Red Headed Stepchild
(The Barrett family memoir of Navy Life)
by Sophie Ruth Meranski with photos
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1949 back Connors Alpert Crook Arthur Cox, coach Kelsey front Ed Keating,
Coffey, Davis, Dimock, Rollins Price ---Bill French - I remember several
years ago you attended a couple of programs of New England Botanical Club,
and I remember you were in conversation with our past President from around
1988 Dr. Garrett Crow of University of New Hampshire at Durham. He is an
authority on botany and ecology and conservation of the state of New
Hampshire. he was original in Michigan and has done botany in Siberia,
Bolivia, Tierra del Fuego among other places - knowledgable on arctic,
mountain, aquaitic habitats and generally. His colleague at Durham Professor
Lynn Bogle is an authority on Hawaii, where is wife's father was a
volcanologist at Kiluaea. among their students Vin Klink and Don Padgett
come to mijd as active in New England Botanical Club. I suggest many at
Kabeyun would be interested in University of New Hampshire botany and New
England Botanical Club. Perhaps some of the botanists will have sons who
would enjoy and benefit from Kabeyun.I could give you names of many
botanists in the other New England states and New York if anyone is
interested in those areas. I am going to try to send this to
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ALANINE A ala 89.1 may act as B6 pyridoxine precursor. ARGININE R Arg 174.2 ASPARAGINE N Agn may fight ammonia build-up needed in fast dividing cells such as intestine lining.precursor of nitric oxide - anticoagulant -blocks somatostatin of pituitary favoring production of human growth hormone stimulates thymus, convertible to ornithine 132.1 ASPARTIC ACID D Asp 133.2 CYSTEINE C Cys 121.2 GLUTAMATE E Glu 147.1 GLUAMINE Q Gln 146.2 GLYCINE G Gly 75.1 LYSINE K Lys 146.2 potatoes good source. believed to relieve herpes, aid calcium absorption but may elevate cholesterol.REQ HISTIDINE H His 155.2 Under ordinary circumstances adults may be able to synthesize as much histidine as they need. Greater quantities are probably needed in infants and small children and during pregnancy. There are suggestions that histidine levels may be low in rheumatoid arthritis, and that histidine may be needed to remove toxic heavy metals from the body. On the other hand, histidine can be a source for synthesis of histamines, and high levels of histamine contribute to allergies. Histidine contributes for formation of glycosylated amines and proteins. ISOLEUCINE I Ile 131.2 REQ hydrophobic LEUCINE L Leu 131.2 REQ hydrophobic METHIONINE M Met 149.2 sulfur, initiates DNA transcription REQ PHENYLALANINE F Phe phenyl ring REQ 165.2 cancer risk PROLINE P Pro 115.1 bone, collagen HYDROXYPROLINE SERINE S Ser 105.1 THREONINE T Thr 119.1 alcohol group REQ VALINE V Val 117.1 REQ hydrophobic TRYPTOPHAN W Trp 204.2 serotonin REQ TYROSINE Y Tyr 181.2 kinase phosphorylation in normal and cancer growth notebk 5 p 34 Telephone call from Robert J. Hoarde Oct. 7, 1970 Baby in the family was in Army Air force World War II. lives at 101 School St. waltham Works at Charles River Country club. Lives at elks Club waltham 893-9517 893-7742. Kept a home at 161 Ash St. Waltham for father and mother. Gave up home after father's death ayear ago, over ninety. His mother elizabeth will be ninety tomorrow born Oct. 8, 1880 She lives with his married sister Julia in Brighton Mrs. Charles Maloney. 9 Bostonia Ave 782-7857 five children His mother's sisters are twins eight 1/2years younger than mother 1889 Sarah deceased Bussier Libby St. goffstown NH. His siter Mary Brooks living in Burlington MA 11 Holden Avenue. Elizabeth Mehegan Pieper Hoarde lives with her daughter Mrs. Charles Maloney 5 ch many gand. eliz has three liv child. |
