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2004.01.07
Mom and the Baroness von Ow
Konrad, Franciska, Johannes (14), Rudolf (13), Monika (12), Georg (7), Alicia, a baby girl that died.
Dr. Egon Pavlichek, wife Lillo
1940 worked over a year at Sombar for Serbians.
1943 at the Baron;s; bombs over Harlaching.
1944 at Dr. Otto Schuster’s, a dermatologist, at the summer house at Grebenzelt. Began in Autumn 1943 and stayed six months.
1 January 1945 was sent to Russia.
May 1942 at Brestowatz for three months, then a three week job in Munich, and then in mid-August started working at the Barons. The Summer of 1943 was spent at Wachendorf Gut Neuhaus, near the Neckar River. (Hohenzollern Schloss? in the distance)
The Barons had a nun to nurse the baby, who said the baby was well. The Baroness hit the baby and it later died.
They also had a nanny.
Magdalene was to teach the children French.
The Baroness no longer had a personal maid.
Baron left (in the morning) and didn’t say good-bye anymore. "I'm only good enough to bring children into the world."
Graffen Cirella or "Tante Cirella" was the other woman. The Baron even invited her to Saturday dinner (12 noon).
Magdalene was from Belgium, but she was ethnically Polish. She spoke French, German, and Polish. Her father visited a couple of times; he was a hard worker, a railroad maintenance guy.
Brother Stefan was working in Munich; he told Mom how to get there. He was drafted but named not fit enough (he broke his arm twice in childhood), and the work he was doing was war necessary.
The Baroness also had a chauffer before Mom worked there; it was her car that was in the garage without tires. The baron’s car was taken outright. After that he took the trolly to work.
Magdalene was the house maid.
Rosa was the cook, who was hired after the old cook Maria from Munich married.
Elisabeth was Magdalene;s friend who worked with Mom at Dr. Pavlichek's; she brought Mom to the Barons.
Mom interviewed with the Baron in Spring 1942 before going back the Brestowatz for three months. The Baron made all of Mom's travel arrangements through Vienna and Budapest.
There were mostly Polish field-workers at Gut Neuhaus. The workers ate well. There was a Vorwalder and Vorwalderin and a neice cooked for the workers at Gut Neuhaus. Mom cooked only for the Baron household. When they arrived at the train station they had to wait till night time to be driven to the Gut; 'luxery' driving was not allowed.
Dr. Pavlichek had a new Mercedes; he had connections.
The meals at the Baron's were breakfast, lunch at midday, coffee and a roll at 4:00, dinner at 6:00.
The Baroness almost everyday rode her bike into the city.
The Baroness bought meat every Saturday morning for the whole week. Mom bought milk, bread, and vegetables every morning at a shop at Linden Str. and Theodolinden Platz.
Address was 45 Linden Strasse.
Free time for Mom was every second Sunday afternoon, and every Wednesday after lunch to 10 pm.
Mom and Magdelene shared a room on the ground floor.
1st floor: hall, pantry w/lift, dining room, living room w/ big piano, little Japanese room, small Baroness’s room with desk, master bedroom and master bath.
2nd floor: bedrooms, study for the kids, bathroom with three sinks in a row.
ground floor: kitchen, sewing room, wash kitchen, 2 servant's rooms.
Franziska von Ow studied at the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia. She met someone there that was not of (Austrian) nobility, who her parents didn't like, and she was taken home. She had a sister that married first, and thus got most from the family.
The Baron was maybe a Bavarian or a Schwab (because of the Gut).
Baron said he never ate such good cookies as from Mom's home recipes. The Baroness couldn't cook at all.
Dr. Pavlichek lived at 2 Defregger Str., and the von Ow dining room window looked down into Defregger Str.
In 1950 45 Linden Str. was (still) occupied by US Allied officers/military; Mom went by the house after she returned from Russia. The 'maid' there told Mom that the von Ows were then living at Regensberg.
Mom once heard the Baron say the the Baroness "Frag nicht so dum!", but the Baron was overall a good guy. He told Mom at the interview that "all our help is like family," and that made Mom feel good.
Christmas 1942 was in the Japanese Room; a goose for dinner, cookies and singing, played Mülhe with the kids.
They called Mom Rosie.
Once the Baroness went home to Austria, and then the Baron had a blonde woman friend stay overnight in a guest room on the 2nd floor. Mom tried her best to let the guest know that Mom didn’t think too kindly of her.
Rudolf Hess (lived on Harthauser Str?) lived a block down Grunwald Str. where there were lots of villas. The Barons were special friends with Hess.
The Baron was in the military in the beginning of World War II, but was let go to be with his family (5 children).
The was a separate house at the back of the Baron’s property, rented to an elderly couple.
Mom often saw Mrs. Pavlichek walk by the dining room window; Mom was in charge of cleaning the dining room.
Mom's salery at the Baron's was 69 marks a month, as opposed to 45 marks a month at Dr. Pavlichek's.

