Beautiful Vintage Photographs of Lady Liberty

"These photographs, recently put on display at the New York Public Library, document the statue's construction during her years in Paris between 1877 and 1885."

 



Kaitlyn and Charlie

Kaitlyn made local news (again!) posing with our baby Charlie at last weekend's 14th annual dachshund reunion held in Westport last Saturday.

Kaitlyn with another cute doxen, Lizzy.

Kaitlyn last year at the event =]

If anyone that works for Hallmark or the companies that make dog calenders sees this, please feel free to contact me!!



Ut Oh, Hillary...

CNN- A photo of Bill Clinton posing with adult film actresses in Monte Carlo, Monaco is circling after one of the stars, Brooklyn Lee, posted the picture on her Twitter page Wednesday.


In the picture, a cheerful Clinton stands flanked by Lee and another porn actress, Tasha Reign, while a third woman, Jennifer Taule, also appears in the photo.



Clinton was in the European country Wednesday at the Hotel de Paris for a gala to benefit the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.


Clinton's team has not returned a request for comment.

This Day In History

May 6 1853
Ignoring signals, a train travels through an open drawbridge and into the Norwalk river in Connecticut, killing 46 passengers. The engineer and crew jumped clear, not warning the others of their fate.

May 6 1937
Zeppelin Hindenberg explodes at Lakehurst NJ, leaving 36 dead and others seriously burned. Official cause of the explosion is listed as "St. Elmo's Fire," although it probably also involved the flammable silver paint the Germans used to coat the thing.

Two-in-one-day:

May 6 1993
Disgruntled postal worker Mark Richard Hilburn (recently fired) enters the Dana Point, CA post office and shoots two former coworkers, killing one.

May 6 1993
Disgruntled 27-year veteran Lawrence Jasion enters the garage area of the Dearborn, Michigan post office and whips out a .38 revolver. He proceeds to kill mechanic Gary Montes and wound two other coworkers. Before anyone can react, Jasion then blows his brains out. The Dearborn office was infamous for its authoritarian policies.

L.A. Police Seek Public Help With Women's Photos in Grim Sleeper Case

-View the photographs released by the Los Angeles police.-

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Los Angeles authorities expanded their investigation into the Grim Sleeper serial killer case Thursday by asking for the public's help in identifying women in 180 photographs whose images were found in the suspect's home this summer.

Police are trying to determine if there are additional killings among the more than 100 women depicted in the photos.

Last July, 57-year-old Lonnie David Franklin Jr. was arrested and charged with 10 murders and one attempted murder dating back to 1985, and Los Angeles police spent hundreds of hours sifting through thousands of photographs, Polaroids and videotape found in Franklin's house.

The bodies of victims, many working as prostitutes, were all found in close proximity to each other in a neighborhood formerly known as South Central Los Angeles.

Franklin, a mechanic who once worked for the LAPD, was arrested in July after police say they matched his DNA with DNA left on some of the victims. Police were led to Franklin after his 28-year-old son got arrested and gave a DNA swab, authorities said.

Authorities said they narrowed down the confiscated images down to 180 photographs, some of them duplicates of the same women.

At a media conference attended by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Police Chief Charlie Beck, authorities said they had difficulty determining whether some of the women were alive or dead in the photos.

"We cannot tell," Beck said. "Obviously, as all of you can see, some of them are animated and some are not. It's impossible to tell by the photographs.

Robbery Homicide Detective Dennis Kilcoyne said police have a responsibility to try to determine the whereabouts of the women.

"These are clearly photos of women that Mr. Franklin had contact with," said Kilcoyne. "We have a responsibility to identify these women. They may be alive and well, but we need to be certain."

"If there's nothing we glean from this, we are able to fill in the timeline of Mr. Franklin's life, and that's one of our goals as well," Kilcoyne said.

He declined to talk about the context in which the women's images appeared.

"The lifestyle or the situation that these women are in would defeat our plea with the public," Kilcoyne said.

Police are not sure where the women in the images resided, because Franklin's movements throughout his life are not yet ascertained, authorities said.

