had."
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Bricks, Stones and So On Along Reid's Road
"Speed River, take me away, Speed River, take me away." – Gord Downie
"Life is a journey and where you are going is HERE and when you arrive is NOW." – Ram Dass
The Arcades of Hartney
In downtown Hartney, MB, prominent on a corner, stands this lovely old two-storey brick building. The series of arches formed by the brickwork under the cornice is called an arcade and Hartney has several arcades that attracted my heritage geekeye. You know the one.
Anyway, this is a particularly precise arcade, mixed and measured into the corbelled brickwork which continues along the exposed side of the place. The craftsmanship of the masonry overall on the building is exceptional, the crown on the end pilasters an excellent example.
Today its broad showroom windows light the Hart (ney) – Cam (eron RM) Museum. Incidentally, this building served as the bank location in an entertaining little movie called The Lookout Try to watch it.
Just down the block from the museum is another arcade. Cruelly painted and indulging itself in mid-peel mode, the brickwork still shines through. If you click and zoom the pic you can see that the original intent of the artisan who laid this arcade cannot be diminished by mere paint and hue.
Right next to the museum is another fine brick structure prompting awe with its deft and detailed design and execution. The three arches over the rounded windows form a sweeping, open arcade that gives the facade breath and life, "articulating and disambiguating the fenestration of the ground floor." The main floor is a whole other study in arches, dominant and submissive, abetted by alluring brickwork. That's another post for another late night.
Corbelling, dentils and aviated keystones enhance the arcade, the quality of the craftsmanship still evident and whole, a century after construction.
Wooden trestle bridge from abandoned rail line next to Hwy #23 just east of Elgin, MB with sunflowers as far as you can see. August 2012
No, it's the family name.
Miniota Main Street Brickwork
I am always attracted to exceptional brickwork, especially when it contrasts with the metal cladding favoured in many towns. The skyline of Miniota has a few shapes that resonate back to its birth and subsequent enterprise, its boomtown moment, a worthy endeavour and one to be encouraged elsewhere.
One side of Miniota's main drag has a series of facade rooflines that are replicated in brick. As in this picture, there are pointed and rounded shapes using header dentils and cornice, soft corbelling and interesting finishes and colour choices.
Just down the block two more one-storey brick commercial buildings constructed around the same time with the rounded brickwork and again interesting finishes.
Down the street is this official looking building with the pointed facade and the infrequent double dentil, the corner stepped-brick brackets, again infrequent and the American bond of the bricks inside the surmounting pediment, contrasting with the running bond of the rest of the pile. It has a story or two to tell, I would say.
Yup, usta be Uno. Just one house and this sign now.
Out there, lonesome, Mansard roof tumbledown, howling wind, rotting, swallows, lightning-ready, the rods, gulps, stones, falling away, sunken, sunk. Find it along MB Hwy 21 south of Hartney. Expect more visually inspired stuff from this place…all hush, hush for now!
No clue! You?
More restoration work happening in Spruce Woods Park after last summer's devastating flood. These are straw mats held down with webbing meant to restore some green growth along the road to stabilize the ditches. The thick grey floodcake that covered large areas of the park left by last year's floodwaters has been hauled away and these mats secured in place.
Some growth is already occurring. I'll report later in summer on the progress of this method.
I'm always on the road, passing back and forth through the vanishing point, getting out of the mighty Avenger, smelling the fresh prairie breezes, feeling the hot sun on my flesh, always curious about what's around the next corner, ever seeking the 'what was that?!' moment and often finding it. Every mile a safe mile.
Filed under Day Tripping, Heritage Buildings, Manitoba Heritage, Roadside Attractions
Tagged as arcades, bastard tombstone, brickwork, elgin, flood restoration, greg neptune, hartney, main street, Manitoba, mansard fieldstone, miniota, spruce woods park, stone house on a hill, straw mats, the lookout, trestle bridge, uno, usta be
Ray's Diner, 43 Main Street, Carberry, MB
Our next stop along Manitoba's only Heritage District gets us to Ray's Diner.
Obviously no longer Ray's Diner but still known as such for heritage purposes, 43 Main Street is much like its southerly neighbours as reported in my two previous posts in this series. A practical commercial space, also built about 1900, Ray's Diner is a one-storey structure with wide display windows flanking the central entrance, flat shed roof and stucco walls.
