ellisson
Well-known
These are not ordinary times, and as reported widely around the world, what is happening now is actually apolitical in nature. The incendiary aspect that is happening right now is economic and is affecting people of all political viewpoints and persuasions. People of all persuasions are voicing their concern. This is simple fact and reality and is not political.I'm sure this thread will continue as it has for a long time, other members who questioned the tariff moderation in other threads asked me "well, what about Calzone's thread???" So to be fair it was discussed that the post above was the proper way to proceed here. Thank you.
This is not a critique of the moderators, who through their efforts help make RFF a great place for photographers. Just a response to what I believe will greatly impact us, like most people whether or not they do photography.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
SIV,
I appreciate the vast amount of tolerance here, and the leeway that was granted for a long and extended time.
I understand the argument about fairness, and I also understand the difficulties of being a moderator.
We have done a pretty decent job of self moderating here, and back when we had trolling going on here, our community took care of itself and did not burden the moderators.
I can see this continuing.
There is a lot of support here for Cancer survivors, people like myself with OCD and anxiety, people struggling…
So in the spirit of community and support, my hope this public service continues. I’ll try to be good…
Cal
I appreciate the vast amount of tolerance here, and the leeway that was granted for a long and extended time.
I understand the argument about fairness, and I also understand the difficulties of being a moderator.
We have done a pretty decent job of self moderating here, and back when we had trolling going on here, our community took care of itself and did not burden the moderators.
I can see this continuing.
There is a lot of support here for Cancer survivors, people like myself with OCD and anxiety, people struggling…
So in the spirit of community and support, my hope this public service continues. I’ll try to be good…
Cal
DownUnder
Nikon Nomad
Many of us buy secondhand gear anyway. We learned long ago that being one of the little darlings of the retail camera shops means spending a lot of money for equipment we can pick up almost as new, at far better prices.
This is not at all avoiding tariffs or undermining the economy. It's just good old common sense, and living below one's means. As Cal has long advocated, sensibly.
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Calzone
Gear Whore #1
I for one have made friends with Alex at Pop Flash. I have bought a lot of gear from him, new and used, and also used Pop Flash to sell some gear. I did this to support this site.
I also bought gear from other sponsors here, including the head bartender.
Anyways RFF is a special community, and not like the rest of the Internet. I have many relationships here, and many-many great friends. The key here is respect…
There is a delicate line here because the times we live are volatile and polarized. I hope good judgement and support of democracy and tolerance continues to exist here. In a way this thread is a bubble of sorts in that it does not no longer exist in the world as it use to.
Please tread lightly…
Cal
I also bought gear from other sponsors here, including the head bartender.
Anyways RFF is a special community, and not like the rest of the Internet. I have many relationships here, and many-many great friends. The key here is respect…
There is a delicate line here because the times we live are volatile and polarized. I hope good judgement and support of democracy and tolerance continues to exist here. In a way this thread is a bubble of sorts in that it does not no longer exist in the world as it use to.
Please tread lightly…
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
The migrant worker is again working on the abandoned house across our dead-end street. A full-sized dumpster is almost filled to the top, and this was accomplished by a small man who is actually smaller than me.
I guess I can relate to this man who had to work hard, and carry more than his weight. He is weathered and has a tough appearance. He has a certain character and dignity I can appreciate.
Rubble stored in a two car garage from a hip roof replacement yesterday, and today a run-down cedar fence that is beyond its years is being removed.
I somehow rescued a new section of cedar fence before it was placed in the dumpster. An 8 foot section of 6 inch wide planks 6 feet tall.
This particular section of fence is new. It replaced a section that was destroy by a fallen tree, and the cedar has not faded yet to that classic grey.
Kinda just what I need to build some raised beds for the kid’s new cottage. I have sixteen 6”x6’ cedar planks to make/create raised beds.
So kinda divine intervention, and if it’s free it is for me.
We were going to Woodstock to the bookfest, but since it was free for us last year since “Maggie” was presenting we were not aware how attending just one event gets mucho costly. Oh-well. Our money is good eslewhere.
So we decided that Woodstock Book Fest was a luxury, and that our money could be best utilized elsewhere.
