San Sebastian Avenue
by
John Presco
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
A week after her daughter is dead, my mother said there was going to be a party at Rocky Point, and Christine killed herself, and, they are going to make a movie. I wondered who “they” are. I wondered why I wasn’t invited to the “beach party”. I wondered why my mother gets to own the truth – and I don’t. I wondered if ‘they” knew Christine killed herself. I wondered why NON-ARTISTS are allowed to carry on the Artistic Legacy of a World Famous Artist. I wondered who gave THEM permission to own my families literary legacy! I wondered why they felt they COULD LIE WITH IMPUNITY! I marveled that “they” felt they alone, can own…..THE TRUTH! Who gave them – FULL PERMISSION – months before the Probate got under way. How many decided I don’t need the truth, I don’t need art, and I don’t need to write a book, or, even a poem about ROSAMOMD. How many wished I would kill myself, too? Only when Synder’s slanderous bio of Christine is published, do we have proof of the planned party.
When I was down in the basement of the Rosamond Gallery, where hundred of people gathered after the funeral, three women approached me. They were Sister’s in AA. They invited me to their meeting – that evening. They told me that very day, was Christine Rosamond Benton’s First Sober Birthday. Why wasn’t I invited – to the Sober Party? I had seven years of sobriety. Several months later, I concluded – I was invited – by Christine, but was deliberately not told. Why? Was Garth Benton – invited?
Yesterday, two women told me they contacted about five members of my family, and they did not respond to the truth, Drew Benton is dead. They don’t want to claim the body, or be stuck with funeral expenses. How many OUTSIDERS know Drew – is dead? How long have they known – the truth? How many people know Drew Benton took her own life? Why did she end her life?
I have a vision. I get on a plane for Bullhead city – tonight! Tomorrow I pay the Arizona Affordable Funeral Parlor to cremate my adopted daughter. I then take Drew’s urn to Colma and put a ponch of her dust in the faux planter. Next, I slip another Angel coin in the crack, so Drew’s coin will lie at rest next to her mother’s coin – forever!
Then I will go visit Carl and Dorothea, and her mother’s grave in the Union Cemetery. I will bury my Angel coin in the soil. I will come home. I will place Drew’s ashes in a place of honor. When I die, I want to be cremated. I want our ashes to be stirred together, and spread at sea.
I’m now going to send this post to all the people who are still alive, who came for the “beach party” ,and, because they could not handle The Bad News, conspired to come away from the funeral with Cash, Prizes’ and a Big Slice of Art Fame. As for The Truth…….Fuck that shit!
Upon the Angel coin, I will place a pinch of Drew so she may be taken to heaven on Angel Wings. As for the Spreaders of Lies….you can go to hell! For there has to be consequences. There will be consequences, for the Makers of The Lies, who place their sins upon the head of an eight year old child, and bid her to live, with what they did not want to live, with. What kind of Crucifixion, is this? The Death of Truth, has done wonders for the Haters of The Truth.
Alas, The Great Lie, has gone far, but, no further. They are blocked. They are – cut off! The Truth – will prevail!……..The Truth has prevailed! Come my daughter. Dwell in Peace – forever!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
EXTRA! In re-reading this post, I read this – and gasped!
“Vicki claims she snatched her eight year old niece out of the churning sea. Where is her fear for the safety of a child – any child? For wondering this, I was excommunicated and slandered. Vicki lured my seventeen year old daughter into The Liar’s Camp.
Put Drew Benton in the backseat of the infamous suicide car. Would you break the window to get her out?“
EXTRA! EXTRA! Around 1:00 P.M. on 8/14/24…I called up Springfield Lodge No.70 and asked Brother Josh in assistance with these graves matters. I am going to send him this e-mail. I then searched for the history of the Lodge in Belmont, and found this. I now suspect members of the Belmont Historical Society oppress my investigation of my ancestors because they were Oddfellows. There might have been a concerted attack against……..us. Carl Janke may have founded California Odd Fellows Lodge #1 of San Francisco, or been an outstanding member, and thus had a hand in the spread of our Society in Germany. Were those six portbles houses intended for Lodge members?
