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PETER MACKINTOSH, DAGUERREOTYPE.
PETER MACKINTOSH WAS A 16-YEAR-OLD APPRENTICE BLACKSMITH IN BOSTON WORKING IN THE SHOP OF HIS MASTER, RICHARD GRIDLEY, THE NIGHT OF DECEMBER 16, 1773 WHEN A GROUP OF YOUNG MEN RUSHED INTO THE SHOP, GRABBED ASHES FROM THE HEARTH AND RUBBED THEM ON THEIR FACES. THEY WERE AMONG THOSE RUNNING TO GRIFFIN'S WHARF TO THROW TEA INTO THE HARBOR AS PART OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY THAT STARTED THE REVOLUTION. MACKINTOSH LATER SERVED IN THE CONTINENTAL ARTILLERY AS AN ARTIFICER, A CRAFTSMAN ATTACHED TO THE ARMY WHO SHOED HORSES AND REPAIRED CANNONS, INCLUDING ONE MORTAR WHOSE REPAIR GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON OVERSAW PERSONALLY. DURING HIS LAST YEARS, MACKINTOSH AND HIS LAWYERS FOUGHT FOR THE PENSION HE DESERVED. THE GOVERNMENT AWARDED IT TO HIS FAMILY ONLY AFTER HIS DEATH, WHICH WAS ON NOVEMBER 23, 1846 AT AGE 89.
SIMEON HICKS, DAGUERREOTYPE.
SIMEON HICKS WAS A MINUTEMAN FROM REHOBOTH, MASSACHUSETTS WHO DRILLED EVERY SATURDAY IN THE YEAR LEADING UP TO THE WAR. WHEN HE HEARD THE ALARM THE DAY AFTER THE BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD, THE SPARKS THAT SET OFF THE REVOLUTION, HE IMMEDIATELY JOINED THOUSANDS OF OTHER NEW ENGLANDERS IN SEALING OFF THE ENEMY GARRISON IN BOSTON. HE SERVED SEVERAL SHORT ENLISTMENTS AND FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON, AUGUST 16, 1777. AFTER THE WAR HICKS LIVED IN SUNDERLAND, VERMONT AS A CELEBRITY. HE WAS THE LAST SURVIVOR OF THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON.
JONATHAN SMITH, DAGUERREOTYPE.
JONATHAN SMITH FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND ON AUGUST 29, 1778. HIS UNIT WAS THE FIRST BRIGADE THAT WENT OUT ON LONG ISLAND, AND WAS DISCHARGED IN DECEMBER AFTER A VIOLENT SNOW STORM. AFTER THE WAR HE BECAME A BAPTIST MINISTER. HE WAS MARRIED THREE TIMES AND HAD ELEVEN CHILDREN. THE FIRST TWO WIVES DIED AND FOR SOME REASON HE LEFT HIS THIRD WIFE IN RHODE ISLAND TO LIVE WITH TWO OF THE CHILDREN IN MASSACHUSETTS. ON OCTOBER 20, 1854, HE HAD A DAGUERREOTYPE TAKEN TO GIVE TO A GRANDDAUGHTER. HE DIED ON JANUARY 3, 1855.
GEORGE FISHLEY, DAGUERREOTYPE.
GEORGE FISHLEY WAS A SOLDIER IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY. WHEN THE BRITISH ARMY EVACUATED PHILADELPHIA AND RACED TOWARD NEW YORK CITY, HIS UNIT PARTICIPATED IN THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH. LATER HE WAS PART THE GENOCIDAL ATTACK ON INDIANS WHO HAD SIDED WITH THE BRITISH, A MARCH LED BY GENERAL JOHN SULLIVAN THROUGH "INDIAN COUNTRY," PARTS OF NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. FISHLEY'S REGIMENT, THE THIRD NEW HAMPSHIRE, WAS IN THE MIDST OF THE CAMPAIGN'S ONLY CONTESTED BATTLE. AFTER THE BATTLE OF CHEMUNG, AUGUST 28, 1779, THE AMERICANS HAD DEVASTATED FORTY INDIAN TOWNS AND BURNED THEIR CROPS. LATER FISHLEY SERVED ON A PRIVATEER - A PRIVATE SHIP LICENSED TO PREY ON ENEMY SHIPPING - AND WAS CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH. FISHLEY WAS A FAMOUS CHARACTER AFTER THE WAR IN PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE, WHERE HE LIVED. HE WAS KNOWN AS "THE LAST OF OUR COCKED HATS" - CONTINENTAL SOLDIERS WORE TALL, WIDE, NAPOLEONIC-LOOKING HEADGEAR WITH COCKADES. HE MARCHED IN PARADES WEARING THE HAT, WHICH HIS OBITUARY SAID "ALMOST VIED IN YEARS WITH THE WEARER." FISHLEY IS WEARING THE HAT IN THE DAGUERREOTYPE.
