Freckles

Gem tintype, circa 1860

Casper the Friendly Ghost

Snapshot, 1973

Our Clones

In 1963, James and Susan Hale had themselves cloned.

Space Cat

Salvador Dalí Had Crabs

Salvador Dalí, 1929

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Archery Obsession

While watching The Avengers, I was reminded of my archery obsession in my teens. I had found a vintage wooden youth bow at a thrift store and later an old hunting arrow in someone trash. I would target practice wherever I wanted around my apartment complex. My favourite target was the metal bird at the top of the flagpole outside the main office. I had very good aim and never hit anyone, but was I insane!? I remember shooting that arrow straight into the air and catching when it came back down!

I don't know how I got away with it. If I tried this today, I'd probably be arrested. Or shot.

Shopping Mall Train

Third Man

Jack White III
Interview Magazine, May 2012
Photo by Craig McDean

Hinman Bigelow Letters: Birth Record

If Hinman Bigelow were alive, he would be celebrating his 112th birthday today. Hinman was born at home on 29 April 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to George Ashley and Anna (Colston) Bigelow. He was their fourth and youngest child.

Here's a copy of Hinman's birth record.

RETURN OF BIRTHS, in the City of Philadelphia, under my care for the MONTH of April 1900.

DATE OF BIRTH:	April 29
NAME OF CHILD:	Hinman Ashley Bigelow
SEX:	Male
COLOR:	White
PLACE OF BIRTH:	1837 N. 18th
NAME OF PARENTS:	George A. & Anna C. Bigelow
OCCUPATION OF FATHER:	Insurance Broker

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Taxi Driver (1976)

I got some bad ideas in my head.

Dallas, Texas

I spent a couple days in beautiful Dallas.

It wasn't long enough.

Carlton Lassiter

A lot of people want to kill me. I take great pride in that.

Hinman Bigelow Letters: Classmates (1918 & 1919)

The 1918 & 1919 Upper Middlers
Mercersburg Academy
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania

Source: Karux, 1918 & 1919

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway
Passport photo, 1923

Gary Oldman

Photo by Michael Murphree

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down -- which might not be such a bad thing.

Written by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola. Directed by Wes Anderson.

Hinman Bigelow Letters: Happy Hinman (1921)

The 1921 Mercersburg Academy Track Team
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania

Source: Karux, 1921

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Hinman Bigelow Letters: Track Team (1920)

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The 1919-1920 Mercersburg Academy Track Team
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania

Source: Karux, 1920

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Me-ow!

Don Whaley Hansen

Don Whaley Hansen
27 March 1925 - 28 March 1996

Don Whaley was born to Lewis Andreas and Mabel Belle (Whaley) Hansen of Cadillac, Michigan on 27 March 1925 at 7 am. He studied at Cadillac High School in Cadillac, MI, Northwestern University in Evanston, IL and Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He later taught Music at Greensboro College (1950-1983) in Greensboro, NC, along with his wife Jo Plum. By the time he retired, he was chairman of the music department. He died on 28 March 1996 in Greensboro at the age of 71.

Rest In Peace Don

MGMT - The Youth

September

Michael Cerveris

Three Bad Wolves

Photo by Robbie Augspurger

Hinman Bigelow Letters: With Lots of Love (19 Mar 1919)

This letter was written on 19 March 1919. Hinman Bigelow has received the $30 he demanded in his last letter, but he's not finished yet. I don't think he's going to be happy until he's emptied his poor mother's savings account.

March 10th

Dear Mother,

I received your letter also the check for $30. The pictures were good, infact better than I expected. Thank sister for me. Tell her to write me once in awhile, I think I write about two letters to her one. Ask her if she kept one of each picture containing myself if she didn't I will send her the pictures to keep!

You don't seem to realize I am saving money by not coming to Atlantic City, well I figure I am saving at least $15.

Travelling expenses =	22.50
Board 10 days (in Atlantic)	30.00
Allowance	7.00
	59.50

Well it is closer to $30 than $15. Don't you think I have done what is best? Although I hate to sacrifice my vacation.

Well mother I have not made good this term in either deportment or lessons but hope to make them both up during vacation and next term I will start afresh.

I hope also to make good in track. Tell sister to show you some of the clippings I sent her.

