Broderick – Stuttmeister – Janke family at Twin Pines Park Belmont California
On this day, I John Presco, Rightful owner of the Habsburg Empire in the New World, as well as the Holdings of the House of Bourbon, do lay clam to the City known as San Carlos that I suspect is a fictitious name, aimed at hiding the natorious swindling by Leland Stanford ‘The Robber Baron’.
I am the great grandson of Carl Janke, and William Stuttmeister, who owned property in Belmont, and elsewhere. I did not receive a warm welcome at the Belmont Historical Society. I wondered why. After much digging, I discovered Carl and Doretha Janke were dug up from their graves in the middle of the night, and put in a grave in Redwood city with Doretha’s mother. Does San Carlos treat their founders this way? It’s hard to tell, because there are so many – stories! For now, I go with Charles 111 because he is kin to Empress Zita who fled to the United States after Hitler put a price on her head. I have claimed the painting of her family after my attempts to return it to Austria – failed! I am kin to the Hull family.
I have given San Carlos a new name that is inspired by the Wonderland the Janke Family created in Twin Pines Park. What is that tree on the City Seal of San Carlos? If it is a Bay Laurel Tree, then it is ordained I own these lands……
TRANFORAN
John G. Presco
President? Of Royal Rosamond
Duke of Tranforan
Posted on May 27, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
It is 8:33 A.M. May 27, 2023 – and I am still in shock having discovered my grandparents are buried in the same grave! I saw TWO flags put on one gravestone. That was a half hour ago. THEN – I see another flag! There are three of my ancestors buried in the same grave! WHY? Did the caretakers conclude this was a very poor family? William Stuttmeister knew they were Belmont before he died. At great expense to himself, he moved the Jankes to Colma after they were evicted from the Odd Fellow cemetery – at great expense! This was a wealthy pioneer family whose graves keep being defiled! They were moved to the Union cemetery i 1972?
Below is a video I made after I met with LDS Sisters who wanted to meet at the genealogy center to look at these illustrious people who have a magnificent crypt in Berlin. I don’t know if I told them I was considering putting Amanda Gorman in my painting of the two pages saving our electoral votes.
John Presco
“Originally Carl abd Doretha were buried under a huge bay tree there and bodies later moved to the Union Cemetary “during the dark of night” my mother used to tell us.”
Lesser Arms of Bourbon-Parma
Eventually, more explorers began to arrive. The first was Gaspar de Portola, who, as indicated, came in 1769. Historians differ on Portola’s route to San Carlos. Some think his trek from the Pacific Ocean took him to Belmont, while others believe it was San Carlos.
Blog: Bohemians of the Peninsula
The Brittan namesake is one of the most well-known in San Carlos.
by Dan CalicOctober 21, 2022 3:56 pmUpdated March 25, 2024 1:47 am
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Dale Avenue is near where San Carlos Avenue intersects with Alameda de las Pulgas. On this heavily wooded street is a place with historical significance. The address is 125 Dale Avenue. What’s noteworthy about it, you ask?
It was built in 1872 by Nathanial Brittan, the son of John Wesley Brittan, a successful hardware store owner and merchant, who made his fortune during the Gold Rush era. The Brittan namesake is one of the most well-known in San Carlos.
The property was part of a sizable 3,000 purchase by John Wesley from Rancho de las Pulgas in San Carlos. He named it Brittan Ranch.
When he died in 1872, his son Nathanial inherited a large portion of the land.
Nathanial made a name for himself when he became the co-founder of San Francisco’s Bohemian Club, which includes a 2,700-acre private location north of San Francisco in Sonoma County known as Bohemian Grove. The organization also has a clubhouse in San Francisco.
Members of this private group are the elite from politics, the arts, business and other realms of society. Past members include several U.S. Presidents, William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Coors, Tennessee Ernie Ford, David Packard, Ronald Regan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and many more.
Many serious meetings took place there, including one in 1942, which was part of the Manhattan Project that ultimately led to the manufacture of the first atomic bomb.
The Grove also hosted plenty of outright parties, some of which became known for being quite wild.
Brittan, who lived in San Carlos just one-half block away, wanted to establish 125 Dale Avenue as the gathering place and hunting lodge for his fellow club members. He had hoped the lodge would become the club’s main facility.
Alas, Sonoma County would become its playground while the urban headquarters became San Francisco for this exclusive society of elites. Annual gatherings continue to take place today.
The house in San Carlos, which is privately owned, was placed on the National Registry of Historic Places in 1994.
Everything else is just history
Some of the photos used in this blog are courtesy of the Local History Room, Redwood City’s best-kept secret. The Local History Collection covers all aspects of Redwood City’s development, from the 1850s to the present day, with particular emphasis on businesses, public schools, civic organizations, city agencies, and early family histories. The Local History Room is not affiliated with the Redwood City Public Library, but it is inside it.
The Nathanial Brittan Party House, also known as Nathaniel Brittan Party House, Brittan Party House, Brittan Lodge, is located at 125 Dale Avenue in San Carlos, California, and was built in 1872.[1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]
History[edit]
John Wesley Brittan (1812–1872), owner of Brittan & Holbrook, was a successful hardware store merchant during the gold rush in San Francisco.[2][3] John Brittan bought 3,000 acres of the Rancho de las Pulgas, in what is now San Carlos, and it was named “Brittan Ranch”.[2] His son Nathaniel Jones Brittan (1848–1912) inherited approximately one third of his father’s estate, an early settler in San Carlos where he kept his “country house”.[2][4][5]
Nathaniel Brittan co-founded the Bohemian Club of San Francisco in 1872, and by 1892 Brittan was the president of the club.[5] He built the Nathaniel Brittan Party House in order to entertain his friends from the club and to use as a hunting lodge.[2][5][6] The Brittan Manor House (1888), Brittan’s former residence, is located about a half-block away at 40 Pine Avenue.[7]
The Nathaniel Brittan Party House was built in 1872, as a Victorian-style, two-and-a-half story redwood framed structure with an octagonal folly.[8] There is a shiplap exterior siding that appears to go in multiple directions.[5][8] The building has steep gables and an octagonal windowed cupola.[5] It is one of the few remaining examples of nineteenth century Octagon Mode buildings in the San Francisco Bay Area.[8]
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References
1864
It is with Nathaniel that we continue our history.
The San Carlos Station (Southern Pacific Depot)
When the San Francisco-to-San Jose railroad was being laid in 1864, Nathaniel Brittan granted the right-of-way through his property, with the stipulation that a station agent and telegraph office be maintained at all times. Brittan was a friend of Leland Stanford who arranged to lend his University stone masons for the building of the San Carlos (Southern Pacific) Depot in 1888. This is how our now famous landmark, the Southern Pacific Depot, came to be built. It is a rare example of the use of the Richardson Romansque style in California railroad station architecture. It was the first permanent building erected by the San Carlos Land Company to form the nucleus for their speculative town development.
Nathaniel’s Party House
In 1873 Nathaniel Brittan inherited the lands between Pulgas Creek and Brittan Ave. from his father and built his Manor House on Pine in 1881. The home included a bear pit, aviary and fine gardens. Nathaniel also had a huge hunting lodge built on the present Dale Avenue near his elaborate home so as not to disturb Mrs. Brittan when he entertained his cronies. At one time he wished, to build a “Country Jinx” Clubhouse where the Bohemian Club could meet on Druids Hill near the present intersection of Orange and Elizabeth Streets. A cornerstone was laid, but the clubhouse never came about. The original Bohemian Club cornerstone was first laid at the corner of Orange and Elizabeth Sts. and is now at the Bohemian Club Grove, Russian River. Mr. Brittan was one of the founders and a past president of the Bohemian Club, which was formed in 1872. Brittan Ave. in San Carlos is named for this family.
Nathaniel died in 1912. He had three children, Natalie, Belle and Carmelita. There are streets in San Carlos named after these children.
1925
SAN CARLOS San Carlos had its beginnings in the very early days of San Mateo County and was known principally as the home place of the Honorable Timothy G. Phelps who was one of the most important men in the history of San Mateo County. Here also were located the home and brickyard of W. W. Hull, who after closing his kilns, entered the milk business, and this community was also the abiding place of the Britton family who owned thousands of acres of land. The city of San Carlos was laid out in the early ’90s as a railroad project and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company erected the finest depot anywhere on its line between San Francisco and San Jose. This depot is constructed of brown stone with a slate roof, and a big open fireplace in the waiting room gives cheer and comfort throughout the year. The territory as subdivided comprised a large part of the holdings of Mr. Phelps and among the first to settle in the community was Captain N. T. Smith for years an official of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Because of the lack of a good water supply, San Carlos did not develop as rapidly as had been expected and outside of the incorporated area only the Phelps, Britton and Hull homes were known to any extent. The Spring Valley Water Company secured a site in the northern end of the community and erected a large pumping station which was for many years under the managership of Captain D. Hayes. About 1911 the town began to show signs of life and shortly thereafter the district school which was located at West Union, about four miles southwest of the town, was moved to San Carlos and with the advent of the school and the erection of a very beautiful two room auditorium building, families began to settle. On May 11, 1925, a petition was presented to the Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County asking for the incorporation of San Carlos as a city of the sixth class. An election was accordingly called for June 22 and on that date 157 voted for incorporation and 26 voted against. On July 6, 1925, the supervisors having received the findings of the election, San Carlos became a municipality. Of the citizens of the community who have labored zealously for its advancement, many could be mentioned. Mr. John E. Cowgill was for years its unofficial mayor. Mr. Cowgill, at present Southern Pacific agent, was put in charge of the Southern Pacific Station in 1906 and from that date until very recently was station agent, Wells Fargo agent, postmaster and correspondent to various newspapers. Mr. Fred Drake has been active in the real estate business of the community and has been one of San Carlos’ most loyal boosters. Asa Hull has also played an important part. To name others would be practically to take the city directory, as all of the residents have been particularly active in promoting the civic welfare of the community.
