Friday, October 27, 2023

charly monocide

 

'And who could forget Charlie Monoxide, the Addams Family wanna-be who made headlines when Tucson police charged him with drinking the blood of a dead parrot during a botched burglary attempt.'



https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-life-and-death-of-the-partyphoenixs-punk-progenitor-reaches-the-end-of-the-line-6411728


Tuesday, October 24, 2023

 recipies for best vegan vegetarian meals for veggy restaurant


favorite amazon products for amazon store

rocky 2

 


Thursday, October 19, 2023

 Janine Pommy's obit won't fit on a fb FB post or comment so:



'Janine Pommy Vega, Restless Poet, Dies at 68'


'By William Grimes'


'Jan. 2, 2011'


'Janine Pommy Vega, a poet and intimate of the Beat generation luminaries Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky whose lifelong quest for transcendence took her to San Francisco in the 1960s and on a pilgrimage to neolithic goddess-worship sites in the 1980s, died on Dec. 23 at her home in Willow, N.Y. She was 68.


The cause was a heart attack, her companion, Andy Clausen, said.


Ms. Vega’s life course was set when, as a teenager in Union City, N.J., she read Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” “All the characters seemed to have an intensity that was missing from my life,” she wrote in her memoir “Tracking the Serpent: Journeys Into Four Continents,” published by City Lights in 1997.


After reading a magazine article about the Beats, she and a high school friend headed straight for the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village where, as luck would have it, they met the poet Gregory Corso and, through him, Ginsberg and Orlovsky, who became Ms. Vega’s first lover.


The day after she graduated as valedictorian of her high school in 1960, she announced to her mother, “I’m going to live with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky in Greenwich Village,” and she embarked on her sentimental education.


She worked as a waitress at the Café Bizarre, wrote experimental poetry in the Beat vein, wore baggy men’s clothes and a stocking cap, and fell in love with a Peruvian painter, Fernando Vega.


Janine Pommy Vega in 1986.Credit...Suzanne DeChillo


The couple lived the Bohemian life in Paris, where she passed the hat for a folk singer and worked as a model at the École des Beaux-Arts. She returned to the United States after her husband died of a heroin overdose on Ibiza.


City Lights, the bookstore and publishing house in San Francisco associated with the Beats, published her first book of poetry, “Poems to Fernando,” in its Pocket Poets series in 1968. She went on to publish more than a dozen books of poetry while roaming the world on spiritual quests that included treks in the Himalayas and two years as a hermit on the Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. “Tracking the Serpent,” a kind of feminist “On the Road,” chronicled her visits in the 1980s to matriarchal power sites in the Amazon, Nepal, France and Britain.


'Janine Pommy was born on Feb. 5, 1942, in Jersey City. Her father worked as a milkman in the mornings and a carpenter in the afternoons.


In the mid-1970s she began teaching poetry workshops in New York prisons through the program Incisions/Arts, whose director she became in 1987. At her death she taught at prisons in Napanoch and Woodbourne as part of the Bard Prison Initiative, a program of Bard College that confers bachelor’s degrees on inmate students.


Black Sparrow Press published her most recent poetry collections, “Mad Dogs of Trieste” (2000) and “The Green Piano” (2005).


In addition to Mr. Clausen, she is survived by a brother, Bill Pommy, of Tijeras, N.M.


A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 3, 2011, Section A, Page 22 of the New York edition with the headline: Janine Pommy Vega, Restless Poet, Dies at 68. 


https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/arts/03vega.html


















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Thursday, October 19, 2023

 Janine Pommy's obit won't fit on a fb FB post or comment so:



'Janine Pommy Vega, Restless Poet, Dies at 68'



'By William Grimes'


'Jan. 2, 2011'


'Janine Pommy Vega, a poet and intimate of the Beat generation luminaries Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky whose lifelong quest for transcendence took her to San Francisco in the 1960s and on a pilgrimage to neolithic goddess-worship sites in the 1980s, died on Dec. 23 at her home in Willow, N.Y. She was 68.


The cause was a heart attack, her companion, Andy Clausen, said.


Ms. Vega’s life course was set when, as a teenager in Union City, N.J., she read Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” “All the characters seemed to have an intensity that was missing from my life,” she wrote in her memoir “Tracking the Serpent: Journeys Into Four Continents,” published by City Lights in 1997.


