International Day of Peace/Autumnal Equinox—Murfin Calendar Coincidence Verse

This is another one of the calendar poems inspired by random, or not so random, coincidences of dates, usually discovered as I am in a mad scramble for a blog entry topic.   It first appeared in 2013

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Maxwell Perkins—Editor of a Galaxy of Literary Stars

Super editor Maxwell Perkins.   In American letters there have been figures who nurtured the writers who became the voices of their generations.   There was the Sage of Concord, Ralph Waldo Emerson hi

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Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute Built on a Promise of Submission

  The second home for the Tuskegee Normal School, a former plantation.   When I was cracking open an American history text in Cheyenne about 1965 African-Americans were covered in generous page or so

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Sit-In For Healing & Hope in Woodstock to Bring Personal Connection to Social Justice

The Coronavirus has not slowed social justice activism in McHenry County.  On the contrary from late spring though the summer mostly youth led marches, rallies, and programs have been held all over th

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A Dutchman, a Gizmo, and Invisible Creatures

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek On September 17, 1683 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote a letter to the Royal Society in London describing animalcules—tiny one celled animals invisible to the naked eye now known

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