Dec 31, 2020
Notes from Bessie and Me, My Spanish Toy Factory, Me in the Middle and Surviving Myself
These are the notes from the show on 12/29/2020 on Bear and Fenndy Look for Stuff @ Youtube.
And here’s the link.
Spotlighting the Next Four Chapters! — YouTube
Bessie and Me
Pg. 28–29
Stamp — Thursday August 25th, 1937 — Actual day Wednesday
Shadow People in the Picture — Pickup truck and guy fishing.
Dad in the back -> Keep father in the back of your mind?
Me in the Middle….
Bessie’s neck looks like a blaze -> Black and white — or like a slide = Iron slide reinforcement
Lory Barnes@Bear and Fenndy Look for Stuff I noticed a lot of things point to 11:00 throughout the book. Most of the post marks sit at 11:00 on the pages.
Cats -> Maybe searchers = shout-outs to searchers in scrapbooks
The many iterations of the word “it”
Huliknot in the tail…follow the square knots on the clueball…he wove
Lory Barnes@Bear and Fenndy Look for Stuff check out Bessie Coleman She was the first African-American woman, and also the first Native-American, to hold a pilot license.
Pg. 30–31
Obvious Photo shopping going on — Skippy’s car -> windscreen and steering wheel
Fingers on the windscreen?….
joe johnBes the Egyptian God
Another brown stain on the pants -> reference to the iron slide again.
Bessie’s tail also looks like a slide.
“Sometimes teachers don’t understand” — Maybe Fenn will try to help you and lead you in the wrong direction by mistake.
Richard Retherfordsomeone said to cut out the pages of ttotc and piece it together.to form a map
My Spanish Toy Factory
Pg. 32–33
Spanish keeps popping up
Maybe the drawing references a lake…
Three marbles = three dots…. in a triangle?
Because I CanBear and Fenndy look for stuff. One of the gold frogs has three dots on its head.
Shading looks like a hole or a crack…
Grand Marble Champion -> and all the girls knew it.
Fenn was a poor kid. Made money making marbles to buy a better lunch.
Eventually made Yo-yo’s and Tops to make more money — a quarter instead of a dime.
Experience over Education
Lory Barnes@Bear and Fenndy Look for Stuff Grave marker made by boys arm on other boys back. So I thought it was a graveyard and He said he did not hide in graveyard but he looks like he is digging right outsid
jkpioneerweather vane?
geo nutDig…
Reference to pie’s — nickel — Pi?
Me in the Middle
Pg. 34–35
Another Stamp — Saturday July 10th ….? 1893?- Actual day — Monday
Picture of a lake — three folks in the lake — Hebgen Lake — log hidden — Iceburg Theory
Comanche’s — Native American reference — Wild Indians contrasted with Native American
Hen’s flying and cackling = Biddies?
Me in the Middle means feeling somehow surrounded
Mom was important
Surviving Myself
Pg. 36–37
Wednesday (039) April 15, 1938 — Actual day Friday
Billy the Kid Reference — Cowboys and Indians?
Maybe and alligator behind Fenn’s neck?
Lory Barnes@Bear and Fenndy Look for Stuff Looks like a train and an alligator behind Forrest’s head
Sitting on a Headstone — throwback to Spanish toy factory?
Lory Barnes@Bear and Fenndy Look for Stuff He is looking at 11:00
Sensory detail = bacon and eggs wake you up
Daisy Air Rifle
Mom is world class at frying chicken
Pg. 38–39
Black hats and white hats — good vs evil
Experience vs Education — Scissor tails — scissors…. Scissor tail was a replacement
Dessert with a side of Imagination
Hopalong Cassidy was a cowboy hero = Fenn
Lory Barnes@Bear and Fenndy Look for Stuff Look at the bridle on the donkey’s head the white dots are photo shopped or added to the picture. Why?
Pg. 40–41
8:00 Bed time — “Mr. District Attorney”
Father liked Skippy the best — maybe Skippy was turning Alpha
Spankings back then -> called Switches — Switch Backs?
Picture of Fenn Sitting on a Headstone looking at the stars — reference headstones again
Brave, to fenn, Sitting on a headstone at night. — A kid has time to think in a graveyard.
Lory Barnes@Bear and Fenndy Look for Stuff some of the headstones look like books
“Sometimes principal is reason enough to abandon logic, no matter how much it hurts.”
Mr. Fenn = Principal
