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....and the Brigands do a mighty great rendition of the song, If I may add.

I am patiently awaiting for a dead whale to wash ashore on the coast of New Jersey so I can play dentist and remove a tooth or two. I'm looking for some free scrimshaw to do some projects with. you laugh.

Michesbagley Nope. My fault.

Capt Bo I was under the impression that all shoes were straight lasted. Even civil war brogies are straight as far I know. You are right though about the crookedness. The last it's built on is definitely a "curved" last, but not noticeable at first glance. By profession, I spend time looking at shoe soles so I know what to look for. However no one will notice while I'm wearing them so I decided I'm not going to fight the battle with LA. Hurricane, thanks for the walmart tip. The leather inside the vamp is actually backed with canvas duck cloth. I just hope the fabric doesn't resist stretching too much.

That stinks. Did you get any email confirmation yet?

Finally recieved mine, just like Hurricane's...smooth side out. The fit is a little tight. I am fairly skinny but I have very wide Fred Flintstone feet. Good quality drum-dyed full grain leather, though I can see the edges of the pieces are rolled instead of raw. Leather lin'd, also. The soles are all leather. it appears that they must have been soaked in water at some point, for whatever purpose, because the patina from the copper nails has oozed onto the soles. Whatever the case it, looks damn cool! the dot in the middle of the heel is wood. I do not believe that these are true straight-lasted because the last itself appears to be curved slightly right or left.

We had a galvanized steel box that could fit 4 1qt. galss milk bottles inside. Every monday morning a guy in a Divco truck would pick up the empties and replace them with 4 fesh milk bottles, complete with the paper cap. This was circa mid 70's. I still remember the jack kramer wooden tennis raquets that needed a wooden frame to keep the raquet from warping. tennis balls were always white. We got our color tv in 1969, but we had 2 black & white ones, one which I had to watch Neil Armstrong land on the moon...yep, I'm that old. Budweiser beer cans came in steel cans. My grandfather's Buick Electra had 5 ashtrays, each with electric cigarette lighers (all 4 doors plus the center console). Homework assignments were issued on paper that came out of a hand-crakned mimeograph machine and the text was the same purple you see stamped on meat. Sesame Street was the greates program befor e the introduction of Elmo. Every kid knew who Morgan Freeman was because he was the coolest cast member of the Electric Company.

Thank ye Callenish gunner for being an advocate of rail travel...as is meself . I was watching the news the other night how a family was trying to get to orlando from Philly because their flight was cancelled due to airline cutbacks, and high fares on primetime flights forcing them to drive to Orlando in their Ford Explorer instead. No one thinks trains exist anymore. The Bush administration snubs Amtrak while supporting stupid 'pet projects' like the Trans-Texas highway, and meanwhile we have a passenger rail system worthy of a third world country. The Acela itself cannot attain the speed it was meant for because the trackage (meaning electric caternay wires, bridges, etc) are 100 years old and insufficient. Furthermore, while some may advocate drilling for oil in Alaska or the Gulf of mexico, the only thing that it accomplishes is empower the oil companies even more so. We are being held hostage by big petro. Oh, Callenish...net time you travel, try the Cardinal Limited.

This made my morning, thanks! Some fact they don't know: 1. Milk delivered to your doorstep. 2. rolling around in the back of the station wagon with legos and barbie, long before madatory seatbelts, child seats, and dvd players. 3. All the neighborhood dogs roaming your streets doing as they please....no leash laws. 4. Cars had vinyl woodgrain on the sides. Tho my dad as a teenager had a real '49 ford woodie wagon. 5. Eastern Airlines, TWA, Western Airlines, Piedmont, Allegheny, National , Pan Am. ...full course meals while riding in coach class. You recieved your tickets either through the mail or from a ticket agent. The tickets were unreadable because of the red print was so illegible. 6. Eddie Murphy, Michael Jackson (during the Thriller years), Van Halen, U2 before Bono wore sunglasses, Jerry Springer. oh, I could go on....

George Francis Dow wrote in 1922 Pirates of the new England Coast 163-1730 of pirate Ned Low (as taken from an article from the Boston News-Letter June 27, 1723) Low's insane rage was unabated two days later when a fishing boat was taken off Block Island. the master was taken aboard the pirate sloop and Low with furious oaths at once attacked him with a cutlass and hacked off his head. He gave the boat to two indians who sailed with the murdered man and sent them away with the information that he intended to kill the master of every New England vessel he captured. On the afternoon of the same day two whaling sloops out of Plymouth were taken near the Rhode Island Shore. The master he ripped open alive and taking out the poor man's heart ordered it roasted and then compelled the mate to eat it. The master of the other vessel he slashed and mauled about the deck and then cut off his ears and had them roasted and after sprinkling them with salt and pepper, made the unfortunate man eat them. the man's woulds were so severe that he died afterwards.

All 342 pages of the thesis I am actually shocked to find out that some of the shoes were of welted construction also.

