Thirteen Photos from the Haunted 1800s Hotel and Bordello Above Labold and Sons

On the square in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Photos by Danielle Labold and James Neighbors.

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Scenes from Tybee Island, GA

Photos taken by and including the Outlaw Amish of No Man's Land, KY...

At the Tybee Island Social Club

Lonesome Liz Music

Art inspired by the Spirit Bottles of the Gullah

Bottle photos by James Neighbors

More Lonesome Liz art: The Lonesome Liz Page

Old West Outlaws, Blogs from the Vault

Jesse James

The Killing of the Second Billy the Kid: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/11/killing-of-second-billy-kid-nov-14-1882.html

Big Nose Kate: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/10/big-nose-kate-doc-holidays-true-love.html

Big Nose Kate on Johnny Ringo: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/07/big-nose-kate-on-johnny-ringo.html

Link to the Diary of Mary Ringo: http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4550429029803812217#allposts/postNum=197

Billy Wilson, 'The Mystery Rustler' http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/04/more-from-hoodoo-and-lizzie-browns.html

J.J. Webb: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/11/more-from-hoodoo-lizzie-browns-dodge.html

Hoodoo Lizzie Brown: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/09/old-west-outlaws-lizzie-hoodoo-brown.html

Hoodoo Brown: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/09/old-west-outlaws-hoodoo-brown.html

The Shooting of Curly Bill: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/09/window-to-wild-west-shooting-of-curly.html


More at My Old West Page: http://outlawchronicles.blogspot.com/

Fine Art and Fashion, Blogs from the Vault

Molly Crabapple

Fine Art...

Twelve Saints and Sinners by Molly Crabapple: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/08/twelve-saints-and-sinners-by-molly.html

Paintings of Lucrezia Borgia and her lovers: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/06/more-art-and-love-paintings-of-loves-of.html and http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/06/more-paintings-of-lucrezia-borgia.html

Goya's Paintings of Maja: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/06/goyas-paintings-of-maja-andor-cayetana.html

Conversations with Psychedelic art icon Bob Masse: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/07/conversations-with-bob-masse.html

Fashion...

20 Reasons I Love Martin Margiela: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2012/05/20-reasons-i-love-martin-margiela.html

More Martin Margiela: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/07/more-martin-margiela.html and http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/07/from-runway-martin-margielas-cowboy.html

What the Witch of Endor Wore, Ancient Jewelry:  http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/11/what-witch-of-endor-wore-ancient.html

Photography and Film, Blogs from the Vault

La Castigleone

Photography...

Self portraits, Countess of Castigleone: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/11/self-portraits-of-scandelous-countess.html

Lonesome Liz and Katelan Foisy at Hubert Sumlin, Photos by Kate Black: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/06/nyc-photos-by-kate-black-at-hubert.html

Photos of Evelyn Nesbit: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/11/photos-of-evelyn-nesbit.html

Photos by Alphonse Mucha: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/11/photographs-by-alphonse-mucha.html

Helen Kane, the Real Life Betty Boop: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/08/helen-kane-real-life-betty-boop.html

Vanished New Orleans, Bellocq's Storyville: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/04/vanished-new-orleans-bellocqs.html

Film...


La Belle Otero: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/08/film-of-la-belle-otero-carolina-otero.html

Louise Brooks in 'Pandora's Box'  http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/05/amazing-silent-film-louise-brooks-in.html

Expressionist Film by Melies:

Le Chauchemar  http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/04/georges-melies-le-cauchemar.html

Une Nuit Terrible:  http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/04/une-nuit-terrible-georges-melies.html

The Magician:  http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/04/georges-melies-magician-1898.html

Poetry and Quotes, Blogs from the Vault

Poems...

Three by Jack Kerouac http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/05/beat-poetry-kerouac.html

One by Burroughs: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/05/beat-poetry-william-s-burroughs.html

Bob Dylan, 'Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie': http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/07/happy-birthday-woody-guthrie-with.html

Walpurgis Night, Ogden Nash's 'Tale of the Thirteenth  Floor': http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/04/ogden-nashs-tale-of-thirteenth-floor.html

T. S. Elliot, 'Preludes': http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/11/my-favorite-by-t-s-elliot-preludes.html

'The Emperor of Ice Cream' http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/11/emperor-of-ice-cream-wallace-stevens.html and 'Sunday Morning' by Wallace Stevens

Favorite Poems by Thomas Hardy: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/06/my-favorite-poems-by-thomas-hardy-happy.html

My Poetry... http://lonesomelizpage.blogspot.com/p/poetry.html

Quotes...

