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"Mercator Cooper, c. 1850 Mercator Cooper House in Southampton (now used as part of the town library). Mercator Cooper (September 29, 1803According to the 1850 U.S. Census. Southampton, Suffolk, NY, Roll:M432_602, p. 372; Southampton, Suffolk, NY; Roll:M653_865; p. 140. 1870; Southampton, Suffolk, NY, Series:M593, Roll:1101, p. 198 – spring 1872) was a ship's captain who is credited with the first formal American visit to Edo (now Tokyo), Japan and the first formal landing on the mainland East Antarctica. Both events occurred while sailing ships out of Sag Harbor, New York. ==Early life== Cooper was born in Southampton, New York, to Nathan and Olive (née Howell) Cooper, one of five children, three of whom survived to adulthood. He went to sea on a whaling vessel in the early 1820s. Records show that he visited Guangdong (China) and Patagonia (South America) on whaling expeditions, and that he became captain of a ship in 1832. He married Maria Green at the age of 24, and they had three children: Nathan (died in infancy), Maria, and Sarah. ==Visit of the Manhattan to Tokyo== On November 9, 1843, Cooper left Sag Harbor as captain of the 440-ton ship Manhattan on a whaling voyage. On March 14–15, 1845, its crew rescued 22 shipwrecked Japanese sailors in the Bonin Islands. The first 11 sailors were found on Tori-shima, where Manhattan anchored to hunt for turtles to supplement the ship's provisions, and were survivors from the Koho-maru wrecked en route to Edo. The next day 11 more sailors were found on a foundering Japanese boat Senju-maru (along with a detailed navigation map of Japan).A Cold Welcome in Japan; When a ship sailed into Tokyo's bay, it was met with curiosity and hostility, by Bill Bleyer, Newsday - Long Island Our Story Newsday, January 30, 2011, p. G6, specifies Bonin Islands. The Rotarian of May 1974, however, says the ship was near the Izu Islands, which are much closer to Tokyo Bay. The Manhattan set sail for Edo to repatriate the sailors. Outside Edo Bay four of the survivors took a Japanese boat with a message that Cooper wanted to deliver the remainder to the harbor.The cited Newsday article says four shipwreck survivors went ashore to deliver the message. However the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State thesis Commodore Perry’s 1853 Japanese Expedition: How Whaling Influenced the Event that Revolutionized Japan, by Terry Burcin, says that Cooper went ashore with two of the shipwrecked Japanese and explored the coast and then returned to his ship to await word. The Japanese normally wanted to avoid contact with outsiders due to the Tokugawa shogunate's official policy of national isolation. However, on April 18, 1845, an emissary from the shogunate gave the ship permission to proceed. "About three hundred Japanese boats with about 15 men in each took the ship in tow", according to Cooper's log. "They took all our arms out to keep till we left. There were several of the nobility came on board to see the ship. They appeared very friendly." Japanese accounts place the anchorage of Manhattan at Uraga, at the mouth of Tokyo Bay. It had been over 220 years since so many foreigners had been so close to the Japanese metropolis, but no one from the vessel was permitted to actually land in Japan. The Japanese examined his ship and took particular note of Pyrrhus Concer, a crewman from Southampton, Long Island, who was the only African American on board, and of a Shinnecock Native American named Eleazar. They were the first dark skinned men the Japanese had seen and they wanted to touch their skin. The interpreter from the Japanese side was Moriyama Einosuke, who would later serve during the Perry Expedition. The Japanese refused payment for provisions and gave the ship water, 20 sacks of rice, two sacks of wheat, a box of flour, 11 sacks of sweet potatoes, 50 fowl, two cords of wood, radishes and 10 pounds of tea, and a set of lacquer bowls for the captain, together with a letter from the Shogun. They thanked the Manhattan's crew for returning the shipwrecked sailors and told them to never return, not even to bring back more castaways, on pain of death. On April 21, 500 small boats towed the Manhattan 20 miles out to sea. Cooper took with him the map that charted the islands of Japan that had been found on the disabled Japanese ship. This is now located in the New Bedford Whaling Museum. News of Cooper's encounter was extensively publicized in the United States. Matthew Perry was said to have used the map on his visit to Japan on July 8, 1853. Cooper's home in Southampton is now owned by the Rogers Memorial Library. Pyrrhus Concer is buried in the North End Cemetery in Southampton across from Cooper's home. ==First visitor to Antarctica== In August 1851, Cooper again left Sag Harbor, this time as captain of the 382-ton ship Levant on a mixed whaling and sealing voyage.Starbuck (1878), pp. 490–91. Starbuck says Cooper sent home of "bone" (whalebone). Making a quick passage through the belt of pack ice in the Ross Sea, on January 26, 1853, he sighted land, an ice shelf backed by a high mountain some distant. The next morning, the ice shelf still in sight, with high