Jim Baugh Outdoors TV returns to film one of our favorite adventures, offshore deep drop sea basin! We filmed this feature during
The Magnificent Ambersons at the Historic Palace Theatre February 17 3 p.m
The 100th Anniversary Committee of the Cape Charles Memorial Library hopes you are planning on attending the free showing of the movie The Magnificent Ambersons at the Historic Palace Theatre.
The showing is Sunday, February 17 at 3 p.m.
Also, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. – Lemon Tree Gallery and Studio presents Conversation Cafe “Romancing Dance” featuring Ballroom Dancing and Love Stories. Light Refreshments and cash bar. Come early before the movie.
The movie culminates the town-wide read of the novel by the same name. The novel was written by Booth Tarkington and the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, the year our library was founded.
The movie is being offered for free, with complimentary popcorn and beverage for everyone, regardless of whether they read the novel. A cash bar will also be available.
The Magnificent Ambersons stars Joseph Cotton and was produced by Orson Welles. It was four times nominated for an Academy Award and was released in 1942.
Welles adapted Booth Tarkington’s novel, about the declining fortunes of a wealthy Midwestern family and the social changes brought by the automobile age.
Welles lost control of the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons to RKO, and the final version released to audiences differed significantly from his rough cut of the film.
More than an hour of footage was cut by the studio, which also shot and substituted a happier ending.
Although Welles’s extensive notes for how he wished the film to be cut have survived, the excised footage was destroyed. Composer Bernard Herrmann insisted his credit be removed when, like the film itself, his score was heavily edited by the studio.
Even in the released version, The Magnificent Ambersons is often regarded as among the best U.S. films ever made, a distinction it shares with Welles’s first film, Citizen Kane
The winners of the 100th Anniversary Essay Contest for students in grades 3-4 and 5-6 will be announced, and prizes presented, prior to the start of the movie.
Take a Valentine’s Day Carriage Ride through Cape Charles
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a Special Carriage Ride.
Take that special someone on a horse and carriage ride to dinner. Packages can include a
Services provided by Cape Charles Wellness Massage & Spa Nails and Marshall’s Anchor Down Ranch.
Book early – times slots are going fast. Call 331-0589 for more information or to make a reservation.
A Celebration of Negro Spirituals Feb. 15th
“A Celebration of Negro Spirituals” in the gym of Mary N. Smith Cultural Enrichment Center, 24577 Mary N. Smith Road in Accomac.
Friday, February 15 at 6:30 to 8 p.m. – Admission: $10 at the door; cash or check only; no advance ticket sales.
In a collaboration of the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society; Mary N. Smith Alumni Association; and local church choirs, performers from all over the Shore will share their talents while we explore signal and map songs used by slaves in their journey along the Underground Railroad.
Choirs will include the United Voices of Jerusalem Baptist Church in Temperanceville; choirs from Gaskins Chapel A.M.E. Church in Onancock and Macedonia A.M.E. Church in Accomac; and the Anointed Word Choir from Anointed Word Church of God and Christ in Keller.
Several Shore soloists, including Catrina Satchell of Anointed Word and Inayah Mason, an Arcadia High senior who attends Painter’s New Mount Zion Baptist Church, also will take the stage
Lecture: Reaching New Boundaries at BIC
Barrier Islands Center’s Coffee Hour Lecture and Performance Series presents: Don Mann “Reaching Beyond Boundaries”.
Don Mann’s highly-accredited and popular presentation come from his colorful and action-packed life as a Navy SEAL Team SIX commando, an internationally renowned endurance athlete and as a New York Times Best-Selling Author.
He has changed countless lives by sharing his unique “Reaching Beyond Boundaries” philosophy.
He shares insights into his personal philosophy of setting micro-goals to achieve
Don’s message includes equal doses of inspiration and strategy.
Enjoy a fascinating morning hearing about his unique story and the lessons he has learned in his accomplished life. Don Mann is a resident of Cape Charles.
Friday, February 15 at 10:30 a.m.
Register online at barrierislandscenter.org or call 678-5550. FREE
Green New Deal Resolution hits the street
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) have unveiled their Green New Deal resolution — a call to arms on climate and jobs that’s long on ambition, but lacking in details and a political path to becoming policy.
This marks the next phase for a movement that has risen quickly to play an outsized role in the climate policy conversation and influence the Democratic 2020 White House contest.
