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Floyd Allen
Floyd Allen
Portrait of Floyd Allen
|March 28, 1913(aged 56)
|Criminal status
|Executed by electrocution
|Criminal penalty
Floyd Allen (July 5, 1856 – March 28, 1913) was an American landowner and patriarch of the Allen clan of Carroll County, Virginia. He was convicted and executed for murder in 1913 after a sensational courthouse shootout the previous year that left a judge, prosecutor, sheriff, and two others dead, although the validity of the conviction has been source of debate within Carroll County for decades.[1] Allen, who was before the bar for sentencing after being convicted of taking a prisoner from a deputy sheriff, allegedly triggered the shooting at the Carroll County Courthouse in Hillsville on March 14, 1912.
Early life and activities[edit]
Floyd Allen was born in 1856 and spent much of his life living in Cana, Virginia, located below Fancy Gap Mountain in Carroll County. He was the patriarch of the county's most prominent family, which in addition to owning large tracts of farmland and a prosperous general store, were also active in local politics as proud Southern Democrats.[2] Both Allen and his brother Sidna held legal licenses for the production of alcohol.
Allen was noted for his generosity, but also his quick temper and easily injured pride.[3] He had a history of violent altercations, including shooting a black man in North Carolina, beating a police officer in Mount Airy and later shooting his own cousin.[2] In May 1889, Floyd's brothers, Garlin and Sidna Allen, were tried for carrying concealed pistols and assaulting a group of thirteen men.[4] In July 1889, the Carroll County court indicted Floyd for assault as well, but in December of that year the Commonwealth's Attorney dropped the case.[5] In September 1889, after pleading no contest to the assault, Garlin and Sidna were fined $5 each plus court costs, and the prosecutor dropped the weapons charges.[5]
Judge Robert C. Jackson, an attorney in Roanoke and Judge Thornton Massie's predecessor in the Carroll County courtroom, stated that, "Floyd Allen was perhaps the worst man of the clan – overbearing, vindictive, high tempered, brutal, with no respect for law and little or no regard for human life. During my term of office Floyd Allen was several times charged with violations of law. In several instances he escaped indictment, I am satisfied, because the witnesses were afraid to testify to the facts before the grand jury."[5]
Judge Jackson recalled a trial in 1904 in which Allen was convicted of assaulting a neighbor, Noah Combs.[1][5] Floyd had wanted to buy a farm owned by one of his brothers, but could not agree on a price.[1] Combs wanted the land badly enough to pay the asking price and bought it despite Allen's warnings not to "butt in."[1] Not long afterward, Allen shot and wounded Combs, and was indicted and tried on charges of assault.[1] Sentenced by the jury to an hour in jail and a $100 fine, plus costs, Allen immediately posted bail pending an appeal.[5] His defense team included former Commonwealth's Attorney Walter Tipton and recent County Court Judge Oglesby.[5] At the next term of court, Allen produced a pardon from Governor Andrew J. Montague suspending the jail sentence.[5]
In another instance, while arguing over the administration of their father's estate, Allen got into a gunfight with his own brother, Jasper (Jack), a local constable. In a fusillade of shots, Allen hit Jack in the head, which struck a glancing blow on Jack's scalp, while one of Jack's bullets hit Allen in the chest.[2] His pistol empty, Allen proceeded to beat Jack with the butt of his empty revolver.[2] Sentenced to a $100 fine and one hour in jail for wounding Jack, Floyd refused to go, saying that he "would never spend a minute in jail as long as the blood flowed through his veins".[6] Floyd's body bore the scars of thirteen bullet wounds, five of them inflicted in quarrels with his own family.[7]
Despite their history of violence, the Allens held considerable political power, and Allen had a reputation for courage.[8] In 1908, while serving as special deputies, Allen and a relative, H.C. (Henry) Allen, were charged with unlawful assault upon prisoners held in their custody who had reportedly resisted arrest.[9] On February 1, 1908, the Allens were convicted of the charge and sentenced to ten days in jail and a fine of $10.[10] Only a month later, their petition for executive clemency was granted by Governor Claude A. Swanson, restoring their political rights to hold office.[10]
In 1910 Sidna Allen was tried in the United States court at Greensboro, North Carolina for making twenty-dollar counterfeit coins.[2] The federal court in Greensboro found him not guilty, while Sidna's alleged accomplice, Preston Dickens, was found guilty and sentenced to serve five years in federal prison.[5] Sidna was retried and found guilty of perjury in his trial testimony, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment.[5][11] Sidna promptly appealed and gained a new trial on the perjury charge.[5][11] The next year, after the Allens complained that they could not expect justice from William Foster, the Republican Commonwealth Attorney of the county (who had recently switched parties), Judge Thornton L. Massie had appointed both Floyd and H.C. to the post of police officer for the New River section of the county.[12][13]
