#cy rachel

[taemcains]

chasing you mc is so brave... or so stupid. is it really wise to stand near the edge of a cliff considering recent events

[elliasnovember]

this might be silly but since Heavens Secret Requiem takes place in (fictional) real world Russia and Heaven’s Secret is in the same universe as Chasing You I hope they include some hint/easter egg indicating that our main character (and hopefully her friends?) in CY survived the apocalypse 🥹🥹

[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

Charlie like:

meanwhile Rachel is

[mincyberr]

welcm to cy's hot takes, where my takes might fire back at me 😭

sorry in advance! 😭

- this hot take is about.. my take on WCKD

Ok this can go many ways. So I'm gonna make this 3 sections. Good, and Bad. Since the opinion of WCKD being one of them is all over. Mostly the opinion everyone is on is Evil (bad) so I'll say my side. Agree or not, I am doing this because someone ( @zer0brainc3lls ) wants this. So enjoy my hot take!!

Alright let's start good:

Ok what's good about WCKD is that they are getting the cure to the flare, Ava loved four specials (Thomas, Teresa, Aris and Rachel). She did everything in Fever Code to try to make them have a good childhood but make them not escape WCKD, but like WCKD at the same time. They tried to save humanity but it didn't work, it made it worse. That's all for good, lets go to bad.

This might be the longest, bad:

Ok for bad, I'm going timeline order (No Kill Order, and Death Cure book).

Fever Code: we learn flare was man made as a weapon, (kinda bad), they traumatized 4 times, Minho and Gally for escaping, the Grievers are made out of TANKS so they can't be killed easily (tf?!) and the swipe pressure.

Maze Runner (m/b): Grievers killed Gladers, making trauma for them. Newt (movie), tried suicide, and Minho helped him not to do it. Gally tried suicide as well (I think? Like it's in Fever Code). The Thomas hot take. (It explains deaths).

Scotch Trails (m/b): Minho gets almost killed by lightning, Thomas gets kissed by Teresa but she cheats on him with Aris because of WCKD stuff, it gave the Gladers trust issues, and made Teresa a threat (thank god). Winston does suicide (movie).

Death Cure (m): Kidnapped Minho, traumatizing him, and trying to kill him by removing blood. Newt and Teresa died in a horrible way, traumatizeing them. (It's semi WCKD fault) Janson chasing Teresa and Thomas telling them it's ok, was traumatizing. Bigger trust issues now and last but not least, Thomas being the cure and he couldn't save Newt ...

Thanks for reading, GIVE ME IDEAS FOR TAKES I CAN DO, I HAVE 0!!

♡ cy/cyber (stan minho)

[eahostudiogallery]

Yard Sale

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Cy Twombly

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Isa Genzken - Untitled, 1987

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Daniele Papuli & Michele De Lucchi

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José Zanine Caldas

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folk art checkerboard

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Jenny Holzer

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Domenico Gnoli

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jozefvanwissem album cover

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Barry Johnson - Untitled - #175

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Magdalena Frauenberg

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Zhou Wendou - transparent and opaque 2017

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Elizabeth Wyn Wood

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Gian Maria Tosatti - L’Estate

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Alicja Kwade

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Jacques Monneraud ceramic

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keybord for dislexics

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Lucy Mackenzie - Modern Art

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Nam June Paik - iconoclastic TV Bed

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Rachel Whiteread - Threshold II

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Vija Celmins - House #2

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[gregdotorg]

For her eighth version of Marilyn With Walls at the Najsonalmuseet in Oslo in 2018, Rachel Harrison changed up and installed her photo of Andy Warhol's archived Marilyn Monroe source image on a reusable wall instead of a pile of demolished sheetrock. She put a vinyl print of a museum tech's photo of the wall from the previous show, which included a Cy Twombly painting.

[aslanvlad]

Who are your LIs from all the current books? 💕

Oh hey!! A question!!! Thank you for asking 🥺🥹

I’ve split into ongoing and complete, bolded the lomls, italicised my faves, and marked ones that I regret in red.

