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Lucien Fewell shot James Clark after he apparently ran off with Lucien's 16-year-old sister. The murder trial that followed featured two Confederate generals and a former Virginia governor. What was the verdict? (also on Amazon.com)
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Biographer’s Day
National Biographers’ Day is celebrated annually on the day that Samuel Johnson met his biographer, James Boswell, in 1763. I have somehow never read Boswell, but I have pretty much always loved biographies. The school library at my grade school … Continue reading
Nylon Stocking Day
Does anyone wear stockings on the regular any more? I haven’t, not for years—not even to my cousin’s wedding last year. And for a while before I quit wearing them, I sprang for silk over nylon. They felt nicer. I … Continue reading
Stars and Stripes Forever Day
I don’t know where it comes from, but I am a sucker for patriotic marches, and I would argue that this one is the grandaddy of them all. It’s rousing, it’s fun to play, and as far as I know, … Continue reading
Cough Drop Day
Does anyone remember Luden’s? More candy than cough drop? I guess you can still buy them, but I don’t recall having seen them for ages. I loved those things in grade school—probably because my mother never, EVER bought them; I … Continue reading
Limerick Day
Someone once said puns are the lowest form of humor. Are limericks the lowest form of poetry? Maybe. Are they the funniest? Often. When I was in high school, I won a newspaper contest by writing a political limerick that … Continue reading
Hostess Cupcake Day
Growing up, these were a huge treat for me. That frosting you could peel off and eat separately, the chocolate cake, the creamy middle. Excellent with milk. I was lucky that they came in packs of two. If they had … Continue reading
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Clean Up Your Room Day
I have a litany: Laundry, dishes, trash, misplaced. This is how I clean rooms. I look for and deal with each of those things in turn. There’s almost always a lot more “misplaced” than any of the others, which is … Continue reading
Alphabet Magnet Day
I loved these as a kid. When I was 2, I got a little green Playskool desk for Christmas. It had a desktop that was also a chalkboard and then when you lifted it up, it was a magnet board … Continue reading
Jamestown Day
How much do you know about Jamestown? My first brush with the topic was when I was four or five and got a book about Pocahontas. Learned all about the English settlement and then about the Pilgrims and the Mayflower, … Continue reading
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Paste Up Day
Apparently this day is to celebrate crafters and artists and so on. But to me, paste-up will always mean old school newspapering. I spent many happy hours in paste-up watching people who should have been surgeons wield scalpels around sticky … Continue reading
Arwen Adams Bicknell 