June 2015

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: When Marilyn told me her portfolia got burned up in a fire, I grieved, for she told me within were photographs of her friend, Maggie Thrett. She is posing in the dresses and outfits M made for this actress who was in ‘Mudd’s Women’ a Star Trek eposode. M had…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Marilyn Reed came out with her ‘Train Line’ in the late 70’s. Her designs were influenced by movies of the 40,s. My late sister, Christine Rosamond Benton owned a Train dress, and my ex-wife, Mary Ann Thareldsen, wore one at our wedding. These two women artists recognized the Creative Class…

“Rosamond said his parents followed my grandfather, John L. Reese, to Helena from Missouri In the spring of 1884.” The family lived in the Sixth ward for three years before moving to the Sanford and Evans building.” http://montanaranchandrecreation.blogspot.com/2014/06/gallatin-county-history-of-reese-creek.html The gentleman in the photo above is my kin.  Here are my Lost People I found along…

On this day, June 6, 2015, I found a genealogy for my grandmother’s family. I am amazed! Ida Louisiana Rose was named, Louise, and, her surname is not Rose. It is a Welsh name that I will keep a secret because I have been led to unravel the greatest genealogical mystery of them all.  Her…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Anthony Hodges is more then likely my kindred. He opposed Denne Sweeney who brought neo-Confederate radicals and secessionist into the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Below is a post I made in 2008 about the Rosamond-Hodges Union. I call for the rise of the Rose of the World that will topple…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: Rena Victoria Easton and Ambrose Bierce have several things in common 1. They lived in a tent within the city limits of Oakland. 2. They befriended Bohemian types and love poetry. In her letter Rena says she has committed a million poems to memory. When I lost my beautiful young…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: A year ago I sent the video ‘Rosemary Rides and Shoots’ to the Ventura Museum. In this home movie that was shot by one of the grandsons of Henry Lewis, we see my late mother riding and shooting with the Lewis boys whose father owned the lima bean fields in…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: EDITOR’S NOTE: Keep in mind there exist a 276 page autobiography that Christine Rosamond wrote, that has been closeted – disappeared! Any movie based upon Christine’s words would belong to my two nieces. Outsiders did not want my nieces, or myself, to author a biography for the same reason because…

The following is from ‘When You Close Your Eyes’ the first biography of Christine Rosamond by Tom Snyder. This is the testimony of Garth Benton, and artist, and cousin of Thomas Hart Benton. “Christine worked almost exclusively from photographs and figures she cut from magazines like Vanity Fair and Vogue and Glamour,” Garth recalls. “That’s…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: The Transmutation of my Muse, Rena Victoria Easton, began with an idea that I ran past Charles J. Shields about I possibly authoring the story of Lucia Joyce, the muse of her father, James Joyce, and lover of Samuel Becket who was inspired by Antonin Artaud. “On December 29, 2013,…