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April is National Poetry Month!
[in Just-]
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
Discuss This Poem and Others at You Come TooPoetry discussions with VHC Executive Director Peter Gilbert at the VHC office at 11 Loomis Street, Montpelier, 5:30 pm.Thursday, April 5: E.E. Cummings
 | | E.E. Cummings, Edward Estin, 1935, Library of Congress |
* [in Just-]
* anyone lived in a pretty how town
* Buffalo Bill's
* somewhere I have never traveled,gladly beyond
* i thank you God for most this amazing
* spring is like a perhaps hand
Read the poems in advance or read them upon arriving. Refreshments are served. RSVPs are encouraged, at 802.262.2626, ext. 307, or e-mail. Spur of the moment participants are welcome.
Part of Montpelier's PoemCity 2012 -- Celebrating National Poetry Month
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Civil War Book of Days, March 30
Confident, Union Closes All Recruiting Offices
April 3, 1862. Optimistic in light of General McClellan's Peninsula Campaign beginning against Richmond, Grant's victories in the west, and a tactical defeat of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton concluded that current Union forces would be sufficient to bring the war to a victorious conclusion, and ordered all Union recruiting offices closed. They did not remain closed for long.
 | | Recruiting for the war -- scene at the recruiting tents in the park, New York. Illustration in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, March 19, 1864, p. 404. Courtesy Library of Congress |
SOURCE
The Library of Congress Illustrated Timeline of the Civil War, Margaret E. Wagner, ed., p. 56.
Senate Votes to Abolish Slavery in Washington, D.C., But . . . Also on April 3, the United States Senate voted 29 to 14 to outlaw slavery in the District of Columbia. The significance of the event lay in its precedent and in the growth of anti-slavery sentiment which it reflected. The number of slaves freed was small: of the District of Columbia's population of 220,000, only 63 were slaves. Continued . . .  Sign up for the Civil War Book of Days, VHC's weekly e-newsletter marking the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. It commemorates what happened each week 150 years ago.
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Humanities Commentaries on VPR
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Each month, VHC's Executive Director Peter Gilbert presents commentaries on Vermont Public Radio that examine current and past events from a humanities perspective. Most recently, Peter spoke about:
- Willie's Story: This President's Day was also the anniversary of an event that caused great sadness in the Lincoln White House. Commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert has the story -- not of a President, but a President's child.
- The Presidency: Commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert loves movies about the American presidency, especially thrillers. Recently, he saw two that he'd never seen before.
- Corporations' Free Speech: Two years ago this month, a bitterly divided Supreme Court overruled precedent and held that the government may not ban political spending by corporations, and that the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 violated corporations' right to free speech.
- Centenary: Commentator and Vermont Humanities Council executive director Peter Gilbert tells us a true story of great suffering, disappointment, and pathos that's one hundred years old this month.
Read or listen to Peter's commentaries online.
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