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Month: October 2017

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The Crying Ghost

Posted on October 31, 2017December 1, 2017 Sharmila Munver

A direct ancestor of a friend was hanged as a witch in Salem, Mass. “My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother,” said Mary Broas, “was accused twice.” Susannah Martin was hanged on July 19, 1692 after being found guilty of causing damages through witchcraft by those who did not like her. Her husband successfully

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Protected: Ekphrastic Evolutions by Sally Flint

Posted on October 18, 2017November 13, 2017 Victoria Carvalho

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Berlin Letters

Posted on October 18, 2017September 17, 2020 Mel Johnson

This essay by Ronnie Hess revisits her journey, through translated letters, to learn about and try to find peace with her Jewish grandparents’ lives in Nazi Germany.
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Creating a Racket

Posted on October 18, 2017October 19, 2017 Sharmila Munver

A film recently came out starring Steve Carell and Emma Stone titled Battle of the Sexes. It’s a dramatization of a famous tennis match in 1973 between men’s tennis player Bobby Riggs and women’s tennis player Billie Jean King. Spoiler alert: King won the match, and that victory was a

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Putting Pen to Paper: the Simplicity of Letters

Posted on October 14, 2017October 25, 2017 Mel Johnson

by Christina Kinsella It’s amazing to think that there was a time when cultures and countries relied on mailing letters as their sole method of communication. When we discover old family letters, it is as if some exciting new world has opened up for us. If we can still find

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