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The Legend of Maidens Hair Falls

September 10th, 2012

This is the tale I imagined to accompany my painting "Maiden's Hair Falls."

The Legend of Maiden’s Hair Falls

Back when native peoples freely inhabited most of New England, there lived two neighboring but rival Abenaki tribes in what is now New Hampshire. These settlements were separated by an offshoot of a mountain range; a mighty rushing waterfall that rose to five hundred feet above the valleys below was the main boundary between them.

And so it happened that one...

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Anagrams

September 18th, 2009

Over the last few days, I've had to cope with the most dreaded thing that can happen to a computer - I had to format my C drive. It wasn't as totally awful as it could have been, for I have an auxiliary hard drive with copies of (almost) everything I need. The tedium of re-installing literally hundreds of files and software programs made me crazy, and between installs I was amusing (?) myself with a program called Anagram Genius.

Never having run 'Regina Coeli deWinter' through the...

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