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With Leander Witt
No full textCollected by James Ward Lee
and Ralph E. Roberts for
Mary Celestia Parler
Transcribed by Frances Majors
Conversation with Leander Witt,
Mrs. Witt.
July 19, 1958
Hindsville, Arkansas
Reel 239, Item 1
Leander Witt: I was in the field this morning, my horse up to the plow,
standing there between the handles waiting there for it to get
light enough to see how to get corn with it. And I'd stay there
till night— of course, I'd stop for dinner— when I got back the
stars were shining.
Ralph E. Roberts: You used to work— you took every step that the horse
did. You followed right along—
L.W.: Darn right.
R.R.: Those were the days.
LW: I've seen the time— I've known lots of people. There never was
a horse nor a mule that ever lived that could plow me down. I
could take it from morning to night— go right on.
RR: My mother and dad were raised a t . . . Springs, Missouri, or
southeast Missouri, and mother and dad tell how her folks has
to operate back in the days when they first settled in that
country from Kentucky—I believe it was. And there weren't
shoes enough to go around.
LW: I can remember back when there wasn't any matches.
Mrs. Leander Witt: When folks went to church they had to go barefooted.
LW: What do you think about that? No matches.
James Ward Lee : I've tried to start it without matches. I'd never
get anything on fire, unless lightning struck it. How did you
start them? With flint?
Mrs. LW: Flint rock and gun powder. They'd sit down and work till eleven
o'clock trying to got fire.
LW: Back them days in the big old timber, they'd cut it down and
there was stuff in there they called punk. You could take that
out and dry it and if a spark of fire ever touched that it would
catch. You could go to blowing that as hard as you could and
first thing you know you'd have fire.
RR: What kind of timber— what kind of trees?
LW: Oaks.
RR: Oaks? Hmm.
LW: I can remember back when there was timber in this country that
would make your eyes water. My daddy homesteaded that place
over there on East Greasy Creek, up on Mount . . . . There was
big old long stately bark white oaks in there, fifty foot, and it's
just as straight as an arrow. He homesteaded that place and
Conversation with Leander Witt (Cont'd)
Reel 239, Item 1
built a little log house. All them back in those days had.
fireplaces. I can remember the first cook stove my mother
ever had.
JL: You were a great big boy, I guess?
LW: I was a great big boy.
JL: (to Rrs. LW) Did you ever cook in a fireplace?
Mrs LW: Lots of times- -I'm seventy-four years old.
LW: My mother had one of those great big skillets with a lid to it.
JL: On little legs?
LW: Yes, she done all her baking bread and frying neat and everything
in that skillet,—
JL: I've seen folks make bread in skillets.
LW: — right on the fireplace.
Mrs. LW: Good, too— bread and sweet potatoes baked that way.
LW: They'd cover up that fireplace of a night. If the fire
happened to go out you'd just have to go to your flint rock— there
was no matches in the country.
JL: I'd never get that flint rock started.
Mrs. LW: You'd learn to use flint rock. That's what he was telling
you about a while ago.
LW: When we come to this country my daddy homesteaded that place
over there. There wasn't no sawmill in the country— couldn't
get no lumber nowhere. Roved right in on the dirt floor.
He had an old . . . and I can remember him going off of that
mountain down to the house carrying a wash kettle, up this
way over his head, and I was a-riding that old ...
Mrs. LW: And it was two or three miles, wasn't it?
LW: Yes. And there wasn't a day's work you could get to do.
Rrs. LW: Those were hard times.
RR: That was a hard time, wasn't it?
LW: He finally got a job with an old farmer over there who had
been there a long time and had a great big bunch of cattle.
He bought two cows off of that feller. Hauled them out a-naking
rails at fifty cents a hundred.
Mrs. LW: Fifty cents a day.
LW: Fifty cents a hundred.
Mrs. LW: Fifty cents a day, my daddy did.
LW: Well, I've worked many a day for fifty cents myself.
JL: What do you do when you "maul" a rail? Do you mean just
splitting then?
Conversation with Leander Witt (Cont'd)
Reel 239, Item 1
LW: Split them out.
