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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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‘A Very Human Portrait’
… George Shackelford of Virginia Polytechnic Institute completed a substantial dissertation on the life of William … with the range of his knowledge, and Short charmed the ladies with his naturally affectionate manner and his greater … Philosophical Society after 1804 and even contributed in 1826 to the fund which sought to save a dying, indebted …
Wretch Like Me
… left them their dead to remember us by. Archilochus The soldier kneeling in the wet gully has ceased his rocking and … be finished with all this. We are traveling too light to accommodate a prisoner, and we don’t feel kindly toward any of … kit. A day and a night. At Waynesboro we fought the Federals’ barn fires and their repeating Spencers till dark. Our …
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Poets of the People
… By Edgar Lee Masters. New York: D. Appleton-Cen-tury Company. $2.50. The People, Yes. By Carl Sandburg. New York: … Tom Barrons, who take to whisky at the end.  Lute Crockett died last night,  By the town worsted and his fight With … people?—Yes! They are the ones who make life worth while. 126-131 …
The Green Room, Winter 1999
… Eraser is a direct descendant of Alexander Fraser, first commander of the U.S. Coast Guard and skipper of one of the … University of Virginia and former director of graduate studies and former chair of the McIntire Department of Art. He … matters should be addressed to The Managing Editor. Website: http://www.vqronline.org/ EDITORIAL OFFICES: ONE …
The Genial Philosopher
… Boswell loved this story and drew from it one of his wisest comments, that “philosophy, like religion, is too generally … little of this cheerfulness. He reserved it for the more common occasions of life, and let it spring forth at Auld … (without reference to which no eighteenth century memoir is complete) to realize that he was a man, too gullible and too …
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The Devil’s Tail: Reading From the Lives of Authors
… for a projected special issue of Salmagundi magazine. My companions on this visit were the novelist Bharati Mukherjee … wearing American sports clothes, khakis or jeans. She had also, on this occasion, painted in the middle of her … justifying the deep, often unconscious prejudices of his audience. This was obvious, he felt, and no recitation of the …
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