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THE BIG SUMMER SETTLES IN
RESTAURATEUR IN FOOD COURT IN WESTCHESTER MALL
WHITE PLAINS
CAUGHT NOT PAYING $380,000 SALES TAX– MAKES FULL RESTITUTION
CITY SALES TAX RUNNING A 1% DECLINE IN SALES TAX $$ FOR THIRD STRAIGHT YEAR
THE (MAYOR)ROACH RADIANCE GLOWS AS PROJECTS FLOURISH
THE BIG PROJECTS AT MID YEAR WHERE THEY STAND
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“LITTLE AWESOME ANNIE” HAS OPENING NIGHTERS ON THEIR FEET!
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PEYTON ELLA’S “ANNIE,” BIG LITTLE VOICE OF HOPE MEANS HAPPINESS IS JUST A SHOW AWAY.
AUDACIOUS LITTLE REDHEADED GIRL MELTS MICHAEL DeVRIES’ DEBONAIR DADDY WARBUCKS INTO BILLIONAIRE WITH HEART!
TURNS AROUND AN AUDIENCE AND SENDS YOU OUT WEARING A SMILE.
WPCNR STAGE DOOR Theatrical Review by John F. Bailey. July 7. 2017 UPDATED July 10 with more Photos:
I think Peyton Ella WBT’S Annie should visit President Trump when he gets back to the White House.
If anyone can bring out the President in this President, this little dynamo can!
The spunky, charmy sentimental message sweetie Peyton Ella (above) delivers to President Franklin Roosevelt (played by the cleverly Presidential John-Charles Kelly in a wheelchair) as the Little Orphan Annie looking for her parents, inspires FDR to create the “New Deal!” by singing Tomorrow to him and his whole cabinet.
Peyton’s delivery of the simple power of audacious hope refocuses the President’s attention. That’s after she wins the admiration and care of the Billionaire Daddy Warbucks who encounters Annie when he decides to invite an orphan to spend two weeks in his mansion as a Christmas gesture.
The latest revival of Annie done up in Broadway schmaltz at WBT, is choreographed and directed by the Mary Jane Houdina, assistant choreographer for the original Broadway show that opened in 1977, and who prepared the national tours of the show.
As one of the original writers of the show, derived from the comic strip Little Orphan Annie,Thomas Meehan wrote, “The story as I constructed it, is the story of a child’s child-like Odyssey-like quest for her missing father…(she) becomes a metaphorical figure who stood for innate decency, courage and optimism in the face of hard times, pessimism and despair.”
And I might add, triumphs! But enough theatrical intellectualizing already.
From the first strains of “Tomorrow” wailed by a clarinet right out of the 30s solid orchestral back up creates the mood throughout never overbearing on the vocalists.
Right out of those first notes of mournful haunting melancholy, you’re into the show as a sleeping orphanage dormitory awakens to the sound of a crying child. Annie, the precocious Peyton Ella, leader of the group of delightful and deftly comical local young performers sings Maybe, and you’re caring.
The wonderful scamps: The Orphans Tell You all about It’s a Hard Knock Life! They are: (L to R:Ruby Griffin, (July), Anika Bobra (Tessie), Peyton Ella (Annie), Gabriella Uhl (Iate), Nora Kennedy(Pepper), Maureen Henshaw (Duffy). In Basket: Haylie Shea Christiano (Molly).
The orphans are great comics and singers, especially Molly Lyons, only 8 who consistently sneaks a stomp on Ms. Hannigan’s foot when she isn’t looking. The meanie orphanage manager, Miss Hannigan is played with over-the-top cackling witchiness by Susan Fields who makes the former Carol Burnett role her own, with her own style and timing. Ms. Fields mincing, snarling indictment of Little Girls is a hoot.
I really like the veteran actor, Michael DeVries’ Daddy Warbucks. He has the command and the intensity of a character out of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand— the tycoonHank Riordan. Meeting Annie in his mansion, a mansion interior atmospherically created, (it looks rich without marble) by the set design magicians, Michael Bottari and Ronald Case—he puts aside his dictation and takes Annie to the movies.
Strolling down 5th Avenue, he delivers NYC, while Annie and he and his secretary, Grace (the impeccably efficient and savvy Celeste Hudson) to the left) stroll down 5th Avenue to the Roxy, with the buildings passing by in the background.
