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BBC News
19-05-2025
- BBC News
Person freed from wreckage of three-car Halstead collision
Police appealed for witnesses after a three-vehicle crash in a town centre left one occupant services were called to High Street in Halstead, Essex at about 22:00 BST on person had to be released from a vehicle and was taken to hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening or believed two people from another vehicle had already left the scene before officers arrived. Investigating officer PC Roper said: "This incident has taken place on what is usually a busy High Street and the chances of more serious injury have thankfully been avoided due to the time of night. "I am hopeful that someone will have seen what happened or have CCTV showing the occupants walking away and would encourage anyone with information to come forward." Follow Essex news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
The Onion
17-04-2025
- Business
- The Onion
New iPad Offers 3 Months Of Something Called Apple Deli+
CHICAGO—Unsure what to make of the perk that came bundled with his recently purchased device, area man David Halstead reported Tuesday that his new iPad offered three months of something called Apple Deli+. 'I just linked my iPad up to my Apple ID, and apparently my Meat Pass has been activated and I've been enrolled in whatever Apple Deli+ is until April,' a bewildered Halstead said as he warily pressed the Deli icon on his iPad's home screen and his finger hesitated for just a moment over the app's minimalist rendering of a sliced deli ham. 'Huh. According to this, my Apple Deli+ membership includes 24/7 access to Apple's sandwich geniuses as well as 250 'salami points.' They've somehow already logged the prosciutto caprese I got for lunch, even though I wasn't signed in yet. I guess the Find My Cold Cuts feature could be useful. And wow, they have a mustard in rose gold that's actually really pretty. I still don't know if I like being locked into the Apple meat ecosystem, but maybe 90 free days of this could be cool if I can figure out how to get some dill pickles and tuna salad out of it.' Sources confirmed that by the end of the day, Halstead had already forgotten about the recurring $12 charge that he will continue paying each month for the rest of his life.
New York Times
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Natural Landscape That Lends Itself to Art
Traveling down a dirt road through the rolling grasslands of southern Montana, the snow-capped Beartooth Mountains slowly appear in the distance. A metal-roofed, barnlike structure soon comes into view and, beside it, a 25-foot, abstract black steel sculpture by the artist Alexander Calder. On a low-lying stone wall, rusted metal letters spell 'Tippet Rise Art Center.' Here, on 12,500 acres of ranch land north of Yellowstone National Park, the philanthropists Cathy and Peter Halstead have established the world's largest sculpture park. Now entering its 10th season, Tippet Rise is one of the few places on earth where visitors can encounter monumental sculptures in an uninterrupted landscape; take in open-air concerts and poetry readings by world-renowned performers; and traverse the landscape on 15 miles of hiking and biking trails, all while cattle and sheep graze. A new model of sculpture park, Tippet Rise is a place where art enhances the experience of nature. Here, the art is intended to complement rather than dominate the landscape, expressing the Halsteads' vision of a park where visitors become attuned to the natural rhythms of the world and their place within it. The Halsteads were inspired to create Tippet Rise, which opened in 2016, after visiting other outdoor sculpture parks like the Storm King Art Center in upstate New York and the Fondation Maeght on the French Riviera. They sought to create a place where music, art, architecture and landscape could harmonize. 'Peter and I have known each other since we were teenagers, and had very similar passions around art and music,' recalled Ms. Halstead, 77, seated next to Mr. Halstead, 78, on a video call. 'A lot of our early experiences had to do with art and music outdoors.' The Halsteads are also founders of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation and trustees of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, the namesake arts organization of Ms. Halstead's father. Before founding Tippet Rise, Ms. Halstead served as chairwoman of her father's liquor company, which created Grey Goose vodka. Along with hosting hundreds of musical concerts, film screenings, poetry readings and theater performances over the last decade, the Halsteads have also steadily amassed a permanent collection of 16 monumental sculptures at Tippet Rise by internationally renowned artists, including Ai Weiwei, Richard Serra, Mark di Suvero, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Louise Nevelson and Patrick Dougherty, which are sprinkled across the property. The Halsteads are also artists themselves — Cathy has shown her abstract paintings around the world and Peter is a pianist, photographer and poet. The scale and vastness of Tippet Rise can be overwhelming, as it is slightly smaller in square mileage than the island of Manhattan. 