October 29th is International Robin Hood Day. I have a very pretty illustrated book on the subject. It is “Robin Hood” retold and illustrated by Margaret Early, published 1996.
While the story is a solid one of Robin Hood’s stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, what is most appealing are the illustrations. When you read the book, every left page is verbage of the story, and the right side page is a full page lovely illustration. What Early also did, was use gold paint to highlight various points in each picture.
This is fighting Little John.
Robin’s first meeting with Maid Marian.
It is well done. I have collected other books that she has also illustrated the same way: “Romeo and Juliet”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “William Tell”, and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”. All of them are worth a second or even a third look.
Also interesting, is that my great-grandmother Lavinia Jane Hamby, has Hamby connections supposedly from Nottinghamshire, England. Just another project to keep researching.
While Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor. I have a story of stealing from the poor to just keep the riches. My wife’s great-uncle, John Galla lived out his last remaining years at the Edward’s home in Lake Villa.
October 29, 1929 was Black Tuesday. The market had dropped over 6.3% on Black Thursday, Oct 24, 1929, but on that next Monday and Tuesday, it dropped an additional 23%. That officially ruined many smaller investers, along with the large.
I was given a folder of John Galla’s stocks and bonds that were not worth anything. I have a few of his stocks framed and hanging on a wall. They began in 1919, and ended in 1932
I have more that are still in a folder, along with letters written to him from respective companies. Here are a few.
While the stocks are beautiful in their own right, I have some letters that are remarkable. For example, the letter framed on the wall picture, thanked him for buying 1000 shares of stock, but said he was dissapointed at the returns of other people. He then asked to help the company by buying more shares…
Another letter stated, sorry we lost money in the Wedge mine. I was able to transfer machinery to get back some of our losses, into another mine, and appreciate you wanting to look into this other mine. I can pro-rate your loss in the new mine. “The world must have minerals” and this mine shall work. Remember, my personal loss totalled $16,734.35, and I never sold a share. This one will meet expectations…
A third letter stated that I had sent you an earlier letter appealing for help, to preserve rights and titles to properties, as we had money issues. No one helped, and the properties was relocated by others, and has recently become a part of El Oro Mines, in which company I am interested. While we lost Oro Fino mine because no one would help financially, I still feel a certain moral obligation to set aside a portion of the new mine if you would like to purchase them…
To several of these type letters, he gave even more money (I have the stocks), in others he did not. In any case, it is very exciting to see some of this correspondence along with the certificates.
If one is a nudest because of the stock market, is it a bare market?
What has two holes for the eyes and a slit for the beak? A Robin Hood.
Where did Robin Hood buy flowers? Sherwood Florist.
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