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Sugar Days
… cash and decided to give the harvest a try. I had found a website, SugarBeetHarvest.com, and an e-mail address, to … of his glasses, and yellow block lettering emphasized his points. I learned that I would not be picking beets, as I … in Minnesota and North Dakota. But many also would seek steadier employment, and the sugar industry, as Hill had …
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Riding Over the Past? Cahaba, 1936
… At one time it housed some 3,000 captured Union soldiers. In April 1865, federal troops entered the town, and … times again:         Cahaba, first state capital, 1818—1826 This stone marks the site of Cahaba selected November 21, … to reopen streets, erect interpretive signs at key historic points, and eventually undertake …
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Appreciations of Alice Munro
… to chart the intricacies of human beings, the incredible complexity and ambiguity of emotions. For example, Munro has … or fragmentary. Mystery and surprise are crucial ingredients of every single good story, and Munro is a master of … Emily Dickinson. How many others? In Canada, you didn’t get points off for being a woman. The challenge wasn’t so much …
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Necessary Utterance
… “To have poets,” Auslander declared, “we must have audiences… . And to have great poets, we must have great … and our ethical responsibilities to others. To clarify his points with an element of pleasure, my father would recite … table and a few chairs. On the table was my mother’s briefcase. Though I sat there for hours waiting for my father to …
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On Being a Female Reporter
… contributing editor Delphine Schrank is part of an online companion to our Fall 2012 issue on The Female Conscience. … back home, nor as one from these parts—for their sake, but also, let’s be honest, for my own. However gender-neutral I … my sense of self, however invisible my femaleness, it will come back to bite. I don’t often think about being female …
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The Infinite Brunette
… stones through the streets of Santiago, the words would come to me in a flood. I would have said this or that, my … Trenet, one of two gallic tunes in his repertoire, which also included “C’est si bon.” I recited the poem in French … sagas, the sickness that bites the healthy animal. The poet died in 1973, ten days after the coup ended Salvador …
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