Jeff Titon

Is it still there? #126 in a series. Cemetery with figures, southwestern Virginia, 1992. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary

YouTube video by Johnny Shines - Topic The Blue Horizon

Johnny Shines & Luther Johnson - The Blue Horizon

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From his 1973 album
Chicago Blues Festival 1972

Recorded 1972 France

John Harkness (1748-1806), born in Massachusetts and a shoemaker by trade, fought in the Revolutionary War. After being wounded and judged unfit for further combat, he was transported to midcoast Maine to regain his health. He died of cancer in 1806.

Is it still there? #125 in a series. Gravestone with urn icon and inscription, Rockport, Maine, 2011. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Maine

The academy (at R1 institutions) stopped rewarding humanities profs for slow projects about 50 years ago.

Is it still there? #124 in a series. Peace Studies bulletin board at the University of Maine, Orono, 2008. Photo by Jeff Titon.

Is it still there? #123 in a series. Abandoned house, somewhere in Louisiana, near the Arkansas border, August, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon.

In 1993 each church met one weekend per month. Members would visit other Old Regular Baptist churches on the Sundays their home churches weren’t meeting.

Is it still there? #122 in a series. Defeated Creek Old Regular Baptist Church, Letcher County, Kentucky, June 1993. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Appalachia

Is it still there? #121 in a series. Roadside cresh, Fort Kent, Maine, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Maine

The photograph depicts a large hornets' nest suspended in a tree. The nest has been carefully wrapped but is now, in early November, quite abandoned. How long it lasted after that is anyone's guess. Perhaps not through the following winter. It is unlikely to be still there. However, hornets often return to the same site to build a nest. Possibly they are building one there now. Photo in 2014, Santa Fe, New Mexico, by Jeff Titon. Exposure data not recorded.

Is it still there? #120 in a series. Abandoned hornets' nest, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2014. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary

I’m hopeful that this won’t happen in Maine, the largest and most rural state in New England. As Maine Public President Schneider said, Maine is fortunate to have strong $ support from its member base along with corporate support.

A former church, now a house, with blue shutters and many flowering plants in containers, and many antennae for radio and television transmissions. Photo by Jeff Titon, 1988, Patten, Maine. Canon EF, Canon 35mm f/2 lens, Ektachrome, exposure data not recorded.

Is it still there? #119 in a series. House (formerly a church) with blue shutters, flowering plants, and antennae, Patten, Maine, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Maine

YouTube video by Magic Sam - Topic Easy, Baby

Magic Sam - Easy, Baby

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Our public radio and TV stations would be very hard hit by budget cuts slated for NPR, PBS, and community radio, unless our Senators in Congress vote to restore those funds in the rescission bill, now. Time is very short. I've contacted my Senators. Will you contact yours?

Is it still there? #118 in a series. Hutto Feed and Supply, Damascus, Arkansas, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary

Is it still there? #117 in a series. Gravestone, Dennard Community Church, Dennard, Arkansas, August, 1970. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #gravestones

YouTube video by Traveler Into The Blue Forrest City Joe-Lonesome Day Blues

Arkansas blues musician "Forrest City Joe" (Joe Pugh) born July 10, 1926 at Hughes, Arkansas.
Joe recorded for Aristocrat and Atlantic Records.
Worked w/ Big Joe Turner, Otis Spann, Willie Cobbs.
Died in automobile accident near Horseshoe Lake, Ark. (1960)

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Meant “criticize the author”

Often the negative reviewers criticize the article for not writing the article they would have written on the subject, instead of engaging with the article under review.

Is it still there? #116 in a series. Boardwalk, Sydney, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, 2015. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #Canada

Is it still there? #115 in a series. Goodyear Blimp flying over Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1971. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary

Is it still there? #114 in a series. Paper mill at Howland, Maine, 1926. Photo by Bert Lincoln Call. #photography #documentary #Maine

Is it still there? #113 in a series. Abandoned tenant farm house with political sign, Osceola, Arkansas, August, 1970. Hayes McClerkin, speaker of the Arkansas House at the time, was unsuccessful in his bid for the governorship. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary #politics

Is it still there? #112 in a series. Little Dove Old Regular Baptist Church, Sassafras, Knott County, Kentucky, 1990. Photo by Jeff Titon. #photography #documentary

Is it still there? #111 in a series. Schwarzschilds, Staunton, Virginia, March, 1988. Photo by Jeff Titon.

Trying to diss the Sox brass from a distance.

YouTube video by Doctor Ross - Topic Country Clown

Doctor Ross - Country Clown

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Recorded 1951 for Sun Records

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips, & take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time & times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
W.B. #Yeats #Yeatsday

Statement from Katherine Maher, NPR President and CEO: The House voted to claw back Federal funding intended for public broadcasters around the country

“If rescission passes and local stations go dark, millions of Americans will no longer have access to locally owned, independent, nonprofit media and will bear the risk of living in a news desert, missing their emergency alerts, and hearing silence…”

-NPR president

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