NYC was delivered with reverence and Sinatra-style by Mr. DeVries creating the inspiration that the city does in real life.
You will love the moving night scene in Times Square—kudos for that staging to Bottari and Case and Little Ms. Ella, Mr. DeVries and Jesse Lynn Harte (A Star to Be ) for this showstopper strut. It’s the stuff New York dreams are made of. The only star I have heard do NYC AND REALLY SELL IT is Sutton Foster in her nightclub act and DeVries joins her in delivering this song in perfect NYC “New Yorker” style.
The Game’s Afoot: Lily St. Regis (Aubrey Sinn), Rooster (Adam Roberts) and Miss Hannigan (Susann Fletcher) strut down Easy Street (Where the Rich People Play)
The villains of the piece Rooster, Ms. Hannigan’s brother and his Jersey City girl friend visit the orphanage just as Annie is returned to the orphanage after running away. They lament about Ms. Hannigan’s mother who advised them all to be a little shady to make it to Easy Street (Above)(where the rich folks play). Ms. Fletcher, the zany Rooster Adam Roberts and Aubrey Sinn as Roosters girl just prance to this song everyone loves.
The dog.
Yes, Sandy’s back, too! There is a Sandy who steals the show from the first time Annie meets him. The audience goes “Awww,” and the children love this. (So do the adults!) In fact, this is a great show for children (of all ages, thank you P.T. Barnum). Scarcely any violence. And you do not have to explain too much. This is a show where the kids win! Kids love it when kids win!
Annie settles in at the Warbucks mansion and when Warbucks wants to adopt her she says she hopes to find her real parents. Daddy Warbucks, hurt, because he has grown to care deeply for Annie, vows to help her find her parents. He brings the FBI in. He calls a meeting with President Roosevelt with Annie present.
Act Two opens with a marvelous send up of oldtime radio, the Burt Healy Oxidant Hour of Smiles.
The Boylan Sisters sing You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile. Warbucks delivers a message about how Annie is searching for her parents.
Rooster, his girl friend, and Hannigan cook up a plot to acquire the $50,000 reward, based on secret knowledge with the conniving, scheming Miss Hannigan. But the FBI, which is apparently much better in the 1930s than it is today, uncovers some information that might just bust up the plot.
Peyton Ella as Annie really shines in the duet, I Don’t Need Anything But You, and DeVries does a refreshing and sincere delivery of Something Was Missing. That song is the way every father feels about a daughter or a son, or should, and Mr. DeVries just handles it with elegance and elegy.
Michael DeVries, Daddy Warbucks and Kaylin Hughes the Annie on Sunday Matinees sing Together At Last
ANNIE with the dynamic little Miss Peyton Ella as Annie and Kaylin Hedges as Annie on Sundays plays from now until September 10. For box office information, call 914-592-2268, or visit the website www.BroadwayTheatre.com.
I have seen this show many times, in the movies, in performance, but it never fails to deliver a lift to the heart an easing of the mind, and a new resolve to do better, be tougher and do what must be done. The songs Tomorrow, You’re Never Completely Dressed Without a Smile, they ring true, my friends.
You’re never too old or too cynical not to be moved by Annie.
It’s playing tonight! You’ll put on a new smile tomorrow!
Trainer Bill Berloni and Sunny, the well-known canine actor, who has been playing Sandy, Little Orphan Annie’s dog for 7 years. Sunny was rescued from a Houston Animal Shelter by Mr. Berloni the day before he was scheduled to be euthanized., Sunny has been appearing as Sandy since 2012. Mr. Berloni has adopted 23 dogs whom he has trained to be Sandy actors. He says: “I’ve taken these dogs, saved their lives and given them a purpose.” You can rescue a dog or cat too by adopting at the Pet Adoption Day on July 29 at WBT, Photo by Joan Marcus
Oh Sunny the dog wants me to remind you– Annie will host a Pet Adoption Day Saturday, July 22, 10:30 AM to 4:30 PM with organizations offering dogs and cats for adoption. You do not have to buy a ticket to the show to participate in the Pet Adoption Day.
Arf!