The Brattleboro Literary Festival is sponsored by the Brattleboro Chamber of Commerce and is free. We like that, and we can make it a vacation by paying for a bed and breakfast.
We are making the adjustment to downsizing our lifestyle to continue to live below our means. I’m giving our lifestyle a “haircut” and trimming things down a bit. Going forward is austerity for us and limited spending.
I am mucho glad that I secured that pine Tele body that is sub 3 pounds. Not only is it free from knots and is clear straight grained lumber, but now assembled it without string and nut it weighs only 5 1/4 pounds set up as an Esquire (only one pickup).
Cal
I guess I can relate to this man who had to work hard, and carry more than his weight. He is weathered and has a tough appearance. He has a certain character and dignity I can appreciate.
Rubble stored in a two car garage from a hip roof replacement yesterday, and today a run-down cedar fence that is beyond its years is being removed.
I somehow rescued a new section of cedar fence before it was placed in the dumpster. An 8 foot section of 6 inch wide planks 6 feet tall.
This particular section of fence is new. It replaced a section that was destroy by a fallen tree, and the cedar has not faded yet to that classic grey.
Kinda just what I need to build some raised beds for the kid’s new cottage. I have sixteen 6”x6’ cedar planks to make/create raised beds.
So kinda divine intervention, and if it’s free it is for me.
We were going to Woodstock to the bookfest, but since it was free for us last year since “Maggie” was presenting we were not aware how attending just one event gets mucho costly. Oh-well. Our money is good eslewhere.
So we decided that Woodstock Book Fest was a luxury, and that our money could be best utilized elsewhere.
The Brattleboro Literary Festival is sponsored by the Brattleboro Chamber of Commerce and is free. We like that, and we can make it a vacation by paying for a bed and breakfast.
We are making the adjustment to downsizing our lifestyle to continue to live below our means. I’m giving our lifestyle a “haircut” and trimming things down a bit. Going forward is austerity for us and limited spending.
I am mucho glad that I secured that pine Tele body that is sub 3 pounds. Not only is it free from knots and is clear straight grained lumber, but now assembled it without string and nut it weighs only 5 1/4 pounds set up as an Esquire (only one pickup).
Cal
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No, it's not ordinary times. In a perfect world we wouldn't be dealing with these issues, and in a perfect world moderation would be unnecessary.
Carry on!
robert blu
quiet photographer
Cal, you are right and it was my translation mistake because in Italy we call Billions what in US you call Trillions (short and long scale) !
Of course it is very bad and many people will suffer for this, as I already said not only in the US.
Me too. At my age, 76, my saving are not intended to be used for an additional Leica or some exotic holiday but to pay possible health bills...
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Calzone
Gear Whore #1
What was really cool is that I broke down the section of fence right away in my driveway, and stored the 16 planks in my garage.
Not too long ago the owner of the abandoned house showed up. I avoided any trouble for the guy working.
It was good intuition, and I figured I avoided any conflict or trouble.
As they say, “No act of kindness goes unpunished…” I avoided any problems or bad feeling. The better good is recycling, and being to help a family with two kids.
Moral of the story is try to do good, and my laying low did me good.
Cal
Not too long ago the owner of the abandoned house showed up. I avoided any trouble for the guy working.
It was good intuition, and I figured I avoided any conflict or trouble.
As they say, “No act of kindness goes unpunished…” I avoided any problems or bad feeling. The better good is recycling, and being to help a family with two kids.
Moral of the story is try to do good, and my laying low did me good.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Today so far 8 pull-ups and 60 pushups. The pushups are fast dirty one’s BTW that comprise a max set.
These high intensity exercises are for explosive power, and are designed to go and not show, but tone is expressed over bulk.
I kinda had a senior moment like one I described that happened long ago in NYC.
In NYC one see’s posters for all these people who somehow have disappeared. Some are mentally handicapped, others suffer from dementia. So people disappear all the time in NYC is the point and it kinda is the normal.
So one day after work I have a camera that needs a repair, and after work I venture down to Chealsea to drop it off. Know that because I own so many cameras that I often visit Nippon Camera frequently, and they get a lot of work from me.
