“While there are towns and cities still planning Memorial Day parades, many have not held a parade in decades. Some think the day is for honoring anyone who has died, not just those fallen in service to our country.” ThinkingStillsCountryCitiesDiedTownsDecadesPlanningOur CountryFallenMemorialParadesMemorial Day Author:Allen West
“I was born into all that, all that mess, the over-crowded swamp and the over-crowded sematary and the not-crowded-enough town, so I don’t remember nothing, don’t remember a world without Noise. My pa died of sickness before I was born and then my ma died, of course, no surprises there. Ben and Cillian took me in, raised me. Ben says my ma was the last of the women but everyone says that about everyone’s ma. Ben may not be lying, he believes it’s true, but who knows?” KnowsWorldBelieveMayEnoughLastsRememberLyingCoursesBornDiedTownsSurpriseRaisedNoiseMessSicknessCrowdedSwamps Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“It's a sleepy, wonderful, idyllic town but there's a curse on it from 100 years ago, ... The people who died in this kind of boating accident have come back to take their revenge.” PeopleYearsKindWonderfulYears AgoDiedTownsRevengeAccidentsBoatCurseSleepyIdyllic Author:Selma Blair
“Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.” PeopleKnowsChildrenLittlesCountryStoriesBigsKidsLawSongMinesBrotherHard WorkOughtSingingLaborRootsDiedTownsManagementFruitBrokeOrganizedEnlightenedChild AbuseProtectedOrganizeCoalLungsFuture GenerationRaising ChildrenMillsBenevolentLittle SisterLittle BrotherLawlessnessChild LaborCoughingOrganized LaborDeserve BetterSweatshopsUnderpaidLabor LawsFruit Of Labor Author:Utah Phillips
“n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.” PeopleCasesWeekStupidThousandTenTragedyDiedTownsDestroyedKansasDumb LiberalStupid Liberal Author:Barack Obama
“Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's not 'they' who say, but Walter Benjamin who said, 'Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness, with the base and the banal.' In September, 1940, Benjamin died under ambiguous circumstances in the French-Spanish border town of Portbou, while attempting to flee the Nazis.” WorldWaySaidEventsCircumstancesDiedTownsHistoricalBordersBehaveSeptemberNothingnessElectricityNaziGlancesCostumesAttemptingCathedralsAmbiguousHistorical Events Author:Mary Jo Bang