#moses brown

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7/1/24.

"Lullaby for the Debris" is the second LP from Peace De Résistance (New York, New York). The band is the solo project of Moses Brown whose prior band, Institute put out some great rock in the mid 2010s.

Peace De Résistance's first LP was undeniably enjoyable glam rock. I can't imagine that the D'Addario brothers (The Lemon Twigs) didn't love the 1st record. And while there is only one song currently available from "Lullaby for the Debris" it seems like Brown might be a shape shifter like The Lemon Twigs. Still, the Bandcamp page for the new release name drops Lou Reed, David Bowie ("Station to Station" era) and Brian Eno.

This is a co-release between Brown's Peace De Records and the venerable La Vida Es Un Mus Discos.

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Peace De Résistance — Lullaby for the Debris (La Vida Es un Mus)

Like some doomed lovechild of the later Velvets and Diamond Dogs-period Bowie, with the most hypnotically rocking tunes by the Swell Maps (think “Midget Submarines” or “Secret Island”) as close avuncular relations, Peace De Résistance’s new LP Lullaby for the Debris shuffles into earshot. Louche and low-slung, but also jittery and jumpy; groovy and gravid in equal proportions — the record’s feeling tone can be hard to inhabit, but it’s simultaneously so seductively easy to dance to. It just about demands a tapping foot, a shaking hip and a shimmying pair of shoulders, if you can shed enough of our collective state of existential dread to get up off the floor and shimmy. (Shaking is a simpler prospect these days, if you are willing to do so in fear.) This reviewer enjoys moving in tune with “Coddle the Rich” or “I Am,” songs that realize the variety of mordant delight Peace De Résistance excels at creating. Listening to Lullaby for the Debris won’t solve any of the problems generating all that fearful trembling, but the record can take some of the sting out of things. In our current conjuncture, that’s just about enough.

Listeners familiar with Bits and Pieces (2022), the first LP Moses Brown released under the Peace De Résistance name, will encounter some similar sounds and textures here. Brown hasn’t effected significant changes to the project’s sonic identity: glammy punk with a grimy bit of a funk on it. These new songs are more polished without losing much of the ragged quality that distinguishes the project’s musical atty-tude. Brown sounds sorta jaded, sorta grossed out, but not entirely hopeless. And maybe that’s not such a great thing: it would be so much easier just to shrug and mumble a cynical “fuck it.” Having hope means that you can’t turn entirely passive. What a drag.

So we get songs like “40 Times the Rent” and “Fast Money,” curling their lips at capital’s unjust disparities of wealth and the increasing difficulties of affording space in which to exist and have something like a private life. Those are intractable problems also addressed by Institute, the Austin-based punk project Brown participates in. Peace De Résistance is more glam than anarchic, and Brown’s loose-limbed grooves clash with his sprechtgesang vocal style, akin to a more nasally and dissipated Leonard Cohen, c. I’m Your Man. Like Cohen, Brown makes that relatively flat delivery feel urgent, mysterious and reckless, even as the music strikes more decadent stances.

It's a complicated sound, despite its druggy and dissolute surfaces. The songs’ content demands to be taken seriously, and depending on your politics, you may find the sentiments of smartly written tunes like “Ain’t What It Used to Be” (about gentrification and its historical erasures) and “Pay Us More” (yep) sharp and moving, critical and edging toward something like aspirational struggle. The music is both less sanguine and more oriented toward pleasure. The combination of style and content isn’t jarring so much as weirdly on edge, a pose of careless aloofness that wants to lose its cool. This reviewer enjoys those surface-level pleasures enough to hope that Brown can stave off the hotter affect. But the political won’t wait, and the debris is accumulating noisily, however effective Peace De Résistance’s lullabies might be. Harsh daylight will cut through those black-lensed Ray-Bans soon enough.

Jonathan Shaw

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Moses Brown

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RIIL Credit Union Basketball Championships Press Conference set for March 15 at the Ryan Center

March 15, 2024

The RIIL Credit Union Basketball Championships Press Conference will be held Friday, March 15 at 10:30 a.m. at the Ryan Center.

The eight teams that have qualified for the Final Four of this weekend’s Rhode Island Interscholastic League Girls and Boys Basketball State Tournaments will be in attendance, along with members of the Shea High School and Tolman High School unified basketball teams that will be playing an exhibition game in between the state final games on Sunday, March 17.

The Top 12 teams in the Power Rankings after the RIIL Divisional Playoff Tournaments were completed qualified for the State Tournament. In addition, any division tournament champion not previously in the top-12 received automatic bids. The teams that have advanced to the girls semifinals include Barrington High School (#1 seed), North Kingstown High School (#2), Moses Brown (#3) and St. Mary Academy - Bay View (#5). The boys semifinalists include: Classical (#1 seed), Barrington High School (#2), La Salle Academy (#3) and Lincoln High School (#4).