As you can see in this earlier picture, the place had some nice brick corbelling just below the cornice and elaborate brackets on the tall pilasters separating the buildings. "Modernized" now, meaning most of its heritage character has been covered over by cladding and fake stonework, the building still contributes to the historic nature of Carberry's Main Street.
Over the decades this location has housed numerous businesses including offices for auctioneer R. H. Lindsay, Knuckey's Barber Shop, T. D. Stickle's grocery, Al's Coffee Shop and a hardware store run by Cliff Addison.
Pa Tuckett, who had a head of thick, black hair, remembers jawing with Knuckey the Barber. People called him A. J. While discussing the major issues of early small town life, A. J. always gave his customers a clean cut and a sharp shave. "He never drew blood, not even once," affirms Pa.
Tagged as 43, carberry, heritage, main street, Manitoba, ray's diner, Reid Dickie
Switzer's Red and White Store, 39 Main Street, Carberry, MB
The next building in our jaunt through Manitoba's only Heritage District – Carberry's Main Street
Its original brickwork is caked over, a modest updating changed the windows and the entrance and smoothed away its character and history but the little space, known generationally as Switzer's Red and White Store, adds its own reverberation to Carberry's Historic Main Street.
This one-storey utilitarian storefront has housed numerous businesses, including implement dealers, butchers, grocers and furniture dealers since its construction around 1900. Similar in size and style to its neighbours – The Style Shop and Ray's Diner – Switzer's is typical of the type of adaptable and practical commercial buildings that sprang up all over rural Manitoba in its town building days.
In this picture from Carberry's early days, you can see the brick facade of Switzer's and its adjoining neighbours.
Pa Tuckett told me about Gregor, short for Gregorian, Mason who ran a butcher shop in this building. He said Mason was the best butcher he ever met, always did clean, safe and fast work and still had all his fingers after two decades wielding the saw and the blade. "That's the sign of a good butcher," Pa said.
Tagged as carberry, heritage district, main street, red and white store, Reid Dickie, switzer's
Nelson Butt Building, 31 Main Street, Carberry, MB
The fifth heritage building along the main drag is a beaut!
Although similar to its neighbour, the Murphy Block, the Nelson Butt Building makes a striking impression along Carberry's Main Street, Manitoba's only Heritage District, due to its distinctive design, use of colour and lack of alternation. Joseph R. Thompson built both these commercial establishments; the Butt Building was erected about 1896 and over the decades housed a variety of businesses including law offices, a bank and a butcher shop. In its early days it was called the Joseph Thompson Building. The place earned its present name by being home to the jewellery store of Nelson J. Butt from 1946 until 1992.
The streetview of the building is a symmetrical dance of depth where brick arc and wood angle sway and commingle in sweet baths of white or red, figure and ground. The dancing balance is embodied in the superb stepped corbelling along and below the cornice, enlightened by large display windows that bare and entice, sidelights and transoms in the recessed entry which promises unknown delights within. Three sensuous white arches pride the roofline and the two pairs of second floor windows. In this early picture you can see the front elevation is virtually the same today as it was when it was constructed 116 years ago.
A little tearfully, Pa Tuckett recalls the first time he set eyes on Amelia Lusk, a teller at the bank that once occupied the Butt Building. She was new in town, from Souris, and had raven hair that shone in all kinds of light, almond-shaped pale grey eyes with thick lashes and a reluctant smile. She took Pa's breath away and left him trembling and speechless at the wicket, unsure what to do with his paycheque for $14.42. It was 1917. They got married a year later.
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Tagged as carberry, heritage district, main street, Manitoba, nelson butt building, Reid Dickie
Royal Canadian Legion, 25 Main Street, Carberry, MB
Here's part three of our jaunt back in time on Carberry's Main Street.
Modest, sturdy and practical, one-storey brick buildings sprang up in most growing Manitoba towns, supporting a variety of commercial and social uses. Built in the 1890s as two separate long narrow buildings, Carberry has an excellent example of utilitarian town building. The business roles of the two buildings changed frequently until they were merged in the mid-1950s and became the Royal Canadian Legion, a hub of social interaction in the little town. Pa Tuckett has fond memories of "bending a few with the old boys" at the Legion.
Though primarily functional, this little one-storey has a few elements of interest. The buildings are both wider than usual, have flat roofs, brick walls and stone and brick foundations. A shallow pilaster indicates the original border between the two spaces. Their interiors are deep and open and now connected with a partial opening in the separating wall.
