PERRY GREENE KENNELS, Martha Kalina, Waldoboro, Maine, U.S.A., new owner 1993...

And here's beginning post and sharing of Martha K's also smiling face.  I have earlier photos closer to her '93 purchase/transfer direct from Harry Gray/Northdown/Perry Greene Kennels then I will also upload here as they resurface.  But this later 50th Anniversary Celebration article of & at PGK with Martha's also happy face did resurface this morn.  For Martha indeed proudly further resurrected, renovated, & modernized Harry's kennels then, as Harry had done a decade earlier with remains of Perry Greene's & his family's legacy & estate there in Waldoboro.

Tullibardine purchased, adopted, and were gifted, a various lot of beloved Chinooks from Martha in her early years too.   And Tullibardine's first female founder was indeed one of Martha's top female pups from her second litter-- our Perry Greene Natanis , dob April 28, 1995 (sired by Northdown Kipper out of Northdown Nugget).  Natanis went on to become proud dam of first Tullibardine litter on Feb 15, 1999, sired by our beloved Northdown Ootah, Jack's still youthful & most competent lead dog then, he purchased direct as a stud & sled pup from Harry Gray in '92 (just prior to Harry's sale of his kennels to Martha).  So beginnings of Tullibardine Farm Chinooks indeed also remain proudly rooted in both Harry Gray's Northdown/Perry Greene Kennels and Martha Kalina's Perry Greene Kennels, Waldoboro, Maine, U.S.A.  And the years between 1992 and 1999 were made golden foundation years for Tullibardine then too.  Other founders from those years & other kennels were added to Tullibardine too-- Bowerbank, Howlin Hills, Mountain Laurel, and Singing Woods.  But it remains true today some of our top Tullibardine/Atholl Chinooks also yet carry a good percentage blood of Ootah x Natanis.  You see then how I will dare rely on post 1981 Northdown/Perry Greene Kennels bloodlines yet then.  For they too came in strong breeding and working ability Chinooks.  Both Harry and Martha possess a good eye for a good dog and a good CHINOOK, in my opinion.  Harry hit the nail on the head in early '93 when he finally chose Ootah for Jack/Tullibardine.  And Martha in turn hit another nail on the head in mid '95 when she chose Natanis for Jack/Tullibardine. And  we/Tullibardine, therefore, worked hard to further learn and apply our own eyes for good dogs and good CHINOOKS.  It is an art.  And Martha did well with the dogs she purchased and inherited from Harry then in '93, imo.   

The Lincoln County News, Damariscotta, Maine  April 24, 1997

The Lincoln County News, Damariscotta, Maine  April 24, 1997

Backroads 'Chuck', Northdown Nugget pups (incl. PG Castine), Mt Laurel Chi'Nook', Victors 'Kobuk'

Narrative of the Above early 1990s Kalina owned Perry Greene Kennels Brochure, Waldoboro, ME

 

TULLIBARDINE CHINOOKS, FOUNDERS GDC KinReports

GEORGIANNA'S CHINOOKS, Robin Georgiana, Ashland, OR U.S.A.

Another smiling face from the past here, of Ms. Robin Georgianna, of Georgianna's Chinooks, Ashland, Oregon U.S.A.  Robin's pictured here with her foundation female, Yokayo Cheena, and Cheena's son, Georgianna's Bonehead.  'Boney' (as some of his later owners, Benjamin's, Northdown, & finally Bowerbank Chinooks used to call him) was born April 1984, so guesstimate date on this Ashland Mail Tribune article is late 1984.

Bonehead was sired by Singing Woods Nanook.

If memory serves, Benjamin's Chinooks later repeated the same mating of Cheena to Singing Woods Nanook (which litter resulted in Benjamin's Kuska and Tekoa's birth then late '95).

But this image and article here represent Georgianna's own auspicious beginnings, and I'm proud to share again this image of Robin, and beloved Cheena, & her young son then, Bonehead.  This is another beautiful 'snapshot in time' in the Chinook world too, therefore.  Robin and her dogs definitely in love, then and there.

NOTE:  More in times to come this page too then, for much of the breed in fact remains descended from these 2 Nanook x Cheena matings (Georgianna's, then Benjamin's), as well as from Bonehead's own subsequent lines (some of which remain represented in our own Tullibardine and Atholl Chinooks today).

As well, much of today's Chinook remains indebted to Bonehead's sister, Georgianna's Sheena.  Sheena went on to become foundation female for Ron McJunkin's North Wind Chinooks kennels.  More about Sheena later then, both here and on North Wind Post too, as I unpack more of my files of each of these kennels.  But suffice it to say, much of the breed also rests on an array of also North Wind offspring of Sheena today.  So the blood of Nanook x Cheena likely remains strong, thereby.

