Where the Hummingbird Fies was set in Trinidad, and brutally satirized the island’s racial caste system and the entire social hierarchy the British had put in place. A Guardian review noted that Hercules “animates an absurd milieu where skin color, hair texture, ethnic features, business acumen, respectability, and sometimes intelligence have to be carefully weighed before an individual can be given a social acceptability rating.” Where the Hummingbird Flies was named one of the five best first novels of the year by Newsweek magazine.

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Frank Hercules (1911-1996), Trinidadian-American author. He was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He went to London to study law at the Inns of Court. In the early 1940's, he left for the United States, where his father, an anticolonial revolutionary, had found asylum after being forced out of Trinidad.

Mr. Hercules settled in Harlem, where he started a clothing manufacturing business, without success, and worked in the insurance industry. He also became involved in the nascent black nationalist movement. After falling under the spell of Lewis Michaux, the bookstore owner and orator, he resolved to write.

His first novel, "Where the Hummingbird Flies" (1961), dealt with colonial oppression in Trinidad. "I Want a Black Doll" (1967), his next novel, took interracial marriage as its subject. His third, "On Leaving Paradise" (1980), was a picaresque tale of a young man who leaves Trinidad for England. He also wrote a work of history, "American Society and the Black Revolution" (1972).

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A coming of age novel in 1950's Ireland, The Flying  Swans   takes for its story the boyhood and early manhood of Ulick O'Rehill. It is also the story of Ulick's family: his father, Robert O'Rehill, a troubled, dream-driven man who gave up his claim to the Moylough fortune to marry Saba, the herdsman's daughter; Saba herself with the compassion and dignity of simple people; Ulick's younger brother, Breasal, who was denied the right of every son -- a father's name. The book's powerful theme is an eternal quest: a boy's need to find himself, to reconcile himself with his heritage and to achieve manhood.
Primarily, Padraic Colum is a poet, and to read his writing is to hear the impressive cadence of the Irish tongue. Through it Mr. Colum reveals his sense of the majesty and humility of life wherever it is lived -- in the stillness of an Irish village or in the busy corners of the world today..." 

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See also Kirkus Reviews at:

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/padraic-colum/the-flying-swans/

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Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich, 1933- -- Translations into English]]> Yevtushenko was one of the authors politically active during the Khrushchev Thaw (Khrushchev declared a cultural "Thaw" that allowed some freedom of expression). In 1961 he wrote what would become perhaps his most famous poem, Babiyy Yar, in which he denounced the Soviet distortion of historical fact regarding the Nazi massacre of the Jewish population of Kiev in September 1941, as well as the anti-Semitism still widespread in the Soviet Union. The usual Soviet policy in relation to the Holocaust in Russia was to describe it as general atrocities against Soviet citizens, and to avoid mentioning that it was a genocide of the Jews. Yevtushenko was the most extensively travelled Soviet poet during the 1960's, possessing an amazing capability to balance between moderate criticism of Soviet regime, which gained him popularity in the West, and, as noted by some, a strong Marxist-Leninist ideological stance, which allegedly proved his loyalty to Soviet authorities. Critics differ on the stature of Yevtushenko in the literature world, with "most Western intellectuals and many Russian scholars extoling him as the greatest writer of his generation, the voice of Soviet life."
Others, however, notably Russian critics like Patricia Pollock Brodsky take issue with the interpretation that Yevtushenko has been persecuted by the Russian government.Tomas Venclova assertsin his 1991 essay that few in the Russian literary community consider his work worthy of serious study.

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the Russian poet, took part in a three-day presentation of his work at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury in April 1992.

From the New York Times of April 26, 1992, "The first event will be a concert on Wednesday at 1 P.M., when the Manhattan String Quartet will perform in Ives Auditorium. The ensemble will be accompanied by a poetry reading and discussion with Mr. Yevtushenko of the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The two men were close friends, and the composer used several of Mr. Yevtushenko's poems, including "Babi Yar," as themes for his work. The poet will conduct a town meeting on the current crisis in Russia from 8 to 10 Wednesday evening.