ONGOING BOOKS:

DLS - Leo/Aslan HELL - Sunny PSI - Kay VFV - Bonne TDR - Mustafa HS2 - Mimi (she deserves better than this book) TAG - Karl/Daniel (kinda dc about this book tho) SCN - Ramesses/Livius CY2 - Rachel LSE - Tony/Cat Vampire WTC - Shen (but genuinely want them all) GOE - Doo-yeong SL - Threxia

COMPLETE BOOKS:

TO - Luka • THEO - John • FTF - Kingu • KCD - Lima • HOT - Wyatt • GC - Afiy • SOL - Sherlock • ARC - Rob • OTI - Hodge • STW - Benedict • ROTT - Adrian • LOTW - Kazu • HS - Mimi • CY - Rachel • SBTR - Claire • WP - Jake • Q30D - Richard • SOS - Michael • MHS - Ray • MB - Victor • SITF - Sebastian

[percervall]

Hi Mar! We’ve talked a lot about reading and so I wanted to know what your favourite tropes are, and an example of a book or a fic which does that trope really well! 💛

Thanks babe! I love talking about books, although tropes always trip me up somehow. According to the internet, these are some of the most common ones in romance novels and I have been reading a lot of those lately (trying to make up for lost time apparently, but that's a conversation for a different day)

Please check the content warnings before reading (had to include a read more because this list got a lot longer than I anticipated)

Friends to lovers - Crazy Stupid Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams. I absolutely adore her series and this was such a lovely take on the friends to lovers trope.

Enemies to lovers - I'd say Triple-Duty Bodyguards by Lily Gold fits this trope. I loved the inclusion of struggling with PTSD and the impact of that on a relationship. (there's a reason for the triple in the title, please check content warnings) Also think The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon had an interesting take on this. Oh! And From Bad To Cursed by Lana Harper is another great portrayal of this trope. Guess I love me a good enemies to lovers huh.

Secret identity/billionaire/royal - Her Titans by Genevieve Jaspers. For the love of God, heed the content warnings. She accidentally hooks up with a member of one of the biggest gangs (3-piece-suit, money out the wazoo type of gang. I think they dealt in real estate?) in Ironhaven, but someone's out to get her. Oh boy, this was spi-cy

Grumpy/sunshine - This is probably one of my favourite tropes, and the best portrayal I've read was in Everything For You by Chloe Liese, which is also a queer sports romance

Stuck together - Three Swedish Mountain Men by Lily Gold. They rescue her when she's skidded off the road in Middle Of Nowhere Sweden and then they all get snowed in. Only one way this can end.

Best friend’s brother/sister - I loved the brother's best friend angle in Hero by Jolie Vines (also some of the hottest spice) where he saves her from an evil uncle. With a chopper. He is also ex-military so, you know, there's that.

Second chance - The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams or The Winter Of Second Chances by Jenny Bayliss also has a lovely spin on this (the book club in that book holds my entire heart). Another good option would be Seven Days in June by Tia Williams, absolutely adored the backstories of these characters.

Fake relationship - Isn't It Bromantic? by Lyssa Kay Adams does this really well (although the conflict resolution felt rushed)

Holiday romances - I am a sucker for Christmas-themed romance novels. I treat myself to a couple of new ones every year. My favourite ones have to be 12 Dates of Christmas by Jenny Bayliss (which also fits the friends to lovers trope), Duke, Actually and So This Is Christmas by Jenny Holiday, and The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish (this one left me in absolute tears which I did not see coming)

did I really expose my entire e-reader history in this list? Uh, yes I did. Oops. I don't know what to tell you, the inspiration for my smutty fics had to come from somewhere and if you feel the need to judge me, please do so elsewhere. We do not yuck other people's yums on my page

[forgettingmenot]

Closed Starter for Gar - @disastri

“it’s scary, but like in a good way." Rachel told Garfield as she held up the scary movies she had chosen for tonight. "I made sure to pick ones with minimal to no gore AND I made sure none of them have any animal violence." she assured him. She sat down on the sofa looking around. "Looks like it's just us though for movie night. I wonder where everyone is?" Usually Cy and Dick joined for monthly movie night. And Kori now that she was back.

[fudgetunblr]

Don’t ask me how I got here, but I was reminded of the film, The To-Do List’ existence and I watched that when I was like eleven which means I don’t remember that much from it and in rewatching the trailer I noticed two things:

1. Aubrey Plaza plays the main character, even though in my head I’ve substituted her for Ashley Rickards, probably because I used to watch Awkward back in the day and maybe they’ve sort of meshed together a bit in my brain.