'We are very slow and thoughtful about adding sculptures because we want to maintain the openness of the land,' said Ms. Halstead. 'Our sense is that the land here is sacred.' Moving through Tippet Rise on foot, by bike or on the center's daily shuttle tours during its open season from June through October, a visitor can traverse miles without seeing another person. 'The most important thing about Tippet Rise is the site itself, because that is actually the installation,' said Justin Jakubisn, a 41-year-old Seattle photographer who made his first pilgrimage to the art center in 2024. 'I went excited to see the sculptures but left feeling that Tippet Rise is really about the land.' Over the years, the Halsteads and co-directors Pete and Lindsey Hinmon have developed Tippet Rise in a way that is respectful of the earth. A geothermal system provides heating and cooling to all 17 buildings on campus — which include a music barn, dining barn, library, recording studio and mastering suite, residences for visiting artists and staff offices — while a microgrid with a 237-kilowatt solar array and battery bank helps power them. A collection system gathers 100,000 gallons of snowmelt and rainwater annually, offsetting the center's reliance on aquifer water by 80 percent. 'Our goal is to conserve and preserve this land as much as possible,' said Ms. Hinmon, 44, while recently providing a tour of the property. 'We want to be good neighbors.' Often, Tippet Rise collaborates with artists to create site-specific works that celebrate the landscape. Some of the earliest are a collection of monumental concrete, stone and earth sculptures by the Madrid-based architecture firm Ensamble Studio, which were created on the site by pouring a mix of dirt and cement into molds dug out of the earth and resemble excavated fossils. The largest, 'Domo,' is large enough to provide shade for summer music performances. A more recent installation is Xylem, a permanent pavilion made by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Francis Kéré in 2019 out of local ponderosa and lodgepole pine trees. It was Kéré's first project built in the United States. 'I wanted to create a place where people can sit and be exposed to the quietness and calmness of nature, so that our bodies and souls can be repaired,' said Kéré, 60, of the open-air pavilion, on a recent video call. 'I believe that will give us energy back to think about how we can restore nature and how we can preserve it.' Over the years, the Halsteads and Hinmons have worked to reveal unseen histories of the land at Tippet Rise. In 2017, they began offering geology tours led by the Yellowstone Bighorn Research Association, as the art center sits atop an ice age gravel deposit with many plant and marine life fossils. 'This land has a long story,' Mr. Halstead said. 'And it's a story we want to tell.' In 2024, Tippet Rise permanently installed a glass and granite sculpture called 'The Soil You See…' by the artist Wendy Red Star, who grew up on the nearby Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation. The sculpture, which resembles a giant blood-red fingerprint, is inscribed with the names of 50 Apsáalooke chiefs who were coerced by the U.S. government into using their thumbprints to cede their tribal lands. Today, the center's guided tours incorporate information on the Apsáalooke people. 'Having this sculpture at Tippet Rise allows for a continued presence of Apsáalooke history in a landscape that has long been part of our story,' said Red Star, 44, via email. 'It challenges the idea that this land is just an open, untouched landscape. It is, and always has been, a site of movement, conflict and resilience for the Apsáalooke people.' As the Halsteads look to the future, they intend to continue developing their artist-in-residence program, which brings international musicians and artists to Tippet Rise, just as they extend their work back out to communities near and far through outreach and education programs. Their robust recording program documents concerts and performances on the site for free viewing online, and they are committed to keeping Tippet Rise accessible. Concert tickets, distributed through a public lottery, are $10 each or free to those 21 and under, and entry to the park for hiking and biking is always free, with a reservation. Visitors can also book $10 guided shuttle tours. Ultimately, what the venue offers visitors is something intangible. 'At Tippet Rise, you are the conduit through which the earth speaks to the sky,' Mr. Halstead said. 'Alongside the sculptures, our concerts and performances tap into an ethereal sense of the surroundings. They awaken a sense of awe.'