All other photos by John Vecchiolla
White Plains Owner of 2 Restaurants in Westchester Mall, Pleads Guilty to Evading Sales Taxes on $380,000 over 6 Years
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Peter Spagnuolo
WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE. From the Office of the Westchester County District Attorney. July 5, 2017:
Late this afternoon, the Westchester County District Attorney announced:
Westchester County District Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced today that FreshMex, LLC and All American Burger, LLC pled guilty before Judge Larry Schwartz to:
One count of Criminal Tax Fraud in the Third Degree, a class “D” Felony and
- one count of Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, a class “D” Felony.
Peter Spagnuolo (DOB 11/25/66) of 10 Cottage Place, White Plains, New York also plead guilty to:
- one count of Petit Larceny, a class “A” Misdemeanor.
In a joint investigation carried out by the Westchester County District Attorney’s Office and the New York State Tax Department, it was determined that the defendants committed the above named offenses between March 1, 2009 and January 31, 2015.
Spagnuolo owned two restaurant franchises at the Food Court located at the Westchester Mall: the Desert Moon Café and Nathan’s. He was required to collect sales tax from customers on behalf of New York State and to remit both sales tax payments and file sales tax returns.
The investigation revealed that the defendants failed to file sales tax returns for either business, and also failed to remit sales tax funds collected by each business to the New York State Tax Department.
The total amount of sales tax funds collected and not remitted during this period was approximately $380,000.00. For tax years 2014 and 2015, the defendants failed to pay $67,927.
The defendant fully repaid the sales tax as well as personal income due and owing to the New York State Tax Department.
The defendant corporations were sentenced to a three year conditional discharge and Spagnuolo was sentenced to a one year conditional discharge.
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The Common Council Meets To Push Developments Forward.No FASNY Hearing. Summary of 17-18 Budget Publishes New Salaries
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WPCNR COMMON COUNCIL CHRONICLE-EXAMINER. JULY 5, 2017:
The White Plains Common Council meets this evening at City Hall, 255 Main Street, 7:30 PM, preceded by “Citizens to be Heard” at 7.
A series of routine procedures and resolutions are on the agenda, with at this time, no hearing on the French American School of New York matter on the agenda.
The evening will begin with an honoring of Eagle Scouts Akiva Grimaldi, Troop 613 and Henry Roach (son of Mayor Roach) in a Recognition segment for the boys earning the rank of Eagle Scouts in the Boy Scouts of America.
Two nephews of mine obtained this rank in Pennsylvania and it is hard to achieve. This is what you as a Scout have to do to earn the rank of Eagle Scout:
- Be active in your troop, team, crew, or ship for a period of at least six months after you have achieved the rank of Life Scout.
- Demonstrate that you live by the principles of the Scout Oath and Scout Law in your daily life. List on your Eagle Scout Rank Application the names of individuals who know you personally and would be willing to provide a recommendation on your behalf, including parents/guardians, religious, educational, and employer references.
- Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than you already have), including the following:(a) First Aid , (b) Citizenship in the Community , (c)Citizenship in the Nation , (d) Citizenship in the World , (e) Communication , (f)Cooking , (g) Personal Fitness , (h) Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving , (i)Environmental Science OR Sustainability , (j) Personal Management , (k)Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling , (l) Camping , and (m) Family Life .**
After the Recognition Ceremony, the Common Council will pass bond issues for $1.3 Million for rehabilitation of city streets, and $606,000 to improve parking structures, and $1.7 Million for Rolling Stock, and $381,000 for acquisition of fire fighting apparatus.
New Developments will continue to make progress towards their start dates:
The Council will schedule a public hearing on the Westchester Avenue Saber White Plains mixed use commercial/residential project for August 7.
The White Plains Mall proposal rezoning for its residential, mixed use and new Transit District zoning will have a public hearing scheduled for August 7.
The Salvation Army expansion, long-planned for 16 Sterling Avenue will have its site plan extended for another year to renovate an existing building.
The site plan of the Esplanade conversion “repurposing” to a rental residence will be extend for another year.
On the jobs front, the Council will approve funds for the training of fire fighters as Certified First Responders.
The Council will apply to New York State Energy Research and Development Authority for funds to pay for Clean Energy projects through the Clean Energy Communities program.
The Summary of the Approved 2017-18 City Budget will be officially made available.
That summary now online on the City website, reports the average 1.5% increases in salaries that city commissioners and appointed officials receive, position by position in 2017-2018.
Previously when a budget was approved in May, the raises were approved in executive session and available after the executive session.
This year that procedure was not done and the salaries in the proposed budget in April were the 2016-17 salaries not the planned-for-raises.
