Date: 1894
Technique: Choarcoal on paper
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Félicien Rops, The Hanged Man (Le Pendu)
Date: 1867
Technique: Etching
Illustration for The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak by Charles de Coster.
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What was there before Whole Foods?
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| 2011 Google Maps aerial view of the corner of Myrtle and Broadway |
The concrete slabs, which are now under the Whole Foods building, were once part of the headquarters for the Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company. From the 1930s to the 1970s, M-K operated a worldwide civil engineering and construction management firm from this location.
Harry Morrison, president of the company, was a big supporter of Boise Junior College and an original trustee. In the photo below, the B.J.C marching band, directed by John Best (center in white), thank Mr. Morrison (on the right) as part of Harry Morrison Appreciation Day – November 5th, 1958. In the background is M-K headquarters and current location of Whole Foods. From this angle, Broadway Avenue is just behind the machine shop.
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| Harry W. Morrison Appreciation Day |
It remained vacant until 2011, when construction began on Whole Foods and Walgreens. Find more photos of the B.J.C. marching band, Harry Morrison, and the 1950s at Historic Boise State.
Jim Duran,
Special Collections
Women's Leadership in the U.S. Congress and the AVMA's House of Delegates: Exploring Parallels and Looking Forward
By Julie Kumble*, Guest Author
with Donald F. Smith, Cornell University
Posted November 28, 2012
What was particularly fascinating to us is how closely the gender distribution in the 113th Congress will approximate the number of women representatives in the House of Delegates (HOD) of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA).
The HOD is the AVMA's principal governing body and consists of 52 delegates, one from each state including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico; plus 14 members from professional associations like the specialty, species and career-based organizations. For each delegate, an alternate is also a sitting member of the House.
Only delegates (not alternates) can vote within the HOD, and their votes are weighted proportionate to the population of their respective states. For example, California has 47 weighted votes and Texas has 41. At the other end of the population scale, Wyoming and Vermont have four and five weighed votes, respectively. The allied groups each have two weighted votes.
The proportions of women in the HOD and in Congress are entirely consistent with other sectors, from academia to business to politics, where women hold only an average of 18% of the top leadership positions. However, women earn 57% of college degrees, with most of the gains above 50% being achieved in the last decade. Women have been more numerous that men in veterinary colleges since the early 1980s, and have earned over 80% of veterinary degrees for almost 20 years.
Experts recommend a minimum of 30% women for leadership positions in any sector to achieve a critical mass where women’s roles become part of the norm of that sector. The Wellesley Center
Dr. Karen Bradley is the current HOD delegate from Vermont
with Donald F. Smith, Cornell University
Posted November 28, 2012
As veterinarians watched the election returns on November 6th, most eyes were on the top of the ticket or on specific congressional, state or local races. However, something else was happening as the election of women to Congress reached historic proportions. For the first time, the Senate will have 20 women (an increase of three), and the House of Representatives will reach 17% women.
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| Julie Kumble, guest author |
Only delegates (not alternates) can vote within the HOD, and their votes are weighted proportionate to the population of their respective states. For example, California has 47 weighted votes and Texas has 41. At the other end of the population scale, Wyoming and Vermont have four and five weighed votes, respectively. The allied groups each have two weighted votes.
This graph shows the gender proportions in the newly-elected 113th Congress compared to the 2012-13 HOD. We further segmented the data in the first two columns for those HOD delegates and alternates who are state representatives (104 total) from the total number of delegates and alternates that includes those representing other organizations (134 total).
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Percentages of Women and Men in the 113th US Congress and in the AVMA's House of Delgates |
The proportions of women in the HOD and in Congress are entirely consistent with other sectors, from academia to business to politics, where women hold only an average of 18% of the top leadership positions. However, women earn 57% of college degrees, with most of the gains above 50% being achieved in the last decade. Women have been more numerous that men in veterinary colleges since the early 1980s, and have earned over 80% of veterinary degrees for almost 20 years.
The following graph shows the relative age distribution of delegates and alternate delegates for the HOD, using graduating year as an rough proxy for age. The mean year-of-graduation for each cohort is shown on the y-axis. For example, the mean year-of-graduation for all HOD delegates is 1979 (33 years ago). For women, the mean year-of-graduation is 26 years ago (1986). Male delegates on the other hand are older, with their mean year of graduation being 35 years ago (1977).