After reading a magazine article about the Beats, she and a high school friend headed straight for the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village where, as luck would have it, they met the poet Gregory Corso and, through him, Ginsberg and Orlovsky, who became Ms. Vega’s first lover.


The day after she graduated as valedictorian of her high school in 1960, she announced to her mother, “I’m going to live with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky in Greenwich Village,” and she embarked on her sentimental education.




She worked as a waitress at the Café Bizarre, wrote experimental poetry in the Beat vein, wore baggy men’s clothes and a stocking cap, and fell in love with a Peruvian painter, Fernando Vega.




Janine Pommy Vega in 1986.Credit...Suzanne DeChillo


The couple lived the Bohemian life in Paris, where she passed the hat for a folk singer and worked as a model at the École des Beaux-Arts. She returned to the United States after her husband died of a heroin overdose on Ibiza.



City Lights, the bookstore and publishing house in San Francisco associated with the Beats, published her first book of poetry, “Poems to Fernando,” in its Pocket Poets series in 1968. She went on to publish more than a dozen books of poetry while roaming the world on spiritual quests that included treks in the Himalayas and two years as a hermit on the Isla del Sol on Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. “Tracking the Serpent,” a kind of feminist “On the Road,” chronicled her visits in the 1980s to matriarchal power sites in the Amazon, Nepal, France and Britain.




'Janine Pommy was born on Feb. 5, 1942, in Jersey City. Her father worked as a milkman in the mornings and a carpenter in the afternoons.


In the mid-1970s she began teaching poetry workshops in New York prisons through the program Incisions/Arts, whose director she became in 1987. At her death she taught at prisons in Napanoch and Woodbourne as part of the Bard Prison Initiative, a program of Bard College that confers bachelor’s degrees on inmate students.


Black Sparrow Press published her most recent poetry collections, “Mad Dogs of Trieste” (2000) and “The Green Piano” (2005).


In addition to Mr. Clausen, she is survived by a brother, Bill Pommy, of Tijeras, N.M.


A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 3, 2011, Section A, Page 22 of the New York edition with the headline: Janine Pommy Vega, Restless Poet, Dies at 68. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/arts/03vega.html













Friday, October 13, 2023

earn money quickli

 

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    For the people visiting from our E book,here are the links mentioned in it and the free blog post it is copied from.




    If you have come for the list of other ideas people have found to earn money quickly continue to scroll on !









    Once tried to think of a way to make money but all I could imagine was washing  car windows at traffic lights, which would have been illegal where I was living at the time.




    Then after I learned to Google I thought lots of people must have tried to think of the same thing and had better luck than I did.




    They did.










    These examples can be perfect, but it might be a good idea to use them as ideas to search and study on your own because there might be much better sites out there.




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    Article Spinning:















    Here is the article spinning video:










    Here is a list of periodicals that pay freelance contributors









    Article / E-book spinning studio page:









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    So if you have ever dreamed of living off grid especially now, with covid, or wanted to be able to survive if the fascist / marxist / religious / atheist totalitarians ever start rounding up freedom loving Americans,




    you've dreamed of a safe way to always be able to start a fire.


















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    'Artist Shops' give you a forum to sell artworks, photos, designs and more.





    With the new graphic design apps it is fun & easy to make elegant, lovely photos that evoke a feeling we like or have a texture which is very satisfying.





    why not become good at creating photos from your smart phone and see if you can sell them ?

























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    Upwork allows you to freelance your graphic design skills:














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    The Los Angelas Film School teaches many different occupations in movie making and video graphic design - the tuition and supplies are $20,000 / year.




    As with all of these ideas for earning money, you could already learn a lot about filmmaking just searching and learning online without have to pay for going to school, and even if you still desired to attend a film school, it would be a good idea to learn as much as you could beforehand.




    One of the best ways to learn about a new subject you are interest in is to write about it on a blog to record all of the new info you learn to go back and refresh your memory later.




    Maybe one day you could even make a movie or documentary about it!






     


    The Los Angelas Film School



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    Grantway is an international database for finding & aquiring funding through grants from all over the world.



