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Why We Celebrate Our Holidays by Mary I. Curtis (1924) In the chilly spring of 1888, James Russell Lowell was invited to give an address ...
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Postcard of the Wartburg Orphanage, around 1914 A few weeks ago I read a crushing article, “The Lost Children of Tuam,” in the New Yo... -
Martin H. Traphagen School, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., 1950s Sometimes on the verge of sleep, I imagine myself back in elementary school in Mo... -
During the 1960s when my brother and I were growing up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., our parents and their friends occasionally mentioned Henry L...
I might have to use this for a poem. Although it is itself a poem.
ReplyDeleteIn the words of Justice Louis Brandeis- "If the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects."
ReplyDeleteIf the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects. -Justice Louis Brandeis!
ReplyDeleteThe only light in the darkness was the administration of Mr. Roosevelt and the New Deal in the United States. Isiah Berlin
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