ESM Self Tour pamphlet

The front and back of the Essex Shipbuilding Museum's current self-guided tour pamphlet.

tourism (Japan) / moble app, book, website

This came my way earlier today, thought it relates in some ways, potentially at least, to our own larger project (Location Relation Notation, re: Essex and shipbuilding at Essex) —

99+1: Traveling Through Art, Design & Architecture
99+1 is a new book and responsive website for the Japanese National Tourism Organization.

A pocket publication and extensive website dedicated to creative experiences with travel.

The “+1” for any trip in Japan is the unexpected location that makes the trip extra special, from a backstreet bookstore to a mountain hike into inspiring scenery.

Ian Lynam Design designed the gatefold-cover book and website, which you can see here.

Women of Essex Exhibition

Currently up in the Waterline Center at the Essex Shipbuilding Museum is the exhibit "Women of Essex" which showcases the stories of a few notable contributors to the area, past and present.

Take a look while we are there on Wednesday! Here is a story I found interesting:

New Plan, Order a Ship

I recently found a video on shipbuilding in Essex. This ship is called the ST. ROSALIE. Watching this video gave me a bit more of a direction as to where I want to go with my project. I doubt that people nowadays actually have the time and money to commission an Essex boat to be built. I do find the process of building a boat fascinating and think it would be interesting to put people in the shoes of a fisherman.

So, I would like to use Aris to build a fisherman's RPG. The Goal of the RPG would be to teach players about the use of fishing ships. The way this game supplements the museum is by reinforcing the amount of time,care, fun and effort put into building a ship. Having a player go through a process of building there own ship gives them satisfaction and appreciation of the Art of shipbuilding. Making shipbuilding a more personal experience puts you in the perspective of the people of essex.

Goals

For my next trip to the museum I would like to find more information about the seven schooners that still exist in essex.

I also want to research ships that have failed. I need this information in order to lead the player into errors along their own shipbuilding experience. I would also want to find the roles that each person played in building a ship so that I am able to make a structured path for a player to follow within the rpg.
 

Brainstorming a potential filming schedule and format for Wednesday`s trip.

Podcast evangelism

Radiolab

Cities

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91732-cities/

Description:
There's no scientific metric for measuring a city's personality. But step out on the sidewalk, and you can see and feel it. Two physicists explain one tidy mathematical formula that they believe holds the key to what drives a city. Yet math can't explain most of the human-scale details that make urban life unique. So we head out in search of what the numbers miss, and meet a reluctant city dweller, a man who's walked 700 feet below Manhattan, and a once-thriving community that's slipping away.

Segment on walking pace as measure of city size: It's Alive?
Lore

Episode 55: A Way Inside

http://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/55

Description:
Folklore is more than just a collection of stories; it’s the soul of a culture or location. Without them, our world has less texture and beauty. But like the stories themselves, some places have spirits that creep in and take up residence. About Central Cemetery in Boston.


Episode 6: Echoes

http://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/episode-6-echoes

The Danvers State Hospital from Lore episode 6. #lorepodcast #spooky #history

A post shared by Lore (@lorepodcast) on May 27, 2015 at 8:29pm PDT

Description: 

Settings are often just as important to a story as the tale itself. The Shining had the Overlook. The Legend of Hell House had the Belasco. We fear cabins in the woods and even our own basements. But the mother of all horror settings is the asylum, with a dark pedigree unlike any other.

About the Danvers State Hospital.

