Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride”: Creaing a National Legend

It’s a tossup as to whether the most famous or best-known poem in America is Clement Moore”s “A Visit from St. Nicholas” (aka “Twas the Night Before Christmas”), first published in 1823, or Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride,” (1860). My money is on “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Whole generations of schoolchildren, myself included, grew up reciting the lines that begin “Listen my children, and you shall hear…” 

Both poems are no longer taught in most of America’s public schools, but I know from my grandsons’ experience that they are taught (with great gusto) in many private schools, especially those offering a classical education. “Paul Revere’s Ride” commemorates one of the significant of the beginning of the American Revolution, a horseback ride at night to warn the cities of Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming.

 

That ride occurred 250 years ago tomorrow.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Artwork: the illustration accompanying the poem in the January 1861 edition of The Atlantic Magazine.

Some Thursday Readings

 

“If You Had Been Here,” a poem for Holy Week – Story Warren.

 

On publishing Charlotte Bronte’s miniature book of poems for the first time – R.B. Russell at Literary Hub.

 

The Classical Girl’s Top 10 Holy Works for Holy Week – Terez Rose at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

Sweet Tea and Sacraments: Flannery O’Connor, the American South, and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition – Raleigh Adams at Front Porch Republic.

 

“Sing a Song of Sixpence,” poem by Mother Goose – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

"Defending Dixie's Land" by Isaac Bishop

I grew up with relatives who were still fighting the Civil War (or the War of Northern Aggression, as my grandmother described it). I knew about the Lost Cause, usually referred to simply as “The Cause.” I had watched Gone with the Windcountless times with my mother, and I knew it not as a movie based on a novel but as history. It wasn’t until I was a junior in high school that my American history teaching challenged our class to explore received history and find out what really happened in the Civil War. 

It was an eye-opening exercise. And yet I knew that while my relatives and my received wisdom were largely and mostly wrong, my understanding wasn’t entirely wrong. For example, the abolition movement in America was empowered by a powerful propaganda war, which often exaggerated reality to score points in public opinion (as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, himself a part of that propaganda war, would come to realize and regret). Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin without having set foot on a slave-owning plantation, yet Northern readers accepted it as fact. And the idea of secession by individual states were first advanced and popularized, not by the southern states, but by the New England states, which wanted high tariffs to protect their own manufacturing interests and were willing to entertain leaving the Union to achieve their goals. 

 

Still, it was something of a surprise to read Defending Dixie's Land: What Every American Should Know About the South and the Civil War (2023) by Isaac Bishop, a pen name for writer Jeb Smith. He’s born and raised in Vermont, no less (a Yankee!). 

To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.

Some Wednesday Readings

 

Captain James Waddell of CSS Shenandoah: “Having Done My Duty” – Dwight Hughes at Emerging Civil War.

 

The Haunting Truth of Dostoyevsky’s Demons – Benjamin Carlson at The Free Press.

 

The Faith of E.E. Cummings – Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative Conservative. 

 

“The Night-Ride,” poem by Kenneth Slessor – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

The Royal Banners Forward Go – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

Poets and Poems: Katie Kalisz and "Flu Season"

I’m trying to remember when I last read a poetry collection that spoke so warmly and movingly of home and family, like Flu Season: Poems, does. It’s been a while, but poet Katie Kalisz has more than filled the gap in my reading.  

I learned Kalisz lives with a woodcutter, although I don’t think that’s what he does full-time. She watches him as he chops wood, describing every movement: “The spray of / sawdust looks like / confetti, the only sign / of change.” When he’s finished and comes through the door, she smells smoke and gasoline: “A little snoke. / A little danger. Bringing / him a glass of water / feels like inventing fire.” It’s a love poem, unusual to be sure, but a love poem, nonetheless. A little later, in “Anniversary Poem,” she punches the love theme home.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Tuesday Readings

 

“Tears, Idle Tears,” poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Before the Light – poem by David Whyte.

 

Is April the Cruelest Month? – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

What Exactly Is Poetry? – Rachel Donahue at Bandersnatch Books.

