From Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon in which Charles Mason describes going to the site of what could be the Conestoga Massacre of 1764 where 16 Conestoga men, women and children were cruelly and maliciously slaughtered at the jail in Lancaster where they had sought refuge. The next Day, he creeps out before Dixon is [...]
Archive for March, 2011
“The true River that runs ’round Hell”
Posted in Historical Information, how we live, Literature, Reality Bites, tagged 1764, Charles Mason, Conestoga Massacre, GOTV, Jeremiah Dixon, Pennsylvania, Thomas Pynchon, voting on March 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back
Posted in Historical Information, how we live, Literature, tagged Charles Mason, Jeremiah Dixon, labor unions, maine, michigan, new hampshire, politics, rightwing thuggery, Thoma Pynchon, unions, wisconsin, workers rights on March 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Neither has slept well for a Fortnight, amid the house-rocking Ponderosities of commercial Drayage, the Barrels and Sledges rumbling at all Hours over the paving-Stones, the Town on a-hammering and brick-laying itself together about them, the street-sellers’ cries, the unforeseen coalescences of Sailors and Citizens anywhere in the neighboring night to sing Liberty and wreack [...]
Happy Spring!
Posted in Misc Holiday, music, Nature, tagged Donovan, music video, spring, vernal equinox on March 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Mandolin Man and His Secret
Posted in music, tagged Donovan, music video on March 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
Musick Time Machine
Posted in childhood memories, music, tagged Dory Previn on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Song of the Naturalist’s Wife
Posted in childhood memories, music, tagged day at the beach, Donovan, music video on March 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From A Gift from a Flower to a Garden
Musick Time Machine
Posted in childhood memories, music, tagged Echo & The Bunnymen on March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Waters of March
Posted in laurel street, music, tagged Antonio Carlos Jobim, bossa nova on March 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“And the river bank talks of the waters of March, it’s the end of the strain, it’s the joy in your heart.” Antonio Carlos Jobim