My brother and Tullibardine kennel partner, Jack Murray, used to say how all strong working lines of Chinooks also carried consistently strong blood of Nanook x Cheena.

Why again, it's more than fair to say how the Georgianna's and Benjamin's contributions to today's Chinook bloodlines remains considerable.  So here's to Ms Georgianna once more, with 2 of her own finest.  All key to breed survival, then as now...

TULLIBARDINE Winters of Old...

Christmas at Tullibardine Farm Chinooks, New Sharon, ME  U.S.A.

This Post to serve as my beginning Archival Christmas sharings then, for I took a look again at some of my own Christmas Pasts today in photo albums as I continue to unpack them...  So here's some mid to late '90s  Tullibardine Farm Chinooks images here, 'for days of Auld Lang Syne!'...

MERRY CHRISTMAS, ONE AND ALL!

The Dog Room:  Perry Greene Bates Argenta (L), Northdown Triska (C), Northdown Denali II (R)

Northdown Lady (fore), Bates, Triska, Denali (L-R on couch).

 

Northdown Lady (Timbermist Yukon Jack x Glendon's Sweety)

Northdown Lady (center), Northdown Sabre (left), & Northdown Lance (Sabre & Lance-- North Wind Nome x Northdown Paleface)

Santa's Sleigh one year was in fact our first Moody sled, Tullibardine purchased from Harry Gray, Northdown Chinooks!

Moody made them both strong and beautiful, eh?

Northdown Lady (left), Northdown Nugget (F2 dau. of F1 Northdown Timba)

My sister, Marilyn, playing Santa to our Norwegian Fjords, 'Marta' of Fjelltorp (left) & Skoal Farm Hjalmar 'Jr.' (right).

Jack R. Murray (my brother and Tullibardine Farm LLP gen partner), TRAMP (Percheron x Morgan draft horse), my sister Marilyn playing Santa

Me (left front), Jack (rear, haltering Eske's 'Odis'), Marta, Marilyn/Santa, & 'Jr' (right).  This may be my only photo w/all 4 Tullibardine equine beloveds therein w/both me and Jack also in view, w/Marilyn/Santa to boot!

 

Jack has owned many tractors in his life to date; But this was his all time fave-- I think it's his John Deere Model B, if memory serves.  The mechanical 'work horse' of Tullibardine!

First Kennel Runs & Xyard, before we built add'l 2 Kennels Structures in years to follow:  Marilyn/Santa (center yard), & me (back to, right).  All Runs were 4x12' or 12x12', w/gates opened onto 40' center Xyard.  It worked really well for the first years, studs, dams, litters, & old timers daily xercise.  We had real fun at Tullibardine, amongst every chore then too...  The farm kitchens and sheds themselves were huge.  One of woodsheds made comfy whelping/rearing space, and others came and went from the kitchens and 'dog rooms' (one of the also huge living rooms and the enclosed front porch).  I miss this farmhouse now for it's sheer size and utility, yet no way could you heat such a structure in Manitoba winters!  LOL! :)

ERIKA VON HIRTENSTAMM

OK.  So ten years on now, here remains perhaps a most valuable gift to entire Chinook world finally from--
INTERVALE CHINOOKS,
TULLIBARDINE CHINOOKS, and
ATHOLL CHINOOKS--

These pedigrees the result of INTERVALE's sole contract w/GSD researcher, Yvonne Hecht, in 2001, to research the most probable early american GSD Origins of Lombard/Walden's CHINOOK BREED (female GSD) founder--
'Erika'.

And in short, these peds indeed remain, imo and all Tullibardine and Atholl research to date as well--
The most probable deep pedigree of Walden's 'Erika'. 

Meaning here's another 6 Generations to add, with love, for those of you with Chinook breeder databases & ped analysis files too now forward.

Pls Note:
Intervale shared these docs/peds (and more from same researcher/research, eventually I will upload ALL hereon) w/Tullibardine upon my direct request of Nancy B in 2003.  And Nancy B/Intervale also has long since kindly provided permission for me to share further online.  For a long time, however, I did not.  As frankly, I too wasn't sure if they would be misused in any corporate variances between then CDCA (fka CWW) and CCA (now PC for the AKC Chinook).

But now it's clear to me too how there will indeed remain two kennel club Chinook 'breeds'--
UKC and AKC--
I'm going to share fully publicly finally hereon, aye.

Because again-- With a dwindling overall Chinook population still in 2011, as combined with 2 variant kennel club standards here forward-- Indeed the risk of greater genetic bottlenecking remains ever present too then, as breeders already painfully know.  So time for me to stop preaching to the choir here once more then, and share.

As it's also time to admit Erika not only remained a most probably purebred reg'd GSD in her/Walden's own day, but how this indeed remains her most probable AKC reg'd ancestry.

