June 2015

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: The Theatre of Cruelty and Cultural Warfare is coming to Emerson Center For Arts & Culture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MooNISe8aM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXHk1LreKQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elm_BMJwKJ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMTKCES1vPk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX0RakvyZ1I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n32RO_wnXQc

This morning I went in search of Roy Reuben Rosamond’s story about Calvin and Nell that takes place in Montana. I am blown away. “The sun climbed toward the zenith, up over the colossal Beartooth Mountain!” It is high noon in Bozeman. Andre Artaud and Vincent Van Gough have gotten off the train so they…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: ? I found this letter two days ago on the Rosamond photo file I got several years ago. I could not make out the signature, and googled Sulphur Mountain and Santa Paula. This is a letter from the famous director, Gaston Melies, the brother of the even more famous director,…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: John Fremont had a bodyguard of forty Mountain Men and five Delaware Indians. John’s father-in-law, Senator Benton, was in the back pocket of John Jacob Astor who sold his holdings in the Northwest when it looked like the British army would invade in 1812, which they did. The Benton family…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: When I die there will be no first-hand account of these times and events that changed the world. Bohemianism is here to stay and needs to be understood and defined. Above is the shoe factory I and a hundred artists lived in just outside Boston that burned down. That is…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: In this prophetic post on June 11, I turn myself into a art-piece. I am an exhibit in the Portland Museum. I would later go to the Portland Historic society nearby and discover my blue Ford truck. There is no doubt in my mind I can see the future. My…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: My father told me his mother’s best friend, Viola, was a “fruitcake” and a Isadora Duncan freak. Isadora was born in Oakland – in spite of the need of some historians to get her the hell out of there! We Presco children knew Viola loved Melba – with a passion!…

Originally posted on Rosamond Press: This is the old hood in Roxbury where poor folks are combatting the money people who have taken over their traditional neighborhood. James Harkins found an apartment here and invited a bunch of hippies to come live with him and pay the rent. He exploited the Bohemian Hippie because he…

When you are hiding, you are afraid. Get on Facebook, and stop hiding! Jon Gregory

This morning I awoke with the realization I am the Caretaker of the Creative Stackpole Family History, because they have passed away, along with a good friend of the family, Michael Harkins.  Michael told me stories about Ralph Stackpole. He told me how his grandson, Peter Stackpole died. He was camping on the American River…