Across Parker Avenue from the fort is the Site of the Old Gallows, where 83 men "stood on nothin', a-lookin' up a rope." The platf...orm had a trap wide enought to "accommodate" 12 men, but half that number was the highest ever reached. On two occasions six miscreants were executed. There were several groups of five, some quartets and trios.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lead bullets flattened by human teeth have been found on the camp site. Soldiers who had been caught stealing food from nearby far...ms customarily chewed on a bullet as the lash was laid on their bare backs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments t...hat pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of ...foreign matter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is only one place for the women who served and that is on the same site with our brother soldiers. These women have touched ...thousands of those names on the wall. We have to be at that spot, physically, spiritually and emotionally.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mediocrity cherishes rules; as for me, I hate them; I feel for them and for every restriction, corporation, caste, hierarchy, leve...l, herd, a loathing which fills my soul, and it is in this respect perhaps that I understand martyrdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we can find a principle to guide us in the handling of the child between nine and eighteen months, we can see that we need to a...llow enough opportunity for handling and investigation of objects to further intellectual development and just enough restriction required for family harmony and for the safety of the child.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a ...human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »