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Most people know something about Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens. After all, he wrote his most famous books while living in Hartford, Connecticut. His 25-room house on Farmington Avenue cost over $40,000 in 1874 dollars. Raised as a child in Missouri, he became world famous for his wit and humor both in print and on stage. But what if the man who served as Twain's butler for 17 years had a story that was just as powerful and gripping as Twain's? In today's episode we are going to meet that man, George Griffin. Twain scholar and collector Kevin MacDonnell's biographical sketch George Griffin: Meeting Mark Twain's Butler which provides the most comprehensive look into Griffin's life to date, and brings us face to face with the man who is said to have inspired Jim in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. George Griffin came to wash the windows in Mark Twain's new house in 1874 and stayed for seventeen years, taking on the position of butler, the highest-ranking employee in the household. A photograph of Griffin was discovered recently. It is the only known picture of the man who was also a prominent leader in Hartford's Black community, serving as deacon of Hartford's Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The guests in this episode are Dr. Camesha Scruggs, professor of history at Central Connecticut State University and Twain scholar Kevin MacDonnell. Dr. Scruggs received her PhD in history from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her current manuscript project is a further examination of how interventions from social, civic, government, secondary and higher education institutions impact the occupation of domestic service during the New Deal Era. She may be contacted at cscruggs@ccsu.edu Kevin MacDonnell earned his MLS at the University of Texas and serves on the editorial board of the Mark Twain Journal. He has contributed articles to the Mark Twain Encyclopedia (1993), co-edited Mark Twain and Youth, and has reviewed over fifty books for the Mark Twain Forum. His collection of more than 11,000 Mark Twain items--first editions, letters, photographs, archives, manuscripts, and artifacts--is the largest in private hands and is frequently shared with other scholars and museums. He gives frequent lectures on Twain and may be reached at info@macdonnellrarebooks.com Copies of The Mark Twain Journal featuring Kevin MacDonnell's biographical sketch George Griffin: Meeting Mark Twain's Butler Face-to-Face may be purchased from the Mark Twain House Museum Store for $12.00. The link to the journal in the museum shop is here: https://marktwainhousestore.org/products/mark-twain-journal-volume-62-number-1 You can also take a special tour of the Twain House. The George Griffin Living History Tour invites visitors to step back in time to the year 1885. The premise of the tour is that the Clemens family are looking to hire a new cook, and Mr. Griffin has been tasked with conducting the first round of interviews—after all, as the head of the domestic staff, he knows exactly the kind of temperament and skills needed to keep the house running. He leads visitors through each restored room of the house, and gives them his own experience of not only the domestic labor done in that space, but also the emotional labor that he must navigate daily as a formerly enslaved black man working in the house of a wealthy white family. And who is “G. G., Chief of Ordnance?” Find out for yourself when you take a Living History tour with George Griffin. ------------------------------------------------------- Can you spare $10 a month to help support Grating the Nutmeg? It's easy to set up a monthly donation on the Connecticut Explored website at ctexplored.org Click the donate button at the top and then look for the Grating the Nutmeg link. Subscribe to get your copy of Connecticut Explored magazine delivered to your mailbox or your inbox-subscribe at ctexplored.org. We've got issues coming up on food, celebrations and the environment with places you'll want to read about and visit. This episode of Grating the Nutmeg was produced by Mary Donohue and engineered by Patrick O'Sullivan at www.highwattagemedia.com/ Follow GTN on our Facebook, Instagram and Threads pages. You can find host and executive producer Mary Donohue on Facebook and Instagram: @WeHaSidewalkHistorian. Join us in two weeks for the next episode of Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history.
On this episode of On the Rocks, we sit down and get personal with multi-hyphenate performer and Emmy nominee Melora Hardin as we talk about her career that started in her childhood and includes appearances on The Office, Monk, Love Boat, Little House on the Prairie, we talk about her debut on Broadway and singing career, her directing, her art, her take on cancel culture and the evolution of women's representation in Hollywood, we also talk about Golden Vanity, the first ever one-women feature film now killing in at film festivals…with guest co-host social media maven George Griffin and your sassy host, Alexander Rodriguez. Raise a glass, it's On the Rocks!
George Griffin talks about his new Children's book, how the idea came to fruition and how Rugby League Cares have helped him get it published
This is the clip of my reaction to Lizzy George Griffin question to Abinader at Columbia University, to listen to the whole analysis of the Canal between the countries, historic facts, and current events, please listen to previous episode: HAITI DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CANAL CRISIS AND HISTORY/ ANALYSIS HUGE DISCLAIMER. THIS IS NOT AN ANTI HAITIAN ANALYSIS, IF YOU'RE HOPING FROM A RCIST, ANTI HAITIAN ANALYSIS, THIS IS NOT THE PLACE. The majority of the discussion around Haiti is often marked by rcism and colonialism. This episode was recorded live, you can listen to it in my podcast. SUBSCRIBE, COMMENT, AND SHARE! Exclusive content available on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/mangopodcast I'm also on Instagram, TikTok, and most podcast platforms. https://www.instagram.com/mangopodcast0/ https://www.tiktok.com/@mangopodcast0 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... https://open.spotify.com/show/0dDWtYA... Linktree https://linktr.ee/mangopod mangopodcast.com
Join Jake, Sherry & special guest host Billy Sanford to judge the Music Feeds the Soul contest! Entries can be found on embracethegrain.com if you want to follow along. It wasn't an easy choice… but Wendy Gunderson was the Grand Prize winner with her version of Elvis Costello's This Years Model cover. Special thanks to all the entries, Jack Bulkley, George Griffin, Larry Effler, Gabe Sachs and Jeff Greenstein for entering! Then Jake had to pick between Sherry and Billy… In segment two we chat about film labs and photo gear… Email: embracethegrainpodcast@gmail.com You can find us on IG at @bsanfordjr @sherrychristensensenphotography and @jakerosephoto FB: Embrace The Grain Photography Podcast Website: embracethegrain.com ko-fi.com/embracethegrainpodcast Into music by Sea Hero
In this On Location we're re-broadcasting a recent episode of the Flaneur on the Streets Podcast, hosted by George Griffin . . In this episode I chat with Jim Mortram about a new community project, Photo Print Day. How it came about and what Jim hopes will come of this project. Jim can be found at:- http://jamortram.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/JAMortram/ https://www.instagram.com/smalltowninertia/ Photo Print Day can be found at:- https://www.instagram.com/photoprintday/ https://twitter.com/PhotoPrintDay Tags for Photo Print Day @photoprintday #photoprintday Positive Fat Bass Intro Loop by WinnieTheMoog Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6093-positive-fat-bass-intro-loop License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Soft Vibes Logo Licence: The sound is permitted for non-commercial use under license “Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) http://www.orangefreesounds.com/
Last episode of February! Solo show with just Jake and Sherry… because we forgot the guest! Opps. Topics this episode are GAS… have we beat it or has it just morphed into something else? New Years Resolutions… kept or broken? Film Camera Swap Canada! Is a new FB group that you should check out. Voicemail from Jack Bulkley about 127 film and George Griffin of Flaneur On The Streets podcast about Photo Print Day. Next Film of The Month is Kentmere 100! Don't forget the deadline to get your album art in for Music Feeds The Soul ends soon… Billy Sanford will be helping us judge the contest as well as providing the fabulous prizes! Don't forget to join in the Music Feeds the Soul contest, details are found on our website. Email: embracethegrainpodcast@gmail.com You can find us on IG at @sherrychristensensenphotography and @jakerosephoto FB: Embrace The Grain Photography Podcast Website: embracethegrain.com ko-fi.com/embracethegrainpodcast Into music by Sea Hero
