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Thought for the Day…02/12/22

Austin Tang — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 21:57:33 +0000

“Love is a promise, love is a
souvenir, once given, never
forgotten, never let it disappear.”
JOHN LENNON

Happy Valentines
Day!
WE LOVE YOU!!!

#love #promise #souvenir #given #never #forgotten #disappear #john #lennon #happy #valentines #day

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Distinguished Historian Reveals Truths About A Forgotten America In New Critically-Acclaimed Novel

Austin Tang — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:12:17 +0000

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Gilbert’s prose style is detailed, voice-driven, and refined. The author quickly establishes a sense of place that becomes increasingly vivid as Gilbert introduces its many distinctive residents. [He] excels in creating memorable characters whose individual stories coalesce to tell a broader literary and historical narrative. In the tradition of Winesburg, Ohio, Gilbert’s Tales of Little Egypt brings small-town America to full life.
–Publishers Weekly Book Life Review
“From the very beginning TALES OF LITTLE EGYPT prepares us for an emotional journey. From a battle-side death bed to the truths of small-town America, this collection of historical short fiction weaves between tales that are at times endearing, at times tragic, but always insightful… A rich collection of short stories offering insight into the collective American past and present.”
— Independent Book Review
A Fulbright Scholar and historian-turned-master-storyteller is at it again in his 15th book, Tales From Little Egypt, a fictional account of life that spans from the Civil War of the 1860s to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and World War I. Once a distinguished professor and Fulbright Scholar, James, who also had one of his history books make a New York Times Notable List, takes a historical approach to examining 13 imaginary lives that touched some of the most significant eras of American history.
“Little Egypt was the destination of my childhood summer,” reveals Gilbert. “Those gatherings where family stories were shared would serve as inspiration for the colorful tales I have penned.” Indeed, three generations of his family lived there, and some family members fought on opposite sides of the Civil War.
More About The Book:
Tales of Little Egypt is a fictional account of small-town America and the peculiar, ordinary, eccentric, sturdy, cunning, and contented characters who created it. Set in the years between the Civil War and the great Influenza Plague of 1918, this is a pageant of imaginary people–the narratives of a score of men, women, and children whose lives illustrate the immense changes and challenges of that turbulent era. This was a period of great events and outsized personalities: splendid World’s Fairs attended by millions, radical new inventions, devastating wars and violent revolutions; leaders like Theodore Roosevelt. But underneath were the people whose stories are as fascinating, troubled, compelling and triumphant as anything that has occupied the attention of historians. There was the town doctor, the local sheriff, the jeweler, the self-appointed matron of morality, a young black girl and her mother, a boy who ran off to the circus and many others: lovers, criminals, teachers, ministers, and odd characters. As a community, their lives and ambitions, their failures and tragedies–sometimes at their own making–and their small successes intersected and become a part of each other.
Marion, Illinois is both a real place and the imaginary location for these stories. Set in the center of Little Egypt, Marion is a county seat in the middle of this unique area, a river delta wedged between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. These two great highways of American immigration and trade sent millions of settlers North and South, East and West and back. The few who stopped off to make it their home created something distinctive. Theirs was a society that reflected the crossroads it occupied and the mix of cultures and sections that it represented. It was both nowhere and everywhere. Therefore, their struggles to make sense of this world exemplify the tale and the memory of modern America in the making.
For Zona Romantica:
“An entertaining mystery with a vibrant setting.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“The dash of romance added to the intrigue and historical references keeps Zona Romantica a thoroughly inviting read, juxtaposing personal and political observations right up to an unexpected conclusion.
Midwest Book Reviews

About The Author: Over the course of his career as a historian, he published 11 history texts, one of which (Perfect Cities) was named a New York Times notable book of the year in 1986. Throughout his career, he has often succumbed to a love of travel made possible by teaching at the University of Paris and Warwick University in England, and with Fulbright Awards, at the University of Sydney, the University of Amsterdam, Erfurt and Tubingen Universities in Germany, and Uppsala University in Sweden, where he was given an honorary Doctoral Degree. Until 2020, he was the Faculty Fulbright Adviser at the University of Maryland. Born in Chicago, Gilbert attended Carleton College and then the University of Wisconsin, earning a doctoral degree in American Intellectual and Cultural History. In 1966, he was hired by the University of Maryland. He was appointed Distinguished University Professor in 1999. While American history has been his profession, literature has been his passion, and since retirement, he has written three novels and a book of short stories. He is also a (very) amateur cellist. For more information, please consult: www.JamesBGilbertAuthor.com

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If we have no peace…..