However, times were changing: Virginia's judicial structure was altered in a series of legal reforms, particularly the county court system, which was replaced by circuit courts. The new system appointed a full-time judge to hold court at scheduled intervals in a circuit of several counties. While the state legislature still appointed circuit judges, the new system reduced the ability of individual delegates to ensure that their preferred judge was selected for their particular county; furthermore, judges could no longer practice law for private clients while on the bench, and as regional judges their susceptibility to local influence and public opinion was reduced.[5]
Arrest of the Edwards brothers[edit]
One night in December 1910 (some sources[1] say 1911), two of Allen's nephews, Wesley Edwards and Sidna Edwards, attended a corn shucking bee in Hillsville. While there, Wesley kissed a girl who was romantically linked to a local youth, Will Thomas, which led to an altercation between the two young men. At a church service the next morning conducted by Wesley's uncle, Garland Allen, Thomas reportedly called out Wesley into a fight. According to Wesley, Thomas and three friends assaulted him, and he defended himself with the help of his brother Sidna, who rushed to join the fight. Wesley and Sidna were charged with disorderly conduct, assault with a deadly weapon, disturbing a public worship service, and other violations.[14] Rather than face arrest, the two men fled over the state line to North Carolina, where they found jobs in a granite quarry. The deputy clerk of Carroll County, Dexter Goad, obtained a new warrant for the brothers' arrest, notifying the sheriff in Surry County, North Carolina, who soon arrested both men.
A Carroll County deputy sheriff, Thomas F. Samuel, and his driver, Peter Easter, traveled in Easter's four-seater buggy to the state line and received the brothers from Sheriff Haynes and Deputy Oscar Monday, who had arrested the brothers at work.[15] There was only one set of handcuffs, and because Sidna Edwards had tried to escape a couple of times, Wesley was handcuffed in the front seat of the buggy and Sidna was tied in the back seat.[15] On the way to the courthouse, the buggy passed by several properties owned by the Allens.[2]
Floyd Allen met the buggy south of Sidna Allen's home as he was on the way to his own home.[11] Deputy Samuel pulled a gun (later determined to be inoperative) and ordered Floyd to move away, and Floyd rode back past the buggy to Sidna's store where he then blocked the narrow road with his mare.[11] Samuel again pulled his gun on Floyd. A fight ensued and Floyd beat Samuel with his own pistol.[11] Wesley Edwards tried to grapple with Easter, but Easter got away and fired a shot at Floyd as he did so, wounding Floyd in the finger.[11] Floyd then released the Edwards brothers. Easter ran an acquaintance's home, and he telephoned the sheriff at Hillsville.[11]
Deputy Samuel was left lying unconscious in a ditch, and his horses were run off.[16] Floyd Allen later stated that he never intended to have the boys set completely free, he just wanted them to be released from their manacles and treated as humans instead of animals. Some[who?] say that the boys were not only manacled but being dragged behind the buggy.
On the following Monday, Wesley and Sidna Edwards were turned over to the court by Floyd Allen, and the two Edwards brothers were soon tried and convicted of their crimes. Wesley was sentenced to sixty days and his brother thirty, which were served outside jail on work-release.
The Commonwealth's attorney, William Foster had served as Carroll County's prosecutor for eight years, having been first elected on the Democratic ticket. Later, Foster changed to the Republican party, and by 1912 was a prominent leader in the GOP in Carroll County, being elected the last time on the Republican ticket. Foster was a political enemy of the Allens, who had supported Constable Jack Allen's son Walter as Democratic candidate for Commonwealth's Attorney against Foster in the last election (Walter Allen had lost the bitterly fought race).[17]
Foster called upon a grand jury to investigate the escape/pistol-whipping incident. Floyd Allen agreed to testify and admitted 'roughing up' Samuel, but denied intending to release the prisoners: "That there Samuel[s] was abusing the boys. He had them handcuffed and tied up with a rope. I just can't bear to see anyone drug around."[18]
Nonetheless, the grand jury indicted Floyd Allen, Sidna Allen and Barnett Allen for interfering with the deputies, and Floyd Allen was also indicted for assault and battery upon deputy Samuel. Sidna Allen was never tried for his part in the altercation, while Barnett Allen was acquitted at trial.
