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3 unusual facts about Uncle Stonehill's Hat


Uncle Stonehill's Hat

Uncle Stonehill's Hat is a children's album by Randy Stonehill recorded in 2001 and produced by Terry Scott Taylor.

Special Thanks to The Creator who has called us to be creative, Larry & Nancy Van Arendonk Family, Anna Cardenas at the Green Room, Mike Sares at Scum of the Earth, Suzie Johnson at Compassion International, Linda Kowatch at Muse & Associates, Jason Townsend, Eric Townsend, Chris Meidel, Ben Howard, the many children of all ages who have listened, laughed and encouraged us in the making of these songs and story.

Randy Stonehill : Lead vocals, Background vocals, acoustic and electric guitars.


Bjernede Church

Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint and Ivar Bentsen later made church projects which resembled Bjernede prior to Storck's intervention, when it had a Bishop's Hat-like roof.

Gordan Lederer

From 1986 to 1989, Lederer worked as a cameraman on the animation films The Elm-Chanted Forest and The Magician's Hat.

Joseph Matheny

He is probably best known for the avant-garde work, Ong's Hat.

Magician's Hat

Like its predecessor, the album was, at least partly, influenced by fairy tale and fantasy themes, with the song "Elidor" having been directly inspired by Alan Garner's 1965 fantasy novel Elidor.

Ong's Hat

Joseph Matheny was intimately involved and eventually concluded the project.

This device was to later inspire a children's TV series called Galidor to use an interdimensional travel device of the same name.

Ong's Hat, New Jersey

As a long-abandoned small settlement, Ong's Hat remained obscure until its name and location was co-opted in a book called Ong's Hat: The Beginning by Joseph Matheny, which was based on stories that had circulated on computer bulletin boards which held that a cult of outcast scientists opened an interdimensional gateway in Ong's Hat.

Pokey the Penguin

Celebrities and politicians appear as well, including "Bobdole" (who looks exactly like Pokey) and Stephen Hawking (Pokey with a pointed wizard's hat).

Pope's hat

Mitre, a ceremonial headdress consisting of a tall, white, peaked cap

Camauro, a red wool or velvet cap with white ermine trim and worn from the 12th century through 1963, usually in winter, in place of the zucchetto

Printer's hat

Several self-portraits of Eric Gill, and a photograph by Howard Coster, in the National Portrait Gallery collection, show him wearing what appears to be a printer's hat.

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World

In the painting Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, there is a large Chinese porcelain bowl in the foreground (standing on a Turkish carpet), and Brook uses this to introduce the subject of trade with China.


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