May 2015

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: In my literary endeavors, and in the union of Garth Benton, and Christine Rosamond Benton, we have a new Pre-Raphaelite Craftsman movement in the world. My contribution parallels that of Michael Rossetti who published a newspaper for creative people called ‘The Germ’. It was my dream, as I rendered Grail-like…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: According to Jimmy Rosamond, the late actress, Elizabeth Rosemond Tyalor, is my kin. Dame Elizabeth is in the Peerage. Over ten years ago Elizabeth put a short biography, along with the top photo, on the Rosamond geneaology website. Then it was gone. She may now be kin to the Stewarts,…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: In 1985 I visited my friend, Nancy Hamren, at the Kesey family creamery here in Springfield where I now reside. We had gone to lunch and talked about living at the ‘Idle Hands’ commune in San Francisco that was funded by Betty Zorthian the heir of William’s Shave. Nancy suggested…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: The peculiarities of this impression (probably the earliest) of Daniel’s most popular poem were, we believe, first pointed out in the ” Bibliographical and Critical Account of Rare Books,” 8vo, 1865, I. 170. The “Rosamond” in this form exists only in a single copy appended to the same author’s ”…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: I was sitting with my friend Casey in a coffee shop near the UofO discussing ‘The White Goddess’ by Robert Graves, when he pointed out a beautiful young woman sitting by herself. “She has the Arcadian Show White look. She has black hair and dark blue eyes.” I got her…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Gautier de Costes de la Calprenède makes a panegyric pronouncement when he compares the beauty of Elizabeth Monck, Duchess of Albermarle, to Fair Rosamond. Did Gautier know Elizabeth descends from Rosamond via the Talbots? Handel wrote an opera about Faramond and Rosamunde the queen of the Sicambri who lived in…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: “A year later in 2001, the accolades continued, as Golf Digest named Pebble Beach the No.1 Golf Course in America, marking the first time ever that a public golf course had held the top spot.” Pebble Beach is a public golf course. How is it that the Pebble Beach Company…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Since 1969 I worked hard to bring my vision of establishing a New Pre-Raphaelite Movement in America. Joaquin Miller had befriended my grandmother when she was young. He would accompany her on the Fruit Vale trolley holding my infant father in his lap. Joaquin would have dinner with the Pre-Raphaelite…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: J.R.Tolkien’s ‘The Lost Road’ begins thus; “Alboin. Alboin!” Alboin means ‘Elf-friend’. When I was eighteen I had Hippie elf-friends who I found in Tolkien’s Trilogy. One of them was Christine Wandel. One day she came into my small attic room with no window, lay down on the floor where I…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Dottie Witherspoon and I went to Meher Baba’s home in Myrtle Beach South Carolina in 1971. We then moved to California and lived in Alameda. Dottie took our Blue Tick hound born on the Fourth of July, and went to live on the Lighthouse Ranch with some Jesus Freaks. We…