    Grantway



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    Sales funnels are the science of studying and implementing a smoother pathway for customers and clients to get from the point where they become interested in a product or service to the point where a service contract is signed or a product is purchased.





    - Sales funnels



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    30 days to make a film contest



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    - Amazon's audible.







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    Making Money FB Page.




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    This page tells us how to make an online writing portfolio how to find writing opportunities that pay, how much to charge and how to write well for $15/ month or $45 one payment:






    Local writing pay.



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    Tried to buy bit coin but the minimum amount i could buy was $30.



    Finbold says these are the best blockchain currencies to buy for under $1.






    cardano - cardano wiki



    polygon - polygon wiki



    fantom - fantom g i wiki



    flow - flow g i wiki



    vechain - vechain g i wiki 



    Plus a bonus we just found:



    ven - ven wiki



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    'Pump up the volume'



    This page has a free app for you to make your own free internet radio station:





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    Learn to program with A I assisted 'no coding programming':





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    - Get a free laptop this website lists organizations that donate computers to those who need them to earn money quickly:





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    Art storefronts is a service that markets artists artwork:







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    postd let's you post videos customers pay to view:






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    The Los Angelas Film School can teach you how to be a screenwriter:



    John Sayles lived in our hometown and wrote a script that would eventually become 'Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind'.



    You can probably learn how to screenwriter for free online.



    Screenwriting Wikipedia.






    los angelas film school



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    band lab is a blast !



    i start by making a drum beat and bass track on the splash app, download it onto drive then record real guitar and real pianoapp tracks and I bought a karaoke microphone for $5 or you can use a voice effects app to make interesting vocals...



    Then you can make a video of walking /y riding around your town or city and add your song to it on power director app



    But the best part for earn money quick fans is  - i just found out band lab has a tip jar !:











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    stash is an investment app like robinhood that allows you to invest when you don't have a lot of money






    stash / smart wallet



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    the problem with drop  shipping  is all of the overhead - packing supplies shipping costs labor stress



    this girl says she has found a way to sell other people's e-books to generate income and she teaches a workshop - let's see if someone else can validate her claims on youtube !...:








    karla marie




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    this girl says she does it too:










    here is the plr products page





    a high-level account is not free but you can try it free for 14 days - so plan ahead ! (about high level here)




    here is the strike app she mentions to retieve payments with (about strike here)





    this is the canva logo maker she mentions




    hmm it looks like she has a lot of great ideas to earn money quickly !:




    here is her youtube channel make money with stacy la



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    this girl takes e books and uploads them on to kindle to sell:










    they have a lot of great ideas to earn money quickly too:








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    wanted to learn about nfts so i decided to do a report which always helps me learn as i try to teach:














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    noah sloane runs ytre and is a professional youtube channel monetizer and claims he and his team can monetize your youtube channel quickly:












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    The early scene in 'Ocean's 11' where Brad Pitt's character meets Saul to try to talk him into coming out of retirement from being a successful professional con man was filmed a Derby Lane Race Park on Gandy Blvd in St Pete, Florida near where I lived at the time.




    They held auditions for extras you had to bring a photo of yourself, and I did not have one but I thought I had enough time to stop at the Pinellas Square Mall where there was a photograph booth to get one, but some lady laughed from a car as I was riding my bike, which made me think it was not going to work out...




    So I turned around and went home.




    This site can find where movies in your area are being filmed and can tell you where to apply to earn money as an extra in movies.




    In Slash's biography he tells how he and the other members of Guns & Roses used  to get jobs as extras in movies just to be able to eat the free food and that almost all of the original members of G&R were extras in the movie 'Sid and Nancy'.















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    They sell them in boxes with a number of various returned products in them, like a box of various returned products for as low as $20, it might be a good idea the buy the cheapest sized box and see if it is profitable to use this site first.




    Bluebird liquidation is a company that sells products returned to Amazon, Walmart, Target etc...



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    This person makes money e book spinning his own A I generated E - books:














































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    can skimlinks generate us up some automatic income ?:
















    This site says Robinhood gives you free stocks:














































    'This cryptogram is then passed on between customer, merchant and payment provider. In the demonstrated quantum protocol this cryptogram is generated by having the payment provider sending particularly prepared single photons to the client.'

































    Make money being a government whistle blower.