For full show notes and photos: www.allthroughalens.com On this episode, we talk to Angel O'brien, @5x7angel on IG, about her strange and beautiful self-portrait and collage work. We'll also be taking a long look at how Kodak advertised to women over a century ago – did they start a revolution or were they just along for the ride? Want a bit of advice? Well, Vania's on call for that; we've got the answering machine, zine reviews, some recommendations, and a whole slew of fun! Angel O'Brien: 5×7 Angel When we first saw Angel O'Brien's work, we really didn't know what to do with it. What were we looking at? It's a collage, but built around her self-portraits. And those self-portraits aren't really part of a logical reality. They're shifted and distorted, discolored and bent – but it all seems to be coming from a very centered place. Here is some of her work: IG: @5x7angel IG @5x7angel_thebuiltworld IG: @angelobrien.poet web: https://www.5x7angel.com/ Kodak Girls For women, this began to change in the 1870s. The suffragette movement had won for women the sense that men were more in the way than essential (though it had still not procured their right to vote). With the expansion of cities, the job market grew. And with more jobs than men to fill those jobs, women filled the positions. There were still gender norms, of course, but they were changing. What women could and couldn't do in society was shifting. Women were becoming independent. The new generation, especially those born following the Civil War in the 1860s, felt little need for the Victorian ways of their parents and grandparents. They came of age and into their 20s just as photography was about to make a dramatic shift from the stunningly complex to simple. And it was gender norms that would actually carve out a large share of this new photography for women. Here's a sampling of Kodak's Kodak Girl ads: Zine Reviews My Eye by David Fry – @frymanbandgb Memento Mori – Nunhead Cemetery by George Griffin – Etsy PATREON Thank you to everyone who supports us! Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes, extended interviews, early drops. Tons of stuff! patreon.com/allthroughalens THE CREDITS OF ENDING Music by Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers Vania: IG, Flickr, Zines Eric: IG, Flickr, Zines, ECN-2 Kits Tiffen: IG All Through a Lens: IG, Website, Patreon, Spotify Playlists
DiverCity Podcast: Talking Diversity and Inclusion in the Financial Services Industry
To kick off 2022 and Series 13, we celebrate the contribution of veterans. Host Julia Streets is joined by George Griffin, Customer Success Manager at Salesforce and Vice President of Vetforce, Michelle Osborne, Executive Director, Head of Emerging Talent and Military Veterans Affairs, JP Morgan Chase and David Wiseman, Grants & Programmes Director at the Invictus Games Foundation, Head of Programmes at the Royal Foundation and Co-Founder of Peak State: Mental Fitness. They discuss some of the common misconceptions around hiring veteran talent and from the wider military community and reflect on leadership attributes and the transferable skills which make valuable contributions to financial services organisations. Together they look at the importance of intersectionality, recruitment best practice, building networks and the value of the Armed Forces Covenant.
We're back with another episode of the Camerosity Podcast, but unlike other episodes, Episode 16 is our first ever European special in which we record at a different time to be more Europe-friendly, to give people in that region a chance to call in. Joined by first time callers, Alan Duncan, Peggy Marsh, Dominik Samol, George Griffin, and Warner Grandfield, and returning callers Bill Smith, Skip Williams, Malcolm Myers, and Miles Libak, Paul, Theo and I covered a wide range of topics, from the Purma Special, how to roll your own 127 film, the Berning Robot, why pentaprisms degrade, and a whole discussion on shutter speed dial designs. As always, the topics we discuss on the Camerosity Podcast are decided entirely upon you, so if you'd like to join us, be sure to look out for our next show announcement for Episode 17, which we will record at our normal time of 7pm CST (UTC -6), 8pm EST (UTC -5) on Monday, January 10th. This Week's Episode cameragocamera is not the same as gocamerago Canon Experiments with the Pellix and Canon EX After the Failure of the Canonflex Canon EF, Leica M5 and Other Cameras