“Enclosed is an invitation I received from the White House” 1978


James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

Letter to my sister

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On page two, I wrote: “Also, I have another painting. This one is of a boat house on Long Island. It is neat.”


This is the painting that hung in my office in 1978: Harry Gottleib’s Ice House.
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Exhibition Label
As workers like these knew well, it was cold, hard work filling the icehouses of upstate New York. In January 1934, artist Harry Gottlieb signed on with the PWAP and looked for American workers he could paint near his home in the artists’ colony of Woodstock, New York. He found these men harvesting ice off lakes and streams as local men had done every winter since the early 1800s. They sawed the thick layer of natural ice into long strips and then cut off large blocks. As Gottlieb’s painting shows, the red-faced workers dressed in warm coats used long hooks and wooden ramps to maneuver the slick, heavy ice into large commercial icehouses where they neatly stacked the blocks. Straw or sawdust packing minimized melting in warm weather. Throughout the year icehouses along the Hudson River stored ice that was shipped by train to New York City. Families and grocers put the ice into insulated iceboxes that kept food from spoiling. Artificial freezing dominated ice production after World War I, and then electric refrigerators became popular. When Gottlieb documented the natural ice business it was gradually melting away.
1934: A New Deal for Artists exhibition label
Title
Filling the Ice House
Artist
Harry Gottlieb
Date
1934
On View
Not on view.
Dimensions
40 3/8 x 60 3/8 in. (102.5 x 153.4 cm)
Copyright
Credit Line
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor
Mediums
oil
Mediums Description
oil on canvas
Classifications
Painting
Keywords
New Deal – Public Works of Art Project – New York State
Figure group – male
Occupation – industry – ice cutting
Object Number
1964.1.19
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Page two of two

“I HAVE a secret to tell you. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall has mice in his office. In fact, there are mice all up and down the second floor at the U.S. Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C. I have mice in my office. There are mice in the offices of the staff. There are mice in the conference rooms. When the coal negotiations were taking place in what the papers called the “blue-curtained room down the hall from Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall’s office,” there were mouse traps.”
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Heather Smith is the heroine of the Libertarian Disability Rights Movement

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What a difference a year makes

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ON SATURDAY AUGUST 11TH AT 9:15 I WAS ARRESTED ON THE STREET WHERE I LIVE FOR TRYING TO GET TO SYNAGOGUE
https://joelsolkoff.com/on-august-11th-at-915-i-was-arrested-on-the-street-where-i-live-for-trying-to-get-to-synagogue/

 

 

 

 

 

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Defeat Rep. Tom Marino

In September 2017, President Donald Trump nominated Marino to serve as the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (“drug czar”).[15][1] In October, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) called on Trump to withdraw Marino’s nomination.[20]Trump said he would “look into” reports about Marino, putting his nomination in question.[21] On October 17, 2017, Marino withdrew his nomination.[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Marino

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Love letter 1973

Gayle was one of those beautiful women who said No after my proposing. As with the others, I was fortunate because Gayle lingered for a delicious while before making the negative apparent

Gayle.
She arrived in a psychedelic bus from New Haven, Connecticut. The tarot cards Gayle read to me in the garden of the red house, Bernal Heights, San Francisco, did not simply predict my future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beach adventure on the Pacific astonishingly similar to a Fellini beach scene

 

Ethereal

To be continued… [ and how]

 

 

Detail from my arrest last month

Work in progress

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Walls and bars do not a prison make

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This is the cool prison next to the new prison. My prison.

This is the cool prison next door. Ignore, the discussion about rape. No one wanted to rape me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Walls and bars do not a prison make

 

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1973 Letter to my literary agent seeking her help to break a book contract on how Timothy Leary escaped from prison

Letter to Marie Rodell June 1973