In this picture from Carberry's early days, the Legion is the second building in. It had lovely brick corbelling along the cornice and well-defined indented entrances. It's possible some of that brickwork still exists behind the blue cladding above the entrance.
Today the little buildings, now united behind a single facade, sport the bright red Royal Canadian Legion signage and the Canadian flag flying above. My picture doesn't do it justice. It inspires a disproportionate amount of awe for its size. Nestled between the Charlie Sear Building and the Murphy Block (the next post in this series), perhaps its role bringing continuity to the heritage ambience of the street accounts for some of that.
Tagged as brick, carberry, commercial buildings 1890s, district, heritage, main street, Reid Dickie, royal canadian legion
Charlie Sear Building, 19-21 Main Street, Carberry, MB
This is part two of our stroll up one side and down the other of Carberry's Main Street, Manitoba's only Heritage District.
When he began working at Sear's Garage in Carberry, Pa Tuckett was just a lad of eighteen. He started out as a "mechanically-inclined grease monkey" and wound up being "the best mechanic for fifty miles." Pa always said one of the best parts of the job was going to work in the great building that local contractor and entrepreneur James White had built between 1903 and 1905.
Located prominently on a double lot on Carberry's Main Street, the Romanesque Revival style Charlie Sear Building makes a striking contribution to Manitoba's only Heritage District. Large and elegantly imposing, the brick two-storey building on a stone foundation was designed specifically to distribute and service farm machinery and vehicles and provide commercial space to other businesses. Besides Sear's Garage, several businesses and agencies have inhabited the place over the decades including Reilly's Hardware, Plumbing and Electrical Supplies, Spirit Sands Support Service, Home Hardware and Central Garage.
The place sports many attractive exterior elements, not the least of which is a gorgeous street elevation. The front facade's symmetrical second floor features several defining elements of Romanesque Revival style. These include the three large arched openings with keystones surmounting pairs of windows, the corbelled and arcaded cornice with a central arcaded pediment, the corner pilasters with raised capitals and the horizontal banding accentuated by rusticated stone window sills. The tiny off-centre window is a curious anomaly to the otherwise balanced facade.
Unfortunately the appearance of the Sear Building we see today is a muted phantom of its original grandeur. Somewhere in its 110 year history the workmanship and decorative detailing of the brickwork was severely obscured by a covering of plaster. This archival picture of the building shows its original design and beautiful detailing. Instead of sharp-edged brick elements that jump out, today we get an almost adobe feeling from the place, fuzzy and bulbous. In my picture of the front and side of the building, you can see some covering is falling off revealing red bricks beneath.
Nonetheless, the Charlie Sear Building is one more reason for heritage buffs to visit Carberry this year. The living, changing history of Carberry is written large and lovingly, not just on Main Street, but all over the little town and its outskirts. I have posted often about the area's heritage aspects which you can access on this blog by selecting Carberry from my Categories menu. Happy heritaging!
Tagged as carberry, charlie sear building, heritage district, history buff, main street, Manitoba, pictures, Reid Dickie, romanesque revival
Carberry – Manitoba Heritage Gem!
Most prairie towns in Manitoba have experienced ongoing physical renewal over the last 130 years with older commercial and residential buildings burned or torn down and replaced with new structures. The faces of Main Streets all over the province are in continuous flux. Exceptions to this process are rare and precious and one in particular stands out – Carberry, Manitoba.
Located 42 kms east of Brandon and three kms south of the Trans Canada Highway, Carberry bucked the typical raze-and-build trend of most small towns and proudly retained most of its original brick and mortar architecture from its formative years in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Because of this, Carberry has garnered the distinction of having Manitoba's first and, so far, only Heritage District. Designated by the provincial heritage people, two blocks of the town's Main Street comprise the district, which includes 28 buildings, all of them deemed significant for their architectural and historical value. It's a little slice of heritage heaven.
As a bit of a teaser, this shot shows one section of Carberry's Main Street – a continuous row of original brick buildings sporting the elaborate decorative brickwork of the era. Though the first floor facades have been changed over the decades to accommodate various tenants and owners, the second floors remain mostly original, an exceedingly rare example of an early small town Manitoba streetscape.
Here's my plan: I have photographed all the buildings in the Heritage District and plan to develop written descriptions for each, posting them individually on this blog over the summer. With my trusty JVC Everio I have shot video of the district which I will edit and post on my YouTube channel soon along with this series.