Hello Again

I haven't been in class in a while so it was pretty good to find out where everyone is working on. I personally still need to find my own Idea but I liked learning about the fact that there was a ghost ship and would like to research more on that topic, possibly make an App that tells a story with the use of visualizations.
 

some sources

Alex

The early and later means of communication and transportation in and through Essex County.
in Standard History of Essex County, Massachusetts (1878)

https://books.google.com/books?id=9JJIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q&f=false

Emma

Percival
Ira Percival (of Campton, New Hampshire) and Martha Burnham, marriage September 23, 1806
Vital Records of Ipswich

Essex claimed for the support of Ira Percival, Age 75, Days 365
Ira Percival kept house. The town paid his house rent, and furnished him some wood, but did not actually and entirely support him. Overseers think they advanced him about the State allowance. His daughter and other friends furnish him with the balance of his support. He is a native of New Hampshire; has lived in Essex some thirty of forty years, but there was no evidence of his having acquired a settlement.
Report of the Commissioners appointed under the resolve of April 16th, 1846, to examine the claims presented to the Legislature of that year for the Support of State Paupers. (1847)

Jack

Auxiliary Fishing Schooner "Evelina M. Goulart"
Historical American Engineering Record No. MA-145 (no date)
https://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/ma/ma1600/ma1604/data/ma1604data.pdf

The Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum Presents:
The Evelina Goulart Symposium : Managing a Ninety-Ton Historical Artifact
A Four-Part Symposium
On the 20th Anniversary of Bringing the Evelina M. Goulart Home

Produced by: Barry O’Brien

The Evelina M. Goulart, a fishing schooner built in at the A.D. Story Shipyard in Essex, Massachusetts in 1927, is one of seven remaining Essex-built schooners in existence. Presented on March 4, 2010, April 1, 2010, April 29, 2010 and May 27, 2010

Evelina Goulart Symposium

Li Yun

On Deck With China’s Last Junk Builders, Masters of an Ebbing Craft
点击查看本文中文版
Didi Kirsten Tatlow. The New York Times. February 2, 2017

everyone

Town of Essex, T.O.H.P. Burnham Library
245 Western Ave, Essex, Massachusetts 01929 (but call to check on location)
Phone: (978) 768-7410
e-mail: mes@essexpl.org
website

Google Books, Advanced Search

here
use combination of "exact phrase" and "all the words," and be sure to specify pre-1923.
This is a very powerful tool.

Update: Indecision levels are dropping

If there are any books on Rachel Wall, I would be very interested. I have not found too much in a brief continued search for some. I am also interested though, in the East India Trading company, and the trade that occurred throughout the Essex County betwixt the East in particular. I have always been a huge history buff, and collect fun (dark) facts. This is a topic of continued research I wish to venture through in this upcoming visit to the Museum/library. I will be conducting on my own in the meantime. I know I covered a lot of topics already, but I find it so enticing to get lost in the search, in the collection of data. It's never failed me.

Should I not end up going forth with any concept from this new information, I shall focus on connecting pieces of my previously acquired topics. I want to focus on the Spectre Ship of Salem, and the poetry therein, as well as this pale young couple of mention aboard in particular.  I am likely going to stick with Aurasma, as far as programs/apps go, as I realized using a simple software for what I envision my artwork to be (complex)--it is simply more logical, captain.

Attempting to learn some complicated software to create likely something 'simple' as per time/learning curves and all that, inhibited me even at the research stage. So I am crossing it out and going back to start. I am not much for games, but I do like the chain reaction one can create with something as 'simple' as an aura.

I want to create a video, using all sorts of images; i.e. photos taken on location, time lapses (looped, brief), found documents/images, my own artworks in relation, etc. I want to do a voice over over it all, perhaps going in a more 'abstract meets informative', type of project, and combine some of the stories I have found. These will be triggered by the area itself, possibly adding to the tours, the historical society, etc.

It is possible I could even do a series of short videos, touching upon each topic of my research as I go, allowing my viewers to collect information they did not have access too before. The Spectre Ship, poetry, Rachel Wall's story, and the tale of the body snatcher, Thomas Sewell. Each of these could inspire a series of auras, or they could all be part of some 'fun fact' sort of series, tying them all together. Either way, I have a lot to work with. Whenever I have no idea what exactly to do, I find it best to simply begin, and make it work.

I will be using my time at the museum to wander, taking photographs and short videos of what I believe pertain to each of my chosen topics. If any books of interest are available in advance, I will take some time for that as well. The main goal is collecting the raw material for whatever series 'calls to me' from the area when we're there. I'm literally just going for it.

