Originally printed at the Ephrata Cloister Ice Cream Social in August on the English Common Press reproduction at the Cloister, this was reprinted with my APA number on my 6.5×10 Craftsmen Superior for submission to the Amalgamated Printers’ Association. 170 pcs – 9/25
Colophon:
Historic Ephrata… / 18 pt. Bernhard Gothic Light
2025 / 36 pt. Lining Gothic
Ice Cream… / 48 pt.. Dynamo
Sundae graphic / First half 1900’s cut
APA 1023 / 12 pt, Garamond
Paper: French Paper Co., Construction, Steel Blue 100# Cover
The Kala Waterman Aqua-Blue Glow-In-The-Dark Soprano Ukulele was appropriately bought at the seaside where many of plastic ukulele probably found its strings. Jolene bought it for me in Rehoboth Beach. I don’t remember why… but other than my indestructible polycarbonate Outdoor Ukulele is the only plastic uke I have. In spite of that it sounds pretty good and after all is part of Kala’s Beach Collection.
I recently had cause to browse my postcard collection and found some reorganization is needed to incorporate a loose stack of cards that may evenn double the collection. As I go through them I hope to add them under the History Gallery tab here: https://www.randynewcomer.com/history/gallery/
This year I was accepted as a member of the Amalgamated Printers Association so the first thing I had to do was update my prop (proprietor’s) card to meet the membership requirements. I initially planned at least two colors and the APA logo, but a perfect storm of press and other issues made it necessary to simplify the project. I used the Craftsmen Imperial 5×8. Yes, I also satisfied having my first typo, it’s “men” not “man”. I can never keep that straight so with the Superior “men” and Imperial “man” one of them was sure to be right. Clue, they were not made by Sears, which made the Craftsman brand.
The dancing rainbow graphic was a drawing of mine of the Press’ namsake and had made into a cut in the early days over fifty years ago. (see Dancing Rainbow History)
Nearly 22 years later Ben and I finally have our picture taken on the summit of Mount Washington. We climbed it by way of Tuckerman’s Ravine and descended by way of Davis and Boott Spur trails. Our most memorable hike which of course means the most painful and poorly executed one. The bear, appropriately named Tucker, was a gift after and sports a t-shirt that says: I Did It – 8-17-02. We did not take a summit photo at the time because waiting in a long line of tourists who had driven up or ridden the cog railway seemed pointless. The fatigue of hours of climbing may have been a factor as well. In this picture we are two of the cog railway tourists.
I did these some time ago but just discover the photo which I don’t believe was posted. I woodburned my wrens onto boxes I bought. The small one has compartments for all kinds of art supplies and the other folds out into a table easel with a drawer for supplies.
I took a class at Mennonite Life, formerly the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, to create a copy of an historic folk art rabbit in a grain painted frame. Of course adding to Jolene’s rabbit collection was one motivation for taking the class. I was particularly enamored by the grain painting and can’t wait to do some to accompany projects in the print shop like the cover I made from the practice papers we did in the class for the ring notepad below..
Early this morning we traveled to Myerstown to observe the Grundsau Lodsch Nummer Siwwezeh am Union Kanaal (Groundhog Lodge Number 17 on the Union Canal) consult with their groundhog “Uni” (named for the “Uni”on Canal) make his fearless prognostication on the arrival of Spring.
In the video above the forecast is given in Pennsylvania German, which all local groundhogs appear to be fluent in. For the language challenged the video below is presented in English.
Our bat actually comes from the Brandywine Art Museum when we visited the other month. Looks like the sale is over but it’s an annual event they have each year. I don’t know how we were lucky enough to find them on sale earlier, but here’s the post about the sale.
