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Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow (1807–1882)
was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's
Ride", The Song of Hiawatha,
and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, and was one of the five
Fireside Poets. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, which was then a part of
Massachusetts. He studied at Bowdoin College. After spending time in Europe he became a
professor at Bowdoin and, later, at Harvard College. His first major poetry collections were Voices
of the Night (1839)
and Ballads
and Other Poems (1841). Longfellow retired from teaching in 1854, to
focus on his writing, living the remainder of his life in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in a former headquarters of George Washington. Longellow was honored in March 2007 when the United States
Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating
him. A number of schools are named after
him in various states as well. Neil Diamond's 1974 hit song, "Longfellow Serenade",
is a reference to the poet. He
is a protagonist in Matthew Pearl's
murder mystery The Dante Club (2003). See pictures and list of works at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow
See also http://www.poemhunter.com/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/
and http://www.celebrateboston.com/biography/henry-wadsworth-longfellow.htm
The Fireside
Poets (also
known as the Schoolroom or Household
Poets) were
a group of 19th-century American poets from New England. The group is
typically thought to comprise Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, William
Cullen Bryant, John
Greenleaf Whittier, James
Russell Lowell, and Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr., who
were the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British poets, both at home and abroad, nearly surpassing that of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireside_Poets
The Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) took up 635 acres of the Marina in San
Francisco for more than nine months in 1915.
The main structures were made of a glorified papier-mâché, which anyone
who went through elementary school art class knows doesn't last longer than the
next rainstorm. The bulk of buildings
were demolished immediately after the fair wrapped up in December 1915. A
few remnants escaped that fate, however.
The Palace of Fine Arts, designed by Bay Area starchitect Bernard Maybeck,
remained in place.
During the fair it
held exhibits of foreign and American artists, including paintings, sculpture,
tapestries, and decorative arts.
Sculptures were grouped on display in the rotunda and the
colonnade. The
entirety of the Palace of Fine Arts was supposed to meet its doom at the end of
the fair like all the others. But
instead it was saved from demolition by the Palace Preservation League. For a while the exhibit hall held a permanent
art collection, and later it was converted into indoor tennis courts and then a
limo motor pool. It led a weird life as
a warehouse, distribution center, storage depot, and fire department
headquarters. All the while, the rotunda
and colonnade, the flashy main attraction of the palace, started to decay. In 1964 philanthropist Walter Johnson championed the idea of rebuilding the Palace
with more permanent materials, in what's considered one of the
earliest preservation efforts in the city.
Everything but the steel structure of the exhibit hall was torn down and
then reconstructed in concrete, with most of the ornate detail replicated
(except for the murals on the dome, two ends of the colonnade, and the
ornamentation on the exhibit hall). It's
the only structure from the fair that stayed located on its original site. The fair featured tons of musical
performances, complete with a 40-ton,
7,000-pipe organ. It was
originally installed at the Festival Hall, but after the fair it was given to
the city and moved to the Bill Graham.
Despite a restoration effort in the 1980s, it was damaged pretty badly
in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
There was a plan to install it on the Embarcadero as part of a new
outdoor music concourse, but a lack of funds eventually thwarted the
project. So while a friends group is trying to get it repaired (ideally sometime in 2015
to celebrate its centennial), it lives in storage. Sausalito's Vina del Mar
Park contains
two of the original twelve full-size elephant sculptures designed
by McKim, Mead & White as flagpole bases at the Court of the Universe. Sausalito architect William Faville saved two
of the elephants and a fountain for the park near the ferry landing—local kids
named them Jumbo and Peewee. The
papier-mâché didn't last long, so they were reconstructed out of concrete and
eventually converted into light fixtures.
Alex Bevk See pictures at http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/02/20/tracking_down_the_remnants_of_san_franciscos_worlds_fair.php
The “rule” that a preposition should not end a sentence goes
back to the 18th century, when some grammarians believed English should bend to
the rules of Latin grammar. But like the spurious prohibition against starting sentences with
conjunctions, this rule goes against the glorious flexibility of
English and often leads to unnatural-sounding sentences. Ending sentences with strong words is a good
idea, but not when it means contorting the language away from natural
expression. Winston Churchill (or
someone else—the quote has been attributed to many people) provided the best
rejoinder to this rule. When criticized for ending a sentence with a
preposition, he replied, That is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I
shall not put. Yet the phony rule lives
on as an illogical superstition throughout the English-speaking world.
Ancient ziggurats were massive temple structures built in Ancient Mesopotamia to honor
a deity. Ziggurats were built for hundreds of years in
various regions of the ancient Middle East.
One of the first things that usually comes to mind when we think of
ancient Egypt is the Great Pyramid at Giza, but did you know the ancient
Mesopotamians also built massive structures that were just as impressive? These
buildings were called ziggurats. A ziggurat
was basically an enormous temple. These
structures were built in several levels. Although we are unsure of the exact
purpose for each level and ziggurat, it is likely that each level was
designated for a different type of activity. The bottom level, for example, may have been a
place of social and commercial interaction, while the upper levels may have
been reserved for only the head priest to commune with a designated deity. The ziggurat was the city's center. It would have been surrounded by a courtyard
with homes, storage, and other facilities designated for administrative
purposes. Ziggurats were square or
rectangular at their base. The bricks
would have been made of mud. Unlike step
pyramids, these structures would have contained stairs to allow designated
people access to upper levels. Because
each city generally had its own patron deity, the local ziggurat was built for
that deity. Mesopotamia spans the area
now known as Iraq as well as parts of Turkey and Iran. Jessica Elam Miller
See picture at http://study.com/academy/lesson/mesopotamian-ziggurat-definition-images-quiz.html
BANNED BOOKS WEEK
2015: September 27-October 3 Top ten
frequently challenged books of 2014 has been released as part of the State of America's Library
Report.
A challenge is an attempt
to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or
group. A banning is the removal of those
materials. Challenges do not simply
involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to
remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access
of others. As such, they are a threat to
freedom of speech and choice. Link to lists
of the top ten frequently challenged books of the 21st century at http://www.ala.org/bbooks/
Want a great way to get the most out
of all your food scraps? Consider growing plants from
trash. Read about garbage gardening at http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/special/children/garbage-gardening-ideas.htm
See also http://ext100.wsu.edu/benton-franklin/wp-content/uploads/sites/22/2013/12/Garbage-Gardening.pdf
Dragon flies
were thick in the swampy New Jersey towns where we went for the summer in the
1950s and where we burned dried cattails whose smoke was supposed to keep them
and mosquitoes away. We called dragon
flies "dining needles," which didn't make sense but was apparently a
dialect version of "darning needles." I read where others in the Northeast called
them "diamond needles" another version, though I never heard this
used. See abstract and beginning of the article "Dragon Fly": Lexical Change,
Local Scatter, and the National Norm by Frank Anshen
and Mark Aronoff appearing in Language in Society, Vol. 11,
No. 3 (Dec., 1982), pp. 413-417 at
Thank you, Muse reader!
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1346
August 31, 2015 On this date in 1775, Agnes
Bulmer, English poet, was born. On
this date in 1834, Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and
educator, was born.
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