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bcacstuff · 1 year

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Timeline 6 January 2023 - March 2023

For completeness and to consult when there’s discussion about his whereabouts. In addition to the previous timelines.

Timeline 6 covers 1 January 2023 - 29 March 2023

For previous dates see timeline 5

January 1st 2023 New years Day was spend in London with his friends, the Nics, MN and Sarah, Big Red and fiancée.

January 5th he posted a video announcing MPC partner for 2023 and a Live IG on January 9th. (video is recorded in December 2022 in NYC)

January 6th Wedding of Graham McT and Garance at Borthwick Castle where GMT also celebrated his Birthday (Jan. 4th). More pictures were posted later on

9 January Live IG from a hotel room, most likely at the Kimpton Edinburgh

As of January 11th he was spending some days in NYC, a fanpic and pappics, another fan pic a day later, some IGS pics and video from him self and another fan pic

18 January Starz announced OL has been renewed for an eight and final season and BOMB is officially greenlit

25 January at Burns Night he posted a video mixing a cocktail from his home

28 January Sam and Graham posted a video being together, most likely in London as Graham posted from London in the week before. Clothing and tags on the post give away they were doing a photoshoot for the book cover of the next CL book.

Filming of OL is still going on in January and February

4 February S posts a video of him and Valboo at EDA for MPC

On February 6th he's spotted at EDA Glasgow by a fan who took a fanpic

February 7th a teaser for the trailer of LA is posted saying the trailer will be there on VD

9 February a picture was posted by Kora by Tom Kitchin (Edinburgh) about a recent visit there.

11 February he's participating at the Hyrox Glasgow event with Nic R. The Nics stayed at his place.

14 February, VD, the trailer for LA is released, and a second version, and there is a Live IG via zoom with S (at his home) and PCJ.

Meanwhile buzz is spreading, some of the actors wrapped on filming OL, while others and extras clearly are still working. S was clearly still filming on 14 February. The driver posting the last week and Sophie's trailer getting removed on February 23. Word got out that on February 24th there's a wrap party, and a thank you for the extras

22 February he recorded a podcast for the Scotsman food and drink at the Ubiquitous Chip in Glasgow (also see below, March 3rd)

24 February the wrap of S7 is officially announced, we get an overload of BTS and lots and lots of pictures, videos and other footage and a bonus of the wrap party which was at the Platform, or better known in Glasgow as The Arches.

1 March he shows up at the Stravaigin in Glasgow, apparently for some PR for his booze by several influencers

3 March the new episode for the Scran_podcast for Scotsman food and drink is announced and released the next day.

4 March S was at Chichester doing a Q&A for students,

Apparently he went from Chichester to London as he was papped on March 6 and posted a selfie, working out on March 8th at the Soho hotel. Another fanpic was posted a week later and a video of him running in London was discovered.

On 11 march he was revealing his 'Sassenach Scrambler' at the Scottish Bike Show in Edinburgh. A fanpic at the venue

A fan spotted him at the airport in Brussels on March 17th, apparently stayed the week or days before in Belgium and was heading to London though didn't know what his end destination was.

23 March, a teaser and the release date for OL S7 was announced.

25 March Charley McEwen posted a selfie with S. Since PCJ is in London as well, it's quite certain that the LA promo was recorded around this date.

29 March the 'new project' he hinted about on a podcast is finally revealed. The Couple Next Door will be filmed in Leeds and Belgium. He posted a birthday video for Dries Vos the same day, saying it was his first day on set for CND.

Other timelines:

Pre Hawaii timeline

Timeline 1 August 2020 Timeline 2 September 2021 Timeline 3 February 2022 Timeline 4 August 2022 Timeline 5 October 2022

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jacdurac · 2 years

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Wild Bunch Racing haulers and Funny Cars

Don"The Snake" Prudhomme

Tom "Mongoose" McEwen

#mopar #muscle car #plymouth

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forest-enchantress · 5 months

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grandmaster-anne · 1 year

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The Princess Royal’s horses at Gatcombe: ‘They have to do something useful’

By Kate Green | Published 2 August 2020

HRH The Princess Royal has been involved with horses throughout her life. Kate Green went to Gatcombe Park to speak to her about the steeds which she keeps at her home estate today.

