Vachel Lindsay

Yes.

And his name was Vachel Lindsay, and he was a poet, and that's who my mother named me after.

Yeah.

Vachel Lindsay.

Oh.

It's a twin thing that the names have to rhyme.

So I did wanna let him know that we have had Saputo's, uh, catered in the Dana-Thomas House for an event.

It was a, a reception for the Vachel Lindsay home.

I, actually, I remember the group, uh, that, uh, that hired him as well, so.

And I confirmed it, uh, through a second source-

Philadelphia Orchestra won a Grammy with a Florence Price symphony.

How did Florence Price, Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight wind up on the program? Please tell us about Rachel Lindsay's poem.

That was the inspiration for the piece.

Why was she drawn to it?

Yeah, so Vachel Lindsay is kind of a Lincoln super fan.

Vachel Lindsay was born in the late 1800s and lived, born, lived, died in Springfield, Illinois, so Lincoln's hometown.

So he is immersed in the legacy of a recently deceased Lincoln and walking around Springfield with people who would have known Abraham Lincoln.

in his younger days.

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An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic by Rachel Lindsay, read for LibriVox.org by Cavan S.

Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire.

The salamanders flying forth I cannot but admire.

Oh, how the lances shimmered! How the silvery trumpets blew! End of poem.

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An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic by Rachel Lindsay, read for LibriVox.org by Leanne Howlett.

Sometimes I dip my pen and find the bottle full of fire.

I should like to have the meat and essence of my favorites in permanent form so that wherever I were I could write to the publisher and get a fresh copy.

This thought came with renewed emphasis the other day when I was talking to Vachel Lindsay.

He was saying that he had lately been rereading Swinburne for the first time in nearly twenty years and was grieved to see how the text of the poet had become corrupted in his memory.

He had been misquoting Swinburne for years and years, he said, and the errors had been growing more and more firmly into his mind.

Placebo by David Mason.

The object appeared in the middle of Main Way, about 50 feet from the statue of Vachel Lindsay, and at least 100 from anything else.

It was much too big and complicated to have been hidden anywhere, and it hadn't any wheels, tracks, wings, or other visible means of movement.

Corrigan, looking the object over, decided that it could not have come from any logical place in the world.

The next day, the broken body of the horse was found near the mill dam a mile below the bridge.

It was an experience Amelia never forgot, and in later years she loved to read Vachel Lindsay's poem, The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken of Dancing.

It always reminded her of Nellie.

Amelia greatly admired spirited animals, and perhaps even as a young girl she learned something of her own nature from them.

Now, to tell you the truth, down to the many, many years that I've been broadcasting, to the many, many years in which I have played baseball- There have been, uh, many, many great ballplayers, and I've seen many, many great athletes.

And I would like to say to, I would like to say, or I would like to read a, a stanza, a stanza of Vachel Lindsay's famous poem, The Long Roll.

And this expresses our sentiments for those players who I have played with, whom I've watched for many years as a radio man, and this is my expression as I bow out today, as this is the last day for yours truly.

"And far off I hear the rolling, roaring cheer, and they come to me from many yesterdays.

Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse, edited by Olive Beaupré Miller.

An Explanation of the Grasshopper by Vachel Lindsay.

The grasshopper, the grasshopper, I will explain it to you.

He is the brownie's racehorse, the fairy's kangaroo.