Odd Fellowship was first established on the European Continent on December 1, 1870, in Wurttemberg, Germany, by Dr. John F. Morse, a Past Grand Master of California and a member of California Odd Fellows Lodge #1 of San Francisco, California, U.S.A. After Germany became the first nation in Europe to establish an Odd Fellows Lodge, the Order spread throughout Germany and from there to several other countries on the continent.
“It’s even more obvious in her work on ‘The Crossing’. She was very depressed, dealing with her unresolved feelings for her childhood sweetheart, Bill. He died before she could work it through with, or about him, and she resented Greg because she said he didn’t deliver on his promise to tell Bill how she felt. She really loved him, and maybe Greg saw that as a intrusion. Anyway, Christine told me he never delivered her message. Later. Bill pulled his car onto the tracks and died under the wheels of a train – a suicide according to Christine – and she never got over her failure to tell Bill her feelings for him. She felt very strongly she could have saved him, if he’d only known.”
From: Stacey Pierrot
Reply-To: stacey@r¡
To: jonpresco8@h¡, vpresco
Subject: [Fwd: Patrice Hanson at Bancroft House in Sonoma]
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:02:43 -0800
FRIENDS AND ADMIRERS OF ROSAMOND You¡¯ll be pleased to know that
Rosamond Publishing has commissioned the artist¡¯s biography: a
celebration of her life and legacy. We¡¯re working closely with the
author, Tom Snyder, to produce a handsome book dedicated to an
extraordinary life. Tom is a trained observer as well as
a storyteller intrigued by every turn in life¡¯s odyssey. If you have
any comments to share with Tom about your own response to Rosamond¡¯s
work, he¡¯d be happy to hear from you. His e-mail address is:
HERE IS EXECUTOR SYDNEY MORRIS
“By September 2000, however, plans were underway for a biography of Decedent, which Petitioner hoped might create interest in her work. The book was published in 2002. Although the book did not spur the hoped-for interest in Decedent’s life and work, efforts continued to market the concept of a screenplay based upon Decedent’s life. Petitioner hoping that this might be brought to fruition, elected to keep the estate open. However, it is the Petitioner’s belief the likelihood of an increased interest in Decedents work is negligible, and the time has come to close the estate.”
“Pierrot later bought the business from the estate, royalties
from which go to Rosamond’s daughters, Drew now 11, and Shannon, 28.
Pierrot has a determined vision of where she wants the business to
go. A poster of Rosamond’s creation “Dunkin the Frog” will be
distributed to children in hospitals. T-shirts and tote bags will
also be produced featuring the whimsical character, Pierrot says. All
manner of upscale merchandising is contemplated using the images from
Rosamond’s paintings…bed linins, throw pillows and other elegant
household items.”
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The Missing Beach Party
Posted on August 15, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is the Carmel Pinecone account. Stacey says there is a beach party she is going to, and, Christine was going to be there. It’s 1o A.M. Why isn’t Christine getting ready for her party – that Vicki had to have been invited to. If you go to Carmel to rent fishing poles, then that is going to take almost two hours – after they have lunch! It would be about 1:00 P.M. – if they start fishing. They would want to fish about two hours. When does the sun set? You don’t want party goers out on Highway 1 when it is dark. They would have a hard time finding the driveway. Would there be enough parking? Was the party going to be catered? I found a card from a hairdresser stuck in the door. Christine was fastidious about her hair. There was a strong wind that morning. The drive over to the Rocky Point café, would take five minutes. There is ample parking in a well lit area. How many party goers planned to stay overnight?
6:32 PM
Saturday, March 26, 1994 (PST)
“Sister says ‘Rosamond always had nightmares about the water’.
What does this mean;
““It must have been Christine’s time, and perhaps she knew so.”
Was it Drew’s time as well? Christine is celebrating her first sober birthday.
She was facing her nightmare; she sat back down as if she had conquered those fears.”
Where’s Vicki’s fear? She says she too had nightmares about big waves.
” It must have been a premonition.”
Where is Vicki’s premonition? Vicki was in the Navy. She knew about tides. Why isn’t she sure the tide is going out? The truth is, it is coming in. High tide is 10:36 A.M. Death awaits them all, not just Christine.
“Christine was sure the tide was going out. Did she know what lay a head?”