Its central location makes Carberry a great destination for daytrippers all over southern Manitoba. Besides its amazing Main Street, Carberry has several other heritage gems. I have blogged about their White house, Lyon house, agricultural display building, octagonal silo, St. Agnes Anglican Church, Carberry United Church Be sure to check out the Carberry Plains Museum and the building it is housed in.
I have spent a lot of time in and around Carberry over the past few years. Spruce Woods Park is just 28 kms south of Carberry, Criddle/Vane Homestead and Camp Hughes are nearby.
For clarity, this project is of my own volition and I have no connection, financial or otherwise, to Carberry or any business in the area. I do have an appreciation of its architectural uniqueness and its location in the world, both of which motivate this series. My first post will be in a few days. As ever, I welcome all feedback.
Filed under Carberry, Heritage Buildings, Manitoba Heritage, Pioneers
Tagged as carberry, gem, heritage district, hwy 5, main street, main street row of brick buildings, Manitoba, prairie town, Reid Dickie, series
Lucky, Very Lucky
"We never know how we will affect people by just being who we are." – Chris Scholl
Looking back over my six decades as Reid Dickie, I see patterns that define who I am. The older I get and the more honest I am with myself, the more evident my patterns become. Recurring events and themes that were confusing and unhappy at the time now make sense in the long view. By seeking out our patterns, we make ourselves wise, wise about ourselves and others, wise about the world. The trade-off in this life is wisdom for youth. As our bodies age and start to limit us, we are given the opportunity to become wise, to blossom mentally, possibly spiritually. Wisdom is not guaranteed though. It takes work.
A major pattern of my life has been luck. Starting when I was a little boy I can recall my father often saying to me that I had a lucky horseshoe up my bum. When your father tells you something like that, you tend to take it literally which I did until Mom explained what he meant. Dad was trying to tell me what a lucky boy I was. In the long view, he was right, as ever! Dad's wisdom flowed smoothly and naturally through him. He inspired me more and more intensely the older and wiser he got. Every day I aspire to become like him. I have my work cut out for me.
Whether I was born lucky or grew into it, the horseshoe became a lifelong symbol and reminder of my good fortune. It certainly contributed to the notion that we create our own luck. Here's an example of creating my own luck.
I am one of those incredibly lucky people who knew from a young age what I wanted to do with my life, what I wanted to "be." When I was eleven I decided I would become a radio announcer, more specifically a disc jockey. I remember earnestly discussing this with my parents when I was about 12. Although, as parents do, they both had higher aspirations for their only child: Mom wanted a doctor and Dad wanted…huh? Dad wanted me to be myself. Whoever that was or would be, that's what Dad wanted me to "be." Thanks Dad. Though Mom persisted good-naturedly with the doctor thing, we all decided that if I wanted to be a disc jockey, I'd be a damn good one and go to school to learn how it was done well. And I did.
After two years studying Radio and television Arts at Ryerson in Toronto, I got my first radio job in Flin Flon at CFAR where I was DJ, news reader, commercial writer and general joeboy. I loved it! I had made the right choice. Nine months later, in 1971, I got on at CKX in Brandon where I did the all-night show for 23 months. Five nights a week, starting at 1 a.m., I played whatever music I wanted for four hours then two hours of country music from 5 to 7 a.m. and I was done. I loved it! In the summer of 1973 I got a job in a major market – Winnipeg on CFRW-FM. At the time CFRW-FM simulcast the AM station for 18 hours a day and let me free range in their FM band for the other six. Again I could play or do whatever I wanted…and did. I loved it!
Hairy and happy, this is a picture of me in the CFRW-FM studio about 1974. There are more pics of me from my radio days in the Gallery.
For a short time after I got there, CFRW-FM studios were in the Confederation Building on the bend on Winnipeg's Main Street. The station moved across the street to the old CKY radio studios near Main and McDermot. (The building is gone now.) The FM studio happened to be the very same studio where the CKY DJs who inspired me to work in radio did their shows in the early 1960s. I had come full circle. I had been devoured by the medium and spit out nightly on air, free to do and be whoever I wanted in a major market! It was the fruition of my dream from when I was eleven, a little bit of heaven, a luxury that few DJs thereafter ever got to experience. I created my radio fantasy for nearly two years before CHUM from Toronto bought both stations, turning FM into heavily-formatted CHIQ-FM.