2. The way I recognised so many from the cast that I had no idea who they were back then and now I’m extremely aware. Like, Andy Sandberg and Bill Hader (what are y’all doing here???). The guy that played Brad in TPOBAW who I refuse to learn the name of because it’s funnier to think of him as Brad (it’s apparently Johnny Simmons, I’ll forget this soon). Freaking Rachel Bilson??? According to Google Donald Glover who I might’ve missed in the trailer or just wasn’t in the trailer. Alina Shawkat, which frankly was like the biggest shock of all, because I didn’t know I’d seen her in other things than arrested development. Clark Gregg who I for a very short second thought was K*vin Sp*cy and got worried.

Anyways so I barley remember anything from this film except the basic premise and this one scene that has been etched into my brain for nearly an entire decade. Drinking pineapple juice supposedly makes semen tastes nice, so the main character makes this guy drink pineapple juice.

Like why have I remembered that scene after all these years and nothing else??? Every now and then I just remember that fact and I don’t even know if it’s true or not 😭😭 like huh??? Why ???

[latinfeline]

CY 2 is far better than CY, so dont even bother playing CY pls.

it certainly has its traits but it gives me 13 diamonds per episode with ads (and rachel)

also i love a good or bad murder mystery. i need to find out whodunit!

[euripidesredux]

Extended credits for Museum at Tomorrow episode 5

Below the cut are all of the folks who I used (and asked to be credited) for recordings in Museum at Tomorrow episode 5- specifically, the "This is not for You" recordings.

(The list was too long for podcast episode descriptions)

These recordings were mixed into the soundscape of the show, heavily processed- so you may or may not be able to pick out your voice. Each unique recording is preserved as rhythem, timber, and shape within the episode.

Thank you for your work in creating the canvas of this piece.

Kate Bullen

K R Forsyth

Vega Jacobsen

Charlie

Rovi

Grace Gamble 

Wesley Lee Balete

Charlie Sloykowski

JC Hendry

Courtney Brothers

Arabella McDonald

Hanc Finestra

Katie H

Galacticguppy 

Beck Smith

GreenHeronHive

Micheal Vee

Mira Singer

Laurent J.L. Hall

Carley Mothersell

woaaah

cmt

November_Clouds

Elliott Neptune

Enrica Jossi

Ace

Jahan Shah 

Morgan Galagher

Niall LG

  Bates

Caroline Mincks

Daniel Kurtz

AJ Fidalgo

Tani

Shura

Zedek H

Halebop

Malia Northstar

Greg Ruddick

Solstice Hannan

Jessamy Thomison 

Cassie A.

Rachel Spokony

miss mr meow

Arti Richardson

Mattie J.

Geddy Cary-Avery,

 Ophelia Cary-Avery

Sophie Kaplan

X Speaks

Devin

Craux

Cap

Joe R

Ray Goldberg

Mog

The Marble System

Tina Case

Kate Bullen

Marionette

LD

Maddy Searle

Remi P

Meg Taylor

Beth

Evan Tess Murray

Amanda Jones

Amanda Ehrhardt

Nathan Fisentzou-Haji-Leonti

Johanna Andersson

Tess Huth

@faeriebullshit

Olivia Lion

Ange

Bridget M. Mueting

Wil Williams

Katie Utke

aceofgames

Savy Stay

Graham Rowat

Meredith

spaceacebreakface 

Molly Walsh

Belinda Parker

Erin Celovsky

liz

Caden Osojnak

Danniac 

Ray Schrader

Atlas Byrd

AJ. S.

JayseHasNoGrace

Fay Blackmore

Sharon Peterson

Katharina Abschlag 

Izzy

Ace Tayloe

kat B

Siz Hart

moth

Kathryn Cox

G. Honnigford

Pine Gonzalez

sisyphus

Essay

artie eigengrau

Rook Davis

Izzi Mata

grayson

Tamara Jones

Willow

G.F.

