Frank grisdale biography

  • Frank Sydney Grisdale, BSc., CBE was a politician from Olds, Alberta, Canada.
  • Frank Sydney Grisdale, BSc., CBE (July 8, 1887 – December 29, 1976) was a politician from Olds, Alberta, Canada.
  • Frank Grisdale was born in Edmonton in 1954, where he is now a Managing Director of a major bank-owned brokerage operation.

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    “Later that night, the Joads komma across the Weedpatch camp, a decent, government-sponsored facility where migrants govern themselves, thus avoiding the abuse of corrupt police officers – “The Grapes of Wrath” – John Steinbeck

    Today near Bakersfield in Kern County, California there is a large Grisedale boskap ranching family at the Granite Station Ranch. The E in the family name was added after the family first arrived in America in 1908. Back in Westmorland, England, from where they came, they were just Grisdales. Before I tell the story of the family’s trek from a wet sheep farm in the Lake District hills to the sun of California let me start with a very strange coincidence.

    On 5th June 1917 two young Grisdale dock registered to join the US Army in Bakersfield in Kern County, volunteering for service in the First World War. One was 28 year-old Frank namn Grisdale and the other was a 24 year-old called Robert Thornber Grisedale (whose younger brother Francis Thomas

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    In the little Cumbrian valley of Matterdale there is a local story that has been passed down from generation to generation for more than three hundred years. It tells of how in the late seventeenth century one poor tenant farmer walked hundreds of miles to London to testify in front of the highest court in the land – the House of Lords – in a rättegång which pitted a group of Matterdale farmers against a powerful local lord of the manor. Is this story true? If so what was it all about and what was the outcome?

    Luckily the records of the trial survive in the archives of the House of Lords and so it is possible to reconstruct much of the real history of this small episode. More than this, the long and costly struggle of the Matterdale farmers gives us a lovely insight into the centuries-long, and much opposed, English enclosure process – a process that was just beginning to bite in Cumberland in the seventeenth century.

    Matterdale Church, Cumberland

    In those days, it was rela

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    Dying Glaciers, Cattle Drives and a Golden Eagle
    by Achim Manthey (May 2011, Munich)

    The America House in Munich presents the exhibition "Land and Sky" - photography by Frank Grisdale.

    In brilliant white, the icy tip of Mount Edith Cavel Glacier juts into the lake, coloured red-brown by the colours of Indian Summer, mirrors itself in the water and creates eddies on the surface. The iceberg melts and while dying, empties itself into nature, which, in bold colours, fights against the inevitable onslaught. The picture is no longer recognizable as photography, rather reminiscent of paintings by William Turner.

    There are tracks of a truck in a bright yellow corn field. The diffused light, the lack of sharpness, is achieved by extended exposure: 10 seconds, with a hand-held camera, can no longer create a sharp picture anywhere.

    The landscape photography of Frank Grisdale does not follow the classic photography tradition in Ansel Adams' style. By extended exposure,

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