Beckwith Collection brings Indian Culture to Life

Beckwith Collection brings Indian Culture to Life


FROM THE ARTICLE:
When Jim Phillips leads tours of schoolchildren through display cases filled with bowls and other artifacts from the University Museum's Beckwith Collection, he points out that the things in their own cupboards at home could end up in a museum in a thousand years.

"We want to get them thinking that this is not a dead people," the curator of the Beckwith Collection said. "These are things they used every day."


The Collection is a product of the work and collections of Thomas Beckwith, and is located in Missouri. This is from the university:

The Museum's archaeological display features representative artifacts from the Thomas Beckwith Collection, which contains nine hundred whole ceramic vessels and effigy fragments plus approximately two thousand lithics. Most of the objects in the collection were excavated by Thomas Beckwith at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries from mounds on his property in southeast Missouri. In 1913, Beckwith donated his collection to the Third District Normal School, the predecessor to Southeast Missouri State University. Since 1976, the Collection has been housed in the Southeast Missouri Regional Museum. Today the Collection provides unique insights into the culture and lives of prehistoric Native peoples of this region.

Jim Beckwourth: The play

Jim Beckwourth: The play

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and Rupert Beckwith-Smith

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York and Rupert Beckwith-Smith

http://www.geocities.com/usman4lhr/sarah/home.htm

http://www.netbroadcaster.com/events/newsxml/nb020123/nb020123_3_STAR.html

Bend it like Beckwith

Bend it like Beckwith

Move over, David Beckham! You've got some competition, but I tend to think cooperation would be a better ticket. Maybe you and Jennifer Beckwith can go on tour. You've still got time to realize that it's called "soccer", not "football". Football is a rather clumsy sport. At least around here...

Anyway, here is what is being said about Jennifer Beckwith:

Beckwith is famous for her ability to "flip throw" the ball back in bounds. With her amazing flexibility and experience with gymnastics, she pushes her body forward and does a handstand on the ball, then flips over and launches the soccer ball into play.


Can you do that? Case closed.

Here are some other quotes:

Stormy weather was expected Friday, Sept. 26, but the only thing "raining" down at The Cage was the field crossing throw-ins from freshman forward, Jennifer Beckwith.
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Beckwith's throw-ins must be seen to be believed. As she runs up the line, she performs a front flip. Just as she comes to her feet, she launches the ball over 40 yards.
Beckwith provided three scoring chances in the first half using her flipping throw-ins, or, as she calls them "flip throws."





Kudos to you both! Do, and be, your best...

MOUNT AIRY PLANTATION BOOKS

MOUNT AIRY PLANTATION BOOKS

The Featherstone Millions

The Featherstone Millions

Genealogical Googlism

Googlism

Fun with Goolism...

What is it?
From the website:

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John Lennon's classic Working Class Hero sung by Silas Beckwith

One of my favorites of John. I could not resist linking this...

John Lennon's classic Working Class Hero sung by Silas Beckwith

Peyton Randolph family (including Jennings)

Peyton Randolph family (including Jennings)

Descendants of JOHN JENNINGS

Including etymology of the name, Jennings.

EXCERPT:

John, meaning the "Lord's grace," is the source of many patronymics-Jennings among them. The evolution is something like this: John, Jons, Johnson, Janson, Jennings. Other variations of the name are Jinnins, Jennins, Jenyns, Jenynges, Jannings, and Jenning, with Jennins, and Jennyns being found in the colonial records Gennequin is the French form and Gening is old German of the eighth century. In this connection it is interesting to note that Hanson and Hancock are from Hans, the Flemish nickname of John or Johannes.

The family of Jennings is of very ancient origin and its history of interest to the families of that name in the United States. They seem to have settled in England before the Norman Conquest, being of Danish extraction, altho some say that the family originated in Carnarvonshire, Wales, from whence it spread over England following the eleventh century, and later into Ireland, France and Germany.