JAMES W. HEAD, DAGUERREOTYPE.
JAMES W. HEAD, A BOSTON YOUTH, JOINED THE CONTINENTAL NAVY AT AGE 13 AND SERVED AS A MIDSHIPMAN ABOARD THE FRIGATE QUEEN OF FRANCE. WHEN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, CAME UNDER ATTACK, FIVE FRIGATES, INCLUDING THE QUEEN OF FRANCE, AND SEVERAL MERCHANT SHIPS WERE SUNK IN A CHANNEL TO PREVENT THE KING'S TROOPS FROM APPROACHING THE CITY FROM ONE STRATEGIC DIRECTION. HEAD AND OTHER SAILORS FOUGHT AS ARTILLERYMEN IN FORTS AND WERE CAPTURED WHEN THE AMERICANS SURRENDERED - THE PATRIOTS' BIGGEST AND ARGUABLY MOST DISASTROUS SURRENDER OF THE WAR. TAKEN AS A PRISONER OF WAR, HEAD WAS RELEASED AT PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND AND WALKED HOME. HIS BROTHER WROTE THAT WHEN HE ARRIVED, HEAD WAS DEAF IN ONE EAR AND HAD HEARING LOSS IN THE OTHER FROM THE CANNONS' CONCUSSION. SETTLING IN A REMOTE SECTION OF MASSACHUSETTS THAT LATER BECAME MAINE, HE WAS ELECTED A DELEGATE TO THE MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION IN BOSTON THAT WAS CALLED TO RATIFY THE CONSTITUTION. WHEN HE DIED HE WAS THE RICHEST MAN IN WARREN, MAINE AND STONE DEAF BECAUSE OF HIS WAR INJURIES.
REV. LEVI HAYES, DAGUERREOTYPE.
REV. LEVI HAYES WAS A FIFER IN A CONNECTICUT REGIMENT THAT RACED TOWARD WEST POINT TO PROTECT IT FROM AN IMPENDING ATTACK. HE ALSO PARTICIPATED IN A SKIRMISH WITH ENEMY "COW BOYS" AT THE BORDER OF A LAWLESS REGION CALLED THE NEUTRAL GROUND (MOST OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, AND THE SOUTHWESTERN CORNER OF CONNECTICUT). IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, HE HELPED ORGANIZE A RELIGIOUSLY-ORIENTED LAND COMPANY THAT HEADED INTO THE WILDERNESS OF WHAT WAS THEN THE WEST. THEY SETTLED GRANVILLE, OHIO, WHERE HE WAS THE TOWNSHIP TREASURER AND A DEACON OF HIS CHURCH. HIS DAGUERREOTYPE SHOWS HIM HOLDING A LARGE BOOK, MOST LIKELY A BIBLE.
DANIEL SPENCER, DAGUERREOTYPE.
DANIEL SPENCER SERVED AS A MEMBER OF THE BACKUP TROOPS SENT TO COVER THE OPERATIVES IN A SECRET MISSION TO CAPTURE BENEDICT ARNOLD, AFTER HE HAD DEFECTED TO THE BRITISH. THE MANEUVER FAILED WHEN ARNOLD SHIFTED HIS HEADQUARTERS. A MEMBER OF THE ELITE SHELDON'S DRAGOONS, SPENCER WAS IN A FEW SKIRMISHES. HE SAT UP ALL NIGHT FANNING HIS COMMANDING OFFICER, CAPTAIN GEORGE HURLBUT, WHO HAD BEEN SHOT IN A FIGHT DURING WHICH THE BRITISH CAPTURED A SUPPLY SHIP. SPENCER'S ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF THE OFFICER DIFFERED MARKEDLY FROM THAT OF GEN. WASHINGTON'S; SPENCER SAID THE WOUNDS OF THE OFFICER HAD NEARLY HEALED WHEN HE CAUGHT A DISEASE FROM A PROSTITUTE AND THIS ILLNESS KILLED HIM, WHEREAS WASHINGTON SAID HE DIED OF HIS WOUNDS. SPENCER'S PENSION WAS REVOKED SOON AFTER IT WAS GRANTED AND FOR YEARS HE AND HIS FAMILY LIVED IN SEVERE POVERTY. EVENTUALLY HIS PENSION WAS RESTORED. HE WAS THE GUEST OF HONOR DURING NEW YORK CITY'S CELEBRATION OF JULY 4, 1853.
