Patrick Kerin
@PatrickKerin1
America's homespun man of letters: a teacher, writer, and poet in SW Ohio. Lifelong student of the American Experiment. High Priest of Middle America.
"Summer" From Sherwood Anderson's "Home Town" buckeyemuse.com/summer-from-sh… #summer #smalltown #SherwoodAnderson #Midwest
Happy Birthday Henry Knox born July 25, 1750. DYK that he: *belonged to a street gang when he was a teenager in Boston *witnessed the Boston Massacre & testified at the trials. *shot off 2 fingers the day before his 23rd birthday. *married Lucy Flucker in 1774. *his younger…
A classic! #Midwest #Indiana #July #poetry
July in Indiana, by Robert Fitzgerald. The New Yorker. July 16, 1966.
Today was National Tequila Day and I made sure to celebrate in the appropriate fashion.
Ode to Butterscotch
Dum Dums Water Tower in Bryan, Ohio 🍭
Enjoying reading the Complete Poems of Blaise Cendrars: Swiss-French poet, novelist, traveler, adventurer, French Foreign Legion veteran of WW1 (lost his right arm in combat)--the writer John Dos Passos called him the "Homer of the Trans-Siberian" (Railway). #modernism #poetry
OTD: Early 1862, Martin Van Buren, citizen of Kinderhook, was battling a lung ailment (had been for some time) and sought treatment, unsuccessfully, down south in New York City. Naturally, with no treatment, his condition grew worse. Come July, the New York Tribune reported Van…
A mighty girl out of the heartland: Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on July 24, 1897. #Midwest #Kansas #AmeliaEarhart
Ozzy Osbourne meeting his lifelong idol, Paul McCartney in 2001.
Bonjour. 😊 📷 Georg Stefan Troller. Les trois petits copains Années 1950. Paris
The classic drop-and-drive delivery of Tom Seaver! #MLB #Mets #Legend
This is a true loss. 💔💔May she rest in peace. 🙏
I am very sad to report that the wonderful Catholic poet Jane Greer @NorthDakotaJane has died. Please keep her soul, her family and her husband Jim in your prayers.
James Doohan wasn’t just Scotty on Star Trek, he was also a Canadian who served his country and landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. He then went on to become a gifted actor, trained by fellow Canadian Lorne Greene. This is his story. 🧵 1/12
The golden sunlight in this autochrome is absolutely spectacular! I have cleaned up this remarkable photograph of three ladies of Lyon, picking fruit during the Golden Hour, 115 years ago. It was taken by Professor Fernand Arloing in 1910. It is original colour, not colourised.