#Mary Doyle Keefe

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Norman Rockwell and the model for Rosie the Riveter, his neighbor and a telephone operator, Mary Doyle Keefe around 1950

Norman Rockwell's Saturday Evening Post 1943 cover featuring Rosie the Riveter

J. Howard Miller's model for his version of "Rosie the Riveter" was Naomi Parker Fraley.

The women in both posters soon were known as "Rosie the Riveter" after musicians Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb released a popular song with the same title in 1943. Its lyrics say, in part, "All the day long, whether rain or shine / She's a part of the assembly line / She's making history / Working for victory / Rosie the Riveter."

According to The New York Times, the poster was initially only displayed in the Westinghouse Electric Corporation plant to deter absenteeism and strikes among female workers, who were still not being paid equally to their male counterparts. However, after the poster was published nationally in the early 1980s, it became a symbol of the feminist movement and one of the most recognizable images in pop-culture history.

So Rockwell's version of "Rosie the Riveter" was the more famous "Rosie" during the war and for forty years until Miller's poster was pulled out of the Westinghouse warehouse during the 1980s.

Mary Doyle Keefe

Naomi Parker Fraley

#rosie the riveter #J. Howard Miller #Naomi Parker Fraley #Norman Rockwell #Mary Doyle Keefe

[artmialma]

Norman Rockwell and the model for Rosie the Riveter, his neighbor and a telephone operator, Mary Doyle Keefe

1950

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Edward Elderma

[recherchestetique]

Norman Rockwell and the model for Rosie the Riveter, his neighbor and a telephone operator, Mary Doyle Keefe around (1950)

#norman rockwell #illustrator

[gregarnott]

Norman Rockwell and the model for Rosie the Riveter, his neighbor and a telephone operator, Mary Doyle Keefe around 1950

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The real Rosie the Riveter dies at 92 - Mary Doyle Keefe

April 22, 2015

The 1940s were a pinnacle era for women in industry. During the war effort, everyone played a role, and millions of women worldwide gladly picked up the skills needed to keep their countries moving as the war played out. As such, there was no shortage of artwork created to help inspire girls and women to join the effort. One of the most famous pieces of art from this time is “Rosie the Riveter,” a name that became synonymous for handy-women and female inventors and engineers.

The original Rosie the Riveter was a painting by Norman Rockwell, and was published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. The model in the painting was 19 year-old Mary Doyle Keefe, who just died today at age 92.

Although “Rosie’s” name has long been incorrectly associated with another famous image by J. Howard Miller (called, “We Can Do It!”), the original was published in the May 29, 1943 edition of the Post. It’s currently displayed at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas. Keefe spent much of her life representing the painting that made her famous.

However, strict copyright on the painting made it appear less and less in popular culture, until recently (meanwhile, Miller’s image continued to gain popularity).

Keefe was a telephone operator, not a riveter; regardless, she was paid a whopping $10 for appearing in the painting, and went on to share her story and experiences during the war with others throughout her life. The painting also inspired many others that showcased women participating in factory work, and is often attributed to helping portray women in industry in a new light.

And as one of millions of women who have been undoubtedly inspired by these images, we salute you, Mary! Thanks for all you did for America and the women who followed in your footsteps.

http://thenewartemis.com/2015/04/22/the-real-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-92

#Rosie the Riveter #Norman Rockwell #Mary Doyle Keefe

[britomart]

ok helloo i wasn’t sure if i was going to post this but i listed them out anyway so here it is,,,, more or less every book i read in 2021 (under the cut for ridiculous length)

