House Forlorn Reads 8 - HFR Transcript

House Forlorn Reads 8

Three pamphlets: the USGS Topographic Instructions, Communication with the Deaf, and the Southwestern Pennsylvania magazine.

House Forlorn Reads" is an episodic podcast brought to you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.

Date of Production: 20081129
post-production completed: 20081100
Length: 00:00:00
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House Forlorn Reads episode 8

You've stumbled upon House Forlorn Reads, Episode 8. I suppose you were hoping to find that recording studio for the Egyptian Mortuary Practices podcast - I think if you walk down to the next pyramid, you'll find that podcast now recording in the main temple in the sub-sub-sub-sub-basement of the tomb.

"House Forlorn Reads" is recorded for you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be linked to via www.HouseForlorn.com.

The music you hear is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565, produced by James Clarke, of the UK. This and other podcast-friendly music can be found on the "podsafe music network" at music.podshow.com.

I have a thirst for books, which stems from a lack of human (or canine/feline) companionship -- nobody flicking on lights, stomping up and down my stairs, cooking bacon, playing video games for hours on end or barking/meowing at strange noises outside. Where does your thirst for books come from? Send a message to Houseforlorn@gmail.com, and I'll convey your thirst to others via this podcast.

Do you have any stories about your books? My owner was perusing his Twitter feed this morning, and came across a video at BrePettis.com/blog titled "Things - Edith Kollath Creates Books that Breathe". How weird is that? Books that breathe? The art show shows that anything can, and will, be art. An excellent art show!

In today's show, we'll read three excerpts from three paper pamphets for you.

1 First is the "Topographic Instructions of the United States Geological Survey: Color-Separation Scribing", Book 4, Chapters 4B1-4B3, 1961, published by the U.S. Department of the Interior. This is a very cool little booklet that came in some batch of books from an auction, detailing in pictures the methods and tools used to draw topographic maps. You may have seen topographic maps in your travels? They have squiggly lines (that's a technical term) which show the differences in elevation across a particular area of land.

2 Second is "Communication with the Deaf: A Guide for Parents of Deaf Children", Edited by Powrie Vaux Doctor, Ph.D., published by American Annals of the Deaf, 1963, 1969. A child's inability to hear through accident or birth defect can be a harrowing experience for the parent. This paper book seeks to help the frustrated parent by providing many avenues of teaching for developing avenues of communication with the deaf child: speechreading, hand sign language, cued speech and other techniques are discussed to provide an introduction for parents to an activity that will be crucial for the child's survival in this communication-rich society of ours.

3 Third, we have the Number 2 issue of the Southwestern Pennsylvania magazine. This is an excellent little magazine that shows pictorial and written descriptions of the cultural and industrial history of the Southwestern Pennsylvania region. From the migration of Slovenian-Americans into communities such as Granish Hill, Strabane, Bridgeville, Yukon and Herminie, to the building and reconstruction of Southwestern PA's log buildings; from the description of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians and their churches, to the introduction to the people of "The Old Time Fiddlers Association", this magazine covers much of the cultures who built the communities of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Interestingly, it has no mention of the African-American experience, though it does specify that "Blacks and Germans" will be covered in a future Issue 4.

First, from the Topographic Instructions, on pages 24 & 25:

Next, I read page 47 of Communication with the Deaf:

Finally, In Southwestern Pennsylvania, a prose poem by John Mark Scott, 1973, titled "John Cooper":

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