Family Connections

I have been entering stories from Leah Kreinick Jacobowitz's memoir into Geni profiles for the people she discusses. Sometimes I can figure out the dates from her writing, but she is more interested in the emotional experience and the family ties than in the dates, The places are touchpoints for feelings.

There are a couple of relatives also on Geni who have more complete records or memories. Together we are putting together a pretty good family structure and history.

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Originally uploaded by Fats Superhead

I have a complimentary image on my camera. I bet the Donna Gable does also.

Ethel Zuckerman's Reunion

Mark Hammerschlag took a video of Aunt Ethel's party. He made a DVD of the video and Eli helped me convert it to a digital type movie clip.

Here is a short piece of Zack Danziger and Jay Jacobowitz playing a two-part invention from the Anna Magdalena Notebook, Bach.




If you can't play it, download it.

Genealogy

Since it's been snowing and there is a Dr Who marathon on TV, Linda and have been working on our family trees.

Mark Hammerschlag and I have been putting his sector of the family together. He sent a DVD copy of a video he took in 1993 at Aunt Ethel's birthday/reunion.

On Linda's side, we finished scanning in Ken's Lineage and have entered some of the information from Rodd grandparents' obituaries. They reveal second wives, death dates, and other information that wasn't in the printed Lineage.

Tiles from 278 Van Nostrand Avenue

This week I went to my Aunt Florence Jacobowitz's funeral. At the shiva later in Englewood, my cousin Martha Lyons presented me these tiles from the downstairs bathroom, which she found in the attic. My father put in the small bathroom in the sun-room, which he had converted from a porch. The bath was partly for Tiana, his aunt, who moved in with us for a while. Buddy & Florence closed in the windows (lower floor, left) to make the room warmer.

See Click Fix

See Click Fix may be the answer to our dreams. Todd and I were trying to cadge together a reporting system for bike commuters and sidewalk walkers. We used Twitter feeds and an interactive map for users to post their reports.

Chapin Spencer pointed us to SeeClickFix, which does much of this and also allows you to set Watch Areas and direct reports from posts in those areas to the appropriate public official. Here is a first draft:
http://sites.google.com/site/bikereportvt/southburlington/south-burlington-seeclickfix-map

Tweeting the Maps

This blog is about creating tweets that report conditions on bike routes. These link to markers on an interactive map that in turn point to reports on conditions for walking and biking in the Burlington, Vermont, area. Is that clear?

I've been having lots of fun riding around taking pictures of conditions on our bike path system and posting them on an interactive map. Todd Taylor and I established a Twitter account called BikeReportVT. If you post a report on Twitter and use the tag @BikeReportVT, the tweet will show up on the BikeReportVT page . There you can click on a link in the tweet to be taken to an interactive map where you can see the conditions and also add reports of conditions by tweeting from your own Twitter account. Pretty cool.

Here are some recent reports:
davidjacobowitz @BikeReportVT Bikes are not allowed on sidewalks in the Inner Fire District (Great name for a band). http://bit.ly/3frCsD

davidjacobowitz @BikeReportVT Hadley Road one-way is now 2-way for bikes: http://bit.ly/1n4awv

davidjacobowitz @BikeReportVT Now that bollards have been removed from the corner of Swift and Farrell #SBVT, cars have left-turn lane http://bit.ly/44s948

davidjacobowitz @BikeReportVT Recent paving on North Avenue near Burlington High School: http://bit.ly/21hLvI

davidjacobowitz @BikeReportVT Colchester Airport Park bathrooms are closed. Port-a-potty is open: http://bit.ly/2w2rzB

davidjacobowitz @BikeReportVT Bollards on Swift St at Ridgewood Estates removed, bikes riding eastward ride counterflow near traffic: http://bit.ly/2uBIgn

davidjacobowitz @BikeReportVT Bollards removed from the Swift / Spear intersection #SBVT http://bit.ly/LyB4b

View @BikeReportVT in a larger map