a study in scarlet by arthur conan doyle, slouching towards bethlehem, the miniaturist by jessie burton, the stranger by albert camus, dirk gently’s holistic detective agency by douglas adams, the double by fyodor dostoevsky, the kite runner by khaled hosseini, the empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo, one day in the life of ivan denisovich by aleksandr solzhenitsyn, rhubaiyat of omar khayyam, say nothing by patrick radden keefe, the martian by andy weir, my sister the serial killer by oyinkan braithwaite, the last wish by andrzej spakowski, the martian by andy weir, flowers for algernon by daniel keyes, night sky with exit wounds by ocean vuong, the sailor who fell with grace from the sea by yukio mishima, the yellow wallpaper by charlotte perkins gilman, the adventures of sherlock holmes by arthur conan doyle, crush by richard siken, stoner by john williams, the buried giant by kazuo ishiguro, frog and toad are friends by arnold lobel, ruin and rising by leigh bardugo, the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky, the communist manifesto by marx and engels, never let me go by kazuo ishiguro, always human by ari north, heartstopper by alice oseman, red white and royal blue by casey mcquiston, perceval by chretien de troyes, these witches don’t burn by isabel sterling, princess princess ever after by kay o’neill, lord of the flies by william golding, legendborn by tracy deonn, the lais of marie de france, diary of a cricket god by shamini flint, if not winter: fragments of sappho translated by anne carson, bloom by kevin panetta, kiki’s delivery service by eiko kadono, something to talk about by meryl wilsner, normal people by sally rooney, useless magic by florence welch, giovanni’s room by james baldwin, letters to a young poet by rainer maria rilke, interior chinatown by charles yu, the umbrella academy by gerard way, king artus translated by curt leviant, solitaire by alice oseman, the tea dragon society by kay o’neill, let all the children boogie by sam j. miller, sir gawain and the green knight (various translations), dutch romances iii: five interpolated romances from the lancelot compilation, morien translated by jessie weston, watchmen by alan moore, growing up aboriginal in australia edited by anita heiss, the borrowed by chan ho-kei, the tale of two lovers by aeneas sylvius piccolomini, love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez, the complete poems of william blake, the catcher in the rye by j.d. salinger, the waves by virginia woolf, the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne, oscar wilde and a death of no importance by gyles brandreth, a portrait of the artist as a young man by james joyce, the wind in the willows by kenneth grahame, odes to common things by pablo neruda, the promised neverland by kaiu shirai, fifth sun by camilla townsend, the poetry of pablo neruda, are you listening? by tillie walden, if beale street could talk by james baldwin, the color purple by alice walker, this one summer by mariko tamaki, a certain hunger by chelsea g. summers, the years by virginia woolf, lore olympus by rachel smythe, the mysterious affair at styles by agatha christie, le lai de lanval by marie de france, murder on the links by agatha christie, mary ventura and the ninth kingdom by sylvia plath, the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera, the last unicorn by peter s. beagle, post-laureate idyls by oscar fay adams, complete poems and selected letters of john keats, if they come for us by fatimah asghar, white tears/brown scars by ruby hamad, thousand cranes by yasunari kawabata, sonnets from the portuguese by elizabeth barrett browing, simon vs the homo sapiens agenda, in the blood by melbourne tapper, kairo-ko by natsume soseki, the arthurian handbook by norris j. lacy, passing by nella larsen, minor feelings by cathy park hong, carol by patricia highsmith, jews dont count by david baddiel, picnic at hanging rock by joan lindsay, black cats and four leaf clovers by harry oliver, because the internet by gretchen mcculloch, strangers on a train by patricia highsmith, wolf children by mamoru hosoda, richard iii by william shakespeare, 2001: a space odyssey by arthur c. clarke, the time machine by h.g. wells, gone with the wind by margaret mitchell, norse mythology by neil gaiman, howl’s moving castle by diane wynne jones, ziggy stardust and me by james brandon, the boy the mole the fox and the horse by charlie murray, the secret world of arriety by hiromasa yonebayashi, loveless by alice oseman, mrs dalloway by virginia woolf, the crucible by arthur miller, the day of the triffids by john wyndham, where angels fear to tread by e.m. forster, lancelot and the lord of the distant isles by patricia terry, summer of salt by katrina leno, go tell it on the mountain by james baldwin, pride and prejudice by janes austen, the rise and fall of the dinosaurs by steve brusatte, the bell jar by sylvia plath, the little prince by antoine de saint-exupery, oliver twist by charles