And THANK YOU, Nancy B/Intervale, once more.  For you too knew we'd have to dig deeper into every ped as we all also dared breed forward.  Eventually, we all may yet know at least a handful of what 'Back to Walden's Boat' indeed means!  Bless.

And I know these docs may, pray joyfully, 'blow the minds' of ever more of you studying Chinook Coat Color pheno/genotyping today, if'n you haven't seen the beautiful array yet yourselves of coat colorations behind Erika herself.  For once we all begin to realize together now that Erika's own parents were indeed both 'wolf gray' GSDs, then I pray this will help bring a further sense of 'comfort' forward within also confines of today's Chinook and GSD genotypings, aye.

So DO ENJOY, pls, as it remains my own joy too finally to share publicly with all.  And know I WILL be asking some of you now to pls both ACTIVELY PED ANALYSE as well as consult DNA color officiandos further now, with regards to conjectures forward how Erika's coat color too may have carried forward in our breed's foundations (Lombard/Walden '39 foundation forward).

Of course, we will never 'know' how genotypes in fact carried then, but at least here's more real data to use and crunch forward, aye.  I think if Karen H/Bashaba Chinooks can wrap her own head and dbase around these peds soonest too then, frankly, we may all gain comfort soonest.

And this sharing doesn't mean we won't need squabble some more over current DNA GSD color theories forward too now.  But at least we'll be arguing more in the realms of the known vs unknown.  For again-- the goal here remains to increase consciousness in us all.

In me too.  So after 10 years, I'm proud to share now, and in today's world of also DNA color genotyping forward even, these deep peds for ERIKA VON HIRTENSTAMM.

For even though color matters so much LESS to me, personally, today than current auto immune and seizure DNA studies forward too, frankly; I also know 'reality' remains how both UKC and AKC 'ideals' 'standards' do also in part rest on coat color variances in living Chinooks world wide today. 

And following copy of Source pedigree from Perry Greene Kennels, inclusive of then description of Erika (note, with  variance in spelling of kennel name, and also variant color description).  My work continues, therefore, to further confirm or deny the Erika in this 1943 pedigree, and the one above in certified GSD researchers' pedigree in 2001, indeed were same female GSD and Chinook breed founder.  For I believe it may yet be possible to connect Walden himself with Erika's own breeder origins.  Never say never.  For again, as we also color genotype our way forward now, it can only pay to also phenotype our way further back too then, finally, imho.  Every strong future balances on also foundations of the past, colors included...

R.F. BLAISDELL CHINOOKS, SOUTH PASADENA, CA U.S.A.

And so speaking of handsome Chinooks with gorgeous coats...this beloved has been staring at me from out of my archives for days now.  And yet I personally HAVEN'T A CLUE who the breeder is, nor the epoch in which R.F. Blaisdell procured their Chinooks! 

So can others yet advise exact historic era of this dog & reported companions at Blaisdell's 'Only Chinooks in Southern California'?--
Perry Greene?
Lombard/Walden?
(I don't know that Seeley's ever sold multiple Chinooks, if any?)
Walden/pre BAE II?

My GUESS is, this is a Greene bred dog, likely near descendant of the Lombard/Walden dogs.  So maybe 1940s, I dare guess?

But for the COAT on this dog too, it could also have stepped right off the BAE II boat with Walden too, for all I know. 

Anyway, since Chinook folk were having a 'coat' discussion today, I decided this dog was indeed 'speaking to me', even though I'm wholly uncertain what it is he/she may also yet have to say about South Pasadena, CA Chinooks of old too now?!

Maybe this unID'd dog is also meant to become a good 'winter project' for one or more of today's California breeders too then.  I just wanted you all to know how apparently, there were indeed once proud Chinooks in South Pasadena too, and at least one of them had one hellova coat, aye! :)

So obviously, I can't date this item either, as there is NO date on this original item as scanned, nor mention of breeder or source kennels.  No mention even of the publication this ad was run in.  

Maybe someone with courage in CA can yet pick up the tele & dial--
'Colorado 6052'
and see who answers?!  Woof!  Another GHOST from Chinook Christmas Past then, for your enjoyment! :)

WINTERSET FARM CHINOOKS, TJ & Grace Anderson, Jackson Hole, WY U.S.A.

And here's a starter post/page for Winterset Chinooks too finally, as I love this photo of smiling Grace and Ku (Benjamin's Kuska x Victor's Aurora their Chinook kennel founders).  Pretty cool how Grace purchased Ku for TJ's birthday, eh?

I'll get to adding Posts for Benjamin's and (Stan) Victors Chinooks too eventually, but I just wanted to share this nice article and 'historic time capsule' too then, of Winterset's own happy and auspicious beginnings many moons ago.  So enjoy Grace and Ku's beautiful smiles once more, and tales of their own origins in the world of Chinooks...

(Best Guesstimate date on this Article is July 1986.)