Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Short Run 2013


OK, so I'm the Howard Hughes of comix. Except poor.

Anyway, our old friend Jim Gill sent photos of Short Run 2013 to share. This annual comix event takes place in Seattle. I  have never been to it but a couple of conspirators are attempting to lure me to the 2014 show.

Jim's photos are on FaceBook. I am not personally on FaceBook and probably never will be, so I cannot comment on these. Here's Jim's link:

https://www.facebook.com/james.gill.395017/media_set?set=a.10151847341617333.1073741828.523782332&type=1


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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
Pinterest

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.

 





Marilyn McCoo Sings Bacharach

Phone photo 3043

Tumwater, Washington

A Klaus Nomi Moment

Aunt Mary - Gerome

In pencil on album sleeve: 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.

Ronnie Milsap Sings Bacharach

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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Mrs. Lount

In pencil: Mrs. Lount

In print: Drago, Bay City, Mich.

Another mysterious photo in the Reeves Family Album.

Dynamic Boys Play Bacharach

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Ida Lount

In faint pencil: Ida Lount

Printed: Drago, Bay City

No clue on why this is in the album

Richard Stoute Sings Bacharach

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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."


Beau Dollar and the Coins Sing Bacharach


A Klaus Nomi Moment

Monday, December 2, 2013

Ben Huff - 1889

Written on album sleeve: 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.


Carpenters Sing Bacharach

Phone photo 3042

A framed bulletin board fell apart, resulting in an accidental work of art

Tumwater, Washington

A Klaus Nomi Moment

Phone photo 3041


Charlie, Dreamer, Hettie, and Buster line crash

They have a combined age of 40

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.

Peter and Gordon Sing Bacharach