Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Big Mick
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 08:53 PM

judith, I am working with Matt Watroba and the Ark. We have a date, and I am close to announcing what it is. I will tell you to keep your eye on mid May, ........ tentatively May 14. I will post here, and it will be publicized. We are still trying to get a date for the west side of the State, but hopefully a venue in Grand Rapids on Thursday the 15th. There are exciting things happening.....stay tuned.

Thanks, Mark, for keeping this up to date.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Mark Ross
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 08:11 PM

Also, you can check the blog for more info;

http://utahphillips.blogspot.com/


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Mark Ross
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 08:08 PM

Big Mick is planning two in Michigan. Keep an eye on Mudcat for further updates.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: GUEST,judith h.
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 03:52 PM

I am wondering if there are plans for a benefit for Utah in the Ann Arbor area. Or has it come and gone? Thanks.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: gnu
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 02:55 PM

Yeah... what Kendall asked... requiring minds want to know!

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 10:02 AM

The new thread is called "Watch for Utah".

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 29 Feb 08 - 12:02 AM

Now that Utah is home and well we can once again start seriously talking about the watch. Nobody has stepped forward to actually take charge of this effort. Since I brought it up in the first place it seems reasonable that I should do so. So be it.

    As I write this my wife, Ingrid, is doing a wedsearch to get a handle on what a good, gold watch will cost. Knowing Utah's fascination with railroads Ingrid is, of course, looking at watch designs in the image of proper motormen's watches. If you know of a good watch, please, post a link to it so that we can all take a look at it.

    Meanwhile, I'm going to look into the feasibility of setting up a temporary PayPal account (or something like it) for the watch fund so that we can each conveniently contribute to it.

    I'm posting here to make sure that people see it. However, I am going to set up a seperate thread for the watch fund. Please, post any watch related comment there so that we're all, if you'll pardon the expression, on the same page with this thing.

    One more thing. If you are in some manner going to be in personal contact (phone, letter, or whatever) with Utah, Please, keep your mouth shut about this. It would be better if we can keep it a surprise.

Thanks,
Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: kendall
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:59 PM

He's going home? Does this mean they were able to settle his vital signs?

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Hollowfox
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 07:13 PM

Count me in, too. He's the best houseguest I ever had, back when I had a coffeehouse to go to. The gen-u-ine purebred Midwestern $#@!-reduction candle series has been started. Good thoughts, prayers and general juju are also on their way.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Art Thieme
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 06:36 PM

I've got an almost new computer I can sell to help with getting the watch for Utah! (Just a little joke.)

ACTUALLY I'd like to send a check to help with this watch! Please say where it ought to go.

Art

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: GUEST,Dan Schatz
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:13 PM

This is very good news indeed. May his health continue to improve.

Dan

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:11 PM

Great news! Keep us updated please Mark.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Mark Ross
Date: 26 Feb 08 - 05:02 PM

Utah is on his way home, it's about time!

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Dan Schatz
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:42 PM

I'll contribute, too.

Dan

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: GUEST,Mary Katherine
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:41 PM

When it gets sorted (which watch? How much do we have? How much more do we need? Where do we send the $?) PLEASE post it here. I'm in.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 04:23 PM

You can check his medical update on a daily basis at his blog on his website.

Have you all figured out which watch you want to go for?

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 02:28 PM

Looks OK to me too ! oh , by the way , 100

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 22 Feb 08 - 02:20 PM

Cool. I'm in.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: kendall
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:37 PM

I'm in.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:30 PM

If this thread ever gets back to medical updates, would someone please let me know so I can bounce it back around to the prayer chain?

Thanks,

~Susan

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 08:24 PM

SINS - That is SERIOUS rehab - Putting a watch together from the individual parts !

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 05:01 PM

How about we buy it in pieces and ship the parts for hie amusement?

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:18 PM

Mark, there are a bunch of that model listed on Ebay. There's even one made for two time zones!

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:05 PM

I'm in but we want the real thing, not the Micky Mouse version.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Mark Ross
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:49 PM

Look for a 992B, the best RR watch that Hamilton ever made.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 02:07 PM

*sigh*...in 1952, my father, who was a Western Union Lineman, left a genuine Hamilton Railway Special under his pillow in a motel in N. Mexico. We had left the motel only 30 minutes before, so he stopped and called them...

"Why, no...the maid says she didn't find anything like that."

Dad never got over it. He'd had that watch for 20 years.

I hope one can be found for Utah...perhaps in a pawn shop in N. Mexico?

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 01:58 PM

Yeah, I saw a lot of generic Hamilton RR ones at ebay. That one is as Mark says...it's got the DTI on it. Maybe we should start a separate blog to find one? Ya never know what might turn up!

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Mark Ross
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 01:50 PM

If you look at the link from katlaughing the DTI does have special markings. Also what Utah is asking for is a watch with what is called a hunter case, i.e., a closed cover. RR watches didn't have a cover usually, but the man knows what he asks for. If you check e-bay, there are a number of Hamilton RR specials offered.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Amos
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 11:41 AM

Here's a Hamilton Railway Special in Boston from Craig's List. I don't know if the DTI was a generic Hamilton Railway Special, or if it had special markings on it.


