Friday Fotos - Sunrise at Plymouth Harbor

Today's pictures are from another Plymouth Digital Photographers club Meetup.  On Saturday, March 24, eleven club members met at the Plymouth Harbor at 6:00 AM.  Although it was a cold morning, the sunup did not disappoint.  We had about an hour to shoot before the sun got too high.  All of the pictures below are color, but the time of day and the angle of the sun make many seem black and white.  I like the reflections on the water and the waves.  Hope you enjoy.

Looking east, the Easterly is the ship on the right

Looking north, a little overexposed

 

Looking north, the Easterly is the ship on the right

Time warp portal?

Clouds were beautiful on this morning

I liked the sun light reflecting off the water in this nearly black & white photo

Sunlight shining through the pilings, another nearly black and white composition

Slips are in the water waiting for the summer boats

Mumblings - Francis Osman and Elizabeth Ann (Farnum) Dewey

Francis Osman Dewey (9^th generation)

Francis Osman Dewey was born in Berlin, VT on June 20, 1823 and died on February 16, 1897 at Reading, MA.  He married Elizabeth Ann Farnum on August 5, 1845 at Brighton, MA.  Elizabeth was born in Mt. Vernon, NH on June 4, 1825 and died in Reading, MA on January 15, 1889.  She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Robbins) Farnum.  Francis, Elizabeth and many of their descendants are buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery (in web link, find "Dewey" in last name search criteria) in Reading, MA.

Dewey Grave Laurel Hill Cemetery, Reading, MA

Francis O. and Elizabeth A. Dewey Grave

Francis was educated at Montpelier Academy, VT.  He moved to South Reading, now Wakefield, in 1841, where he worked for five years in the employ of Mr. Burrage Yale a tinsmith.  [“Burrage Yale of Reading, Massachusetts sought to hire peddlers … from 1823 to 1844.”]  Francis is listed as a (tin) “peddler” in the marriage registry for the city of Brighton, MA (Aug. 7, 1845).  Upon leaving the employ of Yale, he moved to Brighton, MA and started his own business, "F.O. Dewey & Sons," that sold lamps, lanterns and supplies for mills and railroads throughout New England, Canada, and the British Provinces.  "F.O. Dewey & Sons" was located at 28 Canal and 29 Merrimac Streets in Boston, MA.  His sons Edgar and Frank H. worked with him.  Francis is listed in American Silversmiths as a pewter smith and silver plater in Boston MA.  F.O. Dewey & Sons went out of business in 1922.

F.O. Dewey Business Post Card

F.O. Dewey & Sons Lanterns

Francis and son Frank H. Dewey held several U.S. Patents which brought fire safety features to lanterns: 


    Wick scraping attachment, US Patent 315256, Apr. 7, 1885
    Safety attachment for lanterns, US Patent 319799, June 9, 1885
    Lamp holder, US Patent 474082, May 3, 1892
    Safety Device for lanterns, US Patent 611858, Oct. 4, 1898



Francis moved to Reading, MA on May 12, 1863 and resided at 176 Summer Ave., Reading, MA.  He was a trustee of the Reading Savings Bank and was named to the first Reading Board of Cemetery Trustees March 7, 1870.

Francis Osman Dewey House, 176 Summer Ave., Reading, MA

Elizabeth Ann (Farnum) Dewey ancestry traces back to Ralph Farnum of Andover, MA. Ralph, his wife Alice, and children Mary, Thomas, and Ralph* came to the U.S. on the ship the James in 1635.  The James was part of Winthrop's fleet. Ralph Sr. and Ralph Jr. are another family connection to the Salem Witchcraft Trials as they testified against Mary Tyler.  Mary Tyler was found not guilty of witchcraft.

