Category Archives: Hurricane Katrina

to Langston Hughes More later. Later: Here’s a brief biography.Because his parents divorced when he was young, like the Headmaster he was largely raised by his grandmother. His grandmother told him stories of his family history, including tales of her first husband, a freedman who died at Harper’s Ferry in John Brown’s uprising. By the […]

I am extremely angry right now. I shouldn’t be angry, I should be happy, because behind the outrageous truth is the good news that ten thousand people are not dead, bodies were not stacked around the walls of the Convention Center, and untold numbers of children were not, as far as anybody can discover, attacked […]

THE PLAGUE, which the Board of Health had feared might enter …into the Milanese, had entered it indeed, as is well known; and it is likewise well known, that it paused not here, but invaded and ravaged a great part of Italy. Following the thread of our story, we now come to relate the principal […]