with Large Shutter Speed Dials That Overlap Fujicarex II SLR has Back Wheel Focus and Aperture Control Olympus OM SLRs and Nikkormat Shutter Speed Rings Around the Lens Mount Theo Buys a Topcon RE Super from Warner / Topcor 58mm f/1.4 Lens Skip Can't Decide Between the Nikon F, F2, or F3 / We Pick the FM2 Alan Hates the Canon EF-M / Manual Focus on Auto Focus Bodies / Nikon F70 and N70 The Canon DL-9000 and Other Trashcam/Scameras Mike's Worst Camera of All Time is the Konica AiBORG The Noblex 135U / Panolux Attachment Domink's Robot IIa with Tele-Finder 30-150mm / Paul Sold Anthony a Robot Royal 36 Robot Lenses and the Robot Stars Other 24mm Square Format Cameras, Zeiss Tenax II, Photavit, and early Altix Cameras George Has Been Using his Olympus OM10 for 38 Years / OM10s Are Good for Their Prisms Why Do Pentaprisms Degrade? / Why Was Foam Used? More Talk About the Olympus OM-10 Who Has Shot a Purma Special? How to Shoot 127 Cameras Today / Film Splicers / Bulk 46mm Film Skip Get's "Making Kodak Film" by Robert Shanebrook for Christmas Peggy's New Canonet / Canonet 19 Bill's Black Topcon RE2 Paul's Favorite Camera Store in Leeds What Did Everyone Get for Christmas? Show Notes If you would like to offer feedback or contact me with questions or ideas for future episodes, please contact us in the Comments Section below, our Camerosity Facebook Group or Instagram page, or email us at camerosity.podcast@gmail.com. The Official Camerosity Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/camerositypodcast Camerosity Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/camerosity_podcast/ Peggy Marsh - https://cameragocamera.com/ Alan Duncan - https://austerityphoto.co.uk/ Bill Smith - https://funwithcameras.blogspot.com/ George Griffin - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flaneur-on-the-streets/id1397646661 Theo Panagopoulos - https://www.photothinking.com/ Paul Rybolt - https://www.ebay.com/usr/paulkris
We start with an Intro Contest submission from George Griffin of the "Flaneur On The Streets" Podcast (IG flaneurwithacamera, IG flaneuronthestreets). This week our guest is Ethan Moses of Cameradactyl and the "Homemade Camera Podcast" (IG cameradactyl, www.cameradactyl.com, www.homemadecamera.com). He talks about his 20x24 camera project and his instant process with it. Support the future of this through his kickstarter at (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cameradactylmongoose/20x24-instant-pictures-in-los-angeles?fbclid=IwAR2r_La80eRNgpNDx9RS82gPuUGvUwCO_xK119qvyAUM4TeAO9_Snxxwbl0) and check out this article on Emulsive about it at (https://emulsive.org/articles/news/bringing-back-instant-20x24-photography-in-an-age-after-the-20x24-polaroid-with-cameradactyl?fbclid=IwAR20xBbPK2uFyq693xpEg255ZokraB1iG9ANCVOdA145TlL2C0LfprgcP_U ). We also talk about his photographer's jeans, his product design process, his thoughts on negativity towards his designs, developing a shutter issues, the worst thing he's made, can watch makers help the camera market, his next projects, how much coffee to make a camera, megapickles, action figures, podcasts, and his alter ego of Chad. Finally, we talk about old slide copiers as a solution for film scanning, temperature control on his 20x24 camera processing, the future of his 20x24 camera and what his future would be if the film bubble was to burst. Support the podcast: www.ko-fi.com/negativepositives Mike's free music for productions: www.mikegutterman.bandcamp.com get merch at: www.negativepositivespodcast.bigcartel.com email: negpositives@gmail.com Instagram @negativepositives Facebook Group: Negative Positives Film Photo Podcast Facebook Group
How do the COVID vaccines work? How do we prioritise recipients? What are the major decisions facing policymakers when executing a mass vaccination campaign -- and where can science help to advise them? George Griffin discusses these questions with Toby Wardman of SAPEA. We also discuss how to get jabs to developing countries, the origins of the anti-vax movement, and whether we should be worried about rare blood clots. Special thanks to Rúben Castro for technical help in producing this episode.
