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Thoughts upon concluding a year of sifting the past.
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My discoveries in the world of half-forgotten composers from the classical and romantic eras.
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The evolution of threats to free speech at the nation's educational institutions, and FIRE's role in combating these threats.
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Some formative experiences of one who is not a fan of celebrities.
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Some favorite recollections of my father's mother.
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Early memories of the family's summer cottage on an island in Stony Lake, Ontario.
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What my great-great grandmother and Mimi from the opera La Boheme had in common.
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A number of moves in childhood, all to interesting places.
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Adventures along the Trans-Canada Highway in the middle of summer.
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How names reflect the interrelation of families and generations.
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Catching up with the struggles of Oberlin College as it slowly sinks deeper into the mire of its own unreality.
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A summer's work with migrant workers' kids in rural eastern Long Island.
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My experiences in the first years of the Bellport High School Tennis Team.
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Teen-aged adventures with a speedboat on the Great South Bay.
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Why the 206 election was a political earthquake.
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Building and rebuilding a harpsichord as training in carpentry, music history, and character formation.
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Selected best moments from Thurber's stories and drawings.
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A review of selected incidents in Twain's better writings.
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Some of the clever inventions my father put together in his spare time.
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Some experiences as I was drawn into the Army during the Viet Nam era.
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Half a dozen different dimensions of the word 'favorite.'
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A meditation on the nature of memory and my recollections of various unscripted moments that occurred at concerts I attended.
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Two conversations that helped me chart a path during the Viet Nam war.
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Selected reminiscences of my mother, Phyllis Smith Vineyard (1923-1996)
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My recollections as a two-year-old of a camping trip out west with my parents.
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Childhood recollections of my maternal grandfather, john W Smith (1883-1959)
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A sketch of my department chair at the Franklin Institute of Boston, 1972-76.
