Little Richard - Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock n Roll dies at 87 NY Times

Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87

Delving deeply into the wellsprings of gospel music and the blues, and screaming as if for his very life, he created something new, thrilling and dangerous.

BOB DYLAN's yearbook goal -- 'to join Little Richard.' pic.twitter.com/TyQbqXmHGn

— Darrell Epp (@DarrellEpp) May 9, 2020

Exercises to try during quarantine

Exercises to try during quarantine 🤔😝
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— 🍃🌺🍃ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ🍃🌺🍃 (@LepapillonBlu) May 8, 2020

Jean Erdman, Dancer Moved by Myth, Wife of Joseph Campbell Is Dead at 104

Lacking physical grace myself dancers are not in my usual circle.  But some decades ago I spent a week with Jean Erdman, the wife of 49 years of Joseph Campbell, a Joyce scholar whose recounting of myths inspired epics like Star Wars and a nearly religious contemplative movement,  A week of TaiJiQuan and Thought of Joseph Campbell at Esalen Institute was led in part by his widow Jean.  For me it was a quest to replicate Elliott Porter's iconic photograph from the spot at Big Sur, and an opportunity to do it all with herbal aids to consciousness. - GWC





Jean Erdman, Dancer Moved by Myth, Wife of Joseph Campbell Is Dead at 104

By Margalit Fox

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• Jean Erdman, a modern dancer, choreographer and theater director whose work was suffused with the dreamlike aura of myth and legend, died on Monday in Kailua, Hawaii. She was 104.

Her death, in a nursing facility, was announced by Nola Hague, a friend.

A former principal dancer for Martha Graham, Ms. Erdman first came to wide notice as a choreographer in the 1940s, and she remained in the vanguard of the field for decades. She later created performance pieces for the Theater of the Open Eye, an avant-garde New York stage she founded in 1972 with her husband, Joseph Campbell, the scholar of literature and myth.

Ms. Erdman was among the first choreographers to exploit the inherent theatricality of dance, melding it with drama, poetry, music and visual art to form a seamless whole, or “total theater,” as it was known then. Today it might be described as performance art.

Her dances, among them “The Transformations of Medusa” and “Ophelia,” often focused on the inner lives of women — unorthodox fare at midcentury.

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Robert Nighthawk - Blues Man born 1909

Jeffrey Wright @jfreewright 
Found this when working on Cadillac Records. Robert Nighthawk, born in Helena, Arkansas, 1909. Played at Muddy Waters', um, first wedding. From the doc 'And This is Free' - 1964, Maxwell St in Chicago. Rough song. Top 5 blues recordings everrrrrrr.

Found this when working on Cadillac Records. Robert Nighthawk, born in Helena, Arkansas, 1909. Played at Muddy Waters', um, first wedding. From the doc 'And This is Free' - 1964, Maxwell St in Chicago. Rough song. Top 5 blues recordings everrrrrrr. pic.twitter.com/wLCZJZ8xK9

— Jeffrey Wright (@jfreewright) May 7, 2020

Whitbread 1997 -1998 Official Film

I was obsessed with the Whitbread in 1997 - 1998.  It was early in ocean sailing  coverage on the web.
Email reports and GPS tracking were the keys. But when they came in to port on each leg they published photographs.  Those were the days of film so the photographers were crew members.
The effort was enormous - 4,000 to 5,000 calories a day.
I was in awe of the round the buoys intensity across oceans.  The leg from Capetown to Fremantle saw all eight boats finish within 20 miles of each other.  Then came the ice.
I rooted for the Dutch team Brunel Sunergy (after all my earliest known forebear arrived in Nieuw Amsterdam in their own ship in 1612).  And they had a great photographer ....(damn can't remember his last name) whose photo of the boat on a screaming reach I look at every time I sit at our dining table.  
A high point for me was taking the helm of my law partner Eileen's friend Avis's boat to escort the fleet as thousands of us escorted the fleet out of Baltimore.
The round the world race was won by EF Language skippered by the great American sailor Paul Cayard.  A champion in the 21 foot Olympic class Star and America's Cup challenger, this was his first ocean race where miles and hours, not seconds mattered. 

Among the highlights was the third place leg finish by the all female drew of EF Education skippered for the leg by the great French solo sailor Isabel Autissier

- gwc

These girls can dance!

How dope is this! #Dance #Kanikani pic.twitter.com/LMKPmIxTbC

— AWA (@Awa_1) May 4, 2020

A Trip To Execution Rocks: New York’s Most Unusual B&B | Scouting NY

A Trip To Execution Rocks: New York’s Most Unusual B&B | Scouting NY

"governors island" – Catalog Search

"governors island" – Catalog Search

Governor Mills Presents Safe, Gradual Plan to Restart Maine’s Economy | Office of Governor Janet T. Mills

Governor Mills Presents Safe, Gradual Plan to Restart Maine’s Economy | Office of Governor Janet T. Mills

Betsy Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth’s Widow and Collaborator, Dies at 98 - The New York Times

Betsy Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth’s Widow and Collaborator, Dies at 98 - The New York Times 

by Penelope Green  

• Betsy James Wyeth, the indomitable widow, collaborator and muse of the painter Andrew Wyeth, died on April 21 at her home in Chadds Ford, Pa. She was 98.
  
  
  She had been in declining health for years, her son Jamie Wyeth said in confirming the death.
  
  The couple met in 1939 in Cushing, Maine, when she was 17 and he was 22. As the oft-told story goes, Ms. Wyeth’s father invited the handsome young painter to meet his three daughters.
  
  
  He was taken with Betsy, the youngest, and she with him, and she tested her new beau by inviting him to meet the Olsons, a brother and sister who lived in a squalid but atmospheric farmhouse.
  
  
  Christina Olson was paralyzed from the waist down, and it was Ms. Wyeth’s intention to see if Mr. Wyeth would be shocked by the Olsons’ grim existence. As he said afterward, he was too focused on his future wife to pay much attention.