Vicki claims she snatched her eight year old niece out of the churning sea. Where is her fear for the safety of a child – any child? For wondering this, I was excommunicated and slandered. Vicki lured my seventeen year old daughter into The Liar’s Camp.
Put Drew Benton in the backseat of the infamous suicide car. Would you break the window to get her out?
Jon Presco
“It must have been Christine’s time, and perhaps she knew so. I was
there as an afterthought. She and Drew were going to spend the whole
weekend at a guest house. Christine went back and sat down on the
final rock after saying we should go get lunch and rent fishing
poles. She always had nightmares about water, tidal waves, the
ocean’s power, the water taking control. She was facing her
nightmare; she sat back down as if she had conquered those fears. I
didn’t understand why we weren’t leaving. It must have been a
premonition – NOTHING ABOUT THE OCEAN, THAT, DAY WOULD INDICATE
WEWERE IN DANGER. We weren’t just frolicking on the rocks.” Vicki
said. “We were responsible people, and aware of the water at all
times. It was a full moon weekend with lots of tidal action. A friend
told me that five other people were swept out to sea ( from
California’s north coast) over the same period. We went to look for
shells and tide pool creatures. Christine was sure the tide was going
out. Did she know what lay a head?”
SANDRA FAULKNER
Bonds With The Blue Angel
Posted on April 25, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
In 1988 I had a Rose Reading. The woman reader saw me sitting on a hill looking down on these children on a playground.
“You were trying to heal them all.”
When I met my neighbor, Sandra, and when she told me she lived in the orphanage I would go by when I took a walk in the Oakland Hills, I saw what the Seer saw. I used to take a rest at the orphanage, and meditate on their, and my fate. There was always talk about the four Presco children being put in a orphanage.
I almost died of Whooping cough when I was eleven. I was sent to LA to visit my relative and came down with this rare illness. My aunt Lillian told me about the time I came outside looking for her and Uncle Dick. I was blue, and my finger contorted. Dick put me upside down on his knee and pounded on my back to get the flem out. This is when I began to see white auras around my kindred.
Above I am placing an angel coin in the tomb of my ancestor. It was given to me by a sister in recovery to honor my sister Christine. I wanted her sobriety to be out of reach of the parasites who were sold our Family Recovery.
John ‘The Seer’
Bonding With A Blue Angel
Posted on May 9, 2016by Royal Rosamond Press
Bonding With A Blue Angel
by
Jon Gregory Presco
Copyright 1993
I and my three siblings have been cursed, and blessed. Within a hundred yards of our front door on San Sebastian Avenue, lived three Hags, old Crones of renown – and ill repute! Up the street, on Hollywood, lived Ms. Smith and Kay Coakley. To get to Mrs. Smith’s front door, one traversed a veritable Fairyland. Her yard was over-grown. At one time it was a showcase. But now the rose bushes meandered into the fruit trees. Everywhere was a bouquet of runaway flowers, that were once maintained and well-behaved. Now, they go and grow wherever they want to, they seemingly suspended in midair, clinging to vines to get the best sunlight. In the center of this maze was a bronze sundial on a marble pillar. We stopped here before we knocked on the big oaken door.
My sister Christine was a proverbial know-it-all. She pretended she could read what time it was. She explained the shadow to me in that special language she owned. I held back, knowing we would soon know for sure, after Mrs Smith let us into her antique home. Looking like Mrs. Santa Clause, she wrung her hands with glee as we performed for her ‘The Timeless Ritual’. We took turns sitting in her musical chair in the foyer that would tinkle away as she held out her crystal bowl full on M&Ms. We were experts and taking a big handful without dropping a one. We did not want to appear as greedy little pigs. She had raised us to respect a Higher Porpous.
Clutching our reward to our innocent bosom, as one we turned to the great grandfather clock standing proud on the landing of her grand stairway next to the stainglass window. We beamed as we watched the minute hand come together with the hour hand at high noon. Our concert reached a crescendo with the chiming of this wooden wonder that told us the days of our youth were important ones. Mrs. Smith knew how vital our celebration was, as her time was running out. We sensed she was trying to leave us something before she raised into the sky by the Zephors. When she shut the door on us, we gobbled down our M&Ms lest the other children behold our good fortune, and its source. We owned her! She belonged to us!
