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Ron Dewey. Elmer Flick. 2013. Bedford.

Elmer Flick was born, raised, and died in Bedford Ohio. He was a major league outfielder and second baseman, from 1898 to 1910. He played for Philadelphia in the National League 1898-1901. The next year began with Philadelphia in the American League, but most of the season was for Cleveland, in the season they were Bronchos. He led the league in stolen bases in '04, and '06. Flick led in hitting in '05 at .308, his career average was .313.  Detroit wanted to trade Ty Cobb for him in 1907, because Cobb was a colossal jerk. Cleveland was not interested. Flick was ill for the '08,'09, and '10 seasons. Cleveland acquired Shoeless Joe Jackson to replace him. The next two years were with the minor league Toledo Mudhens. Cooperstown called in 1963.

First Baptist Church 1892-1968, congregation from 1834 to present, building currently belongs to Bedford Historical Society

non figurative glass

In many American towns, there is a center of town. In Bedford, it is called Bedford Commons. It is a small park. Generally there is a war memorial, and the memoralised war belonged to the age the town was young. The church nearest this area was the first, and usually the church of the important residents. Here it was the War to Preserve the Union, and the Baptist Church. The railroad station is there too, it was on the path to Cleveland from Pittsburgh. The Flick statue is a new addition. There are other war memorials there, and a worn monument to Archibald Willard, the painter, who was also born there. Willard's father was the first Baptist minister in town.

The area is really compact for picture taking. Across the commons, is the brick home of the first residents. That building, the church, township hall are part of the Bedford Historical Society. Two Victorian era houses next to these are fine to see.

On the other side of the train station, and nearby is the Underground Railroad mural, "The Road to Freedom". It is still in progress. Here is Harriet Tubman.

 Nearby Great Falls of Tinkers Creek at Viaduct Park, the amount of water flowing is rain dependent on recent rain. [supra 24 August, infra 30 August]

Happy couple enjoying Sunday morning by the falls.

Celebrity booby

 juvenile brown booby, a pan tropical sea bird

Since Tuesday, this wayward bird has been perched on a dead tree, making low flying forays over the lake for fish, and then back to his spot. This booby is the first recorded to visit Ohio, and is now residing just south of Akron. Under cloudy conditions, he is very grey; more sunlight the plumage would be brown.

On the birdy internet pages, some of the locational directions were very exact on where to park for a very short walk to view. Birdy in this wind tossed world has found a spot, and he is as regular as Norm (Hilary Norman Peterson) on Cheers.

 Booby is very accommodating to camera folk. Some want a better angle to view from.

 This couple drove six hours from Louisville Kentucky.

"Nimisila Reservoir is one of the 13 bodies of water that make up the Portage Lakes. At 825 acres, it's the largest body of water in the park district. Nimisila Reservoir was the last of the Portage Lakes to be created. The reservoir originally provided the ever-expanding water needs of Akron's industrial complex. Built in 1936 by the federal Works Progress Administration, the reservoir was created when an earthen dam 44 feet high and 2,350 feet long was built on Nimisila Creek. The reservoir has 16 miles of shoreline and four boat launches, with the deepest spot at around about 30 feet."—Summit Metro Parks

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postscriptum:  4 September 2020. A wing of the bird was found to-day, booby succumbed to predation.

Kenosha Wisconsin

SOLIDARITY. Years ago, before Reagan, when a man died while working in certain trades—everyone would leave the jobsite. It wasn't right to make money, over the death of another. In the NBA (basketball), they called a "boycott". This is not a boycott, it is a strike. They did the right thing. Boycotts and strikes may be more effective than demonstrations as protests.
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postscriptum: 8 p.m. 31 August 2020

• The gun fetishists, and the killing manufacturers are unfettered and washing their hands in warm blood.
• Trump is a man of many psychopathologies, here he is Charles Manson.
• The United States has a police brutality problem, and some of it is linked to white supremacy.
• Racism, a hatred and a mental disease, is extraordinarily common in the United States, and it is promoted by the Republican Party, and "conservative" media.
• Fascism is a great threat to America.

foto safari—plague season

High atop Fenn Tower, facing Euclid Avenue on move in day for CSU. [click for another foto] There is a few art deco touches in Cleveland [click] and Kentucky School [click].  Read that, the heads are Mayan inspired?

