The Mere Wife Reimagines Beowulf in Suburban Life
Dahvana Headley’s The Mere Wife recasts Beowulf as a suburb-set contest of good versus evil viewed through women on the margins. Grendel’s mother Dana Mills and her son clash with Willa Herot, a suburban ice queen, as local politics and domestic battles erupt in bloody transformation.
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Dahvana Headley
Grendel
Headley
Dana Mills
Gren
Willa Herot
Ben Woolf
Dana
Willa
Four bright planets highlighted for August viewing
In August observers can spot four bright planets Venus Mars Jupiter and Saturn from southeast to southwest with ideal conditions. Jupiter and Mars appear early after sunset while Saturn sits near the Teapot asterism in Sagittarius. The Perseid meteor shower adds another easy viewing option requiring only a lawn chair and warm blanket.
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Venus
Mars
Saturn
Jupiter
Earth
Today in History highlights major events on many dates
The list recalls 1928 Holland boat tragedy near Gold Point with six named, 1890 van Gogh’s death, 1914 transcontinental phone test, Cape Cod Canal opening, 1921 Hitler’s rise, 1967 Forrestal disaster with John McCain aboard, 1974 Cass Elliot’s death, 1975 Auschwitz visit by Ford, 1981 Charles and Diana wedding, 1994 Paul Hill case, 2004 Kerry nomination, 2006 Baghdad troop surge, 2008 Ted Stevens indictment. plus ages of Ken Burns and others.
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Holland
Paul H. Landwehr
Goodrich
City of Holland
Chicago
Landwehr
John Koila Nystrom
Earl van Lente
John Arens
George Lyle
Los Angeles
Calif
Robert Medrano
New York
Gold Point
Old Point Superior
Vincent van Gogh
Auvers-sur-Oise
France
U.S
San Francisco
Massachusetts
Cape Cod
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
National Socialist German Workers Party
Forrestal
Gulf of Tonkin
Arizona
John McCain
U.S. Navy
Cass Elliot
London
Gerald R. Ford
Auschwitz
Poland
Britain
Prince Charles
Diana Spencer
St. Paul's Cathedral
Paul Hill
John Bayard Britton
Britton
James H. Barrett
Ladies Center
Pensacola
Florida
Hill
Sen
John Kerry
Boston
U.S. Command
Baghdad
Alaska
Ted Stevens
Goat in a Coat Appears in Suburbia
A man with a goat wearing a coat labeled Service Goat walks through a suburb. The narrator notes goats are not allowed as pets and the goat is a working animal. the man explains the goat helps with chores, including garbage.
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Beowulf
Maria Dahvana Headley
MCD
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pioneer
Neptune
William Herschel
Enceladus
Peter Burkey
Pburkey
Comcast.net
Ken Burns
Elizabeth H. Dole
Neal Doughty
Tim Gunn
Martina McBride
Wil Wheaton
Allison Mack
Cait Fairbanks
Suburbia
Tracy
Tracy Beckerman
Zis
Mmia
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