Leigh sharpe

Zelda MacFarland

Arkyn Wolf

Elany

Elaine Wiley

Mary Lewis-Phillipps

Claudia Elvidge

Kei Burke

Katie Vargas

Karleen Preator

Alicia Babich

Jonathan Sciance

Étoile

Hayden Laver

Barrett Vann

S Kramer

Maya Hiers-Lairson

judas

Archer Hickerson

Malinda

Nicole Liang

LF Haye

Louis Carroll

Stefanie K.

Autumn Wang 

jayvin

Badger Merriweather

Aiden

Sender Paulson

vexxervee

Rob Weiner

Peril

Lotte Schmidt 

fynn

Lor

Josie D. 

Jaryn Tyson

Common Blue Icarus

resplendeo

Claire Alpern

skelejor

Matt Weiss

M Zemlock

Kay Eileen

Callisto Holmes

Rhys

Noah Quinn

Sarah Elizabeth

Willow Belden

Amanda McCormack

Esrah Del Carlo

sunny

the Hartmans

Lee Ann Eden

Bob Proctor

Clueless

deda eliensis

Ohallo

Tara Schile

Marzi 

Flameheart Dryad

Sarah Lambrix 

JB Segal 

Ellis C

Ash

Autumn

Jaime Tamar

Haze Peers

Moose

Erin Bevan

Luci Tomich

Bryn

Michael W.

Kim Fukawa

Amy Strieter

Petra Hall

Mal

Charlie Rayshich

Susan Weiner

Everett Blackthorne

Vergess

Tor

ArionWind

M. Alti

N. B. Green

Aiden Nicholson

Jacky Rubou

Nura Lawrence

Gwen Clancy

Ollie M.

Caroline

Duo

Iris

ML Beck

Ray Makowski

Eljay Rich

MV8

Michelle Pigott

Rachel Pfennigwerth

Janika

Jamie Gump

Mason J Miller

Ella Watts

Cole

Mady Oswald

Valerie "ShinyHappyGoth" Kaplan

Anne Baird

Emily Ricotta

el-draco-bizarro

Ansel Burch

Nathan Sowell

LM Heß

Cy

Richard Peers

[ulkaralakbarova]

In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Newton Knight: Matthew McConaughey Rachel: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Moses Washington: Mahershala Ali Serena Knight: Keri Russell Daniel: Jacob Lofland Sumrall: Sean Bridgers Lieutenant Barbour: Brad Carter Miss Ellie: Jane McNeill Prosecuting Attorney: Gary Grubbs Jasper: Christopher Berry Amos Deason: Joe Chrest Quitman: David Jensen Injured Soldier: Kurt Krause Confederate Color Guard: Carlton Caudle Freedman 1: Martin Bats Bradford Matthew Yates: Matt Lintz Mary: Kerry Cahill Annie: Jessica Collins Confederate Soldier: Juan Gaspard Junie Lee: Liza J. Bennett Polling Station Clerk: David Maldonado Schoolgirl: Serenity Neil Chester: Lawrence Turner Mrs. Deason: Lara Grice Col. Robert Lowry: Wayne Pére Farmer 1: Jim Klock Town Folk: Emily Bossak Sergeant: P.J. Marshall Third Man: Ritchie Montgomery Stillman Coleman: Mattie Liptak Aunt Sally: Jill Jane Clements Col. McLemore: Thomas Francis Murphy Old Man: Johnny McPhail Lt. Barbour: Bill Tangradi First Man: William Mark McCullough Edward James – Cotton Field Worker: Sam Malone Boy at Alice Hotel: Kylen Davis Farmer 2: Will Beinbrink George: Troy Hogan Confederate Soldier: Cy Parks Ward: Dane Rhodes Second Woman / Yeoman Farmer: Lucy Faust Yeoman Girl: Stella Allen Older Coleman Brother: Cade Mansfield Cooksey Maroon (uncredited): Tahj Vaughans Davis Knight: Brian Lee Franklin Film Crew: Casting: Debra Zane Production Design: Philip Messina Costume Design: Louise Frogley Editor: Juliette Welfling Producer: Jon Kilik Supervising Art Director: Dan Webster Editor: Pamela Martin Director of Photography: Benoît Delhomme Producer: Scott Stuber Executive Producer: Oren Aviv Set Decoration: Larry Dias Writer: Gary Ross Executive Producer: Robert Simonds Executive Producer: Robin Bissell Art Direction: Andrew Max Cahn Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Paul Hsu Executive Producer: Wang Zhonglei Executive Producer: Stuart Ford Prosthetics: Gary Archer Foley: Marko Costanzo Makeup Department Head: Nikoletta Skarlatos Executive Producer: Wang Zhongjun Co-Producer: David Pomier First Assistant Director: Eric Heffron Assistant Costume Designer: Meagan McLaughlin Foley: Eric Milano Second Unit Director: Garrett Warren Visual Effects Editor: Gershon Hinkson Executive Producer: Michael Bassick Makeup Artist: Kris Evans Executive Producer: Bruce Nachbar “B” Camera Operator: Jerry M. Jacob Executive Producer: Matt Jackson Additional Camera: Michael Watson Executive Producer: Christopher Woodrow Hairstylist: Felicity Bowring Casting: Meagan Lewis Music Editor: John Finklea Executive Producer: Jerry Ye Set Designer: Randall D. Wilkins Still Photographer: Murray Close Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mike Prestwood Smith First Assistant “A” Camera: Chad Rivetti Special Effects Coordinator: David K. Nami Hair Department Head: Jules Holdren Key Hair Stylist: Melizah Anguiano Wheat Set Costumer: Adriane Bennett Costume Supervisor: Carlane Passman Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Matthew O’Toole Visual Effects Producer: Lisa Beroud Key Hair Stylist: Theraesa Rivers Executive Producer: Russell Levine Additional Camera: Greg Morris Set Costumer: Tom Cummins Art Department Coordinator: Wylie Griffin Supervising Dialogue Editor: Branka Mrkic Visual Effects Supervisor: Kelly Port Second Assistant “C” Camera: Griffin McCann Set Costumer: Lisa Magee Wigmaker: Khanh Trance Art Direction: Chris Craine Gaffer: Bob Bates Original Music Composer: Nicholas Britell First Assistant “C” Camera: Wade Whitley Co-Producer: Diana Alvarez Second Second Assistant Director: Marvin Williams “A” Came...