mountains looming behind it, he sailed the ship close inshore and ordered a boat to be lowered. They made a landing on the ice shelf, reportedly seeing numerous penguins, but no seals – their chief objective. The landing occurred on what is now known as the Oates Coast of Victoria Land, in East Antarctica. It is arguably "the first adequately documented continental landing" in not only this area, but on the mainland of Antarctica itself. They stayed within sight of land for several days, sighting the Balleny Islands on February 2.Mills (2003), pp. 160–61.Antarctic Circle – Antarctic First At the conclusion of the voyage the Levant was sold in China. The logbook from the voyage is in the Long Island Room of the East Hampton Library in East Hampton (village), New York. ==Death== Cooper died in Barranquilla, Colombia, South America. His date of death is sometimes reported as March 23, 1872, or April 24, 1872. ==Notes== ==References== Category:1803 births Category:1872 deaths Category:Southampton (village), New York Category:People from Sag Harbor, New York Category:Explorers of Antarctica Category:American people in whaling Category:1845 in Japan Category:Sea captains Category:People from Southampton (town), New York "
"Jim Provenzano (born December 6, 1961) is an American author, playwright, photographer and currently an editor with the Bay Area Reporter. ==Life and work== Born in Queens, New York, Provenzano was raised in Ashland, Ohio and attended Kent State University from 1979–80 as a theater major, a summer internship at Porthouse Theatre in Akron, where he performed the title role in a 1980 production of The Who's musical Tommy. After transferring to Ohio State University in 1981, he graduated with a bachelor of fine arts in dance in 1985. While a student, he created stage works and video adaptations of dances, performed in works by fellow students and guest teachers Mark Taylor, Stephen Koester, Terry Creach. He received summer scholarships from the Dayton Ballet and Bill Evans Dance Company at Allegheny College. In 1985-1986 he lived in Pittsburgh and worked and toured with the Pittsburgh Dance Alloy. He also directed two Sam Shepard plays, Cowboy Mouth and Action as well as original performance works, in his rented expansive loft with theater seats. After moving to New York City in 1986, he performed with various modern dance choreographers, including Steve Gross and Bill Cratty, touring with Cratty's company for a year, and at The Yard on Martha's Vineyard in 1987. Provenzano created his own dance, music and performance works from 1987–92 in New York and performed at Franklin Furnace, P.S. 122, Dance Theatre Workshop Highways in Los Angeles and several other venues. In 1988, he directed, a New Jersey production of As Is. With a fellowship in Interdisciplinary Arts, he wrote, composed and designed the musical, Under the River, set in the World Trade Center's PATH station. It played at the Ohio Theatre in September 1998, produced with Theatre Tweed. In 1989 he began working as the publisher's assistant for OutWeek magazine and also contributed his first news and arts stories for editors Michelango Signorile, Sarah Pettit, and Gabriel Rotello. In 1990, he became the editor of the publication's offshoot Hunt, an entertainment weekly, before both publications folded in July 1991. Many of his former coworkers, including Dale Peck, Troy Masters and Walter Armstrong went on to continue publishing journalism and novels. During that time, he was also a member of both ACT UP and Queer Nation, participating in protests for both organizations. He also wrote freelance arts features for Frontiers, The Advocate, High Performance and San Francisco Sentinel, including interviews with Clive Barker, Chita Rivera, and Paul Bartel. Provenzano moved to San Francisco after visiting in 1992, when he was offered a position as an assistant editor for the Bay Area Reporter. He completed a language certificate at Florence's Scuola Leonardo da Vinci in 1995. In 1997, Provenzano completed a master of arts degree in English/creative writing at San Francisco State University. In 1996 then-Bay Area Reporter editor Mike Salinas asked him to write a sports column to cover the LGBT athletics community. Among the publication's first sports writers was Gay Games cofounder Tom Waddell. Sports Complex was published weekly until 2006. The column was internationally syndicated from 2004–06. Among the topics covered were the controversies of the California AIDSRide, financial controversies and accomplishments of the Gay Games and Outgames, as well as interviews with, and articles about, gay and lesbian athletes, including Esera Tuaolo, Jerry Smith, Glenn Burke, David Kopay, Billie Jean King, Greg Louganis, and several gay and lesbian Olympic athletes. Provenzano has frequently been interviewed in print, television, radio and films for his expertise on the LGBT athletics movement. Provenzano is also the author of six novels, most notably PINS (1999) about gay high school wrestlers. The book was included in more than a dozen college reading lists, and remained among the top ten bestselling gay fiction in 2000. Provenzano often trained, competed and medalled with the Golden Gate Wrestling