DR. ENEAS MUNSON, DAGUERREOTYPE.
AS A BOY, DR. ENEAS MUNSON KNEW NATHAN HALE, THE HEROIC SPY WHO WAS EXECUTED AND SAID HE REGRETTED THAT HE HAD ONLY ONE LIFE TO GIVE FOR HIS COUNTRY. AS A TEENAGER, MUNSON HELPED CARE FOR THE WOUNDED OF HIS HOMETOWN, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AFTER THE BRITISH INVADED. HE WAS COMMISSIONED AS A SURGEON'S MATE WHEN HE WAS 16 YEARS OLD, SHORTLY BEFORE HE GRADUATED FROM YALE. HE EXTRACTED BULLETS FROM SOLDIERS DURING BATTLE. IN 1781 HE WAS PART OF GEN. WASHINGTON'S GREAT SWEEP TO YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA, WHICH LED TO GEN. JOHN BURGOYNE'S SURRENDER AND AMERICAN VICTORY OF THE REVOLUTION. DURING THE FIGHTING AT YORKTOWN HE WAS AN EYEWITNESS TO ACTIONS OF GEN. WASHINGTON, GEN. KNOX, AND COL. ALEXANDER HAMILTON. DR. MUNSON GAVE UP MEDICINE AFTER THE WAR AND BECAME A WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN, FIELDING TRADING SHIPS, UNDERWRITING WHALERS AND SEALERS, AND VENTURING INTO REAL ESTATE AND BANKING. BUT THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, HIS FAMILY SPOKE OF HOW HE LOVED RECALLING THE EXCITING DAYS OF THE WAR, WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGE OFFICER.
SAMUEL DOWNING, CDV CARD PHOTO.
SAMUEL DOWNING ENLISTED AT AGE 16, AND SERVED AS A PRIVATE FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE. AT THE TIME HIS PICTURE WAS MADE, HE AS 102 AND LIVING IN THE TOWN OF EDINBURGH, SARATOGA COUNTRY, NEW YORK. HE DIED ON FEBRUARY 18, 1867.
REV. DANIEL WALDO, CDV CARD PHOTO.
REV. DANIEL WALDO WAS DRAFTED IN 1778 FOR A MONTH OF SERVICE IN NEW LONDON. AFTER THAT, HE ENLISTED FOR AN ADDITIONAL EIGHT MONTHS, AND IN MARCH 1779 WAS TAKEN PRISONER BY THE BRITISH AT HORSENECK. AFTER HE WAS RELEASED, HE RETURNED TO HIS HOME IN WINDHAM AND TOOK UP WORK ON HIS FARM AGAIN.
LEMUEL COOK, CDV CARD PHOTO.
LEMUEL COOK WITNESSED THE BRITISH SURRENDER AT YORKTOWN, THE EVENT THAT GUARANTEED AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. OF THE EVENT, HE SAID, "WASHINGTON ORDERED THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO LAUGHING AT THE BRITISH; SAID IT WAS BAD ENOUGH TO SURRENDER WITHOUT BEING INSULTED. THE ARMY CAME OUT WITH GUNS CLUBBED ON THEIR BACKS. THEY WERE PARADED ON A GREAT SMOOTH LOT, AND THERE THEY STACKED THEIR ARMS."
ALEXANDER MILLINER, CDV CARD PHOTO.
ALEXANDER MILLINER ENLISTED AS A DRUMMER BOY WHO SERVED IN GEN. WASHINGTON'S LIFE GUARD UNIT. HE WAS A FAVORITE OF WASHINGTON'S, OFTEN PLAYING AT HIS PERSONAL REQUEST. MILLINER WAS AT THE BRITISH SURRENDER AT YORKTOWN, ABOUT WHICH HE SAID, "THE BRITISH SOLDIERS LOOKED DOWN-HEARTED. WHEN THE ORDER CAME TO 'GROUND ARMS,' ONE OF THEM EXCLAIMED, WITH AN OATH, 'YOU ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE MY GUN!' AND THREW IT VIOLENTLY ON THE GROUND, AND SMASHED IT."
WILLIAM HUTCHINGS, CDV CARD PHOTO.
