Aug. 10th, 2012

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Funny how Teh Internets bring people together. My great great aunt Alberta Henrietta Hungerbuehler (1872-1968) took art classes at a place called the Spring Garden Institute in the 1880s. The Institute had competitions and struck medals for the winners. Bert won a couple.

Which are being collected by a fellow from, I think, Minnesota, who is on the board of the American Numismatic Association (these are the coin collectors rather than the scholars). He contacted me after finding this photo on Flickr:

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Bert is the one on the top row with the lace explosion at her throat


So in about an hour I'll be pedaling over to the convention center to meet the collector and see Bert's medals. He started giving me a labored explanation of how to get to A Hall, which is -- the location of the major exhibits at the Flower Show! Anyhow, I'll see Bert's medals and the one her sister Amelia got and he'll give me a copy of the article he wrote for their magazine. In return I'll let him see Bert's baby picture and some other old photos and will give him a photo of her as an old woman, printouts of some photos of her better artwork, and a sketch or two.

I wish I had more pictures of Bert as a young woman, but she was the family photographer in the 1890s and early 1900s so she was on the wrong side of the lens for too many photos.

I believe I am the last living family member to have known Bert. In a sense, she lives on for as long as I do, but when I go she'll be well and truly dead.
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One of my birthday presents arrived early -- a double album of early Tommy Emmanuel: The Journey and Classical Gas.

My, his rock roots are showing. And I've never been a fan of rock guitar gods, however accomplished they may be. Well, the Rodrigues guitar concerto movement, backed up by the Australian Symphony Orchestra, is good, as is Golliwogs' Cakewalk.

Roy says I should send it back. I say no, I'll keep it for The Collection -- but I'll probably only add a couple tracks to my TE playlist.

UPDATE: And the track listings on the liner notes are printed in...four point serifed type, reversed out of a halftone that's not uniformly dark. Grrr. How am I supposed to find out which track has Chet Atkins playing???

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