Not surprisingly, the alternates who represent the more recently-appointed HOD members are more likely to be younger. That age difference is seen in men as well as women.
Not surprisingly, the alternates who represent the more recently-appointed HOD members are more likely to be younger. That age difference is seen in men as well as women.
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| Distribution of House of AVMA's House of Delegates by Year of Graduation |
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| Karen Bradley, DVM Delegate and Chair, House Advisory Committee |
She comments: "How states and allied groups identify HOD members varies greatly. Some states have many people waiting in line for their turn as a delegate, and others have to seek out people for the position. Some states even have a formal election from their membership. Though the Manual of the House of Delegates states that the term for delegates and alternates is four years, there is no limit to the number of terms imposed by the Bylaws nor the Manual. Without term limits, delegates can remain in office for decades.
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Looking ahead and considering the changing demographics in our profession, we will do well to encourage more women to run as delegates, to mentor younger female veterinarians and encourage them to take on leadership roles, and to serve as role model to other professions by striving to achieve and surpass the critical mass point of 30% in the House of Delegates.Dr. Smith invites comments at dfs6@cornell.edu
Easthampton, Massachusetts 01027. She can be reached at juliek@womensfund.net.
Photo credits:
Julie Kumble's photo provided by Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts
Karen Bradley's photo provided by the American Veterinary Medical Association
Photo credits:
Julie Kumble's photo provided by Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts
Karen Bradley's photo provided by the American Veterinary Medical Association
Karl Pavlovich Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii
State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg (Государственный Русский музей)
Date: 1830-33
Technique: Oil on canvas, 465.5 x 651 cm
Bryullov visited the site of Pompeii in 1828, making numerous sketches depicting the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption. The completed canvas was exhibited in Rome to rapturous reviews of critics and thereafter transported to Paris to be displayed in the Louvre. The first Russian artwork to cause such an interest abroad, it gave birth to an anthologic poem by Alexander Pushkin, and inspired the hugely successful novel The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who saw it in Rome. Another British author, Sir Walter Scott declared that it was not an ordinary painting but an epic in colours.
The topic is classical, but Bryullov's dramatic treatment and generous use of chiaroscuro render it farther advanced from the neoclassical style. In fact, The Last Day of Pompeii exemplifies many of the characteristics of Romanticism as it manifests itself in Russian art, including drama, realism tempered with idealism, increased interest in nature, and a zealous fondness for historical subjects.
The commissioner, Prince Anatole Demidov, donated the painting to Nicholas I of Russia who displayed it at the Imperial Academy of Arts for the instruction of young painters. To present the painting to a wider audience the canvas was transferred to the Russian Museum for the museum's opening in 1895.
Bryullov included a self portrait in the upper left corner of the painting, under the steeple, one of the several foci in the picture, but not easy to identify.
Bryullov’s monumental historical painting The Last Day of Pompeii (1827) brought him the greatest acclaim during his lifetime.
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Driving with my Dog to Alaska: The Road Home
By Donald F. Smith, Cornell University
Posted November 27, 2012
Five years ago my dog, Beau, and I drove from our home in upstate New York to Alaska and back. The first 15 installments can be found by clicking the "Traveling with Beau" link on the upper right-hand corner of the Home Page. My wife, Doris, flew into Anchorage and joined us for 10 days.
Doris flew out of Anchorage on September 3rd, on the last direct Chicago flight of the season. The following day, American Airlines would be rerouting its Chicago plane to San Juan, yet another indication that the north is ephemeral and relatively isolated especially in the winter months.Five years ago my dog, Beau, and I drove from our home in upstate New York to Alaska and back. The first 15 installments can be found by clicking the "Traveling with Beau" link on the upper right-hand corner of the Home Page. My wife, Doris, flew into Anchorage and joined us for 10 days.