While the California Gold Rush of 1849 found no gold nearby, disappointed Sierra Nevada prospectors made their way to the region, bringing the first non-Spanish western settlers. The Argüello family retained deed to their ranch through the transfer of governments to the United States, and, in the 1850s, began selling parcels of it through their agent S. M. Mezes.
While the port of Redwood City, to the south, and the town of Belmont, to the north, both grew quickly in the late 19th century, San Carlos’ growth was much slower. Major portions were purchased by the Brittan Family, the Hull Family, the Ralston family and Timothy Guy Phelps.
Timothy Phelps, a wealthy politician, made an early attempt to further develop the San Carlos area. He paid for significant improvements such as sewer lines and street grading, and began to promote lot sales in what he immodestly called “The Town of Phelps”.
Phelps’ sales were largely unsuccessful, and he eventually sold much of his land to Nicholas T. Smith’s San Carlos Land Development Company. Other developers were not overly fond of Phelps’ eponymous efforts, and decided to rename the town. Some maps are existent referring to the area as “Lomitas” (“little hills” in Spanish) but eventually due to historical legend, the name “San Carlos” was chosen. As noted previously, it was believed that Portolá had first seen the San Francisco Bay on November 4 from the San Carlos hills. November 4 is the feast day of St. Charles. As well, the Spanish king at the time was Carlos III, and the first ship to sail into San Francisco bay was the San Carlos.
The newly named region—not yet incorporated—received a boost with the construction of the Peninsula Railroad Corridor in 1863, and the addition, of a station at San Carlos in 1888.
Growth remained slow through the turn of the 20th century, with most residents enjoying the short 35-minute train ride to San Francisco while living in a rural setting. The Hull family operated a dairy located at the modern intersection of Hull and Laurel. Many of the other residents which were not involved in agriculture were wealthy business and professional men who worked with the railroad or in San Francisco.
Despite the efforts of the developers, growth was very slow in this period, and San Carlos ended the 19th century with fewer than one hundred houses and families.
Philip was born into the French royal family (as Philippe, Duke of Anjou) during the reign of his grandfather Louis XIV. He was the second son of Louis, Grand Dauphin, and was third in line to the French throne after his father and his elder brother, Louis, Duke of Burgundy. Philip was not expected to become a monarch, but his great-uncle Charles II of Spain was childless. Philip’s father had a strong claim to the Spanish throne, but since Philip’s father and elder brother were expected to inherit the French throne, Charles named Philip as his heir presumptive in his will. Philip succeeded in 1700 as the first Spanish monarch of the House of Bourbon.
In 1701, the new king married his second cousin Maria Luisa of Savoy, with whom he had four sons. Their two surviving sons were the future Spanish kings Louis I and Ferdinand VI. Maria Luisa died in 1714, and Philip remarried to Elisabeth Farnese. Philip and Elisabeth had seven children, including the future Charles III of Spain; Infanta Mariana Victoria, who became Queen of Portugal; Infante Philip, who became Duke of Parma; and Infanta María Antonia Fernanda, who became Queen of Sardinia.
The Whipple-Hull Family of San Carlos
Posted on July 13, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
William Whipple
Eureka! I just discovered one of my kin was the Mayor of San Carlos. The father of Asa Hull, was William Whipple Hull, a early pioneer of san Carlos that was named Phelpsville at one time. Sir Isaac Hull was the Captain of the U.S.S. Constitution – that sails through the Golden Gate past Black Point, where my kin Jessie Benton Fremont held a salon that Mark Twain attended.
Offshore of San Carlos, Captain Hull gives a canon salute to William Whipple Hull who is kin to Signer William Whipple! This is the first linage of a Signer I have encountered in the history of California. Let us hear a canon salute to Carl Janke, Founder of Belmont! The name San Carlos should be changed to…
Whippleville!
Happy Fourth of July – my beloved ancestors!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Arrival at Dorchester
Early seventeenth century Massachusetts Bay Colony was a two-year-old primitive theocratic settlement of approximately 2000 inhabitants when a teenage youth named John Whipple first set foot on its soil.[ 1 ] Who was he? Where did he come from? Where and how did he live? Who are his descendants? Several generations of antiquarian researchers have left these questions as yet incompletely addressed.
“September 16, 1632, being the Lord’s Day. In the Evening Mr. Pierce, in the ship Lyon, arrived and came to an anchor before Boston. He brought 123 passengers including 50 children all in health. He lost not one passenger, save his carpenter, who fell overboard as he was caulking a port. They were 12 weeks abroad. He had five days east wind and thick fog, so as he was forced to come, all that time by the lead, and the first land he made was cape Ann.”[ 2 ] This entry in the journal of John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, attendant to a list of passengers, included 15-year-old John Whipple as one of the 123 Lyon immigrants. Thus began the continuing history of the Whipple surname in the new world.[ 3 ]
https://whipple.one-name.net/charles/johnandsarah/index.html
King Charles III of Spain Biography & Facts
by Edward St. Germain
Contents
About the author
Edward St. Germain
Edward A. St. Germain created AmericanRevolution.org in 1996. He was an avid historian with a keen interest in the Revolutionary War and American culture and society in the 18th century. On this website, he created and collated a huge collection of articles, images, and other media pertaining to the American Revolution. Edward was also a Vietnam veteran, and his investigative skills led to a career as a private detective in later life.
Quick facts
- Charles III of Spain was born on January 20, 1716, in Madrid, Spain.
- He initiated the Bourbon Reforms in Spanish America and the Philippines to revitalize the empire.
- Charles III supported the American colonies during the American Revolution by providing financial aid and military support against the British.
- His reign saw the expulsion of the Jesuits from Spanish territories in 1767.
- He died on December 14, 1788, and was succeeded by his son, Charles IV.
- He was buried at the Pantheon of the Kings located at the Royal Monastery of El Escorial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III_of_Spain
Charles III (Spanish: Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio;[a] 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza, as Charles I (1731–1735); King of Naples, as Charles VII; and King of Sicily, as Charles III (1735–1759). He was the fourth son of Philip V of Spain and the eldest son of Philip’s second wife, Elisabeth Farnese. He was a proponent of enlightened absolutism and regalism.
Magician’s Tower at Black Point
Posted on June 20, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Dear Governor Newsom. Today is June 19th. and I am inspired to make a proposal to you and the people of California, where I was born – during an amazing star-shower! Earlier today I made a proposal to Notre Dame de Namur asking for creative and just sanctuary, after learning more of my ancestors were dug up out their graves – and relocated. This has left me with deep and stressful feeling of impermanence that hurtles beyond the feelings of enlightenment I have enjoyed via literary meditation. I believe I own the largest blog in the world – that needs protection – too.
I am kin to John and Jessen Fremont who authored the first emancipation of slaves. John was the first candidate for the Republicans’ Abolitionist Party. I want to declare my candidacy for Republican President – but I don’t feel safe. I’m too poor to move. There is no room for bodyguards. This is why I’m asking for the immediate construction of a sound stone home like the one I found on the internet. The Fremonts had their Black Point home taken from them by the U.S. Military. There was a court case that compensated most of the offspring of homeowners, but the Fremont home was not one of them.
I would like to see a tower – with large clock – honoring the Forty-Eighters, and the German Turners who went South with the Union Army and helped defeat the Confederacy. I have uncovered some amazing history about the Getty family, that are my kin due to the marriage of Christopher Wilding to Aileen Getty I m kin to Ian Fleming. From this tower I will direct cyber warfare against Putin and his brain. Mark Twain was a frequent visitor to Blackpoint. Consider his story; A Connecticut Yankee at King Author’s Court. I will be the caretaker of the San Francisco Magic in the years I have left. This proposal will be a part of The Great Story.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Copyright 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Connecticut_Yankee_in_King_Arthur%27s_Court
Spy Weddings at Belmont
Posted on February 28, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
I want to move to Belmont. I will need a means to make living there, in the home of my ancestors. How about I minister to Espionage Weddings? I am kin to Ian Fleming and am authoring a spy novel. Belmont needs a Character and Author in Residence. I will conduct Nazarite Weddings. I will spend my days in a Gypsie Wagon modeled after the work of my kin Augustus John. I will read my Tom Poems while my sheep keep the grass low at Twin Piness Park.
John Tom Braskehill
Stuttmeister-Janke Wedding at Belmont
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Below is the artist Christine Rosamond Benton, the great granddaughter of Alice Stuttmeister, the sister of William Stuttmeister. My sister got married to Rick Partlow who won an Emmy.
John Presco
President: Belmont Soda Works; Royal Rosamond Press; California Barrel Company
The Belmont Soda Works of California | Rosamond Press
William Janke on Haight St. | Rosamond Press
The California Barrel Company – Site Title
The Keepers and Destroyers of History | Rosamond Press
San Francisco County
Biographies
FREDERICK JACOB KOSTER
Throughout his career Frederick J. Koster has been identified with industrial activities and in manufacturing circles of San Francisco, his native city, he has long figured prominently as president of the California Barrel Company, Ltd. He was born October 28, 1868, a son of John L. and Berta Lisette (Wagener) Koster, and supplemented his public school education by private instruction and study. In 1884, before he attained the age of sixteen, he entered the employ of the San Francisco establishment of the Coos Bay Stave & Lumber Company as an apprentice to learn the cooperage trade and made rapid headway, due to his conscientious application and capable performance of every task assigned him. In 1887 he became superintendent of the plant of the California Barrel Company, now the California Barrel Company, Ltd., and since 1905 has served as president of this large corporation, wisely administering its affairs. His life has been devoted to the building up of this business, and his company occupies an outstanding position in the United States in its line. The thing in which Mr. Koster takes the greatest pride is the close relationship that exists among his fellow workers, to whom he never refers as employes, and the spirit of comradeship and cooperation that pervades his business institution. This and the resultant spirit of service to the trade is what he considers his greatest assets.
