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‘These morose days through which we are living’
How often we learn about one thing when searching for something else. That’s one reason I encourage my 15-year-old son to read, read anything, read every chance he gets. It’s amazing what you might just learn, serendipitously, including smooth-feeling new words.
Such was the case this evening as I was perusing Western short stories by Owen [...]
What did contemporaries say about labor issues?
Just started to read a 1910 book titled “Strikes: When To Strike, How To Strike,” by Oscar T. Crosby. The joy in reading century-old writing is that it was expected to be colorful and personal and usually it doesn’t take a reader long to understand a writer’s take on the subject.
Here’s the opening:
“In the word [...]
The time, it is a comin’
I missed the exact day. That would have been Monday, the 12th. From there, it was 8 1/2 years ’til the actual anniversary of the Bisbee Deportation.
If you don’t know what the Deportation is, you’ll have to wait until I’ve completed a few more episodes of this blog to get the details. Or you can [...]