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Many Americans enjoy a day off of work and leisure activates to celebrate Labor Day but few know its roots. Observed on the first Monday in September Labor Day became a federal holiday when President Grover Cleveland signed legislation June 28 1894 to appease the organized labor movement.
Read more: Labor Day Has Roots in New York and Chicago’s Labor Reform Movement
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She said to me ‘what were the first thoughts that before you knew already were, and had realized themselves in voices and sounds….’
We waited for the time when whatever we could would materialize from behind branches and shrouded histories to
be something unwritten.Read more: Falling through Autumn
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"Hey dude. Check this out " Marcus called to his roommate. They had stopped for gas at a station off the interstate a little south of Atlanta. Joel was filling the tank of his Honda and Marcus stood looking at the pickup truck parked at the pump in front of them.
Flux
Wm. Anthony Connolly
I’ve changed my hairstyle so many times now; I don’t know what I look like.
– Talking Heads “Life during Wartime”
There ought to be in every hand a well-thumbed and annotated copy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It should be found – splayed its leaves fattened with moisture and sun – wedged between windshields and dashboards.