Also in attendance Friday will be representatives from the Credit Unions of Rhode Island, now in their 34th year serving as presenting sponsor of the RIIL Basketball Championships.

Tickets for the RIIL Credit Union Basketball Championships are $10 for adults, $8 for youth and high school students and are available at the Ryan Center Box Office and online at uritix.evenue.net. Visit www.theryancenter.com or www.riil.org for more information.

RIIL Credit Union Basketball Championships

Saturday, March 16

Noon - Girls Semifinal Game 1: #1 Barrington vs. #5 St. Mary Academy-Bay View

2 p.m. – Girls Semifinal Game 2: #2 North Kingstown vs. #3 Moses Brown

4 p.m. – Boys Semifinal Game 1: #1 Classical vs. #4 Lincoln

6 p.m. -  Boys Semifinal Game 2: #2 Barrington vs. #3 La Salle Academy

Sunday, March 17

3:30 p.m. - Girls Final: Winner of Final Four Game 1 vs Winner of Final Four Game 2

5 p.m. - Unified Basketball Exhibition Game: Shea High School vs. Tolman High School

6 p.m. - Boys Final: Winner of Final Four Game 1 vs Winner of Final Four Game 2

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A "social and professional role": the story of Captain Samuel Packard

There are many subjects I could write about here. Either looking at vital records for Abington, Massachusetts to see where Packards pop up, results on Family Search for the surname of Packard, or mentions in a "Genealogical Dictionary" seemingly. [1] What I am inquiring here about is a man named Captain Samuel Packard painted by an American painter named James Earl, in the last years of his life, in circa 1794. The oil on canvas painting, which measures 35 by 29 1/4 inches, is of a prominent man in New England, begging the question: who is this man?

A photo of the above painting, held by the RISD Museum, is reposted here from the RISD website based on the Creative Commons license used for all RISD Museum works, which lets "others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms." This post is a non-commercial work as it is intended purely for educational purposes about the Packard family.

In their description of the above painting, [2] the RISD Museum writes that

Seated casually in a Windsor chair, Samuel Packard signals his social and professional role in the new republic. The plush drapery, the decorative column, Packard’s fashionable bright-hued waistcoat all suggest that is a man of wealth. The ship in the distance and the spyglass refer to his interests in maritime trade. A merchant and talented mariner, Packard owned 39 vessels that sailed from Providence. Around the time of this portrait, Packard had completed missions abroad for George Washington, so the ships may also allude to Packard’s diplomatic travels.

He was married to a woman named Abigail Congdon and had a daughter with her which had the same name (Abigail). They were married on December 13, 1789 in Saint Pauls Church, Narragansett, Washington, Rhode Island as the record shows:

Page 345 of Vital record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol 10, within the section "St. Paul's Church marriages"

In January 1942, the Rhode Island Historical Society displayed the painting of Samuel Packard on the cover of their historical magazine. One article titled "A Rhode Islander Goes West to Indiana" by George A. White, Jr. explained more about Capt. Samuel Packard's role in the early United States. He wrote on pages 21-22 that

Captain Samuel Packard was the son of Nathaniel Packard and was born in Providence, October 17, 1760. His father owned land bordering North Main, Howard, and Try Streets. Captain Samuel Packard's life followed a similar pattern...he was a mariner, ship master, ship--owner, and merchant. He owned 39 ships, sailing from Providence to all ports of the world...an ardent admirer of George Washington...Captain Packard acted for him in secret work [during the revolutionary war]...[after 1797] Captain Packard and his family lived in a mansion [in Providence] built of wood and brick, measuring 25 feet on the street and 60 feet deep. It was three stories high...On December 13, 1789, Captain Packard had married Abigail Congdon...in 1798, Abigail (Congdon) Packard inherited a portion of the Congdon homestead farm on Boston Neck...in the early 1800's Captain Packard purchased the remainder of the farm...Captain Packard owned land in Cranston, R.I., and in Illinois. Captain Packard furnished his Providence and North Kingston homes with fine furniture, china, and silver

Mr. White continues by quoting letters from Captain Packard's son, John Congdon Packard, describing his experiences "out West" which are addressed to Captain Packard's residence in North Kingston, Rhode Island.

Note: This was originally posted on Mar. 9, 2018 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.

Apart from the confusion of Samuel Packard who arrived in 1638 with Captain Samuel Packard (as noted here and here), some got it right. It is evident that Captain Packard was a "revolutionary patriot," which was also recognized by William Shaw Bowen who gave some of the Captain's belongings to the Redwood Library in 1878. He may have commanded a company during the war with the British from 1812-1815 as well, although this be a confusion with another Packard.