After leaving the airport, Beau and I retraced our path from Anchorage through Palmer and the Wrangell Mountains to Tok, where we spent our last night in Alaska. We had barely reached Tok when my daughter called with the news that my 89-year-old mother had fallen at a bus stop in Toronto and broken her hip. My plans for a circuitous trip back through the northern Yukon and then south through British Columbia changed, and we headed home by a more direct route, even including the interstate after we reached the United States south of Winnipeg, Manitoba four days later.
We left Tok very early on our second morning and soon crossed the border back into Canada. Though much of the scenery was familiar, the days are much shorter now and the higher elevations in the Yukon were snow-covered.
On our way through Beaver Creek ten days earlier, I had noticed more than the usual roadside advertising for Buckshot Betty's Restaurant and Cabins. Though I'm not one for silly local fork lore, we were both in need of a breakfast break, so I pulled onto the spacious gravel apron and parked between two large RV's, each with miniature dogs barking at Beau through the closed windows.
I entered a cozy breakfast nook already inhabited by a large table overflowing with a dozen or more people with plates spilling over with pancakes, eggs and sausage. I patiently waited by the door for at least five minutes -- I didn't want to sit down until invited to do so -- when from the kitchen burst a larger than life person who could only be Betty herself, balancing another half dozen plates in one hand and two coffee pots in the other. She ordered me to sit down in the most colorful language I"d heard all trip, and reinforced her admonition with something about her not being my mother. When I told her I wanted takeout because a had my dog in the car, she replied without hesitation to "bring the mutt inside."
Beau and I had a delightful time with Betty, especially after the RV's left and it was just she and her assistant with the two of us. She is a legend in these parts and, as we left, she tucked a copy of the CD, "The Ballad of Buckshot Betty", under my arm.
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| 'Buckshot Betty' and Beau in Beaver Creek, Yukon. |
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| Red fox along the Alaskan highway in the Yukon. |
As I walked back to the jeep, I saw the lights reaching from the expanse of the northwest and hovering almost above me. The multi-colored aurora was visible for the next two hours, so brilliant and beautiful that we stopped several times so I could marvel at the wonder of it all.
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| Proprietor of the Kluane Museum of Natural History in Burwash Landing, with Beau |
I met another long-timer at the 95-person hamlet of Burwash Landing at milepost 1093 on the Alaskan Highway. We were the sole patrons of the quaint Kluane Museum of Natural History with its interesting taxidermy collection complete with a standing polar bear that stretched to an imposing ten-feet in height. The proprietor, a caustic young man with long hair and beard told me he was originally from Toronto. "How did you get up here?", I asked. "By Greyhound!" was his curt answer, and the conversation deteriorated from there.
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| An hour-long wait along the southern stretches of Kluane Lake due to blasting associated with new construction. |
Patience is a must requirement for travel on the Alaska Highway whether encountering long sections of road with pot holes the size of boulders, or extensive delays due to construction and the never-ending maintenance associated with extreme frost upheaval that occurs during the long winter months.
Almost two weeks earlier I had met truck-driver Jon at near the beginning of the Alaskan Highway. He warned me to drive carefully, especially around wild animals. "Don't drive like dumb-shit", he had said. Jon's words were prophetic on the evening of my second return day when I encountered a black bear sow and three small cubs. One of the cardinal rules is to never leave your vehicle to approach wild animals, and to beware of oncoming traffic.
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| Black Bear Sow and her Three Cubs in Northern British Columbia |
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| One of the three curious cubs beside the Alaska Highway |
As I was pulling over the right shoulder, facing east, a robust family of about eight tourists were piled out of a large van just ahead of me. Three of them spilled out onto the road, within ten yards of the sow, and incredulously, two more fumbled around in the back of the van pulling out tripods and cameras. Just as the pair with the cameras started across the road towards the bears, an enormous blast from a 28-wheeler erupted behind our jeep and an accelerating driver swept his rig past us, barreling down the middle of the road and barely missing the tourists. The sow kept on munching grass and inching her brood further down the ditch beside the road as the undeterred visitors set up their tripod and snapped pictures.
The remainder or the trip was relatively uneventful and I was visiting my mother -- she had returned to her assisted-care facility several days earlier -- ten days after leaving Anchorage. Beau and I stayed in Toronto two more days and then returned to Ithaca.
