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It is stifling hot in Minnesota, more like Savannah than St. Paul, and if the heat wave goes on much longer, I am bound to start writing a play in which folks sit around in their underwear beneath a ceiling fan and drink sloe gin and curse the degeneracy of their ancestors that cost them the old plantation, Bellefleur, where the negroes used to dance and clap and get happy every evening down by the smokehouse. 'Early voting' not good New to me as a relatively new arrival in Nevada is this whole matter of "early voting." LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 'Early voting' not good New to me as a relatively new arrival in Nevada is this whole matter of "early voting." Shut my mouth if this ain't a heat wave It is stifling hot in Minnesota, more like Savannah than St. Paul, and if the heat wave goes on much longer, I am bound to start writing a play in which folks sit around in their underwear beneath a ceiling fan and drink sloe gin and curse the degeneracy of their ancestors that cost them the old plantation, Bellefleur, where the negroes used to dance and clap and get happy every evening down by the smokehouse. History is all around us Whenever I speak to classes or community groups, I always try to make a pitch for preserving and researching history. Before service clubs I point out that early Nevada historians used the records of such groups in writing their volumes of state history and that they should make sure to preserve their own records. I try to get students interested in doing their own research instead of simply accepting what they read in history textbooks (texts are often inaccurate). |
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