Negative 22° and the the 10th Mountain Division

Last night, I braved the -22 degree weather to scurry around Middlebury Vermont. I have never been so cold in my life. On the five hour drive from Waterville Maine to Middlebury, the moisture condensed on the inside of the windows creating beautiful patterns. These patterns grew to encompass the entire driver side window and the majority of the front windshield. I will never forget it.

Here are some photos from the Life Archive of the 10th Mountain Division Army ski patrol, on the Italian front in the Appennine Mountains fending off the Nazis. I had to bundle up like the guy in the first photo when venturing out.

I am pretty sure that is a sawed off Tommy Gun with two clips taped together.

Check out these dude's shredding.

I like the ode to Davie Crockett with the coonskin hat.

arestlesstransplant.com

I registered restlesstransplant.blogspot.com on June 15, 2008 with the intent of blogging about technology. I had recently had met Kara Swisher, a technology blogger and columnist for the WSJ, and felt inspired. She asked me if I blogged about technology, and I didn't have a good answer. Technology and tech-companies occupy a lot of my time and I read just as many tech blogs as fashion or lifestyle blogs. However, I didn't really like blogging about technology and frankly added zero value so I stopped after a dozen posts.

In the last year, my interests in fashion, lifestyles and art has evolved substantially. In September, I started interning at Rogues Gallery. My work at Rogues opened my eyes to a whole new world of blogs, look books and design. In early October, I bought my first digital camera, after deciding to document my life and developing my aesthetic pallet. This purchase precipitated the relaunching of A Restless Transplant (A.R.T.) with a new focus on fashion, lifestyles and photography.

Over the last three months, I have posted roughly once a day with a focus on writing original content about the world around me. Forcing myself to write and come up with ideas for A.R.T. has stimulated my creative thought and rekindled my interest in writing. Late last night, I registered arestlesstransplant.com, solidifying the blog's role in my life.

Thank you for your reading A.R.T. and feel free to email me at foster.huntington (at) gmail.com with comments and concerns.

Mt. Hood Circa 1950

I spend a lot of time around snow. I go to college in central Maine where the snow comes early and leaves late. I grew up snowboarding at Mt. Hood Meadows in the winter and Timberline in the summer. Skiing and snowboarding style has gotten pretty boring recently with everyone wearing variations of the same prints and cuts. I want to dress like this when I snowboard.

Somewhere in Central Maine

Yesterday, I went on a walk in a small town in central Maine looking for things that could as easily be from the 1930's as 2009. Since the 1950's, central Maine has changed little short of the infestations of Walmarts, McDonalds, and Timmy Hortons. Textile factories, logging, shipyards, and paper mills dominated economic landscape of of central Maine until the fifties and sixties when these companies either closed for business all together or moved out west or abroad. Now the largest employers in the area are hospitals and colleges. My friends and I affectionately call central Maine the deep south of the far north.

Here is a panorama I made of the abandoned Lockwood Mills cotton textile plant. The plant has remand relatively untouched since it closed its doors for business in the mid fifties.

I really liked this sign, for Laverdiere's Rexall Drug.