Enoy... George Griffin, on the streets podcast: https://anchor.fm/onthestreets Mike Gutterman, Negatives Positived podcast: https://anchor.fm/mikegutterman Rachel Brewster-Wright, Sunny 16 Podcast: https://sunny16podcast.com/ https://www.littlevintagephotography.co.uk/ Andrew Bartram, the lensless podcast: https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/jkfc6-68235/The-Lensless-Podcast Alex Purcel & Neil Piper, Soot and whitewash podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0ENiN8YyiBkCfriajJBJuW Matt Murray, matt loves cameras: https://mattlovescameras.com/ Alex Luyckx, Classic Camera Revival: https://classiccamerarevival.podbean.com/
Check out this weeks podcast here as we look back at the Grandfinal, interviews with Jake Bibby, George Griffin, Joey Lussick and Greg Burke. We have Watto in coaches corner. All the big news coming out this week including new signings, season tickets and more. We have Pauls amateur report and lots more too.
Check out this weeks podcast here as we look back at our famous win at Leeds, interviews with Greg Burke, Gil Dudson and George Griffin. We have Watto in coaches corner. All the big news coming from Salford Red Devils this week. We have the amateur report and a preview looking forward to Hull KR. We talk Getting fit. Super heros and Cartoons Join us here
Check out this weeks DITD podcast all your Salford Red Devils news, chat and more. Looking back at the challenge cup win against Rochdale. we have interviews with George Griffin, Josh Wood and Ian Watson in coaches corner. We have this weeks amateur report and a preview looking forward to Warrington away
Andre receives a darkroom print from Dan Novak, talks of resin coated photo papers vs. fibre based papers, Jennifer Zehner's Obscura Community Darkroom Kickstarter, Emulsive Secret Santa, and finally a call in camera review from George Griffin of the "On the Streets" podcast about the Canon EOS500N camera!
Kodak Ektachrome is shipping! Juan Alatorre sends some love to arm the APS Revival, Aaron Alfano emails an update on his Pentax K1000, Eric Hendrickson of www.pentaxs.com for Pentax repairs, Jennifer Zehner emails an update to her public darkroom effort in New Jersey called the Obscura Darkroom. Also, a question from George Griffin about what inspires you to shoot photography. This leads to discussion of photography as a creative outlet but also a way to document your life. How mundane daily photos may be more important in the future than photos of only your life's major moments. Dustin Cogsdell sends in his first of a series of "On the road camera reviews" about the Canon AE-1 Program. Finally, how print exchanges can motivate your photography and give a more human element to sharing your work.
Check out this weeks Show as we talk about Gaz obriens departure, look back at the Castleford defeat with Watto, Tyrone Mccarthy Greg Johnson and George Griffin we have all the big news including a supporter trust travel to Fridays game, volunteering opportunities and more. Finally we look forward to the game v Hull on Friday Tune in here
What a great podcast we have for your this week. Ryan Wilkinson. joins the boys to talk about all things Salford Red Devils, We look back at our great win v St Helens with Gaz Obrien, George GrIffin and Lami Tasi and Ian Watson in coaches corner, Review all the big stories of the week including the return of Robbie Hunter Paul. Paul Whiteside looks at what our amateur sides have been upto this week as we preview the mouth watering clash with Hull on Friday night
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What a great show we have for you this week. After our big win v Castleford we speak to pack stars Lee Mossop and Mark Flanagan about the victory, we have all the latest news coming from the club which includes our challenge cup tie with Toronto, Paul looks at what our amateur sides have been upto this weekend and to help us look forward to the Widnes game we speak to the star man Rob Lui and George Griffin ahead of the game.
And so here is the first of the extended podcasts relating to the 2010 Rab TGO Challenge. Sorry for the delay in launching it, however there has been a considerable amount of editing required to tell the story. Recorded this year by Andy and Shirley this first episode includes the travelling day and then starting out on day one. Included are conversations about routes, food, gear and emotions with Barbara Peers, Kate and Tim Wood, Graham Gofton, Ian Allister and Paul Astbury. George Griffin, Lou La Borwit and Phyllis La Borwit. Phil Turner, Chris and Graham Ball. Carl Oddy. David Kiernan, William Hinkamp. Angus McKinnon, Lee Wells and Tony Bowe. Charlie Coombs and Roy Cocker. Just a few of the Challenge stars who have shared their story with us as the whole experience unfolds before your very ears!