Author: rainerfehr

27 Jun 2023, ♣ HH: Gartenstadt Berne (1919-1932)

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27.6.2023, Hamburg: Gartenstadt Berne (1919-1932)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartenstadt_Berne: ein Siedlungsgebiet im … Stadtteil Farmsen-Berne, das 1919–1932 im Sinne der Gartenstadtbewegung entstand … in genossenschaftlicher Selbsthilfe … große Grundstücke, die eine Selbstversorgung mit Obst und Gemüse erlaubten und außerdem die Verrieselung der Abwässer ermöglichten … Im Gebiet zwischen den Straßen Beim Farenland, Berner Heerweg, Berner Allee, St. Jürgenstraße, Kleine Wiese entstanden auf 55 ha eines Teils des Geländes des ehemaligen Gutes Berne 540 überwiegend Doppelhaushälften mit einer durchschnittlichen Wohnfläche von 73 m² … Zur Vorbereitung der Bauleistungen in Selbsthilfe wurden … ein Sägewerk und eine Feldfabrik für Betonsteine errichtet. Die Putzhäuser bauten die Siedler in ihrer Freizeit an Sonntagen. Sie waren größtenteils Gewerkschafter und Sozialdemokraten … Die Selbsthilfearbeiten wurden … aufgegeben, nachdem sich herausstellte, dass keine Einsparungen erzielt werden konnten … erste Bauabschnitt … aus Reihenhäusern mit meist vier Wohnungen … folgten zwischen 1921 und 1924 eingeschossige Doppelhäuser in Putzbauweise. Die verklinkerten, teilweise zweigeschossigen Häuser rund um den Berner Wald wurden nach 1925 errichtet … … gegenüber dem Gutshaus Berne … 1929–1930 … Klinkerbauten im Stil des Neuen Bauens … Genossenschaft Gartenstadt Hamburg eG …, … auch heute noch Eigentümerin und Vermieterin … Fritz Schumacher errichtete im Westen des Geländes die Schule Lienaustraße zur Versorgung des Gebietes …

16 Jun 2023, Re-reading Jack Kerouac (1962): Big Sur

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16.6.2023, Re-reading Jack Kerouac (1962): Big Sur

1985_08_08ca Andrew Molera State park (CA)

Jack Kerouac (1962): Big Sur. Penguin Books (1992). [Acquired 1993]

  • p.5 … coming 3000 miles from my home in Long Island … in a pleasant roomette on the California Zephyr train watching America roll by … up the Hudson Valley and over across New York State to Chicago and then the Plains, the mountains, the desert, the final mountains of California …
  • p.9 … cabdriver … he lets me off at the Raton Canyon bridge … [i.e. Bixby bridge]
  • p.18 … I myself turned from serene Jekyll to hysterical Hyde in … six weeks, losing absolute control of the peace mechanisms of my mind …
  • p.23 So easy in the woods to daydream and pray to the local spirits …
  • p.107 … confusion that’s beginning to pile up in my battered drinking brain …
  • p.166 … the cabin of sweet loneness on Big Sur …
  • p.203 If I try to to turn over the whole universe turns over with me but it’s no better on the other side of the universe …
  • p.211 … a series of explosions that get louder … some of them big orchestral and then rainbow explosions of sound and sight mixed …
  • p.217-241 „SEA“ – Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur

p.v-vi Foreword (Aram Saroyan)

p.vi His work … brought something of the luminous pleasures of the French Impressionists into American writing, and something too of the brooding syntactic circuitry of Proust … he was a tender writer …

Back cover / Allen Ginsberg, 10/10/91, N.Y.C.: … a humane, precise account of the extraordinary ravages of alcohol delirium tremens on Kerouac …at the peak of his suffering humerous genius he wrote through his misery to end with „Sea“, a brilliant poem appended, on the hallucinatory Sounds of the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Sur_(novel): … written in the fall of 1961 over a ten-day period, with Kerouac typewriting onto a teletype roll … recounts the events surrounding … three brief sojourns to a cabin in Bixby Canyon, Big Sur, California, owned by Kerouac’s friend … Lawrence Ferlinghetti; at the same time dealing with his increased drinking and declining mental health … departs from his previous fictionalized autobiographical series in that the character Duluoz [Kerouac] is shown as a popular … published author; most of Kerouac’s previous novels … portray him as a bohemian traveller.

