The Pictures of an odd little life

2006-02-04T13:52:00.000-08:00

2005-08-21T12:52:00.000-07:00

Béla Fleck & Marshal Jacobowitz 1973 or 4 - A few days after Béla got his first banjo...

2005-08-17T06:42:00.000-07:00

Dear Hubert Desgagnés:
Thank you for your kind comments about the model of the Amanda. You are right, it is so hard to make models of the goélette's as the plans are so hard to find. I took several years of photographs before making the model, and was a full two inches off on the beam, and the break of the bow should be wider. I am trying to remember the name of the fellow with museum on Au Coudre, Mauris DuFor? He measured my model of the Amanda Transport and found it was two inches too narrow. Here is a photo of your grandfather's goélette GENERAL MONTCALM. I photographed many of the boats for many years, and will try and find more of the ones I made of the Montcalm.
Again, thanks
Lorcan
PS Here is a translation... I hope I get close to the meaning... of the entry about the G Montcalm... from the book L'ERE DES GOELETTES DU SAINT-LAURENT by Antoine Coté

The lumber schooner ( Goélette ) G Montcalm was built in 1939, at St Joseph-de-la-Rive by master carpenter Albert Audet and his brothers Antoine and Joseph Capt. Joseph Desgagnés also of St. Joseph-de-la-Rive.

Following the death of Capt. Desgagnés, February 17, 1945 his widow Emélia Audet- Desgagnés became the owner of the goélette.

April 17, 1954 ownership was divided into 21 shares to Captain Gerard Desgagnés and Capt. Jean Paul Desgagnés, and 13 shares each to Capt. Robert and Denis Desgagnés. Capt. Jean Paul Desgagnés and Capt. Gerard Desgagnés acquired the shares of two shareholders and became owners.

They resold it on May 16, 1960 to Capt. Nérée Harvey, of Ille Au Coudres who operated it until the end. It was decommissioned by Canadian Transport on Nov. 6, 1973.

2005-08-15T20:22:00.000-07:00

Two Years Ago This Week, Black Out New York, Tomkins Square Park 2003
Hey! I bet this will burn!!!

2005-08-03T15:46:00.000-07:00

Back from Mani Utenam... story and photos to follow soon...

2005-07-21T05:44:00.000-07:00

Sound check, a few years back...

Lorcan

MazzMlani Swift

Leah Wells

While posting this... reports of a bomb going off on another train in London, and a bus bombing - This concert above, we sang, Yvette's Song, Amadou Diallo and Engine 33 - about the loss of 1/4 of the company Engine 33 Ladder 9...

Please dear Friends, pray for peace
lor

2005-07-20T05:11:00.000-07:00

Manni Utanam - Nittassinan, and power...

One River's story and the people who live on it...

These photos were taken about 1994 while the Mistashipu Innu were attemting to stop the building of Saint Margaret III - the third dam on the St. Margaret river, which would drop the level of the water on the Moise River, a salmon river on which the Innu depend for their lives.

The Moise...

SM II - Saint Margaret River

Sending the power to the North Eastern US

Protesting by fishing in traditional ways... if they are going to kill all the salmon in a hydroelectric dam, how can they tell us we can't drift net? In the bow, folk singer and hunter, Philip McKenzie, then Philomene McKenzie and Bobby...

A good tasting protest... ( we also had Carabou roasted over a fire )

2005-07-18T21:04:00.000-07:00

Arranmor Island...

2005-07-18T20:58:00.000-07:00

Jane Kelton, Gerry O'Sullivan, Ups O'Farighty

Dingle 1984?

2005-07-18T20:30:00.000-07:00

HEY! Wanna see something cool!?!?!

Low tide on the St. Lawrence... so low you can walk around on sand bars in the middle of the river! Hey! This is the bottom of the river... nifty!

2005-07-12T06:54:00.000-07:00

No, There are differences between the US and China, but, with 2 million folks in jail, we may ask ourselves the question... when do we realize we are living in a police state? Here are some photographs from BEFORE the "Patriot Act" Shortly after the incident with the student and the tank in China, we see what would have happened in New York City. The following photographs are from a police action to remove squaters from a building in which they had lived for years.

What to wear to an eviction...

What is the use of having a tank... if you don't use it?

Nothing to see folks... just move along ( the press was kept a block away in a pened in area... one journalist - from WNYC Beth Fertig, got into the squat... she was arrested and her press credentials removed for a time... what price liberty?

Someone sits in front of the tank. That stopped the tanks in China for hours... New York...

Hardly time to take the photo... about 15 seconds later the tank is free to go... everyone is free in the USA! Even tanks!

2005-07-09T08:31:00.000-07:00

My model of the bulk lumber Goelette Amanda Transport on the beach in front of the wreck of the same...

2005-07-09T08:29:00.000-07:00

Captain Laurant Tremblay, the captain of the Amanda Transport. He told me that the model was missing the radio mast, not on the wreak. He showed it to me in his back yard... now holding up his laundry line.

2005-07-09T08:28:00.000-07:00

Capt. Tremblay with a painting of the Amanda Transport.

2005-07-09T08:24:00.000-07:00

The model on display with my model of a Galway Hooker ( foreground ) at the model boat show at South Street Seaport...

2005-07-09T08:14:00.000-07:00

,li> Amanda Transport ready to launch in Central Park...

2005-07-09T08:11:00.000-07:00

I always think of this day when I think of the Goelette's of Ille au Coudre... there where many ... perhaps 14 wrecks on the island in rather good condition. The islanders burned them all, when the government of Canada refused grants to preserve them... ouch. There is likely more to the story than that, that is as much as I was told. Here is my model of the Amanda Transport sailing off Ille au Coudre pointing towards the Laurentian Mountains...

2005-07-09T08:10:00.000-07:00

My model nearly done, sailing on the St. Laurence, just off the beach in front of the Amanda Transport... before the wreck was burned...

2005-07-09T08:08:00.000-07:00

All that is left of the Amanda Transport is a bit of wood under the model on my shelf... a bit of the wood grafted into the model, and the radio mast in Capt. Laurant Tremblay's backyard...

2005-07-09T06:42:00.000-07:00

Belfast 1977, Children of War. Serrious games. How to shoot a caddy gun. Near Divis Flats

2005-07-09T06:32:00.000-07:00

Young Traveller, Maharees, Kerry Ireland, 1982

2005-07-09T06:30:00.000-07:00

A Traveller in Dingle, on the Holy Ground (now a mall --- oh well... ) Ireland 1978ish

2005-07-08T19:49:00.000-07:00

On board the Earnestina, ex-Effie Morrisy,

2005-07-08T19:46:00.000-07:00

West Kerry, Ireland 1978 Remembering 1847

2005-07-08T19:45:00.000-07:00

West of Ireland 1978

2005-07-08T19:43:00.000-07:00

Belfast 1977, Houses... between two people.

2005-07-08T19:23:00.000-07:00

Swords beaten into plowshares... Kerry, Ireland

2005-07-08T19:21:00.000-07:00

Sandy Row? Belfast, Little girl standing on the out-house. Before indoor plumbing in Belfast...

2005-07-08T19:16:00.000-07:00

Children of War, Shankill, Belfast, Child with a rubber bullet cannon, (the fellow in the brown jumper.

2005-07-08T19:13:00.000-07:00

Children of War... Devis Flats, Belfast. Children with Caddy Guns

2005-07-08T18:39:00.000-07:00

Ashville, NC MazMalani Swift, Lorcan Otway and Leah Wells, Sorcha Dorcha - at one time...

2005-07-08T18:23:00.000-07:00

Rowing one of my currachs off the Battery in New York harbor... I am so bad with names, but that is me in the first seat and Susan Greenfield in the stroke oar seat...

2005-07-08T18:20:00.000-07:00

Sorcha Dorcha busking in the park, many years ago... Gordon Abrams, Lorcan Otway, Briget Kalin...

2005-07-08T17:32:00.000-07:00

me and Bill Kunstler, and Ron Kuby...

2005-07-08T17:30:00.000-07:00

Remembering Mac Benalie ( not sure of the spelling ) - Navajo Nation ( Dene ) Vinny Harquail - Mcmack Nation, and Billy Hill Lakota? Nation...

2005-07-08T17:29:00.000-07:00

... or know where Siobhan O'Connor from Donnegal ( here in Dingle... ) is today (or her sister Mora, or Sorcha Bolger... ?

2005-07-08T17:24:00.000-07:00

Any one in contact with Susan Clancy - from Grace Church School?

2005-07-07T19:42:00.000-07:00

Arranmor ... back when... I was younger.... yesterday, not too long ago... just a while back...

2005-07-06T14:33:00.000-07:00

My Genie in Scotland...

