The Problem We [still] All Live With

Norman Rockwell. The Problem We All Live With. 1964. Stockbridge Massachusetts.

Six year old Ruby Bridges was escorted by four deputy marshals to her first day at William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, November 14th 1960. She continued to have escorts that year. This was the centerfold in Look Magazine January 14th 1964. Rockwell is remembered as an illustrator for Saturday Evening Post. They did not care for his politics, so he went elsewhere. Rockwell did not paint Bridges, this was the inspiration for the painting. Rockwell received sacks of hate mail.

Linda Zolten Wood, et alia. Persist. Oct 2021. Cleveland.

Recently, Rockwell's painting was an inspiration for this mural on East 185th Cleveland. In addition is Kamala Harris from Wilmington Delaware's victory celebration. The word "persist", is remembered when the Republican master in the Senate accused and complained against Elizabeth Warren.

To the left in faint print is a quotation from Harriet Tubman: 

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.  Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world.

Now this painting is ripe for people to pose with. The letters of persist, are pealing off. If one wants to see something new, come soon thereafter. Maintenance is not an American thing.

 

Ofrendas y altares

 

Before St. Mary Romanian Orthodox moved to Warren Road, they had the first Romanian church in America here 1905 on Detroit of Ohio City. The campus was sold to Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox in 1960.  Now it belongs to Cleveland Public Theater, and for a number of years it has been the site for Dia de los Muertos. Here before the old iconostasis is a splendid altare. Before Meso-America was christianised, they remembered their departed dead. Whether one considers this a blending with All Saints and All Souls Days, or an example of religious syncretism. it is a comfortable and cohesive fit. Among popular usage, the religious continues. The secular Hallowe'en of the United States had been spooky, and not holy; and it has degenerated into the gory and psychotic artistically.

 

Other parts of the campus have other installations. At 3.30pm there is a parade on Detroit. Covid-19 cancelled the celebration last year. This year, the parking lot has more walking room, and vendor booths are using some of it. To enter the old church, and the old parish hall medical face masks are necessary. See previous:  2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013.

 

To-day, it was rainy early, and is expected to be rainy late. We go there about noon, and it was dry; but we could not stay as long as we wanted. It is a very good festival. Cleveland has been expanding its festival and parade seasons. Before it started with St. Patrick's Day, now it is with the pre-Lenten Kurentovanje. It ended with Columbus Day, now the de los Muertos ends it. The enthusiasm for Armistice Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas parades and festivals is gone; and the weather is rarely pleasant.

 

Infra, is a katrina skeleton. José Guadalupe Posada was an cartoonist who mocked the dictator Porfirio Díaz. During the Porfiriato (1876-1910), the standard for fashion was expensive, and aristocratic French. No matter how you dress us, we will all end up as naked bones—memento mori.

Part of the altare for Murphy of Trinidad, who was a guest artist at the Parade the circle. That saw is not new, it looks like it was from when Kennedy was president. On the opposite ladder there was a sander, most carpentry power tools are now powered through batteries.

many items stand out for attention

Cassie is a female greyhound with her people. Karma is on the right. Both are females, greyhounds have varying sizes.

Mexican art styles are attractively done.

 

Mexico City's Ángel de la Independencia is on the left, Palacio de Bellas Artes Opera House on the right.

2021 Miscellany #17

 

A lot of bowling alleys, and bowling shops are gone. There is surplus. Well, they had to go somewhere. -- Cleveland west side

signs on a driveway gate, across the street from the bowling balls

Circleville

A few days ago, one of the Cleveland teevee stations showed people using tan brown paint to cover up a restaurant food advertisement on Broadview in Old Brooklyn. This flower painting is up now, the tan paint remains over the mortar, the brick faces have been painted to look like the other bricks.

Columbus on a cloudy day

Smoke stack of a 1903-77 power plant has been repainted for Columbus Crew soccer this past July.

Malcolm Cochran. Twin Elephant Fountain. 2013.

The first city park in Ohio is Goodale Park in Columbus since 1851.

Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, formerly Supreme Council United Commercial Travelers 1924-2008

Watlao Buddhamamakaram Buddhist Temple

 

Laotian community building started in 2009, and now being remodelled.

Lego giraffe, kitty korner to a Tesla dealership, which is next to a Lexus one, which is next to an Infiniti one, which is next to a Jaguar lot

painted cement duck boot

kayaks

Hayden Run Falls, Dublin (very near border of Columbus)

 

decorate for the spooky

In October most of the grass cutting season is done. Some people decorate for the spooky night to come. Old Brooklyn

Bay Village

Bay Village

Pumpkins and skeletons, the decorating standbys, Bay Village

There is no local pumpkin shortage, the supply line is nearby, pumpkins are not waiting months in a storage container moored at sea.

"Bring out your dead"

plague doctor

rats at the House on Clifton

rats on the House on Clifton

@theHouseonClifton   @HouseonClifton  #theHouseonClifton

knocker on Baltic

Hocking Hills

Late October afternoons are short. We do not fancy driving home in the dark. We were travelling east from Circleville, and entering the Hocking Hills. After we left the State Park heading towards Route 33, i remarked to my nephew, "why are there so many rental cabins?".  He said, "Because we are so far from a city".  I responded, "It is a well known fact, that Athens Ohio is the center of the universe". No response.  Me, "what Columbus don't count?".  He, "too far".

We made our next stop at the John Glenn Observatory. It is designated a "dark site", suitable for viewing the night sky. Bring your telescopes. It has a modern circular stone plaza to catch the rays of the equinoxes, and solstices.

Beyond the standing sundial there is a basketball court.

The State Park has several entrances. The most visited is Old Man's Cave. The Blackhand Sandstone formations have eroded to create recess caves, and to form a micro-climate preserving plant species that grew here before the ice age.

Most of the walkways were built by Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps, this modernistic bridge was not one of them.  Bring a camera that does well in dark conditions. In tree shaded gorges the light is shady.

Would like to know this plant's name.

it's a great water tower, Charlie Brown

Well, the Circleville Pumpkin Show began in 1903. Most people know about Circleville on that account. It is a small town in south central Ohio, surpassing 13,000 in population. Circleville is the county seat of Pickaway, and may  be getting some migrants from ever expanding Columbus. Year round the pumpkin presence is noted by this water tower. It is on the south side of town. Supra was my first sight and snap of it.

 impressive verticality and colors

water towers are federally protective now

Circleville began in 1810 inside the circular archaeological earthworks of the prehistoric Hopewell Indian culture. In the center of town there was built an octagonal courthouse with streets radiating from it. People began griping about the city plan, they wanted to square the circle. From 1838 to 1856 Circleville Squaring Company did so. 

 

At the end of this period, George Gregg built an octagon residence in 1855-6. He must have considered the original courthouse. I have seen fotos of the inside, there is a beautiful spiral staircase inside. The woodwork was also quality throughout. The house is called the M.M. Crites' House. It has been vacant for years. Walmart wanted it torn down. A public group moved the house a half mile away in 2004.

 And it is very near the pumpkin tower.

There is tall grass around the house, and a crop of corn was harvested and the stalks cut. The approach to photograph this was easy.

Not photographed is a cell phone tower.