Austin Tang — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:52:57 +0000

If we have no peace,
It is because
We have forgotten
We belong
To each other.

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Pope Francis Message at a Times Square

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 14:00:17 +0000

Pope Francis shares a Message for Peace at a Times Square Peace Day Party Press Conference for the International Day of Peace 9/21

Pope Francis shares a Message for Peace
At a Times Square Peace Day Party Press Conference for the International Day of Peace 9/21

New York, NY. Pope Francis shared his Peace message at the International Day of Peace Press Conference in Times Square September 15, 2015. It was delivered by Father McWeeney from the Catholic Church of New York. The Press Conference was packed with the people of the world, about 1,000 people heard our Peace Day Message. Limited media, but we have big prayers that the media and the people of the world will hear the message and create a Global Truce and nonviolent day in celebration for The International Day of Peace. 193 Countries of the UN agreed to the day, please join in. Announcement of www.peacedayparty.org events in Central Park on 9/20 at 3PM and Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn War Memorial on 9/21 at 11:30AM

Pope Francis Shared:

We bow our heads,

Powerful God, you are present in the whole universe and in the smallest of your creatures. You embrace in your tenderness all that exists that pours into us with the power of your love, that we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with Peace that we may live as brothers and sisters, hurting no one. Oh God of the poor, may you help us rescue the abandoned and forgotten on this earth.

Bring Healing to our lives that we may protect the world, not pray on it. That we may see beauty and not pollution. Look at hearts of those who only seek gain at the expense of others and the poor on the earth. Teach us to discover the worth of each thing in awe and contemplation. Recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature, as we journey towards your infinite light.

Thank you for being with us today, we pray and encourage you for justice, love and peace. Amen.

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Our Forgotten Neighbours

admin — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:38:01 +0000

Dear Friend,

On Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 6 PM in the L.A. Holocaust Museum at the Pan Pacific Park the Mensch Foundation International will bring an Exhibit from Hungary. This exhibit is on its first stopover in LA. It will continue to tour North America and to show several Jewish families who lived in the small town of Papa, Hungary before the arrival of the Holocaust and the systematic murder of the 600,000 Jews in Hungary from April of 1944 to the end of the war in 1945.

The Mensch Foundation is proud to be touring this wonderful moving exhibit throughout North America. It is the creation of Andras Gyekiczki and Laszlo Rajk Jr.

Please attend to the opening of this important exhibit “Our Forgotten Neighbors” and bring your neighbors and friends!!

An opening statement shall be made by Hungarian Counsel General of Los Angeles, Dr. Laszlo Kalman.

Cantor Estherleon Schwartz, Child Holocaust Survivor, shall gift us with a uplifting music and song..

We shall also make a special memorial tribute to “Kristallnacht.”

Additionally, please view the informative links below:

https://www.facebook.com/elfeledett.szomszedaink

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/kristalltoc.html

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mensch-Foundation-International/111741708885824

www.mensch.hu

www.menschfoundation.org

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Angel Sullivan Spring 1997 – Dec 4th, 2012

editor — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:34:35 +0000

www.facebook.com/gregg.p.sullivan
Epitaph / Farewell letter that I’m placing with Angel when I bury her on Towd Point and that I posted on Facebook
December 4th, 2012

Enjoy the Towd Point Sunsets
My Beautiful Angel ___ …

Enjoy your gait, as you prance across the stars.
Enjoy your wings, as you sail across to Samadhi.

Enjoy the sounds you hear,
Now that the noise is all forgotten.
Enjoy the effortless breath of your now eternal life,
In the Mystic, in the Moonlight, by the Oceans Sands of Time

Of all the world class love affairs that have blessed my life across the years, none were quite so sweet, so gentle,
so tender, nor so dear.

We whispered words of love within our glances
and throughout our joys, in our moments spent together,
clinging to one another’s side.

So Enjoy the Serene, the Sublime, the Peace, the Divine,
for you are on your way to Heaven, now, to Bliss
and in My Heart and Soul Forever,

and My Love For You
and Memories of Our Time Together
Will Never Die ___…

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