Category Archives: Military

Abbo’s Alley & German POWS

Posted on August 7, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

That some of Abbo’s Alley was laid out during WWII by German POWs is something I’ve often heard, but seen little documentary evidence. Below is what I’ve found. New York Times July 1, 1984, Section 10, Page 25: To the Editor: Thanks very much … Continue reading →

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Protected: “The Hitler Gang”

Posted on June 25, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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Moorman twins & Normandy

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

If you have been over to the University Counsel’s office in Walsh-Ellett Hall in Sewanee, you have seen probably the portrait of the Moorman twins from the early 1930s. (I’ll load an image of it when I get back over … Continue reading →

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“The American Cincinnatus”

Posted on February 10, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, “The American Cincinnatus” (1919) When I was a kid, I picked up a copy of the 1932 Georgetown yearbook for a dime at a second-hand store my mother and I used to go to. Being a … Continue reading →

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Lauro de Bosis’ Gesture

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

From George Garrett’s “A Wreath for Garibaldi,” Kenyon Review 23 (1961) 487-88: It is hard for me to know how I feel about Lauro di Bosis. I suffer from mixed feelings. He was a well-to-do, handsome, and sensitive young poet. … Continue reading →

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Protected: Good and faithful servant

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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“Gassed”: My Thoughts and Another’s, Unknown

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

John Singer Sargent’s Gassed (1919)– I’ve seen it twice, last fall at the Frist’s WWI & American Art exhibit and, more memorably, in 2012 at the Imperial War Museum in London. The Olympics were on, and service men and women … Continue reading →

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Protected: NO AND SHUT UP: Intellectualism and Its Discontents in Nancy

Posted on October 27, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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Flavinus, Easter, and Power

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

A note to my Sewanee-in-England students in Hexham, where we are all exhausted after climbing around Housesteads fort. Alas, Hexham Abbey opens at 9:30 AM but we must be on the road by 9. What I had wanted to show … Continue reading →

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Protected: Telly Savalas’ cuirass

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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