So on this particular day I could not find Nippon Camera Repair. I’m in a fog of sorts, and I find myself disoriented. Then my mind wonders and wanders, and I begin to worry, I am I loosing it? Am I lost and will be one of those that simply disappear? Will I find my way home?
So I get to my apartment in East Harlem alright, and upon entering my luxury 650 square foot apartment I dig out a Nippon receipt and call the number. It is after hours and near 6, and I don’t expect an answer, but someone answers the phone.
I find out that they moved, and I did not loose my mind. LOL. All that panic for nothing.
So yesterday I get a bill for $671.XX from my oil company. Kinda odd since usually in the mail I only get a bill for $375.00 for the service contract. It seems when I call that my last delivery went unpaid, which is odd because I always-always pay bills immediately as they arrive. After a delivery an invoice is left in my mailbox by the driver.
I panic and check my checkbook and the last oil payment I made was back in February. Then I try to remember if I might of mailed in the bill that generally is left in my mailbox, or entertain the possibility that I mailed an empty envelope thinking I paid the bill.
So in all my forensics it seems the delivery man did not leave a bill/invoice, but I had another senior moment where I thought I lost it again.
So pretty much I think I am still sane, but I am embracing I guess the worries of loosing my capacity. Another false alarm…
Cal
These high intensity exercises are for explosive power, and are designed to go and not show, but tone is expressed over bulk.
I kinda had a senior moment like one I described that happened long ago in NYC.
In NYC one see’s posters for all these people who somehow have disappeared. Some are mentally handicapped, others suffer from dementia. So people disappear all the time in NYC is the point and it kinda is the normal.
So one day after work I have a camera that needs a repair, and after work I venture down to Chealsea to drop it off. Know that because I own so many cameras that I often visit Nippon Camera frequently, and they get a lot of work from me.
So on this particular day I could not find Nippon Camera Repair. I’m in a fog of sorts, and I find myself disoriented. Then my mind wonders and wanders, and I begin to worry, I am I loosing it? Am I lost and will be one of those that simply disappear? Will I find my way home?
So I get to my apartment in East Harlem alright, and upon entering my luxury 650 square foot apartment I dig out a Nippon receipt and call the number. It is after hours and near 6, and I don’t expect an answer, but someone answers the phone.
I find out that they moved, and I did not loose my mind. LOL. All that panic for nothing.
So yesterday I get a bill for $671.XX from my oil company. Kinda odd since usually in the mail I only get a bill for $375.00 for the service contract. It seems when I call that my last delivery went unpaid, which is odd because I always-always pay bills immediately as they arrive. After a delivery an invoice is left in my mailbox by the driver.
I panic and check my checkbook and the last oil payment I made was back in February. Then I try to remember if I might of mailed in the bill that generally is left in my mailbox, or entertain the possibility that I mailed an empty envelope thinking I paid the bill.
So in all my forensics it seems the delivery man did not leave a bill/invoice, but I had another senior moment where I thought I lost it again.
So pretty much I think I am still sane, but I am embracing I guess the worries of loosing my capacity. Another false alarm…
Cal
Retro-Grouch
Veteran
I realize that moderation, both as a means of maintaining the site and as an operating principle in life, are of great benefit. However, the pre-emptive closing of the tariff thread because of the possibility of a rancorous exchange is quite excessive, in my opinion.
I've argued with others here before (politely, I hope!) that politics is inescapable in all facets of life, and we pretend otherwise at our peril. And when I say politics, I mean of course something bigger than the snarking back and forth between the two sides in Washington. The interactions and collisions between differing ideologies is at the root of all cultural dynamics, whether those of growth or decay. It even enters the equation, silently and invisibly, if all you want to do is take snaps of your kids! A mere cursory familiarity with Art History will show that image-making itself is inescapably rooted in the technology, ideology, and politics of its time.
I do understand the wish for a Utopian place of escape where "politics" doesn't intrude. But honestly, take away politics in the broad sense that I've described here, and how much less human we become!