Beau's behavior was no different from the many other times he had returned home from a long trip. As we neared our home, he sat up, started to whine and jiggle all over. His tail flapped loudly against the jeep's seat and he dashed from the driver's side as soon as I opened the door. Around and around the lawn he ran then bounded in the house as Doris opened the front door to greet him. After his hugs from her, he was back outside, sniffing new smells for deer and squirrels throughout the property. Then, as is his ritual, he raced around the house again, this time stopping at the water dish for a few noisy laps. Within half an hour, he was stretched out on his favorite chair, sound asleep and snoring softly.
After gassing and cleaning the jeep, I returned it to the Avis at the Ithaca airport the following morning. Thirty-five days and 10,049 miles after leaving Ithaca with my boy.
Epilogue:
It has been five years since our Alaska trip. Beau turned 16 on election day, 2012, and is still a wonderful and easy traveler. My days as veterinary dean behind me, I rejoined the faculty and continue to teach and now do research and write on the history of veterinary medicine and its impact on the future of the profession. I have given several talks about our trip to various groups, encouraging people to be more attuned to the human-animal bond and more receptive to exploring life and this great country with our dogs and other pets.
Dr. Smith invites comments at dfs6@cornell.edu
Paul Fürst (?), Doctor Beak of Rome (Doctor Schnabel von Rom)
Date: c. 1656
Technique: Copper engraving
The plague doctor's costume was the clothing worn by a plague doctor to protect him from airborne diseases. The costume consisted of an ankle length overcoat and a bird-like beak mask often filled with sweet or strong smelling substances (commonly lavender), along with gloves, boots, a brim hat and an outer over-clothing garment.
Straps held the beak in front of the doctor's nose. The mask had glass openings for the eyes and a curved beak shaped like that of a bird. The mask had two small nose holes and was a type of respirator which contained aromatic items. The beak could hold dried flowers (including roses and carnations), herbs (including mint), spices, camphor or a vinegar sponge. The purpose of the mask was to keep away bad smells, which were thought to be the principal cause of the disease in the miasma theory of infection, before it was disproved by germ theory. Doctors believed the herbs would counter the "evil" smells of the plague and prevent them from becoming infected.
The beak doctor costume worn by plague doctors had a wide brimmed leather hood to indicate their profession. They used wooden canes to point out areas needing attention and to examine patients without touching them. The canes were also used to keep people away, to remove clothing from plague victims without having to touch them, and to take a patient's pulse.
Wearing these clothes actually helped to prevent getting infected by a diseased flea or a rat. Fleas could not bite through the leather jacket and infected people could not touch the doctor, also because of his leather jacket.
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Pedro Berruguete, Burning of the Heretics (Auto-da-fé)
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Date: c. 1500
Technique: Oil on panel, 154 x 92 cm
Berruguete lived during the last years of the reconquista when those sentenced to be burned at the stake were mostly Moors who had been converted to Christianity but who were suspected of practicing Mohammedanism in secret. Berruguete witnessed the death of these heretics and this painting faithfully illustrates the manner in which the sentences imposed by the Inquisition were enforced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries: he records the half reprieve granted to penitents, the throttling that preceded burning and even the pointed hats worn by those condemned to do penance.
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La Boca
To our friends at La Boca.... I did not forget about you. The day after our November 15 Coffee Crawl Lou and I, Liz and Rebecca left for a little vacation to Hermanus and Cape Agulas to bid farewell for the year to the Southern Right Whales as they pass the South African coast on their annual migration to the Antarctic waters. We returned from our Western Cape respite just in time to celebrate Thanksgiving. Now, here I sit with the weekend well upon us and the La Boca post way past due.
I first heard about La Boca right after it opened a few months ago from a customer at Refresh (Sept, 2012 post) when we were at that shop for the Crawl. La Boca got placed on the ever-growing list of coffee shops to visit, and shortly afterward Vicki did a reconnaissance mission to check it out. The circa 1896 structure, previously housing the Willet & Co chemist and which now La Boca calls home, is situated on the corner of Clyde and Lawrence Streets in Central. It took owner Garth Metrovich nine months to renovate the building and turn it into his dream coffee shop/artisan bakery/deli/confectioner/bistro which he named after the La Boca suburb of Buenos Aires where he lived some time ago. A fun eclectic decor reaches into the various rooms of the building. Seating about twenty customers apiece, each small room has its own flavor, creating the feel of many small coffee shops within the larger whole. The outside area has a number of picnic tables and features a pretty walkway, shade trees and a koi pond.
