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...complaints. One of them. Governor Culbert Olson (1939-1943), fell through the crumbling front steps. The latest, Pat Brown, is awakened at dawn each day by trucks that rumble past the house and shake it to its ancient foundations. Brown is also slightly apprehensive about the coil of rope he must keep near his bed by order of state fire officials who say the mansion is a charming firetrap...
...denied that his wife's suggestions (extra bedrooms, a larger kitchen) had caused the inflation. "She made a few changes." said Brown, "but not $400,000 worth." Brown will ask the legislature for the extra money, but he still has a good many nights to spend with his rope. Said the Governor wearily: "We've tried to be good soldiers about this...
...England house, Author Eric Sloane found a wood-backed, leather-bound diary written in 1805 by a 15-year-old boy. Its entries were terse: "June 3-Helped Father build rope hoist to move the water wheel." or "June 26-Father and I sledded the oaks from the woodlot and put them down near the mill." A student of Early American craftsmanship and the author of volumes like The Seasons of America Past and American Barns and Covered Bridges. Sloane took the diary and dressed it out with verbal and graphic sketches, detailing the construction of a whole backwoods farm...
During the last years of his life, Finley said, Nock "became immersed in an infinite particularity of memory. His knowledge was not like a rope, but like a beach of sand...
Aristocrats & Myths. Baldwin maintains that "Negro boys and girls who are facing mobs today come out of a long line of improbable aristocrats-the only genuine aristocrats this country has produced . . . The Negro's past, of rope, fire, torture, castration, infanticide, rape; death and humiliation; fear by day and night, fear as deep as the marrow of the bone; doubt that he was worthy of life, since everyone around him denied it; sorrow for his women, for his kinfolk, for his children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect; rage, hatred, and murder, hatred for white...