2024 Miscellany #8—another central Ohio road trip

Tuesday was a day full of beautiful clouds. Monday rained after overly warm days, and Wednesday rained as a colder day.

Khaki Campbell drake relaxing in Scioto Park Dublin. There were four escaped farm ducks there.

Dublin Arts Council has three snails from Cracking Art Collective. Cleveland had a larger contingent in the summer of 2016 [click].

AFL founded in 1886 in Columbus.

some interesting geometry in downtown Columbus

Winston the Welsh terrier, and his guardian/companion we met in Columbus. He pointed out that he had a cap with a Welsh terrier on it, while i had a greyhound on my cap. Winston had a collar full of Welsh dragon flags.

 

Painting in the Columbus Park of Roses

Norfolk & Western W2 2-8-0  Baldwin 1903 

Four companies made 202 of these steam locomotives between 1901 and 1905. This one is the only one that did not go to scrap. Number 917 operated until 1950.  In 2008 it came north to Ohio. It sits in Belleville with a diner made from a luggage car and a caboose.

The building was Bissman Wholesale Grocer Brewer Hotel is an awning made for the Shawshank Redemption moving picture. Mansfield has used that time for tourist promotion.

Mansfield, the front of this building was seen in Shawshank Redemption as the Brewer Hotel. They drank Stroh's in the movie. If you look closely, you can see Mail Pouch Tobacco underneath. Schlitz was the number one beer in America in 1902, and several times thereafter. It once was a good beer, and in the 1970s it was reformulated to be a bad beer.

Ohio Jacque twins

 

Marblehead Jacque is in bleu now. He has been there since 1972. He was transferred, and then erected without hands, and was called Handless Jacque. He had attached the ironwork which once was his hands, tray(s), and sandwiches. Mike Cahill organised his rehabilitation in 2021.

Jacque now has a Lakeside Daisy in his lapel, and US flag bow tie, and hands

Now this Jacque is in Belleville, and is visible from the interstate. Actually, we saw this one first. I had read about Marblehead Jacque for years, and i saw this one and thought that there might be more. manufactures like the muffler men giants. I saw, while in car, the distinct lean, and thought i saw the head move, and a rope. Perhaps it was inflated, and the rope was a tie down. It was by the locomotive diner, perhaps another attraction.

Off to the search engines, there were two Jacques made. They were for sandwich joints in Marion, and Mansfield Ohio. Here is where various writers have confused the two. The Jacque's restaurants operated in the 1960s to 1972. The two statues may not have been identical. The French waiters may have had white trousers, and blue jackets. They may have held one or two trays, with roast beef, or ham and/or   corned beef sandwiches. They may be 28', 30', 32', 35' or other feet tall. One may have been called Pierre. A restaurant may have become a pizza joint, a restaurant may have become an Arthur Treacher's, one may have burned down. The city may have ordered the statue taken down. The one in Marion, or the one in Mansfield may be the one in Marblehead. I guess the preponderance of reportage has the move from Marion to Marblehead.

Mike Byrne owns the choo-choo diner, and Mike Cahill came there in 2022. Cahill's father, Terry, had bought the other 50 years before, and it lay disassembled. The two Mikes talked. Since the head had been separated, they agreed to attach it with a spring to make a bobblehead. Byrne is a Buckeye fan, and the restaurant has Ohio State (formerly A&M) decor. Jacque now has a scarlet coat (near the tail of his jacket some of the blue is visible). Belleville Jacque was up in July 2022.

close up

into the Italian Garden

Cleveland Reddit: 4.45pm Thursday vehicle 60mph went into Italian Garden. Fire, EMS showed up, police absent.  

This Saturday morning we were walking our hound. The matching column is rubble, small pieces of vehicle there. Made it most of the way to the fountain.

You know the vehicle was on East Boulevard, the upper one of the two avenues of Rockefeller Park and the Cultural Gardens. The lower boulevard (its original name) is MLK Jr Blvd., it is all park/gardens from the freeway to East 105. It has stoplights by the freeway, and none till 105.  The upper one is all park/garden from where it begins going up from MLK to Superior on its west side, and has some big houses, a school, and park/gardens to Superior, with a stoplight at St. Clair. Both are curvy. They were not built to be raceways. There is much less traffic on East Blvd. MLK is very busy, and runs faster than posted, and is not save to cross even at crosswalks. Several light poles, benches, and signs have been knocked over.

Sunday past, both columns upright with planters in between.