2004.01.10 12:33
the making of "My Rita Novel Idea"
James A. Williams, Franziska the Baroness von Ow, Eva Stotesbury, King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Napoleon, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Peter Paul Rubens, Maria the first wife of Honorius, Eutropia, and Heilige Helena are the main characters.
Rubens tells us about all the research he did after receiving his first public commission of three altarpieces for the crypt chapel of St. Helena in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. Plus he thoroughly discusses his designs of the History of Constantine the Great tapestries that presently hang in the Great Hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Ludwig II tells us a lot about his schizophrenic brother Otto.
Napoleon won't stop talking about playing double-deck solitaire while exiled on St. Helena.
Eva still enjoys the company of Cardinal Dougherty, and Franziska hasn't forgotten the delicious cookies baked by the last cook she had before the end of World War II.
We (surprisingly) find out that Eutropia personally knew all the important Roman Empire architecture of late antiquity, and Helena rarely stops talking about Eutropia, that is, when she's not talking about being excluded from history.
Maria tells us about the symbolic role played by her sarcophagus and sepulcher within Piranesi's Il Campo Marzio, and Piranesi outlines all the mistakes made by Fasolo, Tafuri, Allen, Bloomer, and Eisenman in their respective interpretations of the Ichnographia Campus Martius.
Jim explains the letters he wrote while in jail circa 1983/4, and fondly remembers his last trip to Philadelphia.


2004.01.10 14:42
in the virtual realm
The fact that letters (of which I have some) written by Jim Williams while in jail for the murder of Danny do exist could very well engender the heretofore unexpected "sequel" to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil--a virtual terror castle, I'm sure--and how long was that book on the bestseller list?
from Joyce's Ulysses:
"Bringing his host down and knelling he heard twine the second bell the first bell in the transept (he is lifting his) and, rising, heard (now I am lifting) their two bells (he is knelling) twang in diphthong."


2004.01.12 12:09
Re: Response to Posting of Bush Posting
Who wants to design the museumpeace talk table?
Was that Felix, Bishop of Passau, in the large painting hanging in the dining room?
Confucius [forgot to] say:
"You can only close that which is open, and only open that which is closed."
"Knox Knox"
"Who's there?"
"Descendent of Philippe le Beau."
"Then Haps right in."
Make that a peace talk table with musical chairs! Sehnsucht nach dem Paradies!
"Knox Knox"
"Who's there?"
"Fatima Mestani."
"Brava"
in other news:
twelve year old daughter of top general marries fourteen year old emperor--this will greatly effect the state of world fashion
Oh Holy Hearts at Altötting.