The non-binding resolution envisions a massively expanded federal role in emissions-cutting and economic intervention that takes its cues from World War II and New Deal-era programs:Details: Some of the resolution’s top-line goals include…
- Achieving net-zero U.S. greenhouse gas emissions through a “fair and just transition for all communities and workers” while creating millions of jobs.
- Decarbonizing all the major segments of the economy — power, manufacturing, buildings, transportation and more.
- Protections for indigenous people, communities of color, the poor and others under the heading of “frontline and vulnerable communities.
The many broad concepts in the resolution include “meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources.” That phrasing seems to leave the door open to technologies that some activists oppose (such as fossil fuels with carbon capture and nuclear energy), but doesn’t name-check any of them.
It also calls for energy efficiency in “all existing buildings” and new buildings, too, as well as cutting emissions from transportation as much as technologically possible.
Note: That means retrofitting 39,179 buildings/housing units every day for 10 years straight. 137,403,460 housing units in U.S – Census Bureau (2017) 5.6 million commercial buildings in the U.S. (87 billion sq of floorspace) -Dept of Energy’s EIA (2012)
There’s no specific projected cost for what would be massive federal investments under the resolution.
The plan is silent on whether it would impose a carbon tax.
Visitors abused by Reverse-Angle Parking
Just when lustrious Festive Fridays
Instead, some, such as this couple from Bentonville, felt the heavy hand of Cape Charles, and were slammed with a parking ticket for not understanding the ludicrous reverse-angle parking scheme:
Saltworks Opera to stage Dialogues of the Carmelites
This July marks the 225th anniversary of the martyrdom of Carmelite Nuns during the Reign of Terror. On July 17th, 1794, 16 nuns were found to be a danger to society and subsequently sentenced to death by guillotine for “refusing to obey the Civil Constitution of the Clergy” which demanded the suppression of the order. Instead of abandoning their monastic vows, the sisters took a new vow of martyrdom. They renewed their vows together at the foot of the scaffold and then sang as they mounted the steps.
This July, Saltworks Opera invites you to share their story as told through the experience of young novitiate, Blanche de la Force. Dialogues of the Carmelites was completed by Francis Poulenc in 1956. Since its premier it has earned its place as a gem of operatic repertoire. True to Poulenc’s desire for the opera to appear in the vernacular, this production will be in English.
If you wish to become a sponsor or co-producer of Dialogues of the Carmelites, simply click the link below to visit our Star Sponsors’ page. There you may make a donation through PayPal; just include “Carmelites” in the memo line.
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Perpetual Calendar of Week Days Available at Rayfield’s in Cape Charles
An innovative new calendar featuring the art of local painter Marty Burgess is now for sale at Rayfield’s Pharmacy in Cape Charles. And here’s the story behind it! After retiring in 2018, Northampton County resident Pam Barefoot woke up every morning wondering what day it was.
“The first thought that came to mind when I opened my eyes was ‘What day is it?’” Barefoot said. “But I didn’t want to fumble around looking for my smartphone.”Barefoot hunted online for a solution, but the only items she found were electric or battery-operated clocks that also featured the time. She didn’t want the time, she just wanted the day. So she constructed a prototype of weekdays that she placed on the chest of drawers in her bedroom.
A photo of the homemade design on her Facebook page immediately received a response from retired businessman Lucius Kellam that said, “Pam, I think your calendar for retired folks is a winner, very clever, I’ve never seen anything like it.”
With that response and her husband’s blessing, she decided that developing a marketable version was worth a shot.For the cover, Barefoot wanted something joyful that would express the “morning” concept.
She recalled that Marty Burgess, a popular local painter, had posted examples of his works on his Facebook page. One featured early morning light coming through trees in a variety of colors.
This particular painting struck Barefoot immediately as being ideal for the cover of her new calendar. With the artist’s blessing, production began.The spiral-bound perpetual calendar of weekdays makes an ideal gift for retirees as well as a tool for children learning to read.
Featuring a built-in easel stand, the calendar retails for $9.95 and can be folded to take on trips.
Barefoot recommends keeping a small pad of post it notes nearby for quick removable reminders of appointments.
Green New Deal: Bringing Fantasy to Reality?
Socialism may begin with the best of intentions, but it always ends with the Gestapo- Winston Churchill
We’ve been waiting for it, and now that the Green New Deal is here, and there is no doubt this is the Fyre Festival of US Legislation.
