Clare Marie Trautfield Conk (August 31, 1922 - February 1, 2015)

Clare M. Conk

Married to George W. Conk, Jr., January 27, 1945

Ensign, United States Navy (1943-1945)

A.B. St.Joseph's College, Brooklyn, NY (1943)

Attorney at Law, State of California (1981)

Mother of George, Nancy, Peter, Kathryn and Steven

Grandmother of Theresa, Max, Molly, Sophia Clare, Mindy, Lonnie, & Patrick

When all the others were away at Mass

I was all hers as we peeled potatoes.

They broke the silence, let fall one by one

Like solder weeping off the soldering iron:

Cold comforts set between us, things to share

Gleaming in a bucket of clean water.

And again let fall.  Little pleasant splashes

From each other's work would bring us to our senses.

I remember her head bent towards my head,

Her breath in mine, our fluent dipping knives -

Never closer the whole rest of our lives.

-Seamus Heaney, Clearances

Moai |Easter Island // Issuma

Moai | Issuma:

Issuma is at Rapa Nui - Better known as Easter Island 27 08'S:109 19'W, Rano Raraku, Rapa Nui, a Chilean possession, 2,0003 nm wsw from Santiago.  How far to other cities?  Far.

There's no harbor and just getting ashore is pretty dicey.









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Cirrus SR 22 - plane parachutes to safety at sea

In this VIDEO you see Cirrus SR-22 airplane , which has its own parachute. Not for the pilot. for the plane. Due to a valve malfunction the pilot had to ditch 250 miles from Maui. Via the Coast Guard he put the plane down - in big seas - near a cruise ship which fetched him out after the plane ditched safely but quickly overturned! h/t James Fallows - who owns one!

Mom & Dad - Maine - Summer 2009

Happy - in Shenzhen, China

This is where your iPhone came from - Shenzhen the huge manufacturing port city near HongKong.

Cutting transom angles - Glen L.com

Cutting Transom Angles | Boatbuilders Site on Glen-L.com: "Figuring out how to cut the angle on a transom can be a little challenging. Joshua Burks is currently building our Zip which is a 14′ runabout that has a 12 degree angle on the transom as do many of our designs. Joshua is documenting his build with video. He’s done a really good job at walking us through his build and explaining what he does. You can see all his videos on his You Tube Chanel. The second video pertains to today’s article about cutting the transom angles. One of the considerations is how much material to add to the transom to allow for the angle. We have explained how this is done in a formula and photo below, but for those of you who are visual, Joshua’s video is excellent and really shows how much more simple it is than you might think. I hope you enjoy the video:

Tommy Caldwell Climbing Pitch 15 - the Dawn Wall, El Capitan

This is the toughest stretch of the climb.  Kevin Jorgeson made 10 attempts before traversing it.  Caldwell did it on his first.

Van Morrison and Them: I can only give you everything I got

Van had been listening to the Stones.  He was 19 years old.  His group was called Them.

Easter Island! - Downwind! | Issuma

Easter Island 27.1167° S, 109.3667° W

Downwind! | Issuma:

by Richard Hudson

After four weeks of sailing closehauled (all but one day on port tack), the wind shifted north, and we had a beautiful tailwind. If you look closely under the spinnaker (colorful sail), you can see Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island and Isla de Pascua).

We did not have time to anchor at Rapa Nui before dark, so we spent a leisurely night sailing slowly under the stars, with little sail set, to time our arrival for dawn.

On this leg of the trip, we went farther west than the direct route from Mexico to Rapa Nui because the weatherfaxes showed a lot of light headwinds north of the equator on the direct route. That probably helped avoid motoring (I like sailing, not motoring), as we motored about 75 miles out of about 3100 miles logged. It also made for a somewhat longer (~400 miles) distance and therefore longer time at sea.

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Green-Energy Inspiration Off the Coast of Denmark - NYTimes.com

Green-Energy Inspiration Off the Coast of Denmark - NYTimes.com

by Dawn Cardwell



Before dawn one morning in October, a handful of Americans gathered at a lonely pier on Samso, a small Danish island about four hours from Copenhagen. Bundled in layers of fleece and wool, the Americans, mostly from islands off the Maine coast, had come to get a closer look at a wind farm — 10 mighty turbines spinning in the Kattegat strait — that has helped make Samso a symbol for a greener future, one powered entirely by renewable energy.

Monhegan Island- Rockwell Kent

Among them was Marian Chioffi, the bookkeeper at the electric company in Monhegan, Me., whose population of about 60 swells to include hundreds of residents and thousands of tourists in the summer. They — along with generations of artists like Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent and Jamie Wyeth — have been drawn by the island’s lost-in-time charm and picturesque setting in the Gulf of Maine.

Monhegan faces challenges as stark as its beauty. Foremost among them — and the spur for the journey to Denmark — is dependence on expensive, dirty fuels for heating and electricity. Even with the recent fall in oil prices, Monhegan residents pay among the highest power rates in the nation — almost six times the national average — and the electric company, locally owned and operated, struggles to keep the lights on.

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