[fettesans]

Top, Rachel Harrison, Marilyn with Wall, 2018, installation view of the exhibition Faithless Pictures at the Najsonalmuseet in Oslo. Via. Bottom, Christopher Williams, Open Letter to Model No. 1740, installation view at Capitain Petzel, April 29 – June 4, 2016. Via.

Marilyn With Wall began in 2004, when Harrison attached a Lawlerian photo she’d taken at the Andy Warhol Museum archives of the carefully preserved Marilyn Monroe headshot Warhol used for his screens, to the demolished sheetrock wall from Greene Naftali’s previous exhibition.

But this time, in 2018 in Oslo, Harrison discovered that the Najsonalmuseet used reusable walls, so no demo, no waste, no archival sheetrock. So she improvised, and printed the museum’s installer’s pics of the walls on the walls. The pic showed the previous exhibition, which included a Cy Twombly painting.

See also,

Christopher Williams Wall from the exhibition Mathias Poledna/Christopher Williams, 7 February – 26 April 2009, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn Exhibited in The Production Line of Happiness, 29 April – 21 June, 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London Mobile wall system designed and constructed by Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn plywood, metal, wood, and ink on PVC-free wallpaper 350 × 350 × 57 cm Courtesy Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn Wallpaper printed and installed by Omni Colour, London Studio Rhein Verlag, Düsseldorf August 20, 2016 (Recto) 2016 Inkjet print paper: 85,7 x 68,6 cm (33,75 x 27 in.) framed: 120,8 x 102,2 cm (47,6 x 40,2 in.)

[packedwithpackards]

Cyrus Packard, Sarah Barrows, and the Underground Railroad waystation

In July 2021, I noted in a footnote of one of my articles, about my slave-trading ancestor, Captain Samuel Packard, that Cyrus "Cy" Packard (1796-1860) and Sarah Barrows (1803-1903), two Packards in Topeka, Kansas, sheltered “runaway slaves”. Before then, I mentioned it in passing in an article in May 2019, citing page 1290 of The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations which says this about the activities of Cyrus and Sarah:

Cyrus, my third cousin six times removed, [1] was the son of Icabod (1760-1814), captain and Revolutionary War veteran, and Rachel Cole (1768-1825). The latter was the daughter of a farmer named Ephraim Cole and Hannah Randall Pratt. Rachel received 26 pounds, thirteen shillings, and four pence at the time of Ephraim's death in September 1775. [2] In contrast, Icabod was the son of Reuben John Packard (1737-1820), another Revolutionary War veteran, and Anne D. Perkins (1737-1806).