Mr. Koster was married March 12, 1908, to Miss Ida Louise Field, a native of Wisconsin, and they have become parents of four daughters, Jane, Ann, Lisette, and Louise, all natives of California. They reside at 3383 Washington street, and Mr. Koster maintains his office on the fourteenth floor of the building at 100 Bush street.
He has voted with the republican party and has always positively refused to consider political office of any kind, although he has given freely of his time and energy to welfare and civic work. During the World war, he was chairman of the resources and conversion section of the War Industries Board for the states of California, Nevada and Arizona, and was chairman of the local committee in charge of the campaign for Armenian and Syrian relief, and a member of the European relief administration. He is now a member of the National Foreign Trade Council. He was a director of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, chairman of its executive committee and chairman of its committee on American ideals. He served three terms as president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and was chairman of the Law and Order Committee during the serious strike situation in San Francisco in 1916 and until its discontinuance in 1919. He also served three terms as president of the Industrial Association of San Francisco. At present he is chairman of the San Francisco Endorsement Council, president of the California State Chamber of Commerce, and president of the California Grape Control Board, Ltd., which is striving to reestablish the distressed grape industry in the state of California.
Socially he has connection with the Pacific Union, Bohemian, Olympic, San Francisco Commercial Commonwealth and Woodside Country Clubs and the Meadow Club of Tamalpais. Through his own exertions Mr. Koster has risen to the top, winning gratifying success as well as the high esteem and good-will of his fellowmen. Prompted by humanitarian instincts, he has steadily broadened his field of usefulness and his far-reaching labors have been productive of much good.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Source: Byington, Lewis Francis, “History of San Francisco 3 Vols”, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, 1931. Vol. 3 Pages 18-22.
The Old California Barrel Company
Posted on March 11, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
The Royal Janitor
by
John Presco
Copyright 2021
Victoria found the old California Barrel Company in a old phone directory. There were two of them. One was located in the Dogpatch area south of San Francisco, and the other offshore of Belmont on the really old Wharf Road. Making their way carefully down the rickety wharf to the house that sat at the end of it, they passed a chicken coop. Just as they were about to knock at the door, it flew open, and there stood a jovial Santa-looking gentleman in his seventies!
“I knew I was going to have company today! My name is William Stuttmeister Janke, the proprietor of the original California Barrel Company. I’m going to have to fix my ladder and get up there and freshen up my fading sign. Are you looking to buy some barrels?”
“No thanks!,” said Victoria. “We came to talk to you!”
“How did you know we were coming?” asked Starfish. “And why are you wearing a Communist Russian flag?”
“Oh good! Glad to meet someone that brought their curiosity with them. I’m the only living augur in the world. If your chickens lay the big end of their egg facing north, it means there is someone coming to pay you a visit. I wear this flag to to keep the gossipmongers at safe distance. There are some vicious busybodies these days, and they respect no one’s boundaries. Many of them are Christians who insist it is their right – and duty – to discover if you are one of them. They can see me coming a mile off. They check me off their mental list, and even give me a quick smile out the corner of their mouth as if to say;
“At least one of them is honest!”
“I’m a Christian! Miriam Starfish declared, while taking a tiny step backwards to brace herself for what may come next.”
“Yes. I know!”
“How do you know?” Demanded Starfish!
“You’re little earing caught a ray of morning light! I felt I was transported to the Outremer and was Saladin gazing at the Crusader Army coming at him across the wilderness like John the Baptist.”
“Careful, old man, I will not tolerate blasphemy in my presence!” said Starfish with a scowl.
“Oh good. We got a feisty one this morning. Here’s a fishing pole. Let’s go to the end of the pier and see what we can catch. I’m a biblical scholar and know everything about the Crusades. He was a Kurd, you know?”
“What do you know about the Bohemian Club?” piped Victoria, as she took her borrowed pole. “We are looking for the origin. We want the list of the original members.”
“You are not alone!” Here, reach in that bucket and grab a live shrimp.”
Yesterday I purchased californiabarrelcompany.com. This is my e-mail address
johnpresco@californiabarrelcompany.com
The name of my think tank is
THE CALFORNIA BARREL COMPANY that in theory is located in Belmont California. I will purchase a P.O. Box. A contractor associated with Meg Whitman took my copyrighted name of the company my great grandfather, William Broderick, worked for. Members of the Belmont Historical Society gave me the Bum’s Rush and warned me I was violating their copyright by posting a old photograph of my great grandfather, William Janke. Consider this a Copyright War. Have you ever seen the movie ‘The Mouse That Roared’?
“Jerusalem has come!”
(2) Jerusalem Has Come – Kingdom of Heaven (2005). – YouTube
(2) The Mouse that Roared TRailer – YouTube
July 3, 2020
Application Summary
Potrero Power Station
(For Commission consideration on July 16, 2020)
Permit Application Number: 2019.006.00
Applicants: California Barrel Company, LLC, and Port of San Francisco
Project Description: Develop a 29-acre residential neighborhood, including a
waterfront park.
Location: In the Bay and within the 100-foot shoreline band, at Illinois
Street, between 22nd Street and 23rd Street, in the City and
County of San Francisco,
Construction would begin as early as fall 2020 and occur over six major phases. The lease
agreement between California Barrel Company, LLC and the Port of San Francisco establishes a
schedule of performance with outside dates by which construction of each phase is to
commence and be completed. By this schedule, the project may be built out as early as 2030 or as late as 2036. The estimated total project cost is approximately $1.425 billion.
Chair For Telemusing | Rosamond Press
The California Barrel Company of San Francisco
Posted on March 9, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Bohemian Club Members of the Bohemian Club, including California Gov. Ronald Reagan (centre left) and U.S. Vice Pres. Richard Nixon (centre right), at Bohemian Grove, California, 1967.The California Barrell Company
The California Barrel Company
by
John Presco: President of Royal Rosamond Press
Copyright 2020
An idea for a book, movie, and cable series.
William Broderick supervised the loading of two hundred barrels onto the freight car in Dogpatch, and now accompanied them on the barge to the dock in Oakland. He could just make out Joaquin Miller’s white home in the hills that sat as a Bohemian Beacon above the Stuttemeister orchard. Bill had picked a fight with the old curmudgeon and fraud about having his brigades of artistic circus clowns marching up and down the road they shared that was in theory, the Stuttmeister Road, that was later changed to Berlin Way. Now there were Japanese poets coming and going, and this made Bill’s German kindred, nervous. After the great earthquake, the Suttmiesters found sanctuary in Oakland, along with a couple of hundred well to do German Pioneers that had gone to the San Francisco Opera to hear Caruso sing.
When Miller took a keen interest in his daughter, Melba Broderick, who he carried on his knee when they took the trolley Frisco, Bill bought a new Victorian home on 13th. Street in Oakland. To his chagrin, Melba found out Gertrude Stein lived down the street and had known her idol, Isadora Duncan. At ten, Melba was found having tea and scones with literary greats, she helping Gertrude conduct her salon just before it moved to Paris. She was paid to do the dishes. There was no escaping the influence of Joaquin, who Bill had run into at the Bohemian Club, and, had to indure his non-stop bragging about the royalty he met when he went to Europe, and the Pre-Raphaelite artists he had dinner with at Gabriel Rossettis.
Bill celebrated Miller’s death in his own way. When he heard Bohemian Club members had built a funeral pyre and were going to burn the bloated braggard, he notified the authorities. Broderick had complained about the outdoor Japanese barbeques that filled the air with the stench of all kinds of meat, that wafted downhill under certain conditions, and wiped out the beautiful smell of cherry blossoms on the ranch When the cherries were ripe, they were sold for a pretty penny in Jingle Town, a cannery located on the Oakland Estuary where Jack London docked his oyster boat.
Frederick Jacob Koster had invited Bill Broderick to the Bohemian Grove Hijinks. It was while talking to a railroad magnet about how Prohibition was ruining many honest businessmen, that Bill came up with his brilliant plan to provide Bootleggers with barrels, and keep the profits of freightage rolling into the pocket of railroad owners.
“What if we put another product in our barrels that can be consumed. The Feds can not stop us. One is left with an empty barrel – to do with it you please. What if we shipped grapes? We can pack them in sawdust. We got plenty of that!”
“Sounds like a brilliant plan! I know an Italian who has planted a vineyard in Sonoma. Infact, there he is chatting with Frank Buck. You will want to talk to him, too. He’s becoming the biggest grower in California.”
Bill Broderick of Barrel and Box
Posted on February 26, 2019by Royal Rosamond Press
This morning I found an article about Bill Broderick and the California Barrel Company. What an historic account, that I have sent to the Mayor of San Francisco, and the Board of Supervisors. It’s all here, the elements that made San Francisco, and California – great!