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    You can earn money quickly doing captcha to fine tune it for the company:










    Listverse says they will pay you $100 if they publish the list you wrote:
















    Find the steps she mentions in hercomments here.




    Her YouTube account is called 'Super Humans Life'



    Some of these ideas may ask you to download an app or send things to your e mail.




    Family Dollar sells a $20 android phone which it might be smart to use to connect to these sites isolated from your other online accounts and maybe you should factory data reset your $20 phone regularly.




    One survey site I investigated and which is not listed here made me set my phone in settings to allow them to read my keyboard taps to find out if it were a reputable money maker.




    If you need money quick I would advise avoiding surveys. 


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Monday, September 25, 2023

'Perfect Summer Day'

 











Bobby Boyer was our high school varsity starting catcher, captain and 4th slot power hitter in the spring of 1979, playing with the also really great players Steve Wallach, Jeff Davis and Mitch Degere when I was a sophomore playing on the Mt Greylock J V team in Williamstown, Mass, with Coach Danaher, who had also played with Dad and Billy Hart.



When I was very young, Dad, who was a Williamstown Police Department dispatcher before we had 911 service - took me to see Bobby's older brother Dave play in a special Major League Baseball tryout game at Deming Park in Pittsfield, Mass where pro scouts were going to be watching and grading the players.







- Deming Park Google Maps



Dave just retired after being the head of Williams College Campus Security for 30 years.



Their dad was Officer aka Coach Boyer.



It all seemed so epic to a 10 year old small town kid that I had been around that time.



Big league scouts scouting Berkshire County's best high school players in our little neck of the woods with someone from Williamstown getting an actual shot to play professional baseball!



I can still remember seeing Dave, who was also a catcher, throw a rocket that he drove with his legs to second to shut down a prospective base stealer at that game!



























'Fez' Whatley from the old 95 WYNF 'Ron & Ron Show hypnotized to believe he is Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan:







This post also pertains to people from Williamstown because of the Hart brothers - no, not the WWF Hart brothers of whom Bobby 'The Brain' Heenan once said on the old WYNF's 'Ron and Ron Show': 'Yeah, they really love the Hart brothers in  Texas.' (sarcastic tone inserted) 'Their neighbors put up for sale signs on their (the Hart brothers') lawns.'






Our town's Hart brothers were also real life heroes who were admired by everyone in the town, had started a number of successful construction companies, and had built a summer camp for at-risk youth out on Hancock Road, while our neighborhood's Mr Hart eventually became a national senior leaguedoubles' tennis champion.



Dad had said Billy Hart was the best baseball player he had ever seen play in any league.



Dad had played and managed American Legion and semi pro baseball for 26 years and had thrown 13 no hitters, but only had one eye, which maybe limited his chances at a shot at the majors.







Iberkshires Wahconah Park







-so pittsfield will own one of the most historical ball parks in the nation and will be able to lease it out for many popular events and specially televised games in the coming years as interest in real world / rural baseball grows each year while corporate high crime bad traffic big city franchises continue to leak attendance -







Iberkshires



The Hart brothers in our town when they were growing up had constructed a sandlot baseball field on the empty North-Western corner of Ide Road and Water Street.



Dad and Aunt Sally were born near where Blair Road and Stratton Road met below the Stony Ledge on Mt Greylock, and when young, used walk down to play in sandlot games with the Hart brothers at their field.






- 'People will come ..!'







Williamstown's Stephen Hannock is Sting's favorite landscape painter !










- Tavistock Institute and The Beatles







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tug mcgraw, bud harrelson and jerry koosman were vietnam vets and musicians who used to play country music in the dugouts between innings during the 'miracle mets' 1969 season



tug's son tim:






Rode Cher's bike down to try to see Lynne I guess in 1983 and stopped on the way back to see the Mets at Shea Stadium and if I recall correctly, I could only afford the cardinals' hats they were selling, and I later got dad a Mets hat somehow.



Around 1985 he told me two Williams girls had stopped him on spring Street and told him they liked his Mets hat and he said they made him feel great !






Lynne had been a Mets fan and in particular liked Mookie Wilson, and later, when I was living in St Pete (Doc Gooden's hometown - Strawberry was from Tampa) you could stand at the right field corner of  Al Lange Stadium and watch the Major League spring training games the Cardinals' played there before the Ray's became a franchise.