I don't want RFF to be a place of rancorous attacks; I doubt that anyone does. But I do want it to be at least potentially a place of lively intellectual debate, and that means sometimes heated debate. Those debates can and should be conducted with respect, and if they aren't, that's the time for the moderators to step in. Otherwise, I think a policy of "hands off" would best suit us as a community of adults capable of monitoring ourselves.
I've argued with others here before (politely, I hope!) that politics is inescapable in all facets of life, and we pretend otherwise at our peril. And when I say politics, I mean of course something bigger than the snarking back and forth between the two sides in Washington. The interactions and collisions between differing ideologies is at the root of all cultural dynamics, whether those of growth or decay. It even enters the equation, silently and invisibly, if all you want to do is take snaps of your kids! A mere cursory familiarity with Art History will show that image-making itself is inescapably rooted in the technology, ideology, and politics of its time.
I do understand the wish for a Utopian place of escape where "politics" doesn't intrude. But honestly, take away politics in the broad sense that I've described here, and how much less human we become!
I don't want RFF to be a place of rancorous attacks; I doubt that anyone does. But I do want it to be at least potentially a place of lively intellectual debate, and that means sometimes heated debate. Those debates can and should be conducted with respect, and if they aren't, that's the time for the moderators to step in. Otherwise, I think a policy of "hands off" would best suit us as a community of adults capable of monitoring ourselves.
Prest_400
Multiformat
As you see, my participation is akin to what an European visting NYC would be in. With the mod discussions I was thinking which Bar in NYC would be an analogy of the discussions. So far very civilized though it's more akin to a group of good friends. RFF as many forums are also much more "old web" than social media platforms where it just is algorithmically devolved cesspools.
It's strange times.
Again grateful to have been able to meet Cal during the Obama administration and see a part of NYC that is not projected to the world, as well as all the stories. IMO much admiration culturally as a film photography given that the NY state really was a bed for it.
To paraphrase some of the economic advisory industry: If it's long term then it should just stay there, "you lose only if you sell", then the "it's time to buy/discounted stocks". The latter I don't know as if a recession it triggered it could get ugly again; but a fantastic situation for an investor with capital that can buy for cheap. This is why such a crash would really just benefit the capitalists. Plain middle class Joe that gets laid off? nope
But savings that are invested in the markets, if you still have more than a decade before retirement, should eventually recover. Capitalism has these cycles.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
“Maggie” was undergoing “training” for volunteering at the Peekskill library’s bookstore. It ended being from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM, so I decided to use part of that time to plug in and compare electric guitars.
Most are rather stunning and interesting, but I found two that seem “overstrung,” meaning the heavy gauge strings I utilize killed too much top end that mutes the liveliness and jangle that a Tele player cultivates.
The hardtail Strat I thought would be mucho lively is kinda dead wood, but I compared it to the Candy Apple Red Strat that has a trem that I went down in gauge from 12’s to 11’s, and pretty much it has the essence I want. I’ll change strings and do a set-up to see how that goes.
Korina is already a dark sounding guitar, but with heavy string there is no zing. I know lighter strings will bring some zing back, but will it be enough? Already have bright vintage style pickups installed. Might be good though with some lighter strings…
The library gig is good for Maggie. She is tired from sorting through books and also is annoyed by the disorder there. The walk alone is 4 miles round trip.
Cal
Most are rather stunning and interesting, but I found two that seem “overstrung,” meaning the heavy gauge strings I utilize killed too much top end that mutes the liveliness and jangle that a Tele player cultivates.
The hardtail Strat I thought would be mucho lively is kinda dead wood, but I compared it to the Candy Apple Red Strat that has a trem that I went down in gauge from 12’s to 11’s, and pretty much it has the essence I want. I’ll change strings and do a set-up to see how that goes.
Korina is already a dark sounding guitar, but with heavy string there is no zing. I know lighter strings will bring some zing back, but will it be enough? Already have bright vintage style pickups installed. Might be good though with some lighter strings…
The library gig is good for Maggie. She is tired from sorting through books and also is annoyed by the disorder there. The walk alone is 4 miles round trip.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
I am sitting on the cash I need to get to age 70. Pretty much I suffered no losses. My 403B is my bridge of cash that allowed me to retire early at age 62. Pretty much spending now with my income low saves in taxes.
