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DEDICATION
eaglesweb.com
poetry for the ear in the tradition of
blind Homer
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DEDICATION: This
literary site is dedicated to the
memory of Mabel Fletcher
Harrison, my English teacher from 1948 to 1952 at the Verda
School in Old Verda,
Louisiana.
Fellow
students once teased me about my voice. Mrs.
Harrison told the class, "He doesn't speak
incorrectly, merely differently: he uses
inflection." (Those were the days of
radio, and I had listened to all the dramas,
comedies and melodramas, and unconsciously
imitated the brogues, accents and idiosyncrasies
of the human voice.) My teacher gave me the
validation to continue the rest of my life in
audio poetry and voice acting. An actress as well,
Mrs. Fletcher taught Shakespeare to us rural
Louisiana farm children with enthusiasm and
devotion. Her history of Grant Parish, co-authored
in 1969 with Lavinia McNeely, is a good resource on the
area and its people.
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