Al Lange Field Google Maps



Mookie was playing with the Blue Jays then, who train in Dunedin, Florida, where Galactic Ranger Jackie is from, and I almost got a foul ball Mookie hit.



It was a line shot he hit really hard, 20' toward center field and it would have been a home run.



I did everything correctly !



There were only I, and a bicycle riding mailman - who could possibly get the foul ball, unless someone from the traffic in the road behind us (1st Street South) stopped to grab it.






The Baseball Factory




As we had been taught in high school when I would play in the outfield, I leaped off my mountain bike and ran back in an arc to guage the depth of the hit, and i believed I could get it easily on the first hop, before it got to the road.



Only the mailman, who was black - reached out and grabbed the line shot with his bare hand and got an ovation from the crowd !!



I was disappointed, but grudgingly clapped my hands too - it was a stunning catch and must have hurt his hand, but he didn't even flich or shake the pain off.



And now he has a Mookie Wilson treasured foul ball to show his children and their children while I only have these fine memories aged into blog posts.



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Somewhere between 1973 and 1976 when I was still in T Shirt League - dad built a batting cage out of steel plumbing pipe and chicken wire and mowed a baseball diamond in front of it with the electric lawn mower, which could cut really low.



He probably built it because of the Hart brothers' sandlot field.







Williamstown Mass Updated







Berkshire Hart Homes Facebook




The screenwriter and producer of the movie 'Field of Dreams', Phillip Alden Robinson,graduated Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1971. Around then the movie 'The Way We Were' was filmed in the fall on 1972 at Union College after filming of the movie during the summer of 1972 was stopped at Williams College because classes were about to start.







- Turner Classic Movies




The post here mentions how Jeff Young, Jim Guiden and I, who were on the Williamstown Savings Bank T - Shirt League team were related, but in one game Jeff, who was our catcher, accidently hit Chris Gerlach, who was the other team's catcher, in the back of the head with the bat while swinging at a pitch.






These were tough little 7 and 8 year old kids! Chris did not let on that he had been hit as Jeff complained to the umpire that Chris had obstructed Jeff's swing, but the umpire did not believe Jeff until Jeff yelled 'Look at him ! He's crying !'



And it was true, Chris, who had stayed in the crouch position the whole time had a tear track coming down his face from his left eye, but otherwise you would not have known anything was wrong !



Sue Gerlach, who was two grades ahead of our class - and therefore and 'older woman' - reminded me of Neil Diamond's 'Desiree' when I would accidently have fantasies about her !






I mention this for two reasons, the first being Chris's older sister Sue would later become our high school baseball and football starteammate Jeff Grande's steady girlfriend, and secondly because 'Gerlach' was the last name of the real person who inspired the character 'Jay Gatsby' aka 'James Gatz' in 'The Great Gatsby' by F Scott Fitzgerald.






Max Gerlach



In the Gatsby novel, Gatsby had worked for 'Meyer Wolfsheim' the guy who allegedly rigged the 1919 (?) World Series which caused 'Shoeless Joe' Jackson to be banned from Major League Baseball.







Point Guard



Fitzgerald had said 'Wolfsheim' was based upon Arnold 'The Brain' Rothstein, a real life gambler Fitzgerald knew.






- Arnold Rothstein



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In high school I had become a pitcher, and the best game I ever had was against Wahconah in 1981 our high school senior year.







Wahconah Regional High School




It was in Wahconah's field in Dalton, Mass (not the Jim Bouton hallowed Wahconah Park in Pittsfield) where I had pitched a shut out and gotten a few singles while batting around .400 for the season.



The scouts were there to scout Jeff.



I first remember seeing Jeff Grande play in Little League, and he looked just like a MLB player even back then ! I think he was batting around .600 when we played the high school game I pitched in, and he had hit 3 home runs in the game.



On the bus ride home, Coach Craig Randall had sat next to me and told me there had been two pro scouts in the stands.



I asked Coach Randall if Jeff had known the scouts were there and Coach said that he did not.