dickens, the song remains the same by andrew ford and anni heino, the post office girl by stefan zweig, moll flanders by daniel defoe, a room with a view by e.m. forster, of mice and men by john steinbeck, rita hayworth and the shawshank redemption by stephen king, willow by mariko tamaki, at the clinic by sally rooney, fierce femmes and notorious liars by kai cheng thom, an artist of the floating world by kazuo ishiguro, close range by annie proulx, fear by stefan zweig, much ado about nothing by william shakespeare, call me by your name by andre aciman, six of crows by leigh bardugo, clap when you land by elizabeth acevedo, the joy luck club by amy tan, between the acts by virginia woolf, the narrative of john smith by arthur conan doyle, we need to talk about kevin by lionel shriver, the way of the househusband by kousuke oono, the fourteenth letter by claire evans, selected stories by stefan zweig, nick and charlie by alice oseman, the fellowship of the ring by j.r.r. tolkien, the humans by matt haig, no one is talking about this by patricia lockwood, the age of innocence by edith wharton, on a sunbeam by tillie walden, my year of rest and relaxation by ottessa moshfegh, wonder by r.j. palacio, reasons to stay alive by matt haig, the well of loneliness by radclyffe hall, how to do nothing by jenny odell, the charioteer by mary renault, the henna wars by adiba jaigirdar, darkness at noon by arthur koestler, a wizard of earthsea by ursula k. le guin, the story of galahad by mary blackwell sterling, the tombs of atuan by ursula k le guin, david copperfield by charles dickens, such a fun age by kiley reid, lancelot by giles kristian, carry on by rainbow rowell, scoop by evelyn waugh, the story of hong gildong, a handful of dust by evelyn waugh, a little life by hanya yanagihara, the necessary arthur by garth nix, the arthurian legends by richard barber, romeo and juliet by william shakespeare, stamped from the beginning by ibram x kendi, when breath becomes air by paul kalanthi, the fire never goes out by noelle stevenson, kafka on the shore by haruki murakami, kokoro by natsume soseki, delayed rays of a star by amanda lee koe, radio silence by alice oseman, by gaslight by steven price, perfect little world by kevin wilson, wayward son by rainbow rowell, blind willow sleeping woman by haruki murakami, hani and ishu’s guide to fake dating by adiba jaigirdar, taproot by keezy young, ready player one by ernest cline, the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee, le morte d’arthur by thomas malory, nocturnes by kazuo ishiguro, lucky’s by andrew pippos, the magic fish by trung le nguyen, swimming in the dark by tomasz jedrowski, love by roddy doyle, only mostly devastated by sophie gonzales, i was born for this by alice oseman, the invisible man by h.g. wells, spinning by tillie walden, the three musketeers by alexandre dumas, all quiet on the western front by erich maria remarque, perfect on paper by sophie gonzales, parsnips buttered by joe lycett, we were liars by e. lockart, the farthest shore by ursula k. le guin, convenience store woman by sayaka murata, arsene lupin by maurice leblanc, scott pilgrim by bryan lee o’malley, miss carter’s war by sheila hancock, selected letters of virginia woolf, the prophet by kahlil gibran, siddhartha by herman hesse, less by andrew sean greer, reservoir dogs screenplay by quentin tarantino, peta lyre’s rating normal by anna whateley, the hound of the baskerville by arthur conan doyle, inherit the wind by jerome lawrence and robert e lee, the nine cloud dream by kim man-jung, trainspotting by irvine welsh, withnail and i screenplay by bruce robinson, america is in the heart by carlos bulosan, beach read by emily henry, steppenwolf by herman hesse, balzac and the little chinese seamstress by dai sijie, true history of the kelly gang by peter carey, one last stop by casey mcquiston, speaker for the dead by orson scott card, klara and the sun by kazuo ishiguro, the eye of the world by robert jordan, the autobiography of malcolm x as told by alex haley, the two towers by j.r.r tolkien, arsene lupin vs herlock sholmes by maurice leblanc, layamon’s arthur, all systems red by martha wells, mucha by patrick bade, macbeth by shakespeare, perfume by patrick suskind, the grapes of wrath by john steinbeck, collisions: a liminal anthology, the hours by michael cunningham, growing up disabled in australia edited by carly findlay, the betrayals by bridget collins, live and let die by ian fleming, crazy rich asians by kevin kwan, good omens by terry pratchett and neil gaiman, this train is being held by ismee williams, the shape of water by andrea camilleri, the war in the air by h.g. wells, the end of men by christina sweeney-baird, the terracotta dog by andrew camilleri, the moon and sixpence by w somerset maugham, girl woman other by bernadine evaristo, ace of spades by faridah abike-iyimide, sir launfal by thomas chestre, androcles and the lion by bernard shaw, absalom absalom! by william faulkner, crooked kingdom by