Shoutout at Groups?:
As far as the groups go, I know what topics I want to do, so am not sure what to really provide here.

If others want to help me, work with me, do something like me, talk with me, whatever, let me know. I would be more than happy to make something together, or alone. I have no preference, but teams can always be of use, no matter the structure of it. I am a good resource, not just for fun, dark historical facts, but also with knowledge of the entire Adobe Creative Suite. My final show in a few weeks will be a work of sound design, video and animation. I also have graphic design experience, professionally.

I think that it would be best if I was in a group that was using Aris or a group that was focused around the cemetery.

I should do a little more research on Percival.

trunnel

Trunnel, also trenail, trennel, or treenail.

Trunnel, looks simple and small, but it's a very important part of the boat, A treenail is a wooden peg or dowel which can be used to fasten pieces of wood together, it is a traditional method, usually a well seasoned treenail is driven into a hole, when it takes up water, it will expand and 'grip' its position. Simple but quite effective fastening of old. It was considered suitable use in the Grayhound project and would be used to join frames together, and planks to the deck and the hull. It was deeded a variable method against metal fastening due to their increasing cost and the use of oak that was a waste product to make the treenails. There will be 4000 more trunnels to be used in building up the boat.

people used to use the oak stick to cut out the trunnel. There are a few machines to produce the trunnel. The most modern way is the dowel cutter. Before the dowel cutter, trunnel was a job for kids and women. Because they just need to use a hammer to hammer the wood through the circualr mold. The dowel cutter is hard to use, you need to hold is hard when is cutting the wood, or the inertia will move the wood away.

Treenails it's a hard challenge for wood skill.

http://www.boat-building.org/learn-skills/index.php/en/wood/treenails/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vb1dfvWG1A

presentations

Monday 20 March

We're looking forward to presentations of what we've found for our larger, final project — sources that interest us, stories, themes — and ideas we might have about tools. Each presentation might take 10 minutes or so.

Your presentations should have visual support in the form of slides — powerpoint or equivalent, or images on the blog, something that is is coherent and that gives enough detail that we can usefully respond to it. We're interested in the story and mobile app potential of your materials.

We will decide on assembling teams, and what teams might mean, once we've got a better sense of where everyone is headed.

Questions welcome.
 

Photos from the Church: for any interested

The Research; Attempted Routes and Indecision

Route 1: Salem Witch Trial ties
The 'witches' of Salem and the hysterics actually occurred in the following towns of Essex County:
Amesbury
Andover(now Andover and N. Andover)
Beverly
Billerica
Boxford
Gloucester
Haverhill
Ipswich
Lynn
Malden
Marblehead
Peabody
Reading
Rowley
Salem Towne
Salem Village (now Danvers)
Salisbury
Topsfield
Wenham

The now town of Essex however did not participate in said hysteria. They barely had any accusations, and no one was put to death here.
Conclusion: Nothing to work with here

BUT I CONTINUED ANYWAY, JUST IN CASE


AND I am so glad I did, because come to find out, the only place 'witches' were treated like royalty, like they were 'in vogue' so to speak, is my home town of Andover/N. Andover.
Conclusion: FUN. FACT. FOR. ME.
**Route 2: Cemetery concepts for Chebacco Parish, now Essex, MA
listing of graves at Essex Cemetery
Thomas Sewall: Bodysnatcher**
       names of 6 taken, found at the above link: Isaac Allen (10 yrs old), Phillip Harlow (10 yrs old), Mary Millet (35), William Burnham (79), Elisha Story (65), Samuel Burnham (26)
name of another taken : Caesar Conway

above found in History: Town of Essex, From 1634-1868 by Rev. Robert Crowell,
Published by the town.

