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Thorn Pricks: April 2005
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Thorn Pricks" offers stories, published or private, by any of the four Thorn gents: John, Jed, Isaac, and Mark, and their friends. Thursday, April 28, 2005. Book of American Pastimes, 1866. Posted by John Thorn at 3:15 PM. Introduction to "Peverelly’s National Game". Edited by John Freyer and Mark Rucker, Arcadia, June 2005. It is this fluid state of American sport that Charles A. Peverelly sought to document in 1866 with his. Where were their playing grounds located? Study the original Knickerbocker Rul...
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[HUDSON RIVER]: May 2005
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Hudson River Bracketed" is devoted to arts and letters in the Hudson Valley, past and present, running from Lake Tear of the Clouds to New York City. Sunday, May 29, 2005. Cedar Grove: The Thomas Cole National Historic Site. Posted by John Thorn at 9:48 AM. Saturday, May 28, 2005. Cole's palette and other tools of the trade, on view in his studio at Cedar Grove. Photo by Mark Thorn. Posted by John Thorn at 4:11 PM. Posted by John Thorn at 4:09 PM. Posted by John Thorn at 4:07 PM. From "Wake the Echoes,".
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[HUDSON RIVER]: June 2005
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Hudson River Bracketed" is devoted to arts and letters in the Hudson Valley, past and present, running from Lake Tear of the Clouds to New York City. Wednesday, June 15, 2005. This one will bring the weeps. Posted by John Thorn at 6:50 PM. Way Down upon the Hudson River. From "Wake the Echoes". February 11, 2005:. We have been singing his songs for more than 150 years Camptown Races, Oh! Songs of the Sable Harmonist. Was Foster naive or clever? The World of Odysseus. Was no part of an. So if we are wrong...
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[HUDSON RIVER]: July 2005
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Hudson River Bracketed" is devoted to arts and letters in the Hudson Valley, past and present, running from Lake Tear of the Clouds to New York City. Thursday, July 07, 2005. Hicks the Pirate, my favorite murderer. Posted by John Thorn at 5:23 PM. The Saugerties Bard, Part II. Backus was something of an entrepreneur, paying job printers to run off his ballads, then selling them from his pack as he roamed from town to town. He even produced a now exceedingly scarce. Ulster County Almanac for 1855. The wri...
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Thorn Pricks: March 2005
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Thorn Pricks" offers stories, published or private, by any of the four Thorn gents: John, Jed, Isaac, and Mark, and their friends. Thursday, March 31, 2005. Rube Waddell, ca. 1909. Posted by John Thorn at 6:45 PM. Rube Waddell: The Peter Pan of Baseball. Happy April Fool's Day. On this date in 1914 Rube Waddell, one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history and one of my favorite personages, left this world. The Stain of Guilt. Was the leaper of cataracts more mad or foolish than other men who throw a...
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[HUDSON RIVER]: April 2005
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Hudson River Bracketed" is devoted to arts and letters in the Hudson Valley, past and present, running from Lake Tear of the Clouds to New York City. Wednesday, April 27, 2005. How I first met the great white whale. Posted by John Thorn at 4:54 PM. Catskill Eagle: Herman Melville. January 27, 2005:. Herman Melville, author of the Great American Novel if ever there was one, died forgotten in 1891, some 40 years after the critics had greeted publication of. The book which through all his life remained his ...