Stairwell

(.jpg) A snapshot from a stairwell at the Tate Museum in St. Ives, Cornwall, England.

Low Tide

(.jpg) A snapshot of the harbor at St. Ives, Cornwall, England at low tide.

St. Erth Parish Cemetary

A snapshot of the sub-tropical parish cemetary at St. Erth, Cornwall, England, where my great-grandfather was born.

St. Michael's Mount

(.jpg) A snapshot of a 400-year-old castle on the sea cost at Marazion, Cornwall, England. Low tide reveals a 400-year-old road on the sea bed that tourists and castle residents use to walk to the castle.

Zennor Path

(.jpg) A snapshot of Zennor, Cornwall, England. The country home of D.H. Lawrence and Frieda is a 15 minute walk on the muddy path from Zennor, a small farming village.

Parting Clouds

(.jpg) A snapshot view from 12,000 foot Mt. Niesen in Switzerland. (One of my first oil paintings was a 3' x 5' canvas of three blue mountains and a lake. A girl in my high school art class paid me to paint her vacation picture.)

Blue Lagoon

(.jpg) A snapshot of the volcanic landscape of Iceland's Blue Lagoon, a national geothermal energy resource and a fashionable tourist spa. Steamy white streams of hot mineral water shaded with green and blue algae flow around black volcanic rocks.

Occidental Transcendentalist

(.jpg) A snapshot of Gregg Reed in the woods of Castle Horneck Hostel in Penzance, England. Photograph by Patrick Kruegel.

St. Michael's Mount

(Drawing) As a teenager, I drew this cartoon of St. Michael's Mount at Marazion, Cornwall, England , after I found a set of turn-of-the-19th-century post cards in my great-grandfather's attic on the Reed Farm, near Raymond, Minnesota.

Mountain View--Niesen

(.jpg) A snapshot by my travel companion Patrick Kruegel's brother-in-law, Michel Schneider. Michel is the editor of the book "Urbanscape Switzerland," and he photographs cities for urban planning references.

Landscape View--Niesen

(.jpg) A snapshot by my travel companion Patrick Kruegel's brother-in-law, Michel Schneider. Michel is the editor of the book "Urbanscape Switzerland," and he photographs cities for urban planning references.

Charles Reed Signature Monogram

(.gif) A monogram signature by my great-grandfather Charles C. Reed. Letter dated Tuesday morning and addressed "Well sweet..." I used increasing sizes of the flourished type face "Palace MT." This in the style of English King Edward's monogram.

Sunset Near Lands End

(.gif) Thomas Moran, the American landscape painter, painted at Land's End, England, the site of my great-grandfather's boyhood farm.

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I won free round-trip tickets to Europe from Icelandair and the Pete Best Band at the Ticket to Fly concert at the Mall of America in October, 2004. Starting on September7, 2005, I visited Iceland, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, with my friend Patrick Kruegel.
"Stairwell," illustrates the contrasts of my great-grandfather's family homestead in Cornwall, England. A view from the Tate Museum in St. Ives, Cornwall, where I visited, illustrates this fishing village's unusual devotion to modern art.
Cornwall is a warm, sub-tropical region, in a country that may people imagine to be cold. It is an agricultural region, a mining community, a historic area, a sea side community, and an artistic mecca.
It's an interesting place for the home stead of a man, my great-grandfather, Charles, * who left Cornwall to became a hat designer and a Minnesota farmer in the 1880's. The Reed Farm near Raymond, Minnesota, covered 480 acres of black dirt, housed 5 families, and included 3 large homes and 2 large red barns among its 16 buildings. (* "Charles Chegwin Reed. Born 21 February 1864, Penzance. Emigrated 1882 to St. Louis. Naturalized 28 September 1882."--John H. Nitardy)