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
MobCraft Walker's Point taproom to reopen under new owners with some of its flagship beers
MobCraft Beer will reopen with new owners, bringing back the Walker's Point brewery about five months after it closed in November. The new owners are Sarah Halstead, who worked at MobCraft for four years, and her husband, Michael. They purchased the brewery for $160,000. "We thought it would be a neat opportunity," Halstead said. They plan to bring back flagship beers like BatSh!t Crazy and Out Of Office. The also plan to serve appetizers, sandwiches and pizzas, including MobCraft's Whitewater mac and cheese pizza. What else might change or stay the same at the taproom at 505 S. Fifth St. is still being decided, Halstead said. They do plan to bring back some festivals, but Halstead wasn't sure which ones. MobCraft was popular for its Stout Fest, Sour Fest and Weird Fest. The Halsteads are only reopening the Milwaukee taproom. When MobCraft closed, it also had a location in Woodstock, Illinois. The couple is waiting for license and health department approvals and is hoping to reopen the brewery in May. MobCraft Beer announced in October that it would be closing after eight years. MobCraft CEO Henry Schwartz said in a news release that the brewery "reached a point where we could no longer operate as a stand-alone operation." MobCraft Beer was founded in Madison in 2013 by Henry Schwartz, Andrew Gierczak and Giotto Troia, who met at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and launched their business in Madison. In 2016 MobCraft moved its business from Madison to Milwaukee when it opened the Walker's Point taproom. In 2021, MobCraft announced it would open three additional taprooms: in Waterford; Woodstock, Illinois; and Denver. MobCraft was looking to raise up to $2.25 million in an equity crowdfunding campaign to fund the ventures. Its investment platform, wefunder, shows it closed fundraising in April 2022 after it raised $845,000 from 488 investors. MobCraft Denver was open from September 2022 until it closed in April 2023. The Waterford location never opened, which the village sued MobCraft for. MobCraft opened the Woodstock location in November 2023 and closed it along with the Milwaukee taproom this past November. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee brewery MobCraft Beer to reopen under new owners
Yahoo
08-03-2025
- General
- Yahoo
New Salem Baptist Church restoration gets big boost
On a snowy early March day in the old coal camp community of Tams, three friends lifted their voices in song while discussing a historic Black Raleigh County church and community presence. Sherrie Hunter, Queenie Schoolfield and Minister Lynn Halstead sang a portion of 'Jesus Built This Church On Love' as they celebrated another milestone in a church restoration project that has been ongoing since 2011. Last fall, the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia (PAWV) wrote and submitted a grant to Preserving Black Churches, a project of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP). Local officials were recently notified that the New Salem Baptist Church, built in 1921 for the Black community of Tams, emerged as one of the awardees in a 'very competitive' program and will receive $200,000 for church repairs. 'We found out close to Queenie's 88th birthday (Feb. 27) that, out of 622 applicants, there were only 30 (awardees) nationwide, and New Salem will receive $200,000,' Hunter said. Among the other capital projects on the 2025 African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund list are St. Mark's Presbyterian Church of Cleveland and the Dickerson Chapel AME Church of Hillsborough, N.C. The funds will be utilized locally for water infiltration, repairs to the bell tower, exterior work and efforts to secure the building envelope, Hunter said. Hunter discussed the funding allocation and the ongoing renovations of New Salem Baptist Church at the Feb. 25 regular meeting of the Beckley Common Council, which she serves as a councilwoman-at-large. 'Thank you, City of Beckley; thank you, everybody,' she said. • • • 'The community of Tams, no longer exists,' said Halstead, who has delivered messages and participated in services at New Salem and other historic churches in Raleigh County over the years. 'This is the last building standing in the community. And, I feel it's important to the building, to the community at-large, especially to the people that were raised in Tams and moved away, that this place would be preserved because it's part of their history. 