Previously on Acton Books:- Doc Davison of Hawesville, Kentucky took involvement in local government too far when he broke into jail to kill an opponent. Still free and harbouring a grudge against another prominent citizen of his little town in Kentucky, he became America’s first suicide bomber. Nature or nurture? The Davison children were no… Continue reading Bad deeds from bad seed
Month: September 2016
America’s first suicide bomber
It’s going to be an intriguing story when the 1860 news report from the Ohio River port town of Hawesville, Kentucky begins “Dr H.A. Davison, it will be remembered, was one of the persons who entered the jail and shot Thomas S. Lowe about a year ago…” First up, murdering Lowe in his cell did not… Continue reading America’s first suicide bomber
Nor any drop to drink
A day does not pass when you do not encounter a millennial drunkard. There he is, shamelessly clutching a container of liquid in public; there she goes, sucking on her bottle in plain sight. They are the water drinkers. They are unlike other animals, which drink when, and only when, they are thirsty. Humankind has… Continue reading Nor any drop to drink
Just a graze…
Once upon a time the uncertainty and certainty of death hung over everybody, everywhere, all the time, as this brief report from the London Evening Standard in 1840 shows…
“colors are the smiles of nature.” – leigh hunt
From the pen of Ann Arbor’s best, I Didn’t have My Glasses On, comes news of interest to lovers of the colour purple who wish to write a poem about it