Onions and Lilies in a Maine Poet’s Verse Field
A long anecdote on a Friendship Maine housewife poet who sent poems to many papers for pay, with a famous quatrain about onions and lilies. It discusses publishing, art, and philosophy, likening verse to agriculture and noting a 10 cent per poem rate and a single memorable couplet about My Garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Weekly
Vergil
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Leeks
Garden of Life
Voltaire
Memorial Day reflections by Constance Danner
Constance Danner writes from Hampton New Hampshire about Memorial Day gratitude for veterans who faced terror of war. She recalls wartime London and the American Memorial Chapel in St Pauls with its Roll of Honour. She notes England's view of warriors and warns against complacent safety at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hampton
N.H
England
London
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Britain
St. Paul’s
U.S
United States
King’s Chapel
Cambridge
Constance Danner
Constance Sherwood
Bennington
Sue Huntington Sherwood
Robert Sherwood
Hampton, N.H
Howard Danner
Congregational Church
Newington
Hampton Union
Bennington Wax Paper Co expands with new offices and factory space
Foundation laid for an addition to the Bennington plant to house a new office and factory area. Alfred Johnson serves as construction superintendent. Mme Ida Schuster now teaches voice at the Bennington County Musical Society studios. Arlington townspeople relive the past as students revive 1880 era parade led by a boy pumping a two‑wheel bicycle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington Wax Paper Co
Alfred Johnson
Ida Schuster
Vienna
Berlin
Bennington County Musical Society
Arlington
East
Arts in education urged by national panel
A panel of 25 leaders urges treating the arts as a core part of public schooling. They call for policy shifts, funding coordination, and arts integration with the three Rs, aiming to place the arts on par with life and liberty rights and to require arts expertise in teachers and administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
National Endowment For the Arts
Arts Councils
Washington
National Gallery
Louis Harris
Gallup
U.S
John Adams
Abigail
Minneapolis
Los Angeles
Memphis
U.S. Office of Education
White House
David Rockefeller Jr
Education
New York Times
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Friendship, Maine
Stephen Leacock
Fischetti
Fritz Dillman
Manchester Center Park
VFW Post
George M. Hawks
Bennington County
A&p
N.Y. Times
Adams
Vermont
Searsburg
Vermont Highway Department
State Highway Department
Camelot
Bennington Catholic High School
National Gypsum Co
Green Peak
Mt. Aeolus
Dorset
James Madison
Congress
Great Britain
U.S. Supreme Court
George Papadopoulos
Ford
Anwar Sadat
Salzburg
Austria
Sadat
Middle East
Drysdale
South ST
Javery
Ernest H. Javery
Alan H. Page
South
Bennington Ge
Main ST
PCL
Broyhill
Herculon
FURN
Main Street
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