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Loretto letter notebooi 5-122 States. She married into the home Jeremiah Sheehy - their son Maurice Sheehy is married into a farm near me in Moskeigh brother Jeremiah is over USA in East Hartford CT John Joseph is with me. The daughter Maryt ellen and a son Daneil were cecdeased about twenty years of age. -=My aunt Ellen the nun sister Mary peter [Buckley) Presentation Convent Aberdeen South Dakota. She was home in the year 1932 as did say she got letters from Minnie Fracnes Buckley. This sister Peter was a nurse in that order- and if the cutting we got from paper were right -she dida lot for thwt convent- as she was the founder of St. Luke's hospital on the convent. There was another consin of ours [there] at the same time. She ws sister Margaret Grainger, and I tink she was writing a book in 1932.She ws home also that year.There is a nun still living that was a great friend of my aunt ellen - {Ellie she was called in Ireland) Sister Mary Clair is the nun that loved my aunt and she writes efery year here to me. You won't have any trouble with the record there.= Jerome Buckley family settled perhaps in Ohio. I may learn more from their nephew Maurice Sheehy soon.=This picture of your father and mother are nice to have, and he was a right Buckley also. And Mrs. O sullivan could be another cousin as the Moskeigh Buckleys had near cousins in Raheen. It's not so far from me, Perhaps |
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p 52 Giuseppe deLellis organized Glee Glub in 1946 Subject: Giuseppe deLellis,ROXLat glee club Date: Sat, 10 Oct 199 friend Giuseppe deLellis of West Newton. I may share this when completed with Mrs. DeLellis and her family, who are at 27 Harding Road. My father and i both took piano lessons l947-l951 and l967-l969. Giuseppe delellis perfomed Rachmaninoff and Mozart piano concertos with Boston Pops and Arthur Fiedler. In music classes at Roxbury Latin, the recordings of the Carnegie Collection were an amportant resoure.I reember Toscanini conducting Schbubert Great C Major, the Frank symphony d minor -bach Mass in b minor - Giuseppe stressed the power ofm"sanctus,sanctus, sanctus arlesienne suite of Bizet, Lt. Kije suite of prokoffiev, La Mer of Debussy. I have put Year Book 1953 photos of my family memoir website at http://www.ccilink.com/photobook -- these include good photos of giuseppe with the Roxbury latin and Beaver glee clubs. He later taught at Dean Junior College near his original home in Franklin l957-l969. He studied with Nadia Boulanger Paris and at Longy School Cambridge. I heard him perform with violiniist Faith Quesada Costa Rican at Waltham library the Franck violin-piano sonata.Puerto Rico pianist Jesus Maria SanRoma and his brother in Newton were particular friends of the deLellis family. My initial emphais where I request help is in recollecting songs performed by the Roxbury Latin and other Glee Clubs - here are a few (Based on Ecclesisticus or Wiusdom of Sirach in Bible Apochrypha is the first: Let us now praise famous men And our father that begot us Such as did bear rule in teir kingdoms Men renowned for their power Leaders of the people by their councils and their knowledge Such as found out musical tunes and recited verses in writing. ASll these were honored in their generations and were the glory of the times. And some there be that have no memoirial Who are buried as though they had never been Their bodies are buried in peace But their Name liveth fore-evermore." Old Abram Brown is Dead and gone To every man ther openeth a way and ways and a way Hallehluia chorus Handel The monks marck - Wales -them of Haydn Piano students included James Rumrill Randy Hare, David Spectre, Robert Murray, John Barrett - Clark Heath and Ross Holloweay played stringed instruments 0- violin or cello.-I remember Bob Murray working on Percy Grainer;s "Cpountry Gardens" Some of the piano music I worked on with Giusepppe included Schubert Moment Musical in f minor Op. 94 #3, Standchen or Serenade original and Lisztg arrangment- Military MaRCH IN D, piano sonatas especially op. 147 B major and B flat posthumous, and Schubert-Liszt arrangements of Ave Maria, Erlkonig, Die Forelle, Das Wandern ist das Muller's Lust"- Beethoven Minuet in G and PATHETQUE PIAN SONATA MOZART TURKISH RONDO AND MANY SONATAS. HAYDEN MANY SONATATA AND PIANO CONCERTO PIANO P[ART AND GYPSY RONDO TRIO- BRAHMS WALTZ IN A FLAT AND QUARTER OP. 33, AND D MInOR TWO PAINO ARRANGEMENTS OF first PIANO CONCERTO, Verdi - GrAND MARCH AND THIRD ACT OF AIDA, EXCERPTS FROM RIGOLETTO AND LA TRAVIATA,CHOPIN POLONIAISES, PRELUDES, WALTZES, ETUDES, FIRXT CONC3RTO.to be continued - recollections requested- John Barrett 22==113 w. Third St. Port Angeles WA 98362-2824 (still being edited |