2024 Miscellany #7—some spring in Northeast Ohio

University Circle Methodist's fleche above tree blossoms

Max Kalish. Abraham Lincoln. 1932. Cleveland. 

 Children funded the statue outside the then Board of Education.

Cleveland Main Library. The Archive flower exhibit by Rebecca Louise Hall.

Cleveland's skyscrapers

near Everett Bridge Peninsula Ohio

Eclipse egg in Lorain's basket at Lake View Park

glass in Lincoln Theater, Massillon Ohio

Veterans Administration Hospital E. 105th Cleveland

Gone is the onion dome...

Well, to-day is Pentecost Sunday in the West. The color for the day is red in the West. This is now a Pentecostal church with a new name.  It was recently Faith Tabernacle. A photographer, Glenn P., recently posted a foto, and wrote the paint still smelled fresh. It was a very sunny morning, Glenn's foto is more fire engine red, mine is tending to candy apple.

 

March 2021

I have ridden by this church, it is visible from Superior. It is across the old St. George Lithuanian church. Usually i paid no attention, but one day i was intrigued by the double ogee arch. It was neat, but seemingly out of place. So i used the camera. One can notice that the paint scheme reversed some red for white, and versa vice.

There were bells then...  http://www.st-sergius.org/history.html

Russian Orthodox refugees built their new church there in 1951-2, St. Sergius of Radonezh. Here are two fotos from that time. The neighbourhood became unsafe, and in 1977 a new St. Sergius came to Parma, on top of Broadview hill. On the bottom of the hill was St. Sava Serbian Orthodox, which in 1965 had also moved from Cleveland's east side. Parma has become home to several Orthodox, and Eastern rite churches, and Eastern European Protestant churches.

and a mosaic, and an onion dome, and an Orthodox cross.

The altar would have been behind where the wall is painted yellow. St. George's is in the distance.

Kenyon College's Chapel

Kenyon College was first at Worthington, the seat of the first Episcopal bishop of Ohio. In 1828 both were moved to Gambier. Harcourt Parish began in 1829. Englishman Gordon W. Lloyd was the architect. The cornerstone of Church/Chapel of the Holy Spirit was laid in 1869, construction was complete in 1871. There is a combined, and slightly confusing history of college chapel, and parish. The building has always been property of the college. Sometimes the rector, and the chaplain were the same person. There also was a military academy, and a school for girls. In 1875 an additional Southern Diocese of Ohio was created in Cincinnati, and the Ohio Diocese moved from Gambier to Cleveland. In the 19th century Kenyon was low church. The Southern diocese was more high church. In 1959 students were no longer required to attend services.

The campus is credited to have started collegiate gothic architectural style in the US. The church is part of it. Stained-glass windows are beautiful, and look to be of three studios. A twin window with a top rondel group is by Charles J. Connick 1945†, who also made the stained-glass in Peirce Hall.

 

Holy Spirit* descending on the apostles at Pentecost. (one of the five windows behind the table)

Moses with Commandments (one of those five windows)

Jesus as the Good Samaritan (in Luke x) [foto JZ] (one of three parable windows)

Parable of the Ten Virgins (in Matthew xxv) [foto JZ]

One of the scenes of the church's Connick windows.

narrow door [foto JZ]

Peirce Hall has a tower for Philander Chase (bishop and founder). It has a triple window 1929, each with three scenes. When Chase came to Ohio, Ohio was the western wilderness. In the dining hall of Peirce, there are many scenes from English and American literature.

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*Holy Spirit is depicted by tongues of fire, Ohio farm children may see that as corn on the cob

2024 Miscellany #6—travels

When travelling to see something, it may or not be there anymore, or functioning. Most things are transitory. If you want a foto snap it when you can, and preferably near its completion. The United States is not a land of maintenance. Some times serendipity will you allow you to find something novel. If something is unveiled, or made available to the public, don't wait too long.

Pollarded sycamores (i think). Cleveland Museum of Art.

In a geometric layout of planting, and before leafing, these trees look otherworldly, or eery. Pollarding is a form of severe pruning. Upon the injury, many new branches sprout. Agriculturally, these branches good be harvested. In willows, it would be uses in thatching.

American Locomotive #63 of Schenectady New York. 1940. Gambier Ohio. 

Steam locomotives fascinate. It is a boiler on wheels. There is beauty and drama when one is in movement. This one last operated in 1959, and has had several owners before it rested in central Ohio. Its working life was on the docks of Mobile. Since 2001, it has been an attraction on the Kokosing Gap Trail. Gambier has been a college town since 1825. The tracks are gone, and like some other former railroads, it is now a biking, jogging, walking path. This one there has a tender, a flat bed, and a caboose.