William Frederick Broderick is trying to save a successful business, that due to prohibition, is on the ropes. My mother told me Bill traveled across America selling barrels. Bill has stopped in Chicago where Al Capone is making a fortune as a bootlegger, and arrives in Cleveland Ohio. Bill’s boss, Frederick Koster, must be furious to see organized crime families prospering, while he and his five hardworking bothers are desperate to keep their cooperage business afloat. Frederick is a member of the Bohemian Club, and the Law and Order Club. He may be one of the reasons the Mafia never got a foothold in the Bay Area. Frederick is ahead of his time in how he treated those who worked for him. They were like family. He shortened their work day, and paid good wages. Bill and Fred are promoting California Grapes. They made barrels for this billion dollar industry. They are Pioneers!
“One of the disciples of good barrel and service to meet the conditions of their customers, is William Broderick, sales manager of the California Barrel Company, San Francisco, Calif. Mr. Broderick attended the convention, stopping off at Chicago en route. Mr. Broderick is a natural born salesman, and certainly has the creative idea in salesmanship which is demonstrated by the fact not withstanding from the loss of business from wine and whiskey operations, the cooperage shops in the country and the manufactures supplying the same have kept busy even in maximum capacity during the past year and half, since prohibition arrived, which leads us all to do the same kind of constructive salesmanship. Malaga grapes have always been shipped in kegs and packed in ground cork, but in the last years, California has a become a great factor in furnishing the world with Malaga grapes packed in redwood sawdust. The California Barrel Company, as well as other cooperage institutions on the coast, are making kegs to deliver these grapes seasoned without moisture, to various markets of the world. Bill Broderick is one of the fellows who made this possible by demonstrating to our merchants the value of California grapes packed in the right way, in the right kind of packaging!”
Bravo!
I have put forth an idea for a Working Museum that preserves very valuable history, and creates jobs by giving new life to the ancient art of cooperage. I follow in my grandfather’s footsteps. It is my ambition to make the people of San Francisco – Big Winners!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Copyright 2019
Dear Mayor and Board;
My great grandfather, William F. Broderick, was a salesman and Director for the California Barrel Company that was located near the Portreo Power Plant that was just purchased for Redevelopment. The CBC got started by shipping Spreckels sugar. Claus Spreckels did business with president, Frederick Jacob Koster, and his four brothers. Their businesses were next to each other.
This morning I found an article about William who was interviewed by a reporter for . He speaks about shipping Malaga Grapes to cities across America – in barrels! Here is a merger with California grapes. Prohibition has just begun, and the cooperage industry is in crisis. Frederick Koster has gone abroad to map ut market in the Orient. Barrel and sailing ships go hand in hand. What I am proposing is a cooperage museum that would contribute to San Francisco’s tourist trade, and cooper college at the old site. There is a historic building and facade that could be used for this Trade College. The art of barrel making is coming back.
I have seen beautiful Japanese and Chinese packaging in museum. I saw wondrous labels on crates when I worked as lumper in the produce market in Jack London Square. Packaging is an art form, a craft that can give merchants new ideas.
To help fund this college a museum, I suggest quality prints be made of the amazing machinery invented to make barrels. I put a copyright in this book, but, your people may know how to do this. I have found no cooperage college in America. Meg Whitman purchased the PPP property and founded Qubi. She might want to imitate Alva Spreckels who was give the title ‘The Grandmother of San Francisco. The people around Meg have been selfish with information. Perhaps this is because I copyrighted the CBC name in 2011, and am the owner of californiabarrelcompany.co.
Associate Capital chose this name for a company that is floating around in Business Law World for reasons that are beyond my understanding. I have sent e-mails to several people offering my ideas. I got not response. The way I see it, the People of San Francisco deserve to see their history preserved, and, bring Civic Prosperity – now! Let’s build a dream – today!
https://www.potreropowerstation.com/about/
Sincerely
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Build Janke Crypt Inside Ralston Hall
Posted on July 6, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
Before one launches the Greatest Historic Justice Case in California History, one is required to establish Good Faith and Honorable Intensions as proof your suit is not pure malice and revenge. You want to prove Historic Justice – is on your side. When I found the floorplan of Ralston Hall showing the original outline of the small house Count Cipriani put together with screws, I wondered if he purchased one of the six homes Janke brought around the Cape. Was it – unpacked? There is talk about whether or not the citizens of Belmont will still have access to Walston Hall after Stanford build there campus. I will write them, again, and insist they respect my dead – and conduct a complete historic research,
I became an Oddfellow a year ago. I am going to get baptized into the LDS Church, and my ancestors will be baptized – with me! The Ralston Family Crypt will contain the DNA of Carl and Dorothea, and her mother. There will be three vacant crypt for my daughter and grandson who were with me inside the Janke-Stuttmeister in Colma that William Stuttmeister paid for to inter his kin before they were dug out of their graves at the Oddfellow Cemetery. My attorneys will paint a beautiful landscape as seen throught the eyes of William, where he is – very well pleased with – the results!
There will be a stain glass window like the one in Colma that reads
“Carl and Dorothea Janke: Founders of Belmont.”
“All’s well…………………………………………………………………………………………………..that ends well!”
My Odd Fellow Kindred Evicted From Graves
Posted on March 23, 2013 by Royal Rosamond Press
Victor Hugo – Last Bohemian
Posted on February 22, 2020by Royal Rosamond Press
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Jessie Benton Fremont at Blackpoint
Historical Essay
by Jo Medrano
Mrs. General Fremont on porch at Black Point, 1863.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, SF Public Library
Mrs. General Fremont on her porch at Black Point, c. 1863.
Photo: Jesse Brown Cook collection, online archive of California
Black Point (now Fort Mason), 1870. Spring Valley Water Co. brought water through the flume that skirts the cliffs. Small farms run down to the shore. Alcatraz is in the distance.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
John C. Fremont bought a farm for his wife Jessie on the north edge of San Francisco, on a small rocky peninsula then known as Blackpoint, about 1860. At the time of purchase, they were living in Bear Valley in the Sierras. In Bear Valley Jessie Fremont developed physical problems due to the intense heat. She wrote that a buried egg would cook in just a few minutes. One account states that it was 106 degrees at sunset–not an uncommon temperature that year. So we can probably imagine her delight when John C. came back from a business trip to San Francisco in 1861, and told her they were moving to the city. Blackpoint was a self-sustaining farm, and Jessie’s favorite home. She had relatives living with her, as well as visits from other relatives in addition to local and national celebrities.
Spring Valley Water Company flume is visible at right; Small farms on the hill above c. 1870
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
View southeast from Fremonts’ residence to Pioneer Woolen Mills on site of present Aquatic Park.
Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp71.1607
As a matter of fact, a influential San Franciscan, I.W. Raymond, visited the Fremonts in Bear Valley and traveled with them to see the place that wasn’t yet named Yosemite. He was a key person in the 1864 action of President Lincoln which made Yosemite a protected place.
Black Point is described in “Jessie Benton Frémont: A woman who made history” as “a small headland jutting out into the channel entrance of the harbor, in fact directly opposite the Golden Gate, affording an unbroken view westward to the Pacific and eastward toward the mountains of Contra Costa.” Jessie said she “loved this sea home so much that I had joy even in the tolling of the fogbell”. It was here she planned and built her “sunset beach.”
The federal government took over Black Point soon after Jessie and John Fremont went back east to be involved in the civil war. John fought for compensation for the expropriated house and land until the day he died.
Black Point, 1869, Alcatraz in distance.
Photo: Eadweard Muybridge
Original shoreline at Black Point, one of the last places you can see it in San Francisco.
Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2010
https://www.ndnualumninetcommunity.org/RalstonHallMansionExhibit
Zita, the last empress
Emperor Franz Joseph with Karl, the heir to the throne, and Zita, photograph
Hermann C. Kosel: Archduchess Zita with her son Otto, photograph, 1914
The funeral procession in front of the house where Karl died on Madeira, photograph, 1922
Heinrich Schuhmann: Former empress Zita with her eldest son Otto, photograph, c. 1925
Zita (seated) with her sister Isabella von Bourbon-Parma and one of her granddaughters, photograph, 1980s
Born on 9 May 1892, Zita was the daughter of Duke Robert of Bourbon-Parma (1848–1907), the last sovereign of the minor northern Italian duchy before the unification of Italy, and the latter’s second wife, Maria Antonia von Braganza (1862–1959), who was a member of the Portuguese royal family.
Zita grew up in a large family in which several languages were spoken, and her upbringing and education were shaped by strict Catholic principles.
Her childhood was spent partly at the Villa Borbone delle Pianore in Camaiore on the coast of Liguria (Italy) and partly at Schloss Schwarzau in Lower Austria. There the family cultivated close contacts with exiled monarchs and their supporters who had been granted exile in Lower Austria as guests of Emperor Franz Joseph. Frohsdorf for example was the seat in exile of the Spanish Carlists, while the Portuguese Miguelists had settled in Seebenstein. This background was to have an enduring influence on Zita’s views, confirming her legitimist principles.
It was at Schwarzau that Zita was married to Archduke Karl of Austria on 21 October 1911. The occasion was recorded on film, one of the very few cinematic documents of the imperial family’s private life.
The marriage of Zita and the designated heir to the Austrian throne and later emperor Karl I seems to have been very happy. Biographers unanimously agree that Zita had great influence over Karl. With her energetic personality and her unbending will she pushed her vacillating husband to arrive at decisions. As empress she had a politically significant position and accompanied her husband, who was her intellectual inferior, wherever he went. Her influence on Karl’s politics can be seen clearly in the Sixtus Affair, in which she was heavily involved. When this secret peace initiative failed, Zita was vilified as a traitor by German Nationalists because of her Bourbon descent.