 

Free E-Book + Poetry Prompt: The Year of the Monarch – Tweetspeak Poetry.

 

We Find Honey Others Miss – poem by Catherine Abbey Hodges at Every Day Poems.

 

“Redemption,” poem by George Herbert – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Seven Lenten Sonnets – Andrew Peterson at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

“To Go on Living: Stories” by Narine Abgaryan

To understand the short stories of Narine Abgaryan in To Go On Living, I realized rather quickly that I had to learn more about a conflict I’d never heard of. I was familiar with the genocide of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. That included the murders of more than a million Armenians, forced Islamization of women and children, and death marches into the Syrian desert.  

But Abgaryan’s stories seemed based on something far more recent. And they are – what’s known as the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The roots lie in the old Russian and Soviet empires and what happened when the communist Soviet regime fell. Like many other regions, that of Armenia and Azerbaijan featured a mingling of ethnic peoples. 

 

Historically, the Russians had favored the Azerbaijanis. The region of Nagorno-Karabakh contained mostly ethnic Armenians, surrounded by seven districts containing mostly Azerbanjanis. In 1988, a referendum in Nagorno-Karabakh was held to transfer the region to Soviet Armenia, and violence erupted between the two ethnic groups. Once the Soviet Union dissolved, the violence became all-out war, ending in 1994. 

 

Two decades of relative if uneasy peace followed, until 2020, when conflict erupted again. Three years later, the victorious Azerbaijanis took control of Nagorno-Karabakh. In both wars, border towns suffered. Berd, in northeastern Armenia, was one such border town. And Berd is largely the setting where Abgaryan’s short stories are largely set. Collectively, they raise the question of how people survive war, deaths of family members and friends, and destruction of their homes and livelihoods. 

 

And the individual stories do need to be read collectively, with many of them involving the same families and characters. The title answers the question for you: you survive the destruction wrought by war when you go on living.

 

Some of the stories are set during the war, while others are after the war. A woman attends the funeral of her brother, only to return home to find her house destroyed. A man and his son travel like they usually do for their business, and they never return home. Families are cut off from each other. A bus filled with people is hit by a mortar shell; half of the passengers die. A young woman spends her time anticipating the evening of each day; nothing else matters. A man sitting on the stoop of his house is killed by a projectile. 

 

Narine Abgaryan

Lives are disrupted, people die, children are maimed, injured, and mentally stricken. And yet, life goes on. Abgaryan finds survival and resilience in customs, culture, and even the food that’s prepared and eaten. The familiar and the customary survive war and destruction. 

 

The 32 stories, translated by Margarit Ordukhanyan and Zara Torlone, ae short and succinct, amplifying their impact. They often surprise and horrify, but Abgaryan isn’t writing about the destruction of people’s lives  as she is their  continuation.

 

Abgaryan was born in Berd. She’s published numerous books which collectively have sold more than a million copies. Three Apples Fall from the Sky won the Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana Award and an English PEN Award, and a trilogy has been filmed as a television series. She lives in Armenia and Germany. Ordukhanyan is based in New York and translates both her native Armenian and Russian into English. Torlone is also a native of Armenia and a professor of Classics at Miami University in Ohio.

 

To Go On Living tells a story of war and destruction, yes. But it also tells a story of hope.

 

Map by Golden - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The dark yellow area is Nagarno-Karabakh; the small red dot in northern Armenia represents Berd.

Some Monday Readings

 

Conservation on mysterious Vermeer painting reveal it may have been his final work – Martin Bailey at The Art Newspaper.

 

How “Tesla Takedown” Activists Fool the Public – Christopher Ruge and David Reaboi.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict

 

Up Close with the Beauty of Gatsby – Emma Heath at The Metropolitan Review.

 

Seeking the Grail – Andrew Henry at The Saxon Cross.

An unridden colt

After Mark 11:1-11 

A new king rides

into the city on the colt

ridden by the previous

king, to signify 

the transfer of power.