This differed from Sarah Barrows, a woman who Cyrus married in January 1825. She was the daughter of William Barrows, a Deacon who established Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine, and Catherine Pratt Macumber. Catherine had previously been married to man named Seth Macomber, with her maiden name as Pratt. [3] The story above is confirmed by various documents. The 1850 census shows Sarah, Cyrus, and their seven children (Sarah C., Charlotte A.H., Rachel C., Olive Augusta, Georgianna, Samuel F.) in Piscataquis, Maine, where Cyrus is a farmer, while Charlotte is a seamstress, and two farmers are in the same household (William Brown and Randall Chase). By 1860, Sarah and Cyrus would be living in Soldier, Shawnee, Kansas Territory, along with their daughter Catherine, son Samuel, daughter Olive, and three other individuals (William E. Bouker, William Owen, and Martha Owen). [4]

This also provides further evidence of the fact that Olive married William Owen, as they are living together in the same household. The 1900 census indicates that they married in 1859, as do other records. [5] More significant is an article in the Topeka Daily State Journal on June 5, 1907, an obituary of William, which tells the story of the role William and Olive had in the Underground Railroad and much more.

Another Kansas pioneer has. gone across the divide. William Owen came to Kansas In 1856, He made his home near the town of Indianola, Shawnee county. In 1858 he married Olive A. Packard. The house that he built on the Topeka and Holton road, near Rochester school house was one of the first houses built in that community, and is still occupied as a residence. It was a station of the "Underground railway," and John Brown made frequent trips along this road with his runaway slaves…Mr. Owen never sought office, and took little interest .in the game of politics--except as a means to an end…Mr. Owen was a close observer of men and things. He kept in touch with all reform movements. He joined the Greenback party and later the Socialistic wing of the People's party.

The aforementioned book, The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations, cites L.L. Kleine's article "The Battle of the Spurs and John Brown's Exit from Kansas" for its information about how the home of Cyrus and Sarah was a waystation on the Underground Railroad, and the house of Olive and William was a safehouse. The latter is described in detail on one page, noting that William put is life on the line and was jailed for his views:

William E. Connolly's 1918 book, A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans is cited as a source

Kleine goes into details about a trip across the Underground Railroad in January 1859, stating that a "stop was made at the home of Cyrus Packard, four miles north of Topeka, where the negroes were unloaded and the refugees and their escort ate lunch". After failing to find the information in the first volume, the second volume, or the third volume, I found a whole passage about William in the fourth volume, on pages 1764 and 1765, noting some fascinating details, which says a lot about their involvement in the abolitionist movement and Underground Railroad:

Much of the pioneer history of Kansas might be written around the names Owen and Packard. The late William Owen was one of the men who came from the East in the days of the '50s for the purpose of assisting in the movement to make a free state out of Kansas. His father- in-law, Cyrus Packard, was also a prominent leader in the free state movement. Born in Rhode Island in 1827, William Owen came to Shawnee County, Kansas, in 1856, about the time the first territorial government was organized. As a young man in Rhode Island he learned and fol- lowed the trade of carpenter, and for a time was in the same vocation in Kansas. Later he conducted a sawmill, his being one of the first mills in the territory. He also was a merchant and kept a store at Rochester. After the war he was a farmer and carpenter, but in 1880 concentrated all his efforts upon farming and continued in that work for eighteen years, when he retired from business and moved to Topeka. Mrs. William Owen before her marriage was Olive Packard, and the Packard and Owen families lived close neighbors after coming to Kansas.

Her father, Cyrus Packard, who was born in the State of Maine June 5, 1796, served as a soldier in the War of 1812. He was a man of deep religious convictions, an active supporter of the Congregational Church and carried his religious beliefs and his social principles into practical action on every occasion. At the time of the abolition movement in Maine Cyrus Packard and one other man were the only ones in their community who had the courage to speak and advocate the cause openly. Cyrus Packard was nearly sixty years of age when the Kansas Nebraska bill was passed and precipitated the conflict for a free state in Kansas. It was his ardent belief in abolition that caused him to abandon his comfortable home and come out to help make Kansas free. William Owen was likewise zealously identified with the free state movement.