Even after Karl’s fall from power Zita continued to be his most important source of support in exile. She accompanied her husband on his second failed attempt to restore himself to the throne in Hungary and followed him into exile. After his early death in 1922 Zita assumed the role of defender of the dynastic rights of her eight children, the last of whom was born after Karl’s death. She systematically brought together all the legitimist monarchist movements in Central Europe and built up her eldest son Otto as pretender to the Habsburg throne, actively supporting him in his political ambitions after he gained his majority. Thanks to her authority, the former empress became the central figure in the Habsburg-Lorraine family in the difficult times after the loss of the crown.
During the Second World War, which she spent in exile in Canada, she became an influential advocate for the restoration of Austria’s independence, but after 1945 she mainly focused her energies on the beatification process for her late husband. From the early 1960s Zita lived a secluded life in a Catholic old-age home in Zizers in Switzerland. She gave numerous interviews in which she proved to be an interesting witness to her times. However, her memoirs give a very subjective and in some respects historically distorted picture, glorifying her as the militant defender of Habsburg claims.
Reconciliation with the Republic of Austria was finally achieved in 1982, when the former empress, who had been denied entry to Austria, was allowed to set foot on Austrian soil for the first time again on the initiative of Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky.
Zita died on 14 March 1989 in Zizers at the age of 96. She was interred according to Habsburg dynastic tradition in the crypt of the Church of the Capuchin Friars in Vienna. However, her heart was buried in the new Habsburg family crypt at Muri Abbey in the northern Swiss canton of Aargau, in keeping with her last wishes as recorded in her will.
Karl became the heir to the throne after the death of his uncle Franz Ferdinand in 1914, and emperor following the…Habsburg Emperor
Emperor of Austria
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Habsburg Law and Nazi Confiscation of Art and Property
Posted on June 19, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
On this day, I renew my effort to take possession of The Last Audience of the Habsburgs, and other property belonging to said family. This include property that still belongs to the Schwarzenberg family.
John Presco
On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 11:27 AM, Alex Notman <alex@eugeneweekly.com> wrote:
Hi John,
Thanks for reaching out. I’m going to have to reschedule this for next week. Can we meet Thursday or Friday of next week during working hours?
Thanks,
Alex
The Habsburg Law (Habsburgergesetz (in full, the Law concerning the Expulsion and the Takeover of the Assets of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine) Gesetz vom 3. April 1919 betreffend die Landesverweisung und die Übernahme des Vermögens des Hauses Habsburg-Lothringen) was a law originally passed by the Constitutional Assembly (Konstituierende Nationalversammlung) of the Republic of German-Austria, one of the successor states of dissolved Austria-Hungary, on 3 April 1919. The law legally dethroned the House of Habsburg-Lorraine as rulers of the country which had declared itself a republic on 12 November 1918, exiled them and confiscated their property. The Habsburg Law was repealed in 1935 and the Habsburg family was given back its property. However, in 1938, following the Anschluss, the Nazis reintroduced the Habsburg Law, and it was retained when Austria regained its independence after World War II.
The Habsburg Law and Rightful King of Bohemia
Posted on December 22, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Christmas has come early to the rightful King of Bohemia and Jerusalem because I just discovered the Hapsburg Law. I’m looking for a International Attorney in order to claim the Last Audience of the Habsburgs, and other property owned by the Habsburgs. I highly suggest the Czech Republican consider my claim if they want to receive help from the Americas. And – provide protection for Christians who want to visit the Holy Land this Christmas.
John Presco Titular King of Jerusalem
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habsburg_Law
Nov 3 at 3:30 PM
your information was forwarded to the Austrian Consulate General. Please give us more details why you to your mind the mentioned canvas was smuggled out of Austria and who did that.
Josef Schwob
Charles III (Spanish: Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio;[a] 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788. He was also Duke of Parma and Piacenza, as Charles I (1731–1735); King of Naples, as Charles VII; and King of Sicily, as Charles III (1735–1759). He was the fourth son of Philip V of Spain and the eldest son of Philip’s second wife, Elisabeth Farnese. He was a proponent of enlightened absolutism and regalism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_V_of_Spain
Lady Ada Antionette Erasmus
Posted on August 14, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
I found this day The New Bohemian Puritan Church upon the union of Lady Erasmus, and Robert Wilson. The Evangelicals have launched a Catholic-like rebellion against a true Democracy that Pope Francis – must address! The Protestant Church of America is guilty of Popism, and must purge itself of Trumpism, the worst heresy ever to visit Christianity.
Here is the new group I formed, and my message to Karel Schwarzenberg.
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Dear Karel;
I came upon your article posted on your facebook about a “Pirate Party” and the “Civil War” Above is a portrait of Queen Elizabeth with eyes and ears on her dress. This denotes the spy network she established to keep track of the Habsburg Spanish Empire, that the Schwarzenberg family was an ally of. The Jessie Scouts was formed around my relative, Jessie Benton-Fremont, in order to spy on the foreigners in Mexico, including Maximillian von Habsburg. John Fremont is a co-founder of the Abolitionist Republican Party, and was that parties first Presidential Candidate. Over a year ago it was revealed you are related to them and my Rosamond kin. You may be kin to John Wilson seen above – who looks like you! You may be kin to General Robert E. Lee, and Christopher Lee who is being knighted.
I am kin to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, and Ian Fleming who created the spy, James Bond, who was assigned a number invented by John Dee. Dee was Queen Elizabeth’s favorite councilor. He appears to have set up the Queen’s Spy Unit. Dee was a guest of your relative, William Rosenberg, at Trebon castle where you might have stayed. Queen Elizabeth sent Sir Francis Drake on a exploration of the New World. Drake claimed California for Elizabeth, naming it New Albion.
I am looking for people to establish a Euro-California origination who would represent the interests of our Allies in trade across the Pacific. Fremont helped secure California and the Oregon Territory from the Russians and British. We would be honored if you would lend your expertise in this formation. Your openness and transparency – is stellar! California has the fifth largest economy in the world – that would become even more power with a bond with European Nations! I do not see the New Albion Union being run by politicians, but by men and women who own a certain vision, that I hope you can help define.
I was raised Catholic. Members of the Order of Saint Francis are my relatives. The Rosamond family were members of the Orange Lodge. As a theologian, I have ideas that will end the divide between the Catholic and Protestant Religion, and aim those ears and eyes at those who mean to do us harm, and take away our Common Liberty.
Sincerely
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
On this day, December 22, 2023, I declare myself Titular King of Jerusalem, Gaza, and the Viceroy of New Spain as depicted on the map above. I am the Viceroy of the Philippines, Guam, part of Taiwan, and the State of Florida. I am the king of Ancient Bohemia and the Czech Republic.
Jacobite Kingdom of California or Oregon
Posted on June 15, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
Spring Roses of Nations
Posted on November 5, 2016by Royal Rosamond Press
Did the Jacobites found a colony in Belmont California? I found a Jacobite-Savoy line to Empress Zita. It is my destiny to establish a Jacobite Kingdom in America, either in California or Oregon – that is threatened by followers of Traitor Trump, the evangelical Antichrist who want to grab part of Oregon in the Greater Idaho Insurrection. Stop the Anti-Democracy Traitors that took over John Fremont’s party he co-founded. John and Senator Thomas Hart Benton are my kin!
The Czech Republican has a pact with the Kurds to come to their military aide. Are they preparing a Army? Is this why Lucifer has brought Russia onto the field. I spoke of the Knights of Blanik Mountain.
I am kin to the Acinent Noble of Bohemia who came to dwell in America. Seven years ago I claimed the Lousiana Purchase in the name of my Fiancé. I talked about granting the Dakotas to the Lakota People. I hereby found the Warrior Nation of the Dakotas. The Kurds will have a Nation in North Dakota, and the Lakota in South Dakota. I bid all those who claim to be Knight Templars to recognize the Dakota Kurdistan and petition their governments to do the same. These Brave People will not die without a Nation …….
So help me God!
Habsburg Monarchy[edit]
Main articles: History of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1526–1648) and History of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown (1648–1867)
After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the Battle of Mohács in 1526, Archduke Ferdinand I of Austria became the new king of Bohemia, and the country became a constituent state of the Habsburg monarchy.
Bohemia enjoyed religious freedom between 1436 and 1620, and became one of the most liberal countries of the Christian world during that period. In 1609, Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, who made Prague again the capital of the empire at the time, himself a Roman Catholic, was moved by the Bohemian nobility to publish Maiestas Rudolphina, which confirmed the older Confessio Bohemica of 1575.
After Emperor Matthias II and then King of Bohemia Ferdinand II (later Holy Roman Emperor) began oppressing the rights of Protestants in Bohemia, the resulting Bohemian Revolt led to outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War in 1618. Elector Frederick V of the Electorate of the Palatinate, a Calvinist Protestant, was elected by the Bohemian nobility to replace Ferdinand on the Bohemian throne, and was known as the Winter King. Frederick’s wife, the popular Elizabeth Stuart and subsequently, Elizabeth of Bohemia, known as the Winter Queen or Queen of Hearts, was the daughter of King James I of England and VI of Scotland.
Le Rouge Knight of the Tower
Posted on September 16, 2013 by Royal Rosamond Press
“The father of our author was Geoffroy de la Tour, spoken of at the beginning of the fourteenth century as lord of La Tour-Landry, Bourmont, La Galonière Loroux-Bottereau, and Cornouaille, and who, under the banner of the Count of Anjou in 1336, distinguished himself by his courage in the war with the English.”
Below is Albrecht Dürer’s painting of a Knight coming home from the Crusades. Did he find the Holy Grail? Is it only when we find our way home again, do we find what was lost?
