Robert H Jackson Center (1/14/2025)

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 (continued)

The Robert H Jackson Center honors and promotes the legacy
of the man who was US Solicitor General, US Attorney General,
US Supreme Court Justice, and Chief US Prosecutor of the
International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg (after World War II) 

The Center envisions a global society where the universal principles of equality, fairness, and justice prevail. (At this time, that goal seems unattainable...)

The Center sends a copy of the biography of Jackson
to each new Supreme Court Justice asking that person
to sign the book; many of the justices return the book
with a note about how Jackson was an inspiration

The book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The desk used by Robert Jackson when he practiced law in
Jamestown, and it was also manufactured in Jamestown:
a Feudal Oak Desk (1928-1930, by Jamestown Lounge Co)

Chairs were custom-built for the Supreme
Court Justices by the Jamestown-Royal 
Upholstery Company from 1935-1950;
Jackson was an Associate Justice (1941-1954)

This chair was used by Jackson when
he was Solicitor General of the
United States (1938-1940)

The desk used by Jackson in Nuremburg
(1945-1946) sits under the flags that flew
outside the Palace of Justice during
the Nuremburg Trials, and represent the
four nations that signed the London Charter
and Agreement, the legal basis for the Trials,
which Jackson helped to draft

Permanent Exhibit: Nuremburg Photos by Raymond D'Addario:

Justice Jackson in Nuremburg

View of the courtroom

The 21 defendants at the Nuremburg Trials

Permanent Exhibit: Perpetrators (lithographs by artist Sidney Chafetz, which included the 21 defendants prosecuted by Jackson):

The surname of the head of state council of Norway, 
Vidkun Quisling, has become a term to describe a citizen
or politician of an occupied country who collaborates
with the enemy; a traitor or collaborator

Albert Speer

Rudolph Hess

Showing that German citizens did
support the Nazi cause

Joseph Goebbels, who became Chancellor when Hitler
committed suicide, committed suicide with his wife
a day later after poisoning their six children

The Center owns the Hunt House (1858, in Italianate style)

Back hall fireplace, still decorated
for Christmas

Grand staircase

The parlor was decorated by a local designer

The parlor

The Hunt House was previously owned by the Scottish
Rite Masonic Temple who added the auditorium to the rear
of the house; Robert Jackson was a member of the lodge and
received the 33rd Degree of Freemasonry (framed in red)

Hunt House music room

Library/study

Dining room that once hosted President U S Grant

Lots of restored woodwork in the house,
including internal window shutters
that folded into the walls

Statue (1995, by Dexter Benedict) of
Justice Robert H Jackson

Another view of the statue (yes, it is snowing)

Punxsutawney, PA (1/14/2025)

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Thirteen degrees Fahrenheit!

We know we are a few weeks early, but decided to avoid the crowds to see Punxsutawney Phil.

Officer Phil and Fury, one of the 41 Phantastic Phils
that can be found around town

Phillage stands outside of Phil's
Burrow in the Memorial Library

Phil's Burrow is where Phil, the prognosticating
groundhog, lives throughout the year

Looking inside Phil's Burrow

There appear to be multiple groundhogs in the
burrow; Phil lives here with his wife, Phyllis,
and their two children, Sunny and Shadow,
who were born in March of 2024

A realistic sculpture (1977, by Jimilu Mason)
of Punxsutawney Phil

Get Your Fill of Roses

Slice to Meet You

Postcards from Phil

Punksutenink Phil (Lenni Lenape)

The Wizard of Weather

You Can't Keep a Good Phil Down

There's Work to be Done

Oh The Places We Will Go

The Spirit of Punxsutawney (The
Punxsutawney Spirit is the local newspaper)

Phil the Flames

IUPhil (Indiana University of
Pennsylvania - Punxsutawney)

Mary A Philson: Undercover (apparently
a Mary Wilson was a beloved librarian)

Fireman Phil

Hope-Phil

Philatelic Phil

Phil My Prescription Please

Through the Eyes of Pizzeria Phil

Photo Op at Gobbler's Knob,
with the stage in the background

Gobbler's Knob is a couple miles from downtown, but
here is the tree stump where Punxsutawney Phil emerges
each Groundhog Day (February 2nd); if he sees his
 shadow, it means there will be six more weeks
of winter, and if not, spring will come early

Kent and Rob G, a member of the Inner Circle
(a group of local dignitaries responsible for carrying
on the tradition of Groundhog Day every year);
although today Rob was working on the display habitat
for Sunny and Shadow, in his real job he is known as
'Storm Builder' and he wears a tux and top hat
to greet Punxsutawney Phil on Groundhog Day

"Storm Builder" is following in the
footsteps of his father, and grandfather
(who is seen in the top photo)

There is 'Storm Builder' in tux and top hat,
on the left in this photo

Punxsutawney Phil is at least 138 years old, thanks
to his Elixir of Life that he receives in September
of each year; for each sip Phil takes of the elixir, he
receives seven more years of life and longevity

Groundhog Day paraphernalia includes scrolls from the past;
each year the Vice President of the Inner Circle prepares
two scrolls; after Phil emerges from the tree stump, he
speaks in Groundhogese to tell the President of his
prediction, and the President uses the cane to point to the
appropriate scroll to be read in proclamation to the world

Leaving Punxsutawney, we saw another
groundhog sculpture