leigh bardugo, one of us is lying by karen m mcmanus, honeybee by craig silvey, anywhere but earth edited by keith stevenson, first love and other stories by ivan turgenev, no country for old men by cormac mccarthy, annihilation by jeff vandermeer, the road by cormac mccarthy, the duel by aleksandr kuprin, the awakening by kate chopin, the fall by albert camus, a new day yesterday by mike barnes, mort by terry pratchett, view with a grain of sand by wislawa szymborska, no exit and other plays by jean-paul satre, the godfather by mario puzo, tomorrow when the war began by john marsden, the faerie queene by edmund spenser, this poison heart by kalynn bayron, sunlight and seaweed by tim falnnery, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz, robinson crusoe by daniel defoe, the heart is a lonely hunter by carson mccullers, the great hunt by robert jordan, scythe by neal shusterman, collected poems of w.b. yeats, dead souls by nikolai gogol, the happiest refugee by anh do, yvain the knight with the lion by chretien de troyes, pachinko by min jin lee, she who became the sun by shelley parker-chan, the memory police by yoko ogawa, the last days of judas iscariot by stephen adly guirgis, moby dick by herman melville, selected stories of anton chekhov, sailor moon by naoko takeuchi, king arthur’s death edited by larry d benson, the brothers karamazov by fyodor dostoevsky, the silmarillioin by jrr tolkien, kim jiyoung by cho nam-koo, lady susan by jane austen, cranford by elizabeth gaskell, dune by frank herbert, the divine comedy by dante aligheri, silas marner by george eliot, brute by emily skaja, the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway, the lowland by jhumpa lahiri, slaughterhouse-five by kurt vonnegut, relativity the special and general theory by albert einstein, the end of everything by katie mack, lancelot the knight of the cart by chretien de troyes, eugene onegin by alexander pushkin, bonds of brass by emily skrutskie, murders in the rue morgue by edgar allan poe, the lair of the white worm by bram stoker, the legend of sleepy hollow and other stories by washington irving, the perilous cemetery edited by nancy b black, the call of cthulu and other weird stories by h.p. lovecraft, the princess bride by william goldman, the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood, hamlet by william shakespeare, illuminations by arthur rimbaud, the sign of four by arthur conan doyle, the castle of otranto by horace walpole, the other black girl by zakiya dalila harris, malory’s contemporary audience by thomas h crofts, fight club by chuck palahniuk, french romance medieval sweden and the europeanisation of culture by sofia loden, pale fire by vladimir nabokov, speak okinawa by elizabeth miki brina, james acaster’s classic scrapes, tears sighs and laughter: expressions of emotions in the middle ages edited by per fornegard, the queen’s gambit by walter tevis, the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay by michael chabon, in deeper waters by f.t. lukens, darius the great is not okay by adib khorram, enemy of all mankind by steven johnson, blue period by tsubasa yamaguchi, slow days fast company by eve babitz, middlemarch by george eliot, the stone rose by jacqueline rayner, goblin market by christina rossetti, legends of camelot by jacqueline rayner, the grand inquisitor by fyodor dostoevsky, the lady of shalott by alfred lord tennyosn, the krillitane storm by christopher cooper, grit by silas denver melvin, the ones who walk away from omelas by ursula k le guin, scientific autobriography and other papers by max planck, the forged coupon and other stories by leo tolstoy, rose by russell t davies, brideshead revisited by evelyn waugh, if cats disappeared from the world by genki kawamura, the mill on the floss by george eliot, priestdaddy by patricia lockwood, the hidden reality by brian greene, the memoirs of sherlock holmes by arthur conan doyle, classic mechanics by leonard susskind and george hrabovksy, the raven boys by maggie stiefvater,  the ruby’s curse by alex kingston, the borgias by paul strathern, north and south by elizabeth gaskell, jane eyre by charlotte bronte, how music works by david byrne, far from the madding crowd by thomas hardy, anxious people by frederik backman, journey’s end by r.c. sherriff, le chevalier as deus espees edited by paul vincent rockwell, dune messiah by frank herbert, gone girl by gillian flynn, white noise by don delillo, blood of elves by andrzej sapkowski, the highlanders by gerry davis, the underwater menace by nigel robinson, either/or by soren kierkegaard, doctor who and the cybermen by gerry davis, piranesi by susanna clarke, breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami, rendezvous with rama by arthur c clarke, the sea by john banville, the basketball diaries by jim carroll, the dry heart by natalia ginzburg, there is confusion by jessie redmon fauset, wiating for godot by samuel beckett, babette’s feast by isak dinesen, & ms ice sandwich by mieko kawakami

