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'Merica Magazine

For the Unlikely Patriot…..

Category: Yorktown

To paraphrase Faulkner, in America the past isn’t even the past. For a country that is supposedly so young we sure do have long memories. In Yorktown we’ll recount some of that history, and also how some of that history intersects with today.

Horror in the Sierra Nevadas: A First Hand Account of the Donner Party – Eliza Poor Houghton

Posted on September 26, 2015September 27, 2015 by Ed Simon

A harrowing eye-witness account of the infamous Donner Party. “I learned many things which I could neither have understood nor remembered had they not made them plain.”

To take this dark shape and make it into words – Wade Linebaugh

Posted on September 11, 2015September 27, 2015 by Ed Simon

Fourteen years later, this is the first Fall in three years I’m not teaching about 9/11 to my students in First-year composition. Its absence is an odd sort of ache I never expected.

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