Civil War
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Gettysburg, 11/19/1863
The ground still had that smell like a butcher shop that was left bloody in the summer and remained unclean to freeze in the winter. Here staged on this acreage was a performance between participants belonging to the same continental genotype- language the same, culture very different. Clad in blue and gray costumes, smoke…
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Thinkin’ like Lincoln
I just watched the fantastic new film about Abraham Lincoln, appropriately titled “Lincoln.” I was struck by the quality of Daniel Day Lewis’ performance, how he appeared to totally inhabit the character…defining what the 21st century will see as the real Lincoln. As one of my family members remarked, “I thought Lincoln had a deeper…
The Numinous Cosmos 