aand that’s it! ! thanks for reading? thanks for reading my reading? idk hnjrnjjs

#v.txt #i had no idea how long the actual list was oh my god #putting my whole taste in literature on blast this is only somewhat mortifying but it's okay #also i say 'more or less' bc i've condensed some series (esp graphic novels&manga) into just their title and i think i excluded some more #random ones but this is it this is basically all of them #all 451 uhh #bookshelf

[aiiaiiiyo]

Norman Rockwell and the model for Rosie the Riveter, his neighbor and a telephone operator, Mary Doyle Keefe around 1950 [1822x2048] Check this blog!

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2019

December

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Susanna Ferrar, Philipp Wachsmann, David Leahy, Caroline Kraabel, Steve Beresford and Ashley Wales at St Mary’s old church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

November

- Performance as a duo with Adam Bohman at ‘Sounds from the Gardens’, Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London, UK

- Performances as a quartet with Susanna Ferrar, Rachel Musson and Tom Jackson at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performance as a duo with Alan Wilkinson at ‘Both And’ gallery show by Calum Storrie & Geoffrey Winston, Burley Fisher Books, Hackney, London, UK

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Alison Blunt, Philipp Wachsmann, Livia Garcia, Caroline Kraabel, Steve Beresford and Ashley Wales at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

October

- ‘Bad Science Fiction’. Acoustic mirror sound installation with Rob Olins, employing a collage of publicly available commercially-source science fiction library sound effects and atmospheres by collated and edited Douglas Benford at ‘Through the Looking Glass / Humanity's Changing View of the Universe’ Lumen Studios group exhibition, Ugly Duck, Tanner Street, Bermondsey, London, UK. [Photos: https://tinyurl.com/Badsciencefiction1 ]

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Hyelim Kim, Jackie Walduck (conducting) & Chloe Cooper (live marbling), Phil Minton, Philipp Wachsmann, Steve Beresford, Dave Tucker and Ashley Wales at Cafe Oto, Dalston, London, UK

September

- Performance as a duo with Alan Wilkinson, alongside Chris Biscoe, Marcio Mattos, Mark Sanders, Gina Southgate, Cara Doyle at Flim Flam, Ryans N16, Stoke Newington, London, UK

- Performances as a quintet with Phoebe Bognár, Crystabel Riley, Tom Wheatley and Daniel Thompson at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Charlotte Hug, Jackie Walduck, Steve Beresford, Tasos Stamou, Dave Tucker and Ashley Wales at St Mary’s Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

August

- Solo performance alongside John Butcher, Benedict Taylor, Daniel Thompson, Yoni Silver, Phil Durrant, Satoko Fukuda, Steve Beresford, Steve Noble and many others at Hundred Years Gallery fundraiser, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Caroline Kraabel, Steve Beresford, Sofia Vaisman-Maturana, Dave Tucker, Robert Nettleship and Martin Vishnick at St Mary’s Church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

July

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Philipp Wachsmann, Charlotte Keefe, Emily Shapiro, Steve Beresford and Martin Vishnick at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

June

- Performance as a trio with Mandhira De Saram and Steve Beresford at Oscillations solstice festival, Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

- Performances as a quartet with Emily Shapiro, Max Eastley and Sue Lynch at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

May

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Caroline Kraabel w. dancer Max Reed, David Jago, Deborah S. Phillips (visuals), Ng Chor Guan, Steve Beresford and David Leahy at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

April

- Performances as a quartet with Dominic Lash, Sylvia Hallett and Cath Roberts at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by NG Chor Guan, Ashley Wales, Philipp Wachsmann, Phoebe Bognár, Steve Beresford and David Leahy at St Mary’s church, Stoke Newington, London, UK

March

- Solo performance and interview for Unpredictable live streaming project no 2. Other participants included Blanca Regina, Iris Garrelfs, NG Chor Guan, Steve Beresford & Matthias Kispert at Raven Row gallery, Spitalfields, London, UK. Live broadcast archived on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZttuYWHGMoE. (Other info: http://www.unpredictable.info/project/unpredictable-radio)

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Emily Shapiro, Sue Lynch, Dee Byrne, Charlotte Keeffe and Sue Ferrar (featuring a film on Antarctica by Cy S Chiang) at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

February

- Performances as a quartet with John Butcher, Hannah Marshall and Mandhira De Saram at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Caroline Kraabel w. Brian Eley, David Ryan, Susanna Ferrar, Philipp Wachsmann & Ashley Wales at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

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2018

December

- Performance as a duo with Marjolaine Charbin at Hundred Years Gallery (Winter Solstice Party), Hoxton, London, UK

November

- Performances as a quartet with Chun-Ting (Refa) Wang, Steve Noble and Poulomi Desai at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Dave Tucker, Steve Beresford, David Leahy, Adrian Northover, Philipp Wachsmann & Caroline Kraabel at Deptford Town Hall, New Cross, London, UK as part of EFG London Jazz Festival

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Dave Tucker, Steve Beresford, David Leahy, Philipp Wachsmann & Ashley Wales at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

October

- ‘Accidents and Atmospheres’. Acoustic mirror sound installation with Rob Olins, employing a retrospective collage of church and environs recordings by Douglas Benford. The Chapel, The House Of St Barnabas, London, UK [Photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmpZNvvC]

- Performance / live recording as a duo with Matthew Atkins at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

- Performance as a duo with Alan Wilkinson, Catford Constitutional Club, Catford, London, UK

September

- Performances as a quartet with Caroline Kraabel, Crystabel Riley and Ivor Kallin at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Solo performance alongside Barczewski/McLean, Charlotte Law and Merlin Nova at Reyner Tish Presents event, Grow, Hackney Wick, London, UK

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Caroline Kraabel, Bill Gilliam, Steve Beresford, Pat Thomas, Philipp Wachsmann & Ashley Wales at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