The Mayor’s salary remains the same in fiscal year 2017-18, (beginning July 1) as do the salaries of the Common Council President and Common Council members.
Mayor: $153,265
Common Council President: $38,97
Common Council Member: $36,471
New Salaries Appointed Officials:
Assessor : $141,000, previously, $138,848
Commissioner of Building: $157,000 previously $154,699
Deputy Commissioner of Building: $139,800, previously $137,754
City Clerk: $112,10, previously $110,422
Corporation Counsel: $208,000, previously, $205,688
Chief Deputy Corporation Counsel: $172,700, (position unfilled)
Deputy Corporation Counsel: $170,000, previously, $165,086
Commissioner of Finance: $166,500, previously, $163,993
Deputy Commissioner of Finance: $143,700, previously, $141,580
Chief Information Officer: $144,300, previously, $142,126
Library Director:$156,500, previously,$154,152
Personnel Officer: $165,300, previously, $162,899
Deputy Personnel Officer: $101,400, previously, $99,829
Physician: $54,900, previously, $54,118
Commissioner of Parking: $163,200, previously, $160,713
Deputy Commissioner of Parking I: $133,900
Deputy Commissioner of Parking II: $143,200, previously $141,033
Commissioner of Planning: $151,000, previously, 147,175
Deputy Commissioner of Planning: $135,000, previously $132,965
Commissioner of Public Safety: $196,000, previously, $192,955
Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety: $185,700, previously, $182,700
Commissioner of Public Works: $180,300, previously, $177,625
Deputy Commissioner of Public Works I: $153,000, previously, $150,874
Deputy Commissioner of Public Works II: $139,300, previously, $137,207
Commissioner of Purchase: $121,400, previously, $121,354
America’s Birthday: What Were America’s First Leaders Like 241 Years Ago Today?
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WPCNR PROFILES IN CHARACTER. By John F. Bailey. July 4, 2017 Reprinted from the WPCNR Archives:
It is the 241st birthday of our nation, commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia in 1776.
I usually run this column on George Washington’s birthday, however, in light of the character-challenged behavior being shown lately by our leaders and congress in Washington, it is instructive to look at our first leader, George Washington, the father of our nation.
One cannot help be reminded of the snowy winter at Valley Forge, when the bedraggled, poorly equipped rebel army suffered but held together, and attacked the Hessians in Trenton on Christmas Eve, 1776, crossing the Delaware River at night.
What kind of man was he that George Washington could inspire his troops against all odds?
Washington was a man of tremendous character. Where did he get this character? He specialized in self-control at an early age.
Reenacters Marching to Raise Old Glory at Purdy House in Honor of George Washington’s Birthday. Photo, 2003 WPCNR News Archive.
According to The American President, Washington, at sixteen, had formed a code of conduct. He had written a book of etiquette with 110 “maxims” to guide his conduct in matters. In this etiquette book he had written,
Every action done in company ought to be done with a sign of respect to those who are not present. Sleep not when others speak; sit not when others stand; speak not when you should hold your peace; walk not when others stop;…Let your countenance be pleasant but in serious matters somewhat grave…Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
According to the character sketch provided by the authors of The American President, this personal “rulebook” was a book that Washington wrote over the years and referred to it often,
“for self-control, to avoid temptation, to elude greed, to control his temper. Reputation was everything to him. It had to do with his strength, his size, his courage, his horsemanship, his precise dress, his thorough mind, his manners, his compassion. He protected that reputation at any cost.”
Honor Guard Strikes the Colors to a Drum Roll. Photo, WPCNR News.
Earning respect by example. Quelling rebellion with a few words.
Washington inspired by example. He lived with his troops. He shared hardships with them, and so much was there respect for him that he was able to talk them out of armed rebellion at the end of the American Revolution.
Washington had been asked by the army to join them to over throw the Continental Congress, and make himself King.
Washington had been asked by one of the officers of the rebels to join them, and he wrote them,
You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable. Banish these thoughts from your mind.
Hearing that the rebels who were planning insurrection against the new country due to not having been paid by the Continental Congress, Washington rode to Newburgh, New York, on March 15, 1783, to meet with the dissident insurgents. Washington spoke to the rebellious group, saying,
“Gentlemen, as I was among the first who embarked in the cause of our common Country; as I never left your side one moment, but when called from you on public duty; as I have been the constant companion and witness of your Distresses…it can scarcely be supposed …that I am indifferent to your interests. But…this dreadful alternative, of either deserting our Country in the extremest hour of her distress, or turning our Arms against it…has something so shocking in it that humanity revolts from the idea…I spurn it, as every Man who regards liberty…undoubtedly must.”
