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 <[email protected]> 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
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