"His travel habits are unknown to us," Kilcoyne said. "We believe he spent the majority of his life right here in the city of Los Angeles."

Party City: Halloween's Never Over!

I hate to be mean, but I walk into Party City in Port Chester, and get in line behind a devastatingly beautiful creature that was being waited on.

I wait for a minute, realize she's one of those people who will be a while, so I go grab my phone out of my car and snap some pics while innocently looking like I'm texting on my phone:


I just wish I could've gotten her face in a shot, she didn't show her face to me until she turned away to leave and it was only for a second, but she looked like ET and the wig somehow was able to look even worse from the front.

I'm so bad >=]

Haig Avenue

I was driving down Haig Avenue in Stamford and noticed this old building right before Crestview Avenue that has a cool old abandoned car in driveway...

There's a parking lot with cars in it, so I'm wondering if the building is used by the town of Stamford in some kind of way? If anyone knows I'd appreciate the information!

I am really not familiar with this part of town, didn't know that there was a cool park, Sleepy Hollow, right nearby.

13 Haig Avenue is the house that Sandy Hoyt was murdered in. When driving by I noticed the numbers on houses skipped a few- but there is a house set back off a longer driveway, which could be number 13.

Because I Can Never Have Enough Pictures of Pomerance..

Fort Stamford

A few photos from Fort Stamford, supposedly haunted according to this site (well, at least it was supposed to be 11 years ago..) This is just up the road from Westover Cemetery..

I took a few pictures, but made more videos than snapshots..

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Just in case the angelfire site somehow becomes extinct, I'll copy over the information:

"Our investigation of Ft. Stamford began after hearing a story that took place about 20 years ago at the site. The witness explained to us about a friend of hers that would go to the fort at night with his highschool friends and hold seances. He did this several times until on one occasion, he was suddenly pulled back from the rest of his group by a force he couldn't see and was rolled backwards on the ground. The witness then explained how, a few years later, this friend took her to the fort, though he had not been back since his encounter. She explained about how she thought she saw someone ducking in and out of the trees of the area, and she then got out of the car where they were sitting and began walking around the site until she saw a large, black, charred circle in the grass. She then walked around the cirlce and leaned down to touch it when she heard a clanking sound (she compared this sound to the clinking of a dogs chain). She then reported hearing heavy, quick footsteps coming towards her and then being pounced on by something she couldn't see. She began to struggle with the invisible "attacker" until her friend came over and helped her up and showed her that nothing was there. She has never been back since.


She explained this story to us in hopes that we would visit the site, and, perhaps, we would be able to explain what happened.


Our group of investigators has been to this several times, and has encountered several different ghosts and spirits. It seems that there are spirits and ghosts hauntng the site from several different eras. Our group has encountered ghosts that are believed to be from the Revolutionary war fort itself. There was also a rather large house located at the site that burned down for reasons we have not been able to determine. It is also believed that the area is sacred ground for the native americans that used to inhabit the area. All of our encounters, as well as the theory's behind some of the events, are included in our reports.

Due to our last interview with our witness, our final theory on Ft. Stamford has been determined and the case has been closed. PSIG theorized that an "astral rip" was created either purposely or accidentally in the area near a fort turret that appears as a mound with a pit in the middle. Our witness confirmed that the mound was the original site of several seances performed by teenagers. She also confirmed that the spirit that "attacked her" came from the direction of the pit. Due to this confirmation, we are lead to believe that the seances accidentally opened a rip between the earth plane and the astral plane, and, whenever the proper energy is available (from a focus or medium) certain spirits may temporarily come through the rip. PSIG believes that one of these spirits "attacked" the witness, and perhaps our researchers."

Fort Stamford Report 10-15-99
Fort Stamford Report 10-17-99
Fort Stamford Report 10-19-99
Fort Stamford Report 10-24-99
Fort Stamford Pics

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I'd love to come back to this place at night... I recorded inside of "the pit" or what I think is the pit... There are a few different foundations, or what seem to be foundations on the site, and I'm guessing the actual fort must've been positioned on the large mound in first picture. Behind the memorial garden (not photographed) was another mound, smaller in size, and I'm wondering what role it had in that time era...