The would-be rebels fell silent, digesting what he had said. Then Washington withdrew a letter from Congress, but could not read the text, withdrawing some eyeglasses from his tunic, remarking,
“Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country.”
The men present were reported to have tears in their eyes at this gesture of Washington’s and abandoned their plot out of respect for their leader.
Washington retired from the military, surprising the entire new country. His action surprised King George III of England, who was astonished that Washington had refused to hold on to his military authority and use it for political or financial gain. The defeated King of England, remarked, “If true, then he is the greatest man in the world.”
Members of Common Council, 2003: Tom Roach, Rita Malmud, Benjamin Boykin and Glen Hockley, (center of Picture) and observers of the ceremony salute the Colors. Photo, WPCNR News.
Seeker of Diverse Views
As President, George Washington invented the Presidential Cabinet, whom he referred to as “the first Characters,” persons who possessed the best reputations in fields and areas of the jobs he was filling. Washington said on political appointments,
“My political conduct and nominations must be exceedingly circumspect. No slip into partiality will pass unnoticed…”
Washington tolerated the relentless clashes between Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, and Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury, but lectured them on the necessity for tolerance and moving beyond partisanship:
“I believe the view of both of you are pure, and well meant. Why then, when some of the best Citizens in the United States, Men…who have no sinister view to promote, are to be found, some on one side, some on the other…should either of you be so tenacious of your opinions as to make no allowances for those of the other? I have great esteem for you both, and ardently wish that some line could be marked out by which both of you could walk.”
The Constitution Should be Protected
When George Washington left office after two terms, he made a farewell address which warned future generations of Americans about foreign entanglements and partisanship in the republic:
I shall carry to my grave the hope that your Union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the Constitution may be sacredly maintained; and that free government…the ever favorite object of my heart…will be the happy reward of our mutual cares, labors and dangers.”
Washington died in 1800, three years after leaving office in 1797. He was saluted on the floor of congress as being “First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
His comments above resonate today in some of the most cantankerous rhetoric and partisan stands the country has experienced in years.
We should also remember that the signers of the Declaration of Independence in Independence Hall in Philadelphia today in 1776, were putting their lives at risk be meeting and discussing, arguing, the Declaration wording, despite knowledge that if British occupying troops learned of the meeting, they could have been arrested and hung.
That is a pressure the crybaby congress of today which cannot seek a way to compromise and seek compassionate solutions to the health care debate, and are “on recess,” do not have on them.
Compromise and respect for the other point of view and the millions who will be affected by what some would say are “reckless,” “feckless,” “cruel” and “dangerous” changes to traditional American policies are missing in today’s political discourse, if you can dignify it with that remark.
I’d like to introduce a new term, “transminder,” the ability to listen to those whose views are opposite of yours. Find between you what you feel is the ultimate goal of a policy change and how the good can be accommodated and the bad eliminated, without hurt with fairness to all. The more you talk in terms of the common good, the better what you come up with gets.
Can we do that?
I challenge every person in government to read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the Constition carefully today. It will not take long. Then measure your hates, prejudices, positions, and behaviors against those documents.
And, for all you “leaders” out there, wherever you are, George Washington’s word above are what you should measure yourself against.
He was the greatest leader of them all.
Remembering the Eternal Earhart: Lost at Sea 80 Years Ago Today
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Lost today eighty years ago. She lives today eternally flying into the sun.
WPCNR THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY. July 2, 2017:
There were no stories that I could find in the area papers on Amelia Earhart, the most accomplished woman pilot of all time who was lost at sea on July 2, 1937.
No remembrances accounting her accomplishments. Her advocacy for women’s rights. Her multi-talents. Her own courage, and building respect for women’s abilities and inspiring millions of women and men with her aviation “firsts”.
