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Catasauqua, the Million Dollar Town(賓州旱地·百萬美元鎮)
送交者: 兒歌薈萃 2022年04月03日07:22:01 於 [五 味 齋] 發送悄悄話

2022-04-03

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【The Man with the Blue Guitar·VIII (1937)】

Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)

            The vivid, florid, turgid sky,

            The drenching thunder rolling by,

            

            The morning deluged still by night,

            The clouds tumultuously bright

            

            And the feeling heavy in cold chords

            Struggling toward impassioned choirs,

            

            Crying among the clouds, enraged

            By gold antagonists in air--

            

            I know my lazy, leaden twang 

            Is like the reason in a storm;

            

            And yet it brings the storm to bear.

            I twang it out and leave it there.

—— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • —— • ——

【《彈藍色吉他的人》之八(1937年)】

威爾士人•史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)

            鮮活、絢麗、悶熱的天空,

            萬鈞雷霆滾滾而來,

            

            清晨被夜雨沖刷,

            白雲翻騰湧動

            

            冰涼的琴弦上音色沉重

            奏響一曲雄壯的大合唱,

            

            悲泣穿越雲隙,惹火了

            空中金黃拮抗天色——

            

            我知道緩慢、陰鬱的彈奏,

            會掀起狂風驟雨;

            

            而暴風雨勢不可擋。

            我撥動琴弦,作別那兒的一切。

【注】1900年代初期,旱地(Catasauqua)不過是一個5,000多人的小鎮,曾被視為美國城鎮中白手起家百萬富翁比例最高的地方。有趣的是,它以極其奇特的方式聞名於世:第一,1776年《獨立宣言》簽署者之家所在地;第二,1917年第一次世界大戰期間,因為是第一個籌集超過100萬美元戰爭債券(War Bonds)的社區又被譽為“百萬美元小鎮”;第三,1840年以來作為無煙煤鐵工業龍頭產地而一舉成為美國工業革命的發源地。

截至1900年為止,旱地已是許多成功商人之家,這些業主涉及煉鐵、鑄造、金屬加工、水泥生產、絲綢與天鵝絨廠等領域,喜歡建造獨出心裁、象徵個人財富的別墅。時隔200多年之後,大部分豪宅仍倖存至今,儘管幾乎所有的豪宅都已被改建成公寓,同時還在其院落地盤上加蓋了車庫和其它小附屬房舍。無疑,旱地居民歷史街區(Residential Historic District)不僅蘊載了文化脈絡,而且見證了歷史變遷,是後人從歷史走向未來最重要的精神傳承。

Today in History(歷史上的今天):

2014: PSSA Fifth Grade Reading(賓州五年級閱讀統考)

2013: Isabella Island, Ecuador(厄瓜多爾獻身上帝島)

2013: Sullivan Bay of Santiago Is, Ecuador(厄瓜多爾排擠者島黑眼睛灣)

2011: 埃及亞歷山大(Alexandria—Pearl of the Mediterranean, EGY)

2022-04-02_David Thomas Historical Marker0001.JPG

2022-04-02_David Thomas House (1856) @ 525 2nd St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Presbyterian Church of Catasauqua (1854-1856) @ 210 Pine St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Presbyterian Church of Catasauqua (1854-1856)_Nave0001.JPG

2022-04-02_George Holton Residence @ 616 2nd St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co @ 613 2nd St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Townhouses @ 218-222 Pine St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Cain Semmel Residence (1874) @ 527 3rd St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Daniel Milson Residence (1885) @ 533 3rd St.0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Originally Constructed as a Church in the 1860's & Converted into Home @ 701 2nd St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Dr. James L. Horbeck Residence (1880) @ 225 Bridge St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_English Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity (1874)_Catasauqua Public Library @ 302 Bridge St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_H. Morley Holton Residence (1934) @ 326 Bridge St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Kostenbader Residence (1869) @ 303 Bridge St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Orange Fuller Residence (1865) @ 235 Bridge St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Oscar Stine Residence (1900) @ 231 Bridge St.0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Charles N. Ulrich Residence (1885) @ 306 Bridge St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Samuel Glace (1850) @ 307 Bridge St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Alexander Reed Boyd Residence (1873) @ 317 Bridge St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Catasauqua Business District_Plaque0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Cain Semmel Residence (1874) @ 527 3rd St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Daniel Milson Residence (1885) @ 533 3rd St.0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Salem United Church of Christ (1876) @ 615 3rd St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Salem United Church of Christ (1876)_ the 1st Reformed Church of Catasauqua0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Salem United Church of Christ (1876)_Plaque0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Gafran Gallery Studio @ 233 Walnut St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Owen Fatzinger Residence (1901) @ 330 Bridge St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Bridge St @ 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_A. Newton Bugbee Residence (1949) @ 515 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Byron Barton Residence (1937) @ 527 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_E. D. Boyer & F. M. Horn Residences (1885) @ 548 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Flower Pods @ 505 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Holy Trinity Memorial Lutheran Church @ 604 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_James Thomas Residence (1901) @ 545 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_John T. Williams_ Jr. Residence (1927) @ 540 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Joseph Sketchley Elverson Residence @ 533 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Seaman – Chapman House (1883) @ 534 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_William Weir McKee House @ 605 4th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Dery Mansion (1901) @ 520 5th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_H. J. Seaman House (1898) @ 606 5th St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Grace United Methodist Church @ 429 Walnut St0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Frank J. Fatzinger House (1914) @ 5th & Walnut0001.JPG

2022-04-02_Holy Trinity Orthodox Church (1899) @ 1023 5th St_the Lehigh Valley’s 1st Orthodox Church Closed in Oct 2021 after 121 Yrs0001.JPG

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