Apr. 9, 1997
Birds Like Basketball Players
Today's Reading: "Birds Like Basketball Players" by Patricia Goedicke from INVISIBLE HORSES, published by Milkweed Editions (1996).
It's the birthday of actor Claude William Dukenfield, W.C. Fields, born in Philadelphia, 1879, who wrote his own epitaph: "On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia."
It was on this day in 1865 that General Robert E. Lee sent an officer with a white towel and a note into the Union lines to announce his surrender to General Ulysses S. Grant.
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