Columbia Crew, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1910 Photograph by Bain News Service (New York) Gelatin silver print Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
Photograph shows members of the Columbia University varsity eight-oared crew team: top row, left to right, R. K. Murphy, F. Miller, Paul Renshaw, A. M. Hamman, W. Steinschneider, G. Downing; bottom row, S. Pitt, A. Brock, and F. H. Saunders, at Poughkeepsie, New York, for an intercollegiate regatta.
possibly the most important interaction of the day: i got to feed a porcupine/pet his belly/lose my mind watching him eat a piece of sweet potato. thanks to the dude handling him who let me ask a thousand questions and take a million pics. i love this spiky baby. @littleraysnaturecentres . . . #animalrescue #wildliferehabilitation #porcupine #poughkeepsie #midhudsonciviccenter (at Mid-Hudson Civic Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqWUzGdFa9E/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jq9s3jgx0yxv
it’s been far too long since i was in a room full of animals. today was amazing. almost cried while petting the rats. thanks @littleraysnaturecentres ❤️ . . . #animalrescue #wildliferehabilitation #opossum #armadillo #snake #ferret #sloth #gecko #boaconstrictor #poughkeepsie #midhudsonciviccenter (at Mid-Hudson Civic Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqWQWYnlxgr/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qzvko7sv7hkl
Backside of the Eastman Business College advertising card, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Frank must have done very well in Penmanship because his handwriting was very good.
Eastman Business College of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. advertising card. Photographed by Vail Bros., Feb. 8, 1882. This is the school that Frank went to in 1882.
This is a picture I took last night on the bus. In it we see the last run of the night and two bus drivers (late for their routes), bitching #loudly about how much they hate their jobs, customers and routes. They’re also talking about striking. Now, if these drivers actually did their jobs; pleasantly and with respect to the community they serve, I could understand their complaints. However, this is just one of many instances of the #Poughkeepsie #Loop #Bus and their shitty service and level of entitlement. What got them moving was when I went to look at the schedule to see what time they were supposed to leave the Hub. The bus didn’t have accurate schedules for that route available, but they got the point. Ten minutes late, but I got home eventually. (at Poughkeepsie, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqxm7NoA5uR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9d3fhdlnt1as
This tweet thread sure has gone over well with members of The Satanic Temple.
Look, we are not going to even feign sadness when bad things to TST. This is a rotten organization that uses the resources people give it to threaten and harass critics, to self-enrich, and to throw it away in sloppy lawsuits pursuing petty grievances.
High-level Satanic Temple leaders and chapters have sold art of burning churches before (which is unironically good, actually).
They are perfectly capable of understanding these feelings.
If the Temple’s HQ got struck by lightning or bad electrical wiring starting a fire and it burnt down, we’d have a good laugh about it. But it wouldn’t solve our problems, and it wouldn’t solve the problems that TST represents more generally, both as an organization and its function in more broadly in society.
So rather than doing arsons, we really wish the Jesus freaks would just talk about The Satanic Temple accurately instead of building them up into a grand enemy to fight. But we know that’s not going to happen because both parties continue to benefit from the illusion that the Temple is a competent international organization with hundreds of thousands of members and numerous active programs.
Don’t try to burn down The Satanic Temple’s HQ. They have insurance, they will get a free media cycle out of it, and they’ll probably do a whole fundraising campaign off of it.
Do continue to talk about TST accurately and demand financial accountability from them on everything because their whole grift only works when you pay attention for the headline and stop asking questions after that, like what actually happened to all the money people gave it.
Also, dunno if there’s been more follow-up on the January 2021 arson of the old Satanist house in Poughkeepsie, but unlike The Satanic Temple’s HQ, it seemed a little less straightforward at the last story we saw.
Surveillance video earlier that morning captured a man walking up to the house with two gas cans, splashing a liquid on the front porch and igniting the liquid before fleeing, city police said. Police did not provide an update on the investigation this week.
Though the house still stood after the blaze, it was demolished over the last few weeks.
“It had to come down,” Matthew Camp, who owns the property, told the Journal.
Camp bought the house in October 2020 after previous owner Joe “Netherworld” Mendillo, a high-ranking member of the Church of Satan and one of his close friends, died in January 2020.
Mendillo “was like a mentor to me,” Camp said. “A father figure. So we were very close. I was very sad to see him pass. Even the events of the fire and losing the house don’t really compare to losing my friend.”
Netherworld moved to Poughkeepsie in 1999 and popularized his historic, Victorian-style house with Halloween decor and bonds with other local members of the Church of Satan.
It’s unclear what motivated an arsonist to target Camp’s home but the 37-year-old — who works as an actor, model and adult performer — previously spoke to the Journal about it.
“It’s 2021, so pick any topic and you’ll find all kinds of internet hatred about it,” Camp, who was one of the two people in the house at the time of the fire, said in January. “I am a very open and public gay man, and open about my career as an OnlyFans content creator — along with the political climate, and the perception of the house as ‘haunted’ or ‘witchy’ — it could go in any direction to receive hate.”
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