Choosing an unridden

colt signifies no transfer

of power from one earthly

king to another, but instead

a kingship transferring

from no man, no earthly

institution, but instead

transferring from God.

 

Photograph by Tim Mossholder via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

Saved? A sermon for Palm Sunday and Savior of All Who Want More – Mark Daniels.

 

3 Reasons Easter Matters for Your Work – Theology of Work Project.

 

The Light of Hope – Br. Jeremiah Tobin at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

Pagan Easter? The Real Roots of Resurrection Sunday – Michael A.G. Haykin at Desiring God.

 

Notes from Great Lent – Andrew Henry at The Saxon Cross.

 

The Hidden Sorrow of Easter – David Bannon at Front Porch Republic.

Saturday Good Reads - April 12, 2025

If you’re a Charles Dickens fan, you might be interested in the Annual Conference of the Dickens Fellowship that’s being held at the conference center of Canterbury Cathedral in England. The web site has full details. A collection of prints illustrating the novels of Dickens has been posted at The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery. And via the Gad’s Hill Place Museum (the author’s final home and where he died), you get a view from his study and listen to a reading of an excerpt from Dombey and Son.  

You’re not going to find this in the mainstream media – the New York Post and Fox News was as close as I could find on Google – but Rutgers University announced the findings of a study that reported that political violence and “killing billionaires” is now accepted by a significant portion of people identifying with one political party. You can read the full Rutgers report here. And this is how the New York Post reported it. 

 

Three good posts popped up this week about writing and publishing fiction. Paul Kingsnorth at The Abbey of Misrule discusses the promise and peril of the ‘Christian novel.’ Randee Dawn at Writer’s Digest explains what she learned from “un-trunking her novels” and getting them published. And Henry Oliver at The Common Reader considers how fiction publishers are increasingly dismissing male writers, and says if men want to get published again, they need to write great novels.

 

More Good Reads

 

Writing and Literature

 

On My Grandfather’s Novel” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby at 100 – Eleanor Lanahan at Literary Hub.

 

Touches of sweet harmony: Music and The Merchant of Venice – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

Faith

 

State of the Church: More men attending than women, volunteering rebounding – Diana Chandler at Baptist Press.

 

Was John Milton a Puritan? – Jack Heller at The Priory.

 

What’s Missing in the Calling Conversation? – Arianna Malloy at the Institute for Faith, Work, & Economics.

 

The World of St. Augustine – Regis Martin at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

America 250

 

National Gallery of Art marking 250^th anniversary of US with loans to ten museums across the country – Benjamin Sutton at The Art Newspaper.

 

American Stuff

 

Timeline: A Recent History of Tariffs – Matt Taibbi at Racket News.

 

When Americans Gave Up Their Freedoms – Martin Gurri at The Free Press.

 

Surrender at Appomattox: Grant Claims Victory for the Union – Jason Clark at This is the Day.

 

The Strange Case of Dr. Barret – Greg Wolk at Emerging Civil War.

 

Life and Culture

 

In Praise of Old Fencerows – Reid Makowsky at Front Porch Republic.

Burn It All Down - Matt Taibbi at Racket News.

 

Poetry

 

How to Start a Poetry Club: Part 1 and Part 2 – Every Day Poems.

 

Lent with Van Gogh, Part 6: Sunflowers – Megan Willome.

 

The Love That Used to Move Me – Andrew Calis at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

Rise My Soul, The Lord is Risen – Matt Papa, Matt Boswell, & Kristyn Getty 

Painting: Portrait of Rodo Pissarro Reading (the Artist’s Son, oil on canvas (1893) by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). 

What we bear

After Romans 12:2 and Luke 6:43-45 

We are known

by the fruit we bear,

and we all bear

fruit. A good, healthy

trees bears good, healthy

fruit; a bad tree, and 

an evil tree, do not.

Good comes from good,

evil comes from evil.

Our hearts are storehouses

of treasure, an abundance

of treasure. Good treasure

produces good; bad treasure

produces bad. Good treasure

comes from renewal, 

renewal of your heart,

renewal of your mind,

renewal of your soul,

not from the word but

from the Spirit. Renewal

becomes transformation

becomes production

of good.