Francis and Elizabeth had six children:

Edgar Osman (1846 – 1890)*

Ella (1848 – 1849)

Francis Henry (1850 – 1920)

Charles Herbert (1853 – 1892)

Sarah Livermore (1856 – 1907)

Isabella Perley (1857 – 1941)

Friday Fotos

The Plymouth Digital Photography club challenge for March was "Do you see abstract?"  The instructions were:

    "An abstract emphasizes lines, colors, geometrical forms, shapes etc., and their relationship to one another. Your subject does not need to be clearly identified; you should be more concerned with good design. When deciding what to photograph, look for the play of light and shadow, and consider things like selective focus and details of objects when you view them up close. You can find your abstract in nature, architecture, tools, urban and rural areas." 

I don't know if the following quite fits this definition, but I had fun modifying some recent photos and processing them in ways to create different ways to view the photo.  Below, I show the original untouched photo then follow it with a photo processed version of that photo.

(Boring) Winter Picture of Rocks

Cropped the Rock Picture and "Liquified" Different Parts of the Picture - Now the Rocks Look Like a Flower?

(Self Portrait) Wearing Snorkeling Mask

Spiced Up the Picture with Photo Processing

 

St. John, VI View from Deck

View from Deck Cropped - I like all the Grays, Curves, and Lines

Stormy Sea at Manomet Point, Plymouth (from inside car)

Picture Cropped and Storm Intensified by Photo Processing

Mumblings - Osman and Betsey (Perley) Dewey

Osman Dewey (8^th generation)

Osman Dewey was born in Berlin, VT on October 16, 1799 and died on February 5, 1863 at Montpelier, VT.  He married Betsy Ann Perley on March 1, 1821 at Berlin, VT.  She was born in Berlin, VT on December 29, 1798 and died in Berlin, VT on June 6, 1831.  Betsey was the daughter of Captain James and Abigail (Corliss) Perley.  After Betsey’s death, Osman married Mrs. Rebecca (Davis) Farwell on January 22, 1832.  Rebecca, daughter of Jacob and Katy (Taplin) Davis was born about 1800 and died July 1, 1877 at Barre, VT.  Osman and Betsey are buried in Row R lot 1 at the Dewey-Wright Cemetery, Berlin, VT.

Osman Dewey lived in Berlin, Vermont, until about 1848, when he moved to Barre, Vermont, and then in 1854 to Montpelier, VT.  He was a representative two years, a justice of the peace, a farmer, and acted both as magistrate and physician at both places.

Those readers of this blog who grew up near or around Reading, MA will be interested to know that Betsey Ann Perley’s ancestry goes back to Allan Perley, my 9th great grandfather.  Allan was assumed to come to the US on a ship from St. Albans, England in 1630 with Governor Winthrop.  Originally located in Charlestown Village at Button-end (presently in Woburn at Reading and Stoneham lines) where it is still called Parly Meadow and Parly Brook.  Returned to England then returned to the US on the ship "Planter" from St. Albans, England in April 1, 1635 and settled Ipswich on High Street. 

  

Osman and Betsey had three children:

Francis Osman (1823 – 1898)*

Dennison (1825 – 1901)

Simeon (1829 – 1883)

Osman and Rebecca had three children:

Betsey Ann (1834 - ?)

Marion Rebecca (1837 – ?)

Orville (1840 - ?)

Denison was a silversmith and jeweler in Montpelier, VT.  He later had a business Denison Dewey & Son selling stoves and tinware.  A sketch of Denison Dewey can be found here in an ad for “Dr. Greene’s Nervura”.  Denison lived in Reading, MA about 1850 and probably learned the tinware trade with his brother Francis Osman.  More about Francis Osman in the next Mumblings.

Friday Fotos - Web Links to Interesting Photography

     I didn't get a chance to go out and take photos this week, so I thought I would compile a list of web sites that have interesting photos that came to me by emails from friends and family. Some of you may have already seen some of these web sites, but maybe not all of them. Sadly, I never thought of saving the links to these sites, but since I received several in the last couple of weeks, I will provide those links here. Looking at these pictures convinces me that we all should be out there taking pictures because what may seem ordinary to us today may be of historic interest to others in the future. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.

     Thank you to those who have sent me the links and if you like these links, keep sending me more links for me and others to enjoy.