The Princess Royal’s name almost inevitably conjures up images of animals. Her glittering equestrian career — which includes a European championship individual gold medal as well as an Olympic appearance — is world famous, but The Princess pour her energies into many more creatures. Some 30 of her 200-plus charitable patronages relate to animals, and in this week’s Country Life — which The Princess guest edited — you can read about the sheep, pigs, chickens and cattle that she keeps on her estate, Gatcombe Park.

Kate Green’s article also — naturally — includes a section on the horses of Gatcombe, which you can read below.

There has been a new arrival — a little chestnut Thoroughbred colt foal, Reel Fashion, by jumping sire Schiaparelli out of Gatcombe mare Fiddle Faddle.

The new foal by Schiaparelli. Sarah Farnsworth/Country Life Picture Library

The Princess’s equestrian career is forever synonymous with eventing — she won the European title in 1971, a clutch of medals and was a member of the British team at the Montreal Olympic Games in 1976 — but she also rode winners on the Flat and over jumps as an amateur jockey and her horse-breeding interests centre around the National Hunt world. ‘They have to do something useful,’ she remarks.

Some of the horses at Gatcombe, including a Suffolk punch. Photograph: Sarah Farnsworth / © Country Life Picture Library

There are plenty of event horses around, too: The Princess’s daughter, Zara Tindall, herself a former European champion and a world and Olympic medallist, has hers at nearby Aston Farm and Tom McEwen, who, if things were normal, might reasonably have expected to be at the Tokyo Olympics right now, is the latest in a long line of fine horsemen to make Gatcombe their eventing base.

Princess Anne with some of her horses. Photograph: Sarah Farnsworth / © Country Life Picture Library

Amid a field of bay Thoroughbred fillies, Winnie, the Suffolk mare, cuts an imposing, solid presence. She’s also friendly — and curious, enthusiastically nibbling the windscreen wipers.

‘I bought her grandmother from the Hollesley Bay Colony Stud in Suffolk when they sold up,’ explains The Princess, who is patron of the Suffolk Horse Society, founded in 1877.

Gunner the terrier and the suffolk punch exchange greetings. Photograph: Sarah Farnsworth / © Country Life Picture Library

These striking heavy horses, with their rich chestnut coats and paler, flaxen or silver manes and tails, were bred to work the clay soil of East Anglia, but the difficulty of finding a role for them outside ploughing and timber hauling means that they are classified as ‘critical’ on the RBST watchlist.

One potential outlet is as steady, careful mounts for Riding for the Disabled, another of The Princess’s long-time patronages. ‘Lockdown has been very hard on families with disabled children,’ she points out. ‘The number of parents who say their children’s behaviour has improved thanks to riding is striking.’

Princess Anne with the Suffolk Punch. Photograph: Sarah Farnsworth / © Country Life Picture Library

The Princess’s animal charities

Much of The Princess Royal’s charitable work is concerned with farming, rural life and horse welfare. Here is the list of those charities and organisations:

Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Patron

English Rural Housing Association, Patron

Farms for City Children, Patron

Gloucestershire Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs, Patron

Gloucestershire Old Spots Pig Breeders’ Club, Patron

Harper Adams University, Chancellor

Institute of Meat, Fellow

International Sheep Dog Society, Patron

Moredun Foundation, Patron

National Equine Forum, President

National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs, Life Vice President

The National Pony Society, Patron

Racing Welfare, President

Riding for the Disabled Association, President

Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Patron

Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth, President

Royal Northern Agricultural Society, Patron

Scotch Beef Club, President

Scottish National Fat Stock Club, Patron

Shorthorn Society, Patron

Suffolk Horse Society, Patron

The Horse Trust, Patron

The Oxford Farming Conference, Honorary President

The Pony Club, Patron

The Royal Three Counties Show, Patron

The Whitley Fund for Nature, Patron

Working Clumber Spaniel Society, President

World Horse Welfare, President

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applesfallingfromblondehair · 2 years

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Paul Hauser and Charley horrible-taron-hairstyle McEwen and Tom Daley seem to follow Brandon on instagram.

He still get around much or why is that?

Only Charley also follows Froy

Yeah Charley follows him because of course he fucking does. Richard introduces his twinks to anyone who will shake their hands and tell them they're pretty.

