Norwood News and then in the Sunshine Pages of the depression-era
Charlotte Observer. She was educated at the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Vanderbilt University. She met Peter Taylor through writers Allen and Caroline Gordon Tate, who had mentored her in college, and the couple married in 1943. Peter Taylor taught at a number of colleges, including Kenyon College, the University of Virginia, and the University of North Carolina, where the couple became close friends with Randall Jarrell and his wife, Mackie, sharing a duplex with them for a time. Peter Taylor encouraged his wife to show her poems to Randall Jarrell, who in turn helped her submit them to various literary magazines and wrote the introduction to her first book,
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Jack Thompson of All Trades
A reminiscence of one of the most unusual New York intellectuals
Although I spent eight years studying English at Stony Brook University, where I was an undergraduate from 1974 to 1978 and a Ph.D. student until 1983, I was never a good fit in academia. None of my professors was engaged in an activity that seemed even remotely appealing: If they weren’t eagerly annotating doodles and smudges in the margins of medieval psalters, they were overanalyzing some obscure 17th-century poem. Most ominous of all, every new faculty hire seemed to belong to some cockamamie new critical school that had nothing to do with loving books, which was why I’d signed up for literary study in the first place.
New Hampshire Magazine
What do all of those things have in common? Simple. They exist because of New Hampshire.
December 18, 2020
Libraries. Thanksgiving. Mega Millions. Fast Food. Summer vacation. “Let it Go.” American Rock ‘n’ Roll. America. What do all of those things have in common? Simple. They exist because of New Hampshire. Read on to find out why the country owes the Granite State a big thank-you for these items and 41 more (did we mention Donald Trump?).
No. 1 The Vacation Destination
When the US economy first matured and started producing a middle class, it was centered in dirty, crowded cities. Citizens with expendable income soon took advantage of the new age of rapid transport (such as the Concord Coach, made right here) and discovered the simple joys of time spent at a grand hotel in the wilderness. The Granite State had lots of wilderness and plenty of entrepreneurs eager to entertain the rich city folks. Artists captured our White Mountains, making them