Zion Natural History Association will release its most ambitious and beautiful publishing project to date. This stunning coffee table book contains more than 150 of the most magnificent images of Zion National Park ever printed.
Historical paintings include works by Thomas Moran, Lewis A. Ramsey, Maynard Dixon, Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, Howard Russell Butler, Alfred W. Lambourne, John B. Fairbanks, Isaac Loren Covington and many other iconic Zion artists.
Jun 16
Interesting fairly recent thread about the name Pelino in Italy:
http://italiangenealogy.tardio.com/Forums/viewtopic/p=93469.html
Some highlights:
There is a Saint Pelino, who was a Bishop in Brindisi in the 7th century.
the name Pelino is concentrated in the Abruzzo region and comes from a martyr: Saint Pelino. Origins of this name are uncertain, might reconnect to Peligni(Paeligni), an ancient Italic population in the Abruzzo region.
The Pelino surname is not listed in the Italian surname dictionary as being Italian and is either Local in origin or imported from abroad and italianized. However, There is no record for Pelino in other parts of the world making it quite probable that surname is local in origin and as often occurs was once a nickname,becoming a first name and later became a last name or surname. Since the name is Pelino, a diminutive spelling meaning refined or fine then it may be possible that its opposite maybe Pelone which in the Italian word dictionary means a coarse kind of cloth making Pelino a refined or improved cloth. But this is conjecture and anecdotal.
Pelino is used both as a first name and as a last name. In both cases, the name is used only by people who come from Abruzzo in Italy. A famous use of the name as a last name is for “Confetti Mario Pelino”, a candy company in Sulmona. As a first name, it is most closely related to Saint Pelino of Confinio. All of these places are in the Vallata Peligna (the Valley of the Peligni), which is the ancient home of the Peligni tribe, whose capital was Corfinium (now Confinio), located in the valley.
Actually, though in modern Italian “pelino” means a small hair, and comes from the Latin “pilum”, the root of the word Pelino as it appears in Abruzzo go back before Roman times, from Jupiter palenus, worshipped on the mountain later called Majella. the name remained almost unchanged in the little town of “Palena”. With a phonetic transformation the word Palenus shifted to pelinus. And that also became the name of the population of the area, the Peligni, and a first name very popular also thanks to the cult of a San Pelino.
Now if only I could find concrete evidence of the link to Pelino! (Hello, Tony?)
Jun 12
1903-1979, buried in Columbus, Ohio. Married to Gilda (1915-1997). I’m pretty sure he was a brother of Feliciano (who immigrated from Italy) and was a part of this family:
http://www.giamberdine.info/familygroup.php?familyID=F1101&tree=giamberdine
MURRAY, Utah (AP) – The voters had their say, and the mayor of the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray had his nearly foot-long handlebar whiskers clipped short for charity.
Dan Snarr’s wife did the honors, leaving him with a short mustache after a clipping ceremony Saturday at a local Costco.
Residents voted 1,254 to 966 in favor of the mayor clipping the pointy ends of his waxed mustache.
The St. Louis-based American Mustache Institute posted a tongue-in-cheek eulogy for the mayor’s ’stache on its Web site.
The organization contends that every time a mustache is shaved, an angel falls from heaven.
Residents had to pay $1 for each vote, and some contributed extra.
That means Snarr raised at least $2,220 for the Children’s Miracle Network, which supports children’s hospitals.
The American Mustache Institute also reported on it and wrote a memorial.
Jun 5
Artist Kathryn Dunn Stats, recently completed her oil painting of Zion's Mount Kinesava.
An article about artists in Zion National Park which mentions Alfred Lambourne.
The region’s artistic history begins with Alfred Lambourne, an English-born early Utah immigrant who became one of the first to capture the landscape on canvas. He was thunderstruck by his first encounter. “It is a nature epic; it places us among the primitive,” he wrote in the late 19th century. “One feels there a grandeur akin to the thoughts of Aeschylus and the words of holy writ. To describe it truly one would need the simplicity and strength of the antique, the reverence of the prophets and ‘the large utterance of the early gods.’ “
From Lambourne on, Zion has enjoyed a long run of fine artists who captured its gemlike radiance and foreboding angles, including Thomas Moran, Conrad Buff and Maynard Dixon. Only the flu epidemic of the early 1900s and the Depression could stop the flow of artists. The pace picked up soon enough, with the park’s “Great White Throne” emerging as a favorite subject.
Marino
Definition: Derived from the Latin word “marinus,” meaning ‘of the sea,’ the Marino and Marini surnames indicate someone who lives or works near the ‘mare,’ or sea.
Surname Origin: Italian, SpanishAlternate Surname Spellings: MARINI, MARIN, MARINELLI, MARINELLA, MARINIELLO, MARINETTI, MARINUZZI, MARINOLLI, MARINOTTI, MARINONI, MARINATO, MARINACCI
http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/m/bl_name-MARINO.htm
Grecco
Definition: Someone who originates from Greece.
Surname Origin: Italian
Alternate Surname Spellings: GRIECO, GRECI, GRECHI, GREGO
http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/g/bl_name-GRECO.htm
Steve Montano, AKA “Steve, Righ?” of Mindless Self-Indulgence, and his partner, Lucinda, had a baby girl which they named Violet.
Jun 1
I wrote a basic script that counts the number of descendants of a person and further counts the number in each generation. Some counts:
Giovanni Carifa
06 children
12 grandchildren
12 great-grandchildren
18 great-great-grandchildren
04 great-great-great-grandchildren
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52 total descendants
Geraldo Marino
07 children
13 grandchildren
18 great-grandchildren
23 great-great-grandchildren
05 great-great-great-grandchildren
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66 total descendants
Herman August Thorup
008 children
049 grandchildren
116 great-grandchildren
241 great-great-grandchildren
065 great-great-great-grandchildren
008 great-great-great-great-grandchildren
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486 total descendants
(This number will likely increase significantly because there are still a lot of individuals I haven’t entered or don’t know about.)
Gerardo Lacerra
09 children
16 grandchildren
27 great-grandchildren
24 great-great-grandchildren
07 great-great-great-grandchildren
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83 total descendants