Countless Starlings Flock Together in a Bird-Shaped Murmuration Over Lough Ennell | Colossal

Countless Starlings Flock Together in a Miraculous Bird-Shaped Murmuration Over Lough Ennell | Colossal

Spring break 2022

Martian valley -

 

A panoramic view from the surface of Mars captured by Curiosity rover. pic.twitter.com/OxwwongSoB

— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) March 14, 2022

Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s Ship, Lost in 1915, Is Found in Antarctica - The New York Times

Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s Ship, Lost in 1915, Is Found in Antarctica - The New York Times

By Henry Fountain

March 9, 2022Updated 1:11 p.m. ET

The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the historic ship was crushed in pack ice and sank during an expedition by the explorer Ernest Shackleton.

A team of adventurers, marine archaeologists and technicians located the wreck at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, using undersea drones. Battling sea ice and freezing temperatures, the team had been searching for more than two weeks in a 150-square-mile area around where the ship went down in 1915.

Endurance, a 144-foot, three-masted wooden ship, holds a revered place in polar history because it spawned one of the greatest survival stories in the annals of exploration. Its location, nearly 10,000 feet down in waters that are among the iciest on Earth, placed it among the most celebrated shipwrecks that had not been found.

The discovery of the wreck was announced Wednesday in a statement by the search expedition, Endurance22.

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Winter work at The Apprenticeshop

 

Presidents' Days i Friendship 2022

 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy - a Dancing Star

 

Good grief. Apparently Volodymyr Zelenskyy is actually Buckaroo Banzai. https://t.co/bJgtKaIVc1

— Charles Gaba 🇺🇦 (@charles_gaba) February 27, 2022

Fergus Seamus arrives

Richard Pryor - Nobody Loves You When you're Down and Out

 Live.  1966

I hear he opened for Dylan and for Nina Simone!

Nobody Loves you When You're Down and Out

Georges Harbor - Colby College Acquires Andrew & Betsy Wyeth's Islands - The New York Times

In 1605 George Weymouth headed to what we now call America.  His ship, the Archangel, ran into the shallow waters of Cape cod Bay, turned east and sailed downwind until he hit Monhegan Island.  They spent a night anchored in its inhospitable harbor, then found a cozy spot, now known as Georges Harbor, at the mouth of the St. George River and Muscongus Bay..  It is protected by four islands - a great refuge from the sea.  They spent some time exploring the area, trading, kidnapping some natives, etc.

If you've ever visited us in Maine in fair weather you've been to the spot.  Last summer, aboard Ralph and Hannah Wolf's Caleru, we replicated part of that voyage.  We spent a peaceful night at Georges Harbor, anchored just off Andrew and Betsy Wyeth's place, near the granite cross the State of Maine placed in 1905 to mark the tercentennial.   

- GWC

Colby College Acquires Islands That Inspired Andrew and Betsy Wyeth - The New York Times

 By Meredith Mendelsohn
Feb. 2, 2022


Nestled in the Atlantic Ocean, five miles off the coast of the picturesque town of Port Clyde, Maine, lie two rugged islands with stories to tell. Allen and Benner, as they are called, have witnessed a string of inhabitants over the centuries, from the Abenaki people and English colonists to homesteading lobstermen. And then came Betsy and Andrew Wyeth — mid-coast Maine locals and the most high-profile members of what many consider the first family of American art.

After the death in 2020 at age 98 of Betsy James Wyeth, the notoriously formidable adviser, collaborator, business manager, muse, and wife of the realist painter Andrew Wyeth, a polarizing figure in American art history, the keys to the castle are now passing to a far younger generation. (He died in 2009 at 91.)

Colby College of Waterville, Maine, around 75 miles inland from the islands, is set to announce it has acquired Allen and Benner from the family’s two foundations, Up East and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art. The Colby connection could breathe new life into a name that has been lacking in youthfulness for some time.

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