A

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 10:20 AM

Yikes, four years ago, No. 87 on THIS PAGE sold for $1500. There are four pictures which seem to back up Utah's story.:-) I'll keep looking for others.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: jacqui.c
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 09:39 AM

I'm in.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Mark Ross
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 09:38 AM

Ever since Utah told me about the DTI watch(some 35 years ago or so), I have been looking for one. Now I love old pocket watches and own a couple of them, but in all that time I've never seen one, and believe me, I've been looking. I've looked at Ball, Elgin, Hamilton, et al, and I have a sneaking suspicion that this may be a fig newton of Utah's imagination. Nevertheless, if someone can find one I can contribute a small amount towards its purchase and delivery to the Old Man. In fact Iam going to be in Nevada City with the rest of the Rose Tattoo at the end of May to honor UUP, TGVGSW at athe Oddfellows Hall(which is appropriate). So if we can find one by then, I guarantee to deliver same to said intended redipient.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: kendall
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 09:16 AM

A watch engraved with the names of his Mudcat friends? It would have to be the size of the tower that holds Big Ben!

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Big Mick
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 07:11 AM

Stephen, I'm in. I would love to see a lovely old watch, with the cover suitably inscribed from his friends and admirers at The Mudcat Cafe.

HEY MARK ROSS!!

Waddya say? Anyone else already on this?

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 21 Feb 08 - 04:43 AM

Allright, folk. If you've read Duncan's blog lateley then you've read Utah's entry therein.

   I've no doubt that he needed a crowbar to pry his tongue out of his cheek after that one, but still... I mean, a gold watch is kind of a cool idea. Anyone up for trying to do something about it?

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Andrez
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 03:48 PM

This is one of the few situations when I actually get even remotely religious. My prayers, love and thoughts are with you Utah. I hope you pull through and dont manage to catch that last freight train.

Andrez

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: EBarnacle
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 10:56 AM

As I told my doctor yesterday, "One of the most wonderful things in life is to be shot at and missed." If he can endure long enough, there is always the possibility that medicine can find a way to help him live longer. He is already past his predicted demise.
Hang in there, man.

Subject: BS: Utah Phillips is in Hospital in SF
From: GUEST,Coyote Breath (without cookie)
Date: 14 Feb 08 - 09:47 AM

This is from an email from my sister Margie Little in Nevada City, CA.

I hope you all will do as she suggests re: prayers.


"I thought I would pass along to you that Utah is in the hospital in SF. He went down thinking he might have a heart transplant - to realize that he would not survive one, nor a pump implant.
He had a chest port installed Monday and is having difficulty with that. The doctors are trying to stabilize him.
His wife Joanna and son Duncan are there with him at the California Pacific Hospital - Utah has been there for two weeks now. Joanna is exhausted and as she says numb.

So please keep them in your prayers and thoughts.

Margaret

PS Joanna does not know when they will be able to bring Utah home.
He plans on writing a book when he gets home with Joanna taking dictation and doing the editing."

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Feb 08 - 08:04 PM

There is a lovely and poignant podcast by his wife, Joanna, from Sunday last on his website. Let's keep sending them all good thoughts, folks. They surely deserve them and need them.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: BK Lick
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 01:07 AM

Here's the link I should have cited:
Utah's Page

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: BK Lick
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 12:40 AM

Here's a link to his lovely 1973 songbook which contains "Hymn Song":
Starlight on the Rails and other songs: by U. Utah Phillips

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 12 Feb 08 - 12:06 AM

I've been closing shows for twenty or so years with his tune "Hymn Song". It's become a bit more poignant since hearing about his health problems. Let's hope that he continues to improve.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: astro
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 09:48 PM

So glad to hear that Utah is doing better. We sure enjoyed him last
July in northern California at the Kate Wolf memorial festival. He was full of vim and vigor and the story telling was wonderful. I remember seeing him walking the grounds of the festival talking a mile a minute...

We wish him well and tell him that we are waiting for him to come tell us more about that wrestling match and those "special" wrestling holds that made us roar with laughter....

Astro in Los Angeles...

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: reggie miles
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 09:39 PM

Hey Mark,

Thanks for the link.

I'd like to do something, I'm just not sure what I can do. I've been putting my feelers out hoping to discover where I might be of service. So far, nothing's in stone.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: gnu
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 11:13 AM

Thoughts and prayers.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: Mark Ross
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 09:26 AM

Utah's son Duncan is posting blogs at;

www.utahphillips.blogspot.com
Messages can be sent and news of Utah's condition is posted on a regular basis.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:27 PM

The ground swell is still there Ellen. It has been going on through his network of friends and admirers for the last few months when this current health crisis became known. Spread the word, he needs our love.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: kendall
Date: 09 Feb 08 - 12:14 PM

He doesn't go near computers, but our friend, Mark Ross, keeps him abreast of what is going on here.

Jay Peterson is organizing a benefit for Utah in April here in Blue Hill.

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: GUEST,bflat
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 10:48 PM

I can remember when local Folk radio hosts encouraged listeners to write to Utah, years ago, when his health was compromised. He needs to know his voice is deeply valued. Where is that ground swell now?

Utah, be well; we love your musianship, take gentle care and get well.

Ellen

Subject: RE: Utah Phillips Medical Update (2008)
From: SussexCarole
Date: 08 Feb 08 - 09:19 PM

Utah & Kendall made a day to remember on 8 April 2006 (our wedding day). Wish we could have been there to share your day and you could have been with us to share our day! Cheers chaps!