The first member who settled in the Kingdom of Great Britain appears to have been a Danish captain, brought into England between 1017 and 1025 by Canute. King of Denmark. Here Captain Jennings was baptised into the Christian faith, and was given certain manors lying upon the seacoast near Harwich by Canute as a reward for his former services for his father, Sweyne, King of Denmark.

Another interesting member of the family seems to have been another Captain Jennens, who, we are told, had the honor of bringing the body of Richard Coeur de Lion back to England.

Mount Beckwith or Mount Beckworth

History of Mount Beckwith (Beckworth)

FROM FRIENDS OF MOUNT BECKWORTH WEBSITE:
Koori History
Little is known of pre-European settlement in our area. Only a few known relics remain from the Dja Dja Wrung tribe which occupied an area of 15,600 square kilometres that includes Mount Beckworth. One source states that Mount Beckworth was known to aboriginal people as "Korepunbrlite Gudidji" which means "belonging to" and the area around Mount Beckworth and Clunes was known as "Gurabungalid". There were many tribal sub-groups in the district, including the Gul Gul Balug from the Mount Mitchell/Burnbank area.
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Naming Mount Beckworth

Major Mitchell passed through the area in 1836 and named "Mount Beckwith" for Thomas Sidney Beckwith who had served in Mitchell's 95th Regiment; he later became Lieutenant General Sir Sidney Beckwith.


Mount Beckwith, Mount Beckworth and discoveries of gold
Mount Beckwith, a granitic ridge, is about five miles to the West. The gold is found disseminated in several parallel quartz veins or dykes, which pass through this mass of trap, and protrude from it on the steep banks of the valley. There is no tract of auriferous alluvium. The gold is almost entirely derived from the quartz vein itself. Hence the works here would be more properly characterized as mining than digging.

Plimpton, Plumpton and Beckwith

Plimpton, Plumpton and BeckwithA Genealogy and Historical Notices of the Family of Plimpton or Plympton in America and of Plumpton in England (on microfiche)
by Levi B. Chase, pub. 1884.
The first 22 pages concerns the family of Plympton in England. The majority of this book contains the descendants of John and Thomas Plympton. John Plympton, the first to come to America, served as an indentured servant to pay for his passage. He later married Jane Dammin at Dedham, Massachusetts in 1644. The stories of new settlements, encounters with the Indians, anecdotes of the first settlers, biographies, along with wills, inventories, passenger and other lists, make this a valuable history. There are 240 pages on 3 microfiche.

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Plimptons and Plumptons from the Boyd House genealogy page. Note the Knaresborough reference.

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Elizabeth Plumpton (born circa 1424) married Sir William Beckwith also of Yorkshire, England. She was the daughter of either Sir William Plumpton, knight, or Sir Dennis Plumpton.

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A personal remembrance of this ancient soul who has just passed from us:

George Plimpton, among other things, was a great fan of pyrotechnics...and it was in this context that I first made my acquaintance with the lofty old soul.

It was in the early 1980s in Boston, and Mr. Plimpton was to host an international fireworks festival. George introduced each country's firework presentation, describing the subtleties and techniques employed. And while the display was taking place, an orchestra would feature that country's music.

The French were really good with pastels; the English were good at causing the fireworks to sort of park themselves in the air, then branch off in different directions, then repeat the process. The Japanese fireworks were most similar to viewing a computer screen, and the fireworks seemed to directed at the stationary viewer. Palimpsests were also quite excellent. The Chinese had perhaps the strangest. A dozen strings of glowing red apples that slowly drifted across the sky, in time with the music. Very subtle. Very different from the American fireworks that finished off the evening...and, by the way, won the competition. To me they merely looked like a battleship had pulled up to the shore and just starting opening fire on the crowd. Huge white fireballs.
Goodness gracious!

For his myriad interests which he shared with the world, George Plimpton will be missed and remembered. I shant expect to have a more scintillating experience of the world of pyrotechnics, literary or otherwise. The world of letters owes him a debt of honor.