2004.01.13 15:05
elliptical fluency
Is that like a babble of tongues?
If Napoleon had fled to America exactly like his brother Joseph, he would have spent the rest of his life in and around Philadelphia (as opposed to the remote(st) island, St. Helena). When Joseph fled, he took one of the gold crests that were originally on either side of Napoleon's Imperial coronation coach--today a prized possession of the Philadelphia Athenaeum. Jim Williams of Savannah owned the other Napoleonic crest during the later decade of his life.
Napoleon, of course, finds it hilarious that one of the latest theories about what illnesses he may have had is that he was gradually changing into a female. He still laughs about it at least a couple of times a day. "Yes, it was all because of that stupid solitaire game I played everyday!" And then he starts laughing all over again.
When Rubens writes within "My Rita Novel Idea" it will not be in his customary Italian, rather his completely rare modern English.
Jail House reading material:
Music for Chameleons
by Truman Capote


2004.01.14 14:31
the Design List Configuration
If design-l goes anti political content, will that mean that content regarding Helena will be censored? She was an empress and that's a political position isn't it?
And what about talking about the design of Washington DC? That place is a political hotbed isn't it?
Imagine knowing someone with the personality of the aging Maximianus Herculius. I'm kinda seeing that now. This might just help a lot when Eutropia writes within "My Rita Novel Idea" since she was married to the guy.
from soup du jour to deja vu:
"During High Mass in the Frauenkirche on Corpus Christi Day 1875 [Otto] had caused a public scandal by bursting into the church 'dressed in a shooting jacket and wide-awake', throwing himself on the altar steps at the feet of the Archbishop and loudly confessing his sins."

Otto lived till 1916, thus spent something like forty years confined to three rooms within a 'schloss' on the outskirts of Munich.

2004.01.14 14:34
Re: elliptical fluency
Jim Williams died today fourteen years ago, in the same room where Danny was shot dead by Jim. Oddly, I had a good time in the room. Napoleon was sort of there too, along with that hourglass filled with specks of gold--"A minute of your life."

Savannah timeline online.
Licinius and Constantia are not represented within The Marriage of Constantine and Fausta. Only second-guessing scholarship says so. And the two figures on the left are not oblivious.
Several von Ows live near Altötting.
"So how does Eva Stotesbury relate to Helena?" Nancy asked. "Eva hangs-out a lot with Cardinal Dougherty (ever since getting to know well him at the opening of Whitemarsh Hall), and Cardinal Dougherty High School is a big part of St. Helena Parish, Philadelphia. And weren't you married in St. Helena's Church?!?" the reclusive pilgrim replied.
At first I thought Eva was going to be the big camp, but now I think it's going to be the two-deck Napoleon.
Contrary to his mortal existence, Ludwig II is now the exact opposite of a recluse, quite the popular "King of Tourism", and quite the intellectual as well. Perhaps he will share his dissertation on reenactment (if you can stand all the autobiographical parts).
Has anyone here (besides me) ever read The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill? How do you design a quartz pyramid so that it doesn't engender an atomic explosion? Is that why the ancient Egyptians fancied bald heads?



1983
Jan. 5 - Georgia Supreme Court grants Williams a new trial "because we cannot and will not approve corruption of the truth-seeking function of the trial process." The Court blamed the prosecutors, not the judge, for problems.
Jan. 19 - The state attorney general's office joins the prosecution in urging the Supreme Court to reconsider its opinion.
Jan. 27 - The Georgia Supreme Court denies without comment a request to reconsider the reversal of the murder conviction of Williams.
April 7 - A May 31 date is set for the start of the second trial.
April 11 - The date for the second trial is reset for Aug. 8 due to attorney Cook's schedule.
July 30 - Williams hires new lawyers. He is to be represented by Savannah lawyer Frank "Sonny" Seiler, with assistance from Atlanta lawyer Austin E. Catts and his associate Donald F. Samuel. The change was prompted by a trial conflict that had Bobby Lee Cook in federal court in Florida. Co-counsel John Wright Jones withdrew from the case. As a result there is a request for a month's delay of the Aug. 8 retrial.
Sept. 7 - Lawyers for Williams request a week's delay in the retrial. The defense accused the prosecution of "trial by ambush."
Sept. 12 - Prosecutors ordered to turn over materials that could be beneficial to Williams in his retrial.
Sept. 14 - Judge Oliver orders all witnesses to report attempts to silence them by either side in the case.
Sept. 18 - The second trial begins with jury selection.
Sept. 26 - Fourteen jurors are selected. The jury is to be sequestered for the duration of the trial. Since the trial is expected to take two weeks, six of the fourteen jurors protest. The protests are rejected. The seven men and five women and the two women alternates are ordered to bring what is necessary for an extended stay.
Sept. 27 - One protesting juror changes his mind and remains while two others are released. The jury consists of six men and six women, with a man and a women as alternates. Testimony begins.
Oct. 8 - The 11-day trial ends with Williams convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. The jury deliberated less than three hours before returning to court about 8:35 p.m. with the guilty verdict.
Oct. 10 - Defense lawyers request appeal bond for Williams. Meanwhile, Williams is held in a medical cell away from the general inmate population in Chatham County jail. Sheriff Carl Griffin says that was done for "security reasons."
Oct. 13 - Williams is moved to a security cell with five other inmates.
Oct. 19 - Defense lawyers ask for bond pending Williams' appeal.
Oct. 31 - Williams' appeal bond is denied.
Nov. 3 - Judge Oliver blocks the move of Williams into the state prison system while he appeals his murder conviction.
Nov. 30 - Defense lawyers appeal the denial of bond for Williams.