“No one ever got rich by paying taxes,” they say. I used SmartAsset.com’s retirement calculator to do a spread sheet. I learned how the tax system works. I also learned that I had enough money to retire early.
At age 70 I’ll collect my Social Security and will have more income than I need. I also have a second pension to collect from Grumman/Northrop Grumman.
Maybe by then the markets will settle down and stabilize. I’ll dollar-cost-average back into the market. “Maggie” and I should be safe from harm.
Cal
“No one ever got rich by paying taxes,” they say. I used SmartAsset.com’s retirement calculator to do a spread sheet. I learned how the tax system works. I also learned that I had enough money to retire early.
At age 70 I’ll collect my Social Security and will have more income than I need. I also have a second pension to collect from Grumman/Northrop Grumman.
Maybe by then the markets will settle down and stabilize. I’ll dollar-cost-average back into the market. “Maggie” and I should be safe from harm.
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
My posts still do not get top listed in the “What’s New.”
Also a correction. The planks I rescued likely are just knotty pine and not cedar. Pretty much Home Cheapo specials.
I learned from “Maggie” that her new boss at the library gig (a full-time lawyer), who is also a neighbor on the next street from our Baby-Victorian, knew the original owners of our house. The smut is the man was a bad alcoholic.
Off to change some strings…
Cal
Also a correction. The planks I rescued likely are just knotty pine and not cedar. Pretty much Home Cheapo specials.
I learned from “Maggie” that her new boss at the library gig (a full-time lawyer), who is also a neighbor on the next street from our Baby-Victorian, knew the original owners of our house. The smut is the man was a bad alcoholic.
Off to change some strings…
Cal
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Day 6 since the chemical castration injection. So far no side effects or hot flashes.
The slight fatigue I feel could be from exercise. Fatigue is one of the side effects…
The guitars I restrung seem more alive and lively. Easier to play. Perhaps more fun also. Definitely more snap.
It will be interesting plugging in and comparing the two Strats now. Both are set up with 11’s, but one is a hardtail and the other has a trem.
I have to cut a nut, string up, and do a set up on the Pinecaster. Paint will come later. This Tele will have 11’s also. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get to this. This will be an Esquire (one pickup).
Expected rain tomorrow.
“Maggie” is dieting and exercising in a good sensible way. Her goal is to loose 10 pounds.
Cal
The slight fatigue I feel could be from exercise. Fatigue is one of the side effects…
The guitars I restrung seem more alive and lively. Easier to play. Perhaps more fun also. Definitely more snap.
It will be interesting plugging in and comparing the two Strats now. Both are set up with 11’s, but one is a hardtail and the other has a trem.
I have to cut a nut, string up, and do a set up on the Pinecaster. Paint will come later. This Tele will have 11’s also. Maybe tomorrow I’ll get to this. This will be an Esquire (one pickup).
Expected rain tomorrow.
“Maggie” is dieting and exercising in a good sensible way. Her goal is to loose 10 pounds.
Cal
robert blu
quiet photographer
Cal, I’m curious but knowing your love for electric guitar have you ever been interested in acoustic guitars?
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Robert,
I have a deep equal love and passion for acoustic guitars.
I own three Santa Cruz acoustic flat top guitars: a 1929 spec Model “F;” a 1934 spec Model “F” custom ordered by me: and an OM made from old growth Brazilian Rosewood.
Owning just one Santa Cruz is like own a Stradivarius, but I own three. Only the best for me. Kinda mucho crazy.
Then there is the acoustic arch-top that is an 18 incher, the Trap-Door guitar, that some people call a “lap-piano.”
I think I have about 14 electric guitars, but since I utilize heavy strings, and the way I have them set up, they kinda resemble acoustic guitars very much. I pretty much am trying to emulate an acoustic piano sound and style for jazz and blues. I’m not a rocker.
Check out WWW.MirabellaGuitars.com. My friend Cris is the next “Man” for arch tops after John Monteleone passes.
BTW these Santa Cruz guitars and the Mirabella Trap-Door guitars are mucho costly.
My style is an acoustic like sound, even if I play an electric. I mostly play the electrics because the Santa Cruz acoustics are so lightly built and engineered to project mucho volume, that it can sound like being amped through a P.A. At home this can disturb “Maggie.”
