Word: walcott
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harp" but "lost in sin." His fate is proved to him when "he looked to the ground" and "noticed no shadow did he cast." Robbie also turns his hand to a lullaby (All La Glory) and to a glorious description of a traveling carnival, The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show, which features "saints and sinners, losers and winners, all kinds of people you might wanna know." It embarrasses The Band to have one member singled out over the others. Yet at one time or another it is hard not to pay particular attention to Garth Hudson's organ breaks...
Before tree specialists stopped using hard pesticides like DDT to combat the elm disease, insecticide killings of birds were apparently common in Cambridge. Charles F. Walcott, a retired physician and amateur ornithologist, recalls seeing three insect-eating species-the robin, hermit thrush, and flicker-in "typical DDT convulsions" on his property off Sparks Street...
When DDT came on the scene after World War II. Cambridge's robin population took a sudden drop. "Once, every morning before dawn, there was a rolling chorus of robins." Walcott noted. "To my cars, there has not been a robin chorus in Cambridge since...