May 4 — What A Day — Part Two
The Haymarket massacre (or Haymarket riot) took place on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at the Haymarket Square in Chicago. It became the September 11 of its time. It began as a rally in support of striking workers. An unknown person threw a bomb at police as they tried to disperse the rally.
“Mission Accomplished.”
May 1 is the seventh anniversary of the day that banner hung above the USS Abraham Lincoln. Remember?
What painful memories that image brings back!
Very interesting – the conversation about the “Expectations” and the framework for the Wichita YAF conference gets more interesting by the day. Two recent communications are especially intriguing and revealing.
First, yesterday a member of the Wichita Planning Committee contacted me, and asked if I really thought they and their rules were really unwelcoming.
Continue reading Wichita YAFs: Some New Light on Who’s “Welcomed” and Who’s Not
This blog post is a mistake, or reflects one:
In my phone calendar, January 20 is listed as writer Annie Dillard’s birthday.
But that’s a mistake. Dillard will turn 78, deo volente, on April 30. Today is, well, just today.
But in many of the theologies Dillard does not believe in, there are no mistakes. And today I’ll take a leaf from them, and
Today (April 30) is Annie Dillard’s birthday. Should be a national holiday.
Here’s what’s said to be a photo of her as a young woman; look like a spiritual master? More like trouble? (The same thing?)
More about her at Wikipedia, which she professes to despise, but can’t escape.
I found her accidentally. Nature writing is not my thing. I only read her “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” in 1994, because it was assigned for a book group.
Well, one of the messages mentioned in the previous post about age-related putdowns has already disappeared from the web. Gone, perhaps, but not forgotten. Here’s the text, mercifully brief but to the point, about: >> 1. An almost 70yo man decrying moral choices of youth–ironic. >> “Almost 70yo” BTW, is Tweet-speak for nearly 70 years old. And on that point, I am so busted. 
I’m still looking for the irony, tho; maybe it got mislaid in transmission. Some more choice tidbits have turned up, which we may get to presently.