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David Herder

Crime Scene - 10/31/2019

  • EDGAR ALLEN POE, "The Cask of Amontillado".

    Year of the Pig - 2/10/2019

  • GEORGE ORWELL, excerpt from Animal Farm.

    Brush up Your Shakespeare - 4-21-2018

  • Wm. SHAKESPEARE, King Richard II: Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 140-173 (recited)

    Who Let the Dogs Out - 2/17/2018

  • A.C. DOYLE, excerpts from The Hound of the Baskervilles.

    Do the "Wright" Thing - 6-11-2017

  • DAVID HERDER, fun facts "Write Wright Right = Wright Wright Right or why Right is Wrong and Wright is Right.

    Year of the Rooster - 1-28-2017

  • www.exploresouthernhistory.com, "The Real Rooster Cogburn"

    It Was a Dark and Stormy Night - 10-29-2016

  • DAVID HERDER, "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night."

    Mardi Gras - 2/6/2016

  • T.S. ELIOT, excerpts from "Ash Wednesday."

    Diary - 8/2/2015

  • ELIE WIESEL, excerpt from Night.

    Human Events - 7/5/2015

  • OGDEN NASH, "Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man."

    Blood - 10/31/2014

  • THOMAS HARDY, "And There Was a Great Calm".

    Future - 7/12/2014

  • EMILY DICKINSON, poem.

    Burns Night - 1/25/2014

  • ROBERT BURNS, "To A Mouse."

    Bewitched - 10/31/2013

  • EDGAR ALLAN POE, excerpt from The Island of the Fay.
  • Work - 9/1/2013

  • Quotations relating to work from celebrated writers.

    Secrets - 4/25/2013

  • EDGAR ALLEN POE, poem, "An Enigma."

    A Christmas Story - 12/8/2012

  • T.S. ELIOT, "The Cultivation of Christmas Trees."

    For Those in Peril on the Sea - 4/13/2012

  • WILLIAM COWPER, "The Castaway."

    Here There By Dragons - 1/20/2012

  • ADAM RULLI-GIBBS, "Here Were Dragons".

    Dark - 10/22/2011

  • T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker" (second of the Four Quartets, Part 3 and
  • JOSEPH CONRAD, excerpt from Heart of Darkness.

    Dry - 9/25/2011

  • W.C. Fields, "Dry Philosophy."

    Wet - 7/16/2011

  • P.G. WODEHOUSE, "Jeeves and the Impending Doom."

    Gory/Gorey Valentine - 2/27/2011

  • EDGAR ALLEN POE, "Shadow - A Parable."

    Heroes - 4/10/2010

  • FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS, "Casabianca" and
  • ALFRED, LORD TENNYSEN, "Ulysses".

    "Dear John"/Lover Letters - 2/12/2010

  • CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Passionate Shepher to His Love,"
  • WALTER RALEIGH, The Nymph's Reply," and
  • EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, "What lips my lips have kissed."

    Disasters - 1/15/2010

  • EDWARD GIBBON, excerpt from Chapter XXVI Part V of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

    The Beat Goes On - 9/5/2009

  • LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, "Sometime During Eternity."