Now, down the street from us, lived the other Mrs. Smith. She called the cops on us all the time for playing ball in the street. The cop would talk to her for almost two hours. We sat on a wall waiting for him to go away so we can play ball some more. That was our job description. Finally the Oakland Cop would emerge and saunter sideways over to us. We got the same old lecture.
“Listen up my lil Pilgrims. Ty not to have so much fun. You know how she is!”
Years later when I talked about the mean Mr’s Smith, my mother laughed. She told me the truth. She was a famous madam that was driven out of San Francisco. Those cops were getting laid by her young girl who lived with her. The Wild West wasn’t completely over.
Now it all made sense. Susie and I had dared knock on her door, when she opened it we were amazed. Her walls were painted Chinese red. There was Chinese decor everywhere. She was wearing an oriental bathrobe. Her face was chalky white. Her lipstick was Chinese red. Susie had told me she glimpsed a pretty young woman looking out the window at her. We hoped she would open the door. Five years later I saw her. I was thirteen. She got off the bus and walked down the path constructed by the WPA. I was right behind her. It was raining. She was wearing a French trench coat. Being an artist and poet, I was in Paris wanting this creature of the night to make me a man. Then, there is the Blue Angel my two sisters saw – and the old crone who lived three door down from grandfather clock. Are you seeing the big picture here. Add it up.
The garden fairies, the Greek sundial, the musical chair, the grandfather clock, the hedge of thorns, the madam and house of ill repute, the fallen young Jezzabel, the Chinese decor. Whats missing?
Our bond with the Blue Angel began early one Saturday morning when Christine
and my younger sister, Vicki, came rushing into the Boys Room at the
first sign I was awake. I was ten years old at the time, Christine
nine, and Vicki, five. Getting them to calm down, their faces lit-up
with excitement, they told me one of the strangest things I have ever
heard in my life. They told me in the middle of the night they had
woken to behold a powerful blue light filling their room, and in the
middle of the light, was a beautiful woman standing at the foot of
Christine’s bed looking down on her. She was in a long flowing gown,
and if she had wings, my sisters did not say; but they reasured me,
begged me to believe; “She was an Angel!”
Some of us are never called upon to believe in anything so
extraordinary, and as the morning progressed I had trouble with, her,
I not being a witness – and if I had been? In studying my sisters, I
saw they did not quite know where to put it, her, and I felt sorry
for them.
I then got a call from Kay Coakly who lived just up the street, and
who had befriended all the Presco children. She was stricken with
Parkinson’s disease when she was young, brought on by a car accident
at her coming-out party, she the daughter of a famous Judge in
Oakland Claifornia. The Coakley family owned large tracks of property
down by Lake Merrit where Jack London used to sail. Kay was a real
life Crone, and she wanted me to come fix her radio, the atenae that
she attached to her bedsprings prone to come loose. After seeing it
was still attached, I saw her looking tentively out the window. I
asked her what was wrong. She told me she was awoken in the middle of
the night by a powerful blue light – so powerful it burned holes in
her lace curtain; “Come take a look. I think it was those bad-boys
across the canyon shining a spotlight in my window.”
With the hair on the back of my neck, up and alert, I went over to
the window and beheld a ring of tiny burn holes about the size of
one’s head, and no bigger then the tip of your baby-finger. I looked
out the window, stood on my tip-toes, and told Kay; “You can’t even
see the canyon from this window. It couldn’t have been the boys.”
Kay did not say anything, repute my innocent deduction, she already
figuring this out, and, somethings in life do not have an
explination, and defy all attempts to clarify and classify the truly
extraordinary. Such is the nature of this story, and my Family, no
one quite able to believe. But, they did, and they still do. This
story is for them.
Coakley the Cailleach and the Oakland Cops
Having read all the Grimm¡¯s Fairytales when I was eleven, I can say
the best stories begin with the appearance of an Old Hag. Most
children of my generation expected to be approached, or beckoned by
an Old Hag, or Witch, at some time in their life, thanks to Walt
Disney, the darling of Rightwing Conservatives who had the hots for
Davey Crockett, who would give the Republicans ‘Frontier America’
back after disappearing most of the other folks, somehow. So when
Dear Old Kay called to me from across the street, I must admit I was
startled, for she looked every bit like the classic Witch. Was she a
good witch? She had course black hair, a large nose, and perhaps my
youthful imagination and memory put a wart on that nose?