CHUM buying CFRW-FM was another irony of my radio career. When I attended Ryerson in Toronto, I listened to CHUM-FM which was a terrific free-form radio station, a creative leader. CHUM-FM inspired the style of radio I would do in my early career but, in Winnipeg, CHUM was eliminating free-form radio in favour of tight formats.
Since its inception in the 1930s, FM radio had largely been a commercial mystery to broadcasters. Its stereo capacity attracted classical music but it wasn't until the 1960s that FM's commercial potential began to be exploited. First it was free-form radio, alternative, hippie stations that played lots of new music, had no format and played no hits. This was the first hint that FM held enormous possibilities to make money. By the mid-1970s FM had come under the thumb of the "format geniuses" and the end of free-form loomed. I was among the last DJs on a commercial station to create radio without formats or any kind of restrictions, other than playing the Club Beer commercials after 10 p.m. College and university radio stations would provide the next opportunity for people to create free-form radio. I was very lucky.
CFRW-FM added to my luck because it was there I met Linda. She worked in various capacities at the station, one of which was to give me a wake-up call about 1:00 every the afternoon. Linda lived in my neighbourhood so we started to hang out together, fell madly in love and spent the next thirty-three years together. Again, lucky, lucky!
Since getting online ten years ago, I have been contacted out of the blue by three former radio listeners who remember my work at CFRW-FM. All three claimed that my words and music left an indelible impression on their lives, whether it was their taste in music, their outlook on life or as an example of personal freedom. Recently one former listener contacted me and I hope he won't mind if I quote his first email: I just wanted to let you know that you had a most profound affect on my life. I listened to your radio show on CFRW FM nearly every night. I`m talking about the show you did from 8pm -2am. Your words and music have stayed with me in my life. Right now I can barely type these words as memories keep flooding back. I am glad I was able to finally tell these things to you. Thank you so much. And remember "the harder you pull, the tighter it gets".
I was surprised, humbled and overwhelmed by this email. I am enormously grateful to this man for sharing with me. Talk about a day-maker! As my friend Chris pointed out in this post's opening quote, we never know the positive change we make in the world by simply being ourselves, by following our bliss. But every once in a while…
Lucky, very lucky!!
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The Arches of Russell
A drive down Main Street in Russell, MB comes with a real visual treat. The story goes that these wooden arches were rescued from Dauphin when they were tearing down the old arena. Just 7 days away from becoming land fill, a senior Dauphin resident brought forward a photograph of the then-new wooden arches arriving by train. In the picture a clear stamp indicated the 32 ply nailed wooden laminate arches came from a former Russell business, the Glu-Rite Rafters Company, owned by Carl Mantie. It is now believed that this is a homecoming for the massive structures. The arches truly are both historical evidence of superior craftsmanship and modern engineering genius. That's mostly what the town's website says. Serendipitous, inventive and a fine recycling of history – huzzah to Russell!
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Oklahoma State University business and engineering graduates Haley Marie Keith and Kevin Keith have been selected by Forbes magazine to be included in its 2021 list of 30 Under 30 standout manufacturing and industry entrepreneurs under 30 years of age. The married couple were still OSU students when they developed the business MITO Material Solutions based on OSU licensed and patented technology that incorporates graphene additives into composite materials such as epoxies or polymers, making them substantially stronger and lighter.
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Depeche Mode cover David Bowie's "Heroes" at kick off of Global Spirit Tour: Setlist + Video
Last night's show in Stockholm marked the first date of the band's 2017 world tour
David Bowie spun off this mortal coil more than a year ago, but his influence continues to ripple throughout culture, whether it be through a tribute tour, a film reboot, a vinyl reissue, or any number of covers. Another of the latter popped up last night, when Depeche Mode offered up their own rendition of "Heroes".
Last night's show at the Friends Arena in Stockholm was the band's first stop on their massive Global Spirit Tour, which is set to run through the end of October. The cover came during the show's encore, which followed a performance that oscillated between old staples and cuts from their latest album Spirit. Later this year, they'll be joined by Warpaint.
Watch their reverent, subdued take on Bowie's classic above (via Slicing Up Eyeballs). See last night's complete setlist below.