Albrecht Dürer did the illustrations for Landry’s work. I am this Knight Le Rouge. I did not forsake my Quest even though most of my friends and all my family, forsake me. I had a vision. I stuck to it. I am the Author of this Red Opera.
I Declare Bohemian Grove – Dead!
Posted on June 23, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
St. John of Nepomuk in Buchach,
I forgot about Saint John of The Bohemian Grove. With the expose of the two Supreme Court Justices, who repealed Woe vs. Wade there can no longer be any Marry Making and Good Ol’ Boy Hijinks’ at Bohemian Grove ,because the Faux Judges destroyed our Judicial System that enslaves the bodies of women – even while they are in the wombs of their mothers. Males in their mother’s womb will enjoy complete control over their bodies and care of their bodies – the moment they are born. If they become a Catholic. they will be forbidden to use a contraceptive. Why?
I just discovered Joaquin Miller owned a Pony Express in Montana. The Senate is going to investigate Supreme Court Justices who may have used contacts at Bohemian Grover to create a shadow government – and secret monarchy. I descend from Bohemians on both sides of my family. Harry and Meghan want to take the surname Spencer. I see the State of Oregon becoming one real Bohemian Forest! I will post on the religions of Bohemia.
John Saint John
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Nepomuk
. He rode pony express for his partner Isaac Mossman until Wells Fargo bought out the business in 1862. He then returned to Eugene City, and invested his profits in the Democratic Register. Noltner, the publisher, supported the Confederate or secessionist cause in Oregon. He made Joaquin the editor. It’s a little bizarre, because his brother John served under Grant.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/83955103/isaac-vandorsey-mossman
“What is really interesting in the rebranding of the Sussexes that I’ve heard that Meghan’s real objective in her life is to be Diana, that has always been her passion. That has also been Harry’s passion,” he claimed on a recent episode of GB News. “Meghan has gone to the extent of suggesting to drop the surname Windsor and take the surname Spencer, so she would be Meghan Spencer.”
The author hinted there may already be a plan in motion, as they’ve “discussed” the idea with others. “This is not something that has just come up in their minds,” he said. “They’re actively trying to recast themselves as Harry and Meghan Spencer.”
Joaquin Miller Went To Columbia College
Posted on February 28, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
Joaquin Miller’s proposal to Pre-Raphaelite Muse Emma Brown – is huge! That he attended one of the first colleges in the West – is huge! I was going to tell you why, but, I am saving it for my lawsuit against Oregon State. This is what I want. I am made a professor for life with tenure. A model of Miller’s cabin is built for me out in the agriculture fields where I will hold classes on Tolkien, Miller, London, and Fleming.
I am going to ask Phil Knight to revive Columbia College and make it a Mecca for Bohemian, Alternative, Learning – with Hippie Museum!
John Presco
https://www.friendlyareaneighbors.org/blog/columbia-college
Laneland
Posted on February 12, 2019by Royal Rosamond Press
One of the first colleges in Oregon was burned down – twice! Arson is suspected. I believe a man loyal to the cause of Joseph Lane is the culprit. Could it have been my hero, Joaquin Miller, who graduated from Columbia with about twenty others. There was a schism. John Dicky was an abolitionist preacher who co-founded Columbia. Was Miller, like Paul, blinded by the light, he seeing the error of his way, and turning his life around? Did Harry Lane see the error of his grandfather’s way, and make a precise plan to not be like him?
In the De-naming game I find myself in the thick of, I decided to go all the, by De-naming the United States of America – because We the People – have never been united. End the hypocrisy – now! How about ‘Laneland’? Two generations of the Lane family dwelt in Jamestown that was an experimental city. This might be America’s first Hippie Town…..Bohemianville if you will!
Two days ago I watched Ken Burn’s ‘Vietnam’. It was painful from the start. Being a Anti-War Demonstrator, I grieved at the loss of time and my youth – all our youths! I thought I would die without seeing a anti-war monument. Then I saw the painting of the new building around the old dealership of Joe Romania who donated much of the land that Lane College is built on. I will be going before Mayor of Eugene, suggesting a statue of Harry Lane be put here, because he was against America entering World War 1.
We hippies invented Political Correctness. We honored Native Americans and begged for Non-Violence. We need a museum to record and preserve this important history. Do no let Ed Ray have the last word. I want to interview him. Did he go to Vietnam, or did he get a college deferment? Many Vets who were gungho about killing gooks, turned their life around. The motto of Lane College is…….
Transforming Lives Through Learning
Consider Harry Potter and Harry Lane. Demand more magic in your lives! Screw that ugly wall that is a continuance of Benton’s Manifest Destiny. Our President is unteachable!
Note the wall around Jamestown, and the hundred foot Warrior Chief on the other side. Here is proof the grand experiment went wrong at the beginning. I will be sending a script to the History Channel about my theory why Europeans had to kill all the Native Americans. Apparently they carried a giant gene after mating with the Nephilim, and, every now and then a Squaw gave birth to a giant. Say goodbye to that Shame Game!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Colonel Joseph Lane (son of Thomas Lane and Elizabeth Jones) was born 1675 in Jamestown, James City, VA, USA, and died 1758 in Edgecombe,NC, USA.He married Julian Alderson on 1685 (sic) in Surry, VA, USA. Col. Joseph Lane is my 7th great-grandfather, and my GEDMATCH is #A319313 and my DNA matches his son, Edward Lane. He married Julian Jarrell.
In a Land Deed signed by his son Joseph LANE Sr, it states that: “Deed from Joseph Lane and Julian his wife of Isle of Wight County, Sept. 4, 1710, to Thomas Lane, of Surrey County 200 acres given me by my father (Thomas Lane, patent 1682) in his last will and testament (father Thomas Lane, patent 1682). Signed, Joseph Lane (Ielian) Julian Lane
“Sealed in red wax. Wit: Thomas Hart, Mary Hart, Thomas Lane Jr. The witnesses Thomas and Mary Hart were the son in-law and daughter of Richard & Eliz. Washington- his will Nov. 9, 1724, Surrey Co.” (Ref. Surrey County Deed Book 5, page 37) This can be found on Microfilm at the Family History Center called” General History of the LANES of NC and GA.”
There is some refrences that state Thomas LANE SR. was the son of John LANE who married the daughter of Robert BIRD, John had sons Robert, Thomas and John, however more research needs to be done.
Joaquin Miller And Emma Brown
Posted on September 4, 2019by Royal Rosamond Press
I learned yesterday that Joaquin Miller proposed to Pre-Raphaelite Muse, Emma Hill, who became the wife of Ford Maddox Brown. Joaquin spent some time in Maddox’s famous home at 37 Fitzroy Street that is regrettably owned by Scientology. Some of the greatest artists, poets, and writers of Britain met here, especially the Pre-Raphaelites, of which I declared I was one in 1969. I shared these artists with my late sister, the world famous artist known as ‘Rosamond’ who took up art in 1972. I have posthumously titled Christine a Pre-Raphaelite Artist. One of the artists that spent time at William Morris whom had a great influence on J.L. Tolkien. The painting Brown rendered are moviesque. I will try to get the director of my movie ‘Hromund’ to use the work of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Joaquin Miller was friends with William Michael Rossetti, and his brother, Gabriele. William married Lucy Maddox Brown. If Joaquin had married Emma, then he would be kin to the most literary and creative people in the West. For years I have been trying to get City Manager, Neil Laudati, interested in making Springfield Oregon, the Home of the Pre-Raphaelites, because the Miller family lived down the road apiece, and were Oregon Pioneers. My family knows nothing about this history. Since Christine’s death, Drew Benton, Shannon Rosamond, and Shamus Dundon have not written and published ONE WORD about the Artists and Writers in their family, yet, they claim so much! This is an astounding Creative Legacy that will be recognized by Great Britain, once they are made aware of it.
I modeled Royal Rosamond Press after The Germ. I elevated the famous commercial success of Drew and Shannon’s mother, and I have never been thanked. Christine said she owed her success to me, her teacher. The proof of this is evident.
Yoni Noguchi was at the Fitzroy House and lived with Miller in the Oakland Hills. My family knew Miller who may have modeled his Bohemian enclave after the Pre-Raphaelites and the creative souls who knew the Brown family. Yoni appears to have been a Japanese Spy sent by the Emperor to learn Western Culture through poetry. This is so Tolkienish! Here is the Japanese Bilbo who travels to a strange land and bonds with Gandalf. Joaquin write about their small statue. More of his “brown” people came to the Hights.
So soon after I gave my family a flash of bright light, there are dark problems about why I was not told Vicki died ten days ago. It has been suggested I was both the mother and father to my parents, and my siblings. I have been avoiding the possibility I am……..The Family Giver…………and I have been severely ripped off? Or is it a case of the naughty stupid children hiding everything from their brilliant parent who may be their superior, and a genius. No one but me took the time to learn anything about art, and, literature!
Joaquin Miller was the editor of Eugene’s first newspaper – before there was a Springfield. His brother George married a Cogswell who are the founders of the Eugene Register Guard. There’s newspaper men surrounding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Sisterhood. George could have been the brother-in-law of Emma Hill.
Joaquin put the make on English Women dressed as a cowboy, or, Californian Hippie. He came to conquer – with poetry! I would like to employ Miller’s poetry in my book and movie the same way Tolkien did with the poetry of William Morris. Joaquin did his best to wed English Literature to the Wild West. Joaquin’s influence on the culture of Japan needs a collegiate study. The Invasion of Pearl Harbor may have contained Miller’s poetry.
