Landing in California, Remembering Tolstoy and Other Letters to the Editor
Queen Elizabeth I knighting Francis Drake, 1581.Credit.Alamy
April 9, 2021
To the Editor: Even a reviewer as skillful as Nigel Cliff, reviewing Laurence Bergreen’s “In Search of a Kingdom” (March 28), lacks space to do more than touch on the wide-ranging adventures of a man like Francis Drake, so I would like to add a bit about Drake’s reported sojourn on the coast of California in 1579. The great navigator desperately needed a safe harbor to repair the Golden Hind and found one at present-day Point Reyes National Seashore.
The area was well inhabited by the Miwok people who came to visit singing, crying, falling on their knees. The English assumed they were being worshiped as gods, but what the Miwok believed was that these were their own dead returning for an unknowable purpose from the offshore region where they were supposed to spend eternity.
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Community members ask if anyone ânoseâ how strange sculpture got to Cleveland park Nose sculpture at Hart Crane Park (Source: Canalway Partners) By Chris Anderson | March 3, 2021 at 4:02 PM EST - Updated March 3 at 4:02 PM
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Some seem to be puzzled by a new sculpture that appeared recently at a Cleveland riverfront park.
The sculpture, nicknamed the âMystery Noseâ by the Canalway Partners group, seems to have been recently placed and now discovered at Hart Crane Park.
No doubt by now you ve heard about the Mystery Nose that recently found its way to Hart Crane Park. We re not quite.Posted by Canalway Partners on Wednesday, March 3, 2021
TUPELO ⢠If a classical music fan were stranded in a remote part of the world with only two pieces of music to listen to, Steve Byess believes heâd know their selections.
Byessâ picks would be Ralph Vaughan Williamsâ âThe Lark Ascendingâ and Aaron Coplandâs âAppalachian Spring.â
âBoth of those pieces belong on the roster of desert island selections. If you were trapped on a desert island, what music would you like to hear,â said the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra conductor. âBoth of those works are favorites of their listeners.â
A music fan doesnât have to be stuck on an ocean island Saturday to hear the Vaughan Williams and Copland pieces. They can be enjoyed from the comfort of home.