AT THE REQUEST OF LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS, PART 44, JOHN CLEESE, HOW WOKENESS SMOTHERS CREATIVITY, TWITTER UPDATES AND GANNETT LAYOFFS

AT THE REQUEST OF LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS, PART 44---JOHN CLEESE INTERVIEW AND TWITTER FILES UPDATE

===CANCEL CULTURE. John Cleese on How Wokeness Smothers Creativity; The Monty Python legend on giving offense and getting laughs, NICK GILLESPIE | FROM THE JANUARY 2023 ISSUE--REASON, click here

===TWITTER FILES , ASSORTED UPDATES: HERE AND HERE.

===12/2 New Gannett Layoffs Affect Hundreds Of Staffers Across Region, Nation; The largest newspaper publisher in the United States is once again starting another round of layoffs that will affect hundreds of employees across the country, according to multiple news outlets. MORE FROM THE VOICE HERE.

SEE THE LAST EDITION OF THIS SERIES:
AT THE REQUEST OF LOCAL AUTHORS & JOURNALISTS, PART 43, THE JK ROWLING INTERVIEW, MORE TWITTER FILES AND DICTIONARY STUFF

CROTON'S GEORGE BIDDLE AND HELENE SARDEAU

Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship----in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

From THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY FB PAGE---George Biddle and his wife, sculptor Hélène Sardeau, lived in Croton on Mt. Airy Road, in a house he helped build. Philadelphia’s Woodmere Art Museum has a retrospective of his work, on view until January 22, 2023.

Below is a short biography, taken from Cornelia Cotton’s booklet They Lived in Croton, An Archive of Croton Visual Artists. You can purchase a copy at Cornelia Cotton Gallery or from the Croton Historical Society.

GEORGE BIDDLE 1885-1973

After earning a law degree from Harvard, George Biddle found the world of art far more challenging. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His gift for friendship brought him into contact with a large number of artists who influenced and inspired him, among them Mary Cassatt, a fellow Philadelphian; Pascin, Zorach, Davies, Benton, Nadelman, Demuth, and Kuniyoshi. In 1928 he went on a sketching trip through Mexico with Diego Rivera where he saw the work of Mexican muralists. Meanwhile, the Depression had focused attention on the devastating social problems in this country.

Biddle had known Franklin Roosevelt at Harvard, and in 1933 he approached FDR with a proposal to secure financial support for American artists through a government-funded mural project, similar to the Mexican experiment. This proposal was eventually realized on a vast scale in enabling thousands of artists to work and earn, invigorating the entire spectrum of American arts.

Biddle was extremely versatile. In addition to painting and printmaking, he worked in sculpture, marquetry, and tapestry. He was a war correspondent for Life in W.W. II, a teacher, and the author of seven books. His work has been exhibited throughout the world and is included in many museum collections here and abroad. He and his wife, sculptor Hélène Sardeau, lived on Mt. Airy Road, in a house he helped build, and where his son’s family still lives. SEE MORE AT

George Biddle: The Art of American Social Conscience - Woodmere Art Museum

UNVACCINATED NYJUDGE SUES STATE COURT SYSTEM, CITING ARBITRARY VAX MANDATE

Uvaccinated NY judge sues state court system, citing 'arbitrary' COVID-19 mandate--Jennifer L. Donlon can't serve on bench in person after requests for vaccine exemption denied==Neal Simon
The Evening Tribune

When practicing law, Hornell attorney Jennifer L. Donlon is front and center in New York state courtrooms, conferring face-to-face with clients, meeting in close quarters with other lawyers and interacting with judicial staff.

However, when Donlon is serving in her role as an assistant judge for Hornell City Court, she's an image on a video monitor and a voice on a speakerphone.

Donlon is not vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus.

According to a lawsuit she brought against the state Unified Court System and the state Office of Court Administration, "This paradox is the consequence of a (state COVID-19) vaccine policy that — as applied — is purely arbitrary and capricious."

>> Read the entire lawsuit at the end of this story Hornell judge sues NY state court over COVID vaccine rules (lohud.com)

BY SPECIAL REQUEST--INDEX OF LINKS TO VINTAGE CROTON TELEPHONE DIRECTORIES AVAILABLE ONLINE

Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

BY SPECIAL REPEAT REQUEST, and courtesy of the outstanding archives maintained by the volunteers of The Croton Historical Society, a reader would like to links to all the old Croton telephone directories we have online here at Everything Croton. Happy to oblige--but there are select scans here only.

To see the entire directory, you would have to visit the CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY on Tuesdays; BUT CURRENTLY CLOSED---their contact info is here https://www.crotonhistoricalsociety.org/

P.S. THE SOCIETY HAS MANY OTHER YEARS AVAILABLE ON FILE. Do you remember your phone number?

