On This Day In Trudel Family History

My direct ancestor Jean Trudel arrived from Parfondeval, France in 1655 as a settler in Quebec. On October 18, 1664, the first mass in the early settlement of L'Ange-Gardien (at the locality called le Caput on the Côte-de-Beaupré in Quebec) was celebrated inside his home by missionary priest Father Louis Ango des Maizerets and a monument to him now stands in L’Ange-Gardien. My father, Ernest André Trudel, had dug up our direct family line a very long time ago and about 15 years ago my two sisters and I did a road trip to see the monument. After a lot of driving we were able to find it (we thought it would be in the town but it’s on the highway). My sister, Kathleen Dawn,  posted this photo on Facebook of the three of us there.

Sunday Links

The Timbuktu Europe dreamed of, in an illustration we made for this story. No such city ever stood in the Sahara.

Timbuctu. Everyone can say the name. Almost no one has been. Plenty of people aren’t sure it exists at all. It was the place where you had either just crossed the Sahara, or still had all of it in front of you. How a city of books became the edge of the world 

If I became a vampire

I enjoyed reading this interactive article on fashion stylist Grace Coddington’s home in East Hampton. It reminds me of the old house we lived in for almost 4 decades that we’d packed to the brim with books and paintings and interesting bits of junk. 

Mammogram or Tenth-Grade Boyfriend?

When I was young sex sold margarine Via Memo Of The Air

Tips on how we can make our pals pee themselves a little bit as Halloween creeps up on us. Link

This is your fridge speaking, u fat pig: Smart homes and domestic tech hellscapes. Via Things Magazine

Bogcore: The literary genre you didn’t know you needed

Her father had Alzheimers. Working with him to complete his unfinished memoir gave them a new way to connect. NYT Gift Link

26 Gifts for people who lose everything except their phone 

Kooler: A resource for cocktail lovers. I most often have a Manhattan or an Old Fashioned in winter or a G&T in summer because I always have the ingredients but there are a few here that I would like to suck back. Via Webcurios

Cartographers of North Korea For a country that is closed to the internet, the quality of OSM data in North Korea is extraordinary: 324,415 data points drawn by 889 contributors since 2007. Via TMN

Photographing the Radical Change of 1960s and 70s America This is when I came of age. It was liberating and exhilarating and a wonderful time to be alive. It saddens me to see the hard-won gains made during that period being rolled back.

Let a nuclear explosion light up your day.

Photos of Gaza in 2023 and 2026 More than 80 percent of Gaza’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed since Israel launched its war on the besieged enclave in October 2023, turning whole neighbourhoods into rubble and wiping out much of its infrastructure.

Police wash their hands of severed arms case

The Blingpire Strikes Back: The architectural atrocities that will be Trump’s legacy. Via Things Magazine

Why were Victorian elites so effective? Could it be because they got up late, drank a lot, and spent a remarkable share of their waking hours partying? Via Webcurios

Trumpkin

“Graham came as a gift from the treetops, one that might never have occurred, and I came to feel love for him.” Read this truly lovely story at Literary Hub 

The “my dad was a hoarder” sale Via Tacky Raccoons

It’s the season for comfort food and when this arrived in my mailbox I knew I had to make it. I think tonight might be the night. NYT gift link

The semiotics of pumpkin spice season

Music For Sunday Morning

 Marika Hackman - 33

Via Webcurios

Misquoting Martin Niemöller

 

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Bauhaus Bats

Goth bats singing along to "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus.

Via FB pal Hal

Painting Of The Day

Poems on the painting of cranes. Painting by Tawaraya Sotatsu (1570-1643), calligraphy by Hon'ami Koetsu (1558-1637)

Via Duck Soup

Richard Ayoade Takes Bob Mortimer to Hamburg

 I know nothing about Hamburg but I’ll watch anything with Bob Mortimer in it.

TriBeCa Triplex Comes With A Keith Haring Mural

Image: Tim Waltman, Evan Joseph Photography

When Keith Haring was still a student at the School of Visual Arts in the 1970s he painted one of his distinctive murals in what was a student exhibition space in TriBeCa. The mural was covered over and temporarily forgotten. In 2001 Haring’s mural was discovered and authenticated during a renovation. The current owner, a tech executive, is selling the property for $25 million.

 

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Trailer for Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew.

Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew is the first chronological book in  CS Lewis’s series. It is Greta Gerwig’s first film since her megahit Barbie, opening in theatres for eight-weeks on 12 February before it streams on Netflix starting 2 April, in the studio’s first global theatrical release.

Portrait Of The Day: Neisser

This portrait of 16-year-old aspiring pentathlete and fencer Neisser, captured by James Clifford Kent as part of a project in Cuba, has made it to the shortlist for the National Portrait Gallery London’s Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize. The  photograph was taken in his family’s living room, without lighting or set design.