August | 2013 | Episodic Table

Mills, Claude, fl 1920s. King, June, fl 1975: Photograph of Ernest Rutherford outside the school fence, Havelock – Photograph taken by Claude Mills. Ref: PAColl-2524. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22757635

‘We haven’t the money, so we’ve got to think’.

New Zealand chemist and physicist and Nobel Prize winner Ernest Rutherford was born 30 August 1871 in Spring Creek, Nelson.

Read his biography Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand.
My set of Ernie images on Digital NZ.

Ernest is whanau. His father James Rutherford had a sister Barbara – my great-great-grandmother. Ernest is my great-grandfather’s cousin. Not sure what that makes him to me!

My great-great grandmother Barbara’s brother James and his wife Martha – parents of Ernest Rutherford.

James and Martha Rutherford. Fleming, Charles Alexander (Sir) 1916-1987 : Negatives of Ernest Rutherford and associations. Ref: PAColl-6407-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23069233

Words

Big and small, sometimes fragmented – always words and signs and signifiers.

Mark Sommerset at Central Library Tuam.

The cordons come down

Cathedral Square.

Working – human scale

Heritage

McLeans Mansion on Manchester Street.

The Bridge of Remembrance.

Art

New on Welles Street.

The wolf skull’s last howl, Kilmore Street. On Trainor McLean building, now demolished. Turns out it is a company called ALC Apparel – also spotted a tiki on Tuam, and pinup ladies.