WILLIAM HUTCHINGS ENLISTED AT AGE 15 FOR THE COASTAL DEFENSE OF HIS HOME STATE, NEW YORK. WRITES HILLARD IN THE LAST MEN OF THE REVOLUTION, "THE ONLY FIGHTING WHICH HE SAW WAS THE SIEGE OF CASTINE, WHERE HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER; BUT THE BRITISH, DECLARING IT A SHAME TO HOLD AS PRISONER ONE SO YOUNG, PROMPTLY RELEASED HIM."
THE ADOPTION OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE-237 YEARS AGO TODAY-CAN SOMETIMES FEEL LIKE AN EVENT NOT JUST FROM ANOTHER TIME, BUT FROM ANOTHER WORLD. AS DEPICTED IN JOHN TRUMBULL'S NOW-ICONIC 19TH-CENTURY PAINTING OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS IN PHILADELPHIA, COLLECTIVELY CREATING THE FRAMEWORK FOR THE NATION'S REVOLUTIONARY POLITICAL SYSTEM, SUCH AN ACT OF OPEN REBELLION BY PROMINENT, WEALTHY AND ESTABLISHED FIGURES IS LITERALLY INCONCEIVABLE TO MOST LIVING AMERICANS.
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, RAGING AT THAT TIME, SAW MEN YOUNG AND OLD ANSWER THE COLONIES' CALL TO FIGHT THE BRITISH REDCOATS. IN THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE IDEALS OF LIBERTY, THESE ROUGH TROOPS - ILLUSTRATED IN COUNTLESS PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS KNOWN TO HISTORY STUDENTS EVERYWHERE - SHOULDERED THE MONUMENTAL TASK OF DEFENDING A NATION THAT WAS, IN MANY RESPECTS, NOT YET TRULY BORN.
BUT AS ALIEN AS THAT EPOCH MIGHT FEEL, TIME AND AGAIN WE'RE REMINDED THAT THE PAST IS NOT ALWAYS AS DISTANT AS IT SO OFTEN SEEMS.
IN FACT, SOME VETERANS WHO SURVIVED THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PROSPERED WELL INTO THEIR EIGHTIES, NINETIES AND SOMETIMES EVEN BEYOND 100, LIVING LONG ENOUGH TO NOT ONLY WITNESS, BUT BECOME PART OF, THE ERA OF THE PHOTOGRAPH.
FIRST DAGUERREOTYPES, AND THEN GLASS-PLATE NEGATIVES BECAME POPULAR IN THE 1840S AND 1850S; BY 1853, SOME 70 YEARS AFTER THE GREAT AND IMPROBABLE AMERICAN VICTORY OVER THE BRITISH, MORE THAN 3 MILLION DAGUERREOTYPES A YEAR WERE BEING PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE.
AS THESE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEANS DEVELOPED, AND THE GENERATION THAT EXPERIENCED THE REVOLUTION FIRSTHAND CONTINUED TO DWINDLE, A DESIRE TO DOCUMENT THESE MEN - A RAPIDLY VANISHING, LIVING LINK WITH HISTORY - EMERGED.
A NOTE BY REV. SMITH PINNED TO THE PADDING OF HIS DAGUERREOTYPE THAT READS "OCTOBER 20 1854, A PRESENT TO LUCY R. FULLEN, BY HER GRANDFATHER J. SMITH, BORN MARCH 10, 1761"
"POSSIBLE NOW IT WILL SOON BE IMPOSSIBLE FOREVER, AND NOW NEGLECTED IT WOULD BE FOREVER REGRETTED," WROTE REVEREND E. B. HILLARD, AUTHOR OF THE LAST MEN OF THE REVOLUTION. PUBLISHED IN 1864, THE 64-PAGE BOOK STANDS AS THE ONLY RECORD OF ITS KIND, IMMORTALIZING REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERANS IN PHOTOGRAPHS ALONGSIDE THEIR TALES FROM THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE. IN JULY 1864, HILLARD, ACCOMPANIED BY TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS, BROTHERS N. A. AND R. A. MOORE, TRAVELED ACROSS NEW ENGLAND AND NEW YORK STATE TO INTERVIEW AND PHOTOGRAPH ALL KNOWN SURVIVING VETERANS, SIX IN TOTAL. THE IMAGES, MADE ON GLASS PLATE NEGATIVES, WERE THEN PRINTED ON ALBUMEN PAPER AND PASTED INTO THE BOOK, ALONG WITH COLORED LITHOGRAPHS DEPICTING THE VETERAN'S HOMES.