 

Photograph by Mary Jane Duford via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Friday Readings

 

On Netflix and Narnia: Three Questions and a Convicting Scene – Ryanne Molinari.

 

Hymn for Advent: Or Christ’s Coming to Jerusalem in Triumph – poem by Jeremy Taylor at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin). 

 

Five Years After Gentle and Lowly, Evangelicals Still Need to Remember the Love of Jesus – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies.

 

“Children of the Heavenly King,” hymn by John Cennick – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.

 

Learning to Listen: Engaging with Longer Prayers in Worship – Erik Raymond at The Gospel Coalition.

 

Poets and Poems: Michelle Ortega and “When You Ask Me, Why Paris?”

We were there for an anniversary trip – Paris in the springtime. It’s a beautiful city, but it has its quirks. The museum workers were staging wildcat strikes to protest government pension changes. The government didn’t care. The tourists did. The Louvre and other cultural institutions might or might not be open, and they might suddenly close when they were open (this happened to Versailles the day after we visited). Our hotel concierge did his best to keep guests informed, but there was no way to tell for sure until you arrived. 

What the wildcat strikes taught us to do was to be flexible in the extreme. We discovered the Museum of the Middle Ages (“the Cluny”), with its famous “lady and the unicorn” tapestry. The Rue des Martyrs was three blocks from our hotel, and it was like a miniature of every Paris stereotype – the bakery, the coffee shop, the flower shop, the wine shop, people doing their shopping with baguettes in their arms. The Au Petite Riche restaurant with its surly French waiters quarantined us in a side room with two other couples – an elderly couple from Salisbury in England and a honeymooning pair from Australia. They probably thought they were isolating their French diners from the boorish Anglos; instead, they turned our meal into a party and a treasured memory.

 

Poet Michelle Ortega has had a different Paris experience, or at least what she writes about in When You Ask Me, Why Paris? reflects a different experience. 

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Thursday Readings

 

The Things We Leave Unsaid – poem by Andrew Calis at Rabbit Room Poetry.

 

“The Soote Season,” poem by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

Poems on Solitude and Aloneness – D.H. Lawrence via Poetic Outlaws.

 

“Straws in the Wind,” poem by Gerald Dawe – Andrew Roycroft at New Grub Street.

 

Crystal Downing’s Subversive Sayers and 21^st Century Society – Seth Myers at An Unexpected Journal.

Rereading the "Dancing Priest" Series

Someone once asked me if I reread my own books after they’re published. And the answer is yes. Part of the reason is research and “story-checking.” When I was writing the Dancing Priest series, I had to reread the early books to make sure I was keeping story line, characters, and settings consistent and accurate.  

But I must confess that, sometimes, I reread the books simply for pleasure. Occasionally, I get so wrapped up in the stories that I forget I wrote them. I suppose that’s a good thing. Yes, I have favorite scenes in every book that I like to reread, but I do reread the books in their entirety, about once a year.

 

I’ve had readers tell me that they reread the Dancing Priest series, too. Last week, Bill Grandi, a pastor in Indiana, started writing about it at his blog Living in the Shadow. This is part of what he had to say about the first book, Dancing Priest; he captured the very heart of the story in just a few words:

 

“Glynn has weaved together a wonderful story that even a non-religious person would enjoy. Even though Michael is a fictional character, one begins to admire this young man and his passion for life. Grounded without being preachy, Dancing Priest is a wonderful story of faith, hope, caring for others, putting other’s interests before your own, and being sensitive to those around us.”

 

And here’s what Bill wrote about the second one, A Light Shining, after summarizing a conversation between the Anglican priest Michael Kent and a 15-year-old boy on the steps of Michael’s church in San Francisco:

 

“…Each one of us matters to God. He sent Jesus to die so that we could be forgiven. While a story written by Mr. Young, the conversation is heard all over the planet. Every person has value and merit. Each one matters. We are all sinners, for sure, but we still matter to God.”

