Alton and the Corkscrew
Some of you may know that I am a founding member of the seminal psychedelic band Cozmik Corkscrew. We rock.
Well it turns out that moving to Alton, New Hampshire some years ago has brought me to one of the corkscrew’s most historic places. William Rockwell Clough moved his corkscrew manufacturing to Factory Street (now Gilman Road) in 1903, and the company proceeded to crank out more than a billion corkscrews about 5 miles from where our home sits now.
In 1904, “Clough married his second wife Nellie Sophia Place, daughter of George Place, an Alton lumber dealer and businessman” according to chapter four of William Rockwell Clough, a book by Ron MacClean. This is all from that book, including the image of the corkscrews to the right. Look closely: yup, those miniature corkscrew samples are from Alton. There’s a lot more Alton stuff at the end of chapter four (scroll down) in MacLean’s book.
In other Alton/corkscrew synchronicity news, you may be familiar with Alton Towers, a huge amusement park in the U.K. In 1980 it added a rollercoaster called The Corkscrew which was the first coaster to invert in Britain.
on September 7th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
Well that really is cozmik !!!
on September 8th, 2007 at 12:06 am
Hmmm…eerie…maybe this all ties in somehow with that time you and Alyssa were handed some sort of Alien Manifesto in front of Campus Conveniance.
on September 27th, 2007 at 12:47 pm
This is the screwiest thing I have ever heard.
Put a cork in it, would you?
Ed