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Conjuring Jane Pierce
Imagine Jane Pierce in her black gown and mantilla. She sits on a slipper rocker in her second-floor bedroom in the White House. Clutching...
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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... -
George Primrose, promotional card, 1880s In my hometown of Mount Vernon, New York, Primrose Avenue ran less than a mile between two main s... -
Montefiore Hospital's Country Home Sanitarium, early twentieth century A father and son, both stricken with tuberculosis, died 30 year...
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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