parade day

 bagpipes and drums firemen local 93

 Dracula is an Irish story (we're stretching), Abraham Stoker was born on the north side of Dublin.

 

 St. Helen Newbury Ohio has a unicycle team, and least one is a juggler

 Lithuanian girls celebrating 100 years of restoration

 pipefitter local 120 with plywood Stillson wrench

 Magnificat High School swim team

 Saint Paschal Baylon Clown Ministry

  Joseph Pearce (St. Patrick)

 German Shepherds: Chancelot, Taegan, Maya

Ukrainian dance troupe

City Music Parma

after the concert, a private demonstration

City Music Cleveland performed a concert, Two Faiths:  One Spirit, starting before noon to-day at Parma Snow Library. Led by the composer's accordion the central piece was, Merima Ključo's The Sarajevo Haggadah. It is great to see an accordion in orchestral music. But more variety of instruments continued after the intermission with an oud, qanoun, ney, and Arabic violin. The last piece was by the Persian composer Behzad Ranjbaran, it featured a harp, and an expanded percussion section.

This concert was streamed live onto facebook. They will play later, to-night in a church. Most of City Music's performances have been inside churches. Of this concert, there are six performances: one at a Jewish temple, three at Catholic churches, one at a Protestant church, and this one at a public library.  I guess, that the filmed concert was to be neutral.

What is he doing to that tuba?

 

inside #8

Twice before i have posted from Westinghouse, [first time], [second time].       

  While there a couple trains passed by.

There are spots where piles of empty spray cans lay on the floor. This hulk of a building served opportunities for graphic canvasses, most completely forgettable.

Thoughts were painted, prayers were absent.

From the windows alongside Ashland, one can see all the skyscrapers of downtown.

This steel skeleton and window gallery, i find as interesting as the Arcade downtown, which is so often photographed and included as a Cleveland sight: but urban photographers have gotten up here to snap pictures for years. To the left and right are open air, and there is a square opening in the floor.

2018 Miscellany #3

Russian girl in Cleveland for Maslenitsa (Day before Great Lent). Butter is used up for blini (pancakes).

The Metroparks are extending their family: 2 years ago -- snow man, last year -- snow wife, this year -- snow dog. My twa greyhunds wanted a field trip on a warm February day.

gray corner on a gray day

I like this sign

names of prophets

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sound of silence."— Paul Simon

Anshe Emeth Beth Tefilo Congregation built the Cleveland Jewish Center in 1920. It was the first such center in the west, "a shul with a pool". Its address on East 105th was on the main street of Jewish Glenville during the interwar period. At this time Glenville became over 70% Jewish, and may have approached 90%. In 1940 Anshe Emeth Beth Tefilo was the largest Conservative Jewish congregation in the US. In 1946 they sold the complex to Cory Methodist Church. The Jewish Congregation became Park Synagogue and Park East, both in the suburbs. Most of the Jewish synagogues in Cleveland became Black churches.

As Cory Methodist it became a very important church in the Black community. Malcolm X gave his The Ballot or the Bullet speech there. The last time Martin L.King Jr. spoke in Cleveland, it was there.

"Give unto God, the glory due God's name, Bow down in worship to God in holy beauty."— Psalm 29 (28DRC) v. 2.

God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles

“Oh, yeah, I tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something's
I wanna hold your hand”

 

A version of this subject foto been seen around the country. The display is in the bowels of Cleveland's Natural History Museum.

[another view click] 

God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.—J.B.S. Haldane

“The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple reason that there are nearly 300,000 species of beetle known, and perhaps more, as compared with somewhat less than 9,000 species of birds and a little over 10,000 species of mammals. Beetles are actually more numerous than the species of any other insect order. That kind of thing is characteristic of nature.” —J.B.S. Haldane. What is life?. 1947.

Moses Cleaveland Trees

Thanks to Julie (facebook friend), she informed me of this tree estimated to be 320 years. The Lakewood section of the peedee has, "The white oak was first officially recognized in 1946 when the Western Reserve Historical Society [sic]* certified 216 [sic]† Cuyahoga County trees as Moses Cleaveland Trees." So, i had to get a picture. When they laid the sidewalk, it was curved around it, and some sandstone sections are still there. A smaller swamp white oak tree is the remaining Moses' tree in the city.

I think, i remember a town (in another country) gathering around an ancient tree that was about to be felled, to say good-bye. Perhaps, in Lakewood Ohio it is possible; not so much in say, Lakewood Texas.

The MOSES CLEAVELAND TREES were chosen from throughout Cuyahoga County in 1946 as part of the sesquicentennial of Moses Cleaveland and his party's landing at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River on 22 July 1796. Each tree was of such an age as to have been part of the area's forests at the time of the landing. The Cleveland Sesquicentennial Commission appointed the Committee on Moses Cleaveland Trees, whose objective was the discovery and labeling of 150 native trees over the age of 150 years growing in the county. Chair of the committee was ARTHUR B. WILLIAMS, curator of education at the CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. The committee received nominations for 242 large trees. Measurements of the trees' diameters were taken at a 4' height, and the trees were critically judged as to the probability of their being 150 years or older. The desirability of each tree's location was also taken into account, as the committee sought to select trees located in places where they could be easily seen and appreciated by the public. Local ceremonies accompanied the labeling of many trees. Each tree bore a 5" x 10" aluminum label which read: "This is a Moses Cleaveland Tree. It was standing here as part of the original forest when Moses Cleaveland landed at the Mouth of the Cuyahoga River, July 22, 1796. Let us preserve it as a living memorial to the first settlers of the Western Reserve." --Williams, Arthur. Final Report of the Sesquicentennial Commission's Committee on Moses Cleaveland Trees (1946).

Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve in 1971 was interested to see how many were still there. Ninety-two trees survived, fifteen with labels.

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*peedee says, "Western Reserve Historical Society", report says, "Committee on Moses Cleaveland Trees".

†peedee says, "216 trees", 1946 report says, "150".

216 = area code. 150 = sesquicentennial number.

around Lincoln Park and Tremont

A few years ago on this Jeff Hill, there was another graffiti mural here.  It is rare, very rare, for graffiti to have an artistic cartoon. These fattish letters are actually legible.                                                                            

                                                          An entrance to Lincoln Park

St. Andrew Kim (formerly Sacred Heart Polish National Catholic) has a  new top. The last of the scaffolding  was removed on Ash Wednesday.

Lemko Hall was thus named in the '30s, when the Lemko Association bought the building which was built c.1909-11. The Lemkos are Rusyns from Poland, or the northern slopes of the Carpathians. The building hosted the wedding party in the 1978 film, "The Deerhunter".

                    Squirrels are always gathering, and there is a fairly good number here.                

photographs of abandoned places #16b (Nativity school)

Some people are intrigued with abandoned buildings. We can recognise school buildings by their constituent elements rather easily. These pictures here show the regular geometry of forms, glass panes in a grid.

 The big outside windows have been absent for some time.

 Skylight on the third floor

 sticker reads: zero tolerance, get tough on drugs!

John Adams High School is not nearby, stuff is brought into abandoned buildings.

People like to pose children's toys