1984
Jan. 4 - Williams blames news media for his conviction.
Jan. 24 - Defense lawyers drop bond appeal.
March - Leopold Adler is awarded the 1983 Mary Gregory Jewett Award for distinguished service in the field of preservation. It is presented by the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.
May 7 - Defense lawyers get postponement of a hearing of their new trial motion in the wake of new evidence that victim Hansford may have tried to harm Williams.
May 9 - New trial requested based on the discovery of new evidence.
May 29 - Another witness comes forward claiming Hansford planned to harm Williams.
May 31 - Lawton charges that the new witnesses for the defense were offered money.
June 12 - Prosecutors file sealed affidavits in order to oppose a new trial for Williams.
June 14 - Williams says witnesses came forward voluntarily and without any inducement from himself or anyone acting on his behalf.
June 27 - Prosecutors filed another sealed affidavit contesting the credibility of the new evidence presented by the defense.
July 2 - Williams attorneys ask that two affidavits by prosecutors be thrown out.
July 17 - Judge Oliver sets a deadline of Aug. 6 in the "affidavit war" waged by the defense and prosecution.
Aug. 6 - Judge Oliver takes under study a bid for a new trial for Williams.
Aug. 16 - Judge Oliver denies Williams a new trial.
Aug. 20 - Williams' lawyers plan to appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court for a new trial.
Sept. 4 - Frank S. Seiler formally served notice of an appeal of the murder conviction.
October - Savannah Landmark Rehabilitation Project Inc., established by Leopold Adler in 1974, faces foreclosure unless it pays the city of Savannah about $330,000 on a 1981 $1.6 million loan. In November, Landmark pays the city $313,000 as the final payment on the loan.
Nov. 2 - Leopold Adler is honored at the annual NAACP Freedom Fund banquet for providing low-income housing in the Victorian District through Landmark Savannah.

1985
John Berendt starts shuttling between Savannah and New York to collect materials for "The Book" that has Savannah as its focus. He will continue his trek until 1990.
Feb. 4 - Arguments for a new trial are presented before the Georgia Supreme Court.
June 11 - The Georgia Supreme Court overturns the murder conviction of Williams and orders a new trial - the third.
June 13 - Williams seeks release on bond as he awaits his trial. He has been in jail since the conviction.
June 19 - Judge Oliver refuses to set bond for Williams until formal word arrives from the Georgia Supreme Court of its reversal.
June 20 - Prosecutors asked Supreme Court to reconsider its June 11 reversal.
June 28 - The Supreme Court denies a rehearing of the June 11 ruling overturning the conviction of Williams.
July 1 - Formal notification arrives of the Supreme Court's decision.
July 3 - Williams is granted a $250,000 bond and leaves the Chatham County Jail.
Sept. 9 - Emma Kelly, the "Lady of 6000 Songs", opens Emma's Piano Lounge on Bay St.
Sept. 19 - Pre-trial motions are scheduled for Oct. 21.
November - Leopold Adler is part of a group of Savannahians that meet with Prince Charles in Washington, D.C. The prince wanted to meet with representatives of ''successful U.S. urban revitalization and neighborhood revitalization efforts.''