¡°Young boy!¡± she called to me in a garbled voice. ¡°Cumb bere!¡±
Being the only young boy on the street at the time (I was eleven) I
surmised it was me she beckoned to, and curious I came across the
street so I could hear her better.
Kay was slumped over and had a rather large hump on her back. Her
face was very pale, and wore bright red lipstick that was not applied
properly. It was hard to tell her age, for up close she did not look
as old as I first surmised. Having my full attention, she now spoke.
¡°I brandt yoob tos take deez bobbas to da store andb cabsh dem forb
me, den brug da muzzy brack and guv it ta me.¡±
¡°What?¡± I said, cocking my head to one side.
She gave me a look, having encountered dummies like me before, and
with disgust, turned and beckoned me in the house.
¡°Fallub me.¡± She said, and my heart began to race. Do I dare cross
her threshold?
¡°Fallub me!¡± She said a little louder, and I could not resist.
Kay walked with a stutter-step that propelled her forward. Some said
she had Cerebral Palsy, but she told us kids she was in a terrible
automobile accident when she was young and beautiful that had
obviously caused some brain damage, as well as crippling her.
Turning into the kitchen, she opened the door to the garage, and
pointed to several bags of pop-bottles and repeated her instructions
that I did not follow correctly, for I was distracted by the sight of
the most beautiful car I have ever seen. It was a 1930¡¯s Super Stutz
Bear Cat as I would later learn from a friend at schools whose uncle
purchased it. Jay Johansson was the son and grandson of famous
explorers who helped found Oakland¡¯s Snow Museum. He told me Kay¡¯s
Bearcat had hardly been driven.
I would hear from my mother, after all the Prescos got to know Kay,
that her father gave her the Bearcat on her coming out party, when
she turned twenty one. Kay¡¯s father was the famous Oakland District
Attorney J.Frank Coakley, an associate and friend of Ed Meese and
Earl Warren. Kay had gone driving with a boy, or another couple, and
if there was some drinking going on, it got covered up. No one got
the full story of what happened when the beautiful daughter of
Oakland¡¯s Top Cop got turned into a witch, a very young witch, who
was the only witness to the visitation of the Blue Angel that came
into Kay¡¯s room and my two sister¡¯s bedroom, and stood gazing down at
Christine at the foot of her bed. Seeing Angels, Pixies, and Fairies
was the Disney Dream that Leftwing Democrats adopted and adored, they
wishing that the Capitalists, the Conservatives, and the Cops would
disappear somehow, or, just the Fairy Folk whisked away to Never Pay
Your Duesville where the eternally young live off the rich ¨C forever!
¡°Tabe de boddas to da storb, and ged sum mummy for dem. For doobing
dis I wool gib yu ten cents.¡±
Being a Democrat and lover of the Brothers Grimm, I alas understood
Kay was my benefactor, a Good Witch who wanted to rain good fortune
down upon me, a poor Presco child.
¡°Hey thanks!¡± I said, and bent down to pick up the bags. And off to
the store I skipped.
Walking home, I woofed down my Hershey bar, and soda. Passing Kay¡¯s
house, I glanced her way, my pocked jingling with heavy coins. Life
was good to me that day. If Kay was looking out the window as I
passed, she might have been wearing a puzzled look as she wondered;
“Bear da hell is dat lil brascal goink wid my sooda-pop munny?”
Later that evening, the phone in the Presco home rang, and Rosemary
answered. Being an executive secretary, my mother had a professional
voice, a calming reassuring manner. Now she let out her famous laugh,
and hung up. With a smile she approached me and asked me if someone
had given me some pop bottles to take to the store. I told her I had.
Rosemary then told me I had absconded with the money I got from these
bottles, and had been tracked down ¨C somehow!
