07/03/13

Happy Father's Day!

1934 STUTZ BEARCAT

The original Stutz Bearcat was revived as the Super Bearcat 

towards the end of the company's life. 

Pappy and Stutz

Father's Day

HISTORY   Mother's Day: Inspiration for Father's Day
The “Mother’s Day” we celebrate today has its origins in the peace-and-reconciliation campaigns of the post-Civil War era.
Origins of Father's Day

The campaign to celebrate the nation’s fathers did not meet with the same enthusiasm--perhaps because, as one florist explained, “fathers haven’t the same sentimental appeal that mothers have.” On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church sponsored the nation’s first event explicitly in honor of fathers, a Sunday sermon in memory of the 362 men who had died in the previous December’s explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines in Monongah, but it was a one-time commemoration and not an annual holiday. The next year, a Spokane, Washington woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one of six children raised by a widower, tried to establish an official equivalent to Mother’s Day for male parents. She went to local churches, the YMCA, shopkeepers and government officials to drum up support for her idea, and she was successful: Washington State celebrated the nation’s first statewide Father’s Day on July 19, 1910.
Father's Day: Controversy and Commercialism

In 1972, in the middle of a hard-fought presidential re-election campaign, Richard Nixon signed a proclamation making Father’s Day a federal holiday at last.  Today, economists estimate that Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father’s Day gifts.

Indiana

Traveler

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, situated on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth. With a population of 495,360 (2011) it is the largest settlement in Lothian and lies at the centre of a larger urban zone of approximately 850,000 people. While the town originally formed on the ridge descending from the Castle Rock, the modern city is often said to be built on seven hills.

Scotland May 2013

 Loch Lomond is a freshwater Scottish loch, lying on the Highland Boundary Fault. It is the

largest inland stretch of water in Great Britain by surface area. The loch contains many islands, including Inchmurrin, the largest fresh-water island in the British Isles, although the loch itself is smaller than many Irish loughs.

Traveler

The Arans are a group of three islands located at the mouth of Galway Bay, 

on the west coast of Ireland.

Cows of Aran

May 8, 2013

Cindy de la Taos Ireland 2013

I Madonnari 2013

"In the mid 1970's, street painting came to the United States.  Given the moderate weather, festivals began cropping up all over, starting with the I Madonnari festival at the Santa Barbara Mission in Santa Barbara, California.  Although the festivals are modeled after the Italian tradition, American artists have been reproducing modern works and art from all over the globe making the festivals a diverse feast for the eyes.' History of Street Painting 
La Femme Pastel 

Father Virgil Honored at I Madonnari

 By Mark McDonald

St. Vincent's, celebrating 155 years of serving those who are poor and marginalized in Santa Barbara County, is taking part in the Annual I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival, May 25-27, at the Santa Barbara Mission.

Street painting


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