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The Twentieth Annual Business Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society: Report Of The Treasurer

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

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The Twentieth Annual Business Meeting Of The Swiss American Historical Society: President's Report, Marianne Burkhard

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

In the past year, the SAHS has carried out a number of activities. The constant, and a mainstay, is the Newsletter edited by Professors Leo Schelbert and Heinz K. Meier. I would like to thank both of them for all their painstaking work they devote to this publication that is the vital link for the members of our society. I also wish to express special thanks to Dean Meier for providing the services for producing and mailing the Newsletter, and I would like to ask him to convey our appreciation to the appropriate officials at Old Dominion University for …

I. Letter From The Editors, Heinz K. Meier, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter

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One Wine In New Bottles: Thomas Blenerhasset's Elizabethan Shepherds' Pageant, Lynn Staley Johnson

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Though it would be impossible to claim for Thomas Blenerhasset's A Revelation of the true Minerva (15820 a place among the major works of Elizabethan literature, the poem deserves more than the cursory references it sometimes receives as an early indication of the influence of The Shepheardes Calender (1579) upon English verse. Not only does Blenerhasset's narrative poem suggest ways in which an alert and cultivated reader might respond to Spenser's first published poem, but A Revelation contains tantalizing clues to that rare metamorphosis accomplished by English writers in the reign of Elizabeth, a process by which Tudor poets, like …

"Use And Abuse" In Romeo And Juliet, Maurice Hunt

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Near the midpoint of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence formulates an authoritative-sounding concept which seemingly lends itself to interpreting tragedy. Gathering "baleful weeds" and "precious juiced flowers," the Friar states that everything earthly has a virtuous use and a potential abuse:

O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies

In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities.

For naught so vile that on the earth doth live

But too the earth some special good doth give;

Nor aught so good but, strain'd from that fair use,

Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.

Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied, …

Against The Dying Of The Light, Clark Harlow

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Just East Of The Reptile House, Susan Lewis

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Rain Coming, John W. Schouten

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Kid With The Hair: 1975, Laurie Wood

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A Nurtured Season, Maryan Myres

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The early morning sun shone on the watered fields where men and women bent to plant the crop that feeds the other half of the world. The stalks were individually placed in the ground with care in hopes the rice would sprout and grow. And I hadn't liked rice until I arrived in Taiwan two months ago . . . ha! I looked out the train window at the neatly organized fields . From a distance they resembled green patchwork quilts.

The Auction, Darrin Cozzens

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The people came early on a cold day to look over the belongings of Elmer and Verna Turnitt. City husbands and wives walked the aisles of old household articles by a tar-papered shed, lingering and nodding when they found a antique for their collections. Farmers who came to buy kicked at the tires of the machinery or checked piles of chain for broken links or looked at the engine hour-meters of the tractors lined up. Older farmers in overalls and denim oats, there for the ritual of the thing, stood in small groups, smoking and spitting tobacco juice, clapping their …

Digging In The Iris, Caroline P. M. West

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Front Cover, Scott Van Kampen

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Hopping A Train (Artwork), Marilyn Meeks

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A New Church In A New Land: The Founding Of Det Danske Evangeliske Lutherske Kirkesamfund I Amerika, Peter L. Petersen

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Dana College, Blair, Nebraska, and Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa, are the two surviving institutions of higher education founded by Danish immigrants in the United States. One part of a year-long celebration of Dana's centennial in 1984 was the publication of a new history of the college and its parent institution , Trinity Seminary. Entitled A Place Called Dana , the book was released October 5 during Dana 's Homecoming observance.

An Immigrant's Provisions For Mortality, Inga Wiehl

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It is my experience that we avoid funerals because they remind us of our mortality for which provisions must be made. Our resistance has two causes: we dread - in accordance with the human tendency to resist change - the most profound change of all, from life to death, mortality itself. Secondly, we dislike having to provide for our own departure according to the custom of the country or the taste of the individual.

A Schoolboy Contemplates Infinity, Joseph K. Nicholes

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Norton's Boots, David Brake

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Forecast, Carla Thomas

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Rothko: Black On Grey, 1970, Steven Wallace

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Hopping A Train, John Snyder

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Call me a vagrant. I think that's what Melville really wanted to say when he started Moby Dick. Conviction left him though , and he settled on "call me Ishmael," which is actually just another way of saying the same thing; if you are an Ishmael, likely you have been cast out and have little means of making a living. Whether for the original biblical figure or a Roger Williams , the situation can be difficult. ''He is a dangerous Ishmael," a leader of the Puritan community said of Williams after he had departed into the wilderness; "He turns all …

The Auction (Artwork), Robin Officer

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Ode To A Dean, Deceased, Walt Whitman, David Harmer Compiler

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Virtuous Visions, Joseph K. Nicholes

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First Night Home, Barry Mckendry

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Visiting Seattle, Corey A. Blades

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