When I got home and told dad, I think both he and I were finally satisfied about the same feelings that the 'Field of Dreams' character Ray Kinsalla and his dad - and also the character of author Terrence Mann - and the real life character 'doc' aka 'Moonlight' Graham, had - about the dream to play in the big leagues American and Canadian I guess now Taiwanese, Cuban and Chinese  dads somehow manage to place upon their children, or that children just kind of grow up into having, as I had, from being around their dads.



'It would kill some men to get so close to their dream and not see it through'.



That haunting feeling was cured for us just because I had played in front of two pro scouts and had a good game, which is more than dad or I ever imagined could happened in our little division 3 high school burg (Wacohnah was a division 2 high school)



It did not occur to me to bring spikes (I had brought the glove Cher had gotten me after I didn't make my first little League tryout cut) to Arizona State when I went there the next year, as I believed my only slim chance at any kind of success in life would be through football - but in the spring of my freshman year, I discovered that the qualification for being allowed to try out for the Arizona State baseball team were the names of two professional scouts who had seen you play.



Louis Sockalexis said in an interview that when he was playing for Holy Cross, he was signed as possibly the first native American MLB player ...in Williamstown'.



'in maine - where louis sockalexis is from - it is now called 'indiginous people's day', and the cleaveland indians, who were named because of 'socks', are now called 'the guardians''



Socks might have been signed at Weston Field.






- Julia Butterfly Hill's FB




The summer after we graduated high school I ran into Jeff in front of the college's Weston Field on Latham Street.



Jeff told me that he had been signed to a minor league team in Florida and I tried reading the Sporting News, Sports Daily, The local papers and all I could find about Jeff's career back then but I never learned how it turned out until a few years ago on Google, and the info is still very, very spotty.



Because of one photo, it appears that Jeff made it in some capacity all the way to the majors, apparently playing with, training or coaching in the St Louis Cardinals' Major League organization, and had played professionally somewhere in Europe.






- Williamstown, Mass Updated




I asked Jeff on Twitter about his career, but he did not reply - possibly because of the political danger to professional careers - and also physical well being - association with my social media pages seems to envince.



About the same time as dad built our little baseball field in our back yard of what had once been mom's family farm, John Weedon had taken over as our neighborhood's paper boy from Chris Van Luling (Todd Van Luling's dad) for delivering 'The North Adams Transcript', after Chris - who was an excellent basketball player - had graduated high school.



John was about 11 or 12 when he had fashioned his own bat from his late dad's lathe that he had kept in their barn / garage.






They lived next door to Uncle Floyd's house and farm which had once been the southern end of the Hall Farm, from our house to Floyd's.



Dad told me John's dad had been a master stone mason, and had built the old and beautiful stone college building next to the old Williamstown Savings Bank, - oh, now it is a Mountain One Bank -  before he had grievously injured his back. (Find the building and Google street view)










Driscoll Dining Hall



Chris Van Luling's dad had been a master brickmason, who had built his own beautiful house next to the Beverlys' house (and across from the Harts' house), out of brick.



Mr Beverly was the college's master electrician.



Dad and Gramps (Gramps had been a master carpenter and master electrician) had put the slate roof on the Beverly's barn / garage. The Beverly's house had once been an inn, the barn had been part of the inn, where they had kept egg laying chickens for the breakfasts.



Mr Hart co-owned and ran Hart's Construction Company and had once stopped me as I was walking up Water Street and asked me about dad's field and how I was doing playing baseball etc...



I mentioned to him how dad had told me about their old sandlot field, and he seemed really pleased.



Judy Gamborino's dad owned Gamborino's Construction Company and had the house next to (North of) the Hart's.






Lou Reed's wife Laurie Anderson has a permanent exhibit at MassMoca in North Adams:







Aunt Hazel grew up in our house on the Hall Farm and her son is James Hall Maxymillan, but I think her grandson runs Jimmy's J H Maxymillan Construction now.



Jimmy's dad 'Maxy' had put the foundation in mom and dad's house (which had been the old Hall Farm farm house), as a wedding present.



It was only a few years ago that I found out Mr Hart had himself played in the Chicago Cubs organization, making it all the way up to Triple A as one of the first 3 black players to play for any of the Chicago Cubs' affiliates - before - as it had been reported in The Berkshire Eagle - theconstant discrimination black players faced back then drove him to leave baseball and begin his own business back in town.










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