February 2012
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You Weren't With Me Studying in the Library...
There have been quite a few family members, very ‘immediate’ family members even, who have mentioned that they plan to be present when I graduate college. As a person who has made it a habit to not give much credence to human promises (especially when the fulfillment date is in the distant future), those ‘plans’ haven’t really meant much to me. Admittedly, however,...
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To My Old Master
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he...
January 2012
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number 2. Throwback, black-n-White flyer photo.
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“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.”
– Segal’s Law