Cf.:

  • 5.5.2023, NYC (Sub)Cultural anchorage [incl. cumulative listing of Beat references]
  • 25.2.2021, Lawrence Ferlinghetti died 3 days ago, at age 101
  • 30.7.-1.8.1988, Amtrak California Zephyr; Chicago – Oakland

28 May 2023, Φ ♣ USA trip Overview / Überblick

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28.5.2023, USA trip Overview / Überblick

With this trip, multiple goals were pursued, incl. a strong focus on Urban Health professional exchange / Mehrfachfunktion dieses Trips, inkl. ausgeprägtem Schwerpunkt auf Fachaustausch zu StadtGesundheit

[Post-script: For overview and descriptive travel notes / Nachtrag: Für Überblick und deskriptive Reisenotizen, cf. 24 Aug 2023]

Posts / Einträge:

Cf. former US travel and topics / frühere US-Reisen und -Themen:

  • 3.-4.9.2012, San Francisco Beat poets
  • 2.9.2012, San Francisco: Party Day
  • 21.8.-7.9.2012, California
  • 28.8.-15.9.2008, USA: California
  • 28.-30.4.1999, IEEI, San Francisco: Conference “The Environmental Health Effects of Civil Unrest”
  • 4.-20.12.1993, San Francisco & Bay Area: Healthy Cities conference, Cal-EPA, ATSDR group, etc.
  • 8.-11.12.1993, San Francisco: 1st International Healthy Cities and Communities conference, incl. EIA/HIA session
  • 6.-7.12.1993, San Francisco, Preconference: Healthy Cities Communications Toolbox Summary
  • 3.7.-16.8.1993, Multi-purpose trip to California / Mehrzweckreise nach Californien
  • 1988-1991 Almanac – Episource
  • (1985-1988: 20+ posts)
  • 18.8.-2.9.1984, Vancouver (IEA Meeting) – SF Bay Area – Los Angeles
  • 1984ff California connection

27 May 2023, ♣ Berkeley: Poetry Garden „Allen Ginsberg“ & Arts Magnet School

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27.5.2023, ♣ Berkeley: Poetry Garden „Allen Ginsberg“ & Arts Magnet School

Poetry Garden, https://berkeleyplaques.org/plaque/poetry-garden/: … honors Berkeley’s many innovative poets, poetry presses and publications … dedicated in 1999 on the second anniversary of … Allen Ginsberg’s death … Ginsberg lived across the street in a now demolished house at 1624 Milvia Street while writing … parts of his … Howl! … Jack Kerouac lived for a time in a “rose-covered cottage” on Berkeley Way … The creation of the garden was a joint effort of students, teachers, and parents from the Berkeley Arts Magnet … School together with neighbors and the City of Berkeley. Berkeley Historical Plaque Project 2000

Berkeley Arts Magnet at Whittier school, https://www.berkeleyartsmagnet.org/: … 2015 Virginia St. Berkeley, CA 94709 … commonly referred to as BAM, is a K through 5 elementary school … The school community values learning experiences in all domains, and consistently pledges funds and instructional time to incorporate visual and performing arts into a comprehensive education program …

Cf. 5.5.2023, NYC (Sub)Cultural anchorage

27 May 2023, Stinson Beach (Marin County)

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27.5.2023, Stinson Beach (Marin County)

Stinson Beach, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinson_Beach,_California: … 4 km … east-southeast of Bolinas … the cold water produces fog throughout the year … The beach is … sandy, unlike the rockier neighboring beach in Bolinas … The surf off Stinson Beach is within an area known as the Red Triangle, where there have been an unusually high number of shark attacks … Notable people … Klaus Kinski …

All One Ocean, www.alloneocean.org/ourfocus-397685-763912.html: Healthy water for all is our end goal. We rely on it for drinking water, food, agriculture, and recreational activities. Animals rely on it for survival. Human pollution is capable of harming all of us, while also contributing to climate change. Through education and simple daily acts of environmental consciousness, we can get closer to our goal … One Ocean’s Beach Cleanup Stations  (BCUS) are permanent, community-generated, and individually managed.  They’re great for an individual, family, or small or large group to adopt … Mounted at the entrances to beaches and watersheds, BCUS hold visitor-provided bags that beachgoers use to collect trash … feature clear signage, instructing beachgoers how to use the stations and educating them about the dangers of marine litter …

Farallon Islands, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farallon_Islands: … from the Spanish farallón meaning “pillar” or “sea cliff” … 30 miles (48 km) outside the Golden Gate … closed to the public … In 1974, the Farallon Wilderness was established … From 1946 to 1970, the sea around the Farallones was used as a dump site for radioactive waste under the authority of the Atomic Energy Commission …