Good morning, Whitewater.
It’s a cold Thursday in town, with winds of 5 to 10 mph, wind chill values between -15 and -25, and a high of just one degree. Sunrise today is 6:44 and sunset 5:32, for 10h 47m 10s of daytime. We’ve a new moon.
Happy (Lunar) New Year —
The Police and Fire Commission is scheduled to meet tonight at 6:30 PM.
There’s a new Dr. Seuss book to be published this July:
For the first time in 25 years, a new book by Dr. Seuss will be published this year from an original manuscript and sketches discovered in the home of the beloved children’s author, Random House announced today.
What Pet Should I Get? captures the excitement of a classic childhood moment—choosing a pet—and features the brother and sister characters that Dr. Seuss introduced in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. The new book, to be published in July, was likely written between 1958 and 1962 as the brother and sister are the same age in both stories.
The box filled with pages of text and sketches was found shortly after Ted’s death in 1991 when his widow Audrey Geisel was remodeling her home, according to a release. At that time it was set aside with other of Ted’s materials. It was rediscovered in the fall of 2013 by Mrs. Geisel and Claudia Prescott—Ted Geisel’s longtime secretary and friend—when they were cleaning out his office space. They reviewed the materials, finding the full text and illustrations for What Pet Should I Get? among other work.
On this day in 1868, a noted photographer is born near Whitewater:
Hopi mother, 1922. Via Wikipedia.
1868 – Photographer Edward S. Curtis Born
On this date Edward Sheriff Curtis was born near Whitewater. As a young boy, he taught himself photography. His family eventually moved to the Puget Sound area of Washington state. He settled in Seattle and opened a photography studio in 1897.A chance meeting on Mount Rainier resulted in Curtis being appointed official photographer on railroad magnate E.H. Harriman’s expedition to Alaska. Curtis also accompanied George Bird Grinnell, editor of Field and Stream magazine, to Montana in 1900 to observe the Blackfoot Sun Dance. After this, Curtis strove to comprehensively document American Indians through photography, a project that continued for over 30 years.
Working primarily with 6 x 8-inch reflex camera, he created over 40,000 sepia-toned images. His work attracted national attention, most notably from Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan, whose family contributed generously to his project. His monumental work, The North American Indian, was eventually printed in 20 volumes with associated portfolios. Curtis’ work included portraits, scenes of daily life, ceremonies, architecture and artifacts, and landscapes. His photographs have recently been put online by the Library of Congress.[Source: Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, SHSW 1960, pg. 892]
Here’s the Thursday game in Puzzability‘s Oscar Losers series:
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This Week’s Game — February 16-20
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Oscar Losers
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Sometimes when you lose, you lose big. For each day this week, we started with a nominee for the Best Actor Oscar who didn’t win it in at least one year (though he may have won it in another year). We then removed all instances of the letters in OSCAR, though not all five of the letters necessarily appear in the name.
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Example:
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HINFD
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Answer:
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Harrison Ford
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What to Submit:
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Submit the actor’s name (as “Harrison Ford” in the example) for your answer.
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Thursday, February 19
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