- October 22, 1922 – Broke women’s altitude record when she rose to 14,000 feet
- June 17-18, 1928 – First woman to fly across the Atlantic (as a passenger); 20hrs 40min (Fokker F7, Friendship)
- Summer 1928 – Bought an Avro Avian, a small English plane famous because Lady Mary Heath, Britain’s foremost woman pilot, had flown it solo from Capetown, South Africa, to London
- Fall 1928 – Published book, 20 Hours 40 Minutes, toured, and lectured; became aviation editor of Cosmopolitan magazine
- August 1929 – Placed third in the First Women’s Air Derby, also known as the Powder Puff Derby; upgraded from her Avian to a Lockheed Vega
- Fall 1929 – Elected as an official for National Aeronautic Association and encouraged the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) to establish separate world altitude, speed, and endurance records for women
- June 25, 1930 – Set women’s speed record for 100 kilometers with no load and with a load of 500 kilograms
- July 5, 1930 – Set speed record for of 181.18mph over a 3K course
- September 1930 – Helped to organize and became vice president of public relations for new airline, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington Airways
- April 8, 1931 – Set woman’s autogiro altitude record with 18,415 feet (in a Pitcairn autogiro)
- May 20-21, 1932 – First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic; 14 hrs 56 min (it was also the 5th anniversary of Lindberg’s Atlantic flight; awarded National Geographic Society’s gold medal from President Herbert Hoover; Congress awarded her the Distinguished Flying Cross; wrote The Fun of It about her journey
- August 24-25, 1932 – First woman to fly solo nonstop coast to coast; set women’s nonstop transcontinental speed record, flying 2,447.8 miles in 19hrs 5min
- Fall 1932 – Elected president of the Ninety Nines, a new women’s aviation club which she helped to form
- July 7-8, 1933 – Broke her previous transcontinental speed record by making the same flight in 17hrs 7min
- January 11, 1935 – First person to solo the 2,408-mile distance across the Pacific between Honolulu and Oakland, California; also first flight where a civilian aircraft carried a two-way radio
- April l9 – 20, 1935 – First person to fly solo from Los Angeles to Mexico City; 13hrs 23min
- May 8, 1935 – First person to fly solo nonstop from Mexico City to Newark; 14hrs 19min
- March 17, 1937 – Amelia and her navigator, Fred Noonan, along with Captain Harry Manning and stunt pilot Paul Mantz, fly the first leg of the trip from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 15 hours and 47 minutes
- June 1, 1937 – Began flight around the world June 1937; first person to fly from the Red Sea to India
Susan Butler, the author of East to the Dawn, (Addison Wesley Publisher) the definitive biography of Amelia published in 1997, 60 years after Amelia’s disappearance on route to Howland Island in the South Pacific: wrote this paragraph describing her contribution to aviation and her ability to inspire the American public. I could not write a better one, so I wanted to share Ms. Butler’s next to last page comment on Amelia’s contributions and hold on us today:
“Amelia came into the public eye because she was an adventurer, but she was more: she was America’s sweetheart. America’s shield.
She did everything better than anyone else—beckoned us on, and set more records, and she did it seemingly effortlessly.
She made us proud to be an American.
Perhaps she was cut down in her prime(39 years of age)—perhaps because she did not quite have time to fulfill her potential, but we can’t let her go.
She is thirty-nine forever. She has become America’s dream woman.”
America needs to remember and be reminded of excellence as demonstrated by Ms. Earhart so poignantly.
The author Susan Butler quotes the epitaph Ms. Earhart wrote for her friend, the pilot Wiley Post, noting that it might have served as Ms. Earhart’s own and I paraphrase it:
“So close was she to her profession that she could not know the sheen on her own wings.”
Editor’s Note: You can see newsreel clips selected by Peter Katz of Ms. Earhart on White Plains Week on YouTube https://youtu.be/WH2dfpOwX-s on www.whiteplainsweek.com at http://whiteplainsweek.com/
. The program will be on White Plains Television Monday evening at 7 on Verizon Fios Channel 45 countywide and on Altice Cablevision Channel 76.
THE AMERICAN GRILLMAN: KING OF THE 4-DAY WEEKEND
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WPCNR GRILLMAN GAZETTE. By The Grillin Gourmet. ReInternetted from The CitizeNetReporter Archives of the Ancient Past. July 2, 2017:
No matter whether you’re a New York Liberal, a Michigan Wolverine, A Trump supporter, or California free spirit, there’s still one phenomenon the country still believes in this Independence Day weekend.