Another concert will be held on Thursday at 8 P.M., and Mr. Yevtushenko's film, "Stalin's Funeral," will be screened on Friday at 3:30 P.M."

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Salzburg (Austria) -- Description and travel ]]> Czernin, Ferdinand, 1903- ]]> New York, The Greystone press c1938 ]]> Link to Primo]]> New London (Conn.) -- Genealogy]]> Cemeteries -- Connecticut -- New London]]> Epitaphs -- Connecticut -- New London ]]> Ye Antientist Burial Ground in New London, Connecticut is one of the earliest graveyards in New England, and the oldest colonial cemetery in New London County. The hillside lot of 1.5 acres adjoins the original site of the settlement's first meeting-house. From here the visitor has a broad view to the east of the Thames River, and on the far shore, the heights of Groton.

Reservation of the lot for its purpose had been recorded in the summer of 1645. The first decedent "of mature age" was duly interred there in 1652. But it is the ordinance of June 6, 1653 that legally sets the place apart and declares, "It shall ever bee for a Common Buriall place, and never be impropriated by any."

A later record notes the appointment of the sexton —

Whose work is to order youth in the meeting-house, sweep the meeting-house, and beat out dogs, for which he is to have 40s. a year : he is also to make all graves ; for a man or woman he is to have 4s., for children, 2s. a grave, to be paid by survivors .

17th century New London was yet a rough and isolated corner of early colonial Connecticut. Private interments were not customary, and this was the only common burial place.

Few of the early graves ever had inscribed markers. The New London of that time possessed no skilled stonecutters, and those early planters simply had not the means. A few surviving families did, however, seek to address the deficiency in later years. At least four stones dated in the 17th century have been found that could not have been placed before 1720 .

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Musicians]]> Music. lcgft ]]> Henry Theophilus Finck (1854 – 1926) was an American music critic, and a leading promoter in the United States of Richard Wagner and his musical theories.
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Deems Taylor, to whom the author inscribed this volume, was an American composer, music critic, and promoter of classical music. Nat Benchley, co-editor of The Lost Algonquin Roundtable, referred to him as "the dean of American music."
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Finck, Henry Theophilus, 1854-1926 ]]> Philadelphia, Pa., Theodore Presser co. [c1923] ]]> Link to Primo record]]>
Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954 ]]> Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (1869 – 1954) was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.
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Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. (1902 –  1981) was an American art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. From that position, he was one of the most influential forces in the development of popular attitudes toward modern art.
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Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981 ]]> New York, Museum of Modern Art [1951] ]]> Link to Primo record]]>
Litchfield (Conn.)]]> Vaill family]]> Vaill, Julia M., 1912 ]]> ]]> Gould, Cora Smith, 1855- ]]> New York, Priv. Print. by Rogers & Co., 1917 ]]> Link to Primo record]]> Jazz ]]> George Thomas Simon (1912 –  2001) was an American jazz writer and occasional drummer. He began as a drummer and was an early drummer in Glenn Miller's orchestra. He wrote about that orchestra in 1974 with Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, known for being the most comprehensive writing on Glenn Miller and his big band.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_T._Simon

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Tracy A. Sugarman (1921 –  2013) was an American illustrator. He illustrated hundreds of books and record covers in a career lasting over 50 years.
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Sugarman's inscription in the book is to Ruth Steinkraus Cohen, a  pianist, singer, editor, radio host, bibliophile, and United Nations activist. The Ruth Steinkarus Cohen Collection at WSCU includes sheet music which span the years 1800 to the 1960s as well as publicity photographs and other images of Steinkraus in her career as a pianist, radio host and activist for world peace.]]>
Simon, George T., 1912-2001 ]]> [New York] Simon and Schuster, 1961 ]]> Link to Primo record]]>
Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 ]]> Edgar Evertson Saltus (1855 – 1921) was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Huysmans and Oscar Wilde.
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For an essay on Saltus, see Edgar Saltus:Forgotten Genius of American Letters?  by Jason Deboer at http://www.absintheliteraryreview.com/archives/fierce7.htm


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