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Author: gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

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Skull Talk: Labyrinth’s Ancient Practice in Modern Life

Posted on June 19, 2015May 1, 2016 gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

– 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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Family History Series: Hell on Earth

Posted on June 5, 2015June 2, 2015 gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

– Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. —Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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Skull Talk: Visit to Hospital Rock

Posted on May 29, 2015May 27, 2015 gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

– 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.

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A Q&A with Author Phillip Aijian

Posted on May 15, 2015May 15, 2015 gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

– 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

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AWP 2015 6 Word Shorts

Posted on May 8, 2015April 28, 2015 gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

– Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Poor Yorick table at the AWP 2015 Bookfair in Minneapolis. Thank you also to those of

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Family History Series: Reading Between the Lines of a 1907 Excelsior Diary

Posted on May 1, 2015May 1, 2015 gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

– [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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Skull Talk: Wedding Veils Uncovered

Posted on April 24, 2015April 20, 2015 gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

– 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

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Family History Series: Tablets

Posted on April 17, 2015April 17, 2015 gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

– 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

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Skull Talk: Bridges Among Death, Time, and Art

Posted on April 10, 2015March 30, 2015 gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

– 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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Special Call for Submissions: April 3, 2015 – June 19, 2015

Posted on April 3, 2015April 20, 2015 gordon093@connect.wcsu.edu

– 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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