Memorial Weekend & “Land of Joy & Sorrow” Reunion.

Dean, Me, Mom and Kathy at the Memorial Day Weekend. (Photo taken by Paul.)

Flight to the Americas.

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I thought about calling this ‘The Long Good(?) Friday’ because flying with the sun as it journeys West extends the day; Paul and I left the UK on Friday and arrived in the USA on Friday, having been awake 25 hours by the time we were settled into our hotel room.  Not that it should have been that long—our flight was delayed five hours while Heathrow rescheduled around a hijacking from Switzerland and a separate incident of a plane that had its engines catch fire shortly after takeoff. Five hours was ample time for me to revisit in my own mind the concept of airports as exhibitions to captive audiences--places of waiting and transition and liminal spaces between places. (Please note the above photo is not one of mine--it is from the Vancouver Observer.)

Visit to the Americas: ‘The Itinerary’

 

Whirlwind Tour of Washington State

Museums, Natural Beauty, Family

May 23:    Pete picks up Paul & Kirstin for overnight with Carol, Pete, Pam, Carl,

     Cody in Littlethorpe.

May 24:    Pete takes Paul & Kirstin to London to LHR to fly to Seattle, USA.
May 24:    Arrive Sea-Tac Airport 3:44 pm PST Over Snoqualmie Pass to Toppenish, WA
                  at Days Inn & Suites by 9 pm.
May 25:    Yakima Valley Museum 1 - 8 pm or so for “Land of Joy & Sorrow” Reunion.
May 26:    Memorial Weekend Events 10 - 6 pm (Documentary Filming and Interviews).
May 27:    Tour of ‘E-burg’, Research Morning at CWU, Old Skool and Rodeo Record

     Stores, IOOF Cemetery, Barbecue at Uncle Will and Aunt Cindy’s, Lavendon

     Family Registration Records.

May 28:    Sleep In! Wash Clothing as Needed. Crate/Pack Kirstin’s Artwork for
                  Shipment to the UK.
May 29:    Pick-up Rental/Road Trip: Research at Mary’s Hill Museum and

    ‘Stonehenge’; Columbia River Gorge, Celilo, Multnomah Falls.

May 30-31:   
                  Portland, Oregon: Record Stores; Powell's, other events!
                  Seaside, Oregon; Mt. St. Helens, WA, ending in Olympia 5/31 to sleep.  

    (Also: See to Banking)

Reflection:  We can go from Portland to the ocean, Seaside seems best and (a) spend the evening and most of the day at the ocean with no St. Helens; (b) just have breakfast at Seaside and drive up to Mt. St. Helens having some time there; (c) not go to the ocean and be leisurely in going to Mt. St. Helens and spending time there.

June 1      Boating with Aunt Janet & Jim; Overnight at Jim's on Eld Inlet, Shelton
June 2      TESC Olympia, University of Puget Sound Tacoma, Dinner with Patrice.
June 3      Research at Burke Museum; Pike Place Market then North Bend Visit Cousin

    Laura; Roslyn Cemetery and Visit Grandma Johnson, Back to Toppenish.

June 4      Toppenish: Wash Clothes; Storage Transfer, Dinner with Dad's Friends from

    Marines/Warriors Association and with Loren & Becky.

June 5      Toppenish, Presentations at Heritage University, Follow-up with Virginia, 
                 "Off the Record" in Yakima, Lunch with Nina, Turn in Rental Car.
June 6      Early Travel to Research Day with Tillicum Village 11-3:30; Overnight Seattle.
June 7      Seattle, EMP and Revisit Burke Museum; Arrive Airport by 2:30 pm.
June 8      Pete & Carol (?) pick up Paul & Kirstin at LHR in London. 

Bedsted Reading Secret Society Topic: Rejected Knowledge

'Rejected knowledge' is to the world of 'science' what heresy is to religious orthodoxy. It never occurred to me to think of concepts of continental drift, Atlantis, UFOs, giant comets starting the Ice Age, hypnotherapy, ghost hunting, anomalous phenomna etc. as being combinatorial to a specific discipline of academic inquiry . . . the rejected academy . . .

Bedsted Reading Topic: The Green Man Part 2

ALSO, speaking of the 'Green Man', I apparently have a somewhat personal connection to 'The Green Man Pub' in Lavendon, where Paul and I hope to visit and trace some family history when we return from the United States:

http://www.greenman-pub-lavendon.co.uk/

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Lovely Sunday of 'Star Trek' and 'The Specials'.

I very much enjoyed 'Star Trek':

and had a lovely time at 'The Specials' with Paul, Chris, Iain, Grace and Lou. Here is a video from the Old Grey Whistle Test 1979:

Bedsted Reading Topic: The Green Man Part 1

I find the myth of the 'Green Man' almost as fascinating as dragons . . . and that's saying something. This is a great image from the Wikipedia page regards 'The Green Man', interpreted as a sculpture at Custard Factory in Birmingham: