Elizabeth Hadaway

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Highland Virginian in Buffalo, New York; poet (Fire Baton from U of Arkansas Press, chapter of WVU’s Appalachian Reckoning, etc) priest (Episcopalian)

Mirrored plaque the size of a U.S. automobile license plate, partially painted in black. The remaining mirrored surface reads “REMEMBER ECCL. NOW 12.1. THY CREATOR IN THE DAYS OF THY YOUTH.” The “now” is curved like a rainbow. It was made around 1931.
Bright yellow stationery postcard with the name of Douglas Adams printed in red on the upper left corner. Handwritten in black is “Thank you for your letter, good to have helped with the problem of being fourteen. The obvious solution is to be fifteen for a bit. Best wishes, Douglas Adams”
passage from “The Masque of the Red Death”: in no one of the seven apartments was there any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof. There was no light of any kind emanating from lamp or candle within the suite of chambers. But in the corridors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite to each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire, that projected its rays through the tinted glass and so glaringly illumined the room. And thus were produced a multitude of gaudy and fantastic appearances…”
Four Shoney’s/Bob’s Big Boy statues in red and white checkered overalls. Each one’s left hand is hooked on his gallus strap, right hand holding up a burger about the size of his head (burger and head sizes, along with paint jobs, vary). Two smaller Betty Boops offer menus, maybe? Hard to tell at this scale.
necklace of green sunburst florals, blackberry-colored beads, and a green/yellow/russet ceramic focal
detail of a beaded necklace with a butterfly focal in some kind of stone that changes colors and now is striped blue/gold, but in other lights looks sea-grey
Necklace of delicate sparkly green beads and a gleaming baroque pearl
Sewn beaded bracelet in black, white, and lavender-colored flowers; torc-shaped cuff with purple glass focal
Burl Ives, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955. Burly bearded balding guitarist in string tie and checked shirt with jacket for cosying up to HUAC.
A tiny salt spoon with a shell-shaped bowl, spiral handle, and William Shakespeare (clutching book and quill, in plain collar) at the end.
Henry Wallis’s extremely romanticized painting of the poet/forger Thomas Chatterton slumped in his garret deathbed.
Column of index page with “ph” spelling
A frilly rose, apricot-colored at the center and pale peach at its outer petals, blooming with some gnawed rose leaves in the background.
Futuristic towers of Canadian Niagara Falls aspiring distantly over white clouds in a blue sky. In the foreground, the river just before it falls from the U.S. side. It is the blue-green of mini-golf fountains at Ocean City or Myrtle Beach, distant imitations of this Platonic form.
The Lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook, with three mice carrying dinner fixings and the motto “as my whimsy takes me” over the names of authors Elizabeth Bond Ryan and William J. Eakins.
A turtle, lit by the setting sun, heads into the surf.
Dark wooden lectern bearing the seal of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on the lighter wooden boardwalk outside a newly renovated Beach Patrol building. Something official about to happen.
An east-facing altar dressed for the vigil overnight from Maundy Thursday to Good Friday: cross veiled in red, red presence lamp, white linen, Easter lilies.
Antiphon 9 chant text: I have become like one who has no strength, cut off from your hand, lost among the dead.
Later and hand-tinted copy of a photograph of a white man in his early twenties, wearing a dark blue Union uniform. Three stripes on the collar and buttons down the jacket front have been highlighted in gold paint. His mustache is a thick dark crescent, his hair also thick and temporarily ruly under whatever pomade or bear grease restrains it.
Bright yellow daffodils blooming in front of a grey Onondaga limestone wall.
Three necklaces in tones of blue, pale purple, and silver. The purple one features a white quartz pendant in the shape of a five-pointed star. The most metal is twisted into a whole planetary system, with rings and multicolored moons.
a mug printed with “What Would George Herbert Do?” lettering and engraving of George in his long dark hair sits in a Onondaga limestone church porch. Snow on snow behind the mug, purple and yellow flowers in it.
Ceramic cookie jar shaped like an owl, with a smaller owl perched on its head. Yellow and orange daisies sprout unaccountably from the large owl’s chest and the small owl’s feet. It could only be more 1970s if it were macrame.
Lemon with what were, a month ago on New Year’s Eve, perky piglet ears cut from its peel, cloves for eyes, and a curly aluminum foil tail. It has hardened, its brow furrowed, its lips drawn back so the head of the dime in its mouth looks even more severed. Lemon Pig, what big pores you have!
