Calligraphy, 1933 & Kinzua

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I was cleaning out some files this week and found the following letter. 



My brother, Tee, sent this to me a number of years ago. At the time he was learning calligraphy and would send me letters. There was never any explanation, nothing to explain what he wrote or the reason for the particular composition. 

I read it two or three times and tried to figure out what the basis was for the writing. A random thought? An attempt at a story? Something he read about?

I found the answer here. This was supposedly a speech made by Chief Seattle on March 11,1854 in Seattle. He spoke in the Lushootseed language which was latter translated into the Chinook Indian trade language and then translated into English by a third person. So, the version below, written by yet another person, Dr. Henry A. Smith, may not be exactly what Chief Seattle said.

“And when the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among white men shall have become a myth, these shores shall swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children shall think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway or in the silence of the woods they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night, when the streets of your cities and villages shall be silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not altogether powerless.”

Chief Seattle

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On January 30, 1933, George Trendle and Fran Striker aired their program, “The Lone Ranger.”  It was on Detroit’s WXYZ radio station.

Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels

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I finished “The Lord Of The Rings” trilogy. It was definitely worth reading it again as there was a lot of detail I forgot about. The books bring into light the detail that J.R.R. Tolkien put into the creation of Middle Earth. The characters, races and their languages. The conflict between good and evil, compassion and heartlessness. The man was an excellent story teller.

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It’s Thursday morning and the temperature outside is 22 degrees. Last night it dropped to  7. Fortunately there is no snow. My prayers go out to all of you who are feeling the brunt of the 2019 Polar Vortex. 

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“Kinzua Dam was formally dedicated on September 16, 1966. Two hundred and eighty-three years after William Penn had signed his famous treaty, Pennsylvania lost the last of its Indians.”

Lake of Betrayal.

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Peter La Farge - “As Long As The Grass Shall Grow”

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