George Washington Letters

George Washington Letters

George Washington to William Pearce

George Washington to William Pearce 2

More...

George Washington To THE CITIZENS OF FREDERICK COUNTY,
VIRGINIA
Addressed to Gen. Daniel Morgan (the gentleman reputed to have shared the soul of George W. Bush), Charles M. Thornton [Thruston], Robert White, jr., Charles Magill, and Joseph Caldwell, the committee which forwarded the resolution.

See: Clarke County, Virginia

Old Prints - UK

Old Prints - UK
Huge selection

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Troutbeck
Skelwith
Dacre
Yew Tree Tarn

Yankee Magazine - Yankee Extras for October

Florence Griswold Museum
Old Lyme, Ct
(From Yankee Magazine)

The Flo Gris has a new riverfront gallery to display the 200 paintings it received from the Hartford Steam Boiler Company, securing the museum's place as "the home of American Impressionism" with the country's largest collection.

Beckwith Builders of New Hampshire

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Beckwith Builders of New Hampshire

"I want one!"

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St. Joseph's Manor (alias Beckwith Manor)

St. Joseph’s Manor, alias Beckwith Manor, St. Mary’s County, Maryland: A Maryland Ghost Story

Other St Joseph links:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdstmary/manors/manorstext2.htm

http://members.aol.com/beccabol/maryland.htm

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:sk8rVhpkTmwJ:cu.quik.com/clark4/beckwith.htm+%22St.+Joseph%27s+Manor%22+MD&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

other stuff:

http://www.campbellsboatyard.com/marina.html

Silas Beckwith

Decline and Resistance - Old Virginia - Virginia Historical Society

Decline and Resistance - Old Virginia - Virginia Historical Society
(Including Ripon Hall, home of Edmund Jenings)

Portraits of Byrd, Carter
...of Robert Carter III of Nomini:
In 1772 Carter abruptly retired from Williamsburg to his plantation, Nomini Hall, on the Potomac River. In time he repudiated the major institutions of colonial gentry society: he abandoned politics, he gave up life as a planter, and he deserted the Anglican Church, becoming a Baptist in 1778. Carter was ambivalent about many aspects of Virginia life, including slavery, at times defending it and at others calling it a depravity; he eventually freed his nearly 500 slaves. In the end, he escaped rural Virginia for residence in the city of Baltimore, the family home of his wife, Frances Ann Tasker. There he became a Swedenborgian disciple.




VA/NY Genealogy

VA and NY SurnamesHenry Corbin, Jennings, etc...

Anne Ogle Tayloe, wife of Col. John Tayloe III

Benjamin Tayloe & Julia Maria Dickenson

Robert Councillor Carter

Sabine Hall

Carter Family Cemetery, Sabine Hall

The Mount Airy Stud Farm of Virginia
From the site:
The estate built by John Tayloe II, in 1747, and later maintained by his son, John Tayloe III, was among the outstanding stud farms of colonial Virginia. The Tayloes owned and raced such important horses as Childers, who was imported in 1751 and proved to be a sire of great mares. Childers returned to racing after six seasons at stud. At the ripe old age of 13, he carried 180 pounds, and finished a five-mile race in 12 minutes 27 seconds to win 500 pounds. Another Mount Airy horse was Leviathan, who was the first champion gelding in American turf history, winning 23 consecutive races. In 1802, he conceded 70 pounds to an opponent, yet won a five-mile "dash." The younger Tayloe bred his imported mare, Castrinira, to the great Diomed, and the resulting foal was Sir Archie, one of the greatest sires in American Thoroughbred history. The eminence of Mount Airy is evidenced by the fact that between 1791 and 1806, the farm's 141 entries won 113 races - a fantastic record.

also:

But Tayloe put a number of his mares to Diomed, and he liked the results. Diomed sired some of the most famous horses in American turf history. Among them were Haynie's Maria, who beat every horse until she lost one race as a nine-year-old. Andrew Jackson declared that Haynie's Maria "can beat any thing in God's whole creation."... Diomed also sired the undefeated Ball's Florizel, Potomac, Duroc, and greatest of all, Sir Archie, who became a singularly important influence in American Thoroughbred history. He sired the line which extended to Timolean, Boston, and Lexington. When Diomed died at the age of 31, one historian reports, "...there was as much mourning over his demise as there was at the death of George Washington."

