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<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">How in all that's wonderful am I to
answer Jackie's question re my name and make a story out of it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Standard opening of many an ancient
fairytale/story:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Once upon a time! just before the
outbreak of World War II, a girl child was born to Myrie and Bert Blanch.
: was there any connection between the two momentous events? that,
said girl child cannot say: maybe YES, maybe NO</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Now </FONT><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">what to call the screeching little brat!
COUGH!! <A href="mailto:COUGH!!COUGH@sweetest">COUGH!! </FONT><FONT
size=4 face="Times New Roman">COUGH!! sweetest</A> of all sweet little
bundles of joy: "Joy!" now there's a possibility, but then Bert's sister,
Allie, came up with the perfect alternative: Jewel: thanks be to
whoever is in charge of maming screeching little brats for planting that name in
Auntie Allie's mind!! </FONT><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">When Jewel was,
perhaps, 10 years old, Myrie was reading the magazine the Australian Pics,
when she saw something she never expected to see: another Jewel Blanch who
lived in that continent with her father, Arthur.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">, Bert had a brother Arthur, but the
two names Arthur and Jewel Blanch, were, purely coincidental, but, one would
think that there must, surely, be some distant familial connection.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">The article Myrie had seen in the
Australian Pics was to do with Arthur Blanch and his 4-year-old daughter being
on a c&w concert tour.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">I, that screeching little brat of 80
years ago, came across Jewel Blanch again after she had emmigrated to the USA
and was a member of the C&W music fraternity there, and later became a movie
actress, and in one of the movies in which she appeared, she was a blind college
student, and, according to friends of mine, she took on that character very
realistically.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Now, I have given up, as you, no doubt,
have noted, trying to write a factual story: when people find out that my
name is , not Jill, joules, Jules,Julia, or,
even, Dawn as a high school teacher of mine insisted it was: but
Jewel, they all, invariably say: " what a lovely name!"
an observation with which I, wholeheartedly, agree.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">However, it is a very strange thing
that all sorts of variants are used, but Jewel very, rarely, is: a fact
for which I am, profoundly, grateful. I don't want to be one of a
crowd.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Actually, one of my two sisters also
has an unusual name, Deslie! I don't know if my Auntie Allie had a hand in
that as well!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Sorry Chris for there being no
story!!!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">
Jewel</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=stylist@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">Jackie via Stylist</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 10, 2019 1:13 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=stylist@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:stylist@nfbnet.org">'Writers' Division Mailing List'</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=jackieleepoet@cox.net
href="mailto:jackieleepoet@cox.net">Jackie</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Stylist] 250 years ago today</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">Jewel,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">I found this history of New
Zealand to be fascinating. My reasons are personal. One of my three mountain
climbing partners moved from Africa, where we climbed the Ruwenzori mountains,
back to England, then to Nigeria, then to Papua New Guinea for ten years, then
married a girl from Australia, and they then moved to New Zealand. I am not sure
what town he lives in, but he has climbed most of the mountains, has written the
first installment of his very comprehensive autobiography, and has a grown son
living in New Zealand also. His son is into photography and has a website called
Two Bearded Men, I believe.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">I agree with Brigit that an
article where you combine a particular part of the history you have related is
complemented by your personal exposure to that bit of the history would be a
place for you to experiment. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">Have you ever been out in the
bush with the Maori? If so, you could expand on their native lore and bush
skills. This is assuming, of course, that are not still practicing
Cannibalism!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">Have you been involved in any
way with the recent mass shooting, and gun legislation, or know anybody that has
been?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">I am interesting in your own
history, how you got there, do you have a family, have you t raveled very much,
etc. You could pick one of Annie’s story starters, and make it your personal
story weaving into some aspect of New Zealand’s history.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">I finally spelled out your name.
