My excellent panelists that they should be recruiting their time it. I was working on a book about a celebrity or writer of the very earliest 19th century, who among other cultural qualities, suffered from addiction to opium. Sidebar, he blamed it all on his many years of School Teaching in virginia, which i think we can all appreciate that. He wrote that there is a disheartening and monotonous drudgery in teaching that silently but fatally saps his constitution, big numbs his faculties, and converts the fuel of enthusiasm into melancholy. Opium was the solution, and who can disagree . In writing about his laudanum habit i found it necessary to rethink my own ideas about addiction. He and his contemporaries spoke of opium as his demon, acknowledging its addictive qualities, they also tended to say that his real problem was melancholy itself. Since the publication of the alcohol at republic in 1979, scholars have explored the extent to which 19th century americans wrestled with addictiv
Welcome, and thank you for coming to the roundtable, with the unwieldy and yet highly evocative title drugs, alcohol, and the gendered and racial experience of addiction in the early republic. I am carolyn eastman, and im pleased to inform you that the subject of this roundtable proved evocative enough that cspan is filming us right now. A fact that gives me an additional opportunity to remind my excellent panelists that they should be recruiting their time it. I was working on a book about a celebrity or writer of the very century, who among other cultural qualities, suffered from addiction to opium. He blamed it all on his many years of School Teaching in virginia, which i think we can all appreciate that. He wrote that there is a disheartening and monotonous drudgery in teaching that silently but fatally saps his constitution, big numbs his faculties, and converts the fuel of enthusiasm into melancholy. Opium was the solution, and who can disagree . In writing about his laudanum hab
Pulls in moisture, kicks off the cold air. What it means for the state as a hole is a whole is a dusting to an inch intensifies. Down on the Eastern Shore. Maybe another blast of snow as the colder air really settles in late tomorrow afternoon, before the storm completely clears the area. But mostly a rainsnow mix for most of the Eastern Shore and southern maryland. This is not unlike the last few storms that have come on through. It will create a bit of a nuisance. Not so many things will be impacted. But we will see a colder weekend ahead now back inside. Thank you, tim and bob. Check in for first warning weather coverage. For the updated forecast. Live Doppler Radar and information on closings and delays. Log onto cbsbaltimore. Com. Update being breaking news. Wjz is first to tell you about at 4 00. A stabbing leads to a wild pursuit that ends in a crash. Meghan mccorkell with more on what happened. That pursuit started on 95 northbound. And its not hard to see exactly where it ende
The famous red-haired orphan Annie will come to life on Saturday thanks to 46 elementary students at Barnette Magnet School, who will present “Annie Jr.”