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obliviousally) wrote2023-09-04 10:44 pm
obliviousally) wrote2023-09-04 10:44 pm
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stuff and beach and curiosities
this weekend was really nice!!
at pride last week, tony mentioned that the local trans group, transalive, was doing a trans beach party/beach day at a beach in cleveland. he and chris put their heads together and made it happen for the four of us (sam drive, i packed a bunch of good food)
the beach was SUPER nice (it was in a REALLY NICE area outside of cleveland proper - west of even lakewood), had a nice little food stand with ice cream from honey hut (we tried the orange blossom, the raspberry, and the cookies and cream) and really nice facilities in general. the only teeny annoyance was the stairs to/from the beach were SO tall and really steep. and we had to walk around a bit to find where the group was b/c cell service was really bad (sam's phone kept connecting her to canda lol)
i didn't get too many pics b/c we DID get in the water for quite awhile and then laid about on the rocks, sunning like lizards and scrounging around for seaglass (or, i suppose 'beachglass' b/c lake erie is freshwater)
we intended to visit margie's closet to donate some stuff, but discovered they were closed. so we went to cleveland curiousities (who've expanded!)
tony got his photo with the taxidermied yeen (named harold)
i bought a little postcard and a vintage advertisement
postcard is from 1908! no address! pretty confident the name is 'alta timlin' and doing some digging i found an ancestry page under what i suspect is her married name, but there's other 'timlin's listed below. i'll have to dig into a bit at work, but she MAY HAVE lived in akron! which is pretty cool. the street listed on ancestry i can't seem to find on the map, BUT it could've been removed when the city put the interbelt in
update! now that i'm at work and can dig into the library's subscription of ancestry
was slightly off the mark with the moorehead above, but it DOES look like when she died, her surname was moorehead, tho i can't find much about her husband on first glance. she graduated from clarion state teachers college a year after the postcard's date (i love the little blurbs old yearbooks have)
there's a couple newspaper clippings on ancestry that're broken - can't view the articles and our library only has access to ohio newspapers through newspaperarchive, so i can't go digging very well for them. but it looks like someone dedicated a book in her memory - 'the life of jesus' by edgar j. goodspeed - the title here seems to be somewhat incorrect, however. an early book he wrote is 'the life of jesus for young people' in 1874, but the one closer to the clipping date is 'a life of jesus' in the 1950's
(also very quaint the newspaper listing new library books!)
there was also a scholarship either funded by her or in her name. the individual presenting the award, paul g. chandler went to kent state and, as noted in the article, he was the president of clarion state college at the time
she passed away in 1952 at 68 years old
and extra interesting thing is that the area the timlin families lived is all forest now, not even any roads, but you can see where there once were some
at pride last week, tony mentioned that the local trans group, transalive, was doing a trans beach party/beach day at a beach in cleveland. he and chris put their heads together and made it happen for the four of us (sam drive, i packed a bunch of good food)
the beach was SUPER nice (it was in a REALLY NICE area outside of cleveland proper - west of even lakewood), had a nice little food stand with ice cream from honey hut (we tried the orange blossom, the raspberry, and the cookies and cream) and really nice facilities in general. the only teeny annoyance was the stairs to/from the beach were SO tall and really steep. and we had to walk around a bit to find where the group was b/c cell service was really bad (sam's phone kept connecting her to canda lol)
i didn't get too many pics b/c we DID get in the water for quite awhile and then laid about on the rocks, sunning like lizards and scrounging around for seaglass (or, i suppose 'beachglass' b/c lake erie is freshwater)
we intended to visit margie's closet to donate some stuff, but discovered they were closed. so we went to cleveland curiousities (who've expanded!)
tony got his photo with the taxidermied yeen (named harold)
i bought a little postcard and a vintage advertisement
postcard is from 1908! no address! pretty confident the name is 'alta timlin' and doing some digging i found an ancestry page under what i suspect is her married name, but there's other 'timlin's listed below. i'll have to dig into a bit at work, but she MAY HAVE lived in akron! which is pretty cool. the street listed on ancestry i can't seem to find on the map, BUT it could've been removed when the city put the interbelt in
update! now that i'm at work and can dig into the library's subscription of ancestry
was slightly off the mark with the moorehead above, but it DOES look like when she died, her surname was moorehead, tho i can't find much about her husband on first glance. she graduated from clarion state teachers college a year after the postcard's date (i love the little blurbs old yearbooks have)
there's a couple newspaper clippings on ancestry that're broken - can't view the articles and our library only has access to ohio newspapers through newspaperarchive, so i can't go digging very well for them. but it looks like someone dedicated a book in her memory - 'the life of jesus' by edgar j. goodspeed - the title here seems to be somewhat incorrect, however. an early book he wrote is 'the life of jesus for young people' in 1874, but the one closer to the clipping date is 'a life of jesus' in the 1950's
(also very quaint the newspaper listing new library books!)
there was also a scholarship either funded by her or in her name. the individual presenting the award, paul g. chandler went to kent state and, as noted in the article, he was the president of clarion state college at the time
she passed away in 1952 at 68 years old
and extra interesting thing is that the area the timlin families lived is all forest now, not even any roads, but you can see where there once were some