At one time he was captured by the slave faction in Kansas and was taken to Lecompton and put in prison. A few days later the governor of the territory arrived at Lecompton, dined with the prisoner, and in a few days secured his release. Mrs. William Owen herself has many interesting anecdotes to relate concerning early days in Kansas. She recalls the fact that John Brown stopped one night at the Owen house with sixteen negroes, and Brown was not an infrequent visitor at the Owen or Packard homes. In fact everyone associated with the old underground railroad knew the Owen and Packard families. General W. T. Sherman when a young man managing the Thomas Ewing ranch boarded with the Owen family and the general with Mr. Owen 's assistance built what was known for many years as the Sherman cabin. Mr. and Mrs. Owen had fourteen children, six sons and eight daughters. Ten of these children are still living.

There's more than this. Cyrus was apparently described as "one of the first anti-slavery men" by one of his daughters, Olive. The house she lived in with William, and which Cyrus and Sarah seemingly also lived in, built in 1857, was partially burned in 2009 and sadly demolished in 2015. The words of Olive were quoted in Joanna Stratton's Pioneer Women. Otherwise, the memoir of Georgianna, one of Olive's sisters, notes that in 1858, a "family of colored people" lived in the house, while Olive's memoirs are mentioned various times as a primary source. [6] As it turns out, the memoirs are within the Kansas Historical Society's Lilla Day Monroe Collection of Pioneer Stories but have have not been, yet, posted online. However, a genealogical article written by Robert Stone in the June 1947 edition of Bulletin of The Shawnee County Historical Society, notes that the home of Cyrus and Sarah was a "hiding place for John Brown and his underground railway". It also describes her as a remarkable woman who was the unquestioned head of the family, had six daughters who became teachers, and was "always interested in political and literary affairs." Perhaps due to a frontier spirit, she was interested in her roots, and was proud of being a DAR member, even though the DAR itself was inherently racist and is historically white, only admitting its first Black member (Karen Batchelor Farmer) in 1977 and added a Black woman (Wilhelmina Rhodes Kelly) to its board in 2019.

The National Underground Railroad Network of Freedom gives more detail, noting that the first station north of Topeka was cabin of William Owen and Sarah, "one of a few extant sites to have hosted John Brown and those he led northward". Otherwise, there is an account by genealogist Lillian Stone Johnson which reprints letters from Cyrus. In one letter to Sarah and Hannah in 1856, Cyrus says he would like to go to Kansas and notes the importance in moulding a future society, while a letter from Georgianna the same year to her siblings says they are knitting a pair of stockings for Kansas. In others, Cyrus continues his planning to go to Kansas. The same account says this:

…Cyrus Packard and William Owen ran an underground railway station at their place…on the corner across from the present Rochester School. Here John Brown often came with negroes. They were kept in the wagon overnight and Sarah Barrows Packard, Cyrus' wife and Olive Packard Owen fed them breakfast and sent them on.

Other genealogists have noted that Cyrus and Sarah Packard, in-laws of William Jordan, a committed abolitionist, "were deeply involved in Underground Railroad activities, as was his brother-in-law, William Owen." John Brown, at the time, was soliciting funds and arms to support fighting in the Kansas territory. One book seems to bring all these stories together: My Common, Remarkable Family: Civil War to the Twenty First Century. It is edited by Tony Allen. Kristen Kimberly Eppsfurther wrote about the story on page 213 of her 2010 Masters Thesis, "Bound Together: Masters and Slaves on the Kansas-Missouri Border, 1825-1865":

One later reminiscence described the fugitives’ frame of mind during the ordeal. Cyrus Packard’s daughter Olive Owen, who witnessed her father’s abolitionist work, recalled that “they were quite a jolly set.” This was even the case after they had slept outside in wagons hidden behind some thick brush near the Packard home (at Kansapolis, now known as Rochester). [7]