When Floyd Allen's case was set for trial, rumors arose that he had sent word to Deputy Samuel that he would kill Samuel if the deputy testified against him. Allen later denied this, but the threat, whoever sent it, caused Deputy Samuel to leave the state the same night the threat was delivered.[18]
The rumor that the Allens were intimidating witnesses was called to the attention of the court. Judge Massie called Constable Jack Allen and Floyd Allen (whom he had also deputized about six months earlier) to the bar and proceeded to question them about the alleged intimidation. Jack Allen denied all responsibility for the allegations of intimidation, which he stated were not true and insisted neither he nor Floyd were guilty of any wrongdoing. In response, the judge told the two men that if the law could not be enforced in Carroll County by the county officers (meaning Jack and Floyd) that he would get rid of the officers and bring in state troops if necessary to maintain order. A witness later testified that Floyd Allen had remarked that he "would not let any man talk to me that way."[19]
Trial and shooting[edit]
After close to a year of delays, Floyd was finally brought to trial on March 13, 1912.[20] Judge Thornton L. Massie, who had deputized Floyd six months earlier, presided. Floyd Allen was well represented by a two-attorney team. Both Walter Scott Tipton and David Winton Bolen, were retired Carroll County judges.
Samuel's departure forced Commonwealth's Attorney William M. Foster to rely on testimony from Deputy Easter. The jury could not agree on a verdict immediately as the trial ended, and were sequestered in a local hotel overnight.
Fearful of the Allens' reaction, and having received death threats, many officials of the court armed themselves. At least two of the participants, Judge Massie and Sheriff Webb, had told friends that they expected trouble. Many of Allen clan members spectators in the courtroom, most of them armed with pistols. Sidna Allen and Claud Allen stood on benches in the courtroom's northeast corner to see over the crowd. Friel Allen sat in the back of the room, and the Edwards boys stood on benches next to the north wall. When the jury returned a guilty verdict against Floyd, sentencing him to one year in the penitentiary, Floyd Allen is reported to have said to Judge Massie: "If you sentence me on that verdict, I will kill you."[21] Judge Massie at once proceeded to sentence Floyd to one year's imprisonment.[21]
According to Floyd Allen's defense attorney, David Winton Bolen, "[Floyd] hesitated a moment, and then he arose...He looked to me like a man who was about to say something, and had hardly made up his mind what he was going to say, but as he got straight, he moved off to my left, I would say five or six feet, and he seemed to gain his speech, and he said something like this, 'I just tell you, I ain't a'going.'"[15][22] At this point, shots broke out in the courtroom.
Accounts differ as to who actually fired the first shot. Many accounts claim that Allen initiated the confrontation by pulling a gun in court. In his defense testimony, Floyd Allen stated that Sheriff Lew F. Webb fired first, but that the shot missed Allen, at which point Deputy Clerk Goad, the Clerk of Court, fired and hit Allen, causing him to fall. (When Floyd fell, wounded, he landed on top of his lawyer David Bolen, who is reported to have said, "Floyd, they are going to kill me shooting at you!")[1] Floyd Allen stated that only then did he draw his own revolver and begin shooting. After a fusillade of shots, the Allen clan left the courthouse, armed with both pistols and 12-gauge pump shotguns, and shooting as they ran.
Judge Massie, Sheriff Webb, Commonwealth's Attorney Foster, and the jury foreman (Augustus C. Fowler), were all hit and died of their wounds sustained in the crossfire. More than fifty bullets were later recovered from the shooting scene. Elizabeth Ayers, a 19-year-old subpoenaed witness who had testified against Floyd Allen, was shot in the back while trying to leave the courtroom, and died at home the next day.[23]
Seven others were wounded, including Deputy Clerk Goad and Floyd Allen. Floyd, wounded too badly in the hip, thigh and knee to leave town, instead spent the night in the Elliott Hotel accompanied by his eldest son, Victor, who was later acquitted of involvement in the shootout. Upon his arrest by deputies at the hotel, Floyd attempted to slash his own throat with a pocketknife, but was overpowered before he could complete the job.[24]
Virginia law held that when a sheriff died his deputies lost all legal powers, so the shooting left Carroll County without law enforcement by the shooting. Recognizing the need for immediate action, assistant clerk S. Floyd Landreth sent a telegram to Democratic Governor William Hodges Mann which read:
Send troops to the County of Carroll at once. Mob violence, the court. Commonwealth's Attorney, Sheriff, some jurors and others shot on the conviction of Floyd Allen for a felony. Sheriff and Commonwealth's Attorney dead, court serious. Look after this now.[1]
Governor Mann immediately called on the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to find those responsible for the shootings and arrest them. The Commonwealth of Virginia posted rewards ($1000 for Sidna Allen, $1000 for Sidna Edwards, $800 for Claude Allen, $500 for Friel Allen, and $500 for Wesley Edwards) - dead or alive.[25]
Within a month, all suspected shooters were in custody, except Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards. During the initial manhunt, several posses of detectives and local deputies searched the surrounding countryside. Friel Allen gave himself up to detectives in the company of his father Jack Allen, who worried his son might be killed while being apprehended.
