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Wadsworth LongfellowFrom Simran Khurana,Your Guide to Quotations.FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!The Children’s HourPoem lyrics of The Children’s Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Between the dark and the daylight,When the night is beginning to lower,Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,That is known as the Children’s Hour.I hear in the chamber above meThe patter of little feet,The [...]

Summer and some of her classmates were recognized for their contributions to the world of poetry so I would like to share some of the traditional ones that I love.

SONGS of Innocence1789The Author & Printer W BlakeIntroductionPiping down the valleys wildPiping songs of pleasant gleeOn a cloud I saw a child.And he laughing said [...]

Last Monday evening Dan took me to the ballgame. The D-Backs defeated the Dodgers and on Saturday Dan took me and my high school classmate,Ken Berghorst, to lunch at the Greekfest and then gave us the tickets to the D-Back Rockies game. It was an exciting game ending in victory for the D-Backs.We didn’t sweep [...]

TORCH DAY IN SAN FRANCISCO: Reader Dyema Manusov sends this report and photo:Turn out was (and still is) amazing. As of 2:25 Pacific time it appears that the route has been diverted, so things are winding down. Seems like most of downtown SF turned out, or stood in the windows and rooftops of their office [...]

“Oh what a web we weave, when first we practice to decieve-”but after a while we get a little better.”First, the truth and then some tall tales!!This is an actual torch carried by a friend on Central avenue in 2002 enroute to Salt Lake. It was in his office the next day and [...]

Noah Seattle(Catholic baptismal name)See-at-la(Anglicized pronunciation in the Lushootseed dialect)To the left is the most famous photo of Chief Seattle. A less-well-known photo of him shows him wearing a hat and standing in a group of Indian leaders at the signing of the Nisqually Treaty.

Statue of Chief Seattle in downtown SeattleAlthough we call him “Chief” Seattle, [...]

There is a great deal of controversy surrounding Chief Seattle’s speech of 1854. There are many sources of information, various versions of the speech, and debates over its very existence. Please see the links at the end of the speech. Part of a multimedia presentation, interpreted and narrated by Wes Felty: Chief Seattle’s reply [...]

Two years ago this summer I was priviledged to fly to the Twin Cities where I was met by Todd and his father, Dr. Roger Nelson.
Todd furnished the car and driver and we toured Wisconsin and Minnesota visiting relatives in Bemidji, Madison and Rock county. It was a blessing and a joy for me [...]