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Nurse on Wheels (1963) Gerald Thomas

September 3rd 2022

#nurse on wheels #1963 #gerald thomas #juliet mills #esma cannon #ronald lewis #joan sims #norman rossington #noel purcell #joan hickson #athene seyler #jim dale #ronald howard #raymond huntley #renee houston #amanda reiss #david horne #george woodbridge #virginia vernon

[istandonsnowpiles]

Enclosed Trail

#virginia #mt vernon trail #alexandria #bike trail #july #around dc #my work #photography

[pointandshooter]

Mount Vernon, Virginia

photo: David Castenson

#mount vernon #historic site #slavery #black and white photography #photographers on tumblr #virginia #george washington

[thegayneapigs]

Unfortunately RedBird did not make the last round of Cadbury voting, but she's still the cutest piggie ever!! 💓

You can keep up with her adventures on Facebook or Instagram.

#redbird #little redbird #mount vernon #baltimore #maryland #terra alta #west virginia #guinea pig #guineapig #guinea pigs #guineapigs #guinea pigs of tumblr #pigblr #guinea piggies #petblr #pets are family #cute pets #small pets #exotic pets #cavylife #cavylove #guinea pig life #guinea pig love #rodentblr #cadbury

[wandering-jana]

George Washington made some interesting decorating choices. 

Explore Mt. Vernon on my website: https://wanderingjana.com/MtV

#george washington #travel #architecture #mansion #virginia #mount vernon #house #federal architecture #1700s #wanderlust #museum #house museum #american architecture #decor #wanderingjana

[ivebeentotheforest]

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - 1981 - Dir. George Miller

Japanese B2 Poster

#Mad Max 2 #the road warrior #George Miller #mad max #Mel Gibson #Michael Preston #Bruce Spence #Vernon Wells #Kjell Nilsson #Virginia Hey #Emil Minty #b2 #b2 poster #movie poster #movie posters #film poster #japan #japanese #japanese poster

[streetsofsalem]

The Road to Mount Vernon

We have spring break this week, so I’m on one of my road trips, loosely following the footsteps of George Washington. I always feel like I need a theme beyond “interesting old houses” but often I find one along the way which replaces my original intention. Not this year though: George has been pretty present! I started out in northern New Jersey, where I visited a house that I’d long wanted to…

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#American Revolution #George Washington #Heritage Tourism #Hermitage #Historic Houses #Historic Interiors #Historic Preservation #House Museums #Maryland #Mount Vernon #New Jersey #road trips #Virginia

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National Wreaths Across America Day 

National Wreaths Across America Day is a day each year when wreath-laying ceremonies take place at Arlington National Cemetery, and at more than 1,200 other locations—in all fifty states and around the world. The wreath laying is done to remember all fallen US veterans, to honor those who serve, and to teach children the value of freedom. Volunteers place wreaths on veterans graves while saying their names out loud, to help keep their memories alive.

At the age of twelve, Morrill Worcester visited Washington D.C., and Arlington National Cemetery had a profound effect on him. Worcester grew up to be a wreathmaker and the owner of the Worcester Wreath Company, and in 1992 he had a surplus of about 5,000 wreaths, and had them placed on headstones in Arlington National Cemetery. Other individuals and organizations helped him over the following years, but it was not until 2005, when an image of the wreaths went viral, that what he had been doing gained national attention.

In 2006, the Civil Air Patrol and others helped facilitate the laying of wreaths at over 150 locations across the United States. The Patriot Guard Riders escorted the wreaths that were transported to Arlington. Since then, a "Veterans Honor Parade" travels the east coast each year in early December. Wreaths Across America was formed as a non-profit in 2007. Congress designated the day as Wreaths Across America Day with a resolution the following year. Today, many individuals, volunteer groups, trucking companies, and corporations, work together to lay wreaths all over the country and beyond.