Civil War (link from my cousin Bob)

     The Atlantic: "Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, a milestone commemorated by The Atlantic in a special issue (now available online." Photos of the Civil War were published in two parts. Each part shows 48 photos. Here are the links to each part:

     The Civil War, Part 1: The Places

     The Civil War, Part 2: The People

      Commemorative articles The articles in this edition are written by notable authors such as Mark Twain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.

WWII - Iwo Jima - Rare Color Film (link from my cousin Bob)

     Documentary on Iwo Jima  This is a 9 plus minute film of February 1945 US landing on Iwo Jima.  My father may have been a part of this fight.  He didn't talk much about his service during WWII, but I have a small calendar book of his days in the war.  He briefly mentions Iwo Jima.  I also remember a brief mention of his having something to do with the troop landing craft.  He may have been on a boat that was responsible for refueling these boats.




Retronaut (link from my son James)
     This is a web page that has many themed photos. The photos are also categorized by decade. 

     Victorian Artificial Arm

    
     Construction of ...




     Through the Lens of ...

Humor (I believe I got this link from my friend Paul).  I guess Paul knows that I have a bent sense of humor.

     Bent Sense of Humor


End of Depression/WWII in the US  (link from Paul) Part of Photo Blogs from the Denver Post

      America in Color 1939 - 1943 


     The 70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor (Dec. 2011)

  Photography of Vivian Maier (I learned of this web site through one of the web blogs I follow).
     John Maloof has published a collection of photos (1950s - 1990s) from a previously unknown street photographer Vivian Maier's.  He acquired these photos at an auction.  Read John's story of discovering this photographer's works in the right panel of the above link as it in itself is a fascinating story.  

UPDATE (3/25/2012)
Revere Beach - old post cards from my neighbor Stan:

    Postcards of Old Revere Beach

Mumblings - Simeon and Prudence (Yemans) Dewey

Our seventh generation leaves Connecticut and moves on to Vermont.

Simeon Dewey (7^th generation)

Simeon Dewey was born in Hebron, CT, on August 20, 1770 and died on January 11, 1863 at Montpelier, VT.  He married Prudence Yemans on February 27, 1794 possibly at Berlin, VT.  She was born in Tolland, CT on March 29, 1772 and died in Berlin, VT on April 1, 1844.  Simeon and Prudence are buried in lots E7 and E8 at the Dewey-Wright Cemetery in Berlin.  Many of their children/grandchildren are also buried there.

Simeon and Prudence settled on the Dog River at the southerly end of Berlin.  In the 1790s, one of the town’s first roads, West Hill Road, started at his house.  He moved to Montpelier in 1825 where he was deputy jailer for 8 years.  He returned to his farm in Berlin in 1833 and he remained there until the death of his wife. He died in Montpelier, January 11, 1863, aged 92.  Simeon and Prudence’s grandson (Admiral) George Dewey is my first cousin four times removed.

Prudence Yemans was daughter of Elijah Yemans and Amy Delano.  Through Amy we are directly related to Mayflower passenger Richard Warren, my tenth great grandfather (Amy’s great grandfather Jonathan Delano married Mercy Warren granddaughter of Richard Warren).  Through Richard Warren, we are indirectly related to Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, astronaut Alan Shepard (first American in space), actor Richard Gere, Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, artist Grandma Moses, and author Laua Ingalls Wilder.

Captain Simeon Dewey

   

Simeon and Prudence had eight children:

Silas (1795 – 1813)

Rebecca (1796 – 1872)

Osman (1799 – 1863)*

Julius (1801 – 1877) father of Admiral George Dewey

Zenas (1801 – 1867)

Henry (1806 – 1849)

Isaac (1809 – 1855)

Prudence (1816 – 1875)

Friday Fotos - St. John, USVI Vacation

Just returned from our one week Feb/Mar 2012 vacation to St. John in the US Virgin Islands.  We had great weather, good food, and fun snorkeling in the bays throughout St. John.  The only bad event in our trip was that our underwater camera leaked on the second day and no longer works.  We got one good day of pictures a few of which are shown below.