Thanks to the chimney charcoal starter and its glowing orange coals, the backyard American barbeque DNA macho in the amateur chef is once again sizzling in the 80 degree heat.
Steak was raised outside, it was born to be cooked outside, and the barbequed steak puts the Cartier- priced steakhouse in its place!
In this griller’s opinion, outdoor grilling proves once again to be the equal and superior to the overpriced artificial-tasting steak. Sleek decor and atmosphere cannot duplicate backyard origins. The economy may be slogging, your home equity quiting, but take heart even the hobo can grill!
To do real steak right , you have to do it outside on charcoal.
The instinct of generations of the American backyard barbeque tradition passed up from the cave, enjoyed at Valley Forge. Lewis and Clark bit into venison discovering the Northwest. Cowboys sunk teeth into rare beef around chuck wagons on the prairie and up from the Southland , barbeque inbred and passed on from American father to American son – cutting across nationality and station – gives you real steak – not $100 technology enhanced cuts. Flaming charcoal makes steak a living thing in your mouth!
As your born-to-grill reporter watched fireworks from a Gatsbyesque setting overlooking Long Island Sound last night with barebequed hamburghers, pulled pork sandwiches, and beer pong being played,
I thought America can pull itself out of this. As long as the American grilling tradition is handed down, the pioneer “can-do” spirit lives!
Why go out for dinner when you can tap your inner griller and say I can cook steak better? The difference is the air, the smoke, the way marinade just drips down into the coals and gets into the meat. It’s chemistry, Americans!
What is it about the American Grillman that’s so special that his or hers backyard cuts beat the insider professionals’ inflation-friendly ostentatious steaks?
It’s the unique chemistry of being American and believing in the charcoal flames.
On Independence Day Weekend, it’s not July 4 unless you’re grillin’. On Labor Day, if you’re not workin’, you’re grillin’.
There’s just something about the searing intensity of glowing charcoal combining mystically with the testosterone and instinctual synergy between red meat and the dedicated outdoor griller – it beats in taste, juiciness and texture the contrived technology of the most expensive restaurant equipment.
No matter how tasty the megabuck meat is in the swank sticker shock steak palaces, there’s always that articificialness packaged taste that marks the indoor steak. The butteryness. The soft crust of the black topped surface of the indoor steak just does not have the nubile grizzled roughhewn flamed yield of the outdoor one-on-one grilled steak that fights your bicuspids every cillemeter.
“UNN! Meat good, Kemo Sabbee!”
The chimney starter – the secret to the hot start. No more charcoal fluid needed. Take a copy of The Journal News and scrunch up the news section or the sports section in the bottom of the Chimney Starter. (Experience shows that copies of the Journal News – any Gannett paper – burn better than the New York Times which is very slow-starting and always slightly behind the story)
Pour in a helping of those ultimate black beauties, Kingsford charcoal briquettes into the chimney top.
Fifteen minutes before the wife has the sides ready, take a wooden match to the aperatures in the base of the starter and light up the edges of the newsprint. Within 10-15 minutes you’ve got coals a firey orange red. You’re ready to outcook the pros.
After the Griller’s wife has marinated the meat – New York Strips sizzling in the caressing deep searing heat of glowing orange briquettes – 3 minutes a side and deft turning and surgical “rareness checks” – the seasoned grillista simply has a feel for the meat – passed genetically down from generations of American grillers.
The combination of cauldron, flavored steel grill rods and perfect flames creates the grillmark “brand” let’s you know just by looking at the cut, you’re going to get the natural taste of the backyard steak – No one can do a great cut like you can!
As any redblooded American Grillman will tell you when doing a steak – you can’t deliver a steak by manual or instructions.
You have to feel the meat. Feel it cook. You just know its time. Hearty smoke promising juicy meat that melts in your mouth creates an experience only the grillman or GrillGam knows.
Every cut is not the same. Each deserves a surgeon’s attention to cooking timing and detail. And surgical checks are necessary.
The American Grillman becomes one with the meat. With eye and knowledge of the hue of red – you just know by instinct when she’s done. Cooking is slowed down by moving the meats to the side off the heat to keep the American beauties warm
With the wife’s deft presentation, sweet potato fries, corn pudding, fresh beans and mushrooms the Grillman’s natural art creates the taste of the Fourth of July
Get those grills handy and ready to fire up to get that taste of American Independence once again.
When you’re over the grill, you’re King of the Hill.
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