A couple of years ago I was hired to make the casket Emmett Till was buried in for a movie that was filming locally. Of course I was familiar with the story but did some additional research before beginning the build to make it as authentic as possible. That led me down a rabbit warren of stories about his life and all the other people involved. Not that it mattered to anyone but me, but I sourced the wood I used from a building that was built in the late 40's.
The Emmett Till Interpretive Center has had to completely remove their sign because every time it goes up it's destroyed. The steel historical marker has been replaced multiple times also.
No tears or sympathy for her.
p.s. Thank you for the link chancery.
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 8:38 pm
by AndyinPA
Good link.
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2023 8:51 pm
by chancery
sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 8:31 pm
A couple of years ago I was hired to make the casket Emmett Till was buried in for a movie that was filming locally. Of course I was familiar with the story but did some additional research before beginning the build to make it as authentic as possible. That led me down a rabbit warren of stories about his life and all the other people involved. Not that it mattered to anyone but me, but I sourced the wood I used from a building that was built in the late 40's.
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2023 7:19 pm
by MsDaisy 2
I just saw an obit in the local paper for a woman who was a receptionist at the same clinic I worked at for many years. She was the bomb, the one everyone went to when anything fucked up and she'd have it right in no time. Very sad...
Who are these ones who would lead us now
To the sound of a thousand guns
Who'd storm the gates of hell itself
To the tune of a single drum?
Where are the girls of the neighborhood bars
Whose loves were lost at sea
In the hills of France and on German soil
From Saigon to Wounded Knee?
Who come from long lines of soldiers
Whose duty was fulfilled
In the words of a warrior's will
And protocol
Where are the boys in their coats of blue
Who flew when their eyes were blind?
Was God in town for the Roman games
Was he there when the deals were signed?
Who are the kings in their coats of mail
Who rode by the cross to die?
Did they all go down into worthiness?
Is it wrong for a king to cry?
And who are these ones who would have us now
Whose presence is concealed
Whose nature is revealed
In a time bomb?
Last of all you old sea dogs
Who travel after whale
You'd storm the gates of hell itself
For the taste of a mermaid's tail
Who come from long lines of skippers
Whose duty was fulfilled
In the words of a warrior's will
And protocol
I loved Gordon. I had many of his albums and I saw him in concert in 1973 at University of Idaho in Moscow when I was a young airman stationed at Fairchild AFB. I still have the guitar sheet music for If You Could Read My Mind that I bought in 1970 when I was 16.
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Posted: Tue May 02, 2023 9:32 am
by Tiredretiredlawyer
He had such a distinctive voice!
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2023 7:26 am
by RTH10260
Former world and Olympic sprint champion Tori Bowie dies at 32
American won gold in the 100m at 2017 world championships
Athlete hailed as ‘source of light’ by fellow Olympic champion
Tom Lutz
Wed 3 May 2023 14.40 BST
The former Olympic and world champion sprinter Tori Bowie has died at the age of 32, her management company confirmed on Wednesday.
“My heart breaks for the family of Tori Bowie,” wrote the three-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on Twitter. “A great competitor and source of light. Your energy and smile will always be with me. Rest in peace.”
Bowie was found dead at her home in Orlando, Florida after the local sheriff’s department said they went “for a well-being check of a woman in her 30s who had not been seen or heard from in several days.” The department said they were not treating the death as suspicious.
Pete Brown, co-writer of 'Sunshine of Your Love,' 'White Room' for rock group Cream, dies at 82
NEW YORK (AP) — Songwriter and poet Pete Brown, who co-wrote “Sunshine of Your Love” and “White Room” for the short-lived rock supergroup Cream in the 1960s, has died. He was 82.
The London-based Brown died of cancer late Friday, according to a post on his Facebook page.
A poet who worked in the same circles as Allen Ginsberg and Spike Milligan, Brown was asked by drummer Ginger Baker to help write songs for Cream, a band he had formed with guitarist Eric Clapton and bass player Jack Bruce.
He also helped write the group's song “I Feel Free,” and formed a songwriting partnership with Bruce after Cream broke up that lasted more than four decades.
___ This story has been edited to correct the name of the song “I Feel Free.”
Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers
One of my favorite things I ever assigned at The New York Observer was a story about Martin Amis moving to Brooklyn, written by @xlorentzen You can read it here: https://martinamisweb.com/interviews_fi ... stAmis.pdf
The story was about writerly insecurity (not Amis’s but the insecurities of all the Brooklyn writers who would admire and also resent him once he entered their turf.) initially, he didn’t want to talk to Xian for the sorry [story].
But after our reporters had contacted approximately 873 of this friends he was both exasperated and amused and agreed to an interview. A week later…
I go to some real estate event for work and Jared Kushner, my boss then and the publisher of the Observer, corners me. Says he has issues with the cover story. “Nobody knows who fucking Martin Amis is,” he says.
I told him everyone who read The New York Observer (which covered politics, real estate and finance but was also, heavily, an arts newspaper) knew who Amis was. You don’t, I said, because you don’t see the point of reading novels.
The story itself is very funny and well done because @xlorentzen is a brilliant writer. When Xian left the Observer to go to the LRB, he left me a copy of Amis’s MONEY, inscribed with a joke about doing coke off it. Amis would have liked it, I think.
RIP Tina, your music will live forever!