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Research Is Powerful: In our Western Culture, for years' coconut oil was believed to be an unhealthy or bad fat. Because it is approximately 90% a saturated fat, this led to the thinking that there were no health benefits of coconut oil and that it contributed to heart disease, obesity, cancer, diabetes and many other diseases. The truth is, coconut oil's saturated fats consist of Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs) which are a coconut oil benefit. (50% of its fat is Lauric Acid which is also found only in breast milk.) Coconut oil is sometimes referred to as a "super food" because of its high amounts of healthy fat. What a difference research and knowledge can make! Understand the Research: Now we know that a coconut oil benefit is that it is a healthy fat and is mostly Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCTs) which provide many healing qualities. Conversely, there are also Long Chain Triglycerides (LCTs) which don't work in the body the same as MCTs as their composition is different. Unfortunately, Americans generally consume a lot of LCTs. These are digested but are not absorbed until our bodies can break them down and many times they become fat stored in our bodies. LCTs do not have the same supportive health properties as MCFAs.(2) Here's the difference: MCTs, when ingested, go directly from our digestive system to our liver where they are metabolized and provide an immediate energy boost.
When we consume these MCTs, our bodies then break down the fats from our food into fatty acids called Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFAs). They are easily digested and converted into energy for our muscles and organs. A coconut oil benefit is that it is not stored as fat like other oils. Another benefit of coconut, specifically Lauric Acid, is that although it can increase serum cholesterol, it increases HDL, not LDL.(3)Like LCTs, most fats go through many steps to be processed while MCFAs only go through 3 steps. This means your body is not using its enzymes and bile for MCT digestion. Therefore, a benefit of coconut oil is it is almost immediately used as fuel for our bodies and not as stored as fat...in truth, it will actually help your body burn fat. It also has antimicrobial properties for disease prevention and oral cleansing, to improve the immune system, brain functions, and heart health. It supports both healthy skin and hair and can be used for homemade products and many remedies.
Coconut oil's benefits are obviously validated in research and experience. Yes, your body needs fat daily...healthy fat. Coconut oil is a healthy fat that I love and encourage you to easily include in your daily nutrition and routine: for cooking, in smoothies, as a coffee creamer, for hair and skin care or for its antimicrobial/fungal qualities. It can help protect the immune system, increase metabolism, energy production and more.
Here are some of coconut oil's many benefits.
Energy: It increases energy, especially when compared to other foods. It's MCFAs are easily digested and quickly available for energy. Your metabolism is affected and you more efficiently burn this fat for maximum sustained energy output. A great boost for your exercise and daily routine.
Digestion: It helps in digestion as the body doesn't need a lot of energy to processes it. Your liver processes it so your digestive system is not busy producing a lot of bile and enzymes to do all of the work... because the liver is not releasing a lot of bile, even if you do not have a gall bladder, it transforms into ketones to be used as another source of energy.
Anti-Aging: Coconut oil can help minimize free radical damage, thus, keeping inflammation down and preventing you from aging too fast. It increases collagen production and helps detox the liver to reduce the effects of aging. Also, antioxidant levels are higher and antioxidants play a key role in anti-aging.(6) The coconut oil benefit of increasing collagen production helps skin stay softer and more supple.
Heart Health: Coconut oil can help lower LDL and help you avoid any of the statin drugs on the market. It can help you heal and may help you stay away from the nutrient-depleting prescriptions for high cholesterol. It can help prevent blood clots and provide a healthier environment for your heart.
Food: Use in your smoothies, cooking (has a higher smoke point), baking and use in place of other fats in food preparation and consumption. It's a replacement for cream in your coffee and can be used to make mayonnaise. It is solid at room temperature and softens and becomes liquid as warmed.
Skin and Hair: This is a great skin and hair conditioner. It blends well for homemade remedies for sun protection/aftercare, baths, conditioning and strengthening hair, great for makeup removal and for blending with essential oils for massage and comfort. It can be used to make baby lotion, to help whiten teeth and for cleansing your mouth of bacteria.
Household Uses and Cleaners: You can make your own bug repellents, soaps, and cleaners and add it to your dog treats recipe.
- Raw: It is not denatured or heated--best to eat in smoothies, for example, and for hair and skin, not cooking. - Centrifuge Extracted Organic: It has not been chemically treated, no GMO and has not been altered or refined. It is made from fresh coconuts and then gently expeller pressed and not heated over 104 degrees F or 40C. - Extra Virgin: There is some loss of antioxidants from the cold press process, but still an excellent oil. - Refined: This oil has been through heating and/or a chemical process and has lost many of the benefits of coconut oil.