'And, if we let our history die, we forget where we came from.' According to Halstead, the church was established on Sept. 25, 1921. 'The original pastor was Mr. (Burton Linwood) Ziegler. The services ran from that time up until the time that the pastor, Donald Cook, passed away (2022). The funds to build the church were provided by 'Major' Tams, the coal operator here. The community paid every dime of it back to him, so now they have a church here. 'Queen Schoolfield is the oldest surviving member. She will tell you that Major Tams made no difference between the white people and the Black people. What he provided for the white people, he provided for the Black people. 'He built or had built four churches — the church here at Tams, the church at Stotesbury (a white church), and down at Wyco, there was a Black church and a white church built, because this was the time of segregation. All of them are historical parts of the community.' 'It's a joy to be involved in this,' he continued. 'The restoration has been a community effort, it's been an effort by many parties. The main reason we're here today is because of Sister Queen Schoolfield (keeping a promise to her mother to keep the doors of the church open).' She has sold hot dogs at various locations in Beckley over the years 'just to pay the utilities of this place, to keep this place open,' Halstead said. At a time when 'there was no road to Beckley (and) the only way in here was to come through Mullens,' he said, the coal operator 'had to provide everything for the community' and 'He was faithful to provide this church, this church right here that we stand in today.' • • • 'We started the restoration in 2011,' Hunter said. 'I worked with Donald Cook, the pastor here, at the recycling center, and an unknown man was on the Burning Rock Trail and saw the church. So he saw that Donald Cook was the preacher, and he said 'I need to reach out.'' The man gave Cook $500 to have the church painted, Hunter recalled. Fred Lovell, the plant supervisor at the recycling center and a fellow work colleague of Hunter's and Cook's at the Raleigh County Solid Waste Authority, pointed out to Hunter that the church — in addition to a new paint job — was in need of a new roof. Back then, Hunter enlisted the aid of Dawn Dayton and The Register-Herald newspaper to publicize the fundraising needs, and Hunter wrote a grant to Beckley Area Foundation in which the foundation agreed to match $2,500 if the community raised a similar amount. 'Well, we raised $11,000,' Hunter said. 'In 2013, we finally got the roof on the church. Susan Landis (of the BAF), she lived to see that we got a new roof.' Another $6,000 to $7,000 was raised to provide for the soffit. In addition to grant funding and grassroots aid from other outside agencies and businesses and the community in general, one of the past contributions, according to Hunter, came from 'a Black gentleman in a nursing home who sent in $2 in an envelope to help buy a shingle.' The funding assistance and the community interest has been 'transformative,' said Hunter. She acknowledged the inspiration of individuals such as Cook, Halstead, Schoolfield, Pastor Paul Chapman and Gary Hosey, the latter of Beckley Praise Church, over the years. 'And it all started with Donald Cook and Fred Lovell and the Beckley Area Foundation, The Register-Herald for doing that unbelievable story (by Andrea Lannon in April 2011 entitled 'New Salem Restoration Project'...' 'And Sherrie Hunter is where it started,' chimed in the voice of a woman seated to Hunter's right on the front church pew on Thursday, March 6, the unwavering voice of Queenie Schoolfield. 'She always leaves herself out, babydoll,' she said of Hunter. 'If it wasn't for her, this wouldn't be going on now. And I thank God for her every day and every night before I go to bed. She's the one that has kept things going.' Hunter said her father, Quinn Barbera, was 'the milkman (Blossom Milk) for Tams, WV' in the 1950s. 'That means all the world to me; praise God from whom all blessings flow,' Schoolfield said of the ongoing preservation efforts. 'I appreciate this lady (Hunter), and I appreciate all these people.' • • • As the years progressed, those involved in the restoration work also knew the church should be recognized for its historical significance. 'We knew we had to get it on the (National Park Services' National Register of Historic Places),' said Hunter. With assistance from the PAWV, that process was initiated. 'David Taylor, an architectural specialist, came down and met with Queenie and David Sibray, of the Preservation Alliance, and he (Taylor) submitted an unbelievable comprehensive plan to the Department of the Interior and to the National Park Service.' Hunter, her husband, David Hunter, Sibray and Taylor found out in April 2023 in Charleston that the church was to be entered into the National Register. 