How to Observe

There are many ways you can participate in National Wreaths Across America Day. You can sponsor a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery, or at your local cemetery, or with a fundraising group. You can also volunteer to place wreaths at a cemetery. If you have a local cemetery that does not participate in the day, you can sign them up and be a local coordinator. You could also lead a fundraising group. If you have a company, you can provide corporate support, and if you have a trucking company you can help transport wreaths. Finally, you could show your support by buying something from the Wreaths Across America gift shop, and by visiting the Wreaths Across America museum in Columbia Falls, Maine.

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[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Postcard Collection

George Washington. Feb 22, 1732. Dec 27, 1799.

#vintage #postcard #George Washington #Washington's Birthday #February #mount vernon #VA #Virginia #1900s

[harveyspictures]

Exhibits at Mt Vernon include a reconstructed slave cabin, and a memorial to slaves and a slave cemetery. Glad that this side of Washington was not whitewashed.

#slave memorial #slavery memorial #slave cabin #slave cemetery #Mt Vernon #Virginia #Potomac #George Washington

[cowardlycowboys]

If you could fight one person in the world living or dead who would it be?

VERNON LILLY YOUR TIME HAS COME

#everyone would pick like obvious bad guys in history but I'm picking my dad's dad because VERNON fucking up MY DAD fucked up ME #FUCK YOU THAT'S WHY YOU DIED ALONE IN WEST VIRGINIA OF LIVER FAILURE #LONG LIVE MCNULTY CHILDREN

[eopederson]

Reconstructed Slave Quarters, Mt. Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, 2018.

While sanitized for the tourists who visit, the reconstructed small room, probably home to a whole family of slaves who worked in the house and kitchen, at least gives a hint of what life for slaves was like.

In commemoration of June Teenth.

#interior #cabin #slaves #mt. vernon #fairfax county #virginia #2018 #photographers on tumblr

[istandonsnowpiles]

Plane Overhead

Shot on CineStill 800T

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"In your life you have never seen the like"

We have many reasons to distrust what Louis Racine has said about his father. Only 6 when his father died, he could have had few personal memories of him, and no memories at all of his life as working playwright- which ended long before Louis was born. Being himself excessively pious and a convinced Jansenist, he was extremely touchy on the subject of his father's relationships with women, preferring to believe that his father "never was the slave of love", was never in love with Mlle Champmeslé, never wrote his tragedies "conforming to the style of declamation of his actress." Although it is easy to dismiss the sanctimonious Louis as a hagiographer, perhaps there is something to be learned from his insistence that Jean Racine felt obliged to give his actresses lessons in how to declaim his verses […]

According to Boileau, Racine also taught Mlle Du Parc the role of Andromaque and "had her repeat it like a pupil." Perhaps what these anecdotes reflect is Racine's desire to create a new style of tragic acting for plays that depended far more for their emotional affectivity on the appropriate inflection and melodious intonation of his carefully crafted verse than did the action-centered tragedies of Corneille and those who followed his prescription. The actor Jean Poisson supports this possibility when he notes that Mlle Champmeslé "sang a little" when she enchanted the court as Racine's heroines, but that "elsewhere she recited the Tragedies of the Celebrated M. de Corneille excellently & in a totally different manner."

If Racine took it upon himself to reform acting, this could have made him unpopular with some actors. Raymond Poisson may have had Racine in mind when he created his Poète basque in 1668, a few months after the great success of Andromaque. Among Poisson's provincial poetaster's ideas for improving the Hôtel de Bourgogne is the following:

I am going to read it [his play La Seigneuresse] to you presently, And this reading will be like your musical score. I will mark there all the tones and the mutations, The facial expressions and the actions: When I’m not speaking observe my face, You will see me pass from love to fury, Then, by marvelous art, in a surprising return, I will pass from fury to love. In brief, I am going to show the right way to satisfy, And what a great actor must do to be great. Don’t miss my least movement, For even the least is worth applause.

Of course, Racine may not have been the only playwright who thought he was a better actor than the actors.