August

- Performance as part of a trio alongside Loz Speyer and Adam Bohman at the Horse Trials event, Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra alongside guests the Merseyside Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Ashley Wales, Steve Beresford, Dave Tucker, Adam Bohman & others at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

July

- Performances as part of ‘The Seen’ residency group session for Confront Recordings with Mandhira De Saram, David Toop, Bill Thompson, Rachel Musson, Spencer Grady, Luigi Marino and Mark Wastell at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, UK

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Caroline Kraabel, Steve Beresford, David Ryan & Ashley Wales at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

June

- Solo performance alongside Iris Garrelfs, Tansy Spinks, David Bloor and Josh Barfoot at ‘Fountain 2017: found object / found sound’ at Candid Arts Trust, Islington, London, UK

- Performances as a quartet with Greta Pistaceci, Charlotte Keeffe and Alan Wilkinson. Hundred Years Gallery, Hackney, London, UK

- Performance as part of ‘The Seen’ residency group session for Confront Recordings with Tom Jackson, Phil Julian, Yoni Silver, Richard Sanderson, Spencer Grady, Dominic Lash and Mark Wastell at Hundred Years Gallery, Hackney, London, UK

May

- Performances as a member of the London Improvisers Orchestra, conducted by Caroline Kraabel, Steve Beresford, Dave Tucker & Philipp Wachsmann at Iklectik, Waterloo, London, UK

- ‘Avian Waves’. Acoustic mirror sound installation with Rob Olins, employing a retrospective collage of international bird recordings by Douglas Benford at Cosmic Perspectives Lumen Studios group exhibition, Ugly Duck, Tanner Street, Bermondsey, London, UK. [Photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHskyKck6F]

April

- Performance as part of ‘The Seen’ residency group session for Confront Recordings with Rupert Clervaux, Phil Durrant, Phil Julian, Sue Lynch, Jennifer Allum and Mark Wastell at Hundred Years Gallery, Hackney, London, UK

- Performances as a quartet with Mandhira de Saram, Hannah Marshall and John Edwards at Hundred Years Gallery, Hackney, London, UK

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March 11, 2020: Columns

Just Call Mule...

                                          Harold ‘Mule’ Ferguson

 By KEN WELBORN

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  I first met Harold “Mule” Ferguson in the early 80’s when I began my long-time association with the Rotary Club of North Wilkesboro. 

It was years before I was actually invited to join the club, and I then worked for Thursday Magazine, predecessor to The Record, and we began printing the program for the Wilkes Agricultural Fair which the Rotary Club sponsored. Mule was a faithful Rotarian; the club’s president 1986 to 1987 and was honored as the Distinguished Rotarian of the Year, 95-96.  He tirelessly worked to raise money for Rotary to fund community projects of all kinds, even organizing the very successful Balloons over the Blue Ridge hot-air balloon rally for several years.

Mule and his wife, Debbie, continued to support Rotary and its projects long after his active membership had ended.

  By the time I got to know him, he had retired from Lowe's and was running full-out on his new job, enjoying life. Mule and Debbie have been just about anywhere that is worth going to, and seen about everything worth seeing.  And if you were lucky enough to see one of his travelogs, it was a treat like no other.

Mule loved to fly.

I cannot begin to tell how many times I would see him flying one contraption or another over the Wilkesboros. We would kid him about having a flying lawn chair and he would simply laugh and tell us that about anything could be made to fly with the right equipment. When pressed about the safety of his collection of exotic aircraft, which was sometimes called “Mule Ferguson and his Famous Flying Machines,” he would cut his eyes at you for a brief serious moment and say, “Never lose sight of somewhere to land.”

And, he never did.

As time passed, I became more and more impressed with the way he embraced change. The cameras and ancillary equipment he used in his Pumpkin Creek Video Productions business was always state of the art.  And, he was never satisfied unless he had the absolute latest, best, and most innovative equipment on the market. “It takes good equipment to turn out good work.” he would say.

But, mainly I want to remember Mule today as the good, kindhearted person he was. Some years ago I was allowed to interview some Wilkesboro citizens for Mayor Mike Inscore’s project to preserve more history of the town.  Mule was doing the editing work and called to tell me he had just finished the piece I did with Ray Stroud, and wanted me to come by. He knew how much I thought of Ray and said he just wanted me to get to see it first.

Just call Mule.

