Saturday, March 7, 2020

Someone is after me to write my obituary so I won't return to complain about what got published

I thought I might find something I could borrow online. All I found it that it's a Southern combination, the 2 names.







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Hershel Parker passed away in Harrell , Arkansas. Funeral Home Services for Hershel are being provided by Proctor Funeral Home - Camden. The obituary was ...






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Hershel Parker passed away in Decatur, Alabama. The obituary was featured in Decatur Daily on July 10, 2004.






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Aug 27, 2018 - Macon, GA- Funeral services for Hershel Parker, Jr. will be 11 AM Monday, September 3, 2018 at Swift Creek Missionary Baptist Church. Rev.






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Hershel Parker passed away in Longview, Texas. The obituary was featured in Longview News-Journal on June 8, 2005.






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Hershel Parker passed away in Macon, Georgia. Funeral Home Services for Hershel are being provided by Jones Brothers Memorial Chapel, Inc.. The obituary ...






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Aug 29, 2018 - Hershel Parker Obituary. Parker, Hershel, 72, Macon, GA. Died August 27, 2018. Incomplete. Jones Brothers Mortuary, Macon.






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Feb 8, 2013 - Hershel Parker was born April 20, 1934 in Portales, NM to the home of Katie and Vernon Parker and died early Friday morning, February 8, ...






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May 20, 2008 - Obituaries. Hershel Parker ... with all his practical jokes. Memorial service, 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 21, 2008, Roselawn Funeral Home Chapel.






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Hershel Parker. Posted May 20, 2008 at 12:01 AM. 78, of Pueblo, passed away Sunday, May 18, 2008. Hershel was born Nov. 19, 19


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What happens when a writer has to stop writing


For many weeks I have not been writing. When you don’t write, you forget how. It’s like losing 5 IQ points every time you have general anesthesia. Instead of writing, I have been sorting and packing and taping and mailing my Melville Collection to the Berkshire Athenaeum--hundreds and hundreds of books, hundreds of offprints, hundreds of documents signed by all the people working on Melville, odd treasures such  as Bill Gilman’s 1940s dissertation notes (not all superseded by any means), comments by Melville’s great grandchildren, Harrison Hayford’s notes on a printout of the full draft of the first volume of my biography, and so on. # 77 of the Bankers Boxes now.

Before that, I had the chance to do the Library of America volume HERMAN MELVILLE: COMPLETE POEMS at the start of 2018 through July, and then through half of 2019. Stressful because of the 7 months and then half a year extra, on call.

Before that, work on a series of articles for JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION--not so stressful because they were discrete topics I could get into and get out of.

During some of that, work on ORNERY PEOPLE.  I have to live to get back to ORNERY PEOPLE.

Just now, looking to how I responded to Warren’s victory in 2012 (“Joy about Eliz Warren & other women & Kaine in VA finally [Macaca lost again].) , I see this post from a few days before the election, 17 Ocxtober 2012:

The joy of finding WORDS spoken by my previously unknown ancestors and other kinfolk--incl funny, sardonic words by San Glenn--& all the words in Revolutionary Pension applications & Dawes Commission affidavits and WPA Interviews & actual books like the Tennessee Regiment book or the Bell book on the Mier Expedition. The Coker papers ave extensive quotations or paraphrases.”Poor Joe!” And something like Sam Glenn’s bywords on whiskey and Baptist are priceless. Or how the Sparks son punished the men who stole their pewter--An amazing amount of WORDS from that often illiterate tribe--not to mention the wills  and estate inventories of many ancestors.



          WELL, I HAVE MANY MANY MORE WORDS NOW AND AM ANXIOUS TO GET BACK TO THESE PEOPLE.
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Headline: ELIZABETH WARREN TAKES CREDIT FOR TANKING BLOOMBERG ON PURPOSE--What Richard Brodhead and Andrew Delbanco did in 2002

I posted on the Internet half a dozen pro-Warren articles in 2012. Some of them were still up in 2013 if not later. One was reprinted in the Antipodes!

Several times in my career I have been tanked on purpose, for instance when a young worshipper of Edmund Wilson who had decided that HE was as much a "public intellectual" as his master, ridiculed the first volume of my biography of Melville in the New York TIMES. All over the country, book stores sent back boxes of the book, unopened. Another time was when the Dean at Yale, Richard Brodhead, flat out lied, saying in his review of the second volume that  I had invented POEMS (1860)--only Parker in his "black hole" had heard of it. Brodhead by his lie encouraged Andrew Delbanco to go further in the NEW REBUBLIC and say I could be trusted no where because I had invented not only POEMS but also THE ISLE OF THE CROSS (1853). The first volume had been a finalist for the Pulitzer, but NOT the second one. You could trust a professor at Yale and a Professor at Columbia, couldn't you? They would have known every Melville document . . . . Surely they were not just critics who had read only novels, and not read them very carefully . . . .

So when I saw Elizabeth Warren take credit for "tanking Bloomberg on purpose," my stomach turned.

Even if you are running for President, tanking another candidate on purpose is a despicable thing to do.
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Friday, March 6, 2020

Today at Noon


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Thursday, March 5, 2020

It's good to see the Rock


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Box 75 -- Important letters from Henry Murray and Jay Leyda, and Priscilla Ambrose and Barton Chapin

The Great Grandchildren's letters are about my article on the house in NYC where Melville lived and died. I tried to do a floor by floor and sometimes room by  room description.

Priscilla and Barton both recognized some of the possessions and recorded their memories.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

The way the Rock looked today. Able to walk again.


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