Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh It must have been cold in the deep waters Never having the sunshine on your fins You were content to let me swim on top You always swam in my shadow Yes, I was the one with all the glory While you were the one swimming so strong A streamlined…
Category: Features
Features, November 2021
Full Beaver Moon or Frost Moon
Christine Reding November aptly named for beavers lodging for winter Heating rocks wrapped in leather skins for warming Daily provisions being secured are decreasingly thinner Existing on berries, butternuts, acorns, walnuts forming A rich surplus of earth’s maple syrup tapped and dripping Hunting with banner stones weighted when thrusting a spear Soapstone nets sink below…
Features, November 2021
This I Have Learned… “Taps”: Its History and Its Power—In Honor of Veterans Day
Mary Jo Bellner Swartzberg The first time I heard “Taps” was in the movie (watched on TCM) From Here to Eternity, in a scene when pugilist Prewitt (played by Montgomery Clift) held his bugle to his lips and played a mournful bugle sound while crying for the loss of his friend, Angelo Maggio (played by Frank Sinatra).…
Features, November 2021
U.S. Marines—Flag and Seal, Song, and Motto
Ross Dunfee Flag and Seal: Marines used the Grand Union flag, and possibly the Gadsden flag (yellow flag with a “Don’t Tread on Me” rattlesnake), during the assault on New Providence Island, The Bahamas, on March 3, 1776. During the 1830s and 1840s, the flag consisted of a gold fringed white field centered with an eagle…