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p 52-1060 Black Notebook 5 p 35-6 The Revolutionary Rising Thomas Buchanan Read p 172 The National Fifth Reader 1866 Edition by A.S. Barnes and Company [used by Jack Barrett in school declamation]"Out of the north the wild news came, Far flashing on its wings of flame, swift as the boreal light, which flies at midnight through the startled skies.And there was tumult in the air, the fife's shrill note, the drums' loud beat, And through the wide land everywhere, The answering tread of hurrying feet, While the first oath of freedom's gun, Came on the blast from Lexington; And Concord roused, no longer tame, -Forgot her old baptised name, Made bare her patriot arm of power, And Swell the discord of the hour. Within its shade of elm and oak, the churchof Berkley Manor stood; there Sunday found the rural folk And some esteemed of gentle blood. In vain their feet with loitering tread passed mid the graves where rank is naught; All could not read the lesson tonight, In that republic of the dead. How sweet the hour of Sabbath talk, The vale with peace and sunshine full Where all the happy people walk, decked in their homespun flax and wool! The pastor came; his snowy locks Hallowed his brow of thought and care; and calmly, as shepherds lead their flocks, He led into the house of prayer.Then soon he rose; the prayer was strong; the pslm was warrior David's song; the text, a few short words of might,"The Lord of Hosts shall arm the right!" He spoke of wrongs too long endured, of sacred rights to be secured; then from his patriot tongue of flame, The sartling words for freedom came. The stirring sentences he spoke Compelled the heart to glow or quake, And rising in his theme's broad wing, And grasping in his nervous hand, The imaginary battle's brand, In face of death he dared to fling Defiance to a tyrant king. Even as he spoke, his frame renewed In eloquence of attitude Rose as it seemed a shoulder higher; Then swept his kindling glance of fire From startled pew to breathless choir. When suddenly his mantle wide, his hands impatient flung aside, And lo he met their wondering eyes Complete in all a warrior's guise. A moment there was awful pause, - When Berkley cried, "Cease, traitor! cease! God's temple is the house of peace!" The other shouted, "Nay, not so, When God is with our righteous cause His holiest places then are ours! His temples are our forts and towers, That frown upon the tyrant foe; In this the dawn of freedom's day, There is a time to fight and pray!" And now before the open door- the warrior priest had ordered so-The enlisting trumpet's sudden roar Rang through the chapel, O'er and o'er Its long reverberating blow, So loud and clear It seemed the ear of dusty death Must wake and hear. And there the startling drum and fife Fired the living with fiercer life. While overhead, with wild increase forgetting its ancient toll of peace The great bell swung as ne'er before, It seemed as it would never cease; And every word its ardor flung From off its jubilant iron tongue Was, "WAR, WAR,WAR!" [At this point Jack Barrett's speaking time was up, and he had to sit down]. This was the patriot's cry As striding from the desk he came "Come out with me In freedom's name For her to live, For her to die!" A hundred hands flung up reply, A hundred voices answered, |
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p 52-1061 BIRDS OF BROOK FARM 1941 by Francis Henry ALLEN 119 species: Typed from original in West Roxbury Historical Society Archive. written 1941 for Brook Farm Centennial organized by Rev. Harold Arnold of West Roxbury. --: THE BIRDS OF BROOK FARM by Francis Henry Allen born 1867 attended Roxbury Latin member West Roxbury Historical Society founder of Thoreau Society worked at Houghton Mifflin TEXT: My acquaintance with Brook Farm began in the year 1874, when as a boy of seven living on Mount Vernon Street, West Roxbury, I joined other boys of the neighborhood in rambling through the woods and fields of the region.Our rambles extended from the blueberry pastures of what was then known as the May estate, now bounded by LaGrange, Vermont & Temple Streets and the railroad,to Home Farm, now Mount Benedict Cemetery.Home Farm, formerly owned by Colonel Harry Russell and the home of the famous trotter "Smuggler", was then the property of Joseph Arnold, who later lived on Corey Street. Within its borders were what we called the Checkerberry