“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) “Abundant suggestions are...
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Loss is a part of everyone’s story. Nothing protects us from it: neither wealth nor law, community nor solidarity. In...
For my birthday last year, my grandmother sent me a homemade binder full of genealogical research she’s been doing. My...
As afternoon transitioned to evening on the last Friday in October, the sky above FirstEnergy Stadium hinted at rain, promising...
You could smell panic rising off the hot pavement on the corner of Hudson and High and fear in the cornfields north of 270 where yard signs implored us to Make America Great Again.
“I wish people would forget that we come from Seattle. It’d be nice if they thought we came from Cleveland...
I’m a white man looking in a black man’s eyes Wishing I’d never been one of the guys Who pretended...
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John Bartlow Martin | Indiana: An Interpretation | Knopf | 1947 | 336 Pages | Bi-Centennial edition published by Indiana...