“The Californians like to laze about all day reading poetry to one another, and painting pretty picture. Then, when the mood strikes them, they roll over on one another and fornicate like beasts. Our Imperial Marines will make quick work of them. Bonsai!”
The Beauty that Joaquin really wanted to roll over one, was Mathilde Blind. But, he met his Waterloo! Alas I think I have found the Teutonic Woman that broke Miller’s heart. Did he propose to Emma after Blind body-slammed his cowboy ass in the Bohemian Cage of Pathos, Life, and Death? Our Orgonian was out of his league. There is no Pathos, here, here! Lucy Maddox Brown did a portrait of Blind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Madox_Brown
With the passing of my sister my thoughts went to the loneliness of Rena Victoria Easton, my Waterloo. It is this connectivity that motivates and moves these Bohemians across a flowery dance floor seeking first the attention of their Sisters and Brothers. Here are the original Hobbits and Hippies, the timeless root of the New Cooperation.
The other day, when my beloved sister came to me while I took my old man nap, she thanked me! From heaven she could behold the Big Picture now that her artistic siblings allowed her to be a part of. She was – wowed! She could not believe her good fortune, and the great choice she made, to be born from the same Rosy womb!
Are those California poppies? Did Joaquin bring a pot of them, over there, on a ship?
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Copyright 2019
The Road Runner
By R. R. R.
Low hangs the mists, and chill the wintry air,
Rain-swept the pines, and sodden everything.
And into these the weary travelers fare
For shelter from the night’s approaching sting.
The woodman’s axe to pitch-wood bark applied—
Then red flames leap and light a circle wide!
A desert waste, white, and hot, and bone strewn!
Here giant cacti eke a living death;
And there beside, a man with face plain-hewn—
No water left to stay his waning breath!
But see! a miner’s pick, in cacti driven,
A fount of life the desert there has given!
Resourceful bird, Road-runner of the South,
Grey as the desert road he runs along.
What chance for food and drink where withering drouth
Holds awful sway and robs all life of song!
There vicious rattlers add their venom-hate
But choya armed the bird has mastered fate.
With instinct given to start a fire in rain,
Instinct to drink were sparkling springs unheard,
And horn of plenty moved beyond the plain,
Give me the wisdom of this desert bird.
Then I can go with right good cheer and will
Where life’s great desert meets the verdant hill.
Rosamond, Roy Reuben. 1911. The Road Runner. Out West (New Series). 3 (March), 234.
You can read Rosamond’s poem in the original magazine along with his stories, “Camping on Anacapa,” and, “Guilty,” on Google books:
Belmont Needed Our Land
Posted on May 31, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
My daughter and grandson at Cypress Lawn
“and quickly acquired most of it.”
I insist the History Department of Stanford assist me in gathering all the information there is on Carl Janke and Family so it can be studied.. I will post in increments. Two of the portable houses that Janke brought around the Cape were erected in San Francisco. Carl built a Turnverein Hall in the city my father was born.
John Presco
john-presco@rosamondpress.com
Page 56 – Her Side of the Story (californiapioneers.org)
Elizabeth D. Johnson
Birth Place: Germany
Pioneer Father:Carl August Janki
Birth Place: Germany
Date of Arrival in California: Sept. 12, 1850
Pioneer Mother: Anna Dorthea Peterson
Birth Place: Germany
Date of Arrival in California: Sept. 12, 1850
Death: Father: Belmont 1881; Mother: Belmont 1881
Remarks: My father was the first to bring portable houses to the city. I believe two were erected where Sherman & Clays Music store now stands (Sutter & Kearney). One on Montgomery Street on part of the lot now occupied by the D.O Mills building and two on Folsom Street near First All were covered with slate roofs. My two brothers wore the flag of the Old Fusilier Guard. A building company called California Fusiliers (German) of which Colonel Little was the captain. My father also built and managed the first Turn Verein Hall situated on Bush Street near Powell. The hall was dedicated Christmas Eve and all the people of note in the city attended the exercises.
Welcome! The San Francisco Historical Society exists to uncover, preserve, and present,
in engaging ways, the colorful and diverse history of our city from its earliest days to the present.
Here is a fantastic article about my great grandfather, Carl Janke, rebuilding the Turn Verein Hall that was destroyed in the infamous 1906 Earthquake! Wow! This makes all members of my family SURVIVORS of one of the greatest Historic Events – IN HISTORY!!!!
Posted on June 13, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
Gambit
by
Jon Presco
Copyright 1999
Gambit
Remember when it was her turn
to be brave
How she reveled in her chance
to play
in the dance of the sunsets
How wild her eyes
in this juggling act
Full of sea-set waves
of her hand
that withdrew every dove
from your reluctant heart
What she did with your promises
stacking the old moments on edge
Daring you now
to recognize your life without her
Becoming afraid of her.
The new promises made
met with a hush
in the coming night
in the failing light
she came for her victory kiss
No more conjuring ways
all the doves
were asleep in her arms
From the land
a warm breeze
wrapped her long hair
around your embrace
while the new rumor
and web play
refrains of whispering strings
touching the back of your neck
Now afraid for her.
For we have all lost
the best things owned
The longest memories are made
in the dance of the broken sunsets
And perhaps brave?
Who alone would know
Being afraid
with her
You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once a friend and father
Then my world was shattered
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seem if I just dream
Somehow you would be here
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won’t help me to do
All that you dreamed I could
Passing bells and sculpted angels
Cold and monumental
Seem for you the wrong companions
You were warm and gentle
Too many years
Fighting back tears
Why can’t the past just die
Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say goodbye
Try to forgive teach me to live
Give me the strength to try
No more memories no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me say goodbye’.
In her letter Rena says “I have a million poems memorized.” that she recites while she works. So, for now the Muse will be broadcasting sonnets from KMUS Bozeman Montana while accompanied by – vacuum cleaner?
Jon Presco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kasidah
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1880) is a long English language poem written by “Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî”, a pseudonym of the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a well-known British Arabist and explorer. In a note to the reader, Burton claims to be the translator of the poem, to which he gives the English title “Lay of the Higher Law.” It is thus a pseudotranslation, pretending to have had an original Persian text, which never existed. The Kasidah is essentially a distillation of Sufi thought in the poetic idiom of that mystical tradition; Burton had hoped to bring Sufist ideas to the West.
The Sufi writer Idries Shah (1924–1996), in his 1964 book The Sufis, states that The Kasidah was a distillation of Sufi thought, and that “there seems little doubt that Burton was trying to project Sufi teaching in the West… In Sufism he finds a system of application to misguided faiths ‘which will prove them all right, and all wrong; which will reconcile their differences; will unite past creeds; will account for the present and will anticipate the future with a continuous and uninterrupted development.’” (251-2) Shah devoted almost an entire chapter of the book to Burton’s poem, calling it, “One of the most interesting productions of Western Sufic literature… Burton provided a bridge whereby the thinking Westerner could accept essential Sufi concepts.”
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/6036/pg6036-images.html
https://sacred-texts.com/isl/kas/kas03.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavier_Mart%C3%ADnez
After the earthquake of 1906 he moved across the bay to Piedmont, California, and met Elsie Whitaker, 20 years his junior, the daughter of the writer Herman Whitaker.[3] On October 17, 1907, he married Elsie Whitaker in Oakland.[2] After their honeymoon in Carmel-by-the-Sea they commenced building a studio in Piedmont. During the summers of 1909 to 1914, they rented a house in Carmel so that Martínez could teach art classes at the Hotel Del Monte.[6]
Under the influence of his friend the poet George Sterling, Martinez wrote poetry. His poem “Mictlan” was selected for publication in the Book Club of California‘s prestigious 1925 anthology Continent’s End: An Anthology of Contemporary California Poets.[16]
During the last two decades of his life, Martinez became increasingly interested in his indigenous Mexican heritage. He published poetry and philosophic writings in a column entitled “Notas de un Chichimeca” in the Hispano-Americano, San Francisco’s Spanish-language newspaper.[17]
“Mictlan”
Joaquin and Leonie
Posted on May 16, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
Joaquin Miller had a poets colony in the Oakland. Japanese Poets came to live here. One of them was Yonejiro Noguchi. I just discovered a movie was made about the mother of Yone’s son, who was the famous sculptor, Isamu Noguchi, who had a famous half-sister, Ailes Gilmore. She was a dancer for Martha Graham. Leonie grew up in the Village of New York, and lived in a Tent City in Pasadena California.
My kindred had a twenty-six acre fruit orchard below Miller’s property. Joaquin carried my father on his lap when he took the trolley with my grandmother. Victor Presco gave birth to the world famous artist ‘Rosamond’ and her brother. I am a Art Historian, Poet, Writer, and Reporter for my newspaper Royal Rosamond Press.
Here are two creative branches stemming from ‘The Hights’ where western artists and writers established a Bohemian Mecca. Miller was the first editor for The Eugene City Democratic Register , Eugene Oregon’s first newspaper. Joaquin attended Columbia College in Eugene. Here are the roots of the Beat and Hippie, scene, the Great California Dream, that a Japanese woman producer tried to capture, while we in the West turn our backs, we even forgetting to recall John Steinbeck – for the sake of our young! Our traditions are honored, elsewhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonie_(film)
When we were children we would call Juanita Miller on the phone and pretend we were older so we could have The White Witch give us advice on our love life, that we invented. Joaquin Miller’s daughter titled herself the ‘White Witch’ and had involved her groom in a pagan ritual when they got married. She pretended she was dead, and, he brought her back to life. Sounds like Sleeping Beauty.