Woods and "the chasm" - a gap in a large puddingstone ledge, a very exciting playground for boys.The May estate was famous not only for its blueberries, but also for a large white oak, long since fallen,that we children knew as Prince Edward's Oak - I never knew why- but which was called by our elders the Parker Oak from a tradition that Theodore Parker was wont to rest under it, probably on his way to and fro between his house on Centre St. and Brook Farm. Brook Farm itself occupied the middle part of our customary wanderings.It was the brook, of course, that attracted us boys most, and I have a distinct recollection of drawing from its mysterious depths a few brook pickerel, which I think were caught with a real hook and not with the traditiopnal bent pin. We knew this brook higher up on its course too and fished it there, in what is now St. Joseph's Cemetery and the woods above it.It was not until years afterward that I discovered an old mill-dam in those woods and farther up the reamins of a reservoir dam. I then learned for the first time that the brook was known as Palmer's Brook, at least in the town of Brookline,and that there was another milldam higher up on its course.The old settlers used every possible source of watrpower for their sawmills and gristmills.Palmer's Brook lost much of its water when the metropolitan sewer was put through and is now much less of a stream than in the days of the Brook Farm community. My more intimate acquaintance with Brook Farm began when I began to hunt for birds within its precincts. I soon found that the variety of cover there - fields, tillage, pasture, meadows, woods and shade trees - attracted an unusual variety of birds, and it became a favorite haunt of mine. The first mention of Brook Farm that I find in my youthful bird diaries is under the date of February 22, 1884, when I "went to walk beyond Brook Farm" and heard there my first robin for the year." My records are not complete,for I never have kept complete lists of all the birds I have seen or heard on the farm, but they show one hundred nineteen species on Brook Farm, and I can think of eight or ten more that must certainly visit the Farm or fly over it every year, besides a good many more that must be occasional visitors. This does not include the birds that could only be found on the [Charles] river and the meadows immediately bordering it. Of course, I am not the only one who has enjoyed the birds of Brook Farm. Without making any real search of the literature I must at least quote Nathaniel Hawthorne's observations on birds in that part of his Note-Books which was devoted to his life at the Farm. Under date of October 9, 1841, he wrote :"A walk this afternoon to Cow Island.... Coming within view of the river, I saw several wild ducks under the shadow of the opposite shore, which was high and covered with a grove of pines. I should not have discovered the ducks had they not risen and skimmed the surface of the glassy river, breaking its dark water with a bright streak and, sweeping round, gradually risen high enough to fly away. I likewise started a partridge just within the verge of the woods; and in another place a large squirrel ran across the wood-path from one shelter of trees to the other. Small birds, in flocks, were flitting about the fields, seeking and finding I know not what sort of food." And under October 12th of that year "The cawing of the crow resounds among the woods. A sentinel is aware of your approach a great way off and gives the alarm to his comrades loud and eagerly-Caw, caw,caw! Immediately the whole conclave replies, and you behold them rising above the trees, flapping darkly and winging their way to deeper solitudes. Sometimes, however, they remain till you come near enough to discern their sable gravity of aspect, each occupying a separate bough,or perhaps the blasted tip-top of a pine.As you approach, one after another with loud cawing flaps his wings and throws himself upon the air." These are the notes, not of a ornithologist, but of a man who kept his eyes open and knew how to report what he saw.The descendants of these same crows still haunt Brook Farm; the small birds still flit about the fields; I see wild ducks almost every time I walk there, and if the partridge no longer lives in the woods, he was there only a very few years ago to my knowledge. My