Westover Cemetery

I always drive up Westover Road and never knew that there was a fairly decent sized forgotten cemetery near the intersection with Mianus Road... It's very hard to notice so if it weren't for findagrave.com I might not have ever seen it.

I was very disappointed in the condition of this resting ground.. From the first two pictures contributed to the findagrave site I had the impression it was well maintained, but upon visiting all I saw was fallen over headstones, headstones resting on walls, and overgrown prickers (covered with tics by the way)...

I took a picture of a 2 year old boy's gravestone which read "Little Eddie" but the picture never saved somehow.. Need to return again.

Hubble.

Newly Released 9/11 NYPD Photos Show WTC Collapse

NEW YORK – Newly released aerial photos of the World Trade Center terror attack capture the towers' dramatic collapse, from just after the first fiery plane strike to the apocalyptic dust clouds that spread over lower Manhattan and its harbor.

The images were taken from a police helicopter — the only photographers allowed in the air space near the towers on Sept. 11, 2001. They were obtained by ABC News after it filed a Freedom of Information Act request last year with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which investigated the collapse.

The chief curator of the planned Sept. 11 museum, which is compiling a digital archive of attack coverage, said the still images are "a phenomenal body of work" that show a new, wide-angle look at the towers' collapse and the gray dust clouds that shrouded the city afterward.

The photos are "absolutely core to understanding the visual phenomena of what was happening," said Jan Ramirez, chief curator at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

The images of the dust clouds rising as high as some downtown skyscrapers "are some of the most exceptional images in the world, I think, of this event," Ramirez said.

ABC said the NIST gave the network 2,779 pictures on nine CDs, saying some of the photographs had never been released before.

The network posted 12 photos this week on its Web site, all taken by ex-NYPD Aviation Unit Detective Greg Semendinger, who was first in the air in a search for survivors on the rooftop. He said he and his pilot watched the second plane hit the south tower from the helicopter.

"We didn't find one single person. It was surreal," he told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "There was no sound. No sound whatsoever, but the noise of the radio and the helicopter. I just kept taking pictures."

He took three rolls of film with his Minolta camera, plus 245 digital shots. Semendinger said he gave the digital images to the 9/11 Commission and believes those images were released by the NSIT. In the days after the attack, he e-mailed some of the photos to friends and several were posted on the Internet.

Later, nine of the images were published in a book called "Above Hallowed Ground: A Photographic Record of Sept. 11" without his consent. The book was a tribute to the officers who were killed that day.

The photos capture the enormous scope of the dust that enveloped the area.

In some images, the tops of the nearby Woolworth Building and other skyscrapers can be seen rising above the billowing dark plume against a clear blue sky. Buildings can hardly be seen at all in one image — just a burst of dust clouds hanging over the serene Hudson River at the southern tip of Manhattan.

A close-up image from earlier in the morning shows orange flames and black smoke rising past the antenna on top of the north tower, the first hit by a hijacked plane.

Ramirez said the museum, which is slated to open in 2012, saw a selection of the photos at police headquarters several years ago.

They are extremely important because the NYPD aviation unit had the clearance to be up in the air in lower Manhattan only "moments after the first tower was hit," and stayed in the area for the remainder of the day, she said.

Sometime after 10 a.m., she said they were able to "predict that the north tower was going to fall." It did just before 10:30 a.m.

The museum hopes to get a complete set of the photos.

"We've had our sights set on this body of visual evidence for several years," Ramirez said.

Semendinger retired from the NYPD in 2002 after 35 years, 20 of them in aviation. He said he has thought about publishing his work from those days.

"I almost didn't realize what I was seeing that day," he said. "Looking at it now it's amazing I took those pictures. The images are ... stunning."

Todd's Point, Early Winter..

Our New Puppy, Charlie..

=] Forever Sisters..

Joey took this of us, sometime in late September/early October..

MMMM..Jeter...

My Baby On Christmas Eve..

Pomerance, Fall of 2009.

Instead of the silly slideshow, click here to view the actual album!

Gorgeous shots if I may say so myself..!

Silly Girls..

Scraggly Kaitlyn..