tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post2095753668894551844..comments2024-03-06T11:07:23.753-05:00Comments on Ocracoke Island Journal: Dos Passos & OcracokePhiliphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01572532603071469799noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-86434991345501311032010-06-27T10:29:32.908-04:002010-06-27T10:29:32.908-04:00you're welcome, 13th cousin on my mother and g...you're welcome, 13th cousin on my mother and grandfather's side.<br />wait until february to read it, philip. it's definitely NOT sappy and sugary.<br />have you read peter mathiessen's "shadown country?" now there's a masterpeice.<br /><br />ronAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-18343279632625478872010-06-18T10:27:58.745-04:002010-06-18T10:27:58.745-04:00Ron, Thanks for the suggestion. I've already o...Ron, Thanks for the suggestion. I've already ordered Manhattan Transfer from Books to be Red. I don't read a lot of fiction, but I'll be OK with dark and depressing. In many ways that's more to my liking than sappy and sugary!Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01572532603071469799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-32478106936763984462010-06-18T09:17:22.630-04:002010-06-18T09:17:22.630-04:00i'd recommend manhattan transfer, philip, or t...i'd recommend manhattan transfer, philip, or the first volume of the trilogy usa, but be forewarned: he's kind of dark & depressing.rkostarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-88947853560682443182010-06-13T09:37:41.453-04:002010-06-13T09:37:41.453-04:00It was probably not Corn Liquor they were drinking...It was probably not Corn Liquor they were drinking. Another Dos Passos biographer also refers to his visit to the Outer Banks. He writes, "The evening they left Ocracoke they had a lively time square dancing with several pretty girls and drinking Captain Gaskill's concoction of Grape-Ola mixed with orange extract." There was probably a pleneous supply of Ocracoke Meal Wine as well!Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01572532603071469799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6559692.post-9901014575511245912010-06-13T09:06:07.576-04:002010-06-13T09:06:07.576-04:00I chuckled to read of the drunk overweight Yale gr...I chuckled to read of the drunk overweight Yale graduate researching a Collier's magazine article from a wheel barrow. Corn Liquor on the Outer banks... they must have brought it with them don't cha know.<br /><br />Does that wheel barrow still exist? sounds like the missing bike story .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com