Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Marengo, an ante-bellum house that still stands in Lowndes County was once an educational center...

 
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Marengo, an ante-bellum house that still stands in Lowndes County was once an educational center

During the 1930s Great Depression era, many writers were employed to interview people around the United States, so their experiences and life history could be recorded The program was named the U.S. Work Projects Administration, Federal Writers’ Project and it gave employment to historians, teachers, writers, librarians, and other white-collar workers. This is a transcribed […]

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PATRON + TOMBSTONE TUESDAY: Stinging epigrams on tombstones

Epigrams which originally were inscriptions on tombs were invented by the Roman poet Martial. Poignancy and sting was deemed the necessary characteristic of this kind of verse and to write a perfect one was deemed as difficult as to compose an epic. The following inscription on a tombstone in York, Maine, has just this quality. […]

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