 

It might be time to reread my books (again). Thank you, Bill Grandi.

 

Some Wednesday Readings

 

Kids These Days Need The Black Stallion – Larissa Phillips at The Free Press.

 

Grant and Whiskey at Shiloh – Sean Michael Chick at Emerging Civil War.

 

The Span of a Season – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.

 

“Try not to think what we are going to do to ourselves”: Grant at the Wilderness and Shiloh – Chris Mackowski at Emerging Cvil War. 

 

Who controls our histories? – Barb Drummond at Curious Histories.

Robert Waldron Imagines the Creation of "The Hound of Heaven"

I’d heard of the poem “The Hound of Heaven” decades ago; I’d read it back in college in an English literature course which used the Norton Anthology of English Literature. I checked my copy, which I’ve held on to since 1971; sure enough, it’s included. But I remembered nothing about the poet, Francis Thompson (1859-1907). As it turns out, I’m not alone; his name doesn’t come immediately to mind when thinking about the great Victorian and late Victorian poets. 

Thompson’s story begins with his father, Charles, who was a doctor and Roman Catholic convert in northwest England. Charles wanted his son to be a priest, and the boy at age 11 was duly sent to seminary. Francis, however, was far more interested in history and poetry than theology. When the priesthood plan failed, his father sent him to study medicine at what is now the University of Manchester. Thompson was even less interested in being a doctor than he was in being a priest and left for London. Determined to be a writer, he found himself living on the streets, working in fits and starts, and soon addicted to opium. 

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Tuesday Readings

 

100 Great Poems for Boys, edited by Leslie Pockell – review by Betsy Farquhar at Redeemed Reader.

 

“Apologia,” an essay in verse – T.M. Moore at The Society of Classical Poets.

 

Spring springs – poem by Pádraig Ó Tuama at Poetry Unbound.

 

A Close Reading of the Poetry of Val Kilmer – Nick Ripatrazone at Literary Hub.

 

“To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve,” poem by John Dryden – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

50 States of Generosity: Iowa -- Sandra Husk King at Tweetspeak Poetry.

"Turpitude" by Pete Brassett

A series of seemingly unconnected crimes are assigned to DCI Charlotte (“Charlie”) West and her team at the Scottish police. Drive-by robberies have been occurring, in which nothing is stolen. A jeweler is based on the head in his shop, but again, nothing is stolen. And workers at a recycling center discover some human fingers in a discarded tin (can) of dog food.  

Retired DCI James Munro (and Charlie’s mentor) is brought in to help. The wheels of police investigation begin to grind, if slowly. The team talks with the recycling center people, the owners of the unrobbed shops, and the spouse of the jeweler, who soon becomes the widow of the jeweler when the victim dies in hospital. The widow is of particular interest, as she takes off for their vacation home on a sunny Spanish island.

 

Pete Brassett

It won’t be long until Munro’s experienced eye and West’s ability to fit pieces together leads to the conclusion that all of these seemingly unconnected crimes may actually be connected.

 

Turpitude is the tenth Munro and West crime novel by Pete Brassett, and it’s a winner of a mystery read. Brassett has an ability to keep you guessing, mixing legitimate clues for the reader with a few red herrings. With the laugh-out-loud banter between the members of the police team, Turpitude is a highly entertaining story.

 

Brassett, a native Scot, has published 13 novels in the Munro and West series, as well as several general fiction and mystery titles.   

 

Related:

She by Pete Brassett.

 Avarice by Pete Brassett.

 Duplicity by Pete Brassett.

 Terminus by Pete Brassett.

 Talion by Peter Brassett.

 Perdition by Peter Brassett.

 Rancour by Peter Brassett.

Penitent by Pete Brassett.

 

Some Monday Readings

 

“Resentment is anger that has not been resolved.” – Alain de Botton – American Civil War & UK History.

 

Even Me? An encounter with Watership Down – J.E. Kerstner at Story Warren.

 

Hawthorne in Rome – John Miller at National Review.