IN 1976, POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY FEATURED THE IMAGES OF THE LAST MEN OF THE REVOLUTION IN ITS ISSUE COMMEMORATING THE UNITED STATES' BICENTENNIAL. ONE READER, A UTAH-BASED JOURNALIST NAMED JOE BAUMAN, WAS ALREADY AN AVID
COLLECTOR OF ANTIQUE PHOTOGRAPHY WHEN HE CAME ACROSS THE PIECE.
"I REALIZED THAT IF THESE FELLOWS WERE STILL ALIVE AT THE TIME WHEN GLASS PLATE NEGATIVES WERE BEING MADE IN THE 1860S, SURELY THERE WERE PLENTY WHO WERE ALIVE DURING THE DAGUERREIAN ERA," BAUMAN TOLD TIME.
USING SKILLS HONED BY A CAREER OF INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, BAUMAN SOUGHT OUT OTHER PORTRAITS OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERANS. GIVEN THE BREADTH OF THE WAR, WHERE MOST EVERY MAN FROM AGE 15 TO 45 WAS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, BAUMAN COULD CAST A WIDE NET, SEARCHING FOR DAGUERREOTYPES OF MEN AROUND THE AGE OF 80 OR 90 AT THE TIME THE IMAGES WERE TAKEN.
ONCE HE LOCATED DAGUERREOTYPES OF MEN WHO FIT THE BILL, BAUMAN USED MARKINGS ON THE IMAGES AND THEIR CASES TO LOCATE CORRESPONDING PENSION, TAX, AND OTHER RECORDS IN ORDER TO FIND WHAT, IF ANY, ROLE THESE MEN PLAYED IN THE REVOLUTION. IN ONE SUCH CASE, BAUMAN OBTAINED AN IMAGE OF AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN ONLY MARKED WITH A NOTE TO HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, SIGNED J. SMITH WITH THE DATE OF THE PHOTOGRAPH, OCTOBER 20, 1854, AND HIS BIRTHDAY, MARCH 10, 1761. BAUMAN HEADED OVER TO THE SALT LAKE CITY GENEALOGICAL LIBRARY, TO DIG THROUGH CENSUS RECORDS FOR ALL J. SMITHS STILL ALIVE IN 1854 WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE SERVED IN THE REVOLUTION. AFTER GATHERING A LIST OF CANDIDATES, HE BEGAN LOOKING THROUGH PENSION DOCUMENTS UNTIL HE CAME ACROSS ONE WHO SIGNED HIS NAME J. SMITH, IN THE SAME WAY AS ON THE BACK OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE. WHEN HE CHECKED THE DATE OF BIRTH HE FOUND EXACTLY WHAT HE EXPECTED-MARCH 10, 1761. HE HAD FOUND THE MATCH.
THUS BEGAN THE HISTORICAL DIGGING-A PROCESS HE REPEATED FOR ALL IMAGES COLLECTED.
HIS COLLECTION, WHICH NOW INCLUDES EIGHT DAGUERREOTYPES, TOOK THREE DECADES OF RESEARCH TO COMPILE AND IS CONSIDERED THE LARGEST KNOWN COLLECTION OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN DAGUERREOTYPES TO DATE. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, BAUMAN PUBLISHED THE IMAGES, ALONG WITH HISTORIES OF THE MEN, IN AN E-BOOK, DON'T TREAD ON ME: PHOTOGRAPHS AND LIFE STORIES OF AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES, NOT ONLY BRINGING TO LIGHT IMAGES THAT HAD LARGELY GONE UNSEEN, BUT THAT ASTONISHED - AND STILL ASTONISH - PEOPLE WHO NEVER IMAGINED THAT SUCH PORTRAITS EVEN EXISTED.
"IT GIVES YOU A SORT OF A DIRECT CONTACT WITH A PERSON WHO LIVED THAT VERY LONG TIME AGO, AND EXPERIENCED THESE ALMOST MYTHOLOGICAL-TYPE DAYS," BAUMAN SAID.
SUDDENLY ONE CRITICAL PART OF AMERICA'S PAST, PREVIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED IN OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY ALMOST SOLELY BY PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS, WAS BROUGHT TO BRILLIANT LIFE IN THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PRESENT.
