Tuesday, March 19, 2019

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donna carpenter attended williams college as did mika brzezinski and beto o'roake's wife amy, who founded la fe prep school


st patrick was from wales where the grail legend began and the word taffy used for welshmen comes from david who was a welsh saint and daffyd who was a welsh king and which is where bette davis'  last name comes from


bette davis grew up in lanesborough, mass at the foot of mt greylock


president taft, who broke up standard oil, was a taaffe which comes from the welsh name david


the rockefellers bought mt hope farm at the base of mt greylock near where my grandfather c e taft, who was a carpenter and electrician - lived in 1910 the year before standard oil was broken up


moby



herman melville wrote 'moby dick' in pittsfield, mass and the whale, moby dick was inspired by the shape of mt greylock from his porch at his farm he called arrowhead


the unabomber's mk ultra psychologist henry murray is a melville scholar and donated the melville room to the berkshire antheneaum in pittsfield


melville mentions taff the welshman in 'billy budd'


c i a director richard helms attended williams college and destroyed the mk ultra files


john trump's daughter and her husband graduated from m i t and had lived in pittsfield, mass where the husband worked at g e


john trump created a company to make and sell van der graaf generators after being given tesla's plans after tesla's suspicious death and tesla had been financed by j p morgan but morgan had cut tesla's funding before his death


no one knows why mt greylock is so named but the mythological founder of mt greylock's ilvermorny was descended from king arthur's sister, morgan le fey (morgan la fee from the feminine french for morgan the fairy) who many scholars believe to be inspired by the pagan irish goddess the morrigan





there was a real harry potter who was born in north adams mass which is also at the base of mt greylock and he was a fairly famous musician who travelled throughout europe


david koresh was a member of the branch davidian sect of the 7th day adventist church which grew out of millerism which was named for william miller who was born in pittsfield


many 7th day adventists were vegan and vegetarian


susan's art page:




susan b anthony was born at the base of mt greylock in adams near the thunderbolt trail


#holygreylock




morgan stanley's stanley was the son of the pittsfield mass g e inventor of the modern transformer (which contained pcbs)


morgan hall


gargoyle society


edwin dennison morgan




- unbalanced rock


jimmy maxymillian jr, was super smart attending harvard, yale & m i t, and ireland 


his parent maxy (a j maxymillian) had owned the gravel pit almost on the border between adams and north adams at the base of mt greylock and married my mom's sister hazel


dad said either maxy or jimmy poured the foundation of our house as a wedding present


since mom and dad were married in 1954 it must have been maxy


jimmy (along with petricca's and possibly marcello's, tierney's and virgillio's),  got the contract to clean up ge's pcbs but as i recall got jimmy got caught burying them in lanesborough near balance rock (where there was a lot of uninhabited land and little ground water transferance) and got in trouble then got the contract to clean up the pcbs he buried in lanesborough to take them somewhere - i still don't know where pcbs were accepted at a hazardous waste facillity at all back in the 1970's then they became one of the leading environmental contamination remediation companies in the north east



j h maxymillian. = james hall maxymillian


...oh jimmy's son got the contract to repair mt greylock back in 2008 they got the project finished 6 months ahead of schedule:





g e left pittsfield because of the ongoing pcb problem


lexan was invented by g e in pittsfield


g e was created when stanley's company merged with (or was stolen from and sold to) edison electric and houston electric which was arranged by j p morgan


vanevar bush was fired from the pittsfield g e for starting a fire in the transformer factory before going on to create raytheon


j p morgan's father was born in holyoke, mass


frederick ferris thompson attended williams college and his father john thompson was born in or near pittsfield


the company that would become berkshire hathaway, berkshire cotton mill, was in adams mass at the bottom of mt greylock as is crane paper which had made all of the dollar bills used in the u s since the early 1800's from cotton and wool


classic liberal arts college grads:


both steinbrenners graduated from a liberal arts college which was founded as a free college by colonel ephraim williams, as did 8th mlb commissioner fay vincent, who if you recall banned george steinbrenner from baseball, 1983 mlb players association executive director michael weiner, expos owner and seagrams owner edgar and matthew bronfman, patriots owner jonathan kraft, pittsburg steelers owner robert nutting, citibank and chase bank  founder frederick ferris thompson, aol founder steve case, singer corporation founder edward cabot clark, eaton corporation founder joseph oriel eaton the 2nd, key bank founder harry augustus garfield, lehman brothers founder herbert h lehman, viking global investors founder ole andreas halvorsen, greylock capital founder hans humes, van eck founder john van eck, random house co founder donald s. klopfer, american journal of psychology founder g stanley hall, sun valley conference founder herbert allen, jr currie capital founder peter currie, ACORN founder wade rathke, women's march founder vanessa wruble, newspaper publisher/founder nathan hale (who introduced the newspaper editorial), primal kitchen and primal nutrition founder mark sisson, amy o'roarke founder of la fe preparatory school, a dual-language elementary charter school in el paso, tx


mark sisson was our next door neighbor


the lady who owned the house was just like the oracle from the matrix only more lovable


she was the mother of michael harris who was a poor kid whose construction contractor father had died when he was really young and he got a football and scholastic scholarship into williams and became a lawyer representing poor people in brockton


mark sisson, mike and some other williams kids turned mrs harris's house into a kind of dorm mike's senior year


they had really nice parties




#maytheroadriseupandmeetyoutoo.


george steinbrenners sr & jr attended williams college

edgar bronfman sr who once owned (thru cemp investments) the expos attended williams college

and the williams who founded st pete might have been descended from ephraim williams's brother

amherst college and williams college were once the same college and they  played the first college baseball game in the town where ball four author jim bouton discovered the first official mention of baseball in the u s

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