Notices by Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)

@evan As a woman on the internet, I block often and usually only mute when someone is temporarily making a lot of noise about a thing they are enthusiastic about (which I can't keyword filter). I mostly block because I feel someone's either being creepy to me or being creepy to someone else and I never want to have a conversation about it b/c creepiness. People have told me they're going to block me on occasion and while I'm fine with that I'm also a little confused why they told me.

Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. We've got the Mud Season Variety Show coming up this weekend and while I am not in it, I am practicing to be a good audience member. Also planning a neighborhood block party. Community is where it's at, folks. Try to be a good member of yours.

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Emily Sweeney does news clips on Insta for The Boston Globe where she's been a staff writer since 2003. She's from Dorchester, has a thick Boston accent. I found that she also writes a lot about Massachusetts crime and authored a book about John "Dropkick" Murphy, an amateur wrestler turned rehab host (yes, where the band got their name). Oh and she was the first woman to play hockey at Boston Latin (on the boys' team) and played four years at Northeastern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Sweeney_(journalist)

The Framingham Eight were women serving time for killing their abusive spouses/partners in Massachusetts. They sought commutation of their sentences in the 1990s saying they were acting in self defense because of battered person syndrome. Seven of the eight received commuted sentences; many had difficult lives afterwards either in or out of the spotlight. A short documentary about them won an Oscar. They had no Wikipedia page. Most news articles about them are by women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framingham_Eight

I know Fraser Metzger's great grandson who lives up the road from me. He has talked to me about his ancestor's role in the town. I'd been meaning to look him up and wow, that guy did a lot of stuff. Eschewed the family hardware business to go to divinity school, ran for Governor of Vermont as a Progressive and was the first Dean of Men at Rutgers. I started the article yesterday, ran out of steam and was delighted to see that someone else filled in the blanks overnight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Metzger

I used to write a lot about Stadium Organists when I was listening to Josh Kantor's Seventh Inning Stretch livestream regularly. I'd gotten out of the habit but then I saw Josh Langhoff saying somethingorother on Bluesky and was like "Oh hey there's another one!" Not a lot of public detail about him but he's done a lot of cited music reviews (he's into Christian music and regional Mexican music) and has a nice personal website.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Langhoff

Wikipedia work begets Wikipedia work. Reggie Ramos is the executive director of Transportation for Massachusetts a coalition of groups working to improve transportation in MA. She thinks high quality and affordable and accessible transportation is a civil rights issue. She is from the Republic of the Philippines where she was Undersecretary for Transportation. And she's a lawyer and international negotiator. She's quite cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Ramos

I'm reading a book about the human body. They discussed the work of a not-well-known poultry scientist who discovered what would become known as B cells from a little gland called the Bursa of Fabricius, written up in the Journal of Poultry Science. I went to read about him and noticed that there were a lot of articles but no Wikipedia page. Science is a little out of my wheelhouse, but I did my best. Meet Bruce Glick, one of the reasons we have decent cancer treatments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Glick

Bobby Gosh was a local musician and producer who you may know from such hits as Dr. Hook's song "A Little Bit More" or Bjork's music box pieces on Vespertine. He may or may not have opened for Streisand during her happening in Central Park. He definitely wrote the Honeycomb Hideout jingle. He was an art collector. An unapologetic weed eater, Gosh's life is full of amazing facts and what I suspect are some embellishments. Definitely a local legend who will be well missed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Gosh

When I started this article about Rice Estes, it's because I thought he was a Black librarian raised in South Carolina committed to ending segregation in public libraries in the South. As it turns out, that article was wrong and he was all those things, except he was white. He was married to well-known author Eleanor Estes. She had a long Wikipedia page, he had none. He did not do a lot of public activism after the 60s (that I found) but what he did then was important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_Estes

Alexs D. Pate wrote a NYT bestseller in 1995 (the novel Amistad, based on the movie screenplay, I know, it's confusing) and many other award-winning books. There was some drama about his original WP page (deleted because it was thought to be advertising/promotion - I never saw that version) but the WP editor did not contest the speedy-delete tag, so speedy-deleted it was. I've got some questions about Pate's life story (hard to find cites), but not about his notability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexs_Pate

Leo Manso designed some exceptional paperback and hardcover book jackets. He was also an accomplished artist and helped get the Provincetown MA arts scene going in the 1940s. No idea why Wikipedia didn't have an article about him but it does now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Manso

Community Auditions was a Boston area tv show which ran for 37 years. It featured live performances of local folks doing talent show stuff. Dave Maynard, local radio legend, hosted. It was very "of its time" and totally imprinted itself on my partner while I had never heard of it. In the early shows people would vote for their favorite performer via postcard and the results would be announced the following week. In the reboot of the show, you voted via social media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Auditions

Frederick W. W. Howell was a schoolmaster in Birmingham who summered in Iceland in the late 1800s. He was an explorer & outdoorsman and while he was a product of his time (which I've tried to approach honestly) he took some amazing photos of an Iceland, (as reported back home) "on the edge of modernity." The photos got a new life when they were collected and annotated by Cornell librarians. I can find ONE BLURRY PHOTO of the guy, but I wrote this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_W._W._Howell
#photography #iceland

Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. Big holiday weekend around here and I just got my laundry machines installed. I'm not sure doing laundry in my grubby basement is an improvement over doing it at the clean laundromat, but we can all learn new things, like how to not send last minute email to people just trying to get to their weekend.

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I am doing the racecar thing again. One car, hood and bumper. Total cost $600 for Andrea's racing season.

If you'd like to chip in either with money or good librarian slogans (can not be outwardly political, could be secretly political) that would be grand.

Paypal: first name at gmail
Venmo: iamthebestartist

Rest assured, this is not my only philanthropy but while we're all helping folks in Minnesota with their rent and folks in Vermont get out of ICE detention, we can also do this.

@evacide I saw that they're offering an "opt out" feature for experts, but it's still 100% total bullshit that they did this.

@evan First boyfriend had the sunset van!

I feel like this is some sort of achievement unlocked thing. I spoke ABOUT the Four Freedoms guy at my town meeting today, about how he was speaking against the new school because his cows nearly all died of brucellosis, and about how we all need to make complex choices nowadays, and the well-meaning Selectboard nonetheless screwed up the library budget and we should vote against it. And how the guy with the dead cows wound up with a job building the new school #vermont

https://www.manchesterjournal.com/news/local/arlington-and-rockwell-a-enduring-relationship/article_bb4c221f-44e2-5e56-bd2f-781e9c68722c.html

Town Meeting day and local elections are coming up. I'm the co-chair of the Board of Civil Authority and, along with the Town Clerk, we run elections. In order to try to make voting more accessible and less onerous (and to get younger people vaguely interested in the process), we have a Kid Table where parents can park their kids while they vote with sample ballots and coloring pages. Here are this year's contests. Past contests included dog vs. cat and pie vs. creemee. #vermont