William Severson. Hora Novem. 1982. Columbus. 

Severson was a St. Louis based sculptor. He made many large metal works. This one was not the only one that involved water, and it was not the only one that was built to show the passage of time. He has a stone monument on his grave that marks a cross at noon on the equinox. This one when it operated had 32 streams of water meeting at the center. It was a solar water clock.

2024 Miscellany #5

Iron workers Local 17 on a new walkway which will lead to a temporary entrance while the Marcel Breuer entrance will be remodeled.

Reflection of trees onto the restaurant's name in Case Western's new University Center. Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 on campus with the speed of light suggested that aether (the fifth element which filled space) did not exist. It was a famous failed experiment. Michelson received the Nobel in physics in 1907.

Cleveland Museum of Art has this Claude Monet Water Lilies usually on the second floor. There is a Monet exhibit off the atrium with four other Monet paintings now. Three are visiting from Paris, including one of Rouen's cathedral. Monet painted some subjects many times.

Count the goslings at Whiskey Island Cleveland. This part was called Wendy Park, currently that signage is gone.

House wrens are elusive, skittish, and tend to secret and conceal themselves.

Baltimore Oriole

Catbird

glass strikes

World Migratory Bird Day 2024 is May 11th. Birds often migrate at night. A problem is death by striking glass buildings. I took this foto on May 5th, a wood thrush hit glass elevator tower, Cleveland Museum of Art.

The same fate happens in the autumn migration. Red-eyed vireo, 3 October 2022.

Automobiles have glass tinted so that the occupants are covered, almost incognito, invisible. I wonder why, police do not object? The tinting reduces glare in windows, certainly that may be helpful in some office towers. Some glass could have dots, or other markers applied. A glass elevator does not have to be 100% clear.

There are bird lovers who go downtown and pick up the night's victims. Some birds are stunned, or wounded, and may survive.  They also do a number count of species. I think, that is the primary task.

The Guardian is a great news reporting paper: [click]

CWRU sit in

 

Hind's Oval is the temporarily renamed library oval. 

 "Hind Rajab was a six-year-old Palestinian girl from the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City who was killed by the Israeli military, after being the sole survivor of Israeli tank fire on the vehicle in which she had fled with six relatives." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Hind_Rajab 

She survived, initially, with a 15 year old cousin, Layan Hamadeh, who called Red Crescent for help. Cousin was shot dead. Hind then spoke on the telephone to the Red Crescent. An ambulance came, and the two paramedics killed. Twelve days later, after the Israelis left, all the bodies were found. The Israeli military denied involvement.

Monday, 29th of April, a peaceful protest began at Case Western Reserve. Previously, student government called for the university to divest from companies involved with the Israeli regime. Usually student government is a charade for a school to play democracy a voice, or it is a tool of the school. Rarely does student government exercise important free speech on pertinent political issues. And when it does, administration is neither pleased or amused. In the grass oval, in front of a library, students gathered to call for a cease fire in Gaza of Palestine.

Police do one thing while professing something. Police are not there to protect free speech, and to protect political rights. Police are there to keep the establishment happy. Police take sides, besides the powers that be, they warm to "far right" opinion. So, Monday students repeatedly were squashed in trying to erect shelter for a sit in. A coalition of police (campus, University Circle, Cleveland) arrested some two dozen people (mostly students). The detained were allowed to go, and a sit in was established for the night.

Thursday afternoon/night, school President Eric Kaler“no longer approved”. Any such demonstrators/protestors were now trespassers. There has been some violent police, and counter protestors around the country, including at Ohio's largest school. Sunday morning as we walked our hound, it was very quiet, and sparsely attended. One student wearing a keffiyeh asked me to blur faces in fotos, so students would not be "doxxed". We talked to a couple others. One girl just completed a new sign. One boy was pleased to see a greyhound. His parents had one named Hi-octane. As we were leaving a few people began eating.

Nearby, outside the area on a free speech/announcement boards, dated March 5th.

The new sign referencing a recent Dune movie.

at an entrance

facing Euclid Avenue

Did not know there were cat activists. 

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Postscriptum 9 May 2024: After eleven days, encampment ended. University never engaging in dialogue. University had painter spray paint students as campus cops watched on the 7th before dawn. A "Spirit Wall" had artwork hat administration objected to. It was pro-Palestinian, i have found no image. Later in the day, anti-Palestinian message appeared.