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“Spoon River Anthology” (1915) by Edgar Lee Masters, a collection of autobiographical verse monologues in epitaph form, was named by Eliot Weinberger as the “century’s most influential book of American poetry” alongside T.S. Eliot’s “Waste Land.” A new book on Masters from University of Illinois Press is a good occasion for examining the neglected subject of Spoon River’s Jews. An attorney who fought for workers’ rights, Masters has been described as a “violent antisemite,” possibly in part due to his association with the novelist Theodore Dreiser, who did indeed loathe Jews. Yet Masters had a more complex rapport with Yiddishkeit, as might be expected from a leftist who worked as law partner of Clarence Darrow. Darrow was so philosemitic that he wrote a short story, “Little Louis Epstine” about a Jewish paperboy who lost one hand in an accident (“He was run over by a beer wagon when he was a baby”) and the other to frostbite. ....
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KUER Friends of Cedar Mesa Director Josh Ewing points to petroglyphs at Sand Island Campground. The area was taken out of Bears Ears National Monument when the boundaries were redrawn in 2017. Just five miles west of Bluff in southern San Juan County, there’s a campground called Sand Island. It’s nestled between a steep cliff and the bank of the San Juan River, and it’s home to some of the oldest rock art in America. Renee Bright President Barack Obama designated roughly 1.35 million acres in San Juan County as Bears Ears National Monument in December 2016. Josh Ewing is the director of a Bluff-based conservation group called Friends of Cedar Mesa, and he’s an expert on the petroglyphs. ....
G. Allen Johnson May 10, 2021Updated: May 11, 2021, 3:18 pm A scene from the upcoming film “In the Heights,” based on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit Broadway musical. It will screen at Oracle Park on June 11-12. Photo: Macall Polay, Warner Bros. With the San Francisco Pride Parade canceled for the second year in a row due to the pandemic, the biggest official outdoor event during Pride month will now be a movies series at Oracle Park. Frameline, San Francisco Pride, the city of San Francisco and the San Francisco Giants have partnered to host the first Pride Movies Night at Oracle Park, beginning with a screening of Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical “In the Heights” on June 11. ....
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm Categories No Categories With a soundtrack arranged and performed by State High Thespians, “Women of Spoon River “(2020), focuses on and reflects upon the lives of 28 women from the collection, “Spoon River Anthology.” In sharing the lives of these women, we hope you will find as we did, that while much has changed since the 1800s, there is still much that remains the same. “”Spoon River Anthology” (1915), by Edgar Lee. Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River which ran near Masters’ home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The entire collection includes 212 separate characters, in all providing 244 accounts of their lives, losses, and manner of death.” ....