Club from 1992 to 2006. He also competed and medalled in track and field events with the San Francisco Track & Field Club from 2003-2006. After being commissioned to adapt PINS to the stage, the work premiered at New Conservatory Theatre Center, running from August through September 2002. A Chicago staging took place in 2006. In 2003, Provenzano published Monkey Suits, about gay cater-waiters in 1980s Manhattan, and Cyclizen (2007) about a gay bicycle messenger in 1990s New York City, which both fictionalize his experiences in AIDS activism. Nearly two dozen anthologies published from 1998 to 2007 include his short stories and essays. In 2005, Provenzano was asked to guest-curate the world's first gay sports exhibit, Sporting Life: GLBT Athletics and Cultural Change from the 1960s to Today for the GLBT Historical Society in San Francisco. The exhibit displayed hundreds of items from more than 40 teams, and was extended through 2006. Provenzano returned as an Editor with the Bay Area Reporter in September 2006. In May, 2010, he co-created and became editor of BARtab, the Reporters (initially monthly, now weekly) LGBT nightlife guide. In March 2020, he was promoted to Culture Editor at the Bay Area Reporter. In December 2011, he published his fourth novel, Every Time I Think of You, about two gay teenage athletes in the 1970s, one of whom becomes a paraplegic. The novel won a Lambda Literary Award in 2012. March 20, 2014, he published Message of Love, the sequel to Every Time I Think of You, where in Philadelphia, the lead characters Reid and Everett go through their early 1980s college years at both Temple University and University of Pennsylvania as the AIDS epidemic approaches. The novel was selected as a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2015. In May, 2016, he published Forty Wild Crushes; stories. In 2018, he contracted with Beautiful Dreamer Press to publish his sixth novel, Now I'm Here, with a September 2018 publication. Set mostly in rural Ohio in the 1970s and 1980s, it focuses on the lives of a gay piano prodigy and the son of a pumpkin farmer. In June 2020, he published audiobook adaptations of his novels Every Time I Think of You and Message of Love with narrator Michael Wetherbee. Provenzano is openly gay. He currently lives in San Francisco. ==Works Fiction=== * PINS (1999) * Wrestling Team (German translation of PINS, 2003) * Monkey Suits (2003) * Cyclizen (2007) * Every Time I Think of You (2011) * PINS; audiobook adaptation (2013) * Message of Love (2014) * Forty Wild Crushes: stories (2016) * Now I'm Here (2018) * Every Time I Think of You; audiobook adaptation (2020) * Message of Love; audiobook adaptation (2020) ===Plays=== * PINS (2002, adapted from his novel) * Bootless Cries (1998) * Under the River (1988) ===Honors=== * Lambda Literary Award finalist (Gay Romance) 2015, for the novel Message of Love * Lambda Literary Award (Gay Romance) 2012, for the novel Every Time I Think of You * Legacy Award in Journalism, Federation of Gay Games (2007) * 100 Champions Award, Gay Games Chicago, (2006) * Bay Area Theatre Critics Award, PINS (2002) * Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Arts, New Jersey Arts Council (1988) ===Further reading=== * "Jim Provenzano: Muscle Memory", Lambda Literary Review July 24, 2012 * "Sports, Sex and Paraplegia", Dan Woog, The Outfield, February 2012 * Author Interview, Windy City Times May 16, 2012 * Lambda Literary Review essay on Romance novels, Lambda Literary Review March 2012 * "Audible Art: How to Make an Audio Book", Earl August 9, 2013 * Video Feature, Gay People's Chronicle October 26, 2012 * "Exhibit Shows How Gays Have Shaped Sports", San Francisco Chronicle April 2, 2005 * Gay Games VI Sydney photojournalism, 'Sports Complex column, Bay Area Reporter August–December 2002 * Wrestling with Sexuality, The Advocate, Dec. 21, 1999 ==References== * Amazon.com listing * summary of reviews of the PINS stage adaptation produced in Chicago, June 2006, various publications] * * Internet Book Database listing ==External links== * www.jimprovenzano.com, Official Site * Author Blog * Facebook Author Page * Cyclizen blog; archive * SportsComplex.org; archive * Sporting Life exhibit archive Category:1961 births Category:Living people Category:Gay writers Category:LGBT writers from the United States Category:People from San Francisco Category:LGBT journalists from the United States Category:Lambda Literary Award winners Category:Journalists from California Category:Journalists from New York City "
"When I Live by the Garden and the Sea is an EP from the Portland, Oregon based, ambient musician Matthew Cooper, under the name Eluvium. The song "As I Drift Off" opened with an audio fragment from the 1989 film, The 'Burbs. In February 2007, American webzine Somewhere Cold voted When I Live by the Garden and the Sea EP of the Year on their 2006 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame. ==Track listing== # "I Will Not Forget That I Have Forgotten" – 5:20 # "As I Drift Off" – 3:47 # "All the Sails" – 5:45 # "When I Live by the Garden and the Sea" – 7:32 ==References== Category:2006 EPs Category:Eluvium (musician) albums Category:Temporary Residence Limited albums "