But that's so funny about Paul following Brandon? Like how was that connection made. I'm guessing it's random and it doesn't mean anything, but still 😂

#answered #insta follows

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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"GAVE HIMSELF UP," Hamilton Spectator. May 15, 1912. Page 16. --- Deserter From Quebec Battery Surrendered to the Police ---- John McDonald, who says he is a deserter from No. 3 battery, Royal Canadian artillery, was taken into custody this morning by Constables Harry Smith and Tom Brown, at the police station. He had wandered there, he said, and wanted to get a load off his mind. His first remarks were: "You want me here, don't you?"

Constable Smith said he did not think John McDonald was wanted around the police station. He was walked out, and later returned and told the deskman that he was a deserter, and had been away from his post of duty for six months.

McDonald was a former member of the Royal Canadian artillery, with No. 3 battery, stationed at Quebec city, and wore the khaki shirt, stockings and army boots worn by the regular artillerymen.

An amusing incident was that Me Donald was under the impression that Constable Smith's name was McEwen, and that he had a brother in the same battery he had deserted from. By humoring him along, Smith learned the name of the commanding officer of the regiment, Colonel Pole, and the adjutant, Major Acton. They will be communicated with.

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byneddiedingo · 9 months

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Bradley Cooper in American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, 2014)

Cast : Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, Luke Grimes, Jake McDorman, Cory Hardricht, Kevin Lacz, Navid Negahban, Keir O'Donnell, Kyle Gallner. Screenplay: Jason Hall, based on a book by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice. Cinematography: Tom Stern. Production design: Charisse Cardenas, James J. Murakami. Film editing: Joel Cox, Gary Roach.

I think American Sniper is not going to come into focus for us until we have fully assessed the damage done by the American invasion of Iraq -- if, in fact, we ever do. Now, the only thing everyone seems to be able to agree on is that Bradley Cooper's powerful performance holds the film together. Otherwise, opinions about the movie range from those who see it as a reprehensible portrait of American arrogance to those who see it as a laudable portrait of American heroism. Most of us are somewhere in the middle, trying to decide whether it presents Chris Kyle (Cooper) as a victim of the Iraq incursion, as a misguided embodiment of false and outdated values, or as an archetype of the dutiful American military man. What it really seems to me is a muddle of all of these things because screenwriter Jason Hall and director Clint Eastwood can't bring the movie together into a satisfactory whole. It's wrong to review a movie that wasn't made, but I think American Sniper would have made a more coherent film if Chris Kyle's murder hadn't been relegated to a caption and shots of his funeral at the film's end. If the convergence of murderer and victim had been dealt with from the beginning, we might have had a more cohesive narrative about the effects of war on both those who can "handle it" and those who can't. As it is, we have only glances at large issues like simplistic world-view (Kyle's father's division of humankind into sheep, wolves, and shepherds), the American gun culture, the testosterone poisoning of machismo, the stereotyping of the enemy as "savages," and the inability of the United States to come to terms with the hidden problems of returning veterans. What we have instead are often exciting combat scenes mixed with rather clichéd domestic interludes. Sienna Miller does what she can with the underwritten and over-familiar role of the wife back home, but the script doesn't give her enough to work with. I admire Eastwood's restraint as a filmmaker, but I think it does him a disservice here. We are too close to the events of the first decade of the 21st century to have anything but our individual emotional reactions to them, and American Sniper is bound to ring false in some way to each of us. I kept thinking of Sergeant York (Howard Hawks, 1941) as I watched American Sniper. Made on the cusp of World War II, that unabashedly flag-waving movie about another American hero sharpshooter seems naive by contrast, even though the World War I in which Alvin York fought was at least as colossal an international fuck-up as the Iraq invasion, but it's also a better film. Maybe American Sniper will seem like a better film years from now, but somehow I doubt it.

#American Sniper #Clint Eastwood #Bradley Cooper

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mirandamckenni1 · 9 months

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filmes-online-facil · 2 years

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A história incalcada de como Southern California arrasta pilotos, don "a cobra" prudhomme e Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen combinado com gigantes corporativos para mudar o rosto dos esportes e, finalmente, tornou-se a mais famosa rivalidade na história de corrida.