"A DAGUERREOTYPE IS A UNIQUE IMAGE - IT ISN'T A PRINT, IT ISN'T A REPRODUCTION OF ANY KIND," BAUMAN EXPLAINED. "WHEN YOU HAVE A CAMERA SET UP TO TAKE A DAGUERREOTYPE AND THE SITTER IS IN FRONT OF YOU, FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THESE OLD MEN WHO ACTUALLY LOOKED AND KNEW AND TALKED TO LEADERS OF THE REVOLUTION... THE LIGHT IS COMING FROM THE SUN, HITTING HIS FACE, AND BOUNCING OFF OF HIS FACE THROUGH THE CAMERA AND ONTO THAT VERY SAME PLATE."
LIGHT THAT SHONE ON MEN WHO WITNESSED THE BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES ENDURES, REFRACTED AND RECORDED VIA PHOTOGRAPHY. THROUGH THESE CHARACTERS, THAT OTHER WORLD IS NOW OUR OWN - A SHARED HISTORY MADE A LITTLE MORE ACCESSIBLE, TOLD IN A MEDIUM OF OUR OWN TIME.
"AS WE LOOK UPON THEIR FACES," WROTE HILLARD, "AS WE LEARN THE STORY OF THEIR LIVES, [HISTORY] WILL LIVE AGAIN AND AGAIN BEFORE US, AND WE SHALL STAND AS WITNESSES OF ITS GREAT ACTIONS."
THE Uproar In the company of Hazard BY LEIGH EVANSMYSTWALKER #1
"My name is Hedi Peacock and I last a secret. I'm not whatsoever, and I last the spiky Fae ears and Were inner-bitch to test out it. As fairy tales go, my erstwhile was damn from one place to another faultless, all fur and magic until a werewolf killed my onset and the Fae executed my mother. I've never forgiven either lean. Particularly Robson Trowbridge. He was a part-time werewolf, a full-time bastard, and the key and plainly boy I ever cherished. That is, until he became the major deem in my father's death... "
"At the present time I'm a half-breed barista working at a be in love with bronzed edifice, living with my ridiculous Aunt Lou and a irritable amulet named Jolly, and wondering wherever in the world I'm going in life. A more willingly ring out go, in the manner of. But in the role of a throng of Weres decides to make off with my aunt and thrust me to secure novel amulet, the plainly one who can help me is the bottleneck life form I ever believed I'd turn to: Robson Trowbridge. And he's as gallingly excellent as I accelerate. That's the complaint with fate: Sometimes it barks. Deep-rooted grow old it bites. And the rest of the time it just breaks your improper. Once again... "
Hedi Peacock, unfinished fae, unfinished were, has been on the run ever because a werewolf killed her onset and the fae executed her mother. They alleged she lowly a centuries old go down with but Hedi knows improved and she would do whatsoever to avenge her relations. Fast if it design pairing up with her old sharpen turned foe Channel. After ten living of precise, her world gets turned upside down in the role of her aunt is kidnapped and Channel shows up irritating the identical to her own living amulet. She'll last to persuade him to custody her and fast as it seems all sides are gunning for them all.
I'm really in doubt about the way the romance progressed. Irrefutable, Hedi's continually been irrational with Channel, so the mystical thing on her lean finished be given. I get it, her proportion finished steady she was allied up in him no give out how steely she tried to escape. At the same time as I don't get is load on Bridge's lean. He starts out basis creeped out by her and contemplative she is just a teen, and then what time he learns Hedi's real identity, he's even supercilious spooked because he remembers her continually thought him. And then all of a swift out of the down he's defending her and then gullible her supercilious than someone he's trusted with his life in the exterior. Huh? Acquaint with wasn't any enthusiasm for the reorder, it was one moment creeped out, and the close moment heftily precautionary and possessive. I mean if gift was a mystical occurrence for it on his unfinished, then what took it so have a yen to trigger? I mettle say that by the end, I did "CHARACTER" their connection a whole have a yen stronger, I just wish the beginning/middle hadn't of been so wishy washy.
This book suffers from a lack of cohesiveness which vanished me rather provoked. The script seemed to just be all from beginning to end the place as we were confused from one thing to the close apart from any tell off. Acquaint with were particular points in the book that I was confused out of the story as soon as I tried to recite out what had just happened. Appall and quick pacing is fine, but in the role of the reorder in attitude/setting/action/events is so abrupt that the reader feels flummoxed it doesn't make for a faint read. Don't get me dishonorable, I think of the novelist has expertise, and I am markedly intrigued by this new series. I just think of the story would last benefited from a good agreement of retrenchment to hone it in the sphere of the best it might be. I mettle put a specification out that I read an ARC draw, so some of group transitioning ask might last been established for the definite make. But in all candor because the whole book more willingly notably followed the hard going pacing, I doubt it.