My acoustic guitars are at the very high end and likely the very top.
Owning three Santa Cruz guitars is kinda insane. Owning one is pure joy, kinda like an orgasm.
Look up Santa Cruz on the Internet. If you want to hear one being played by a great studio player do a search on Carl Miner and Santa Cruz.
Cal
I have a deep equal love and passion for acoustic guitars.
I own three Santa Cruz acoustic flat top guitars: a 1929 spec Model “F;” a 1934 spec Model “F” custom ordered by me: and an OM made from old growth Brazilian Rosewood.
Owning just one Santa Cruz is like own a Stradivarius, but I own three. Only the best for me. Kinda mucho crazy.
Then there is the acoustic arch-top that is an 18 incher, the Trap-Door guitar, that some people call a “lap-piano.”
I think I have about 14 electric guitars, but since I utilize heavy strings, and the way I have them set up, they kinda resemble acoustic guitars very much. I pretty much am trying to emulate an acoustic piano sound and style for jazz and blues. I’m not a rocker.
Check out WWW.MirabellaGuitars.com. My friend Cris is the next “Man” for arch tops after John Monteleone passes.
BTW these Santa Cruz guitars and the Mirabella Trap-Door guitars are mucho costly.
My style is an acoustic like sound, even if I play an electric. I mostly play the electrics because the Santa Cruz acoustics are so lightly built and engineered to project mucho volume, that it can sound like being amped through a P.A. At home this can disturb “Maggie.”
My acoustic guitars are at the very high end and likely the very top.
Owning three Santa Cruz guitars is kinda insane. Owning one is pure joy, kinda like an orgasm.
Look up Santa Cruz on the Internet. If you want to hear one being played by a great studio player do a search on Carl Miner and Santa Cruz.
Cal
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Calzone
Gear Whore #1
A possible side effect from the chemical castration is less energy. One side effect on the Internet is fatigue, but I’m not at that level. I tire more easily, perhaps I sleep a full 8 hours, and I really need coffee.
Might be also attributed to loosing fat. I’m so lean that when I loose fat my body goes into conservation mode. I’m so lean and toned that you can see the vein in my left shoulder that you see on Point Guards in the NBA.
Today I made what I call “The Big Breakfast.” Eggs with scallions, sausages, and English Muffins. I throw out over half the yokes to moderate the fat and cholesterol.
Already did my 8 pull-ups, and I feel on the verge to getting to 9 soon.
I will do either a max set of pushups and or a max set of burpees with a pair of 30 pound dumbbells. The idea is for good sleep, an after-burn, and to build and maintain strength.
I seem to be trimming the fat, but hard to say if I am loosing weight because muscle is more dense than fat. Definitely am building muscle and tone.
An interesting comparison is Newburgh and Bushwick Brooklyn. Seems like recently they halved their crime rate by hiring more black and women Police.
“Maggie” mentioned that she thinks Newburgh will leap-frog Peekskill as far as becoming an art community and in gentrifying. I deem this likely so. Geographically it is right across the river from Beacon, and Beacon has the DIA Museum which is a huge art showplace that formally was a Nabisco factory. Mucho expansive and a reason to go to Beacon.
So the analogy to Bushwick rings true, a kinda rough area, with expansive potential. There is a bridge that crosses the Hudson, and the Interstate is nearby. Back in the day coal was brought in from the west to the Hudson River via a canal in Newburgh, and there is a natural deep water port in Newburgh.
This coal was then transported to NYC.
So pretty much there is lots of infrastructure in existence to give Newburgh the leg-up over Peekskill. It also is a bigger city, and in a ways a real city because it kinda sprawls. Kind of a hub…
Hmmm. A kinda affordable place in the Hudson Valley. Old houses if you like them.
Annie Leibowitz lives around Newburgh I learned from something I read. She fled NYC during the Pandemic and has a small farm nearby.
Cal
Might be also attributed to loosing fat. I’m so lean that when I loose fat my body goes into conservation mode. I’m so lean and toned that you can see the vein in my left shoulder that you see on Point Guards in the NBA.
