![]() Documents include his 1782 appointment as Receiver of Continental Taxes in New York, legal documents relating to his law practice and personal estate, and legal notes and other items in his hand. ![]() Notable items include Hamilton’s letters to President Washington, dated 1796, concerning the writing of Washington’s Farewell Address to the nation, with a draft of the Address written by Hamilton for Washington’s consideration. Autograph letters, drafts and copies of letters sent by Hamilton concern his Revolutionary War service, chiefly as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington his legal practice in New York and financial and political matters. The Alexander Hamilton papers, dated 1775-1804, primarily consist of letters and documents either written or signed by Alexander Hamilton, and pertain to his career as a soldier, lawyer, statesman and United States Secretary of the Treasury. ![]() ![]() He served as the first United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1789 to 1795. Description Alexander Hamilton (1754-1804) was a Founding Father, soldier, lawyer and statesman. ![]()
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![]() I should also mention that before that, we moved to Innsbruck when I was 13 years old, and the first 12 years of my life, I grew up on a farm. So my childhood was really dominated by, you know, discussions of, you know, art and philosophy. And we spent many of our summer vacations in Italy, where I got introduced to the Italian Renaissance and the Italian Baroque art as a small child. And I grew up together with my brother who is a filmmaker, and I grew up in Innsbruck in the Austrian Alps, very close to Italy. He had quite a large library of philosophical books and love to talk about philosophy. And my father was a lawyer, but also an amateur philosophy, philosopher. And I grew up in Austria, with a mother who is who was a poet. I mean, I can start in my childhood, but I will, I will make it short. Well, free off d by giving us kind of a brief bio, and some of the big themes you’re interested in. ![]() ![]() I know it’s quite beautiful outside today in Barclay series, you’re missing it the inside with me, which I really appreciate. Thank you so much for taking the time to come on. ![]() Look forward to our conversation.Ībsolutely. Alright, very well is thank you for having me on your show. ![]() ![]() ![]() But there may come a day when you can do that no longer. And yourself, in a dark hour, may will that mood, embrace it. ….It begins with a grumbling mood, and yourself still distinct from it: perhaps criticizing it. ![]() He notes in the book, “The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly Nothing. Lewis used the character to highlight what happens when one becomes the qualities that get us into hell. The words cascaded from her lips like water over a water falls. The actor walked across the stage mumbling and grumbling. But the characters at heaven’s gates are all very provocative!įor example: One of the characters was grumbler. If you are reading it with that in mind, you are missing the point. ![]() Lewis isn’t making a theological statement in the book. At the gates of heaven, each of the bus riders are given the opportunity to get into heaven, but all but one ultimately choose hell. It’s the story of a bus ride from hell to heaven. If you’ve never read the book, consider it. ![]() The play was off Broadway and in a very small theatre. I went to see the CS Lewis play, The Great Divorce, a while back. ![]() ![]() An emphasis on the way geography can determine political fate gives Hicks's saga significant depth. ![]() Hicks's sequential artwork is polished, and though males hold nearly all the political power, the female characters are mighty warriors the men respect (and sometimes fear). When the two learn of an assassination plot, loyalties shift and the pace vaults from brisk to blazing. In the story, a man finds and ventures into the titular Nameless City, which he believes he is the only human to ever enter. Lovecraft for his short story 'The Nameless City'. To complete this achievement, the player needs to unlock all the Mysterious Stone Slates by completing the Hidden Exploration Objective The Murals of Gurabad. Their secret forays expose Kaidu to the city's darker truths, while Rat struggles with a sense that their friendship betrays the memory of her parents, who were killed by the Dao. The inhabitants of the Nameless City are a fictional species created by H. The Nameless Citys Past is an Achievement in the category Wonders of the World. Despite her resentment ("I don't want to know the name of any Dao," she snarls when he introduces himself), she agrees to teach Kaidu how to traverse the city's rooftops in exchange for food. ![]() Kaidu, a Dao boy, arrives for military training and befriends a street girl named Rat. The city has been conquered by successive nations who grind its native inhabitants underfoot it's now ruled by the Dao. ![]() Hicks (Friends with Boys) sets this trilogy opener in an imaginary city whose architecture and dress have a Tibetan air. