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Spoon River Anthology (1915) is a collection of short free verse poems by Edgar Lee Masters. The poems collectively narrate the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the Spoon River, which ran near Masters's home town of Lewistown, Illinois. The aim of the poems is to demystify rural and small town ...
Spoon River College was founded on October 17, 1959, as Canton Community College, [5] after the Canton Union School District passed a referendum to establish a junior college, [6] to allow students from the local high school district the opportunity to receive post-secondary education similar to university curriculum. It held its first classes ...
Reedy's Mirror was a literary journal in St. Louis, Missouri in the fin de siècle era. [1] It billed itself "The Mid-West Weekly". [2]Contributors included Edna St. Vincent Millay, [3] Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, [4] Ezra Pound, Vachel Lindsay, [1] Harris Merton Lyon, [5] Sara Teasdale, [6] Albert Bloch [7] and Theodore Dreiser.
Built in its current location, 35265 North IL Route 97, in 1973, the district has been around as early as 1949. The first school was located in Fairview.. Spoon River Valley High School is located 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Fairview, Illinois, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of London Mills and 7 miles (11 km) south of Maquon.
Smith created its first Rare Book Room in the 1937 addition to Neilson Library, under the direction of Smith librarian Mary E. Dunham. [2]It was renamed the Mortimer Rare Book Room in 1994 in honor of curator and teacher Ruth Mortimer, who herself graduated from Smith, [3] and served as the collection's steward from 1975 until her death in 1994. [2]
South Puget Sound Community College is a public community college in southwest Olympia, Washington. The college contains 125 acres (0.51 km 2) and is serving about 5,300 full and part-time students as of the fall 2020 quarter. [2]
For Trouser Press, Eric Hage wrote, "It's a tribute to Buckner's rugged individualism that he emerged from his major-label dance to put together The Hill, one sprawling, 34-minute track based on early 20th century poet Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology (character pieces in which the dead in an Illinois graveyard ruminate on their often tragic lives)...
The institution was renamed Indian River Community College in 1970 to reflect its expanded role and growing impact in the region. [ 7 ] During the 1970s and 1980s, IRSC continued to develop as a regional educational hub, adding campuses in Vero Beach, Stuart, Okeechobee, and Port St. Lucie, as well as multiple educational centers.