On 15 July 1815, Napoleon was exiled to the remote tiny volcanic island of St. Helena, south of the Equator. The nearest land is Ascension Island, 1,120 km (700 miles) to the north.
Accompanied by some of his generals who chose to go into exile with him, Napoleon lived in Longwood House on St. Helena. He passed time by dictating his memoirs and playing billiards.
The wallpaper in his room was dyed with Scheele's Green, a colouring pigment that had been used in fabrics and wallpapers from around 1770. Named after the Swedish chemist who invented it, the dye contained copper arsenite. In 1893 an Italian biochemist called Gosio discovered that if wallpaper containing Scheele's Green became damp, the mould converted the copper arsenite to a poisonous vapour form of arsenic. Breathing the arsenic on its own might not have been enough to kill Napoleon, but he already was ill with a stomach ulcer. On the 5 May 1821, the arsenic tipped the scale against "the little corporal."
Napoleon was buried on St Helena, but his body was later reburied in Paris on the banks of the Seine. He wish to be cremated was not respected.
Napoleon took a retinue with him to St. Helena. Of his loyal followers, six are of particular importance. Three of the six were with him during the entire period of the exile, 1815-1821. These were his loyal valet, Louis Marchand; his Grand Marshall, Henri Bertrand; and his principal adviser, Count Charles deMontholon. Bertrand's and deMontholon's wives accompanied them. Portraits of Marchand, Bertrand and de Montholon reveal three handsome men, and Fanny Bertrand and Albine deMontholon are strikingly beautiful. Even allowing for the flattery common to 19th century portraitists, they are an attractive group of actors in this drama. The remaining three significant servants are Franceschi Cipriani; Napoleon's jack-of-all-trades, Emmanuel Las Cases; his literary adviser, and Gaspard Gourgaud; an artillery officer and general assistant.
A number of physicians parade through the period of exile, the most interesting of which (in order) are Barry O'Meara, Francesco Antommarchi, and Alexander Arnott.
This cast of characters is important because it is from them that we have the record of Napoleon's exile and death. Four of them (Marchand, Bertrand, deMontholon, and O'Meara) wrote detailed memoirs. From the others, we have various documents, letters, reports and snatches of observations. If we are to presume that Napoleon did not die of natural causes, it is from among these players that we must hunt for our murderer.
Finally, we have the strange governor of St. Helena, Napoleon's jailor, Sir Hudson Lowe.
One of the most recent and outlandish theories was that Napoleon was actually suffering from Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome, a glandular, hormone-related disease that may have actually been turning him into a woman (Magnusson, 1985:93)! Magnusson, M (ed). Readers Digest Book of Facts, (1985). Readers' Digest: London.
In 1982 a US specialist Dr Robert Greenblatt, came up with a new diagnosis suggesting that, far from being a sick man, the former emperor of France was becoming a sick woman. Dr Greenblatt, who specialises in the study of hormones, says that Napoleon was suffering from a glandular disease called the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. The disease, he says, explains why one of the doctors who examined the emperor's body after his death observed: 'His type of plumpness was not masculine; he had beautiful arms, rounded breasts, white soft skin (and) no hair.'
The disease, which was not understood at the time, left another clue, according to Dr Greenblatt. Napoleon was an ardent lover during his marriage to his first wife, Josephine but he admitted that he had little interest in lovemaking after he married his second wife. Marie Louise, in 1810.
Napoleon tried to poison himself once, in April 1814 after surrendering to the Allies. However, the phial he used was two years old and had lost its potency. It merely gave him a violent attack of hiccups, which made him vomit and saved his life. Without the hiccups, the 1815 Battle of Waterloo would probably never have taken place.

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