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tartyfart · 1 year

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MARTIN CREED THE ONE AND ONLY

"kid yourself - just enough to - kid yourself"

Creed's first band, Owada, was formed in 1994 with Adam McEwen and Keiko Owada. In 1997, they released their first CD, Nothing, on David Cunningham's Piano label.

The album 'Mind Trap' above features songs alongside instrumental pieces for orchestra, released in 2014. It features the following musicians:

Dee Alexander

Yvonne Gage

Andy Knowles

Keiko Owada

Co-produced by Martin with Andy Knowles

Work No. 955 was originally written for the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Work No. 994 was composed for the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra and Work No. 1375 was commissioned by the The London Sinfonietta. These pieces were recorded for the album by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mikel Toms.

#Martin creed #mind trap #if you're lonely #kid yourself #ubuweb #secondary research

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karma-view · 1 year

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Don Garlits Drag Racing Museum

For anyone who is a drag racing fan, you must go to the Don “Big Daddy” Garlets Drag Racing Museum at 13700 SW 16th Ave in Ocala, FL. They have all of Don’s many versions of his dragsters from the past. Plus others like Don “The Snake” Prudhomme, Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen and a number of other well known drivers. Also they have some “Funny Cars” and other unusual “one of” dragsters. To top it off there’s a ton of different types of drag racing memorabilia going all the back to the beginning in the 1940s. All that’s in the first building where the have a gift shop and you pay the entrance fee ($15 for 60 and up). I can remember watching the drag races on TV as a kid and seeing all these dragsters and funny cars. So for me, this was like reliving it all again.

In a second building they have some great antique cars and some additional muscle cars plus a lot of other memorabilia that I believe was Don’s and his wife Linda’s stuff plus other items that were probably donated. Many of the cars were bought and restored by Don, Linda and their friends. Other cars were donated by other racers and others who were also racing lovers. 12/13/22

Don’s first!

#destinations #drag racing #attractions

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packedwithpackards · 1 year

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An addendum unfinished: Bob's "sentimental journey to Massachusetts"

Bob Mills's caption: This was Uncle Tom Packard's home in Plainfield on Maple Street. It is a shingled shack on a deserted gravel road in the country. The barn has been converted to a modernistic solar home by a young couple. West Hill Cemetery is adjoining.

Editor's note: This is an essay, titled "Addendum" at the end of Bob's original version of his family history booklet, seemingly written in a tone that it was meant to be read by his siblings (Helen and Carol), along with other relatives perhaps, The Packard/Mills Family History, which was sent to relatives in December 1979 as a Christmas present. However, this essay was likely written in July or August 1980. This text, in this post was assembled by this editor almost 38 years after Bob went there, in an interesting coincidence. The text is printed below, with only additions of the photos he mentions. My family history trip is recounted at the end of this post.

In July, 1980 I made a sentimental journey to Massachusetts to visit the grave-sites described in this book, and to learn more about the family. In the Berkshires, I visited West Cummington, Cummington, and Plainfield. I did not visit Shelburne Falls, or Heath. South of Boston, I visited Hingham, drove along Hingham Bay, and visited West Bridgewater and Bridgewater. I will report these adventures in the order in which they occurred. The Berkshires are extremely beautiful, and I had lunch in Pittsfield, a busy town which hosts the Tanglewood Musical Festival nearby. However, all the little towns in which the Packards have lived are nothing more than wide spots in the road. Everybody is friendly, and almost anyone I asked knew about the Packard family in astonishing detail. Considering the exotic nature of my purpose, I was quite dependent upon asking directions to the obscure little cemeteries scattered around on the hillsides, and got good information from passerby and general stores.

Having found a few recent Packard graves at a roadside cemetery in West Cummington, I drove a few miles further to a general store which marked the center of Cummington. Incidentally, West Cummington boasts the Berkshire Snow Basin, which is ski tow alongside the main highway. It looks about 1000' feet through wooded slopes. Anyway, a pleasant lady gave me some rather complex instructions to the Dawes Cemetery, and to ask for a Rev. McEwen. Apparently, almost nothing in New England has proper signs, so that one proceeds carefully searching for local landmarks described by residents. I found Rev. McEwen cutting the grass, and he allowed as he didn't know the cemetery well enough to point out Packard markers, but there was an old lady next door to the cemetery, etc. Again, I found this several times, there is usually an elderly woman living next to the cemetery who knows the place, and is a kind of guide and carekeeper. There was one row of Packards. Families are usually planned in rows, with plots running either East or West, or North and South. Often later residents are uniformly buried in a given direction, with the early gravesites running at 90 degrees contrary to the rest of the cemetery. It turned out that William Henry Packard and Rachel Bartlett Tilson, and some of their children, are buried here, a fact which had not been discovered by Tommy Adkins, who had compiled much of the family history. Since this couple's third child was Cyrus Winfield Packard (our grandfather), much more information was added to the family history.

