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The Short Happy Life of Norman F. Wells: a Mount Vernon Story, Part II
Newspaper announcement, 1939 When he registered for the draft in 1918, Norman Wells described himself as a “print expert.” His employer,...
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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... -
George Primrose, promotional card, 1880s In my hometown of Mount Vernon, New York, Primrose Avenue ran less than a mile between two main s...
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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