Notable passages and reflections from a dense column
A reader-lens collects excerpts from a column by Leon Burnett and other writers. It includes rustic musings on Creek Road, autumn imagery, small wildlife notes, a River Sunday trip to a former game refuge, and a Mencken profile noting his sharp attacks on public figures and his disdain for hypocrisy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. L. Mencken
Billy Sunday
William Jennings Bryan
Congress
Woodrow Wilson
Maryland
Tennessee
Baltimore Sun
Clarence Darrow
Mencken
Library Additions Nonfiction Titles of Varying Subjects
A list of new nonfiction works including McKee The People Act and Pasley 21 Stayed with several titles spanning history biography art and science. Notable entries include Mitchell Decisive Battles of the Civil War and Kornitzer The Great American Heritage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKee
Pasley
Lustgarten
Bromfield
Ashbrook
Smith
Stewart
Peper
Read
Williams
Toyohiko Kagawa
Mitchell
Kornitzer
Eisenhower Brothers
Crockett
Davy
Deanedy
Knight Errant
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
Higgins
Marguerite
Henry James
Bent's Fort by David Lavender reviews frontier enterprise on the Arkansas
Lavender outlines the Bent brothers Charles and William with Ceran St Vrain as they build Bent's Fort on the Arkansas among Santa Fe trade and Cheyenne relations. The history covers New Mexico intrigues, Mexican war impact, westward migration, Indian conflicts, and the fort’s collapse in the 1850s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bent
Arkansas River
Colorado
Bent Brothers
Charles
William
Missouri River
Ashion
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Bents
Ceran St. Vrain
Taos
Charles Bent
St. Vrain
William Bent
Southwest
California
David Lavender
Mop Top and Other Reads Review Roundup
Reviews in brief cover Don Freeman’s Mop Top story with lively illustrations and a caption about a six year old Mop Top inspired by Freeman. Valenti Angelo’s Big Little Island follows Lorenzo in Greenwich Village seeking belonging and art. Charles Munch’s I Am a Conductor praises the Boston Symphony leader’s craft and devotion. Harrisburg crash report notes James Kellum’s minor injuries after a car ran off the road into a cemetery before hitting a tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Freeman
Moppy
Man - From - Mars
Roy
Big Little Island
Valenti Angelo
Angelina
Lorenzo
Short-Lived Era Cited in Cox Memoir Review
A brief note praises a forthcoming book by G. Cox, describing a short-lived era as truthfully and impartially portrayed and recommending wide enjoyment of the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Cox
Rattlesnake Causes Highway Collision in Georgia
In Blackshear area a driver named Eugene Allen slowed to kill a rattlesnake on the highway. A pulpwood truck rear ended his car, injuring passenger Roland Thomas, 70, of Bristol. A second motorist driving opposite direction ran over and killed the snake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackshear
Eugene Allen
Bristol
Roland Thomas
Damsi
Also Mentioned on This Page
Leon Burnett
Chuate Eg
Creek Road
Jack Frost
River
Perpetual
High Point
Anna
MAIN
Iago Gs
Ead Ks
America
Italy
Greenwich Village
New York
New York City
Leonis
Charles Munch
Ford University Press
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Munch
Harrisburg
James C. Kellum
Huffman
Washington
Weathertron
N. Main ST
Benjamin Moore
Ward Street
Atlantic
Illustrated Train Manual
Toyland
Saunders
E. Washington St
Saunders Furniture CO
Washington St
High Point, N. C
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