I then went over a gravel road which was quite hilly, strewn with rocks and ferns. This is Packard Road, the original connection between Cummington and Plainfield, about five miles apart. Plainfield is basically an intersection with a few old houses and a few rundown businesses. Everything else is widely scattered and one-family farms marked by stone walls and trees which are beginning to reclaim the whole place. So-called Maple Street, my own guidepost, is not a street at all, but an unpaved dirt road between rural mailboxes and farms. Without a lot of persistence and the extremely solicitous assistance of neighbors who seemed to know everything about Tom Packard and the West Hill Cemetery, I would have missed the place entirely. So far as I could tell, the local population is either retired gentleman farmers or young couples who work in the cities, with occasional vegetable gardens in the side yards. By Midwestern standards, the soil looks terrible for farming.

I finally found Tom Packard's farm, which is now owned by a young couple whose Italian name escapes me. They weren't home, so after snooping around I went next door to an ultra-modern solar-type house which it turns out had been constructed from Tom Packard's former barn. There an extremely pleasant woman, whose name I never learned, told me of the subdivision of the farm by Atty. Doris Alden from Springfield, and directed me to the West Hill Cemetery next door. Incidentally, Tom Packard's house is little more than a tar shingle shack without central heating, and was constructed in 1946 after the old home much further up the hill had burned to the ground. The main product of the farm appears to be maple syrup.

West Hill Cemetery must have originally been a family-owned cemetery, since it seems to contain virtually nothing but Packard names. It was tended throughout Tom Packard's life by him personally, and a $30,000 bequest was used to maintain the cemetery, which appeared to be well-kept. Uncle Tom is buried here, and he was 73 at the time of his death in 1975. Bert's father, Cyrus Winfield Packard, was buried here with Clementina Cheney, his 3rd wife. Also there is a marker for Joseph Winfield Packard, who was said to be killed while "working on the railroad" in 1910. The grave of Bert's younger sister, Mabel Hattie Packard Whitley Landstrom, is also here, as shown in the photo.

Reposted from Find A Grave, where I uploaded Bob's photo.

While I was photographing these stones, a battered van drove up, disgorging a middle-aged woman, a somewhat larger man with a huge beer belly, and rather impassive son. I was never introduced to the men, but she turned out to be Mabel Landstrom's daughter, Frances M. Rae, who lives in Shelburne Falls nearby. She was rather surprised to discover who I was (Does that make her my cousin?), and regaled me with tales about Uncle Rob, who seems to be the reigning success figure in the family. She was bitter about not getting part of "Uncle Rob's" estate, and also bitter about not getting a bigger share of "Tom's" estate. She was bitter about Douglas Packard getting 20%, claiming he was adopted, and not entitled to such a large share. She also noted that she had been married twice, "but never again". In the midst of this harangue, which was carried out in front of her beer-bellied boyfriend, who offered me a beer from a case in the van, a 4th figure suddenly emerged from the van, almost knocking me down in the process. He was introduced as her mentally retarded son, almost 30 years of age, and after shaking hands, he retired again to the van.

I excused myself from this scene, and sped on to Boston. The next day I went to Hingham, seeking information about Samuel and Elizabeth Stream Packard, the original settlers. Hingham is a rather exclusive little town, with large houses set back from the street, and it proved impossible to locate anything easily there in the general rush through Hingham to get to the beaches beyond Hingham Bay. I drove to the beaches and Hull, and had a delightful lunch on top of an abandoned artillery form which had a splendid view of the whole bay. Afterward, I took the Interstate down to West Bridgewater, and searched through three graveyards in this busy little community without success, except that I found a clutch of Haywards in a very old pioneer cemetery. However, driving five miles into Bridgewater, which is a really charming old community, I found the old cemetery in the heart of town which contained most of the original Packards. The oldest was the gravestone of Judith Willis Packard, married to the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Packard, whose name was John Packard. She was born in 1681, and died in 1761 at the age of 90. Most fascinating was Deliverance Packard, whose second marriage was to Capt. Abiel Packard after her first husband, Capt. Joseph Washburn, died. However, she was buried with her first husband! I noted three marriages between the Washburns and the Packards in those early days, as well as a possible marriage between Abigail Hayward, as the second wife of Jonathan Packard. Abigail died in 1760. The Bridgewater Cemetery is well-tended, and is a fascinating treasure trove of the old families of Massachusetts.

