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The subject of her study is Charles Finger, who started life as an Englishman, a student at the Regent Street Polytechnic Institute in London. There he reveled in the Literary Society, which discussed contemporary writing, paying special attention to writers such as Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Those two writers were known to be gay, but then, and later, Finger and his cohorts steadily see gayness in many other writers: William Morris. Jack London, Sir Richard Burton, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Henry David Thoreau, Richard Halliburton, the painter Grant Wood and many, many others were thought to be gay, bisexual, or would like to be.
The Tuscaloosa News
In these difficult times, humorists are to be treasured. We should take them hot soup, make sure they are dressed warmly.
We need them and there are too few Roy Blount, George Singleton, Tim Dorsey, Carl Hiaasen, a few others. Paraphrasing the statement about the famous bird: humorists don’t do one thing except make jokes for us to enjoy, and Harrison Scott Key is one of the best, winning, in 2015, the James Thurber Prize for his first book, a memoir about growing up in Coldwater, Mississippi, in a complicated family with a very difficult father.
The family was complicated, he learned over time, because his mother had married Gene, who divorced her, then married aunt Faye and died, then Mom married Pop who was aunt Faye’s brother. Harrison and his brother Bird had the same mother but were also cousins. A diagram was needed.
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Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary Principal Aliya Catanch-Bradley stands in front of trees planted in Fall 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Aliya Catanch-Bradley, the principal of Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School, knew she wanted more green space for her North Philadelphia school soon after hearing the news of George Floyd’s murder last May.
As the video of his murder circulated and prompted protests across the world, she knew she wanted to do something for her students.
“I just felt like I could not breathe,” she said. “I was thinking perhaps a garden, something to bring new life into the environment was going to be one of the ways that collectively, we could breathe again.”
By Nathan Prewett
LEEDS At a regular meeting on Monday, April 19, the Leeds City Council considered revoking the licenses of two businesses in Leeds.
The meeting turned out to be lengthy, running nearly an hour and a half as most of the focus was on considering revoking the business licenses of Greenwave Collision, an autobody repair shop, and Hayes Construction.
A public hearing was held for the revoking of the licenses, as well as for granting an alcohol license to Himalaya Corporation, trade name Lucky 7s at 7502 Parkway Drive. During the public hearing, the owners of both businesses spoke in opposition to revocation.