The Village of Stories by Richard Kopley, Edgar Allan Poe scholar at Penn State Many years ago, on a bus in New York City, a little old lady in a babushka stared at me. I looked away, and then back, and she was still staring. I rose to get off, and she stared as I […]
Ernest Hemingway
A 7 year-old eulogy of a friend from first grade
[I miss my friend Lee. Certainly, this posting exists for remembering old friends especially one of my classmates at the Hebrew Academy of Miami Beach where Lee was voted most likely to become Secretary of State. Flamboyantly arrested and taken out of Manhattan’s flagship Brooks Brothers store in handcuffs for embezzlement to support substance abuse, […]
State College, PA – Celebrate Hemingway and the Scholarship that Makes Penn State More Than a Party School
Greatness comes in often curious packages. The greatness I have in mind, as I sit here in my apartment in State College, is Ernest Hemingway, a genius whose link to this area – through a combination of circumstances – is strong. “Hemingway made a difference,” wrote the late Philip Young, of Penn State’s English department. […]