Cheeky wrote: Wow, did you ever hit on that topic with me. Now you got me going. I've lived in Bristol for more than half my life. I do know of the Benjamin Church reenactor group. There are also decendants of benjamin Church still living today, one in particular that I went to high school with. The King Philips Seat is by the shore near where I went to college for a few years (Roger Williams University) where the final battle took place. TheHaffenreffer museum is on that site. I recommend this book Mayflower, it goes directly from the Pilgrims right directly into the KP war. Nearly everything in town is named Metacom, Massassoit, Canonicut and Wampanoag. The town of bristol is really called Mount Hope or (Montaup, in wampanoag). The word 'quahoag' ,as in the tv cartoon, is a wampanoag word. The picture below is King Philip's war club, that he used to clop people on the head with: Three things more about Bristol : One, Benjamin Church was a founding member of St. Michaels church, which was afiliated with the DeWolf slave trading family, which I posted in this link Rum & Slaves Two, Captain Kidd also parcticipated in the war. And his lawyer Emott rolled through town several times for Kidd's trial matters. Three, is the Herreshoff boat factory, which made the fastest sailing ships and boats in the world at one time. Lastly, my suggestion is that any reenactor group involved with King Philips war is that they should do it in nearby Colt State park (formally owned by S.P Colt of the revolver), I've seen civil war reenactors there frequently. The scenery is on Narragansett bay. and breathtaking, like these 1750 Coggeshall farm "store houses" below, this is in the millgut. VVVVVV.

The exhibit in Philly ends in september but the website doesn't list any dates afterwards. However you might wat to call the exhibitors at this Cape Cod number & email to get more info. (508) 487-8899 whydahmuseum@yahoo.com I saw the program last night....friggin two hours long. Learned something I didn't know: the wreck was on the Atlantic side (vicinity of Marconi beach), not on the CapeCod Bay side via Wellfleet as the history books said. I think I'll catch the exhibit this weekend before it dissapears. I kind of neglected to see the exhibit because, well, I can't stand wasting a perfectly good summer afternoon inside a museum.

I recieved the following email from Loyalist today, anybody else get it?

There were approximately 145 men aboard the Whydah, including the 8 that were captured. The crewmen were of several nationalities. The name 'Teye' sounds Portuguese, could be Spanish...kind of like 'Reyes'. My guess the ring is either from a crew member or plunder from another ship. Those are your odds of finding the original owner of the ring.

but you won't tell us the specific geographic location for whence it lie, will ye

Lots of offences, some of them amusing, a lot of street crime, the rest sound like the usual shenanigans of today's police blotter. Proceedings by date. John Map gets death for AWOL off Captain Solgard's ship, claiming he was pressed Docket 17250115-48 Richard Coyle got his:Feb 24, 1737

Congratulations to USA fencing's Mariel Zagunis for the very first gold

Captain Sterling wrote Don't count on it. Mad L Wrote 6 to 12 weeks, says they. I will assume one of two things have occurred: One, the factory in India has incurred problems and delays. These are special make-up shoes, not from a production line....which in one sense, a good thing, that not being from an assembly line. Having personal experience with shoe factories in Asia, there is a lot of politics and attrition....bad. Two, the delivery could have intercepted, not by pirates, but from customs officials, either canadian or US, and detained indefinitely because something else was also in the package, other than what the manifest or waybill says...such as drugs or pirated dvd's. As far fetched as this notion may seem, India is a far less controlled exportation, then say, China. My company's shoes leave the port of Shenzhen, China where our factories are, then directly to Long Beach, california. There is really no room for illicit busines, particularly in a fairly closed and controlled society such as China. We don't even export from Hong kong anymore, which would have meant the 3 hour truck drive from China across the border into HK, thus some security holes. India seems like 'anything goes' type of place. You figure smuggling stuff into Canada is probably far easier than into the US, particularly with the new Homeland Security procedures.

Anyone familiar with the origins of the classic bluegrass murder ballad "Pretty Polly"? I hear sometimes it's called 'The Gosport tragedy' or 'The Cruel Ship's Carpenter as known in England, as old english folk song. My understanding is that the song originated in England in the early 1700's, and was published in 1750. I have, in my collection, Ralph Stanley, The Byrds, and about a half dozen other artists singing it.

Captn Thighbiter, thank you for all the wonderful advice. My only experience with stringed instruments of this kind is my upright double bass, a 1953 Kay, which I have all gut strings set up to play rockabilly and old style country and hillbilly. But the violin does have one fine tuner on the tailpiece, and a decent looking bridge. I will have a pro do the bow hair. If I can get good enough to play 'Jambalaya' in the violin, Then I'll be happy.

Anybody here know anything about violins? I was able to aquire my late step-grandfather's violin. It has no strings and no horsehair on the bow. It has one of those classic "Nicolaus Amati fecit In Cremona 1670...made in Germany" stamped on the inside but I know nothing else. I think it's safe to say it was not made in 1670 in Cremona by Amati or Stradivari for that matter, but has to be pre-WW2 germany.

withoutaname wrote: Good thing. That box doesn't float.......'cause I'd hate to see it end up at the bottom of Buzzards bay with all the other pirate shipwrecks.

Yes, sorry for the confusion. I was *hoping* you would sort of elaborate on what kind of collection of 17th century books you have. I'been trying to snarf some for meself without spending a fortune. So far I only have 18th century books, some of which are falling apart at the binding. I hate .pdf because it's too slow. All you need is a program that converts .pdf to .jpg, like photoshop does , and you're all set....but you have to do the conversion yourself. The fact that Kindle does not support .pdf files does not solve your problem. I would not get the device until it does support .pdf files.

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