August 9, 2026
Tag: Three Tragic Lives
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
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October 9, 2025 1 Comment
“Casey At the Bat” has become the single most famous baseball poem ever written. It has been around long enough for the copyright to expire, but it is still popular, and the only thing left to happen is for the 1912 illustrations by D. S. Groesbeck to be made into postcards.