Model Airplanes

JAN. 1

1840: Lawrence Taliaferro, tired of bribery attempts by crooked individuals, steps down as Indian agent at Fort Snelling, a position he had held since 1820. Native Americans and settler-colonists alike appreciated his honesty and intelligence, and his journals about life at Fort Snelling provide a detailed record of frontier Minnesota. He died on Jan. 22, 1871, aged 81.

1850: At the Minnesota Historical Society’s first annual meeting, the Reverend Edward D. Neill gives a lecture, the Sixth Regiment’s band provides music, and a grand ball is held in St. Paul’s Central House.

1869: African American Minnesotans hold a grand convention in St. Paul’s Ingersoll Hall “to celebrate the Emancipation of 4,000,000 slaves, and to express…gratitude for the bestowal of the elective franchise to the colored people of this State.”

1878: On an unusually balmy day, the steamer Aunt Betsy carries a load of passengers from St. Paul to Fort Snelling. Crowds line the Jackson Street landing, the bluffs, and the Wabasha Street Bridge to watch, and the passengers carry palm-leaf fans to stave off the heat.

1893: Workers nail the final spike in the 818 miles of track stretching from Pacific Junction, MT, to Everett, WA, completing the Great Northern Railroad and connecting St. Paul to the Pacific Ocean.

1969: The Coast Guard closes Split Rock Lighthouse after 59 years of service. Its grounds become a state park the following year.

JAN. 2

1883: Faribault Chief of Police David J. Shipley is fatally shot by Lewis M. Sage while attempting to arrest him

Article source: https://www.hometownfocus.us/articles/this-month-in-minnesota-history/

Culture, the new exhibition at The Gallery at Tacoma Community College, is billed as “an exhibition exploring the idea of cultural biases and its influence on the outlook of other cultures.” This is one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful group show ever to be mounted at TCC. This is not to say that every work of art by every one of the 28 participating artists knocks it out of the park, or even that every piece even belongs within the theme; but there are enough that are stimulating, that have the capacity to touch the hearts of viewers, and that are aesthetically praiseworthy — starting with Bobbi Ritter’s series on the micro-brew culture of the Pacific Northwest.

There are five small assemblages in Ritter’s series, each with beer bottles and other objects attached to boards and painted. It is as if brewpubs had been wiped out by a volcanic eruption and this is the detritus that remains, stuff stuck to walls and covered with lava and ash. And within the ash are painted images, which relate to or are visual puns on the brands displayed. The one with an Irish Death bottle features a painting of a skull; the one on Wingman Brewery features Wingman beer cans, a model airplane and the painted face of the pilot. With an extra eye. The series as a whole and each individual piece is marked by visual variations and surprises within a unified whole.

Miles Styer’s entry is a

Article source: http://www.weeklyvolcano.com/arts-features/2019/01/Exploring-cultural-bias/

Ali Goldwater remembers flying in a plane over the Grand Canyon with William F. Buckley, Jr. and her grandfather, Barry Goldwater, when she was about five years old.

“We flew up there, and he would always have a camera,” she recalled. “He usually had a couple cameras with him, because he’d be shooting black and white and color. So at an early age, I remember just traveling around the state with him, and we usually flew in an airplane or a helicopter. I couldn’t vote, but I worked for him. I got to travel with him around the state when he gave speeches and whatnot.”

Though he’s known internationally as the late five-term U.S. Senator from Arizona and Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 1964 election, Barry Goldwater was also an archivist of Arizona history.

To a large extent, he is Arizona history. Little Barry Goldwater was the ring-bearer at the first wedding held after Arizona’s statehood in 1912 – an event he recounted in 1978 for the Arizona History Project:

“I remember I was only about 4 years old, standing outside waiting for the telegraph boy to bring a message saying that President Taft had signed us into statehood. It was Joe Meltzer’s determination to be the first man married in the State of Arizona. Sure enough, I can still see that dust coming up old unpaved First Avenue with the messenger with the telegram.”

In adulthood, Goldwater would have captured that dust being kicked up into the air on

Article source: http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/get_out/goldwater-exhibit-displays-rarely-seen-sides-of-arizona/article_31fb1554-142e-11e9-a3cb-5b8f12e09255.html

Point-and-shoot digital cameras these days aren’t particularly exciting, unless of course they have some unique features such as 4K video support or a high zoom range. Incidentally, Sony’s new Cybershot DSC-WX800 manages to squeeze both these features into a really compact body. In fact, Sony claims that this is the world’s smallest fixed-lens camera with such a wide optical zoom range.

The Sony Cybershot DSC-WX800 is available right now in India at a price of Rs. 34,990, which doesn’t seem so bad considering the features you get. We were eager to see how this camera performs, and now that we finally got our hands on a retail unit, it’s time to see if the Cybershot DSC-WX800 is the perfect camera for your next vacation.

Sony Cybershot DSC-WX800 design and ergonomics

The Cybershot DSC-WX800 weighs around 233g and is roughly the same size as Sony’s DSC-HX90V and RX100 IV compact cameras. Sony has essentially used the same body as the predecessor to this model — the Cybershot DSC-WX500 — and has simply upgraded some of its features. The camera feels well put together, and all the plastic and metal parts meet nicely, without leaving any unsightly gaps. When switched off, the lens doesn’t protrude much so this camera can be easily slipped into your pants pocket.

There isn’t much of a handgrip on the right side, except for a small patch of rubber at the back for where your thumb rests. We did find this to be an issue at times, especially

Article source: https://gadgets.ndtv.com/cameras/reviews/sony-cybershot-dsc-wx800-review-1973160