Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Jul 29, 2010

STRATFORD, ONTARIO, THEATER, DYLAN THOMAS

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The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower by Dylan Thomas : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Stratford, On...
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Jul 25, 2010

Yeats, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry.
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Jul 21, 2010

SHADY GROVE, DOC WATSON, MARY OLIVER, MAURICE MANNING

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YouTube - David Holt and Doc Watson: Shady Grove For just a bit longer, let's continue with the American Primitive--hey, that's the ...
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Jul 20, 2010

Movie Review: Winter's Bone

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Winter's Bone: A+ Is there anything lofty or even fundamentally human about a primitive mountain code? A clan’s code? Where are...
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Jul 19, 2010

Winter's Bone, Mac Wiseman, Mythology

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Set in the Missouri Ozarks, the movie Winter’s Bone is a must see. But it raises a question for folks like me: “Roots music and othe...
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Jul 17, 2010

African Eyes, Hardsleeper43

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Barbaro is back to posting, this time from Senegal and Gambia in West Africa. His first entry makes for compelling reading at http://hardsle...
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Jul 15, 2010

Education: Some Modest Proposals

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John Frederick Peto, “After Night’s Study,” Detroit Institute of Arts I’ve been debating whether to bother you with this. Well, thanks to O...
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