Giving me the money to make up for what I spent, my mother sent me on
my way to revisit the Old Crone, our beloved Irish Cailleach who
would give all the children around San Sebastian Street a taste of
Pathos. From our dear Crone we learned life was a tradgedy, even
unfair. Standing in Kay¡¯s tennis court in her over grown backyard, we
studied the weeds that broke through the playing surface. Touching
the decaying net, it crumbled like a spiders web. On this court Kay
served and vollied in her pure white tennis outfit, she the child of
Oakland socialites who lived on the very border of the wealthy
Piedmont district.
No one is certain if she ever drove her Stutz Bearcat, but it became
a hereditary job, a good source of incame when we Prescos came to
clean the dog shit Kay¡¯s black Cockerspanial dropped all around the
Stuz when she let it out in the garage to do her business.
Whenever Kay had to grocery shopping, or go to the Doctor of Dentist,
she would call her father downtown. In minutes an Oakland Cop Car
would pull up in front of Kay¡¯s house on Hollywood Street, as if it
were a Taxi. In Kay¡¯s dining room was a very large painting, a
panorama of Lake Merrit. It was rumored the Coakley family owned half
the property around this lake, and Kay was a millionaire.
The Coakleys came from Ireland, and one legend claims they descend
from Fair Rosamond. When I began to do a genealogical research of my
Rosamond ancestors, I wondered if Fair Rosamond was the angel that
appeared before my sisters, and Kay. If so, was she the entity who
was guiding me in my study of the Holy Grail?
The Black Panthers thought Kay¡¯s father was a ¡°racist dog¡±. My
Godfather was a sergeant on the Oakland police force, and he would
sometimes pull up in his squad car to pay a visit. Some of the
Oakland Cops who took Kay to the doctor would come down San Sebastian
street, stop in front of Ms. Smith¡¯s house, and pretend to be
answering her complaint that we kids were disturbing this other Old
Hag with our ball-play in the street. The truth was, Ms. Smith was an
Old Madam who was run out of San Francisco. Finding sanctuary in
Oakland, she kept a very young and very beautiful prostitute shut up
in her home, whose interior was filled with Chinese d¨¦cor, her walls
painted a deep cadmium red. The Oakland cops were there for two
hours or more, while we young boys waited for them to hear Ms. Smiths
tiresome complaint – yet again -and leave!
¡°What in the hell is taking him so long.¡± We would exclaim, tossing
the football in the air and catching it.
One raining evening I got off the bus, and found myself walking
behind the young prostitute through a walkway. She was wearing a
trenchcoat. The sound of her high heals and rain hitting the
sidewalk, put me in Paris, I a young artist from America, wondering
if I should purchase the pleasure of her company, or buy an empty
canvas. She felt my presence. We were all alone and lost in the
world. She and the world beckoned to me.
“Make me a man, for I have many things to do, places to go, and
wondersous thngs to see. To be a Man. Would this be a crime.”
Kay was one of us, a child who had no money of her own, and depended
upon a higher authority for a ride in automobile. Like us, she senced
there was a force that dealt out a dark attribute to the good and the
bad, the black and the white, the young and the old, with equal
indifference.
Tom Snyder was hired by Stacey Pierrot to write a biography about my late sister. They both were nice to me in order to get me to contribute to their endeavor blessed by Sydney Morris of Heisinger, Morris, and Buck. When I refused to sign Snyder’s agreement, that would have prevented me from finish my own biography about Christine and I, he and my brother got hostile. Robert Brevoort Buck’s law firm gave their blessing to Pierrot to write a biography and make a movie, in order to increase interest in Rosamond prints, and generate more sales for the benefit of the heirs and creditors. My novels would have done that, if they had not been oppressed, and all creative control taken from me. A fake childhood rivalry is conjured up by Stacey and Tom, aimed at destroying me and my book. Their book is a vile business tale of the rivalry Christine had with all her business people. I hold Bob Buck personally responsible for adding to the string of bad business choices Rosamond made. He should make restitution. This is a breach of my copyright.
I showed Tom Snyder part of my biography ‘Bonds With Angels’ where my brother and I are forced to work in an old factory making French fries when we are ten and eleven. In this post in Templar de Rosemont yahoogroup, I suggest the Nazarite Vow be taken to help with the epidemic of alcoholism and incest. Robert Buck is responsible for establishing Alcohol Justice.
