AtD - (36) pgs 1007 - 1012

Tue Jul 8 11:48:40 CDT 2008

There is still a difference between Orthodox and Catholic as regards the
dates of both Christmas and of Easter.  My brother is Orthodox and we never
really know when to send Christmas gifts to the kids and then he starts lent
about the time everyone else is getting ready for the Easter feast.

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Bekah <bekker2 at mac.com> wrote:

> Starting at page 1007 -
> This whole Ludlow section is written exactly like the history as it's
> documented in several places on the net - a few mentioned below.  All that
> deliberate misery-making can get quite depressing.   There is no need here
> for anything other than a pretty straightforward account (and inserting some
> characters) - the events speak for themselves.
>
>
> Winter of 1913-1914
>  Stray goes from Trinidad to Ludlow (about 12 miles southeast) where the
> coal miners had been striking and living in a tent colony since September.
>
> *
>  The tent colony was for those union members who were on strike and
> therefore had been evicted from their company owned homes.  These
>
> *
> Guns lined up: (!)
> http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepage_files/image021a.gif
>
>
> Ludlow Massacre:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
> http://www.cobar.org/index.cfm/ID/581/dpwfp/Historical-Foreward-and-
> Bibliography/
>
> Excellent Photo Galleries -( scroll right)
> http://www.du.edu/anthro/ludlow/cfphoto.html
>
>
> Today Ludlow is a ghost town -
> http://www.cultimedia.ch/ghosttowns/htme/ludlowco.htm
> with a monument:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/surlymonkey/935096702/
>
> *
>
> Photo of the "Death Car"
> http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepage_files/image010a.gif
>
> "They used an improvised armored car, mounted with a M1895 Colt-Browning
> machine gun that the union called the "Death Special," to patrol the camp's
> perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the CF&I plant in Pueblo from
> the chassis of a large touring sedan. Because of frequent sniping on the
> tent colonies, miners dug protective pits beneath the tents where they and
> their families could seek shelter."
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre#The_mine_strike
>
> *********************
>
> page 108
> Jesse shows up via the Colorado and Southern railway
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C%26S_RR_map.jpg
> *
>
> Light as torture / darkness as compassion
> "The Colorodo militia were in fact giving light a bad name.  Military
> wisdom had it that putting searchlights on the enemy allowed you to see
> them, while blinding them to you, giving you an inestimable edge both
> tactical and psychological. In the tents, darkness in that awful winter was
> sought like warmth or quiet.  It seemed like a form of compassion. "
>
> Jesse goes out - comes back smug and the lights are out.
>
>
> *********************
> page 109
> It was a very bad winter - tents collapse from the snow, etc.
> http://www.sangres.com/history/coalfieldwar01.htm
> http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepage_files/exp01.htm
> (stick around there - the images change)
>
> *
> Strike breakers coming in via cattle cars from Pennsylvania and trains
> escorted from the Mexican border.
> There were 24 languages spoken in the tent city.
> http://www.cobar.org/index.cfm/ID/581/dpwfp/Historical-Foreward-and-
> Bibliography/
> *
> Moss Gatlin (Johann Most?) preaches forbearance and violence at the same
> time
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Most
> *
> The mood grows uglier, women are raped, kids are beaten,  in Trinidad the
> military attacked women marching in support of the strike, no one killed (to
> this point)
> see "The Autobiography of Mother Jones" - Part 3:
> http://www.angelfire.com/nj3/RonMBaseman/mojones3.htm
> *
>
> The 2 colt machine guns on armored "Death Car"
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1895_Colt-Browning_machine_gun
>
>
> Baldwin-Felts "detective" agency.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin-Felts
>
> "Baldwin-Felts had a reputation for aggressive strike breaking. Agents
> shone searchlights on the tent villages at night and randomly fired into the
> tents, occasionally killing and maiming people. They used an improvised
> armored car, mounted with a M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun that the union
> called the "Death Special," to patrol the camp's perimeters. The
> steel-covered car was built in the CF&I plant in Pueblo from the chassis of
> a large touring sedan. Because of frequent sniping on the tent colonies,
> miners dug protective pits beneath the tents where they and their families
> could seek shelter. "
>
> A different pov:  http://www.baldwinfeltsdetectives.com/     (right - just
> fyi)
>
> *******
>
> page 1010
> Guardsmen are bad news -  blonde - shades of Nazi
>
> Jesse finds a level of evil never expected in adults until now.
>
> Not one but a  whole fleet of Death Specials and the drivers fear they will
> be the victims.
>
> Jessie denies association with Union group
>
> ****
>
> page 1011
> but Jessie also steals  two 30 caliber machine gun rounds to prevent them
> being shot
>
> Meanwhile,  (and at this point it's April 19, 1914 or so -  the day prior
> to the massacre)
> Frank Traverse is in Aguilar,  between Walsenberg and Trinidad
> at the 29 Luglio Saloon named for Anarchist Bresci assassinated King
> Umberto of Italy
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Bresci
>
> He's checking out a gun - (imaginary? no)
> Benet Mercier
> http://tinyurl.com/63bttu
> (follow links):  http://forums.gunboards.com/archive/index.php
> ?t-20386.html
>
>
> Empire Mine - dangerous
> there was an explosion there killing 13 people in 1919
> NY Times 3 days after Ludlow Massacre:
> http://tinyurl.com/4qvvb5
>
>
> Frank sees a woman  who looks like Michelangelo's Pieta to others: (in case
> you forgot)
> http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Altars/Pieta/Pieta-ah06.jpg
>
> Stray - recognizes Frank and tells him the night's young
> It's Stray - dressed as a "Sister of Charity"
> http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/vol296/issue8/images/medium/
> jbk60126fa.jpg
>
> ***************
>
> Page 1012
>
> Frank and Stray get reacquainted, there in the bar and  find out if each
> other is free, relationship wise - Ewball / Ren
> Frank is not just Reef without the loco streak - he's different - not so
> readable now here in coalfields which were about to explode
>
> Frank:  "They're fixing to do away with all them tents."
>
> "Creeping along,  her nun's shadow in the search light beams..."
>
>
> April 19 - Jesse has gone with Balkan kids -  "It's their Easter or
> somethin."
>  The Balkan kids" would likely be Eastern Orthodox religion and their
> Easter falls at some point between early April to early May, following the
> cycle of the moon.  After several centuries of disagreement, all churches
> accepted the computation of the Alexandrian Church (now the Coptic Church)
> that Easter is the first Sunday after the first fourteenth day of the moon
> (the Paschal Full Moon) that is on or after the ecclesiastical vernal
> equinox.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter
>
> ***********************
>
>
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