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The Crosby Chronicles: Observing Banned Books Week
++++++++++++++++++++ || Since this week is Banned Books Week, and since one of my colleagues over at Glendale High School is fighting for Truman Capote’s "In Cold Blood" to be approved as a book to teach to advanced 11th grade English students,...Tags: Charles Dickens, Truman Capote, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Education
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Settlers endured terror, pain
Did you ever wonder how we know about Pocahontas and her role in the history of Jamestown, Va.? Or how we learned that Squanto helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth? Perhaps you've wondered if the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay followed the law as severely...Tags: The Pilgrims, Arts and Culture, John Winthrop, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Squanto
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A bewitching attraction
![<b>"Salem: A Guide to America's Bewitching City"</b>](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/65206689-05082147.jpg "<b>"Salem: A Guide to America's Bewitching City\"</b>")
Special to Tribune Newspapers"Salem: A Guide to America's Bewitching City" Salem, Mass., has earned a reputation as the unofficial Halloween capital of the world. It has something to do with those witches. The Salem witch trials may have taken place in 1692, but you would never...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Arts and Culture, Human Interest, France, Trips and Vacations
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Price meets Poe in Los Angeles
Jacket CopyThree Vincent Price films based on work by Edgar Allen Poe will screen in LA, for free, just in time for Halloween.... -
Aldous Huxley's psychedelic Los Angeles life
Jacket CopyAuthor Aldous Huxley, a bracing intellectual, took LSD and mescaline a decade before they became popularized, influencing a future subculture.... -
The creepy Nathaniel Hawthorne story Edgar Allan Poe loved
Jacket CopyEdgar Allen Poe grudgingly but effusively praised a creepy story by Nathaniel Hawthorne; it's a free download this week from Library of America.... -
The Reading Life: Last exit from Brooklyn
Jacket CopyJames Mason's "Positively No Dancing" is a small book that's worth your attention, writes book critic David L. Ulin.... -
Check It Out: History buffs remember the Civil War
Next month will mark the 150th anniversary of the bombardment of Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor, the opening salvo of the Civil War (1861-1865). Commemorative efforts are underway in many parts of the country. States have formed sesquicentennial...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Arts and Culture, Reconstruction, Libraries, The New York Times
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TODAY IN HISTORY
1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel ''The Scarlet Letter'' was first published. 1926: Rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid-fueled rocket, in Auburn, Mass. 1962: Arlo Moeckley of Britton was one of the featured...Tags: Iraq
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Sex sins of mighty are old hat in literature
It didn't start with Twitter — and it won't end with Weiner.
For centuries, the theme of sexual sins committed by the powerful has been scintillating source material for the arts. In poems and plays, in novels and films and TV series, artists...Tags: William Shakespeare, David Vitter, Prostitution, Meryl Streep, John Dryden
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City Lights: Children go nutty for Nutter's tale
One of my favorite quotes about writing comes from the 19th-century novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, who said, "Easy reading is damn hard writing." That may be the mantra of anyone who has ever attempted to write a children's book. When I was in college, a...Tags: Oklahoma, Human Interest, Book
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Theater review: 'Charm' from Orlando Shakespeare Theater
It takes a special kind of courage to buck the tide, ignore convention and march to the beat of a different drummer.
Such was the courage possessed by early feminist Margaret Fuller, who lived from 1810-1850. She raised eyebrows by learning Latin,...Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Slavery, Social Issues, Margaret Fuller
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