He was also a musician and singer and performed for us at The Record’s ChickenFest and at our veterans events.  He traipsed around the saw briars and chiggers of Dellaplane helping me, and The Record's editor Jerry Lankford, as we tried to locate and film the burial place of the hand, yes I said hand, of Otto Wood the Bandit, Wilkes County's most prolific and famous desperado.  This was the first of several Otto Wood  trips;  from filming famed bootlegger Thurmond Sparks down in Antioch,  to traveling to Salisbury to the site of Wood's fatal shootout with police in 1930.  And he wouldn't even let me give him gas money.

Just call Mule.

Countless times we would get a call here at The Record from someone needing help with a video transfer or some other electronic problem.  I would look up Mule's number and tell them to call. I would always tell them that, if for some strange reason he can't help you, he will know who can. One lady I sent to Mule's office in Town Hall called me back and said she felt as though she had been in the control room at NASA.

Just call Mule.

A few years ago, I got to go on a Rotary Honor Air Flight taking 130 World War II veterans to Washington D.C.  There was some kind of link to some kind of site I needed for a presentation I was working on about the flight for a meeting at the North Wilkesboro club. I was told that this particular “computer guru” was the only person who could do what I needed, and I called him.

On the day of the meeting I went by to pick up the disc and he told me what I wanted “...couldn't be done,” going on to say “...equipment to do what you want does not exist.” 

It was 2:30 and the meeting was at 6:30 that evening.  I left very agitated and called Mule on my way back to the office. “Bring it to me” he said, “I'll look at it.” 

In two hours he called me back to pick up the disc for my program which ran perfectly at the meeting.  As he refused any payment, he remarked he was glad to help his Rotary Club anytime.

Just call Mule.

The problem with this column is not what to put in, but what to leave out. 

I suppose I will end it for now with a note about the preparation for Mules memorial service and reception, which were held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on this Saturday past.  A fella named Peter Kulsziski had been working on two video pieces—one was about Mule and his connection to the start and growth of MerleFest, and the other about Mule and Debbie.  As irony (or good karma) would have it, Peter finished them and on Monday afternoon emailed them to Mule and Debbie, and they got to see them. As many of you know, it was Monday evening when Mule became suddenly ill.

Well, on Thursday, Bill Hurd was working on the two videos to play at the reception after Mule's funeral, and was having some difficulty. He knew I had copies as well and called and asked me to forward them to him, which I gladly agreed to do. When he expressed his concerns in a technical language that may as well have been Greek to me as the saying goes, I instinctively knew I could help. 

Before I gave it a thought, I said in pure reflex, “If what I send gives you trouble, just call...

And I caught myself.

Bill knew exactly what I was going to say, and I smiled and felt just a bit less sad.

Rosie The Riveter: March is National Women’s History month

By HEATHER DEAN Record Reporter

During WWII, women were entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers, with more than 310,000 women, making up 65 percent of the total workforce, which was only 1 percent pre-war.

Almost everyone in the world is familiar with the morale boosting  poster bearing a young woman in work overalls, a red polka dot bandana, flexing her bicep with the tag line “We can do it!”

This was “Rosie the Riveter” a fictional patriotic character of the hard-working women who kept the military factories humming, giving hope of those caught in the midst of another world war, some still reeling from the last.

Oh. Did I say fictional character? Fun fact, there were several real life women, who inspired editorials, songs and several posters of Rosie.

I grew up watching PBS. It was about the only station that would come in, in the era of rabbit ears and (gasp) having to walk to the TV and turn the channel manually, in an age where there was actually something good to watch. I heard the words “Thank you to the Rosalind P. Walter Foundation” over and over.

Who was this lady, besides someone who used her privileges and wealth to make sure I had fantastic programming? Turns out, she was the first of many Rosies…

Rosalind Palmer (Roz to her friends) was born on June 25, 1924, in Brooklyn, N.Y. She went to the best schools, dreamed of attending college. But at the age of 19, like many women, she was recruited during the war effort, and served selflessly on the night shift as an assembly line worker at the Vought Aircraft Company in Stratford, Conn. A riveter on Corsair fighter planes, F4U marine gull-winged fighter airplanes, and this girl not only did her patriotic duty, she also broke records for speed on the production line, while advocating for equal pay for her female co-workers.

Enter Igor Cassini, a syndicated newspaper columnist. Roz’s story caught his attention, and Cassini wrote about her in his “Cholly Knickerbocker” column. And the rest as we say is history.

In 1942 Redd Evans and John Jacob Loeb wrote the song, "Rosie the Riveter." which was recorded by Kay Kyser and The Four Vagabonds, their inspiration was Cassini’s column.