Claud Allen and Sidna Edwards were soon arrested after a brief search. The U.S. Revenue Service had sent Deputy Agent Faddis to investigate reports of illegal liquor trafficking by the Allens.[26] Agent Faddis and four men raided Floyd Allen's property, seizing illegal stills and fifty gallons of moonshine.[26] Two more illegal stills were found at Sidna Edwards' house.[26]
However, Sidna Allen and his nephew Wesley Edwards fled Virginia. After several months' chase, Baldwin-Felts detectives located them in Iowa after an informant's tip. Sidna Allen maintained until the end of his life that this informant was Maude Iroller, Wesley's fiancee, who provided information on the fugitives' location in exchange for $500 from the detective agency. Others state that Miss Iroller's father, who had never approved of his daughter's romance with Wesley Edwards, tipped off the detectives that Maude was going to Des Moines to marry him. Baldwin-Felts detectives traveled to Des Moines, arrested the suspects, and returned them to Carroll County to stand trial.
Trials for the courthouse shooting[edit]
Floyd Allen was the first to be brought to trial on a charge of murdering Judge Massie, Sheriff Webb, and Commonwealth's Attorney Foster. Judge W. R. Staples presided over the courthouse shooting trials, which were prosecuted by Assistant Attorney General Samuel W. Williams and involved attorneys Draper, Landreth, Poage and Wysor.
The prosecutor's case was based on the formation of a conspiracy by the Allens to kill the trial judge, local law enforcement, and others who had wronged them in the event of a guilty verdict. J. E. Kearn, a traveling salesman from Roanoke, testified he sold Sidna Allen a lot of ammunition at the March term of the Hillsville court, specifically 500 each of .32 and .38 caliber pistol cartridges and 500 12-gauge shotgun shells.[27]
The prosecution attempted to show that Floyd and Claud Allen prompted the gun battle by standing and pulling their pistols and opening fire. Former judge David Winton Bolen, who had been present during the shooting as one of Floyd Allen's defense attorneys, was the first witness the prosecution called at Floyd Allen's murder trial. Bolen had been standing next to Floyd Allen, and was facing Judge Massie when the first shots struck the judge's robes. Bolen testified that Claud Allen fired the first shot, and that Claud Allen's pistol shot, together with a second shot fired by Sidna Allen, killed Judge Massie.[28]
Another prosecution witnesses was Floyd Allen's other attorney, Walter S. Tipton. Tipton testified he saw Claud Allen in the courthouse with a pistol raised in both hands as if he had just fired it. During a second glance Tipton again saw Floyd with his pistol raised and held in both hands; he then saw Floyd Allen fire his pistol.[29]
Yet another lawyer who witnessed the shooting, W. A. Daugherty of Pikeville, stated that several young men were standing on court benches at the back of the room firing their pistols "like Custer's cavalrymen at the Little Big Horn".[30]
Deputy Sheriff George W. Edwards, who became the sheriff of Carroll County after Sheriff Webb's death, testified that, as a deputy sheriff at the time, he had spoken with Floyd Allen just after Allen learned of his indictment. Floyd said that Commonwealth's Attorney Foster would not give him a show; but that if he did not there would be a "big hole put in the court house." The next witness was Sidney Towe, who largely corroborated the testimony of Sheriff Edwards. On a different occasion, he heard Floyd Allen make the same threat of putting the biggest hole in the courthouse that any man ever had seen.[31]
On the other hand, Floyd Allen and his relatives claimed that Deputy Clerk Dexter Goad fired first, prompted by a long-standing vendetta he and Foster held against the Allen family. The defense attempted to show that Deputy Clerk Goad shot Elizabeth Ayers in his exchange of fire with the Allens, a charge Goad denied.[32] Years later, an allegation surfaced that Deputy Clerk H. C. Quesinberry confessed on his deathbed to starting the shooting; two men swore an affidavit to that effect in 1967 (for which each man was reportedly paid $25).[1] Others consider that hearsay affidavit, made years after the event transpired, worthless, and that Floyd Allen probably began the shooting.[1] Still others[who?] claim that Sheriff Webb accidentally discharged his own revolver, instigating the fusillade.