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| Meet the Owner Garth Metrovich |
Our November 15 Crawl group, Colleen Le Roux, Margaret Zoetmulder, Stella and Beryl Dawson, Fran and Mandy de Beer, Gail Darne, Beth Vieira, Vicki Minnaar, Kathy Roppel, Nomusa Nkomo, and my daughter, Liz, decided to take advantage of the gorgeous weather and chose to sit outside. It was a beautiful setting for the Crawl. Our second-day-on-the-job waiter, Donnay, kept right on top of things as he served the cake and La Boca Brand coffee Special (only R25!) to everyone (whose diets would start the next week). Barista Alvin did a great job with the coffee and tea beverages.
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| Meet the Barista Alvin |
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| Meet our Waiter Donnay |
La Boca offers breakfast, lunch, pastries, and hot/cold beverages, and the menu proudly states, "We only support local organic farmers." Most noted by the Crawlers were the excellent prices for all the selections on the menu. La Boca is open Mon - Fri, 7:30 - 5, Sat, 7:30 - 4-ish, closed on Sunday. Seating is available for up to seventy people.
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| This Week's Crawlers Mandy, Kathy, Liz, Beth, Vicki, Stella, Donnay, Fran, Colleen, Margaret, Beryl, Gail |
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| The under ? Crowd Mandy, Liz, Nomusa |
Now, my daughter, Liz, and her friend, Rebecca, have been in PE for the past few months volunteering at various places in town. Talk at the table on Crawl Day centered around their experiences, especially on the couple of days a week they spend at SAMREC (South African Marine Rehabilitation and Education Centre, and home of the Flying Penguin Cafe - March, 2012 post). Liz regaled us with stories of feeding and caring for the penguins. She has come to recognize each "patient" at the rehab centre by name! Her most priceless comment as her rapt audience hung on her every word, "It's not that bad getting pooped on by birds." Well, this brought back to all of us fond memories of our Bird Street Coffee Shop visit (March, 2012 post) when Margaret was dumped on by a low-flying feathered friend..... wasn't that bad, right Margaret?
That story got us reminiscing about other "Crawl bloopers" that we've experienced..... memories we will all cherish!!! Makes me want to go back and read some of the old posts.
~Thank you to Garth and the La Boca staff
~Good luck with your new job, Donnay!
~Belated Thanksgiving wishes to my friends and family in the U.S.
~Happy Birthday to Sean in Washington, DC - November 26
Until next week,
Ellen
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| I just really love this pic! |
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| Fran enjoying her Last Hoorah before the diet starts! |
Social Explorer
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The Boise State campus community now has access to an amazing historical and current time demographics tool!
Social Explorer contains over 18,000 maps, and millions of data elements that span 220 years. The interactive mapping tools help students and faculty to create infographics that depict a time period and place to help better understand the period.
This tool can be used by any Boise State student, staff or faculty member. This video will show you the basics on how to create a map or infographic and save, share, and use it! This will impact your presentations, reports, and papers.
The content includes:
- Current and historical demographic data
- The entire US Census from 1790 to 2010
- All annual updates from the American Community Survey (from 2005 to 2010)
- All annual updates from the American Community Survey
- InfoGroup data on religious congregations for the United States for 2009, including maps for counties, and special census areas, as well as point maps of the actual congregation locations (to be updated yearly)
- The Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS) from 1980 to 2000. (To be updated in 2012.)
- Carbon Emissions Data for 2002 from the Vulcan Project
- Creates thematic and interactive maps that make it easy to visually explore all historical and modern US census data across the centuries and even down to street level detail where available.
- Creates reports at all geographic levels including the state, county, census tract, block group, zip code and census place (where the data exist).
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974
Want to find primary source material from The Sixties? Albertsons Library recently purchased a new database containing letters from activists, the New Left, newsletter, photographs, and other incredible content that helps explain this era. The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974. This database documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America with 150,000 pages of rich and complex original materials.
