Sendak 1991

Cover of the Kraken PIERRE--signed by Maurice Sendak

The things you find in drawers.

Samuel Walker half a century later records a moment of Thomas Sumter's courage

[We] marched to Blackstock there had a battle and defeated the British

General [Thomas] Sumter was wounded in the shoulder. I saw him when he was shot his sword fell out of his right hand and he Caught it with his left before it fell to the ground

How can biographers have written without knowing this?

The blue does not last forever--3 pictures

From halfway there

Buying 5 x 8 cards by the gross is something I did in 1962

I used them for weeks in the fall typing up my dissertation notes.
This was another time.
The first edition of the Norton MD came out in 1967.
I am using one of the 1962 5 x 8s now to mark the page and line of the 2nd edition and the new 3rd edition.
I will leave a clean card for the 4th edition in 10 years . . . . . .

Rain lashing face, sand lashing legs--fun run for someone in his 9th decade

Forceful South wind whipping rain onto face even while it was whipping sand on my legs. Can you see the blowing sand in the first picture?

Someone came out near the Rock with 3 big loud dogs but there was no one on my 2 mile part of the beach.