Others said that the home of Cyrus was within a community sympathetic with rescue of enslaved peoples. These Packards are not the only ones who were either anti-slavery, abolitionist, or both. Others include William Packard (1791-1870), one of the earliest supporters of abolition in Cummington, Massachusetts, Theophilus Packard (1769-1855) was a vice president of the Massachusetts Antislavery Society, while the house of Bowdoin College professor Alpheus Spring Packard is now known as the Russwurm African American Center and may have been a waypoint for enslaved peoples as part of the Underground Railroad. Additionally, the Ramsdell House in Mason Road, Egypt, New York was said to be an Underground Railroad station, along with food and other markers in the forest to help those fleeing slavery. Gideon Ramsdell, who owned the house lived in the same town as Philander Packard who had married Minerva Lapham, with Lucy Lapham, who was born in Cummington, as the mother of Gideon. [8] I hope to find more antislavery ancestors in the future, and if I do, I'll be sure to write about them here.

Notes

[1] However, FamilySearch says he is my first cousin seven times removed, which is another way of saying the same thing, I think.

[2] Will of Ephraim Cole, 1775, Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Plymouth, Probates, Vol 24, 1775-1777, pages 75-77, images 71 and 72 of reel as shown on Ancestry.com.

[3] Maine, U.S., Marriage Records, 1713-1922 for Sarah Barrows, Oxford, 1825, P, Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll Number: 82, image 1; Miss Katharine Pratt in the Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), image 855, original page 383; Sarah Barrows in the Maine, U.S., Birth Records, 1715-1922, Maine State Archives; Cultural Building, 84 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0084; Pre 1892 Delayed Returns; Roll Number: 6, image 3 of 15.

[4] 1850 United States Federal Census for Sarah Packard, Maine, Piscataquis, Monson, Year: 1850; Census Place: Monson, Piscataquis, Maine; Roll: 267; Page: 220a-220b; 1860 United States Federal Census for Sarah Packard, Kansas Territory, Shawnee, Soldier, Year: 1860; Census Place: Soldier, Shawnee, Kansas Territory; Roll: M653_352; Page: 725-726; Family History Library Film: 803352.

[5] 1900 United States Federal Census for Olive A Owen, Kansas, Shawnee, Topeka Ward 01, District 0145, Year: 1900; Census Place: Topeka Ward 1, Shawnee, Kansas; Roll: 500; Page: 3; Enumeration District: 0145; FHL microfilm: 1240500, United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.

[6] Megan Hart, "Daughters of 1812 honor veteran, abolitionist," The Topeka Capital Journal, Apr. 6, 2013; "Kansas Frontierswomen Viewed Through Their Writing: The Memoir of Georgianna Packard," ed. Glenda Reilly, Kansas History, Winter 1986, p. 186; Mike Hall, "Burned house harbored slaves," The Topeka Capital Journal, Oct. 19, 2009; Tim Hrenchir, "Owen House, a Civil War-era home north of Topeka likely used on Underground Railroad, demolished," The Topeka Capital Journal, Oct. 7, 2015; Chapter IV, History Of Shawnee County, Kansas, 1905.

[7] She cites Olive Owen, “Some Remembrances of the Underground Railroad,” 1908, in Shawnee County History Collection, Library and Archives Division, KSHS.

[8] Sela Kay, "Russwurm Center: a missing link in the Underground Railroad?", The Bowdwin Orient, Dec. 6, 2019; "Four Cummington Abolitionists," Cummington Historical Commission, accessed September 26, 2022; Bertha Bortle Beal Aldridge, Laphams in America: Thirteen thousand descendants including descendants of John from Devonshire, England, to Providence, R.I., 1673, Thomas from Kent, England, to Scituate, Mass., 1634 and Genealogical Notes of other Lapham Families (Victor, New York: 1932-1933), 104, 171, 440-441. For another Cyrus see the biography of Cyrus A. Packard, who lived in Maine.

Note: This was originally posted on Mar. 6, 2023 on the main Packed with Packards WordPress blog (it can also be found on the Wayback Machine here). My research is still ongoing, so some conclusions in this piece may change in the future.

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After I rejected Sam :

After a whole ass chandelier fell on Alex :

Oh how I ship them 😍

Bonus :

Despite Alex nearly getting crushed, this was by far the funniest chapter I am wheezing