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  • Damaged Heritage Part 3: “A Multitude of Challenges and Storms . . .” [by J. Chester Johnson]

    May 6, 2020

    (Ed note: This is the third in a series of excerpts from Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and A Story of Reconciliation by J. Chester Johnson. Find part one here and part two…

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  • On the Sixth of May, Freud’s birthday (and that of Willie Mays) [by David Lehman & Kathleen Heil]

    May 6, 2020

    Freud visited the United States in December 1929 (1) To investigate the spate of suicides following the stock market crash in October (2) To meet with his American editor, Maxwell Perkins. (3) To give…

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  • Eyesight [poem by A. R. Ammons]

    May 5, 2020

    Hand printed from hand set type by Larch Tree Press of Ithaca, NY in March, 2010. The drawings is © 2010 by James Tyler –sdl

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  • “Most every small town in the South had their peckerwoods. . . ” [by J. Chester Johnson]

    May 5, 2020

    (ed note: This is the second in a series of excerpts from  from Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and A Story of Reconciliation by J. Chester Johnson. Find part one here.)  White men…

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  • Squibs 416-418 [by Alan Ziegler]

    May 4, 2020

    416: I was drowning in memories when my life flashed behind my eyes. Voila: this book. 417: This is about how our miniature dachshund Latte might have saved my eyesight:     November 2014, I…

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  • “After Freedom Summer”: from Damaged Heritage: The Elain Race Massacre and A Story of Reconciliation [by J. Chester Johnson]

    May 4, 2020

    For the next five days, you, the reader, will be given excerpts from my latest nonfiction book, Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and A Story of Reconciliation, which will be published May 5th…

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