A journal of rediscovery
– On a recent Saturday I traveled two hours to drop off my son and his friend at their weekend drum corps practice. I took
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– Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. —Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
– In the 1790s, fifty-two residents of Farmington, Connecticut, chiseled their names onto a rock in the forest. They had just received inoculation for smallpox.
– PY: I understand you were visiting the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, when you came across the painting “St. Dominic de Guzman and the Albigensians.” Can
– Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Poor Yorick table at the AWP 2015 Bookfair in Minneapolis. Thank you also to those of
– [What] kind of life [is] possible for a young woman who has come of age on the last vestige of the frontier…who has absorbed
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– As a hippy Boomer mother of a Millennial bride-to-be, I have rediscovered the obscure, yet expensive, costs associated with apparently mandatory wedding attire such
– The wooden ancestor tablet presiding over my fourth uncle’s ancestral altar tells the complete history of my father’s family—a history that I didn’t discover
– Last week, when I’d had it up to here with working on my graduate thesis, I wandered off down the Internet’s rabbit trails and
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– Poor Yorick: A Journal of Rediscovered Objects in collaboration with our partner, the Danbury Railway Museum, is spotlighting a caboose from the Museum’s collection.
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