There are weddings done in the Italian Cultural Garden. From this perspective, the chairs look like headstones.

Gym Jacket-off Jordan for president 2024???

The polls look pretty good for Joe Biden and Democracy right now, so the trumpsters are talking about "silent trump voters".  Really?, you ever see one? They are not silent, they are loud, and obnoxious, and unprovoked. They believe they have the right to project, and intrude. Some of  the neighbours of this deplorable, can not be pleased.

 

aviation and war

Coronavirus has cancelled this year's air show. The last time the Cleveland Air Show was cancelled was in 2013 [click]. In 2011-12 there was a Democratic President, and a Republican Congress, now when this happens the cries of "too much government spending" and "reduce the budget with lower taxation" are extremely demanding. An impasse occurred, so a budget sequestration took place, wherein automatic cuts were made. The War Department did not have the money for such expensive public relations campaign, so military equipment did not perform at events for the public.

In Cleveland these now take place at the increasingly little used Burke Lakefront Airport. Outside the aeroport there is a a little park with two fighter planes that were in the show, and historical plaques detailing past participants and events.

The air races were cancelled during 1940-1945, and then again from 1950. In 1964 the show started up newly at Burke. Since 1965 it has been a military show. The Navy's Blue Angels usually perform some sixty shows, at some thirty places. The Air Force's Thunderbirds often have a longer schedule. The Army has a Golden Knights parachute team that performs at such shows, and there are other units, and equipment to see.

St. Ignatius, a local high school, has a similar (but busier) device.

Ebenezer

see [click] earlier foto visit here

Well, growing up, and hearing "Ebenezer", i thought of Marley's ghost. Before that, it was mentioned in the Old Testament. To-day, was the third time i photographed this stone, and finally i could read it. Originally, this church building was to mark the merging of two congregations. The stone reads: Ebenezer First Samuel chapter seven verse twelve.  

"Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us." kjv

Well, was not able to get inside; but from the street, the window is still decipherable. Mirror flipping it, it is the same scene if viewed from inside, except for the colors. We presume it is Martin King, with the Washington Monument, and the pool to his side, and microphones in front; and the other pane has three people, and a sign reading "Vote".

2020 Miscellany #12—snapshots around town

 St. Barbara Cleveland and electrical work

Terminal Tower seen through light stanchions of baseball park as seen from freeway

U.S.S. Cod is a WWII submarine that is now a museum ship in Cleveland.

 

For Cuyahoga County voters, a necessary and easy act of patriotism: accessible on E. 30th between Euclid and Chester; drop off ballot applications, and later completed ballots. Ohio's Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, will not allow more than one such box in a county. He is a Republican, and on a state level, Ohio has been a one party state.

Now it is time to dry your summer garden herbs for later use, basil pictured.

Keep your windows open when you leave hounds in your car.

swallows on Lake Erie

day lilies, Italian Cultural Garden

artificial brook, Croat Cultural Garden

nest at the feet and sword tip of St. Michael statue at St. Casimir's

Akron downtown

 Inventors Hall of Fame courtyard

 year stone of the Municipal Building

 Some of the empty windows have paintings over them.

 Cadillac Hill (Bates Street) is a steep drive (28% grade) leading to the bottom of  Glendale Cemetery, it is currently closed.

Glendale Steps still has road construction around it, and now no flowers. Three years ago, click here.

Akron's alternative newspaper is named after an Akronistic term. Perhaps, on account of the influx of Pentecostalist Appalachians, the term for the lawn between the sidewalk and street.

 one of August Blepp's two lions in front of the courthouse

Werner Company Building (1895) has been long vacant, and has had different owners. The sheriff had it up for auction in 1979. It was one of eleven buildings  (and only remaining) of the printing and publishing company. They published encyclopedias and dictionaries, and were the largest book publishers in the country for a short time. Encyclopedia Brittanica broke the company in lawsuits. Paul Werner came from Germany, and the administration building has castle brickwork. Werner left Ohio in 1914.

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postscriptum: Werner Building demolished September 5th, 2020.