Today I made what I call “The Big Breakfast.” Eggs with scallions, sausages, and English Muffins. I throw out over half the yokes to moderate the fat and cholesterol.
Already did my 8 pull-ups, and I feel on the verge to getting to 9 soon.
I will do either a max set of pushups and or a max set of burpees with a pair of 30 pound dumbbells. The idea is for good sleep, an after-burn, and to build and maintain strength.
I seem to be trimming the fat, but hard to say if I am loosing weight because muscle is more dense than fat. Definitely am building muscle and tone.
An interesting comparison is Newburgh and Bushwick Brooklyn. Seems like recently they halved their crime rate by hiring more black and women Police.
“Maggie” mentioned that she thinks Newburgh will leap-frog Peekskill as far as becoming an art community and in gentrifying. I deem this likely so. Geographically it is right across the river from Beacon, and Beacon has the DIA Museum which is a huge art showplace that formally was a Nabisco factory. Mucho expansive and a reason to go to Beacon.
So the analogy to Bushwick rings true, a kinda rough area, with expansive potential. There is a bridge that crosses the Hudson, and the Interstate is nearby. Back in the day coal was brought in from the west to the Hudson River via a canal in Newburgh, and there is a natural deep water port in Newburgh.
This coal was then transported to NYC.
So pretty much there is lots of infrastructure in existence to give Newburgh the leg-up over Peekskill. It also is a bigger city, and in a ways a real city because it kinda sprawls. Kind of a hub…
Hmmm. A kinda affordable place in the Hudson Valley. Old houses if you like them.
Annie Leibowitz lives around Newburgh I learned from something I read. She fled NYC during the Pandemic and has a small farm nearby.
Cal
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Calzone
Gear Whore #1
Robert,
Call me a dirty old-man, but owning three Santa Cruz flat-tops is like having 3 “trophy” girlfriends.
Then owning a Mirabella 18 inch Trap-Door Arch-top is like having a girlfriend that is a super-model.
Pretty much big-time “You-Suck” factor from any serious guitarist.
Pretty much a way to expend passion, and having something that is almost alive respond to your touch.
My friend’s farther, now deceased, was the front man, guitar player for a debutant orchestra. He played for the Queen of England 3 times. Anyways Ron taught me that playing the guitar is very much like making love to a woman. The idea is to start slow and lead to a frenzy.
After seeing Tommy Emanuel live at the Paramount here in Peekskill, a restored art-deco theater of about 1200 seats, I’m not so impressed by speed anymore.
Performing is more like sharing a journey…
Anyways this is the goal.
Cal
Call me a dirty old-man, but owning three Santa Cruz flat-tops is like having 3 “trophy” girlfriends.
Then owning a Mirabella 18 inch Trap-Door Arch-top is like having a girlfriend that is a super-model.
Pretty much big-time “You-Suck” factor from any serious guitarist.
Pretty much a way to expend passion, and having something that is almost alive respond to your touch.
My friend’s farther, now deceased, was the front man, guitar player for a debutant orchestra. He played for the Queen of England 3 times. Anyways Ron taught me that playing the guitar is very much like making love to a woman. The idea is to start slow and lead to a frenzy.
After seeing Tommy Emanuel live at the Paramount here in Peekskill, a restored art-deco theater of about 1200 seats, I’m not so impressed by speed anymore.
Performing is more like sharing a journey…
Anyways this is the goal.
Cal
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Retro-Grouch
Veteran
If you're lucky, Peekskill won't gentrify. I've lived in several coastal communities in New England, and watched the process happen. Each time, the community became a hollow shell of itself; things got tidied up a bit, there was perhaps less crime, but any character and real sense of community disappeared. The houses were sold to wealthy Boston, NYC, or CT folks who spent two weeks of the summer there and then rented the houses out to tourists through Airbnb. Local businesses disappeared as everything was replaced by the usual generic tourist-oriented shops, restaurants, and galleries. No one knew anyone else, and the former lively mix of people was replaced by a homogenized upper middle class horde of Volvo drivers. But I remember going through Peekskill several times, and though I never experienced the community there, it looked like a hell of a nice place to live!