The National Coal Board was found to be entirely responsible for failing to act to prevent the disaster. Reading about this tragedy in the newspaper at the time had such a profound effect on my Mom that she wrote a folk song. Memory of this song, deeply embedded, has compelled me to cre...
She was also the medical director for Planned Parenthood. She wrote many publications advocating open dialogue and access to information at all ages. Her extensive work with popularizing sexuality education has often been compared to the Margaret Sanger's campaign for birth control. Age: Dec. at ...
In January 1904, the company performed “Hopper the Agent” at the Victoria Opera House in Morden, Manitoba, Canada. According to the Morden Empire newspaper, it was one of the best productions seen in Morden, while “the wooden shoe dance by E. Manley Norris was the best ever seen in t...
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( I wrote this memory of a barracks Christmas when I first started blogging, and expanded it for my memoir –from which this long reminiscence is pulled. I was stationed in Japan, then, a junior airman assigned to the FEN detachment.) All during the year, Thea and I had not given up...
'Mr. Brocklehurst, I believe I intimated in the letter which I wrote to you three weeks ago, that this little girl has not quite the character and disposition I could wish: should you admit her into Lowood school, I should be glad if the superintendent and teachers were requested to keep...
the detective genre. Parker also wrote two other series based on an individual character: He wrote nine novels based on the character Jesse Stone and six novels based on the character Sunny Randall. Mr. Parker wrote four Westerns starring the duo Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch. The first, ...
Dr. Rittenhouse had a letter he wrote on April 6, 1906 published in the same issue of Church Life (p. 4). He discussed their trip and arrival (remember, Kittie was also with them): Mrs. Rittenhouse and I spent a week in Rangoon, shopping and sight-seeing. Rangoon has several English...
and 2008—and after Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid wrote a book on the unique treatment of women in politics. Her work,Notes From the Cracked Ceiling,drew critical acclaim. In 2001, George W. Bush’s first year in office, she won the Aldo Beckman Award for distinguished White House co...