Roz was not our ‘only’ Rosie, but she was the first. She and other women like her became sensations. Norman Rockwell drew his version of Rosie for the cover of the May 29, 1943, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.  His model was also a riveter, Mary Doyle Keefe from Vermont. Mary died in 2015. His Rosie, still in overalls, work goggles on her head, and machine oil smeared on her face from the hard and dirty work is shown eating a sandwich from her lunch pail as her riveting gun rests on her lap, the American flag waving in all its glory behind her, her foot placed firmly on the cover of Adolph Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

J. Howard Miller drew a Rosie poster for Westinghouse war factories, and is the aforementioned one that we still see today. The model for that Rosie was Naomi Parker Fraley, who was photographed working in the machine shop at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, Calif., in a red polka dot bandana. Naomi died in 2018.

Other Rosies of note were Geraldine Hoff Doyle of Michigan, who worked in a Navy machine shop as a metal presser during World War II — she died in 2010 — and Rose Will Monroe, who worked as a riveter on B-24 and B-29 planes at the Willow Run Bomber Plant near Detroit and featured in a promotional film for war bonds. Rose died in 1997.

Rosalind P. Walter sacrificed her opportunity for furthering her education in serving our country. This led to her using her inherited and married wealth to supporting public television; as the documentaries and other programs helped fill in the gaps. In total she helped produce almost 70 well known and loved shows.

The Rosie collective left a lasting impact on future generations for women, forever changing the workplace, once dominated by men. You see, the call for women to help was supposed to be temporary… they were expected to leave their jobs when men came home from war. When the men did return, seeing the selfless efforts of their women, men could no longer claim superiority over women.  

Rosalind P. Walter, the last of the Rosie’s, died last Wednesday, March 4, 2020. But even in death, Roz left women across the world a message: “March forth.”

The apple of God’s eye continues to twinkle

By AMBASSADOR EARL COX and KATHLEEN COX

Special to The Record

As a regular traveler to Israel and one who has lived among the Jewish people, although I am not Jewish, I am continually amazed at how this land and its people manage to maintain their sense of balance, direction, and joie de vivre being surrounded by enemies on every side. 

Israelis unceasingly confront crisis after crisis yet somehow their spirits remain high and their collective moral compass stays true to their love of life (all life), freedom and democracy, and their faith in God. 

Israel’s list of woes is practically unending.  Under constant attack from terrorists in Gaza in the south and Hezbollah to the north, Israel is the only civilized country in the world whose very existence is threatened on an almost daily basis by its hate-filled neighbors all around.  It is the subject of worldwide BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) campaigns trying to topple its economy and is unceasingly maligned by the left-leaning media and the United Nations.

Yet, in spite of the emotional stress and turmoil inflicted on this tiny nation, Israel continues to flourish.  Even during this time of worldwide panic over the Corona virus, Israel continues to cautiously host tourists.  Until the recent outbreak, restaurants and hotels were full to overflowing.  The streets were crowded with pedestrians, cyclists, and shoppers.  People gathered day and night on streets such as the famous Ben Yehuda Street and Jaffe Street not to protest or create violence, but rather to dance, sing, and celebrate life, family, friends and faith.

For almost two decades my wife and I have been pro-Israel advocates.  As a Christian broadcaster and journalist, my focus has been on telling Israel’s side of the story – truthful and fact-filled.  It’s frustrating to be constantly met with opposition from the mainstream media which is bombarding the world with misleading messages about Israel and her people and always portraying them as villains and the reason there is no peace in the Middle East.  The fact of the matter is tiny Israel is the only oasis of stability and freedom in the region. 

While being forced to live in a very tough neighborhood, somehow Israelis manage to carry on celebrating life while the Palestinians continue to carry on celebrating death by strapping explosives on the bodies of their little ones and sending them off to suffer a martyrs death.  By the way, dying as a martyr is the only way a Muslim is assured of their entrance into Islam’s heaven.  It’s the reason so many Palestinian mothers encourage their children to participate in this murderous performance.

Israel, known as “The Start-up Nation,” is constantly contributing to the betterment of mankind.  They lead the world in the advancement of science, technology, medicine and agriculture, to name only a few.  Their sense of belonging and connection miraculously allows them to rise above their circumstances creating positives where, naturally speaking, one would expect negatives. 

Israel’s existence is somewhat paradoxical.  While dancing in the streets embracing life and hoping for peace, Israelis must also be about the business of building bomb shelters.  In fact, bomb shelters are standard fare on all children’s playgrounds.  Just part of the “normal” equipment the same as swings and sliding boards.

Yes, Israel is dealing with the Corona virus just like most of the rest of the world.  Some have even attempted create fake news that Israel is responsible for the virus! While certainly not the cause, it would not surprise me one bit if Israel were to produce the solution.  Long live Israel and may it continue to be a light unto the nations. 

[toxic-butterfly-kisses]

RIP Mary Doyle Keefe My inspiration in life 💕

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