CLICK ON THE PHOTO TO SEE A PAGE FROM THE 1972 CROTON DIRECTORY--SEE MORE OF THE 1972 DIRECTORY HERE http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-1972-croton-directory-select-scans.html

SELECT SCANS FROM THE 1952 CROTON DIRECTORY HERE http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-croton-directory-for-1952.html

SELECTED SCANS FROM THE 1979 DIRECTORY http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/10/final-installment-1979-croton-directory.html

SELECT SCANS FROM THE 1965 DIRECTORY http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/10/part-2-1965-croton-directory-select_2.html

SELECT SCANS FROM THE 1941 DIRECTORY http://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2013/09/select-scans-from-1941-croton-directory.html

AND COURTESY OF ONE OF OUR FAVORITE CROTON BLOGS: CROTON HISTORY & MYSTERIES--THE 1938 CROTON DIRECTORY, FULL SCAN

The plan was to scan some of the ads like the ones for the Mikado Inn, Konco’s Garage, and Robbins Pharmacy shown below. But when they looked closer and saw listings for well-known Crotonites like Max Eastman, Margaret Mayo, and Miss Carrie E. Tompkins....they scanned every page...SEE MORE & DOWNLOAD THE DIRECTORY HERE https://crotonhistory.org/2015/06/18/croton-on-hudson-phone-directory-1938/

LAST WEEKEND OF THE SEASON AT THE BLUE PIG IS FAST APPROACHING

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LAST WEEKEND OF THE SEASON AT THE BLUE PIG IS FAST APPROACHING----MORE AT Facebook

VEHICLE ROLLS OVER IN CROTON, DRIVER EMERGES UNSCATHED

Welcome to The New Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship----in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

Vehicle Rolls Over In Croton-On-Hudson, Driver Emerges Unscathed---MORE AT Vehicle Rolls Over In Croton-On-Hudson, Driver Emerges Unscathed | Cortlandt Daily Voice

NEW FROM ETHICS ALARMS, QUOTE OF THE WEEK, D'SOUZA, THE NEW YORK TIMES, AND MORE

Ethics Quote Of The Week: Dinesh D’Souza

DECEMBER 18, 2022 / JACK MARSHALL

“The mainstream media can’t risk covering the Twitter Files. If they admit rampant collusion between govt agencies and Twitter, they’ll have to inquire about Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Google. The whole censorship regime would unravel. Better to pretend nothing’s happening!”

—-Conservative scholar and author Dinesh D’Souza, via Twitter, of course.

Whatever one may think of D’Souza, and wherever one may fall in the partisan divide, I don’t see what other explanation there is for the stubborn, self-destructive refusal by the mainstream media to acknowledge what the Twitter files’ reporting by Matt Taibbi et al. has revealed. (Once again today, the New York Times contains no mention of the issue at all.)  MORE AT 

Ethics Quote Of The Week: Dinesh D’Souza | Ethics Alarms

JANUARY 1969--FAMILY SERVICE SCHEDULED AT TEMPLE ISRAEL

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JANUARY 1969--FAMILY SEVICE SCHEDULED AT TEMPLE ISRAEL Temple Israel of Northern Westchester (tinw.org)

Lots of familiar names.  Click on the image FROM THE PATENT TRADER.

IN THE NEWS: CANADA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE

As an autistic Canadian, I worry about my country's support of assisted suicide by Mathieu Vaillancourt

December 18, 2022 06:57 AM-----Eligibility for "medical assistance in dying" under Canadian law seems to expand every day. The concept of assisted suicide for people with incurable diseases has grown more and more permissive, up to the point at which, akin to Belgium, people will soon be able to ask for euthanasia simply for mental health conditions.

There is even talk of permitting euthanasia for minors in certain situations, and Canadian armed forces veterans were recently ''advised'' to use assisted suicide. Of course, this decision was viewed with disgust by a lot of politicians in Canada, but the irony is that its politicians and judges themselves are responsible for this situation. MORE AT As an autistic Canadian, I worry about my country's support of assisted suicide | Washington Examiner

BY SPECIAL REQUEST - 1982: JUST A FEW LOCAL NEW YEAR'S EVE HOTSPOTS!!!!

Welcome to Everything Croton, a collection of all things Croton--our history, our homes, our issues, our businesses, our schools, our houses of worship--in short, EVERYTHING CROTON.

And now by special request-- some LOCAL NEW YEAR'S EVE HOTSPOTS FROM 1982. Click on the images below. 

--YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY 1983, NEW YEAR'S EVE AT ELMER SUDS https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2018/06/vintage-croton-1983-new-years-eve-at.html