Nice collection there, Ann - loved the late afternoon light on many.
John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of ann sanfedele Sent: Sunday, 9 July 2017 1:19 PM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: PESO - Jim Thorpe oh what fun - glad I jumped on this evening.. wasn't planning to until Monday... small world time - This post is mainly for Rick and Dan... RIck - nice little set... Papermoon selfie studio is somewhat Barf producing (not the image, jsut the concept) You got the character of the place neatly in just 4 shots.. I first was there in 1971( OR 72?) on a geology field trip from Hunter... just had time for a couple of grabs back then - the town was a rest stop between geologic sites we were exploring. We detoured to PA from the Catskills because of snow... it was a trip over easter vacation... In 2007 an acquaintance of mine from the Scrabble club , Ed Moran, hired me to photograph a showing of a film on the poet Hyam Plutzik - Ed had done the interviews of more famous poets than Plutzik was for the film. He had a house in Jim Thorpe .. living there was artist Shozo Nagano and part of the house was a studio... Ed lives in the city and only went to Jim Thorpe occasionally.. The event was at the Anita Shapolsky gallery - which is a converted church... I expect the gallery is still there and thriving.. it is beautiful - I spent the weekend there - the showing was on Saturday afternoon, so I had Saturday morning and Sunday morning and part of Saturday late afternoon to wander and shoot. This is my stuff from that lovely and (somewhat profitable) weekend that I got when I wasn't doing the showing. This is all OT cause I shot everything with the darkside camera I had then. https://annsan.smugmug.com/On-the-Road-or-On-Foot/Jim-Thorpe-PA/ and if you are a glutton for punishment or just curious - this was the assignment https://annsan.smugmug.com/Assignments/At-the-showing-of-the-Hyam/ The film was interesting, and the interview with Stanly Kunitz was , according to Ed, likely the last one he gave as he died not long after. ann On 7/8/2017 12:42 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > Nice little album, Rick. > > Mauch Chunk was a dirty little mining town when my father was born > there in 1915. My Matyola grandparents migrated there from Mucachevo > (then in Weastern Sovakia, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in > western Ukraine), where the were subsistence farmers. My grandfather > hated the mines, and got a job as a track walker for the railroad. > This allowed the family to escape Mauch Chunk, and move to Manville, > NJ, home of the world's biggest asbestos factory. From the frying pan . . > . . > > In any event, here is an old snapshot of my grandparents as I remember them: > > https://www.photo.net/photo/15462434/Michael-and-Helen-Matyola > > Dan > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Jim Thorpe is a small burgh about an hour and a half from Philly. It >> was a mining and coal-shipping town called Mauch Chunk (Lenape Indian >> origin) until the town fathers struck a deal with the widow of Native >> American Olympic athlete Jim Thorpe. He was exhumed and his remains >> set in a memorial in the center of town, which was re-named for him. >> >> Now its main industries are tourism and recreation (especially >> white-water canoeing and rafting). The place has some lovely architecture, >> though: >> >> https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/PESOs-2017/Jim-Thorpe/i-WhTd2zh/A >> >> (K-5, DA 17-70) >> >> Comments appreciated. >> >> Rick >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