Somehow, government-run healthcare, “family sustainable” wages, paid leave, and “affordable” housing
Progressive firebrand Naomi Klein once declared that climate change has given the world “the most powerful argument against unfettered capitalism” ever. She added that progressive values and policies are “currently being vindicated, rather than refuted, by the laws of nature.”
Although it is of course cloaked in the mantle of peer-reviewed natural science, the Green New Deal is clearly a political program, designed to check every box on the progressive wish-list. For example, here is how Naomi Klein makes the case to left-wing activists to support Ocasio-Cortez against the establishment Democrats:
Pulling that [a 45-percent reduction in fossil fuel emissions in 12 years—RPM] off, the [IPCC] report’s summary states in its first sentence, is not possible with singular policies like carbon taxes. Rather, what is needed is “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” By giving the committee a mandate that connects the dots between energy, transportation, housing and construction, as well as health care, living wages, a jobs guarantee, and the urgent imperative to battle racial and gender injustice, the Green New Deal plan would be mapping precisely that kind of far-reaching change. This is not a piecemeal approach that trains a water gun on a blazing fire, but a comprehensive and holistic plan to actually put the fire out. [Naomi Klein, bold added.]
Just quickly, let’s look at the engineering problem. A team of Stanford engineers led by Mark Jacobson outlined just such a plan back in 2015. Jacobson’s repowering plan would involve installing 335,000 onshore wind turbines; 154,000 offshore wind turbines; 75 million residential photovoltaic systems; 2.75 million commercial photovoltaic systems; 46,000 utility-scale photovoltaic facilities; 3,600 concentrated solar power facilities with onsite heat storage; and an extensive array of underground thermal storage facilities.
Young “progressive” Dems say world will end in 12 yrs, but insist we spend next 10 of those final 12 bankrupting entire economy and living like the Flintstones. Does anyone else see how absolutely stupid that sounds?
Assuming steep declines in the costs of each form of renewable electric power generation, just running the electrical grid using only renewable power would still cost roughly $7 trillion by 2030. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation calculated that the total cost of an earlier version of Jacobson’s scheme would amount to $13 trillion. And based on how fast it has taken to install energy generation infrastructure in the past, Jacobson’s repowering plan would require a sustained installation rate that is more than 14 times the U.S. average over the last 55 years and more than six times the peak rate.
From a design and engineering standpoint, the “Green New Deal” reads like it was some eighth grade group project headed on by some hippie art teacher that’s stoned
Where is the money to pay for this massive transformation going to come from? The headline over at The Week sums it up pretty well: “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to pay for her Green New Deal by essentially printing more money.”
This Frankenstein Monster really isn’t about climate change at all. That is simply the pretext to fundamentally transform every aspect of society and culture the way progressive leftists have wanted to do even before anyone talked about “global warming.”
Even as beltway wonks who still plead with conservatives and libertarians to agree to a “carbon tax deal,” should see Naomi Klein in the quotation above spell it out just like so many of her colleagues before her: They are explicitly saying a carbon tax is not close to being enough to achieve their environmental goals.
The word “nuclear” doesn’t appear once in the entire draft legislation for the Select Committee. Isn’t it odd that Ocasio-Cortez and Naomi Klein think we have 12 years to act before the world ends in a tidal wave of climate catastrophe, yet they have the time to talk about fixing gender imbalances while they don’t talk about a scalable energy source that is nearly carbon-emission-free? (This source currently provides 20% of U.S. electricity.)
But really, i
A “Green New Deal” makes no sense on economic grounds. Even if one endorsed a Keynesian economic framework in which the historical New Deal “worked,” it still would be nonsensical to implement such a program today, with very high (peacetime) debt loads and an economy at officially full employment. Of note, the historical New Deal did not in fact
What we know the Green New Deal will do:
- Create “unprecedented “ government intervention into the private sector.
- Eliminate 99% of cars
- End all air travel
- Cost Americans untold trillions.
What it won’t do: Stop the climate from changing.
Let’s be honest. Whoever authered AOC’s Green New Deal document is a full-scale idiot. There is no way to read that document as a rational person and think otherwise.
The people pushing a Green New Deal are using it as a vehicle to advance the traditional potpourri of the left’s political agenda.
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