"The Reed's emerged from Herefordshire in England, where they helped to lead forming a national government for England." James Wyndsore ( b. 1323), a descendent of the keeper of the forest of Windsor (1050) and the constable of Windsor Castle (1100) married Elizabeth Reed in 1355 (Ancestral Roots, Weiss, 2008). The Greeb farm is an archeological site on the cliff of the farthest tip of Land's End. The Greeks were first to settle there, and bring news of Christianity. I heard that a young Roman leader Rhyarthemus may have been the model for the King Arthur legend.  My great-grand father Charles Reed started his career at a department store in Penzance, England. He went to school to design hats, and he worked in that field in St. Louis, Missouri, soon after he moved to the United States, when he was about 17, in 1882. I have seen a mysterious replica cup with the intials "CR," forming a ligature, and the words Chas, and Charles Reed, for sale in downtown Minneapolis. I have also seen a chain store, "Elizabeth Reed," in Kansas. Elizabeth Reed was the name of my great-grandfather's sister. He stopped creating hats when the chemicals made him sick. His doctor said work in fresh air, my father told me. He started farming, on his large farm with a multi-acred flower garden, an ornamented three-story farm house, and lanes with red buildings near Raymond, Minnesota. As a teenager he had farmed on a narrow mile-long strip of land, at Lands End, which is the most southwesterly point of land in England. Widowed in Minnesota, he found his second wife in St. Hilary, England, and she brought the Minnesota farmstead her family's legacy of a silver mine and a diamond mine in South Africa. His family buried him with his sword after funeral services at St. James Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. I have also found a photographic portrait of a founder of the Eloise Butler Wild Flower Garden and Bird Sanctuary in Minneapolis, Elizabeth Reed, in a corner of the garden's exhibit office, the Martha E. Crone Shelter. --Gregg Reed
Susan Crispin, an OPC from Crowen, England, is posting Crowen census data to the world-wide-web. In the spring of 2008, she kindly responded to my request for names of the Reed family in Crowen, England. Her search found names beginning in 1702, when Mary Reed was married. Other family names included Ann Reed, married 1793, Gideon Reed, born 1799, Elizabeth Reed, born 1800, James Reed, married 1852, and the 20th century family tree of my great-grand uncle, 55-year-old Mark Reed, mining agent, from the 1913 census--a new discovery for my family! Sue Crispin carefully explained the meaning of family addresses, such as Trethannan and Tregembo. She wrote, "The Cornish prefix of 'Tre' means settlement or farm and the part of the name that follows was based on the family name."
I have studied and thought about the development of my last name in English. A names dictionary says that the name Reed first appeared in the area of Herefordshire, where they encouraged a federal government for England. But Reed, occupied for 2,000 years, is the site of a medieval village near London in Hertfordshire. Hertford means deer crossing. Deer is the anagram of Reed. These arrangements of words came from brands stamped on food or boxes. The name may be an abreviation of a longer name, such as Runymeade (from room and mead, an early English family name associated with inn keeping), Raymond, Rothshield, or Red Beard. The double e's may represent scribbles. Scribes may not have had the skill or patience to write the complete name. In the development of English government, there was also a movement to reduce the names of royalty. The name might also have more than one sound. A person who speaks Welsh would pronounce the "d" as "s" in English. The name maybe related to the name "Rhys," which appears in the 14th-century Mabinogion, also titled The White Book of Rhydderch, pronounced research, or the Red Book, and in the Tudor family tree (my family tree includes another Tudor line--Meredith). I understood that some of my English ancestors from Cornwall made leather products, while others were miners. Industry in England started with making boots and buckles, but the manufacturing simplfied to make book covers. A name like "Reboek," might be an abbreviation or trade name for something like Reed Books or Reed Boots. Today, Reed Communication publishes Books in Print. The name may also be related to the Celtic term "druid," which is also the English word truth. The "d" in druid would mean "the," and "ruid," could be another shortening of a longer name.
In North America, James Reed founded Christ's Church in North Carolina, one of America's first churches, and he waited 16 years to receive a knight's medal from the King of England. He remained a royalist, and he died of old age after the revolutionary war. The name King Edred from early English history sounds similar to the name Eric the Red, a Viking or vice king. The peninsula that hosts Penzance is a site of the early settlement of England, where the Christian religion arrived first with the Greeks. Modern archeologists have suggested that England's monarchy may have arrived with refugees from Herodia in Israel, who fled King Herod to hide as far as the British Isles. (My archeologist friend and professor Steve explained this as I stood outside of the ancient door to King Herod's palace at Herodia in Isreal, and Steve stood on a rock above me. He said the ancient trails lead to England.)
Click here to read a Wikipedia article about what may be my ancient English family line.

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http://www.greggreed.net/Stairwell/stairwell.zip 

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