I connected with the books of John Steinbeck, after Rosemary drove the family tyrant out of our home when I was eleven. Canary Row is not fiction to me.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
Chapter One
“Don’t tell your mother you’re doing this.” Having given this gruff
command, our father, Victor William Presco, turned and walked out of
the huge factory, his heavy footsteps echoing as I studied my older
brother’s stoic grimace as we grabbed the ears of a hundred pound
sack of potatoes and lifted it up to the edge of the barrel-shaped
potato peeler, our traditional two months of summer labour now under
way, we expected to do a man’s job, as we had long ago been
informed; ‘There’s no free lunch in this family!”
I am convinced the Sheperdess
is Rosa Mundi, and the Virgin Mary, who is more then a mother to
those who have found their way into the Labyrinth, but literally a
Spirit that will never die, and a guide to all who seek the Truth.
There is an epidemic of Child Incest in this country, if not the
world, much of this abuse feuled by the disease of Alcoholism. As a
Bishop in my Nazarite Church, I bid those who suffer to take the oath
of the Nazarite and never ingest alcohol again.
FORWARD
‘Bonds with Angels’ is the story of two creative siblings and their
quest for a spiritual and creative Sanctuary. Published in
installments under the banner of, Royal Rosamond Press, named in
honor of the author and poet, Royal Rosamond.
This biography of Christine Rosamond, and, John Presco, was began in
1989 when I had two years of Recovery in AA, CODA, and Adult Children
of Alcoholics. It was to be the biography of all four Presco
Children, it my hope we would all get into a Program, as all six
members of my family suffered from the disease of alcoholism, and all
the abuses that are associated with this life-threatening tragedy.
On the morning of March 26, 1994, my beloved sister, Christine, known
around the world as the artist, Rosamond, was swept off treacherous
rocks near Carmel by the Sea, and drowned. This day was her first
Sober Birthday in Alcoholics Anonymous, she due to recieve her One
Year Coin that had this message upon it; “Unto thy own self be true.”
This story is on the verge of not being told as it should be. It is a
tale of Insanity, Magic, and Wonder, almost beyond belief!
Two weeks ago an attempt was made to get me to sign a paper giving
exclusive rights to a writer hired by Stacey Pierrot the owner
of ‘Rosamond Publishing’ preventing me from telling the truth about
my late sister. There are members of my family, and others, who would
use my sister’s fame for only making a profit, and for hiding the
terrible wounds an incestuous family system does make, behind all
those Masks, the angelic faces of those beautiful ‘Rosamond Women’.
It is time to unmask this secret wounding of children so the true
story of the ‘Rose of the World’ can emerge.
Our bonds with angels began early one Saturday morning when Christine
and my younger sister, Vicki, came rushing into the Boys Room at the
first sign I was awake. I was ten years old at the time, Christine
nine, and Vicki, five. Getting them to calm down, their faces lit-up
with excitement, they told me one of the strangest things I have ever
heard in my life. They told me in the middle of the night they had
woken to behold a powerful blue light filling their room, and in the
middle of the light, was a beautiful woman standing at the foot of
Christine’s bed looking down on her. She was in a long flowing gown,
and if she had wings, my sisters did not say; but they reasured me,
begged me to believe; “She was an Angel!”
Some of us are never called upon to believe in anything so
extraordinary, and as the morning progressed I had trouble with, her,
I not being a witness – and if I had been? In studying my sisters, I
saw they did not quite know where to put it, her, and I felt sorry
for them.
I then got a call from Kay Coakly who lived just up the street, and
who had befriended all the Presco children. She was stricken with
Parkinson’s disease when she was young, brought on by a car accident
at her coming-out party, she the daughter of a famous Judge in
Oakland Claifornia. The Coakley family owned large tracks of property
down by Lake Merrit where Jack London used to sail. Kay was a real
life Crone, and she wanted me to come fix her radio, the atenae that
she attached to her bedsprings prone to come loose. After seeing it
was still attached, I saw her looking tentively out the window. I
asked her what was wrong. She told me she was awoken in the middle of
the night by a powerful blue light – so powerful it burned holes in
her lace curtain; “Come take a look. I think it was those bad-boys
across the canyon shining a spotlight in my window.”
