Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the steps of the Lincoln memorial, delivers his 'I have a dream' speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. Bob Adelman photo. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Eisenhower post-presidency, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,early 1960s. Which, like the toad,
North Carolina tenant farmer's children, who suffer from rickets, 1938. Marion Post Wolcott photo. ugly and venomous,
Vietnam. Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
FLorida, 1939. Marion Post Wolcott photo. And this our life,
Baptism in Triplett Creek, Kentucky, 1941. Marion Post Wolcott photo. exempt from public haunt,
School Halloween party, 1950s. Finds tongues in trees,
German-speaking US soldier T/Sgt. Olin Dows convinces 56 Germans to surrender, August 25, 1944. books in the running brooks,
President Franklin Roosevelt (second from right) fishes for trout on Buskin Lake, Kodiak Island, Alaska, August 7, 1944. Sermons in stones,
Actor Harold Lloyd in "Safety Last!," (1923). and good in everything.
Easter morning on Chicago's South Side, April 1941. Russell Lee photo. I would not change it.
Mission Control Center erupts in cheers as Apollo 13 safely splashes down in the Pacifice Ocean, near Samoa, on April 17, 1970. ******************************
I’ll see you tomorrow.
— Brenda
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Text: Shakespeare, “As You Like It, Act II, Scene I,” (written in 1599).
Banner image: Construction of Rockefeller Center, early 1930s.
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