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[Posted by Dan Milner, University of Birmingham (England); recent link:  http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2011/04/smithsonian-folkways-releases-civil-war-naval-songs/] Stan Hugill was the last seaman known to have sung sea shanties aboard a British merchant ship.  Hugill was also a prolific maritime painter and author of books on sea songs.  In Sailortown(1967), he mentions a New York shanghier who operated a combination hostelry-cum-grogshop named Larry Maher. About 10 years …

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[Posted by Henry Arneth, Trinity ’09 and a member of the Watkinson staff] Gustav Doré (from Gosling, below) For over 100 years, the names Dante and Doré have been linked in literature; one of the reasons is that Dante’s Divine Comedy—the epic poem—is one of the many works illustrated by Gustave Doré and is one of …

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[Posted by guest blogger Lynn Fahy, Catalog Librarian] Elisha Stanley was a student at the Edward Hall Family School for Boys in Ellington, CT in 1863. He and other teenage boys lived with Hall and his family and attended classes in the building next door, which is now a private home. One of Stanley’s textbooks, Sallust’s …

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