The Diogenes Club
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The Art of Rube Goldberg-- more news and links!
The new book The Art of Rube Goldberg is getting some buzz and Morty the Dog stalwart reader Paul Tumey (a Goldberg and Screwball Comics scholar and a contributor to the book), sends along these links worth checking out:
'Art of Rube Goldberg' more than crazy contraptions
LA Times
The Art of Rube Goldberg Book Party
Photos by Guy Coombs
The Art of Rube Goldberg
TV Interview with Jennifer George
(author and Rube's granddaughter)
The Art of Rube Goldberg Celebrates Chain Reactions
Wired
Rube Goldberg's marvelous machines
Boing Boing
Sid
Written on album sleeve: Sid
Written on verso: S.A. Reeves, 1891, Mrs. Theo. Hoss
Printed: T.R. Williams, Centralia, Wash.
Sidney A. Reeves was the youngest of three. He was born Mar. 28, 1872 in Michigan. When the Reeves family moved to Washington Territory in 1889 he was still a teenager. In this photo he is 18 or 19 years old.
They tell me he was employed as a butcher and was an avid hunter. He never married and lived with his sister Jennie and her husband Theodore Hoss until 1920. Eventually he moved to the country where he raised hunting dogs.
Sid died in Centralia, Washington Aug. 21, 1938. He is buried in Centralia's Pioneer Cemetery under a rapidly eroding simple headstone.
Aunt Mary - Gerome
Printed: Chapman, Stanton, Mich.
Mary Jane Reeves (1836-1920) was my great-great grandfather's sister. She married Jerome Burns (1830-1905)
I think it might've been other members of the Burns family who lived in the Centralia area, Washington Territory and served as contacts for the Reeves family when they came out here in 1889.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Mrs. Lount
In pencil: Mrs. Lount
In print: Drago, Bay City, Mich.
Another mysterious photo in the Reeves Family Album.
Unidentified
On verso: "Artistic Photographer, Miller's, 710 Washington Ave., Bay City, Mich. The negative of this photograph is preserved for future orders, which can be had at any time. Opposite Post Office."
Monday, December 2, 2013
Ben Huff - 1889
Bottom margin: Baldwin, Flint, Mich.
According to my grandmother, who would provide narration as I frequently perused this album in the 1960s and 1970s, Ben Huff was a guy my great-grandmother Jennie Reeves was sweet on before the whole Reeves family pulled up roots and headed to Washington Territory in 1889 shortly before statehood out here.
Phone photo 3042
A framed bulletin board fell apart, resulting in an accidental work of art
Tumwater, Washington
Grandma Upham and Mary
On album sleeve: Grandma Upham and Mary
On verso: E.E. Shaver, Photographer, Chelsea, Mich.
Grandma is Clarissa Upham, born Clarissa Wheeler in New York 1811, died in Michigan 1878. She is my great-great-great grandmother.
Mary is Mary Ida Upham, Clarissa's granddaughter. Mary's mother deserted the family in 1863 and her father (Clarissa's son) died as a result of wounds received in the Civil War while serving with the Michigan Calvary.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Favorite Movie Quotes: Pleasantville
Phone photo 3039
Excuse me, but am I the only person who finds the idea of using a talking severed hand to be a disturbing mascot for a product designed to enhance the cooking of ground up cattle? And the fact it has a clown nose makes it sort of super horrifying I'd say.
Aunt Mary Burns
"Aunt Mary Burns"
Verso: E.E. Shaver, Photographer, Chelsea, Mich.
Mary Jane Reeves (1836-1920) married Jerome Burns in 1855 and lived in Michigan. She was my great-great grandfather's sister. It appears she outlived all of her siblings.
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