With the hair on the back of my neck, up and alert, I went over to
the window and beheld a ring of tiny burn holes about the size of
one’s head, and no bigger then the tip of your baby-finger. I looked
out the window, stood on my tip-toes, and told Kay; “You can’t even
see the canyon from this window. It couldn’t have been the boys.”
Kay did not say anything, repute my innocent deduction, she already
figuring this out, and, somethings in life do not have an
explination, and defy all attempts to clarify and classify the truly
extraordinary. Such is the nature of this story, and my Family, no
one quite able to believe. But, they did, and they still do. This
story is for them.
Jon Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Copyright 2001
Chapter One
“Don’t tell your mother you’re doing this.” Having given this gruff
command, our father, Victor William Presco, turned and walked out of
the huge factory, his heavy footsteps echoing as I studied my older
brother’s stoic grimace as we grabbed the ears of a hundred pound
sack of patatoes and lifted it up to the edge of the barrel-shaped
patatoe peeler, our traditonal two months of summer labour now under
way, we expected to do a man’s job, as we had long ago been
informed; ‘There’s no free lunch in this family!”
TO BE CONTINUED
Here is an exert from the excellent Coakley/Colclough family
genealogy that says there is a family legend Fair Rosamond Clifford
raised her two sons disguised as shepherds so they could not meet any
harm. But, at least another Clifford ancestor did the same two
hundred years later. In studying the mystery of the Pirory de Sion, I
have come to believe the ‘Sheperdess’ is the Shekinah ‘The Light of
God’ also known as ‘Rosa Mundi’, and the Angel Christine Rosamond saw
was the ‘Rosa Mundi’, which is the White Rose seen of the black flag
Death is carrying in the terrot card “Death”. This card has its roots
in the plague that swept through Europe, which brought about the
appearance of the ‘Rosary’ which consisted of rose petals rolled in a
ball and strung on a rouge string. They were alternating red and
white petals signifying the Apothecary Rose that has been called
the ‘Rosa Mundi’ of ‘The Rose of Provins’. In the War of the Roses
the House of York was the White Rose. I am convinced the Sheperdess
is Rosa Mundi, and the Virgin Mary, who is more then a mother to
those who have found their way into the Labyrinth, but literally a
Spirit that will never die, and a guide to all who seek the Truth.
There is an epidemic of Child Incest in this country, if not the
world, much of this abuse feuled by the disease of Alcoholism. As a
Bishop in my Nazarite Church, I bid those who suffer to take the oath
of the Nazarite and never ingest alcohol again.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Founder: ‘Rose of the World Foundation’
Janke Park, Hall, And Stagecoach Line
Posted on November 27, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
Very few families can say their kindred owned a Stagecoach Line, Theme Park, and a Turnverein Hall, or two. Carl Janke was half owner of the Belmont Accommodation Company that ran between Belmont ‘Beautiful Mountain’, and Halfmoon Bay. Mrs. Walter E. Janke was the President of the Cap and Bells Club that employed the cap of the Jester in its emblem. Consider the Merry Pranksters. Musicals, plays, and “Jinks” were performed. Consider the Hi-jinks of the all male Bohemian Club. Is this a feminists answer? It appears the Cap and Bells founded an art gallery. Was this the formation of the Outdoor Art League?
Dear Vice President Kamala Harris;
The oppression of my family history in the Belmont Historical Society I believe is racially motivated. My first posts were about Turnverein Germans, and Forty-Eighters who founded the Republican Abolitionist Party and fought Confederate Traitors to free slaves. This is the main reason I got in trouble because the white folks of Belmont want their city to remain a white enclave, and not have a direct descendant of the founder if Belmont, put his history in my back pocket -to do with it what I will. This is a new brand of Fascism, where any white sympathizer of black causes, is MARKED as a undesirable, their history erased, and then they are publicly SHAMED? What kind of attorney will hand my suit? This is hardly the kind of treatment one would expect when asked to contribute your history.
Above is my first post made on Feb. 25. Ed Howard had just told me he saw the new Black Panther movie. I told my fellow historian on Feb. 24 I was going for a grant. Here is Cynthia’s book on Belmont published in 2014. She must have found my family history on the internet. She says there is no competition, but she was Gaslighting me. I made copies of our posts – and caught her mentally torturing’ me, accursing me of abusing her. I have seen her act before.
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