Brook Farm bird-list, incomplete as it is, is too long to givve here in its entirelty. I will name only the more uncommon birds and those most characteristic of the locality. First, there is the PIED-BILL GREBE, a small water-bird that visits our river in spring and fall but is commonest in the fall. I have seen it near the Needham Branch railroad bridge, and I haven't the slightest doubt that it can often be seen swimming and diving along the marshy shores of the Farm. It is a dull-colored bird, sometimes mistaken for a small duck, but a more expert diver than any duck and having a facility of sinking in the water till only the head shows above the surface. Three herons haunt the meadows, the GREEN HERON and the NIGHT HERON all summer and the magnificent GREAT BLUE HERON in spring, late summer, and autumn. It would be entirely possible too to find in late summer an occasional WHITE AMERICAN EGRET or a lttle blue heron in its immature snow-white plumage. I have found both these birds in the nearby Broad Meadows across the river. The AMERICAN BITTERN is often to be seen in the brook meadow or in the river meadow, standing like a stake with upward pointed bill or flying heavily just above the tops of the grasses or cat-tails, and its curious song, which sounds near-at-hand like the working of an old-fashioned pump, - at the distance like the driving of a stake, may be heard in the spring. The commonest duck is the BLACK DUCK, which nests in the maple swamp or thereabout and flies up and off with loud quacks. More interesting because somewhat less common and much more beautiful is the WOOD DUCK, probably the most beautiful of the ducks of the world. A pair nested in 1935 in the hollow trunk of a large red maple in front of the main building of the Farm and only about forty feet from the front door. They seem to have brought off their brood successfully, and the next year they - or another pair- nested in another tree nearer the meadow. SPARROW HAWKS always nest in one of the large trees and are regular features of the landscape as they conduct their graceful flights over field, pasture, and meadow, hunting their prey of insects and mice.Two other birds might possibly be mistaken for sparrow hawks in the air. One is the MOURNING DOVE, a graceful and beautiful bird,- smaller and with a longer tail than the common pigeon, that probably nests not far away. The other is the KILLDEER, a large plover with two black bands on its white breast and a strident voice.A pair can sometimes be seen with their young in the upper meadow or in pasture or tillage. The brook meadow often harbors a few VIRGINIA RAILS, which can be detected only by their notes of "kid-ik, kid-ik", or "wak'wak'wak",because they usually keep themselves hidden among the flags or cat-tails; and SORAs, those smaller and no less secretive rails, reveal their presence by their "kur-wee" or a musical whinny. In spring and fall you may put up a SNIPE or a YELLOW-LEGS or a few LEAST SANDPIPERS as you walk along the brookside, and in summer the unmusical chattering of the SHORT-BILLED MARSH WREN rises from all points of the meadow,and if you keep sharp watch you may see the little songster on the top of a low bush or a tall weed or making a short ascent into the air as he sings. I don't mention the characteristic but common KINGBIRDS and REDWINGS, nor the CATBIRDS and VEERIES of the nearby maple swamp. The larger river meadows,where cat-tails are now superseding the meadow grasses to a great extent, have LONG-BILLED MARSH WRENS,whose bubbling though woodeny songs are more pleasant than the efforts of their SHORT-BILLED cousins, and in several years I have found the ALDER FLYCATCHER along their borders, a bird that is rather rare in eastern Massachusetts, though fairly common in northern New England. Perhaps Brook Farm is the last stand of the BOBOLINK and the MEADOWLARK in the City of Boston. Both of these species were abundant in West Roxbury in my boyhood, but they have retreated before the real-estate operator. They are birds of the open field and not-too-wet medowland, and there is not much of that kind of country left now hereabouts. I was delighted to hear two singing boblinks on Brook Farm this June and the sweet piercing strains of a meadowlark too. I have said nothing of the woods of Brook Farm because their bird life is not so very