Conclusion: series of illusrtrations of the body snatching, now that I have names and ages of all but ONE 'VICTIM'. Unsure of software
**Route 3: Ghost Ship
found legend, Salem, MA, which Essex was once a part of
Conclusion: some type of 3D version of the ghost ship, unsure of software to use
Route 4: Sea, Sea levels
past, present, and future
Conclusion: This was a backup, accidental find. Not as interesting as the body snatching, and pirates of course.
**Route 5: Pirates


I stumbled across some pirate code in my readings of Essex in the archives
AND found some information about the last female to be hanged in MA, and the last female American pirate
     
She was known, according to my readings here, to conduct her clever endeavors along the shores of Essex county, including Cape Ann to the Isle of Shoals

Conclusion: some type of 3d artwork of her. Unsure of the media to use.


OVERALL: the bodysnatching by Thomas Sewall, the last female American pirate, Rachel Wall, or the Spectre Ship of Salem are all enticing concepts for me.
I am very unsure about what software to use, despite knowing a bit about each and their uses. I am also unsure as to exactly what one to do. I am leaning towards Rachel Wall or the bodysnatching.
I am pleased to have found pirate code as well as almost every single name of those bodies stolen.

*shrugs*

My research on the mysterious "Percival" gravestone

The old Essex Cemetery, located on 82 Main street,  behind the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, is full of mystery and intrigue. From crypts to empty coffins, from body snatchers to broken stones, this cemetery that dates back to 1680 is full of secrets.  But,  located in the cemetery, hidden, lies one of the old cemetery’s biggest mysteries. In the cemetery lies a set of essay appears to be three gravestones,  two large ones cradling a small one. Other than a weeping willow motif, the only things adorning the stones are the words “Mother, Percival, Father”.

Just who is Percival? How did he end up here? Who are his parents? Why are their names the only writing on the stones? Being the only stone of its kind, what does this stone mean?

The stone is two separate marble stones connected with a shared granite base and a mini stone suspended between the two inscribed with the name Percival. The stone is decorated with a willow motif.

Because the stones are marble, they are approximately from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s era. Because of this, the willow motif is much more recent, during the time of modern ideas about life and death, it is a generic mortuary willow, and not an individual pne with religious meaning. We can tell that the stone is recent due to the shape, and the fact that the stone isn't completely eroded from the acid rain. Modern stones are known to have the family name as the main focus on the stone, as cemeteries are meant for the living, whilst graveyards are meant for the dead.

After much research, the only lead that I could find was an Ira Percival,  who married Martha Burnham April 2, 1806. Due to the fact that not only is this marker next to many others belonging to the Burnham family, as well as the fact that it is common to see the surname of a family as a focal point on each marker. Sadly, I could not find much else on Percival, other than his wife's parents, his children (a daughter and an unnamed son), and his wife's assumed birth year.

This is completely different from my original idea in which Percival was the child. But still, the question remains: why is Mother and Father on the stone if there are no children buried there? Is the unnamed son buried there with them? Though one question is answered, many more remain.

Place I found information on Percival: http://www.computersrwilde.com/WildeFamily/WOW/fam/fam22980.htm

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/r/o/j/Heather-W-Rojo/GENE25-0013.html

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~macessex/cemetery/eobg.html

To learn from the archives

I would really like to just have a list and any reports of haunted activity around the area close to the yard and school. Any form of paranormal activity that may have occurred, UFO's, ghost ships, haunted buildings, strange noises in the school

I will be researching tools for my project. I`m still deciding what type of software I am going to use, but I am going to try to work with the 3d software soon. So Far I have researched these tools

The Peavy - Helps manage Large wood such as Lumber
The Auger - A type of screw that comes in handy for woodworking
The Ship`s Saw - A big contraption that bends wood
Caulking Iron - helps shape chop and chisel wood
Adze - helps shape chop and chisel wood different tip
Beetle Hammer - For placing or hammering wood into places.
Pit Saw - saw that is long and is meant to cut large pieces of wood or lumber.

