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I forgot about my contact with Lind Higgins of the Concord Historic Society, who helped me guess at who Christine Rosamond Benton’s teacher was when she attended kindergarten. The teacher died in 1989 BTW – Before The Wave – thus Julie Lynch could not have talked to her. Above is the real kindergarten art that the famous artist, Rosamond, did.
I just send a message to Governor Gavin Newson asking for his immediate help in seeing to it, my niece, has a sane and un-corrupted death, because she is a historic figure.
“The Concord Historical Society would very much appreciate a copy of your anatomy of tract homes when it’s complete. Any additional information you could give us about your family and the area where they lived in Concord would also be welcome.”
Lind Higgins
Resource Center Director
Dear Governor: I urgently request your help in dealing with the suicide of my niece, Drew Benton, the daughter of Garth Benton who did two murals for Gordon Getty. You might have seen them. Garth was a friend of Lawrence Chazen, who is a partner in PlumpJack, and was a partner of Christine Rosamond Benton in her first Carmel Gallery. Chazan tried to be the executor of Rosamond’s estate that was left to my two nieces. Perhaps you can contact him and have him fly to Bullhead Arizona to identify Drew’s body, and expediate her cremation – with your official approval. I will conduct a ceremony with Drew’s ashes in my home in Springfield Oregon,
EXTRA! At 12:54 P.M. on 8/17/24….I found a photograph of Charlotte Ballinger. I am a great detective. I’m going contact the Governor of Arizona about the holes in the investigation of my niece’s suicide. I recall going for cookies! Julie Lynch needs to sit in the witness box and identity the teacher she talked to about Rosamond’s outstanding art. This is – MASSIVE CHILD ABUSE! All the teachers in this photo are dedicated to the protection of children – FROM PREDITORS. Has the crazy man who suggests (with help of a friend) that Drew Benton – IS ALIVE – changed his mind?
In the spring, we would walk from Williams Elementary across the playing fields of the high school and to her house where she would serve cookies and milk.
CONCORD, CA (April 2, 2023) — Dear Pioneer, A huge smile crossed my face when, in a recent edition of the Pioneer, saw a picture of my first grade teacher, Mrs. Ballinger, in Carol Longshore’s “Yesteryear” column in celebration of Women’s History Month.
The special person she was and most of everything she taught me, contributes to that smile.
Whether she was drawing a colored chalk birthday cake for a student’s birthday, or teaching us songs she had written, such as “New Shoes” or “Indian Paintbrush”, and “I’m a Ridin’, Ridin’ Cowboy,” I have so many fond memories of her lessons.
In the spring, we would walk from Williams Elementary across the playing fields of the high school and to her house where she would serve cookies and milk. It was one of the biggest days of the school year for all of her first graders.
Legend has it that she attended Mt. Diablo High School but lived in Pleasant Hill. Her father’s ranch was at the west end of what is now Boyd Rd. Her father was the first Anglo mayor of Todos Santos, soon to become Concord. To get to school, and she was very punctual, she would ride from the ranch to a train station near Contra Costa Blvd., stable her horse, ride the train to school, return by train and ride the horse back to her home at the end of Boyd Road. Many of her songs were written to the meter of a slow trotting horse.
So thank you Pioneer staff, for bringing back so many thoughts and happy reflections of a truly wonderful woman and teacher, Charlotte Ballinger.
Sincerely,
Ron Redding
Childhood Home In Concord California
Posted on April 18, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
I talked with Linda of the Concord School District, and she said the Elementary School we Presco Children attended would be Williams located on 2895 East St. She said it closed in 1976. Four days ago I got a e-mail from Lind, who operated the Concord Historic Society. Our teacher could have been Charlotte Ballenger who was already a ancient legend. She died in 1989, and thus there was no real way for Julie Lynch to have talked to her. She does not say Vicki or Mark Presco told her about Charlotte’s artistic critique. She lied! This is more Art Fraud! Julie did make a film about an alcoholic artist. Christine Rosamond Presco, drowned on her first sober birthday in AA. I’m sure the good folks of Empty Chair don’t want to see crazy drunken artist sucking on a bottle of wine under the freeway.
Rosemary and Vic had a dream when they purchased their first home located at 2742 Richard Avenue in Concord California. See the For Sale sign in the garage. How I found our lost home, was to google the house number. It gave me two choices, but no street. Rosemary used her GI Loan, She served in the WAVES in Naval Intelligence. I think she paid $10,000 dollars. This house is valued at half a million.
I am reluctant to say more, because ‘The Parasites’ are still circling ‘The Presco Children’. I enclose a message I got from someone who used to work for my late sister. Alan Blain went with Garth Benton to the Getty Mansion in San Francisco when he did several murals for his friends, Ann and Gordon Getty. He did the murals at the Getty Villa. Here is Christine at the Getty mansion in New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Rosamond
Jon Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press Co.
Copyright 2018
https://concordhistory.com/ballenger-romaine/
Lind Higgins <lind@concordhistorical.org>
To:braskewitz@yahoo.com
Apr 12 at 10:52 AM
Mr. Taber –
Based on the location of Richard Avenue, it appears the closest elementary school would have been Holbrook or Williams. Neither would have been very close – high schools and middle schools played that role. Williams School, dating from 1946, the first elementary school to be built as a result of population influx after, closed in 1976, so I don’t know the boundaries of its district.
A search of our computer records didn’t turn up any photos of rodeos during the 1950s. We do have aerial photos from the late 1940s that show the Richard Avenue area.
The Concord Historical Society would very much appreciate a copy of your anatomy of tract homes when it’s complete. Any additional information you could give us about your family and the area where they lived in Concord would also be welcome.
Lind Higgins
Resource Center Director
“I am looking at a picture.”
Posted on April 22, 2018by Royal Rosamond Press
This photograph of me was glued to a piece of lined school paper like the one you get in kindergarten. I believe a teacher at Williams chose it because I am engrossed in a picture. My tongue is sticking out. Am I looking at a picture I drew, or, am I still drawing?
My teacher wanted me to take it home and show my mother. How about my father? I was thinking about putting the next photo, with the innocent one of me. But, changed my mind. I wanted the officials in Concord to own a nice picture of our family history – for their archives. I changed my mind again, after posting the one of Christine.
What is going on here? This is like a scene from a dramatic movie. That’s my mother, Rosemary, on the right. My father, Vic, on the left, and his mother, Melba, in the center. Who took this picture? Melba is looking at this person, and she looks angry.
Oh! Did I leave out someone? That’s my younger sister, Vicki. She looks happy – even innocent! Why? Looks like Melba is playing favorites again, and gave little Vicki a new doll. Is Vic playing favorites – too? I think Melba is saying;
“What’s wrong with this bitch? Isn’t she going to allow my son to bond with any of his four children?”
What is Vic holding on to – in his other hand? Where’s Christine?
Rosamond Press 
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