Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson.The Planters of Colonial Virginia.Kindle Edition. Whitelaw, Ralph T.Virginia’s Eastern Shore: A History of Northampton and Accomack Counties.2 Vols. Peter Smith, 1968. Wright, Louis B.First Gentlemen of Virginia. Charlottesville, VA: Dominion Books, 1982. Zuppan,...
Grant CateRyan JacksonKevin Barrett David Wrone, retired Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP), is the honored mentor of the Oswald Innocence Campaign. Professor Wrone offered courses on The Great Books of Western Civilization, Native American history, and the JF...
If I didn’t learn it from them, I could have learned it from Charles Baudelaire or Jackson Pollack. However, the Beats were right about some things. There is a nuanced understanding of past-present tense issues, and other improvisational things to be learned from the writing, the sentences...
One place other than Alaska where bald eagles are easily seen in the later summer is along certain parts of the Snake River near Jackson Hole, Wyoming (part of the Grand Tetons National Park), in nests built in the tops of old dead trees along the river’s forested shoreline. Of course...
For the people watching, you can see on the wall behind me, I have a record of Huey Lewis and Michael Jackson and The Beat and The Bangle. And Apple can’t come and take that away for me. I physically own that. I own my books. It’s an experience. You sit down, you...
I’ve been rereading Shirley Jackson’s fabulousWe Have Always Lived in the Castle. Without further ado: the books Photo by iStock.com/SB 1.Toddler Hunting and Other Storiesby Taeko Kono I actually picked this one up at a Tokyo Cheapo book exchange! These stories are psychologically haunting...
I readThe Hobbitand the first two books of this trilogy years ago. I had startedThe Return of the King, but then didn’t finish it when the Peter Jackson films came out. I always meant to get back to it but never did. After I readThe Silmarillion(Tolkien’s history and mythology of...