Dr. R's continued focus on the GOP's voter suppression efforts and attempts to replace nonpartisan election officials is most appreciated. This area is where a new front has opened up in the battle to save voting rights. Just last night I received my assignment as a poll worker for the Nov. 2nd Virginia gubernatorial election. My 5th yea…
Dr. R's continued focus on the GOP's voter suppression efforts and attempts to replace nonpartisan election officials is most appreciated. This area is where a new front has opened up in the battle to save voting rights. Just last night I received my assignment as a poll worker for the Nov. 2nd Virginia gubernatorial election. My 5th year of serving as an election officer, and I can't wait! My local elections office needs several hundred poll workers and had over 1,000 requesting to serve - that gives me hope
I've been on Gwynn's Island!! Growing up and sailing on the Bay, my family often went to the Fishing Bay Yacht Club on a weekend sail, passing Gwynn's Island on the way in. You've just set off a rabbit hole of memory. We stopped at Gwynn's Island to meet up with Gilbert Klingel, author of "The Bay" (c1951). I'm pretty sure my father already knew him (he had been sailing on the bay since the 1920s and seemed to know everyone); the purpose of the visit was to ask Klingel to inscribe my father's copy of "The Bay" to me, have it still.
Realizing that I knew little about him beyond this book, which is a wonderful account of his naturalist studies above & below the Chesapeake Bay, I looked him up on Wikipedia.
"Klingel wrote articles for National Geographic and The Baltimore Sun,[6] mainly on topics related to the Chesapeake Bay.
His article, "One Hundred Hours Beneath the Chesapeake," in the May 1955 issue of National Geographic featured color photos by Willard R. Culver (1898-1986) that were among the first taken from beneath a temperate estuary. These images were taken from inside a diving vessel invented by Klingel that was lowered into the waters off Gwynn's Island in the Chesapeake Bay."
Then, the article mentions Thomas Colvin, who my father also knew, and who built steel & aluminum-hull sailing vessels, as did Klingel. I knew of him as Tom Colvin and remember encountering him sailing on the bay in his steel Chinese Junk with red sails. Such fun to remember all of that. Thanks for the memories.
Dr. R's continued focus on the GOP's voter suppression efforts and attempts to replace nonpartisan election officials is most appreciated. This area is where a new front has opened up in the battle to save voting rights. Just last night I received my assignment as a poll worker for the Nov. 2nd Virginia gubernatorial election. My 5th year of serving as an election officer, and I can't wait! My local elections office needs several hundred poll workers and had over 1,000 requesting to serve - that gives me hope
ClairBlue, I’m postcarding for you all in VA💙!
That's wonderful, AshleyR! Thank you so much
Where are you located in VA ClairBlue?
In Northern Virginia - you, too?
I’m in Mathews County on Gwynn’s Island…Mathews is rural red trump country 😵💫 but more and more of us BLUE FOLK are retiring here!
I've been on Gwynn's Island!! Growing up and sailing on the Bay, my family often went to the Fishing Bay Yacht Club on a weekend sail, passing Gwynn's Island on the way in. You've just set off a rabbit hole of memory. We stopped at Gwynn's Island to meet up with Gilbert Klingel, author of "The Bay" (c1951). I'm pretty sure my father already knew him (he had been sailing on the bay since the 1920s and seemed to know everyone); the purpose of the visit was to ask Klingel to inscribe my father's copy of "The Bay" to me, have it still.
Realizing that I knew little about him beyond this book, which is a wonderful account of his naturalist studies above & below the Chesapeake Bay, I looked him up on Wikipedia.
"Klingel wrote articles for National Geographic and The Baltimore Sun,[6] mainly on topics related to the Chesapeake Bay.
His article, "One Hundred Hours Beneath the Chesapeake," in the May 1955 issue of National Geographic featured color photos by Willard R. Culver (1898-1986) that were among the first taken from beneath a temperate estuary. These images were taken from inside a diving vessel invented by Klingel that was lowered into the waters off Gwynn's Island in the Chesapeake Bay."
Then, the article mentions Thomas Colvin, who my father also knew, and who built steel & aluminum-hull sailing vessels, as did Klingel. I knew of him as Tom Colvin and remember encountering him sailing on the bay in his steel Chinese Junk with red sails. Such fun to remember all of that. Thanks for the memories.
Ha ha - we'll win them over yet!