Sir Jennings Beckwith's good friend, John Tayloe III of Mt. Airy

George Plater Tayloe of Buena Vista

WYE RIVER PLANTATION - HOME OF THE LLOYDS OF MARYLAND

MT AIRY PLANTATION

MT AIRY PLANTATION RIVER FRONT VIEW

STABLES AT MT. AIRY PLANTATION

MT.AIRY PLANTATION

ANCIENT SUNDIAL AT MT. AIRY PLANTATION

John Tayloe I, father of John Tayloe II (builder of Mt Airy) b. 1687

Col. John Tayloe II

REBECCA PLATER TAYLOE & DAUGHTER MARY

John, Rebecca & Mary

Tayloe Family Cemetery

"BUENA VISTA", ROANOKE, VIRGINIA- HOME OF GEORGE PLATER TAYLOE

OCTAGON HOUSE, TREATY OF GHENT ROOM, JOHN TAYLOE'S STUDY

These and many more wondrous links can be found at The Ogle Family of Maryland Website. Sir Jennings Beckwith was most fond of the Tayloes and Mt Airy, where he died.

See more on John Tayloe III's Octagon House in Washington, DC...where the Treaty of Ghent was signed.

BBC - Beyond the Broadcast - Surnames, Genes and Genealogy

Surnames, Genes and Genealogy

Leeds Castle

Images of Leeds Castle

Castles with Ghosts

Castles with Ghosts


Caerphilly Castle, nr Cardiff
A green lady flits from turret to turret so fearlessly that on one occasion some of the town boys almost caught her.
Ghostly soldiers also patrol the battlements.
Modern day security personnel will not venture up to the flag tower because they can smell perfume at all times.

Bramber Castle, Sussex
William De Braose angered King John. He escaped to Ireland with his children, only to to captured. The king ordered that his children be held hostage for William's future good behavior at Windsor Castle. The children were starved to death. Their ghosts returned to Bramber Castle and have been seen.

Featherstone Castle, Northumberland
The castle is associated with a ghostly bridal party. Baron Featherstonehaugh had arranged for his daughter to marry a relative of his choice, even though the daughter was in love with someone else. The wedding party left for the "traditional hunt" after the wedding, leaving the baron behind to make arrangements for the banquet. When the party failed to return by midnight, the baron began to fear the worst. Sitting alone at the table, he heard horses crossing the drawbridge. The door opened and the party entered. But, they made no sound and passed through furniture.
The wedding party had been ambushed and killed. On the anniversary of the wedding, the party can still be seen heading towards the castle.

Rochester Castle, Kent
The ghost of Lady Blanche de Warenne has been seen walking the castle battlements.

Beckwith Havens: An Early Bird of Aviation

Beckwith Havens: An "Early Bird of Aviation"

Levi Beckwith, Jr. and his wife, Lucy Markham Beckwith, remained in White Pigeon and built this beautiful brick home which still stands today and has been renovated into the Indian Prairie Inn Bed and Breakfast, located at 15501 Indian Prairie Road in White Pigeon, Michigan.

Wonderful page created by Denise Frederick.

Rev Dr Michael Beckwith, Founder Agape International Spiritual Center and Co-Founder of the Association for Global New Thought

Rev Dr Michael Beckwith, Founder Agape International Spiritual Center and Co-Founder of the Association for Global New Thought, convening organization of A Season for Nonviolence

The Reincarnation of Carroll Beckwith

Namebase Names for this blog

Beresford, Philip and The Sunday Times of London. The Book of the British Rich: From the Queen to Mick Jagger -- The 400 Wealthiest People in Britain. New York: St.Martin's Press, 1990.