Comments on: Memorial Day reflections, Venice version

By: erla

erla — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:14:14 +0000

As far as I can tell, the world is constructed almost entirely of footnotes and sidebars. Me and my life are too, now that I think of it.

By: erla

erla — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:29:22 +0000

More coming along. Thanks for the thumbs-up.

By: erla

erla — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:28:36 +0000

Anyone who has read more than five lines of Hemingway has run into Agnes. She didn’t dump him FOR anyone, she just realized that he wasn’t the one for her. She married twice; first to Howard Preston Garneron in 1928, which didn’t last long, and to a hotel manager in New York named William Stanfield in 1934. I could throw more trivia at you, but will stick to your question.

By: Normano de Jerseyite

Normano de Jerseyite — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:11:49 +0000

E, very poignant. If the Venetians know so little about this era, you can imagine how we outside of Venice and of Italy are unaware. Truly, a story to be told. You mention famous heros and martyrs, but how famous? Isn’t there a need for retelling that beckons you?
On the lighter side – and how is this for a segue – how in the world do you know about Agnes von Kurowski? The why is pretty obvious but who did she dump Hemingway for?

By: Hoosey

Hoosey — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:42:38 +0000

This entry makes me feel [primarily] 2 things: (1) Shame — Like most Americans, I am as steeped in ignorance of the histories of other countries as I am in specious knowledge of my own country’s truncated history; (2) Delight — Erla, you keep me tickled and hungry-for-more of these footnotes / sidebars / as-important-as’s of history as they march behind, to AND through the present. I can feature a whole book of typically-passed-by historical markers from Venice, with sequels from Athens, Cairo, Moscow, Tokyo, Berlin, Prague, Greenwich Village…, well, you get the picture.