From the audience's point of view, there seems little doubt that Mlle Champmeslé, whether because of or in spite of Racine's tuition, was considered the finest actress of her day even by those, like Mme de Sévigné, who preferred Corneille's plays to Racine's. In January 1672 she wrote to her daughter that Mlle Champmeslé:

"seemed the most marvelous actress that I have ever seen. She surpasses la Des Œillets by the distance of a hundred leagues; and I, who am thought rather good on the stage, I am not worthy to light the candles when she appears. She is nearly ugly, and I am not astonished that my son was suffocated by her presence; but when she speaks, she is adorable."

She is speaking of Mlle Champmeslé’s performance as Atalide in Racine’s Bajazet. Giving the lie, however, to Louis Racine’s remark that the actress was never as good in other playwrights’ plays, Mme de ́Sévigné reserves her most effusive praise for Mlle Champmeslé's appearance in the title role in Thomas Corneille’s Ariane. The actress is “so extraordinary that in your life you have never seen the like; it is the actress one goes to see and not the play; I saw Ariane only for her: that play is insipid, the actors are damnable; but when Champmeslé enters, there’s a murmur; everyone is transported, and we weep at her despair.”

We also owe Mme de Sévigné for our reasonable assurance that Racine was in love with Mlle Champmeslé. Writing about Bajazet, which she liked, although not very much, she added: “Racine writes plays for la Champmeslé; it is not for the centuries to come. If ever he is no longer young, and ceases to be in love, it will not be the same thing.” If fact, she was absolutely right. He grew older, grew disenchanted with the theatre, lost Mlle Champmeslé to other lovers, and reinvented himself, but not before he had written for her Monime in Mithridate and the title roles in Iphigénie and Phèdre.

By “for her” I do not mean to suggest that Racine wrote these plays either because he was in love with her or because he wanted her to love him. Rather, I want to underscore once more the likelihood that because he knew what she could bring to a role, both as an artist and as a stage persona, he chose certain stories and developed them in certain ways. This might be especially true of Iphigénie and Phèdre.

From the beginning of her career as Racine's leading actress, Mlle Champmeslé was known for her ability fo bring an audience to tears. Forestier quotes a British diplomat, Francis Vernon, who wrote that "all the entertainment of the town are the two new plays, both of them called Bérénice… of which that of Racine seems to take much, and the ladies melt away at it and proclaim them hardhearted who do not cry, so much they are concerned for the unfortunate Bérénice." This ability was nowhere more famously employed than in Iphigénie […]

As Boileau later reminds his readers, it was with the help of the actress that Racine achieved his effects on the audience:

How well you know, Racine, with the help of an Actor, How to move, astonish, delight a Spectator! Never did Iphigénie sacrificed in Aulis, Cause as many tears to flow in the assembled Greece, As were at the hapy spectacle to our eyes unfolded Caused to flow by la Champmeslé…

Even when Ariane was reprised at the Guénégaud in 1679, Donneau de Visé was moved to write in the Mercure Galant that "Mademoiselle Champmeslé, that inimitable actress who haas transferred to the Faubourg Saint-Germain troupe, on several occasions drew tears from many of her spectators."

Virginia Scott- Women on the Stage in Early Modern France: 1540-1750.

#xvii #virginia scott #women on the stage in early modern france #jean racine #louis racine #la champmeslé #nicolas boileau #madame de sévigné #madame de grignan #pierre corneille #thomas corneille #francis vernon #donneau de visé

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Mount Vernon, Virginia's George Washington arrested in Loudoun County

Donnie Gray Lee, 36, of Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States has legally changed his name to George Washington. He was recently arrested in Loudoun County, Virginia. “8 long years without a phone call,” Washington wrote on Facebook on June 14, 2023. “It’s been rough but getting better each and everyday making a new life in Virginia.” On Facebook, Washington still uses his birth…

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#Fairfax County #Loudoun County #Mount Vernon #Virginia

[lottie-loo]

I went frolicking yesterday :3

#lottie’s rambles ✰ #virginia #mount vernon #washington dc #also i’ve been on a bus for 10+ hours #i’m bouta start tweaking