'I was emotional,' she said. Hunter said Taylor then wrote a grant to the William C. Pomeroy Foundation for a historical marker on the grounds, which was unveiled in 2024. After that, the PAWV's Danielle Parker contacted Hunter to launch the process that resulted in the newest grant funding outlay. New Salem Baptist was also included in the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of the 11 most endangered historic places in the nation for 2024, an annual program that raises awareness of the threats facing 'some of the nation's greatest treasures,' according to the PAWV website. Hunter detailed other agencies or individuals who have provided funding or assistance over the years, including the Coal Heritage Authority and Christy Bailey for providing a $5,000 matching grant, and the Raleigh County Commission for supplying $5,000 for that match. Those funds paid for major exterior work and landscaping for the church grounds. 'Also, we have had wonderful help from Dyane Corcoran and Beaver Coal.' Blair Frier, of ZMM Architects and Engineers, helped assess the church free of charge, Hunter said. Recently, the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter donated $600 to the effort, she added. 'It's been a collaboration,' Hunter said. 'It's everybody working together to preserve this wonderful church.' • • • According to an entry in e-WV, an online encyclopedia of the West Virginia Humanities Council, 'Major' William Purviance Tams Jr. (May 19, 1883 to August 3, 1977) 'was recognized in southern West Virginia as the last of the old-time coal barons. Tams was born in Staunton, Va., and studied engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg. He went to work for entrepreneur Samuel Dixon in the New River coalfield in 1904. With the support of Dixon and J. O. Watts of Lynchburg, Tams launched his own company, Gulf Smokeless Coal, in the new Winding Gulf coalfield in 1908. He established the company town of Tams, Raleigh County, as his headquarters, and later acquired Wyoming Coal Company in neighboring Wyoming County. He invested in other mines as well and was a leader in industry associations.' • • • Although the church doesn't currently host regular services, homecoming services have been conducted there each July since 2023. There have also been two candlelight services, and a service is planned for 2 p.m. on the Sunday before Easter, with Chapman and Halstead officiating, and homecoming will return on the first Sunday in July. And, Halstead and Chapman will stage occasional services as the restoration process continues. The public is invited to attend the services. For her part, Schoolfield, who lives in Beckley, definitely plans to be there to honor a critical part of her past and future. 'I haven't missed a Sunday,' she said. 'I never have joined another church.' She also attends other churches, obviously, and says she has likely been to more churches with Halstead than she has with anybody else. The larger church community has been her community, she said. 'I lost my first son, and he didn't have insurance. All these churches raised money for me to bury my son.' Going to church back in the day gave her a solid path for her life, she said. 'During those days, our parents brought us (family of seven) to church,' she said. 'We didn't come on our own then; we were so young. We had to be at church for the 11 o'clock service, had to be right here.' 'After Sunday school, our Dad used to always ask us what we learned,' Schoolfield added. 'We had to tell him that. Each one of us had to say something ... and had to repeat a Bible verse (always different from the others) before we ate.' She 'learned so much' from that raising, she said. And, she gained knowledge and wisdom from the church and the community. 'We learned so much from the community,' she said. 'We had to love everybody. We learned more about the Lord then. 'Yes, Jesus Loves Me' was our favorite song.' Good memories such as Sunday school downstairs with 'coal heat and a big pot-bellied stove,' prayer meeting on Wednesday and church on Sunday, and choir practice on Tuesday evenings are still with her. 'I just enjoyed every bit of it.' She also remembers having a favorite seat in the back of the church at one point. 'My aunt said, 'Listen, you don't sit in the back. When the Lord comes, He gonna be up front.' From then on, I sat up here in the front seat.' That has resulted in her having a front seat to viewing history unfold.
