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member name: Errol Lincoln Uys
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May 09, 2008 05:13 PM EDT --
HEMINGWAY or FITZGERALD?
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December 06, 2007 05:08 PM EST --
I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.
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June 16, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
When his father lost his job in 1931, Jim Mitchell saw his family slide to rock bottom in . . .
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July 03, 2007 07:27 PM EDT --
The spike sits on a shelf opposite my desk, four inches of mottled iron with a square shank and L-shaped head tapering to a wedge. I picked it up on the Devil's Railroad in the heart of the Amazon . . .
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August 08, 2007 11:43 AM EDT --
Patient Anthony was eight years old on a day in August 1855 when he learned a terrible lesson.
Until then, the dark-skinned mulatto boy had known no shame at being naked and often raced bare-bottomed . . .
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December 16, 2008 09:19 PM EST --
"Tears ran down my cheeks as I remembered a Christmas Day when I was the age of those children."
Born on a farm in Nebraska in 1916, Donald Newhouser was one of 250,000 American boys and . . .
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June 11, 2007 02:14 PM EDT --
On my website . . .
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September 26, 2008 02:03 PM EDT --
In 1929, James San Jule's father was a successful businessman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. San Jule graduated from Tulsa Central High School and had been accepted at Amherst college in Massachusetts, . . .
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June 11, 2007 05:36 PM EDT --
My mother, Hester Johanna Maria - “Joey” - Uys, was seven when the Anglo-Boer war erupted on the South African veld. When Joey was alive, I spoke with her for many hours about . . .
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August 08, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
On the last stage of the journey, one theme dominated the concerns of Patient Anthony and other slaves: the senhor to whom they would be sold.
Policarpo was in his late twenties. He'd had two masters . . .
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December 06, 2007 05:16 PM EST --
I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.
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December 06, 2007 05:25 PM EST --
I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.
This unique . . .
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December 06, 2007 05:58 PM EST --
I worked with James Michener on his South African novel, The Covenant, involved in every stage of the book from its conception and plotting to final manuscript.
This unique . . .
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November 12, 2008 09:45 PM EST --
Norma Darrah hopped her first freight at Owatonna, Minnesota, on a bleak winter's night in March 1938. Eighteen-year-old Norma was traveling with Curly, her husband of seven months, and his 13-year-old . . .
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September 12, 2009 01:28 PM EDT --
I would like to introduce Commentopia to my Gather friends. My megablog is inspired by my work as a writer and editor, including my role as founder and editor-in-chief of an . . .
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November 08, 2008 01:58 PM EST --
Berkeley Hackett made his first trip in 1929 at 13, riding with his stepfather from Flint, Michigan to Kalamazoo to get a summer job working in a coal yard at 25 cents an hour. A year later, Berkeley . . .
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January 17, 2007 09:11 PM EST --
Riding the Rails during the Great Depression
Berkeley Hackett made his first trip in 1929 at 13, riding with his stepfather from Flint, Michigan to Kalamazoo to get a summer job working in . . .
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