2005-07-06T14:17:00.000-07:00

Genie and Talatha Scott

2005-07-06T14:03:00.000-07:00

Turf in creels, behind the three sisters... behind that, Skellig Michel

2005-07-06T06:14:00.000-07:00

Some friends wondered what I dress like when I am not in "plain dress" - having been away from meeting during that time, I thought it right to post this picture of those days... of wearing what everyone else wears...

2005-07-05T19:35:00.000-07:00

Living off the land in Ireland in the late 70's...

2005-07-05T16:01:00.000-07:00

Seisd: Chorus:
Màili dhonn, bhòidheah dhonn,
Màili dhonn,
thill i dhachaidh
Gruagach òg a chùil duinn,
Dh' eireadh m'intinn air t'fhaicinn.

Chorus
(all)
Mary’s Sean fished a trawler,
And he named her after Mary
Fine a craft as ever sailed
From the shipyards of West Kerry
Chorus
The Buisness men in Belgim
Say our fishing is poaching
while in the lea of our harbours
Dannish trawlers are encroaching

(herself)
I watched him slip his lines
To fish where seas are still free
two hundred miles off shore
past the common market's boundry

(Lorcan)
Clearing Innish Vic Illan,
Seven Brothers and the Skelligs
Bear South West to meet the swells
Building up from the Antarctic
Chorus

(Lorcan)
The glass is falling fast
and the winds are now lashing
as the night closes in
sheets of lightning now are flashing
Chorus
(herself)
Though the seas pound our shores
like many long guns a-blazing
still I know he'll return
red storm tris'le he'll be raising
Chorus
(Lorcan)
We have lost all our gear
and our engine is drowned
and we pray for our wives
that our boddies will be found
Chorus
(herself)
I will watch for my Sean
I'll keep watch here on Sleahead
there'll be seagulls in his wake
then this black shawl I will shed

Gura mise tha gu tinn,Cùl mo ceaun air an leacann,Bha mi (i) reimhe rotach, garbhAir an fhairge 'gam marcachd.

2005-07-04T04:45:00.000-07:00

The Other America

Dan Charging Hawk

Dan, who died a few years back, a few hours after recording Lakota stories in my studio, had been at Wounded Knee, Oka, down in the Amazon fighting for Native rights, out in Hawaii, all over the US. I spent a few interesting hours with him in Akwasasni as he contested the Canadian US border, refusing to declare himself US or Canadian native. "Sitting Bull hunted all over North America... " he told them... "it is your border not mine!"
So, here, as a little July 4th tribute, is an American for whom July 4, 1776 was just a slight inconvenience. ... seen here during a stand off within a native nation on the subject of taxation. Also shown, my Genie, Tina Charging Hawk and their child Four Winds... and me.

2005-07-03T15:35:00.000-07:00

Ryan's Big day in New York...

Ryan and Molly

15th St. Meeting House...

The Committee with a concern for soup at Little Poland... and...

missing a wee Friend from the north of Ireland...

Kind'a makes ya wish you were here, eh, Ruthie?

Genie, our intrepid camera person...

Molly and her pal - Amanda

Oh yes. and Anika, Roxanne, Dyske, and Genie....

2005-07-03T06:07:00.000-07:00

COMING LATER... GENIE AND LORCAN OFF DINGLE ...

2005-07-02T17:30:00.000-07:00

Sunday in the park with Genie...

and there she is!

We started in the very north of the park... They have Cranes there...

and other fishing birds... Anyone know what kind of bird this is?

waterfalls...

Painters

Cleo's needle

Off duty lawyers...

who are really happy to be out of the office...

and me...

2005-07-02T09:30:00.000-07:00

Would you buy a used buggy from this guy? A photo by Keith Widyolar

2005-07-01T14:06:00.000-07:00

Dad... Howard Otway... I didn't know him until years after this... ( Dad at about 3, I think )

2005-07-01T12:30:00.000-07:00

Hi... Remember me? Portrait of a young Quaker at... 12?

2005-07-01T11:45:00.000-07:00

Off to the wet part of the world 17ish?

With Genie... long ago... Divizes, Wiltshire, England

2005-07-01T11:09:00.000-07:00

Racing Currachs in Dorchester Mass. Genie on the far left, me to her right, believe it or not...

With the greatly talented Mary Pat Shannon

learning about life from a wise friend, a teacher... and deep thinker...

My better 3/4

2005-07-01T10:47:00.000-07:00

The band... Lorcan, Skippy, Scooter and Sparky, or Bill and Sarah and Scott...