Also during my stay here I hope to get off my conditions and be eligible to compete for Mercersburg in the coming meets. If when the Pennsylvania meet is about a week off I send for some money to spend on the trip you send me anywhere from $5 to $10 to get my suit in condition and for any little extra's, and remember the sacrifice I am now making.

Please give the enclosed clipping to sister to put with the rest.

With lots of love to you and best regards to Mrs Russell and the rest.

Your loving son
Ted Bigelow

P.S. Bob Card is the fellow not Bob Kimble.

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Mark and Roger

St. John Lutheran Kindergarten (1973)

Hinman Bigelow Letters: Crazy Ted Bigelow (11 Mar 1919)

This letter was written on 11 March 1919. Hinman Bigelow writes his angriest letter yet! It really makes you wonder what his mother said to him! Not surprisingly, he spent some time at the Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia just a few years later in 1923. His mental health was examined, but their verdict was simply an ungovernable temper.

Be sure to check out the scans, you can see the anger in his handwriting. His rage increasing with each sentence he wrote.

March 11th

Mrs. George A. Bigelow,

I received your most insulting letter and I paid the doctors bill.

I don't think I want to come to Atlantic City if you are there, but I would like to see Sister and Aunt Hattie. I won't stay penned up in this prison all vacation with the fellows gone. I need a relaxation, the doctor told me so!

So you send me the $30 to leave here not later than March 21st!

I am keeping that letter you wrote so I will have something to show concerning my mental condition. Tell people letters of such a kind drove me to it.

I absolutely must have a vacation after this awful routine and no society, down town only two hours a day and I have guard and can't go down. Also I will endeavor to show any doctor which you examine my head some of the reasons for which I may be mentally upset.

Sister has written she wants to see me and I have other friends so send the money. I promise I won't come see you under any circumstances.

$30!

I have means of getting it if you don't send. So send before March 21st!

[Crazy] Ted Bigelow

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Lassiter and Despereaux

I'll take them handcuffed together.

Silas Weir Mitchell

Silas Weir Mitchell - Eddie Monroe in "Grimm"

Stippling - Sharpie pen
March 2012

Royal Flycatcher

Twin Peaks

Photo by Paula K. Shimatsu-U.

Sixteen Jones

Sixteen, the 7-year-old daughter of Die Antwoord's Yolandi Vi$$er and Ninja.

Hinman Bigelow Letters: Express Your Gratitude (4 Mar 1919)

This letter was written on 4 March 1919. Hinman Bigelow writes a letter about his plans for vacation as he continues to be a jerk to his poor mother.

March 4th,

Dear Mother,

I received your very interesting letter also the $3. But that won't pay my debt and get a pair of "puts" and leave me any allowance, so you send the money I asked for! If I send you some negatives to be taken to Haworths on the Boardwalk do you think you could do it right? Well I will try you out, just take these negatives and say to them that you want one of each printed and then get them, pay for them out of my next allowance and send them to me as soon as done.

Don't take any of them! If you want any of them leave the negatives there afterwards and get the ones you want, but rush the originals.

About this coming vacation, Bob Card, Kemble and myself have decided to stay in Mercersburg and get off all our conditions, and after that to run down to Philadelphia to visit Card for a day or so. Well that will save a week and a half of board at Craig Hall, besides getting my conditioned subjects above grade. Well send me a check for twenty five and I will stay and do this. It is an awful sacrifice to be penned up here, never allowed out at night and down to town only two hours a day. Some prison but I will stand it for it will get me back into the good graces of Dr. Irvine.

Here is my expense outline.
Allowance for week and half	$7.00
(Remember this vacation)
Trip to Phila and back	20.00
Tip to waiter	1.00
"     "   Bidy	1.00
	$30.00

That is running pretty close considering I will have to get my suits pressed out of that. I promise I won't visit anybody in Philadelphia except Aunt Hattie for about half an hour! Bob and his father have a day all planned for me. He is the fellow that lived in Elkins Park, who I was going to see this summer. Bob's folks are very respectable people and I will be perfectly safe in their care. Or maybe if you want I will drop in on you for 1 day?

I must have a little vacation or I'll go wild being penned up like a convict.

Well write soon and express your gratitude for my act.

Your loving son,
Hinman

P.S. If I took the whole vacation, I would be conditioned and would spend at least $25 more dollars for board and clothes and excitement! So consider faithfully!

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