Some of Bob's other photos in July 1980:

Dividing town line between Cummington and Plainfield

Presumably Maple Street, or another wooded street.

Bob's caption: Packard Road connects Cummington to Plainfield over steep hills. It is mostly a gravel road with lots of ferns, rocks, and trees, but nothing else but a few random farmhouses. Only Plainfield has a few restored old homes - the area is rather poverty-stricken.

West Cummington, Mass. A ski tow (Berkshire Snow Basin) is located here. The mountains and streams are beautiful, but the soil, rocks, and growing conditions seem very marginal for farming.

West Cummington

Gravestones of Barnabas I and Mary his wife in West Hill Cemetery. As Bob writes, the cemetery was tended by Tom Packard "until his death in 1975, and actually on his property, now sold and subdivided."

Packard gravestones in West Hill Cemetery

Dawes Cemetery, Cummington. "A row of Packards" as Bob described it. It is not like Bridgewater's First Cemetery where "most of the early Packards are buried" as Bob wrote in his book

Dawes Cemetery, Cummington. Wm. Henry Packard (father of Cyrus Winfield Packard) died on Aug 21, 1898, at the age of 74 years. His wife, Rachel, nee Tilson, died Jan. 30, 1881, at age 56. This marriage produced 10 children.

My August 2017 family history tour

Plainfield Town Hall, photo taken in August 2017. Originally posted in my "From Samuel to Cyrus: A fresh look at the History of the Packard Family" post.

In August 2017, like Bob, me, my dad, and my mom went on a family history trip across Massachusetts. I will tell this story in the order in which it occurred. Unlike him, since he was driving from Cincinnati, we started in the eastern part of the state, after staying in Cape Cod for a few days, hitting Hingham first. While there, I talked to the archivist of the Hingham Historical Society Michael Achille, which Bob, according to his above story, did not get to do at the time. While he was not able to find anything about the Packards in their database, except for some tangential connections, he was very nice, friendly, and was about my age, going to graduate school which was a bit of an inspiration for me to pursue the same path. We also walked around one of the worst parks in the world, World's End. The scenery was nice, but there were passenger jetliners flying above almost all the time. Despite this, I did take a few pictures which I used to represent Bear's Cove, where the first settlers of Hingham landed. The town of Hingham was relatively well-off, with many small shops and was bustling, filled with history. It would be different from what was to come.

Mapping places visited in Hingham. 1.3 miles between the two locations.

From Hingham, we went to Bridgewater. The town itself was a little-run down and not as well-off as Hingham. While there, we didn't visit the historical society but we went to the First Cemetery and took some photos. Looking around, we counted how many Packard graves there were in this cemetery, which sat behind a Unitarian church. Some gravestones were sinking into the ground more than others. Others were leaned up against a fence. No person who would tend the grave was there. The gravesite sits near the corner of two streets. However, it was, if I remember correctly, protected by a sort of stone wall around it. Oh, I almost forgot. Later on that day we ate in a restaurant and I told the waitress what I was doing in Bridgewater and she said she knew a friend whose last name was Packard! So the Packards are everywhere!

Hingham Historical Society to Bridgewater's First Cemetery, 18.4 miles away from each other

Moving on from Bridgewater, we went to Western Massachusetts, where Cummington and Plainfield resided. Before going into Plainfield, I went into a local post office in Cummington, where I asked a postal worker to help us find the Dawes Cemetery. I don't think I asked for the Dawes Cemetery exactly, but maybe for a local landmark, but regardless she gave directions to the cemetery. It is at the top of a hill, where people zoom along in their cars since its some type of thoroughfare. There's only a few nearby houses. There's a nearby creamery nearby called Grace Hill Dairy, which sits at, as I looked up later, on 47 Potash Hill Road. This may help those who read this find it in the future. While there, we took some pictures, and my mom drove the car through a path going through the cemetery, something Bob seems to have done as well. We did not meet any overseer of the cemetery or anything, but it seemed somewhat well-tended, much more than the cemetery in Bridgewater! There was a marker across the street where someone was buried, but I'm not exactly recalling who it was exactly.