 

3 Ways to Make New Stuff Happen – Joel Miller at Miller’s Book Review.

 

“Turn, Turn, Turn”: Sometimes a song – Anthomy Esolen at Word & Song.

A measure of kindness

After Galatians 5:22-23 and 2 Samuel 9:1-7 

Summoned, he thinks,

to his condemnation

and death, he learns

instead that lands

are to be restored,

position is to be

restored, honor is

to be paid. Instead

of condemnation

and death, he’s been

summoned to honor,

summoned to life.

Kindness to a man

changed his life;

kindness to people

transforms empires.

 

It is a picture, a photograph:

summoned to expected

death, we instead

have been summoned

to life.

 

Photograph by Andrea Tummons via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

Back When We Had Friends – Greg Morse at Desiring God.

 

“Air and Angels,” poem by John Donne – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

“Thus with the year, seasons return” – Anthony Esolen at Word and Song.

 

I Used to Race the Sun – Henry Lewis at Story Warren.

 

Hallowed Be Thy App – Madeleine Kearns at The Free Press.

 

The Prayer Without Ceasing – Dwight Torkington at The Imaginative Conservative.

Saturday Good Reads - April 5, 2025

The New York Times had a surprising report this week about the war in Ukraine. The newspaper reported that the United States was far more deeply involved from the beginning, and that the Biden Administration both misled and outright lied to the American people about U.S. involvement and the threat of nuclear war. As one pundit noted, it was U.S. General Mark Milley who was calling the shots. 

Still another international surprise: Western media have been criticized for accepted war casualty figures reported with both immediacy and specificity by Hamas (or its health authority) in Gaza. One example: some 70 percent of the deaths have been reported to be women and children. This week, Hamas quietly revised the numbers; 72 percent of the deaths turn out to be combat-aged men. Notice the widespread coverage of the revision in American media? I didn’t either.

 

I’ve been watching a “equal protection under the law” train wreck approaching in Britain. The Sentencing Council, essentially a group of British judges who issue guidelines and polices for the court system there, was proposing a two-tier sentencing system – more lenient sentences for minorities and harsher sentences for whites for the same crimes. It was so bad (and causing such a bad public reaction) that even Keir Starmer’s Labour government was compelled to oppose the plan, even saying it would introduce legislation to stop it. Thankfully, the Sentencing Council has backed down. For now.

 

More Good Reads

 

Art

 

The art of experience: Caspar David Freidrich – James Steven Curl at The Critic Magazine.

 

Neater – artwork by Sonja Benskin Mesher.

 

Faith

 

What is Man? – Carl Trueman at The New Jerusalem.

 

Maintaining Friendships in a Lonely Age – Thomas Kidd.

 

Why Hospitality in the New Testament Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does – Michael Kruger at Canon Fodder.

 

Be Wary of 1%-er Rhetoric – Just Poythress.

 

Writing and Literature

 

Demons and Monsters in George Bernanos – Cyril O’Regan at Church Life Journal.

 

Life and Culture

 

Secularist Violence in Modern History: An Interview with Thomas Albert Howard – Nadya Williams at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

The Other Cancel Culture – Dixie Dillon Lane at Front Porch Republic.

 

Restoring the Humanities: An Education That’s Not for Dummies – Joseph Pearce at The Imaginative Conservative. 

 

American Stuff

 

Jay Bhattacharya Was ‘Dangerous.’ Now He Leads the NIH – Bari Weiss at The Free Press. 

 

Stacking Arms: The Cockade City Unravels – Aaron Stoyack at Emerging Civil War.

America 250

 

Mapping the American Revolution and Its Era  – John Sellers at the Library of Congress.

 

Patrick Henry: From the American Revolution to Saving the Union – John Ragosta at Ben Franklin’s World.

 

Poetry

 

Ad Astera – Jack Baumgartner at The School for the Transfer of Energy.

 

“Wind in the Grass,” poem by Mark Van Doren – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

The Planets: Jupiter – Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra Flash Mob

Painting: Woman at a Window, oil on canvas by Albert Andre (1969-1954, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.