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Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882-1916) is perhaps the most unsung member of Scott’s Terra Nova expedition. Responsible for commanding the ship during the time the shore party was stationed in Antarctica, he was in charge of repairing the vessel and surveying in New Zealand during the winters, and venturing out to resupply the expedition in the spring.

Sarah Airriess, creator of the Worst Journey graphic novel, has a wonderful intro post about Pennell here, which is where I first learned about him—that he was “suspected of being in Love” by Charles “Silas” Wright, and that his intelligence and diligence impressed Henry “Birdie” Bowers. As recorded briefly in Sara Wheeler’s excellent biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Pennell spent some time with Cherry after the expedition, and Cherry was among the ones grieving the most when Pennell went down with his ship in 1916 during the Battle of Jutland. 

Not knowing much more than this, I thought Pennell was handsome and interesting, and so after a leisurely Sunday reading a copy of Frank “Deb” Debenham’s published diaries at the New York Public Library, when I wasn’t quite ready to leave the Terra Nova boys behind, I was delighted to find that the Canterbury Museum of New Zealand had made freely available a PDF scan of Pennell’s private diary covering his years on the expedition. 

I was looking for information about my other favorite members of the expedition, the scientists Debenham, Wright, and Taylor, but I knew I would be happy to find any sort of century-old “tea” of the kind I’d come across in Deb’s diaries (such as his comical dislike of his bunkmate Tryggve Gran). 

Little did I expect I would come across across a love story.

The Expedition Proper

Pennell’s diary, marked “PRIVATE” on the cover, opens in summer 1909. Having just taken his exam in Nautical Astronomy, he was assigned to the HM

American musician

Harry Kim is an American musician born and raised in New York City. He is best known as a member of the Phenix Horns, the celebrated horn section of Earth, Wind and Fire, as well as for his long association with Phil Collins.

Biography

Kim was born and raised in New York City, where he attended the High School for the Performing Arts and prepared for a career as a classical trumpeter. After high school, Kim relocated to Los Angeles where he discovered an interest in the world of funk and jazz. He toured throughout the United States for a few years with various show groups, R&B revues, and big bands, including the Harry James Big Band, before returning to Los Angeles to further his career.

Latin music took a front seat during the disco era, a time when live music was rarely featured in discothèques but was in strong demand by salsa audiences. It was at this time that Kim began working with artists such as Tito Puente and Celia Cruz, and also began honing his arranging skills by writing and performing on many disco productions.

Soon, Kim joined Stevie Wonder's Wonder Love, which opened opportunities to perform and record with artists such as Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, The Four Tops, The Temptations, and Smokey Robinson. He was on stage for the Emmy Award-winning 25th Anniversary of Motown, performing with many of Motown's greatest stars. It was an evening highlighted by Michael Jackson's introduction of his now legendary moonwalk.

In 1985, Kim joined the Phenix Horns, the celebrated horn section of Earth, Wind and Fire. Together they performed with various artists throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Included were two tours in 1987 and 1988 with French icon Michel Berger and vocalist France Gall.

In 1989, Kim participated in the making of P

The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History by Jonathan Horn.  Scribner, 2015.  Cloth, IBSN: 978-1476748566. $28.00.

This is not really a biography of Robert E. Lee so much as it is a series of episodes in his life. Curiously, the episode which the subtitle makes central to our expectations—“His Decision That Changed American History”—actually constitutes only one out of the thirteen chapters of the book. Nor, for that matter, is the theme of the main title—“The Man Who Would Not be Washington”—really a dominant motif. Jonathan Horn, a former speechwriter and adviser in the George W. Bush White House, draws our attention at the beginning to the connection between Lee and George Washington through Lee’s father, “Light-Horse Harry” Lee, and there are from time-to-time reminders of other threads that link Lee and Washington (e.g. that Mary Custis Lee bore an unusual resemblance to Martha Washington, her great-grandmother). But Horn makes no case like that of Richard McCaslin for a Lee who stands self-consciously in the shadow of Washington, the way Lyndon Johnson did of FDR. “Lee’s true struggle to reconcile his actions with the Founding Fathers’ occurred outside the public eye,” Horn writes, and Horn keeps that struggle mostly out of the readers’ eye in this book, as well. “He was not a Washington,” Horn concludes cryptically, “He was a Lee.”

Yet, I am not sure that this is necessarily a fault, no matter how hugely the title misdirects our expectations. Lee certainly enjoyed reflecting on the connections the Revolutionary Lees had with Washington, and even earlier times when the Lees were the great men of Virginia’s Northern Neck and the Washingtons minor landowners. But Robert E. Lee was chary of drawing close parallels between himself and Washington – in fact, the only occasion when he made an identification with Washington explicit was in a letter to Pierre Beauregard after the Civil War had

The Harry Crews Online Bibliography

Brief Biography

By Damon Sauve

Harry Eugene Crews was born on June 7, 1935, in Bacon County, Georgia, to Ray and Myrtice, who worked a desperate and indigent living farming in dirt-poor southern Georgia. Ray died at 35 leaving a farm and a family Myrtice was incapable of sustaining by herself. She remarried shortly after, although that marriage carried hardship of its own. Crews wrote:

My daddy died of a heart attack when I was 21 months old and my brother was 5. Her second marriage was to a man who might have been a good husband had he not been a brutal drunk. ("Mama Pulled the Load Alone" 55) [1]

Young as he was when his mother remarried, Crews grew up calling and thinking of him as his daddy, however belligerent and hostile that home life became.

Crews suffered the first of two debilitating illnesses in 1940 at the age of 5. The first was a fever accompanied by a painful muscle contraction which caused the muscles in his legs to seize, drawing his heels up against the backs of his legs, forcing him to lie in bed for six weeks until the cramps in his legs subsided and he could be carried around the farm. Gradually, Crews's legs straightened enough so he could haul himself along a fence, working and strengthening the atrophied muscles. Later in life, Crews would ascribe the illness as a physiological manifestation of the psychological stress induced by the tumultuous home life.

It was not long after Crews was "well and whole again" (A Childhood 107) that he was strong enough to participate in games with his brother and cousins. In A Childhood, his autobiography, Crews recounts one game called "crack the whip" and one day in particular, told with the bright intensity of one purging, by fire, a memory. On that day, Myrtice had a boiler pot of water set at ground level in which pigs were momentarily dipped to blanch the hair from their skins. When the chain of linked hands was su