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...early morning walk, lay planks back across the trickle of brackish water and cross--their goal to collect as many "No Trespassing" signs as possible. Before long the police return, and tear up the new bridge, and force the three revolutionaries they capture to wade the marsh. "I had eight signs, and they took them all," one moans...
...honks and a red flag means retreat," he explains. "Pass it back." They head for the west side of the plant, and approach decided on after hours of agonizing parley. Those that the western majority couldn't convince are at this moment marching to the south, toward the marsh that lies across the once-again-rebuilt bridge. For some, this is a sentimental journey--the south marsh saw the heaviest action in the battle of Seabrook/1979, "The tide adds a different dimension," one afficionado says...
Thompson's third stroke landed him in the evergreen marsh to the right of the green. The Quincy House athletic secretary then flicked an amazing shot with his putter, knocking the ball to within 20 ft. of the hole...
...yellowish ceiling lamp, is three gray walls covered with a repeated motif of two kidney shapes, each with a pair of fuzzy black dots, which, on close inspection, turn out to be human hair. The floor has sprouted barely visible wands and reeds, no higher than low marsh grass, each painted in bands of primary color and adorned with more of the same hair. A burial site? A metaphor of landscape? Hard to be sure, but the room conveys the sort of obsessive intensity that signals the presence of a real talent...
...hearted gallantry. Among no other people have I felt the same sense of personal inferiority." He also shared the soggy life of the Madan, Shia Muslims who inhabit the reedy swamps of southeastern Iraq. His two books about these experiences have become contemporary classics: Arabian Sands (1959) and The Marsh Arabs...