East-facing altar dressed for Epiphany with seven-branched candelabra lit.
puzzled-looking lemon pig
A pig made of a lemon, with cloves for eyes, cuts in the peel sticking up a little as ears, a coin in its mouth under the lemon-end snout, and wooden skewer legs. It is a dream of the 1970s, of pinecone-shaped cheese balls and hope
Portable courts or targets for the sport of curling stretch out in the foreground, the shadows of bare tree branches across their white faux-ice and the flat green lawn of Buffalo’s Richardson Complex. In the distance, the pointy nineteenth century towers of the vast building reach for a briefly bright blue sky.
White mug with a seventeenth-century print of George Herbert looking lean and possibly tubercular. His hair is lush, though! It flows down over his ostentatiously plain linen collar in mannerly waves, like an ad for home-brewed rosemary vinegar rinse. The initial letters of What Would George Herbert Do? lurk at his right side.
a pair of woolen socks, hand-knit in self-striping yarn. There are orange stripes among the green, red, white, and gold ones.
Mothman statue in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. He has big red eyes, a Charles Atlas torso, and bits of cloud visible through the holes in his wings. Photo by Michelle Cassidy for Atlas Obscura
Wytheville Office Supply sign in the shape of a two-story high yellow pencil dangling over a small-town street, like the pencil of Damocles
variety of clouds in a blue sky, with a faint rainbow in the fainter stripey clouds
New River Gorge Bridge, above the mist
bracelet of teardrop-shaped freshwater pearls, bracelet of ravens, necklace of onyx and electroplated blue roses with obsidian raven-skull pendant, necklace with porcelain skull with mother-of-pearl leaves in art deco tray
Most of a moon visible in blue sky beside the limestone bell tower of a Richardsonian Romanesque Episcopalian church in Buffalo, New York
double rainbow in a grey sky; the low northern sun lighting up a melange of red and reddish-green deciduous trees; one distant evergreen
A globe of green glass with black silhouettes of jack o’lanterns, bats, late-autumnal trees, non-gory Halloween friends. Light inside the globe casts the shadows of all these creatures onto the surrounding corner of wall and bookshelf. If the Keats poem “O thou whose face hath felt the winter’s wind” were a lamp in a goth bar, it would be this one.
Charles Wesley, On Sympathisers with the American Revolution (first page)
The Lord Peter Wimsey Cookbook, by Elizabeth Bond Ryan and William J. Eakins
newly unwrapped book entitled The Importance of Being Furnished: Four Bachelors at Home, by R. Tripp Evans
Light peach rose with deeper undertones, opening, surrounding by rosebuds. Robert Herrick would tell you to gather it.
Pale yellow roses with deeper yellow and apricot centers. One, in focus, opening with raindrops on its petals. Others, more fully blown or not yet open, below it and blurred. Below them all a damp sidewalk with bright green volunteers breaking through the cracks.
bingo card with question mark over “BBQ”
bingo card of likes/interests with Athanasius, Willie Jennings, Charles Wesley, and Bob Dylan in common (not Wendell Berry; we have decades-old beef)
ciborium veiled in white, with one candle burning beside it, on an east-facing altar with a gang of lilies at each side, and some daffodils
an east-facing altar of repose, seen through the space between two supporting columns
package of brown, Dr Pepper-flavored Peep marshmallow chicks
A pile of plowed snow blocks a garage door, almost covering the sign on the garage door that says “do not block garage door.”
shiny new copy of the Rowan Williams book Passions of the Soul
rabbit camouflaged by shadow and stone wall in snow
a grey rabbit taking shelter between a chain link fence and a grey stone wall, snow falling and sticking to the ground
mug with a picture of 17th century poet-priest George Herbert, looking peaky but proud of his shampoo-commercial hair as it rolls and flows all down his wide linen collar. Printed onto the darkness beside him are the letters W W G H D and a question mark
A red, rectangular kneeling cushion with needlepoint Edgar Allan Poe decorations.
a water-damaged ceiling tile, dangling loose from its place, seems to have been pushed open by a paw of packed blizzard snow. The paw reaches through the gap in the ceiling, exploring
Sherwood Anderson’s sailboat-shaped gravestone, near the top of a ridge in Appalachia (Marion, Virginia). The poet and priest Elizabeth Hadaway stands within the curve of the gravestone’s lichen-spotted sail, looking worn and grim.
view of a parking lot through glass doors. Snow is drifted up to the door handles, blocking the doorway from the outside. There’s a snow shovel in one corner but the photographer is trapped inside, unable to open the door to shovel anything.
detail of a carved wooden chair for the bishop of the Episcopal Church’s Diocese of Western New York, draped in various boughs of pine and whatnot
Three bells, each with three clappers, connected to one bell-pull. There’s probably a heresy this could illustrate. A blurry stained-glass window looms over a coat rack in the background.