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69 items found for ""Spotlight on Educators""

  • Walking with Morley

    A windy day, one would have said in the dark channels of downtown ways. In one of the little crowded stalls a man sat with a glass of milk. Does the fact of having bought and eaten a moderate meal entitle one to sit with one's companion for Or is one compelled to relinquish the table as soon as one is finished, to make place for later comers of it one has.

  • The Groves Were God’s First Temples

    William Cullen Bryant, A Forest Hymn, 1860 One hundred fifty years ago it was this, the first line of Moore to name one of the Giant Sequoias of the California Calaveras Mammoth Grove after Bryant. honored, a feeling of joy rose in me that perhaps the proud privilege might be mine of christening one the second tree at the right hand of the path very near the entrance of the grove, a very old tree, one That I should be the first of our poets whose name is inscribed on one of these giants of the forest

  • Memorial Day Weekend 1945

    between a young Brooklyn couple during the time the husband was stationed in Europe, including over one look at life during World War II from the viewpoint of those fighting the war as well as from loved ones The last of the letters are dated from the spring of 1945, including the one pictured below in which

  • The Peters-Pearsall Partnership

    One of the greatest resources in the collection is THIS IS MY LIFE, a comprehensive autobiography written A closed house will deteriorate faster than an occupied one.

  • RHS Girls Basketball: 1923-1924 Season

    The one modern touch is the pullover sweatshirt worn by the girl in the back row to the left.

  • Parke Godwin on William Cullen Bryant

    Other descendants stayed active in both library and civic affairs in Roslyn for more than one hundred But one evening, on entering the common room, the owner, a native of Great Barrington (MA), introduced One, however, remarked at once the exceeding gentleness of his manner, and a rare sweetness in the tone No one would have supposed that there was any fun in him, but, when a lively turn was given to some remark Of public affairs this gentleman spoke with great decision—as one who thoroughly comprehended them, and

  • Winter in Roslyn: Recollection of Stewart W. Donaldson

    There would be 7 or 8 kids on a bob sled and one night Clarence did not steer it properly and crashed Another good pond was the one north of the North Shore Country Club in Glenwood, but the best pond was

  • Recalling the Bryant Legacy in Roslyn

    One year later, he joined a group of residents who successfully petitioned the Post Office to change By this time, Bryant was one of America’s most notable poets and thus became Roslyn’s most notable citizen One of Long Island’s first commuters, Bryant maintained a residence in New York City and would travel Currently open on weekends, spring through fall, it, along with the library, is one of the visible reminders

  • The Book-of-the-Month Club

    One of Christopher Morley’s enduring contributions to the literary world of today is his early involvement The other members of the original judges’ panel included literary critic Henry Seidel Canby, who was one The Bryant Library’s reference staff to read and review past selections with the option of reviewing one One of the most enjoyable aspects of the book is the highly ornamental language which borders on poetic One night she witnesses her new neighbor getting murdered by her husband.

  • ☆★☆ The Answer is: 42 ☆★☆

    The 43-star flag was made the official Star-Spangled Banner for exactly one week, when it also became

  • Poetic Analysis: Christopher Morley's “Two O' Clock”

    One glance at the bones of this composition reveals the basic sonnet form in terms of line count and This may suggest that the poem we are reading was not the first one written in the evening it describes , but perhaps the one that the speaker believes is worth keeping.

  • The Pearsall Women: Ethel Pearsall Birch

    Ethel Pearsall Birch: "I will attempt to write what I know and what I heard about my six sisters and one They had one child, a boy. London was a musician, a drummer and had·a band. She died July 4th, 1959 in Los Angeles in one of our sister's apartments.

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