There is no doubt that Captain Packard was renowned as a master of ships, while transporting important financial papers. While it would seem, reportedly, was pointed to the spot where Roger Williams, Rhode Island's founder, was buried, with one book saying that, this is actually referencing Nathaniel Packard who married a woman named Nabby. He was, however, one of the original members of the Providence Marine Corps of Artillery and, later on, the Providence Marine Society.

Captain Packard clearly had a role in the revolutionary war in moving supplies past the British blockade as Vol 4 of Naval Documents in the American Revolution reports:

These events happened in April 1776

I still question whether this is the right Packard, however.

Captain Packard went beyond the owning of slaves by Zachariah Packard as noted in my family history. He sailed a ship to the coast of Africa looking for Black Africans to enslave in 1797 contrary to Rhode Island law. As the University Publications of America noted in a guide to certain Rhode Island Historical Society records,

Moreover, Moses Brown’s letters reveal not only the Abolition Society’s formal legal stratagems but also its traditional policy of intense but informal negotiating with slave traders who often yielded to the group’s demands without a court fight. Cyprian Sterry, for example, the principal slave trader in Providence during the 1790s with fifteen voyages to the African coast in 1794 alone, fully succumbed to the society’s persistent pressure. He escaped prosecution (along with his captain, Samuel Packard) for an African voyage involving the ship Ann by signing a written pledge to leave the slave trade forever.

Captain Packard was seemingly related to a Capt. Nathaniel Packard who was also in Rhode Island. Other books sadly only exist as snippets and hence do not give much information about his life. However, there is no doubt that he lived in Providence, Rhode Island near houses that nowadays are called historic (see pages 16 and 17 of this PDF).

Page 17 excerpt

You would be able to look at the deed books either by going to the Rhode Island State Archives, as noted here, or being at a Family Search Library.

He was alive and well in Providence in September 1794 when a ship, Hope, came into the harbor:

Courtesy of Chronicling America.

Thanks to Family Search, I have also discovered:

Captain Packard (called Samuel Packard in record) living in Providence, Providence, RI in 1790 and in 1800, as summarized also in an article later on on this blog, using the original records.

Captain Packard (called Samuel Packard in record) living in Providence RI's West District in 1810.

Captain Packard and Abigail's daughter died in 1860 (no publicly available image is available)

Abigail, Captain Packard's wife, died in 1854 (no publicly available image is available)

As it was noted, in one of the books I found, that a Captain Packard died at age 80 in 1809. There is a Samuel Packard who died in 1824 at sea with a tombstone in Rhode Island along with a Samuel Packard Jr who died in Providence in 1799. His tombstone makes it clear that he was born in Oct 1760 and died on July 17, 1760. This is clear from the following transcription:

In the memory of

Capt

Samuel Packard

Who Died

July 17, 1820

Aged

59 Years & 9 Months

Via page 382 of Vital record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850, Vol 10, shows deaths of varying Packards in Rhode Island.

Notes

[1] Also it is worth noting that no Packard popped up here, meaning that there is nothing in Family Search's Massachusetts, Town Clerk...Town Records, 1626-2001 specifically for  Norfolk,  Weymouth or  Land records 1642-1644. Packards could be on this page, but is also questionable. Additionally, I could look at online records of Hingham to see if the Packards appear, possible Packards on pages such as this one or this. But I have already done that in the past and future searches at this time are a waste.

[2] The Rhode Island Medical Journal writes that "several other portraits by James Earl in the RISD show bear a strong stylistic similarity [to the one of Dr. Amos Thoop], particularly that of Capt. Samuel Packard of Providence, a successful ship captain, merchant, and ship owner of Throop’s era." The painting is in the Smithsonian's Art Inventories Catalog but resides at RISD. As one person writes about the collections in Rhode Island, "Postwar Windsor production at Providence for domestic use is indicated in the accounts of the Proud brothers and in a circa-1795 portrait of Capt. Samuel Packard seated in a sack-back Windsor."

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Ithaca model 37 ?

Smash

[inmyperfectworld]

Teedra Moses in the early '00s. 🩷

SN: She's one of my favorite singers.

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manny jacinto & moses sumney via thombrowne

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Happy Birthday to the greatest and most influential engineer and designer of firearms.

John Moses Browning, born January 23, 1855

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Hello, the three other people on Singin in the Rain tumblr.

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Moses Brown

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10 Books to Add to Your TBR 2024 Edition Part 1

Most years I put out a list of books I greatly enjoyed from the first half of the year some time in June. This year, I decided to do it early because, besides needing a blog for this week, I have read a lot of good books lately, so I’m thinking of making this something I do more than twice a year (and often forget to do in December). The books listed below are not in any order of favoritism, but…