Thanksgiving (Revisited) in 2018

I am going to dispense with the politically correct version of the first celebrated Thanksgiving Feast, and tell it how I believe it happened based on my own studies on the matter. A band of Pilgrims, seeking freedom from religious persecution, fled from the British Empire and set sail on the Mayflower. They endured harsh…

Remembering Edgar Allan Poe: El Dorado

Edgar Allan Poe is someone who changed the face of literature itself. Though he died a mysterious and tragic death, I wanted to honor his memory with one of his poems: El Dorado. GAILY bedight,        A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow,        Had journeyed long,        Singing a song, In search of…