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...Williams points us back to pagan nature with the Hemlock family -Daddy Tim, hunter, farmer, "maker of things"; Mother Eugenia, keeper of the kitchen garden and hearth and the two Hemlock children, Son Arn, 9, and Daughter Jen, 7. This is the family primeval, whose only contact with civilization is the annual visit of the Traveler, who trades lead shot, gunpowder, needles, salt and flint for the Hemlocks' superbly crafted knives and moccasins...
Gene Jaques, keeper of the local general store, disagreed-as might be expected, since he is a member of Huntington's richest family, with property valued on tax rolls at $124,000. Jaques (pronounced Jakes) suggested that the discount simply be lowered. Maggie Stokes wanted to keep the full 4%. "No one's going to pay early without that discount," she insisted. A voice vote was taken: the discount would stay...
...budget was approved at 2:37. The meeting adjourned two minutes later, after one citizen's parting complaint that the dog-pound keeper was letting too many loose dogs run around town. By and large, Huntingtonians seemed to genuinely like and trust each other. Tocqueville would have been pleased...
...England's first Poet Laureate in 1668, the office has been occupied by a number of distinguished men, including Wordsworth, Tennyson, John Masefield and C. Day Lewis. But the job is no plum. As an officer of the royal household, a Poet Laureate ranks just above Bargemaster and Keeper of the Swans. By today's devaluated standards, his pay is $122.50 a year, plus $47.25 in lieu of a butt of sack-once part of the traditional stipend...
...years Charles sporadically lived with Jeanne Duval, his "Black Venus," an actress of little distinction but a first-class nag-the last person to appreciate the extraordinary poems she inspired, like The Promises of a Face. More briefly a "White Venus" entered his life: Apollonie Sabatier, a famous salon keeper of the day. She elicited a series of poetic love letters-including To She Who Is Too Gay and The Spiritual Dawn. When, after five years, Apollonie wrote him a valentine, Baudelaire cut and ran. He could put a woman on a pedestal or in the gutter, but there...