Research freedom rides, sit-ins, the draft, the Equal Rights Amendment, Earth Day, the Free Speech Movement, the Stonewall riots, Woodstock, the Summer of Love, the Space Race.
The materials in this database can be used in many courses and students will enjoy the rich and engaging content.
Search the database, and find some gems today! Everyone with a Broncoweb username and password has access to this resource. If you need help, contact us! Help is available 24 hours a day.
The Life of a Rodeo Queen
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| Snake River Stampede Queen, 1959 |
What do rodeos, cooking, and Christian romances all have in common? They are all major parts of the life of Donna Fletcher Crow. Born in 1941, Crow graduated from Northwest Nazarene College in 1964 with a B.A. in Language and Literature. She married Stan Crow and taught high school English, literature, and creative writing in Boise and Nampa.
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| "Making Choices" novel, 1987. |
Crow authored “The Frantic Mother Cookbook,” which contains sections for the variety of cooking needs: lunchbox, Sunday dinner, ladies luncheon, Sunday school, bedtime snacks, family picnic, and “Luncheon for my Mother.” These include recipes but also personal commentary and stories. Crow was an experienced hostess and enjoyed entertaining in her home, such as gourmet club, worship studies, tea parties, and mystery dinners.
As a teenager, Crow entered and won rodeo queen contests. She was the 1959 Snake River Stampede queen and Miss Rodeo Idaho. While competing in the Miss Rodeo America contest, she said, “I think Rodeo is one of the greatest and leading sports in America today.”
So how do we know all this about Donna Fletcher Crow? Because she donated her papers to Special Collections and Archives. Her collection includes scrapbooks, photographs, ticket stubs, articles, drafts of her writings, correspondence, diaries, and other material she saved throughout her life. The guide to her collection is online: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv29232/.
Julius Sergius von Klever, Erlkönig
Date: c. 1887
Technique: Unknown
Der Erlkönig (often called just Erlkönig) is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It depicts the death of a child assailed by a supernatural being, the Erlking or "Erlkönig". It was originally composed by Goethe as part of a 1782 Singspiel entitled Die Fischerin.
An anxious young boy is being carried home at night by his father on horseback. To what sort of home is not spelled out; German Hof has a rather broad meaning of "yard" or "courtyard". The Hof has been presumed to be a farmyard, although the long form Bauernhof would typically be used (in prose) to clarify this sense. The lack of specificity of the father's social position allows the reader to imagine the details.
As the poem unfolds, the son seems to see and hear beings his father does not; the father asserts reassuringly naturalistic explanations for what the child sees – a wisp of fog, rustling leaves, shimmering willows. Finally the child shrieks that he has been attacked. The father makes faster for the Hof. There he recognizes that the boy is dead.
One story has it that Goethe was visiting a friend when, late one night, a dark figure carrying a bundle in its arms was seen riding past the gate at great speed. The next day Goethe and his friend were told that they had seen a farmer taking his sick son to the doctor. This incident, along with the legend, is said to have been the main inspiration for the poem.
One may suppose the boy is simply feverish, delirious, and in need of medical attention. The poem itself leaves the question open.
The story of the Erlkönig derives from Danish folk tales, and Goethe based his poem on "Erlkönigs Tochter" ("Erlkönig's Daughter"), a Danish work translated into German by Johann Gottfried Herder. It appeared as "The Elf King's Daughter" in his collection of folk songs, Stimmen der Völker in Liedern (published 1778). Niels Gade's cantata Elverskud opus 30 (1854, text by Chr. K. F. Molbech) was published in translation as Erlkönigs Tochter.
The Erlkönig's nature has been the subject of some debate. The name translates literally from the German as "Alder King" rather than its common English translation, "Elf King" (which would be rendered as Elfenkönig or Elbenkönig in German). It has often been suggested that Erlkönig is a mistranslation from the original Danish elverkonge, which does mean "king of the elves."
In the original Scandinavian version of the tale, the antagonist was the Erlkönig's daughter rather than the Erlkönig himself; the female elves or elvermøer sought to ensnare human beings to satisfy their desire, jealousy and lust for revenge.
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