![]() ![]() To encourage readers to join sooner than later (and to reduce our anxiety levels) we’ve adding some bonus incentive s. Even though our 500 Member goal is way less than 1% of the people who read the magazine every day, there’s a lot of chaotic energy out there and maybe some of you are even on vacation (a future we’d like to imagine)?! that narrative was a third parent-guiding me, shaping me, informing me.Īs I type this, we’re at 149 Rumpus Members, which puts us not-quite a third of the way (29%) toward our June goal of 500.īy now (a little more than halfway through June), we were hoping to be a bit past the mid-point of 250 members. The dominant adoption narrative that my parents had spared me from a terrible fate, that my birth mother had relinquished me out of love, that I had been saved. Relatives, friends, and strangers assured me the life I led in New York was better than anything my biological parents could have given me. Raised on Long Island by Irish Catholics, I grew up being reminded how blessed and how lucky I was to have been adopted. We boarded a plane bound for the United States and my new parents. When I was three-months-old, I was placed in the arms of an American soldier returning from the parallel that divides Korea. Sharkey will be curating this series, and she’s elaborated on the types of stories (and whom) she is hoping to feature below. Rumpus Essays Editor (and Book Club coordinator extraordinaire) Lauren J. We’re accepting essays (750-4,000 words) by adoptees from 11/1 through 12/31 via Submittable. Hopefully we can arrange to have another gathering here in the not too distant future so we can all enjoy the creativity and remembrance of this man who loved his time in the Navy.The Rumpus Blog Call for Submissions: November ’23 Themed Month All the walls (bulkheads) are wood paneled similar to an old ship with a mast going up through the ceiling as well as a miniature smokestack. ![]() The brig has the original steel door with a stack of four cots inside a small room just like the real brig! The "gedunk" which sailors used to call the soda fountain, is part of the present bar area and the galley has a 1920's antique electric oven/stove and refrigerator. In addition, to many old pictures of the ship, some walls have recessed scenes of oceans with an inside panel that moves when a button is pushed to give the impression of being on a ship at sea. Wow! And, these rooms are a maritime treasure." ![]() As Gary Piercy, VP-Navy League commented, "I had heard rumors about this radio shack but only thought it was a myth and didn't think it existed. He hosted the captain and four other members of the USS Oregon's crew along with some Navy League members to a tour recently. The creator of this maritime museum passed away in 1975 but the present owner, Dee Burch still maintains it all. In addition to the period radio equipment, he has recreated the ship's brig, gedunk (soda fountain), galley (kitchen) and a large wardroom which is used as a rumpus room now. Braun moved most of the radio equipment into his large basement and outfitted the adjoining rooms with a nautical theme. Over the years after acquiring the "radio shack", Mr. Carl Braun, who was a Navy radio operator in WWI and afterwards operated the paper mill in Oregon City, arranged to have the metal radio room moved to his backyard in West Linn, Oregon where it still stands today. The radio room was added to the battleship sometime just before WWI and removed when the ship was stripped of its superstructure in 1943. Captain Daniel Patrick, Commanding Officer remarked he was astonished that this still existed after so many years. One of the places the visiting crew members of the new USS Oregon (SSN 793) visited while touring Oregon recently was the actual radio room from the battleship USS Oregon (BB 3). USS Oregon (BB 3) Radio Shack With Present Owner Dee Bruch & PCU Oregon (SSN 793) Crew
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