#Tuckahoe

[syrxos]

[20th-century-railroading]

Tuckahoe WV Saturday October 12th 1985 1200EDT by bill hooper Via Flickr: A single pusher engine assists an eastbound coal train into the Alleghany summit tunnel

[aryburn-trains]

Back when the M-1s were new Tuckahoe, NY July 21, 1972

[harvikane]

My redesign/fan art of Nina West’s runway for the Signature Look, Signature Fragrance from Rupaul’s Drag Race All Stars 9 from last summer! I’m still obsessed with how this look came out I think the composition and styling elevates the original look from its boxy rigid look. This was so fun to design as a heightened chic prison outfit complete with a Tuckahoe prison card! If drag is a crime…again 🚔☁️💖

[faguscarolinensis]

Peltandra virginica / Tuckahoe at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

#Crestwood

#Riverfront

#GrintonIWill

#Yonkers

#YonkersPublicLibrary

#YonkersNY

#ChildrensPrograms

#WLS

#WestchesterLibrarySystem

https://www.ypl.org/events/month

[harryalbay34]

Deep tissue Massage Harrison New Rochelle https://www.bronxvillewellness.com

[thebeesareback]

I am British and therefore didn't learn much about American history at school. I watched Hamilton, and now I keep coming across facts about the American Revolution and its players which blow my mind

Burr went on to TRY AND CREATE AN EMPIRE and was vice president of the US for a bit whilst on the run

Lafayette is the reason there's white on the French flag

Jefferson was educated in a place called Tuckahoe

George III wrote a lot, and his sentences regularly contained 400 words

James Madison was offered "stimulants" which would have kept him alive for another six days. This would have meant he died on the 4th July. He said "no". He also lost an election because he wouldn't give out free alcohol

Washington was so broke he had to borrow money to go to his own Presidential Inauguration

Lafayette went on to play a role in the French Revolution. He, um, he wasn't quite the dashing hero suggested in Hamilton. He's more popular in the USA, and a historian called him "an empty-headed political dwarf"

[janewilsonrva]

Spring Reflections in a Wetland

Tuckahoe Creek Park

Henrico County, Virginia (USA)

Based on a photo from May 12, 2024.

Wetlands are the most beautiful in Spring and Autumn. Some people visit this one to observe the wildlife. I come for the water reflections and interesting landscape.

[badgopher]

Friday

"Does table salt go bad" and "first amendment text" and "richmond virginia suburbs" and other things I've asked the Internet this week.

It was almost warm enough a couple days this week to make park days a thing. I tried. My toes got cold.

I think banning TikTok as it exists today is probably a good idea, but the law to effect that change seems to be in conflict with the first bullet point in the bill of rights. If we lived in a time where precedent mattered, I might be more bothered about how this all plays out. Will the government give TikTok assurances they wont enforce the law that the government enacted to oust them? Who knows. Does it matter? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ At the end of the day, I think I'm mostly just sad about my TikTok (maybe?) going away.

Booked a trip to (the suburbs of) Richmond, VA for the middle of February. A couple nights in Tuckahoe and a couple in Chester. Mostly just a vibe check. I'm hoping to settle on a plan by early March.

[work stuff.]

Rachel Platten is coming to town in March and it took me all of about 12 seconds to buy a ticket this morning, even though I haven't listened to her music in ages.

I have so many pictures to sort through and scan. And a bunch of laundry to fold.

Maybe this weekend.

It could happen.

[mariacallous]

One of the things that frustrates me about some of the criticism or concerns over Hochul's proposal for more oversight of NYC is that it's framed thusly:

“I’d be interested to hear why the state needs to exert that kind of power over a local government,” Septimo said. “We’re sort of contorting ourselves to work in this hellscape that Eric Adams has created, when really we should just be focusing on good government.”

I'm sorry, but NYC is just some some "local government" like Tuckahoe or Syracuse or Buffalo - it's the largest city in both the state and the country. As much as I hate to agree with a lot of my current fellow New Yorkers, NYC is sui generis and actually needs a specific level of oversight and regulation that other local governments do not.

That said, I don't disagree with the "we're contorting ourselves to work in this hellscape that Eric Adams has created", which applies to a lot of things and could also be said about others who are not Adams.

