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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
South Pacific
[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] The late 1940s were a culturally distinct time in the history of the United States, a brief period of relative peace and increasing fortunes immediately after the end of World War II but before the beginning of the preoccupations of the 1950s. The same year our Farmall tractors …
Raymond Loewy
[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Raymond Loewy, an American industrial designer who was born in France, helped design the streamlined styling of our 1940s International Harvester tractors and equipment. Streamline Moderne was a style of design that became popular in the early to middle years of the 20th century. Loewy’s pod-shaped, streamlined pencil …
Upside-Down Bathtub
[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Cars in the late 1940s and early 50s tended to resemble an upside-down bathtub. The front of the car sometimes looked enough like the rear that it was not always obvious at first glance which direction the car was going. [/xf_textblock]
Dog Days…
[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] It is the dog days of summer. [/xf_textblock]
Unstuck
[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] A video on how to get unstuck: [/xf_textblock]
Strawberry Moon
[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] This week marks an extraordinarily rare coincidence in which the longest day of the year happens at the same time as a full moon. Read more about the strawberry moon here. www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/strawberry-full-moon-makes-summer-solstice-super-rare-thing.html Best quote from the article: “We probably won’t push people off pyramids like the Mayans did.” …
Mandala
[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Here is a mandala rendered in fiery orange and red flower petals in celebration of the summer solstice by Kathy Klein. A mandala is a sort of circular drawing or design that serves as a spiritual symbol and an aid to meditation in Eastern religions. [/xf_textblock]
Summer Solstice
[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] This is the week of the summer solstice, when the planet has its maximum axial tilt toward the sun. What does this part of the summer bring to mind? Does it put you in mind of beach parties on the East End that last late into the night? …
The Big Duck
[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Wickham’s Fruit Farm recommends the Big Duck, located on Route 24 in Flanders. The Big Duck is a unique piece of roadside Americana set in a quintessentially Eastern Long Island landscape of sandy flat coastal land. The Big Duck is staffed with guides who have an impressive knowledge …