Sue Farnum

Selected excerpts from the Oral History Project interview. The full transcript may be restricted. To request access please contact the Simon’s Rock College Archives Livy [Hall] would come over [to Health Services] and just visit. He was an absolutely delightful gentleman, and very unpretentious. He was always looking like he walked out of L. L. Bean – just the casual corduroys and crewneck sweater – and visiting around on campus. Just a very laid-back, comfortable person to talk with, and would stop and chat with students, and look like anybody’s grandfather. He was a very interesting, very delightful gentleman. A lot of people show up for solstice, because it’s kind of a, I don’t want to say just a healing, but it’s kind of a bringing people together, a closeness, a feeling [of] community. We have a lovely program with the fireplace in Blodgett, and it’s just a warm, cozy room. I’ve been privileged to be asked to read How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I’ve read that-- well, if it’s been twenty- three-- I’ve read it probably twenty-four or -five years now. Every Christmas. It started when I could hold Amy Win on my lap, and my own child, who’s now thirty-three! Betty Hall started [May Day campus cleanup] in the spring, of just let’s have a day off, and just kind of do physical work, and fix our gardens, and have a day on the campus. She and Livy would always be here. So I think that those kinds of days, when you have a day off that people can try to spend together, or you have an event that just crosses all the levels, and people are just getting together, it makes you realize that none of us is immune to a particular situation. It doesn’t matter what letters are after your name, and what your particular role might be. We need to be needed and we need to hang on to each other, and reach out and care.https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/sr-oral_hist/1008/thumbnail.jp

Trippy Sounds: Recording Studio Effects of Psychedelic Rock, 1960s and Present

The psychedelic rock movement of the 1960s dominated popular music and culture of the decade. The movement was heavily shaped by the consumption of LSD, a mind-altering hallucinogenic drug. Songwriting and lyrics often reflected the drug and the states of mind that it induced, and unique cutting-edge production techniques were used to imitate the effects of LSD use. Artists such as The Beatles used new effects, such as phasing, artificial double tracking, tape loops, and reverse recording. In the 21st century, music has again been described as psychedelic rock, though the music under that term is much more diverse. Bands such as King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Apples In Stereo, and Tame Impala can all be described as psychedelic rock. Though they all sound different, sometimes significantly different from 1960s psychedelic rock, they are united by their modern approach to 1960s production techniques. This paper investigates the common production trends in modern psychedelic rock and how they compare to psychedelic rock production in the 1960s. Topics of investigation include guitar pedals, stereo and multitrack tape machines, stereo panning, artificial double tracking, phasing, rotary cabinets, tape reversal, varispeed, sound effects, and echo. Research has been done through historical texts about music of the 1960s, reading interviews with musicians, and careful listening of selected albums by noteworthy artists

Bis(perchlorato-κO)tetra­kis[1-(2-pyridyl)-4-(4-pyridylmethyl-κN)piperazine]cadmium(II)

In the title compound, [Cd(ClO4)2(C15H18N4)4], the CdII ion is coordinated in a slightly distorted octa­hedral environment by two trans monodentate perchlorate ligands and four 1-(2-pyrid­yl)-4-(4-pyridylmeth­yl)piperazine (pmpp) ligands. In the crystal structure, mol­ecules are organized into layers parallel to the ab plane by C—H⋯O inter­actions. Similar inter­actions promote the stacking of these layers into the three-dimensional crystal structure

(The) pedagogical value of Wordsworth's autobiographical poem, "The prelude"

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1914. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

05/19/1944 Letter from the State of Maine Civilian Defense Corps.

Letter from F.H. Farnum, Director of the State of Maine Civilian Defense Corps, to Louis-Philippe Gagné regarding Gagné\u27s resignation as Blackout Chairman.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fac-lpg-letters-1940-1946/1013/thumbnail.jp

In Defense of “Cheap Architecture”

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College

Ecology and conservation of Louisiana black bears in the Tensas River Basin and reintroduced populations

Louisiana black bears (Ursus americanus luteolus) exist in 3 isolated populations in Louisiana and are listed as a threatened subspecies under the United States endangered species act. In order to establish a population of black bears in central Louisiana and to promote connectivity among existing populations 11 adult females and 28 cubs were reintroduced to suitable habitat on Lake Ophelia National Wildlife Refuge. We captured and monitored females in the Tensas River Basin (TRB) in northeast Louisiana for use in these reintroduction efforts and to study their ecology. Specifically, I studied the food habits, space use, habitat selection, and denning behavior of female bears in the TRB and reintroduced populations. Within the TRB bears exist in 2 subpopulations (Tensas and Deltic) which inhabit highly variable landscapes. Bears on Tensas inhabit a large (\u3e300 km2) contiguous block of bottomland hardwood forest, whereas bears on Deltic inhabit small (\u3c7 km2) forest fragments surrounded by a matrix of agricultural fields. Bears in the TRB ate an omnivorous diet dominated by plant foods that shifted to exploit seasonally available foods. Important food items included: herbaceous vegetation, soft mast, corn, acorns, and beetles. Spring home ranges and core areas on Tensas differed between females with and without cubs. Ranges of females on Tensas were larger than those on Deltic, and ranges of reintroduced females were larger than both TRB subpopulations. Habitat selection patterns also differed as females on Tensas selected swamps and regenerating forests at most spatial scales and during most seasons, whereas Deltic females selected upland and lowland forests. Lake Ophelia females selected upland and lowland forests when establishing home ranges, but did not exhibit non-random habitat use within home ranges. In the TRB, parturient females used tree dens more frequently than ground dens, whereas non-parturient used tree and ground dens with similar frequency. Tensas den sites were closer than expected to swamps, water, and regenerating forests, whereas Deltic den sites were closer than expected to upland and lowland forests. I discuss the results in relation to fragmentation, forest management practices, and conservation