Show threadKirk10h ago

My neighborhood, Longfellow, on the south side of Minneapolis is a microcosm of the USA. Founded on stolen land. Built on institutional racism. And fueled by xenophobia.

I'm so fucking sick of this.

I kept this last part to myself, and told Sumeek my house was the one with the garden. Thinking that might narrow it down. It won't. Not in this neighborhood.

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Show threadKirk11h ago

That empty lot next to the Library? That used to be an huge building full of immigrant owned businesses and restaurants and a night club. That building had been home to wave after wave of immigrant owned businesses for decades. When it was burned down, the Scandinavian bakery I worked at 35 years ago, was a Somali owned restaurant. I was getting too emotional to explain further.
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Show threadKirk11h ago

Then when Bush and GOP economic policies crashed the economy in 2008, a lot of the people who moved in and made life better for everyone, lost everything, and left. Leaving a wake of vacant properties that attracted so much crime. But things got better again. And I started to tell Sumeek about the Oddfellows Hall. But remembered he wasn't here in 2020, when it was burned down.
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Kirk11h ago

Talked to a new neighbor, Sumeek, at candlelight vigil on 31st and Lake Street. He moved here last summer. I've been here since '98. He asked how the neighborhood has changed. Some ups and downs I said. Around Y2K immigrants from Central and South America moved in and fixed up so many vacant storefronts and houses. They really turned the neighborhood around. Made things so much better.
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FID Anglo-American Culture3d ago

Nicholas A. Basbanes's "Cross of Snow" is the 1st major literary #biography on #AmericanPoet & translator #HenryWadsworthLongfellow in 50 years & traces the tragedies & achievements of his life, w new material & a fresh look at #Longfellow 's 2nd wife Fanny

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cctmwebsiteJan 17

di Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Portland, 1807 – Cambridge, 1882)

I cuori gentili sono i giardini,
i pensieri gentili sono le radici,
le parole gentili sono i fiori,
le azioni gentili sono i frutti … https://cctm.website/henry-wadsworth-longfellow-usa/

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I cuori gentili sono i giardini, i pensieri gentili sono le radici ... Kind hearts are the gardens ... di Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - cctm

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LoC Appreciation SocietyDec 18

Books add something extra [1966].
1 print : color ; sheet 40 x 28 cm (poster format)

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MikeDunnAuthorNov 29

Today in Labor History November 29, 1832: Louisa May Alcott, author, nurse, feminist and abolitionist, was born. Her writing was influenced by the transcendentalists, like Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Longfellow, whom she knew personally. While she was most famous for her book, “Little Women,” she also wrote “Work,” an autobiographical novel that exposed the exploitation of women workers. Poverty forced her to work at a young age as a teacher, seamstress, governess and domestic. During the Civil War, she worked as a nurse and developed typhoid fever. The medicine she took contained mercury, which may have contributed to the autoimmune disorders that plagued her for the rest of her life and that ultimately killed her. She is buried on Author’s Ridge, at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, in Concord, near Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne.

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Johnny RSep 24
The West Oakland Horse Heads of market street

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 7, 2025

A quotation from Longfellow

Toiling — rejoicing — sorrowing,
   Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
   Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
   Has earned a night’s repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
“The Village Blacksmith,” st. 7 (1840)

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"The Village Blacksmith," st. 7 (1840) - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | WIST Quotations

Toiling -- rejoicing -- sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night’s repose.

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