Mrs. LW: That's the kind of fence they used to have.
LW: I've heard lots of people say— old people (and I don't think
they'd lie about it)— I've heard them say that they could
toko a chopping axe and go out and cut their timber and
split four hundred rails a day.
RL: You use a wedge— little wedges?
LW: Yes.
RL: I heard somebody tell me the other day, just a story somebody
heard, about a fellow that was out splitting rails, and
the Indians cone up on him. Two Indians were going to scalp
him. And he had those wedges in there, and he told those
Indians, said, "I don't mind your scalping me but let me
get this rail split first."So you go on and just help me—
just put your hand in there and hold it apart while I go
on down splitting." When they got their hands in there he
knocked the wedges out and just left the Indians there. There
are lots of rail fences— lots of them.
LW: Well now, that's not impossible .
RL: No.
LW: We don't know what happened way back in earlier days.
RL: I'd like to hear that banjo— try that banjo one more time.
Have you ever heard yourself sing? Let's see how you sound—
how you sound to you.
LW: Hell, I can't p ut no songs together. Now music, that's a
funny thing— if you don't get one exactly in tune it's no
good. (Strums banjo.) That is on old one I used to play,
but it's done gone out of my mind. Now fellers, my voice is
gone. I can't sing worth a snap and I hate to sing for
people—
RL: I'll bet you can.Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation
I'm afloat! I'm afloat! on the fierce rolling tide [first line]
No full textstrophicpiano and voiceRespectfully Dedicated to Hon. Mrs. Leander Starrcover and music same as Box 181 Item 138Cover is duplicated in 181.138.
Music is duplicated in 181.138.Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
181, Item 139Words by Eliza Cook. The Music Composed by Henry Russell
I'm afloat! I'm afloat! on the fierce rolling tide [first line]
No full textstrophicpiano and voiceRespectfully Dedicated to Hon. Mrs. Leander Starrcover and music same as Box 181 Item 138Cover is duplicated in 181.138.
Music is duplicated in 181.138.Johns Hopkins University, Levy Sheet Music Collection, Box
181, Item 139Words by Eliza Cook. The Music Composed by Henry Russell
The railway shorthand dictionary, presenting and illustrating practical word-signs and contractions which represent words and phrases occurring frequently in everyday correspondence and also 240 words having similar sounds and 240 railroad words and phrases ...
No full textBlank for "stenographer's word-list": p. 64.Introduction signed: Jesse L. Cook, author, David O. Barnell, editor and illustrator.Mode of access: Internet
The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes)
No full textGastrotricha and Platyhelminthes form a clade called Rouphozoa. Representatives of both taxa are main components of meiofaunal communities, but their role in the trophic ecology of marine and freshwater communities is not sufficiently studied. Traditional collection methods for meiofauna are optimized for Ecdysozoa, and include the use of fixatives or flotation techniques that are unsuitable for the preservation and identification of soft-bodied meiofauna. As a result, rouphozoans are usually underestimated in conventional biodiversity surveys and ecological studies. Here, we give an updated outline of their diversity and taxonomy, with some phylogenetic considerations. We describe successfully tested techniques for their recovery and study, and emphasize current knowledge on the ecology, distribution, and dispersal of freshwater gastrotrichs and microturbellarians. We also discuss the opportunities and pitfalls of (meta)barcoding studies as a means of overcoming the taxonomic impediment. Finally, we discuss the importance of rouphozoans in aquatic ecosystems and provide future research directions to fill in crucial gaps in the biology of these organisms needed for understanding their basic role in the ecology of benthos and their place in the trophic networks linking micro-, meio-, and macrofauna of freshwater ecosystems.Julian P.S. Smith III was supported bygrant P20GM103499 (SC INBRE) from the National Institute of
General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health; Niels
Van Steenkiste and Brian Leander were supported by grants
from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of
Canada (2019-03986) and the Hakai Institute; Maria Balsamo
and Loretta Guidi were supported by Scientific Research grants
from the Italian Ministry of University (MIUR, 2019). The
authors are grateful to Dr. Rick Hochberg for the free and open
sharing of his ideas concerning feeding guilds in gastrotrichs,
and to Dr. Seth Tyler for pointing us to historical literature on
microturbellaria as parasites and hosts.Balsamo, M (corresponding author), Univ Urbino, Dept Biomol Sci, Urbino, Italy.