different from that of other parts of West Roxbury.And the woods too are less extensive and fine than they used to be before the sand-and-gravel companies and cemeteries invaded them, and the hurricanes ruined much of what was left.They will still reward the bird enthusiast, however, and I never visit the farm without going into the pine grove there and listening at the edge of the small maple swamp. in these woods I have seen such rare birds as the ARCTIC THREE-TOED WOODPECKER, the YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER, the WINTER WREN, and the GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH. And now I am speaking of uncommon birds,I must record a few more seen elsewhere on the Farm- a mockingbird in January 1919, a WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW in 1939, a PINE GROSBEAK in 1884, and two SNOW BUNTINGS in March,1939.Snow buntings, though common in winter along the seashore,are rare in West Roxbury, and I was much surprised to see those two on the hillside near the old barn. I have one lament for the old days at Brook Farm- I have missed the BARN SWALLOWS that used to be such a feature of my visits in spring and summer. Oh, I see a few now and then in their migrations, and TREE SWALLOWS and BANK SWALLOWS too,but the barn swallows, the most graceful flyers of all our birds,no longer course all day over the meadow. West Roxbury is getting too civilized,and barn doors and windows are no longer open to the swallows." Francis Allen, a member of the West Roxbury Historical Society, founded the Thoreau Society, which has preserved much information about the Concord writer and his interest in preserving the natural environment.On October 7, 1895, the West Roxbury Historical Society presented a program "Through the Seasons with Henry Thoreau" by naturalist-&-photographer Albert Bussewitz,an officer of the Thoreau Society, long active with the Audubon Society and on staff of the Arnold Arboretum. In 1985 Mr. Bussewitz was in charge of training Arnold Arboretum tour guides.At the October 7 program, Miriam Dickey of the Children's Museum made introductory remarks about the Audubon Society. Arnold Arboretum director Peter Ashton also spoke on Borneo to the West Roxbury Historical Society October 28, 1985. |
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p 52-1062 ALANINE A Ala 89.1 may act as B6 pyridoxine precursor. ARGININE R Arg 174.2 ASPARAGINE N Agn 132.1 ASPARTIC ACID D Asp 133.2 CYSTEINE C Cys 121.2 GLUTAMATE E Glu 147.1 GLUTAMINE Q Gln 146.2 may fight ammonia build-up needed in fast dividing cells such as intestine lining. GLYCINE G Gly 75.1 HISTIDINE H His 155.2 Under ordinary circumstances adults may be able to synthesize as much histidine as they need. Greater quantities are probably needed in infants and small children and during pregnancy. There are suggestions that histidine levels may be low in rheumatoid arthritis, and that histidine may be needed to remove toxic heavy metals from the body. On the other hand, histidine can be a source for synthesis of histamines, and high levels of histamine contribute to allergies. Histidine contributes for formation of glycosylated amines and proteins. ISOLEUCINE I Ile 131.2 REQ hydrophobic LYSINE K Lys 146.2 potatoes good source. believed to relieve herpes, aid calcium absorption but may elevate cholesterol.REQ LEUCINE L Leu 131.2 REQ hydrophobic METHIONINE M Met 149.2 sulfur, initiates DNA transcription REQ PHENYLALANINE F Phe phenyl ring REQ 165.2 cancer risk PROLINE P Pro 115.1 bone, collagen HYDROXYPROLINE SERINE S Ser 105.1 THREONINE T Thr 119.1 alcohol group REQ wheat germ nuts beans enamel collagen thymus prevent liver-fat VALINE V Val 117.1 REQ hydrophobic TRYPTOPHAN W Trp 204.2 serotonin REQ TYROSINE Y Tyr 181.2 kinase phosphorylation in normal and cancer growth |
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p 52 back John Molloy,Frank Molloy ,Chester Reynolds, Walter Newcombe, Bill Farrell,Bill Coughlin, George Blair Clark, John Wilbourn James -2-Duane, Gifford, Leo Raphaelian, John Bennett,Garrity, Bill Crook, Leo Keene, David Hershenson, Jason Albert,James Keene,-3- George McLaughlin,Ted Cooney, Paul Powell, Mark Granofsky,John Connors, Frank Long, Barry, Robert Vey. -front-Richard Holt, Golden,Jerry Lenthall, Kevin O'Connell |
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