No. 484
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
August 14, 2020
alias: FOUNTAIN, PALMER, PURDY
“The Witches’ Cove,” Follower of Jan Mandijn
This week's Link Dump will leave you on the edge of your seat!
In one manner or other.
Who the hell was Bible John?
Why the hell did this woman tickle so many chins?
What the hell was the Hollinwell Incident?
What the hell is the Waffle Rock?
Indigenous Australians had banana farms.
Meanwhile, in the world of paddleboarding goats...
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Strange Company - 8/14/2020
There are so many questions and things to ponder when considering the Borden case in its entirety, but let’s just …
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Lizzie Borden: Warps and Wefts - 8/8/2020
Welsh coal miner Dic Penderyn was hanged on this date in 1831 to crush a labor rising. Richard Lewis was his real name — he got his nickname from the village of his residence, Penderyn, which is also true of Wales’s most famous whisky — dug carbon out of the ground to serve the mighty […]
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Executed Today - 8/13/2020
The Web of Arachne
by Fernand Le Quesne
(1856 - 1932)
Colorized by Curtis Byrne
(Click image to enlarge)
HE WEB OF ARACHNE
COLORIZED.
It's great to see what this painting may have originally looked like.
As I recently hung my framed print of The Web of Arachne, by Fernand Le Quesne (1856 - 1932), in my new place, I wondered why the artist didn't colorize it? Then I
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Soapy Smith's Soap Box - 8/4/2020
John Dilleber was a wealthy 28-year-old wholesale liquor dealer who lived and worked in New York City. In June 1975, he divorced his wife, left his home, and took up residence at the Westminster Hotel on 16th Street.
It was Dilleber’s habit, after dinner, to wander the halls of the hotel while smoking a cigar. Romaine Dillon, another of the Westminster Hotel’s outcast residents, was much
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Murder By Gaslight - 8/8/2020
As a social realist painter, William Glackens often depicted scenes of day-to-day life he witnessed in city parks, particularly Washington Square Park. (Makes sense; he lived on Washington Square South in the early 1900s.) This time, he took his inspiration from Central Park. “The Drive, Central Park” was completed in 1905 and likely shows the […]
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Ephemeral New York - 8/10/2020
[Editor’s note: Guest writer, Peter Dickson, lives in West Sussex, England and has been working with microfilm copies of The Duncan Campbell Papers from the State Library of NSW, Sydney, Australia. The following are some of his analyses of what he has discovered from reading these papers. Dickson has contributed many transcriptions to the Jamaica Family […]
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