I found photos of Juanita dancing. Isadora Duncan grew up in Oakland. Above is two photos of my Grandmother, Melba Broderick, with her friend, Violet, on Miller’s property. I now believe they were disciples of the White Witch, and may have danced through the forest with her. Joaquin carried my infant father on the Fruit Vale trolley. My kin owned a orchard just below the Hights, the theme park Joaquin and his daughter built. There is a monument to my kindred, John Fremont, that looks like a rook. Here poets and artists met, and lived. Artists Embassy International met here, as well as in Alameda at 532 Haight Avenue in a beautiful Victorian.
Juanita corresponded with the artist, Frederick Church, whose work resembles Christine Rosamond, and, Fanny Corey, who encouraged Royal Rosamond to write. We are looking at the foundation of the Bohemian-Hippie scene in the San Francisco Bay Area that is tied to the Pre-Raphaelites. Did Church consider himself a Pre-Raphaelite, and was hoping the Millers would give him a introduction to the Rossettis?
Stuttmeister-Janke Wedding at Belmont
Posted on May 5, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Below is the artist Christine Rosamond Benton, the great granddaughter of Alice Stuttmeister, the sister of William Stuttmeister. My sister got married to Rick Partlow who won an Emmy.
John Presco
President: Belmont Soda Works; Royal Rosamond Press; California Barrel Company
The Belmont Soda Works of California | Rosamond Press
William Janke on Haight St. | Rosamond Press
The California Barrel Company – Site Title
The Keepers and Destroyers of History | Rosamond Press
Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 14175, 24 June 1888
STUTTMEISTER-JANKE. One of the most enjoyable weddings of the past week took place at Belmont, Wednesday morning last, the contracting parties being Miss Augusta Janke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Janke of Belmont, and Dr. Wm. Stuttmeister of San Francisco. The house was handsomely decorated with a rich profusion of ferns and flowers, and at the appointed hour was filled with the relatives and intimate friends of the contracting parties. At 11 o’clock the wedding march was played and the bridal party entered the parlor. The bride was attended by Miss Alice Stuttmeister, a sister of the groom, and Miss Minnie Janke, a sister of the bride, as bridesmaids, and Dr. Muldownado and Wm. Janke, a cousin of the bride, were groomsmen.
The Rev. A. L. Brewer of San Mateo performed the beautiful and impressive ceremony under an arch composed of flowers and greens very prettily arranged, after which the guests pressed forward and offered their congratulations. The bride was attired in a very pretty and becoming costume of the crushed strawberry shade, and wore a corsage bouquet of orange
blossoms. She carried a handsome bouquet of white flowers. After the guests had paid their compliments the bride and groom led the way to the dining-room, where the wedding dinner was served and the health of the newly married pair was pledged. The feast over, the guests joined in the dance, and the hours sped right merrily, interspersed with music singing and recitations, until the bride and groom took their departure amid a shower of rice and good wishes. Many beautiful presents were received. Dr. and Mrs. Stuttmeister left Thursday morning for Santa Cruz and Monterey, where they will spend the honeymoon. On their return they will make their home in Belmont. 1911: Dr. Willian O. Stuttmeister was practicing dentistry in Redwood City, CA. (Reference: University of California, Directory of Graduates,
1864-1910, page 133).
Records from Tombstones in Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1853-1927 – Janke
– Stuttmeister
Mina Maria Janke, daughter of William A, & Cornelia Janke, born
February 2, 1869, died March 1902.
William August Janke, native of Hamburg, Germany, born Dec. 25,
1642, died Nov. 22, 1902, son of Carl August & Dorette Catherine Janke. Frederick William R. Stuttmeister, native of Berlin, Germany, born
1612, died January 29, 1877.
Mrs. Matilda Stuttmeister, wife of Frederick W.R. Stuttmeister, born
1829, died March 17, 1875, native of New York.
Victor Rudolph Stuttmeister, son of Frederick W.R. & Matilda
Stuttmeister, born May 29, 1846, died Jan. 19, 1893, native of New
York.
Love is the opening door
Love is what we came here for
This morning I awoke with a song Elton John made famous that was written by a woman. Yesterday, I left this message on my daughter’s Facebook.
“Happy Easter, Daughter. It is no longer about forgiving each other. It is about accepting the truth, there are stories that are greater than oneself. You were born into such a story. You should include me in your healing profession. https://rosamondpress.com/…/viscountess-rosamond…/
I thought about opening the great brass doors to the Stuttmeister crypt – with you Heather. And we three entered. You were carrying my grandson. I was aware you had no husband. I had hoped to be at your wedding – yet to be! But, there was love. And this is what we came here for. All is forgivable – with love!
Love is the opening door
Love is what we came here for
An hour ago I found out there is going to be a wedding festival in Belmont Park on April 13th. I want to meet you, Booby Dew, and Ember there. We will got to a Justice of the Peace, and you will be married. It is – Kismet! I told you from the get about Fair Rosamond. Henry Guest and his kin are kin to Princess Diana, and are associated with Fair Rosamond. Months ago I wrote the Mayor of Belmont about conducting Spy Weddings at Belmont. Henry Guest was a Commander of Spies!
Seer John
EXTRA! I just sent Heather this message, that might be seen as a Shotgun Wedding Offer!
“The Fates made them an offer they couldn’t refuse!”
Dear Daughter. You will never read a more important post. I and The Fates, have taken the liberty to propose marriage. Don’t let us down! See you there! https://rosamondpress.com/…/royal-rosamond-weddings-in…/
“Love Song”
The words I have to say
May well be simple but they’re true
Until you give your love
There’s nothing more that we can do
Love is the opening door
Love is what we came here for
No one could offer you more
Do you know what I mean?
Have your eyes really seen?
You say it’s very hard
To leave behind the life we knew
But there’s no other way
And now it’s really up to you
Love is the key we must turn
Truth is the flame we must burn
Freedom the lesson we must learn
You know what I mean
Have your eyes really seen?
Love is the opening door
Love is what we came here for
No one could offer you more
Do you know what I mean?
Have your eyes really seen?
The Germ of Goblin Market
Posted on February 26, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
Juanita Miller brought the Pre-Raphaelites to Oakland, the City I was born in during a shower of stars.
John Presco
What I discovered was a pamphlet announcing Joaquin Miller Day. A musical drama was performed at the Woodminster Amphitheater on September 24, 1944. There was going to be the planting of memorial redwood trees around the equestrian statue of Joaquin Miller. On stage was a replica of the studio and garden used by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt. The Poet, Christina Rossetti was played by Jeanne Jardin. Elizabeth Siddal Hunt’s model and muse is played by Helen Kraum. Carmencita Sanchez and her Mexican dancers, performed. In Scene Two we have the Bonaparte and Queen Victoria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Germ_(periodical)
Menacing Beauty – Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood (preraphaelitesisterhood.com)
Pre-Raphaelite Reflections – Page 2 – A blog devoted to the PRB (wordpress.com)
“TO THE ROSSETTIS”
Posted on April 3, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday I received in the mail a book I ordered on E-Bay. I quickly scanned it to see if their were any illustrations or photographs. Then, I found it, what amounts to my personal Holy Grail. Joaquin Miller dedicated his book of poems ‘Songs of The Sun-Land’ to the Rossetti family that includes Gariel, Michael, and, Christine. Gabriel was a artist and poet, Michael, a publisher, and Christine, a poet.
“TO THE ROSSETTIS”
There is controversy over this dedication. Michael is against it. He is critical of Miller’s poems that takes the reader to the Holy Land. Joaquin is describing a personal relationship with the Savior that reminds me of how Bohemians and Hippies would view Jesus, he a Nature Boy of sorts.
Gabriel, who had Joaquin over to his house for dinner, where he met several members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood seems to address his brother’s objections in a letter, and gives a tentative go ahead. He talks about Miller sending him a photograph of himself and bids him to say a word or two at the bottom of it, that does not exist. This photo may be the famous one taken by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known as Lewis Carrol the author of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. If Joaquin had glued this portrait to a piece of paper, then we might have seen it on the dedication page.
What is going on here is extremely profound. Miller has exported his vision and lifestyle to the England, where he wrote Song of the Sierras, and now he is importing to America a cultural brand that contains Grail and Arthurian subject matter that was at the epicenter of the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The Rossettis may not have been too happy with Miller attaching himself to their star because the British are very protective of their culture. I wish I could say the same thing about the University of Oregon that is about to tear down homes that were once in the city limits of Fairmount, the city founded by Joaquin’s brother, George Miller.
The homes the Miller brothers lived in are registered and protected as Monuments. There is a Joaquin Miller State Park near Florence that was founded by George who also promoted the Winnemucca to the Sea Highway. There needs to be a Monument for George. I suggest the homes on Columbia Terrace be spared, and this city block declared a National Monument. I have suggested these homes be used to house homeless Vets going to college, but now I see a Free College on this site due to the student loan crisis.
This college will teach alternatives to prospective students of the UofO, such as having parents of students purchase a home in Eugene. In many cases a mortgage is cheaper than rent. Teaching your children how to get a job rather then attend college, will produce more home ownership that the UofO who promises jobs – that don’t exist!
The Miller Brothers were born on a farm near Coburg. They went into the world and achieved much. They are a cultural icon too Oregon and California. On page ten of the prelude, we read;
“By unnamed rivers of the Oregon north’
That roll dark-heaved into turbulent hills,
I have made my home….The Wild heart thrills
With memories fierce, and world storms forth.”
I once read that many college students didn’t know there was a Oregon, and if they did, they didn’t know where it is. The Rossettis more than likely read these words. Did they go to a globe to see where Joaquin and George live?
How many students at the UofO know who the Miller brothers were, and the Brotherhood.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2014
Rosamond Press 
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