Archive for December, 2008
It’s the holiday season, a time for good will toward men, so let’s not laugh at the notion that the city of York, Pa., actually had its own poet laureate. No, let us instead debate whether the poet laureate of York, Pa., 86-year-old Gerry Meisenhelder, chose the right Bob Dylan song to be the soundtrack [...]
Filed under: Bob Dylan, death, Poetry | 3 Comments
Tags: death, Dylan, Gerry Meisenhelder, Oa., poet laureate of York, songs about death
Be it ever so humble…
Why does it make me just a bit melancholy to read that the old Mulford Gardens public-housing projects in Yonkers, N.Y, is finally being demolished? Because I grew up in Yonkers. And because I lived in the Mulford Gardens complex with my parents and my sister — we moved there when I was four years [...]
Filed under: DiGiovanni, Yonkers | 11 Comments
Tags: Ashburton Avenue, Getty Square, Grant Park, housing projects, Hudson River, Mulford Gardens, New York, Nodinee Hill, Oakland Cemetery, Palisades cliffs, public housing, Saw Mill River Parkway, St. Jospeh's seminary, Westchester County, Yonkers
Cousin John’s gift
Every December I sit down for an hour and once again savor Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” — and think about my cousin John. When I was about nine or ten years old, John gave me probably the best Christmas gift I ever received (not counting the birth of my son, twenty years ago this week, just two [...]
Filed under: Book talk, Christmas, DiGiovanni | Leave a Comment
Tags: "A Christmas Carol", Christmas gift, Dickens, John DiGiovanni
