Wednesday, May 30, 2007

I Strike Without Warning



Golden Comanche Mardi Mardi Gras Indians on Bayou St. John here in my neighborhood in New Orleans. Saturday May 26th.

Video by my neighbor Joanne.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Postcard 10: Postmark June 23rd 1939, Chicago Ill


ClarencE buckingham Memorial Fountain, Chicago
.
Dear Sarah,
I've just been shot!!
In Chicago!! Oooooo (I hope
it looks all right. ha).
.
Ah Sarah- seriously
speaking- I am just having
a wonderful time. Praise
the Lord! There are so many
earnest Christian students,
teachers, and workers around
here- I hate to think of coming home in two weeks
I may stay four even yet. We went to the lake last night. May
God bless you and keep you in his service. Wilma.

Monday, May 28, 2007

Photo: To: The Bat Krewe / From: Batman

To The


.........Bat Krewe,

.......................your

...............................Pal!

...................................Batman

Photo: Marching Soldiers

See also Postcard 2

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Postcard 9: Unposted, Early 20th Century

Salmon Glacier, Source of Salmon River

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Postcard 8: Postmark Eastport ME July 1905


100 km

I thought you
would rather
have a pretty
one. But I am
sending you a
funny one this
time. Have something
to tell you when
I get home. M.M.

Sermon: 1 Peter 1:24

that all flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower
of the field... surely the people is grass... now get you up
to a high mountain...

.......This, This is the
.............Cry we are
..................the cry

.............For God must
..................be dreaming Again

..................Orphan Tommy &
..................the widowed Ms. Jones
...................are in the sanctuary

..............This must be a dream
...................Yes dream Amen

...................Now Feast!
................my children Feast!
.....................Amen

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Postcard 7: Postmark March 16th 1906, Bangore ME

Maxwell
.....................Good morning
......................................
......................................Mother

Friday, May 18, 2007

Photo: A Madsen Print Aug 26 1932 Chicago



Yosemite
.....................65

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Postcard 6: Postmark Aug 25th 1933, Chicago, Ill (Century of Progress World's Fair Chicago)



Electrical Building At Night
Dear Sara
Well here I am at
the World's Fair. We came
in today. It was around
5:30 when we got here.
We went out to the Fair
around 7:30. It sure is
wonderful. I came with
my cousin and wife
...........................Lillian

Monday, May 14, 2007

Postcard 5: Unposted, Late 20th Century



Siesta Motel

20 Modern Units, Free Transportation To and From
Hospitals. T.V., Phones, Ice, Air Conditioning.

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Postcard 4: Postmark July 12th 1906, West Pembroke, ME

Why don't you
....ask Papa!
..Better ask him
before it is too late,
West Pembroke,
.......................ME
....July 11, 1906

Friday, May 11, 2007

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Photo: Ashland Realty


ASHLAND REALTY CO.

We Provide

Monday, May 7, 2007

Good Album

A Good Print Deserves a Place in a
................Good Album
...The FREDRICK & NELSON Kodak
Section maintains at all seasons a compre-
hensive assortment of Loose-Leaf Kodak
Album............lly bound in leather and
fab........................ththe following standard
s
...................................0.....10x12....11x14

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Postcard 2: Postmark May 31st, 1906, Wakefield R.I.


My Country 'Tis of Thee

This is where
I spent
Memorial Day
Wakefield R.I.
May 31, 06
Julia

Postcard 1: Postmark Feb. 25 1906 Machias, ME


We are all right
.......Lovingly
.............Mother

Hello



My name is Michael Ford. I live in New Orleans. My first full length book of poems, Carbon, was published in August 2006 by Ugly Duckling Presse.

I intend to use this blog mostly to share the old photos, postcards, notes and so forth that I've collected over the years. These things contain if not poetry itself (and some of them do, I think) at least the germ of poetry.