What I will be looking for on Wednesday is inspiration with how I will pursue or set up my project on site.

marsh, marshing… meadow, meadowing

my own project is a spacial and lexicographic rumination on marsh and marshing, meadows and meadowing.
 

wood shipbuilding tools

A Practical Course in Wooden Boat and Ship Building :
The Fundamental Principles and Practical Methods Described in Detail, Especially Written for Carpenters and Other Woodworkers who Desire to Engage in Boat Or Ship Building, and as a Text-book for Schools
Richard Montgomery Van Gaasbeek (1919) —
opens to a chapter on tools here

Fig. 41, Practice Caulking (from Practical Course), here.
same image, earlier (1918, Cornell) copy at archive.org.

also

The Key to Steel and Wood Shipbuilding : With Valuable Aids and Information
Edwin Ellis Gaylord (1918)
here
and the conclusion, at page 64 —
After reading this booklet through carefully, during the noon hour or after working hours, take it onto the ship and locate each part. You will thus quickly get the whole subject fixed in your memory. Until you have learned the names of all the parts mentioned, carry the booklet in your pocket so that you can refer to it when necessary.
 

trolley, rail transport, Essex area

Tri-State Trolley Map
zoom in to see Essex area

via
The trolley comes to Ipswich, June 26, 1896
thanks to help (with search terms) of librarian at Beverly Public Library
(maybe can be helpful to Alexandra in her info gathering)

so there were two lines serving/passing through Exxex:
trolley line passing through Essex on way to Gloucester and other points on Cape Ann

how did people get around before rail? were they more likely to stay put?

also
the Essex branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad
(used this map in my first post to this blog)

will watch for more on transportation; again, reference librarian at Beverly Public Library was helpful. there may be materials in their "Beverly" (local history) room that is useful. It is not limited to Beverly, and is pretty good on the entire North Shore in particular.

addition(s)

The early and later means of communication and transportation in and through Essex County, chapter 6 (pp 30-40) of
Standard History of Essex County, Massachusetts : Embracing a History of the County from Its First Settlement to the Present Time, with a History and Description of Its Towns and Cities. The Most Historic County of America (Boston, 1878)

Autodesk Maya

If you want to use Maya in the 305 lab, you must log on as
username: local
password: render

How to get your student version of Maya:
http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/maya

How to set up a project in Maya:
https://docs.google.com/a/montserrat.edu/document/d/198SpDK7_4tS8y9E2kpnvM6w_Ujm6AzEF7z9gPHsTu_w/edit?usp=sharing

Ask if you get stuck! Maya is a tricky program. But, in no time you could be making masterpieces like this:

Essex Transportation!

List of things I'd be interesting in looking into!

-How the people of Essex traveled
-Where they traveled
-Who would travel by what means (for example, who would be riding the trolley, who would be riding a boat, etc.)

Essex Visit, March 1

So, sadly, I didn't think to take any pictures when I was there, but I was really inspired by the triple gravestone set that simply reads "Mother, Percival, Father".  I'd like to do research on that grave, maybe find out who they are, and depending on what kind of information I get, turn it into a mystery hunt for the "player" to figure out who these stones belong to, kind of as a way to give remembrance to an unnamed stone, as well as provide an air of mystery to the "game".

On the next field trip, I'm definitely going to take pictures of the cemetery and the gravestones. I might also take pictures of the hearse,  because it was a very aesthetically pleasing hearse, and I'd like to see if I can't incorporate it into my "game".

Most of the research I will be doing will mostly be on the gravestone.

Things I want to look at:

a) birth records
b) death records
c) some basic background info for the time period that they died in

Essex Visit, March 1

Helpful website for using free font faces~
Dafont.com

ARAF BROWSER, OR CAN AUGMENTED REALITY.
~Tools for Ship Making~
I would love to do something pertaining to the tools used for ship making. I saw a lot of them through the shops such as their very specific shaped axes, pics, hammers, and so much more. I might even consider mentioning the swordfish sword for fun. If I can not do that however, I am open to new ideas :)