Over the Dakotas

Now over the Dakotas on the way to Portland, second leg of the trip to Honolulu. I'll be happy when this is over -- so I can get a smoke!

Paid Delta $9.95 for the privilege of doing this.

Took off from Binghamton in the snow.

Self-Reliance

We all read it in high school: Emerson's classic essay on Self-Reliance. I used to have a bookmark to a particularly interesting example of this public-domain essay on the web. The URL was http://bellsouthpwp.net/k/e/kerjsmit/self_reliance/self_rel.htm and then later, http://ra.msstate.edu/~kerjsmit/self_rel.htm. Both of those links are now dead.

This was a version of the complete essay annotated by Kerry Smith, who at that time was a librarian at Mississippi State University. I believe he now may be a public school teacher, perhaps in Alabama. His annotated version of Emerson's essay was clearly intended for a high school audience, but is nevertheless a wonderful way to get into the material in some depth.

Therefore, I have resurrected Mr. Smith's version from a copy available at the Internet Archive, meanwhile updating some dead links and a few other doo-dads, and placed it back on line at

http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~brewster/SelfReliance/self-rel.htm