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A deportee memorial
A deportee memorial
Sixty-five years later, there is a memorial for those who died in the 1948 plane crash that inspired Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)” and whose names are now, all, known.
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A deportee memorial
“I remember”
“I remember”
The artist and writer Joe Brainard (1942–1994) gave the world a deceptively simple writing prompt: “I remember,” two words to begin a sentence or a paragraph.
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“I remember”
A handy mnemonic
A handy mnemonic
A handy mnemonic I am sharing with my students, with whom I’ll be watching King Lear in room 3290.
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A handy mnemonic
November 11
November 11
From the New York Times: "Today is the 90th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War, and it will be commemorated very differently on each side of the Atlantic and across the borders of Europe. It's a reminder that not all 'victors' experience wars in the same way, and that their citizens can have almost as much difficulty as those of the vanquished states in coping with the collective trauma of conflict."
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November 11
Joshua Foer on memory
Joshua Foer on memory
Joshua Foer has a piece in National Geographic on people with unusual memory deficits and surpluses: AJ remembers when she first realized t...
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Joshua Foer on memory