Monday, May 14, 2007

From Richard Flint

In using one of the lists of Connecticut legislators that was recently
circulated, I found that a number of my emails failed to go through to
their intended recipients last night. I discovered that they all had
the extension @cga.ct.us when the correct extension should be
@cga.ct.gov -- that is, GOV should appear where US is written. It is
important that these state delegates be lobbied equally as hard as
those for whom we had correct addresses.
Dick Flint

Posted by Buckles at 5/14/2007 12:38:00 PM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I do not know the ways of politices but do explore websites. The Conn legislator sponsoring this bill had also introduced a bill #6503 that effectively contradicted the outcome of this one (ie) investigating and making legislators aware of the outcome of a bill on small businesses. The signers of the current bill are not all voting on party lines, as of 4/23 -22 Yays 17 Nays there is a list on the site that shows who voted what - I am out of state but did direct a couple emails to the committee chair and a couple others. Her list of bills introduced shows a focus on animal rights - I hope the najority does not pass these just to shut her up. cc

14 May, 2007 12:50
Anonymous said...

Thanks for letting us know what the problem was. I, too, had the emails returned but i couldn't figure out why. you were a big help with discovering the right addresses! every email will count

15 May, 2007 02:40
Anonymous said...

I can see how busy Dick Flint is, but when he has a moment could he help me with a comment he posted back in January that mentioned Col. Daniel E. Boone.

I wondered where he got the reference for the... (July 17th 1891) show in Keokuk...getting the lions into the cage... is that newspaper in an online archive? I have found quite a few reports of Boone's Forepaugh act in other newspapers.

How he conveyed his lions is interesting and something I have found no reference about... they just appear in the arena or ...when he appeared in Theatres... how did he get them on stage??

I searched for Boone in the 1880's in the UK but could not find him with any circus... but then found He was appearing in city centres... London, Glasgow, Birkenhead...in Variety Theatres on stage with his cage of lions.

He popped up last year, as 'the American Lion Tamer' on the British Museum web site...
www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/evanion
...then search on Boone.

Thanks for reading this

Paul Griffiths

15 May, 2007 14:55
Anonymous said...

For Paul Griffiths:
The references come from the Circus World Museum library of newspaper clippings generally filed by show title. At least that is how they were organized when I worked there in 1972-73. The file was developed by Bob Parkinson who obtained the old bound volumes of post-1870 newspapers from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (the Society has since altered its name) after they were microfilmed. The files were essentially for the Wisconsin/Illinois/Iowa/Minnesota region. In the evenings and on weekends Bob would page through them to clip any circus advertisements and afterblasts, as he termed the articles he found. I remember stacks of bound volumes, heaped 8-10 feet high along a 40 or so foot wall in the library basement! And that was only what remained after his many years of plowing through what he described as a few trailer loads of newspapers!

Animal exhibitions to the time of Hagenbeck, Boone, etc., fascinate me but I do take special interest and have published a little about the early 19th century, including the trans-Atlantic trade in wild animals.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

15 May, 2007 16:49
Anonymous said...

Dick
Thank you for answering my question. As an impoverished researcher of Col. Boone I plough through the on-line newspaper archives, non-stop, when Ancestry have a "free taster session"!!! ....easier than Bobs day now you can put in a "search"
I love the phrase 'afterblasts' Most of the pre-show reports are just the 'Press Release' so 'afterblasts' give the best picture!
The Utah and Colorado Free Newspaper Archives have also been a tremendous FREE resource for me in sourcing adverts and 'afterblasts'
about Boone.
An 1891 Salt Lake City newspaper report I found had a brief backstage report about the performers too, and refered to Boone "waxing his moustache"... and also the magic of an evening performance by gas light!

Paul Griffiths

17 May, 2007 06:43

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