I was hearing it phonetically as Jule, and I thought you were a male. You could
even tell us how you got the beautiful name Jewel.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">I will look forward to whatever
you write.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'>Jacqueline
Williams<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'>Clarity
is just questioning having eaten its fill.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial",sans-serif; COLOR: #1f497d'>
Jenny Xie<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B>From:</B> Stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>Jewel via Stylist<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 05, 2019
9:13 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Writers' Division Mailing List
<stylist@nfbnet.org><BR><B>Cc:</B> Jewel <jewelblanch@kinect.co.nz>;
blindlikeme@yahoogroups.com; GoatsPlus@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[Stylist] 250 years ago today<o:p></o:p></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>Captain James
Cook first sighted New Zealand : or to be more precise: Nick Young,
one of the most junior midshipmen of the Endeavour's crew: did, when he
was on watch in the Crow's nest: on October 6 1769 , exactly 250 years ago
today.<BR> As a reward for his sharpness of eye, the piece of
God's Own: New Zealand: Aotearoa [ Land of the Long White Cloud]
that he spotted bears his name: Young Nick's Head: and is the cape
that is the southernmost arm of Poverty Bay.</SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>NOTE:
There is more about this name at the end of this letter. END
OF NOTE.</SPAN><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Times New Roman",serif'>The ship's
heading was adjusted and it sailed for the cape that Nick had reported and from
there it was only a matter of <BR>turning the ship's helm a smidgeon, and the
Endeavour sailed into Poverty Bay: Cook's first, of several,
landfalls.<BR>This was quite opposite to the strategy of the Dutch
navigator, Abel Tasman who was the first <BR>European to sight this
new country in 1642 and who, incidentally, bestowed the name of New Zealand
<BR>upon it: he, merely sailed around the coastline, never once touching
land, which, as will be found <BR>a little later in this telling was perhaps, a
very wise decision. <BR>Now having jumped back into our time machine and pressed
the button marked 1769, we see the Endeavour sailing into the bay that bears the
rather unprepossessing one of Poverty Bay. Note: that is not the,
original, Maori name and there will be more on that later.<BR>As I said at the
beginning of this letter, that was, to the day, 250 years ago, but here we are,
now having to beg the Maoris forgiveness for the fact that when the Endeavour
entered the bay, the <BR>welcome she and those aboard received from the locals
was, a tad, and quite a big tad at that, less <BR>than friendly.<BR>At the sight
of a fleet of war canoes paddled at speed and packed with heavily-armed
warriors, the <BR>Endeavour's crew resorted to cannon fire as a warning, but
this was ignored so, to ram the point <BR>home, instead of firing wide, the next
cannonball landed in one canoe, killing 11 of its occupants: I thought
that that showed a great deal of restraint as, without breaking into a sweat,
the entire fleet and all aboard could have been sent to the bottom.<BR>Unlike
the tribes of the North American continent, the Maoris did not have bows
and arrows, so all <BR>fighting, and there being no love lost between many of
the tribes, there was plenty of that, all <BR>weapons were for hand to hand
combat.<BR>Now I don't know if the next incident that I am about to relate
occurred in Poverty Bay or not, but <BR>Cook's men went ashore to gather water
to refill the ship's water barrels, and when they failed to <BR>return, a second
party was sent out to search for them, and they were successful, well!
successful <BR>insofar as they found what was left of the water party:
left after the Maoris had ambushed, killed <BR>and roasted and eaten
them!<BR>Which was the more heinous of the two incidents? At least the
Endeavour's crew didn't cannibalise their victims!!!<BR>But are we of European
descent asking that our dark-skinned brethren go down on their knees and offer
their abject apology for what was done by their rellies of 250: and
less: years ago?<BR>Harking back to those North Island east coast
bays: there are two in particular: the Bay of Plenty and its
immediate neighbour, Poverty Bay.<BR>When the Endeavour dropped anchor in the
Bay of Plenty, unlike the hostility demonstrated by its neighbour, when the crew
went ashore, they were welcomed and shown every kindness and the ship was
reprovisioned: hence the Bay of Plenty, but when they paid a second visit
to the neighbouring bay, and this time, being well armed with revolvers, the
Maoris having learned a lesson from the ships's previous visit, they did not
offer any outward show of hostility, but neither were they forthcoming with help
of any description: hence Poverty Bay, "and you can put that in your pipes
and smoke it, and we won't even give you the tobacco, whatever tobacco
is!"<BR>On February 17th of this year, one of the district councellors proposed
that Poverty Bay have a dual name: its current one and its original Maori
one. If it wasn't for the fact that the Maori one is a heck of a mouthful
for us, tongue-tied New Zealanders of European descent, I would have said "Ditch
Poverty Bay as the region is far from being poverty-stricken. so the
region would be: Te Reo Turanganui A Kiwa Poverty Bay.<BR>I can envisage
the Maori name being shortened to Turanganui, which would, in time and given
practice: heaps of it: , be quite manageable. The largest
town: or is it a city? is Gisborne, and the largest populace in the
Bay of Plenty is Tauranga, so there might be a little confusion there at first,
but, at the present, I think that the proposal is writ in water, and not in
stone!<BR> Jewel </SPAN><SPAN
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