Wednesday
Feb. 4, 1998
What the Poets Would Have Done for You
Today's Reading: "What the Poets Would Have Done for You" by Charles Harper Webb from READING THE WATER, published by Northeastern University Press.
We are half-way through winter today -- 44 days left until the spring equinox on March 20.
Writer and feminist Betty Friedan (THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE) was born in Peoria, Illinois, 1921. She founded the National Organization for Women in 1966.
Rosa Parks, who was arrested for failing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913.
MacKinlay Kantor, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ANDERSONVILLE (1955), was born in Webster City, Iowa, in 1904.
The Apache Wars began on this day in 1861 when Army Lieutenant George Bascom arrested the Apache Chief Cochise for raiding a ranch in Apache Pass, Arizona.
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