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Molecular phylogeny and surface morphology of marine Aseptate Gregarines (Apicomplexa): Selenidium spp. and Lecudina spp.
No full textMany aseptate gregarines from marine invertebrate hosts are thought to have retained several plesiomorphic characteristics and are instrumental in understanding the early evolution of intracellular parasitism in apicomplexans and the phylogenetic position of cryptosporidians. We sequenced the small-subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA genes from 2 archigregarines, Selenidium terebellae and Selenidium vivax, and 2 morphotypes of the marine eugregarine Lecudina polymorpha. We also used scanning electron microscopy to investigate the surface morphology of trophozoites from Lecudina tuzetae, Monocystis agilis, the 2 species of Selenidium, and the 2 morphotypes of L. polymorpha. The SSU ribosomal DNA sequences from S. vivax and L. polymorpha had long branch lengths characteristic of other gregarine sequences. However, the sequence from S. terebellae was not exceptionally divergent and consistently emerged as 1 of the earliest 'true' gregarines in phylogenetic analyses. Statistical support for the sister relationship between Cryptosporidium spp. and gregarines was significantly bolstered in analyses including the sequence from S. terebellae but excluding the longest branches in the alignment. Eugregarines formed a monophyletic group with the neogregarine Ophryocystis, suggesting that trophozoites with elaborate cortex folds and gliding motility evolved only once. The trophozoites from the 2 species of Selenidium shared novel transverse striations but differed from one another in overall cell morphologies and writhing behavior.Peer reviewedfinal article publishe
Casket.
No full textPatent for a casket with that is a "reinforced plastic burial casket which shall be of a light construction but having great strength in proportion to its weight" (lines 13 - 16), hermetically sealing the interior and keeping water out, including illustrations
Flexible impulse transfer using a Newton's Cradle-inspired catheter: A feasibility study
No full textA major challenge during minimally invasive surgery is transfer of high forces through small, flexible instruments, such as needles and catheters, because of their low buckling resistance. In this study, we determined the feasibility of using a Newton's Cradle-inspired catheter (patented) to transfer high-force impulses. Exerting a high-force impulse on the tissue increases the critical buckling load and can prevent buckling. The system comprised an input plunger onto which the impulse is given, a (flexible) shaft filled with Ø2 mm stainless steel balls, and an output plunger to transfer the impulse to the target tissue. In the proof-of-principle experiment, the effect on efficiency of clearance (0.1, 0.2, and 0.3 mm), length (100, 200, and 300 mm), shaft type (rigid vs. flexible), curve angle (0, 45, 90, 135, and 180°), and curve radius (20, 40, 60, and 100 mm) was determined. The catheter delivered forces of 6 N without buckling. The average impulse efficiency of the system was 35%, which can be further increased by optimizing the design. This technology is promising for high-force delivery in miniature medical devices during minimally invasive surgery.Accepted Author ManuscriptMedical Instruments & Bio-Inspired TechnologyMechatronic Systems Desig
London in space and time: Peter Ackroyd and Will Self
No full textCopyright @ 2013 the author. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.This paper explores the treatment of London by two authors who are profoundly influenced by the concept of the power of place and the nature of urban space. The works of Peter Ackroyd, whose writings embody, according to Onega (1997, p. 208) “[a] yearning for mythical closure” where London is “a mystic centre of power” – spiritual, transhistorical and cultural – are considered alongside those of Will Self, who explores the city’s psychogeography as primarily a political, economic and cultural artefact. The paper draws on original interviews undertaken by the author with Ackroyd and Self. Both authors’ works are available for literary study during the 16-19 phase in the UK, and this paper explores how personal delineations of the urban environment are shaped by space and language. It goes on to consider how authors’ and students’ personal understandings of space and place can be used as pedagogical and theoretical lenses to “read” the city in the 16-19 literature classroom
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