September 5, 2026 NV #214
“ “Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.” - Sarah Orne Jewett
ADDING ON
THE AD & etc: I don’t do ads much. I don’t like to do them. But every now and then they have a place in my existence. The art and copy are that of M.A. Wakefield. It’s interesting to see such things come to life.
This week was unusually busy at the museum. We had visitors from the Philippines, Germany, New York City, PA., Port Clinton, and east of Cleveland etc.
All the visitors were curious and appreciated what they found inside our off-the-beaten-trail museum. Sometimes I learn more from them than they me [e.g.Mergenthaler, the invention of the Linotype type-setting machine (1886) was born into German family in Hachtel, Kingdom of. Wurttemberg. He was the third son of a schoolteacher, Johann Georg Mergenthaler]
He was apprenticed to a watchmaker in Beitigheim before immigrating to the U.S. in 1872 to work with his cousin, one August Hahl in Washington, D.C. He eventually moved with Hahl’s shop to Baltimore . In 1878, Mergenthaler became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1881, and eventually Hahl’s business partner.
If he’d been around today he’d likely been deported because he wasn’t a native and couldn’t speak “good American” (the language we call “English”).
WHAT'S IN A WORD
VOCABULARY: You never know when you need just the right word.
PFT - THE "PRANGSTER"
PUNCTUATING: F.Y.I. The big trick in writing for video is punctuation. I wrote the text for “PFT” and used my cloned voice to narrate.
I failed to get all the punctuating right. So it’s easy to tell my voice is A.I. generated.
I’m still working with and on it…
[By the way – all the videos on the site today are self generated. I didn’t use an outside platform for publication.]
This is A VERY SPECIAL NOTE
NEW: I’ve added a “special section” to the “Past 20 Years” part of the page. You will find there nearly (but not all) every video and audio production I’ve published over the last few years. They’re not arranged as nicely as I want them to be. But SOME are there – and I’ll add to them as time passes.
GRAY SCALE TO RGB
VERMILION FISHERMAN ALVA SNELL (AUDIO)
VERMILION HISTORY THEATRE: Due to all the distractions surrounding me lately I neglected to keep the link to the History Audio/ Video Theatre. So – click on the name above and visit.