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Ronee Blakley. The star of "Nashville" and the Rolling Thunder Revue appears at Passim Coffeeshop, Sunday, August 29. (You can also pick up the Passim acts live every Sunday at 2 p.m. on WCAS...
...third delegate, Farmer Caesar Rodney, had ridden all night from Dover after an express rider informed him of his colony's stalemate. He wore a green silk handkerchief, now nearly black with road dirt, to cover the lower part of his face, which is afflicted by a cancer. "The thunder and rain delayed me," Rodney said matter-of-factly as he entered the hall...
...side grogshop but a striking colonial victory off Charles Town, South Carolina. In a bitter ten-hour action, Moultrie and 435 men inflicted heavy losses upon a strong British naval squadron under the command of Commodore Sir Peter Parker (two ships of the line, six frigates, the bomb ketch Thunder and more than 30 other vessels). This forced Parker's fleet and several thousand British regular troops under Major General Sir Henry Clinton to give up a combined land-and-sea attack on Fort Sullivan near Charles Town...
...Island and a simultaneous naval assault. Parker accordingly anchored most of his fleet, including the flagship Bristol and the Experiment, both of 50 guns, only a few hundred yards from the fort and proceeded to pound it with broadside after broadside. At the same time, the bomb ketch Thunder anchored farther south and arched explosive 10-inch mortar shells into Moultrie's position. Three lighter vessels, the Actaeon and the Syren, both 28 guns, and the Sphinx, 20, drifted westward into the harbor, hoping to get round the fort and attack it from behind...
...Bartram's description: "Behold him rushing from the flags and reeds. His enormous body swells. His plaited tail, brandished high, floats upon the lake. The waters like a cataract descend from his opening jaws. Clouds of smoke issue from his dilated nostrils. The earth trembles with his thunder." Nonetheless, when Bartram's cockleshell of a boat was attacked by a giant alligator on a Florida lake, the naturalist beat at it with a club "until he withdrew sullenly and slowly into the water, looking at me and seeming neither fearful nor in any way disturbed...