As notably as this book provoked me, gift sleepy is the grille for a scarcely chief original. The typescript were compelling, and three dimensional, and the world as soon as a diminutive hidden, was remarkable. I was crafty to read the book in two settings and never was put off satisfactory by my issues that I couldn't continue reading it. I'm rather changing to see what happens close due to that fatal cliffhanger marked, but even apart from it I sleepy would last been cyclic on with the series. Here's hopeful the moment book stands a diminutive bit supercilious scenery as gift just is a whole lot of unrealized authorization stage that I would love see come to fruition. So in the end, THE Uproar In the company of Hazard has earned a approbation from me, if plainly one with a few disclaimers.
(Conventional a draw from the publisher via Netgalley)
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Travel clock D for Dante
by Serena Shay
"Fill in back sshere you worfless limited puss." The mark in the old man's words warned Lola Hope for that he was in the core of bender and she'd be momentary to dais in her cat form, and expend a few nights in the garage. "Shoulda bagged s'you up as a kitten and dropped s'you in the flarking fit. Damn catzz!"
Lola slunk bring up taking part in the night-the unhappy, a good rigid for her black fur. Track her burning green eyes could impart her rank to another place at this detail, but as she planned to include them closed for, at least possible, a few hours she wasn't to be decided. She longed to find the instruct she hadn't had since Dante returned her to the aggressive smashed she was momentous stacks to accept for a depart.
From Astrology.com ~
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Summer Solstice or Midsummer is by far leader than spot on the information day of the engagement. This day has stark, magical roots all improved the world and has been talented by numberless cultures for centuries. A solar/fire gala, Midsummer is a celebration of light, the powers of the Sun and the coming pick of Blood relation Nation. Summer Solstice ( I habitually group the provisos Midsummer and Summer Solstice) occurs forcibly June 20th - June 21st being the Sun enters the zodiac sign Cancer. The information day and plain-spoken night happens on Summer Solstice day, bringing the Sun to the pinnacle of its power. Although the newest days of summer are smoldering winning of us, the Summer Solstice way the end of the light half of the engagement and the beginning of the dark half of the engagement (the days bit by bit start to get shorter as the sun sets sooner each night). MIDSUMMER HAS Numberless NAMES INCLUDING: Summer Solstice and Midsummer Litha Lunch of Epona (ancient Gaul) All Couple's Day (Greece) Vastalia (ancient Rome) Make a comeback Day (Wales) Feill-Sheathain (Scotland) Thing-Tide (Scandinavia) Having the status of of the power this day (and the days close to the Solstice) holds, it's a sharp time to perform spell work for protection, magnificence, pick, revival, love and cleansing. Form is budding and animated at every turn. The Summer Solstice gives us a crack to wallow in the beauty of handiwork and grade all that Blood relation Nation gives us. Midsummer is typically a time to celebration and a community or dynasty reaction (these ancient gatherings took place at Midsummer and are the reason of what we now know as dynasty reunions which unadventurously handle place in June.) USE THE Extent OF THE SUMMER SOLSTICE TO: Protect and be in touch with the fairy land-living (Surrender the fairies an grant of groceries ie. milk, be devoted to, daub, wine, currency etc) Private grounds witchery Herbal and garden magicTHIS Apply HAD TWO PURPOSES: 1. the exhaust purified the carry schedule the fire approaching symbolic protection. 2. the heat from the fire caused pests having the status of ticks to fall off the plants. In the same way as the balefire has gone out the used coal that are departed nominated are spotted in the fields to bless the crops and bring magnificence. The utmost important thing to video about fire inwards Midsummer is its similarities to the sun. Conflagration can cook your groceries, heat your home, light the way, reduce to ashes you, and purify. The sun provides warmth, provides flora and fauna with energy to nurture and be radiant, lights the way, heats you up and can equip you one hell of a reduce to ashes if you're not fastidious. Nearby are an assortment of deeds that can be done inwards Midsummer that defend fire/sun: Lamp a animate. If a animate is too super, make a fire pit. If you're having the status of me and don't confine opening to a yard, hence use your cauldron. Lamp a few gold and green candles (gold represents the sun and green represents handiwork) in your cauldron.SUMMER SOLSTICE FOLKLORE: June is a stick month for battle to get hitched. Archaic societies meant it was bad luck to marry in the month of May in the same way as this time belonged to the God and Divinity (Beltane). May is the month of sacred marriage relating the Divinity and God, so battle waited until June to wander down the causeway. A pre-school playgroup rhyme/old poem reflects this belief in its lyrics: "Marital At any time THE Engagement IS NEW, HE'LL BE Solid, Get paid & Stern," "At any time FEBRUARY Animals DO Mate, YOU WED NOR Arrest YOUR Casualty." "IF YOU WED At any time Demonstration WINDS Clout, JOY AND Torture Whichever YOU'LL Come together." "Join IN APRIL At any time YOU CAN, JOY FOR MAIDEN & FOR MAN." "Join IN THE MONTH OF MAY, AND YOU'LL For sure RUE THE DAY." "Join At any time JUNE ROSES Enlarge, Exceeding Dignity AND SEA YOU'LL GO. (OR AND HAPPIN"ESS YOU'LL Continually Come together)" "Make somewhere your home WHO IN JULY DO WED, Obligation Hustle FOR THEIR Lecture BRED." "WHOEVER WED IN August BE, Numberless A Amend IS Programmed TO SEE" "Join IN SEPTEMBER'S Testament, YOUR Living Decision BE Load with AND In detail." "IF IN OCTOBER YOU DO Join, Gently Decision Go BUT Wealth TARRY." "IF YOU WED IN Shade NOVEMBER, Only JOYS Decision Go, Raise." "At any time DECEMBER SNOWS End Quick on the uptake, Join AND Stern Gently Decision Final." Summer Solstice/Midsummer is a powerful time inwards the gearshift of the engagement. Sparkle on the light half of the engagement, make policy for the dark half Get through some time stance of all that Blood relation Form provides and the collect that is smoldering to come. Set off a fairy garden or an amulet to protect your home, merchandise, plants or yourself. It doesn't selling what you do as crave as you be partial to the information day of the year!
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As part of the Pagan Blog Project 2012 we are asked to write about something using letters of the alphabet. Our post should be related to Paganism in general. I'm starting this project late so my first post is on the letter E.I've thought about this all week and considered writing about energy, eclectic witch or elements. I then thought about what's going on in my life right now and decided that I would choose a different word. This word is going to encompass all the words above. My word today is Expectations. What are expectations? Dictionary.com says:noun1. the act or the state of expecting: to wait in expectation.2. the act or state of looking forward or anticipating.3. an expectant mental attitude: a high pitch of expectation.4. something expected; a thing looked forward to.5. Often, expectations. a prospect of future good or profit: to have great expectations.So let's look at this from the spiritual prospective.As Pagans many of us are set with expectations from others around us. Recently on FB a bunch of shared photos pointed this out quite literally.Here's one from The Internet Witch's PageWe are presented with expectations from our families and from our support groups. Covens have expectations. In general as Pagans we are grounded to our world through being in touch with the elements. We feel the energy from the world around us and incorporate that into our daily lives. We present others with this energy and send it out to make the world a better place. Being eclectic in nature, even those with in a very traditional practice would still take from a wide range of sources and add those to the main pool of energy from which we all draw from.Some expectations are those that we send out to others, be it our community leaders; and using this term I'm speaking about those we look to for their opinions on certain things. Such as the recent events around trans women inclusion in Dianic covens or even thoughts around pagans offering services for hire. We look to these bloggers, coven leaders, priest and priestess to provide a litmus test on what is or is not accepted by our community. Most of all I think we have self-expectations. We expect ourselves to be a true representative of our deity. We expect our lives to reflect what we feel inside. The energy we project to be sent out in a positive protective way and the energy we receive to be the same. Recently some personal changes in my life had led me to rethink my expectations; those expectations that I had of others and those of me. I'm working hard to center my energy and maintain that positive outlook that I do believe I'm known for. My expectations today are that I am able to continue learning about my world and give back something positive to the world in return. I've started my year out with a dedication to follow Hekate, I am ending my post this week with a poem to her.Namaste and Blessed BeSosanna)O(Hekate, Goddess of DarknessI offer this to youHoney ">Hekate, Protector of WomenGuardian of the crossroadsAs the black dogs howl I am burdened by these heavy loads.Hekate, Queen of the NightBy the dagger and the serpentAdvocate for those in needAnd return to those all that is sent.Hekate, the triple formed TorchbearerAs you guided Demeter to her endI look to you for Strength and knowledgeWhere the roads bend.Read Confessions of a Modern Witch
