Is a version of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men that uses the real names of the people. Let us face it. Most people have come to know these famous people through the photographs of Walker Evans. True, in the splendid book, graced with your splendid, sometimes transcendent words, the Evans photographs bear no captions.… Continue reading What the World Needs, Mr. Agee
Einhard
Maybe I should have called my blog Waiting for Einhard "Be this as it may, I see no reason why I should refrain from entering upon a task of this kind, since no man can write with more accuracy than I of events that took place about me, and of facts concerning which I had… Continue reading Einhard
A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it
Mrs Powel The source of this quotation is a journal kept by James McHenry (1753-1816) while he was a Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention. On the page where McHenry records the events of the last day of the convention, September 18, 1787, he wrote: “A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got… Continue reading A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it
Papyrus Fragment
http://www.hu-berlin.de/en/press-portal/nachrichten-en/june-2024/nr-2464 Earliest manuscript of Gospel about Jesus’s childhood discovered
Hog Combing
Tintype Anybody know what that is?
Hope is not the same as optimism. MLK Jr.
theconversation.com/hope-is-not-the-same-as-optimism-a-psychologist-explains-just-look-at-mlks-example-226384 Alas
“Well, they call them that. I call them Americans.”
To elaborate on something in my earlier post. That is what Tuberville said when asked ...if white nationalists should be allowed to serve in the armed forces" The Alabama senator and career university football coach replied, “Well, they call them that. I call them Americans.” Free country. Right? Marchers bearing the insignia of the white… Continue reading “Well, they call them that. I call them Americans.”
In Alabama, you learn not to expect much from your congressional delegation
"Four members of Alabama’s congressional delegation attacked a private citizen last week. And now we’re all in danger. See, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville and U.S. Reps. Robert Aderholt of Haleyville; Gary Palmer of Hoover and Dale Strong of Madison went after someone who works at Space Camp." Alabama Reflector, March 18, 2024 Continuing, "This person… Continue reading In Alabama, you learn not to expect much from your congressional delegation
This is all I have to say
"I see that the Indian fires are going out. Soon they will be cold. New fires are lighting in the West for us, they say, and we will go there. I do not believe our Great Father means to harm his red children, but that he wishes us well. We leave behind our good will… Continue reading This is all I have to say
You can say that again
New Yorker
Waiting For Charlemagne 