Black Bart, Outlaw Poet: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/10/black-bart-outlaw-poet.html

Cowboy Sayings: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/10/cowboy-sayings.html

American Proverbs: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/08/american-proverbs.html

Famous Last Words: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2012/01/famous-last-words.html

'I Dressed up for Rock & Roll' - 30 Things Said by Pre-Schoolers: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2011/11/i-dressed-up-for-rock-and-roll-top-30.html

Quotes in the Spirit of James Dean: http://blog.gratefulweb.net/2010/09/rip-james-dean-quotes-in-honor-of.html

Things I Love Thursday

Inspired by Gala Darling http://www.galadarling.com

Assateague Island's wild ponies...

Making things with shells and rose petals...

Train whistles and clock chimes through rain...

The Threepenny Opera, Brecht/Weill Style...

Alabama Song before the Doors: 

The Beat Poets... all of them

Charlie Plymell

The Town Behind the Land of the Outlaw Amish: Photos by James Neighbors

My friend and fellow actor James Neighbors has taken these remarkable photos of the quaint little place I live in. He even took one of me writing...

We have a little square:

with a fountain...

and statues:

We have frescoes and reliefs:

and not only  ivy covered houses:

but a log cabin:

Jesse James hid out not in the cabin, as might be expected, but in a cave just up the road:

There is another fountain

atop a scenic and historic hill. It has a panoramic vista:

The vista is in front of this amazing auditorium, (I stage managed a play Jim was in here):

We have a marvelous clock that chimes:

and an antique Railpark, (with baggage unclaimed for a century), 

where I sang songs and read The Elves and  the Shoemaker for children,

including not Amish but Mennonites, at Christmas time:

The square is filled with cute little shops and another chiming clock:

and one uber-uber cool hip store:

Sometimes vicious storms attack us:

Sometimes we drink coffee:

sometimes we find ourselves pastry-less:

I am occasionally caught writing in public:

...and magnolias. We have lots of magnolias.

Songs to Remember Doc Watson By

Lonesome Liz's Top Ten Weekend Movies

This fabulous, long weekend, anyway. Not necessarily in this order; though, it's the order that occurred to me. I love them all:

1. Twelve Monkeys

2. Gattica

3. Tombstone

4. The Game

5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

6. The Last Waltz

7. Skeleton Key

8.  The Village

9. Immortal Beloved 

10. Catch Me If You Can

Extra Bonus: The Gift. Haven't seen it yet but think I will.

The Trail of Tears

Cherokee in Ceremonial Dress, 1800s
image source: 

http://www.nchumanities.org/programs/road-scholars/cherokee-ceremonial-practices-1800s

My Father's Grandmother was full Cherokee and I was very sad to discover, upon arriving in Dalton, GA en route back to the Land of the Outlaw Amish from the Lowlands, that this was where the Cherokee's Trail of Tears started. For those of you who don't know, that was the forced removal of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, among others from their homeland. At the time, Dalton didn't exist yet as a town of course, it was a trade crossroads called Cross Plains.  The Choctaw were the first to be removed, the Cherokee here in Dalton in 1838. 4,000 of the 15,000 'relocated' Cherokee died on the way to the 'Indian Territory'.

We have then President Andrew Jackson and his Indian Removal Act, (1830) to thank for the atrocity.  "To this day, many Cherokees when given a twenty dollar bill as change, will refuse it and ask for two ten dollar bills instead, as they do not wish to carry the painful memory of the past when looking at the face of Andrew Jackson who appears on the twenty dollar bill. " from Georgia Cherokees and the Rest of the Story by Robert Jenkins http://dalton150th.com/1860.html

The march was 1,000 miles and was undertaken, to the greater part, barefoot. They were, additionally, given used blankets from a Tennessee Hospital where smallpox had broken out. A Georgia soldier said it was the cruelest thing he'd ever seen, (Wikki).

What was a primary motivator for such inhumanity? Gold had been discovered in Georgia.

In Cherokee language it is called Nu na da ul tsun yi - "the Place Where They Cried".