Defining a nation: The man who made centre, center
While I’m in England to celebrate the OED, Yale marks the 250th birthday of Noah Webster, father of the American dictionary. (Thanks, GMB.)
While I’m in England to celebrate the OED, Yale marks the 250th birthday of Noah Webster, father of the American dictionary. (Thanks, GMB.)
Reissued: Recordings of 1908 presidential campaign speeches by Bryan and Taft.
I’m in Oxford, England (as a guest of Oxford University Press, which has covered travel expenses and lodgings) for the 80th anniversary celebration of the Oxford English Dictionary. The festivities begin tomorrow. My previous post about the trip is here. Some Sundays when I was in high school, my dad would drop me off at the UM student library, leaving . . .
If you’re free on October 22, come out to Housing Works at 7 p.m. for Witches, Demons, and Thieves, a Puritan Halloween celebration with authors Kathleen Kent and Hannah Tinti, and artist Michael Aaron Lee, a friend whose eerie tree paintings (pictured) evoke the cold, dark forest of the soul that Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown finds himself drawn into. As . . .
Doctor Who actor Tom Baker left the monastery but still reads his Bible “because I love cheap, prurient melodrama.” (Via.)