[porcelainapparition]

Tuckahoe, New Jersey

built in 1900

[aryburn-trains]

Crestwood station in the background Tuckahoe, NY March 28, 1975

[breelandwalker]

Lovers Witch Market

Diversity Thrift, Richmond VA (USA) Sunday, February 4th 2024, 12pm-6pm Hosted by River City Witch Markets

This Market is all about Celebrating Love!

Dozens of vendors will be on hand to offer everything from flowers and gifts for your sweetheart to altar supplies and love-themed spell components. Whether it's love for yourself, love for a friend, love for your partner, or just love in general, come join us for this celebration of affection, romance, and joy!

FREE TO ATTEND ALL AGES.

[scotianostra]

William “Willie” Macfarlane was born on 29th June 1889, in Aberdeen.

Willie went to the United States to become a professional at the Oak Ridge Golf Club in Tuckahoe, New York.

He participated and won in the Philadelphia Open Championships in 1921 and in the Westchester Open in 1924. His career high was when he won the U.S. Open in 1925, which was held in Worcester Country Club in Worcester, Massachusetts. Initially, he tied with Bobby Jones over 72 holes but eventually topped Jones by one stroke. MacFarlane went on to win the tournament and set a new U.S. Open single round low-score.

He continued to compete in the U.S. Open but was not able to repeat his success in 1925. In total, MacFarlane had 22 wins throughout his entire career. In 1930, he won the Metropolitan Open in the United States, as well as the Westchester Open title.

MacFarlane competed in 1931 for championship title in the Miami International Four-Ball in Florida and won. He participated again in the 1933 Metropolitan Open and also won the competition. Although he played in the U.S. Open 16 times, MacFarlane only had one more top-ten spot.

On the PGA Tour, he won a total of 21 times and won almost 60% of his matches. He topped two other golf greats, Paul Runyan and Johnny Farrell. MacFarlane also played alongside the likes of Willie Ormond, Gordon Smith, and Lawrie Reilly.

In 1967, MacFarlane died in Miami, Florida at the age of 71, he is one of Scotland’s most successful golfers and arguably the best to ply his trade in the US.

[readingsquotes]

"The $13 million that AIPAC has put down on the Bowman race is just a fraction of the more than $100 million it plans to spend on 2024 elections overall.

...A new poll from Emerson shows Latimer has a 17-point lead over Bowman right now. These attack ads are very effective. They tell a very simple story. Jamal Bowman is harming New York. He follows his own agenda. He wouldn’t even compromise with President Biden. He voted no on the bipartisan infrastructure bill just to stick it to President Biden. Like I said, none of this has to do with Israel but the money is coming from entirely pro-Israel sources.

...It’s very effective and it’s a huge wake-up call to, I think, the entire pro-Palestine movement because what they’re doing is they’re [AIPAC] taking two progressive black members of Congress, Bowman and Bush, and targeting them for defeat. They’re doing it with issues unrelated to Israel, but they’re sending out a warning: “If you speak up on this issue, you will be targeted.”

....it’s because AIPAC’s willing to come in and spend $13 million dollars.

...Latimer, because of the dynamics that he thinks are at play, considers himself very empowered to make an unadorned expression for anti-Palestinian racism. He said that Jamal Bowman’s constituency was not in Harrison, Scarsdale, and Tuckahoe, so now he’s really talking about the whitest and richest parts of this district. Your constituency, he said to Bowman, is in Dearborn, Michigan, which we all know has the highest percentage of Muslims and Arab Americans in in in the country.

To feel like that’s an okay thing to say in the middle of a debate just shows that this whole phenomenon, that I call the Empire Strikes Back, where AIPAC is just coming into Portland and crushing progressives, coming into deep blue New York state and Jamal Bowman’s district and trying to crush progressive Democrats who support Palestine. I think the impact is that people like Richie Torres and [NY Rep.] Dan Goldman feel like there’s just no downside at all toward expressing the most hardcore support of Israel that they can. Not only voting for weapons to Israel, but voting to censure Rashida Talib, voting to sanction the ICC, voting for the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.

That’s going to be the consequence if AIPAC plows through this primary cycle like a hot knife through butter. We’re going to see a very unconstrained period, and that’s just so ironic at a time where, as we’ve said, Democrats, by a margin of 77 to 23, want to stop sending aid to Israel and also overwhelmingly support a ceasefire.