Cummington locations visited are mapped above. The Kingman Tavern Museum will be talked about later in this story, for obvious reasons as you'll see later

After visiting that cemetery, we went back down the road and stopped at the Old Creamery Grocery which has a big cow on top if my memory serves me right. They had some local music act playing a guitar. It seemed like a bit of a community meeting area. We ate our packed lunch there at some picnic tables they had set up and then moved on to another cemetery: West Hill Cemetery. Like Dawes, this cemetery has a sign, and even though it has less Packards than Dawes (20 in West Hill, 33 or 34 in Dawes). While there, we put some flowers in front of graves of Packards and looked at the Packards as a whole. There were a few houses around, but its generally wooded there, with not much activity around.

Locations in Plainfield visited. The Plainfield Historical Society does not have a fixed location, but this is about where I met Matthew Stowell

With that, Plainfield was the next stop. I was set for a meeting with the archivist Matthew Stowell of the Plainfield Historical Society. He was not a permanent resident of the area, working and living somewhere else during the year and was a teacher. I won't go into his political affiliation here, but he was very friendly, as he met us on the street, walking his dog, before my appointment was set to occur. His house was a bit of a mess inside because of renovations. His dog kept trying to lick me, as dogs always go to those who dislike them the most! Anyway, he had some local history books such as Only One Cummington (vol 1 and 2), and Vital Records of Cummington. He also had a genealogy of someone related to the Packards which had been recently given to the Plainfield Historical Society. I looked through that and found many photographs, pictures, and other documents I hadn't seen previously! After talking to him, we walked around a bit more of Plainfield. The town almost seemed deserted. There seemed to be no visible industry in Plainfield. There are historic houses, sure, but its basically a one street town, at a crossroads, literally. They were debating medical marijuana in the town hall from what I could see.

Courtesy of the Town of Cummington

Mr. Stowell recommended that we visit Cummington to find out more. We went into Cummington and lo and behold, a place called the Kingman Tavern Museum was open, which is run by the Cummington Historical Society. People were dressed in period costumes of the 19th century, I believe. One local girl, whose ancestors were a wealthy family known as Tillsons (Rachel Bartlett Tillson, the wife of William Henry Packard, was part of this family) if I remember correctly, was a tour guide inside the museum, dressed in clothing that women would have worn at the time, showing visitors around. Everything inside could be photographed. My phone wasn't working that well at the time, but I still got to take photographs. Most amazing of all was a room in the tavern called the "Packard room." I was so overjoyed by this as I wasn't expecting it whatsoever. Later on, an older man who seemed to know Tom Packard showed me to their family files,which were in a building across the street, one of which, of course, they had on the Packards. I took some photographs and notes, but felt a bit shortchanged. We had to go onto another destination and I had to say goodbye. Still, it was worth it.

It was then that the family history tour ended. After staying at a friend's house for the night, we went into a bit of Western New York, visiting Olana and other sites along the Hudson River. We then took Interstate 90 back home, back into Maryland.

While this family history trip was great, after doing much research since then, I know so much more than I knew then. Sometime in the future I'd like to go back and visit Hingham, Plainfield, and Cummington once again. Until next time!

Notes

[1] In the first post I added a family story: "as the story goes, he [Bob] entered a store in Plainfield, and friendly town residents asked him why he was there. He said he was researching family genealogy of the Packard family. One person responded saying “I’m a Packard, he’s a Packard, she’s a Packard, we’re all Packards here.” Another one of his cousins had a similar experience but slightly different in Pittsfield, asking about the Packards at a local library and they had a whole section dedicated to the family."

Note: This was originally posted on Feb. 8, 2019 on the main Packed with Packards WordPress blog (it can also be found on the Wayback Machine here). My research is still ongoing, so some conclusions in this piece may change in the future.

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