Category Archives: Time

The Way We Used to Roll

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

The Glidden Auto Tour was coming through town this week, I learned, “the largest premier antique automobile touring event in the world,” according to the press release which I forwarded to the principal of the local school, a friend of … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Music, Tennessee, Time | 2 Comments

Colonel Shaw and Some Anniversaries

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

One hundred and fifty years ago this week, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw was killed during a desperate assault on South Carolina’s Fort Wagner while leading the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, the first all African-American volunteers corps. Perhaps you know about Shaw … Continue reading →

Posted in Boston, Education, Family, Military, New England, Poetry, Race, Sewanee, Slavery, Statues & Monuments, The South, Time | 2 Comments

Behind the Times in Sewanee

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

This past Sunday morning, I went up into Breslin Tower here in Sewanee to watch the clock being re-set for Daylight Savings Time. Keith Henley, who has been overseeing the clock for the past two years and seems to know … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, Nautical, Numismatics, Oxford, Sewanee, Time | 17 Comments

Protected: Quelle Heure Est-Il?

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Uncomely and Broken

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The Hills of Sewanee

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

The Hills of Sewanee Sewanee Hills of dear delight, Prompting my dreams that used to be, I know you are waiting me still to-night By the Unika Range of Tennessee. The blinking stars in endless space, The broad moonlight and … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomical, Poetry, Race, Sewanee, Tennessee, The South, Time | 1 Comment