Word: hiawatha
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike some, I prefer my Bill of Rights intact. I don't own a gun; I don't want a gun. But the day the government tries to ban guns is the day I buy 10. HIAWATHA BRAY Quincy, Mass...
Although Jennings' life story has been likened to that of Hiawatha and Homer, Sandy Seddacca, dean of external relations at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, introduced him as one survivor among tens of thousands of inner city kids...
Longfellow lived in the house from 1837 to 1882. Although he is best known for poems like "From My Armchair" and "Song of Hiawatha," Longfellow was also a Harvard professor who could speak or translate 12 languages...
...little family remains adrift. Mary, in a singular--and unlikely--act of daring, downsizes the controls of an old truck and teaches her daughter Jane, now 10, how to drive it, an effort that takes months. Finally, however, the terrified kid manages to tool across the mountains--howling Hiawatha as she goes--to visit her father. Though Owens makes a pro forma denial of paternity, he actually sends for Jane's mother and salts the pair away in a nearby cabin. Now they are at least some part of his life...
...Images and Identities" also includes some Longfellow-related pieces, including portraits of the poet by other artists, and some eerily fascinating Hiawatha kitsch. One of the stranger pieces is a ceramic plate depicting Hiawatha carrying off his new bride, Minnehaha, who, in a bit of artistic license-taking, has been made into a Nordic goddess. However, unless you have a real interest in the poet, most of the exhibits aren't very compelling. Some of the broader historical points the show makes are relevant but not very interesting...