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when I was brought on to proofread Hayes’s latest project, I was beyond excited to discover he’d ventured into the “gamer lit” world. Armed only with salvaged equipment, second-hand knowledge, and a secret that could get them killed, it will take all manner of miracles if they hope to pull off their charade.Īnd even if they succeed, the deadliest part of their journey may well be what awaits them at its end.įor a while, I’ve wondered why no one has tackled this very topic. Once the dust settles, these four find themselves faced with an impossible choice: pretend to be adventurers undertaking a task of near-certain death or see their town and loved ones destroyed. In the town of Maplebark, four such NPCs settle in for a night of actively ignoring the adventurers drinking in the tavern when things go quickly and fatally awry. ![]() What happens when the haggling is done and the shops are closed? When the quest has been given, the steeds saddled, and the adventurers are off to their next encounter? They keep the world running, the food cooked, and the horses shoed, yet what adventurer has ever spared a thought or concern for the Non-Player Characters? ![]() ![]() ![]() Why, she wondered, would someone in this day and age give a child a name that was so Mississippi? ‘That is not what Dr. My mother, who indulged my father in many things, could not give him this. ![]() My father had wanted us to have family names, with at least one of us girls named after his mother, Lula. Names that fit us like oversized coats, trimmed in seed pearls, gold braid, and the hides of baby seals. “Her gifts to the three of us were lush, extravagant, roomy names. Martin Luther King are everywhere-as street signs, as physical markers, and as a heavy presence of expectation for Aria, the narrator, whose real name is Ariadne, and whose mother has very specific designs for all three of her girls. King died for?”Ītlanta is the novel’s setting, and the memories of Dr. Over and over, in Tayari Jones’s darkly comic and vividly heartbreaking novel The Untelling, the main character’s mother asks with inherent disapproval, “Is this what Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2021, Saving the Wild South: The Fight for Native Plants on the Brink of Extinction was published. Her books include the three-volume North Carolina Literary Trails series commissioned by the North Carolina Arts Council, and The Month of Their Ripening: North Carolina Heritage Foods Through the Year. Georgann Eubanks is a Festival favorite writer, documentary maker, and consultant. She serves on the board of Charlotte Lit and on the Exhibits Committee at the Charlotte Art League. Her poetry chapbook, The House Inside My Head, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2022. She is co-editor of Mountain Memoirs: An Ashe County Anthology Reflections on the New River: New Essays, Poems and Personal Stories and The Love of Baseball: Essays by Lifelong Fans. ![]() With deep arts roots in Ashe County, Chris Arvidson writes and paints in Charlotte, North Carolina, while teaching at UNC Charlotte. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation Hazel, twin sister to Ansel’s wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister’s relationship threatens to devour them all and finally, Saffy, the homicide detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly. Through a kaleidoscope of women-a mother, a sister, a homicide detective-we learn the story of Ansel’s life. He hoped it wouldn’t end like this, not for him. ![]() But Ansel doesn’t want to die he wants to be celebrated, understood. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon inspection they hang still.Įach of the crew are about ¾” in size, cast in resin and suspended in ‘aged’ bottles 5 ½” tall.Ĭopies of this mixed media sculpture are available as a set of four for $65, plus shipping. Late at night they can sometimes be heard arguing amongst themselves, ringing gently against the sides of the bottles. What these curious folk described as ‘small pieces of lead’, seen as they were at a distance through dusty panes of glass were actually likenesses of the crew the Terrible Old Man had fashioned, and with certain arcane machinations had endowed with special properties. ( HPL: 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth') Locations Water Street - The seafront home of the Terrible Old Man. And they say that the Terrible Old Man talks to these bottles, addressing them by such names as Jack, Scar-Face, Long Tom, Spanish Joe, Peters, and Mate Ellis, and that whenever he speaks to a bottle the little lead pendulum within makes certain definite vibrations as if in answer.” History In the early 19th century, local fishermen sailed their sloops to Innsmouth, following rumours of fish swarming the harbour, but they never returned. ![]() These folk say that on a table in a bare room on the ground floor are many peculiar bottles, in each a small piece of lead suspended pendulum-wise from a string. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Terrible Old Man: H.P. ![]() Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. “…curious folk who sometimes steal up to the house to peer in through the dusty panes. 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