In his testimony at his murder trial, Floyd Allen admitted that he had fired at Deputy Clerk H. C. Quesinberry and again twice more at other unknown persons once he had left the courthouse.[33]
Deputy Clerk Dexter Goad admitted firing the second shot at Floyd, striking him in the pelvis. His said he thought Floyd's fumbling with his sweater buttons was a prelude to drawing his pistol. However, Goad denied firing the first shot in the fusillade.[31] Though wounded by four bullets himself, Goad recovered.
S. E. Gardner, a Hillsville undertaker who prepared the body of Sheriff Webb for burial, testified that the Sheriff was shot no less than five times. One bullet entered the back and ranged upward, lodging directly under the collarbone. A second shot entered the back about four inches lower, while a third shot cut the sheriff across the chin. Another entered the body at the cap of the left hip and passed through the abdomen. The last and fifth shot went into the calf of the leg and when his trousers were removed, a .32 caliber bullet was discovered.
Attorney Howard C. Gilmer, of Pulaski, Virginia, was at Hillsville Courthouse in a room adjoining Judge Massie's courtroom when the shooting broke out.[31] Gilmer testified he heard two shots in quick succession, after which there was a slight interval and then a great volley of firing.[31] He also testified that he saw the crowd come out of the court house, and recognized Floyd and Sidna Allen as the last to leave, both of them following and firing as they backed out, apparently in response to fire coming from within the courthouse.[31] Gilmer said he heard Floyd Allen say two or three times, "I am shot, but I got the damn scoundrel."[31]
County Treasurer J. B. Marshall testified that when the shooting started he turned to escape the courthouse. After getting down the steps he leaned against the window of his office when two girls, Dora and Elizabeth Ayers, passed him.[34] He testified that one of the girls pointed out some of the Allens leaving the courthouse, when Sidna Allen came toward him, pointed his pistol toward him, and fired.[34] Marshall then related that Sidna Allen's bullet buried itself in the window about six inches above his head.[34] Marshall also testified he had been standing near Sheriff Webb, but did not see any pistol in the Sheriff's hand.[34]
Another witness, Walter Petty, also testified that the first shots were fired from the courtroom's northeast corner, where Claud Allen was standing. Petty also witnessed a pistol duel between Sidna Allen and Deputy Clerk Dexter Goad.[35]
At Claude Allen's trial for the murder of Commonwealth's Attorney Foster, Judge David W. Bolen was again the prosecution's star witness. Judge Bolen confirmed his prior testimony that he saw Claud Allen fire the first shot at Judge Massie from the courtroom's northeast corner, whereupon Claud advanced toward the court officers to where Commonwealth's Attorney Foster was standing.[36]
For his part, Claud Allen admitted to firing his pistol while in the courtroom.[37] Claud testified that he saw Sidna Allen firing just about the time he saw Deputy Clerk Goad fire.[37]
Victor Allen, whose pistol was used in the courthouse shooting, said he saw Wesley Edwards from outside the courtroom firing a revolver through the courthouse window and over spectators' heads just after the shooting began, and later saw Edwards run from the courthouse together with Sidna Allen. Victor Allen also asserted that Claud's shooting must have done with his gun, since Claud had taken Victor's handgun as the two left their hotel in Hillsville on that morning.[37]
Sidna Edwards testified that he was not armed on the day of the shooting and that he did not like to carry guns.[38] He denied firing a gun during the courthouse shootings, and stated that he did not see who fired the first shot, but thought that it came from the vicinity of Deputy Clerk Goad's desk.[25] Sidna Edwards had scalded his foot some years before and was partially lame, and limped out of the courthouse, riding his mother's horse back to his home.[25]
Sidna Allen denied that he shot Judge Massie, or that he fired at Commonwealth's Attorney Foster, Sheriff Webb, or at Juror Fowler.[39] Allen claimed that when the shooting began, he drew his own revolver and fired five times at Deputy Clerk Goad and Deputy Sheriff Gillespie, because both men were firing at him. After those five shots, he dropped to his knees and reloaded his revolver.[39] Sidna stated that when he left the courthouse, Deputy Clerk Goad followed behind him, shooting him through the left arm, the bullet lodging in his left side.[39] He stated that he fired back at Goad on the courthouse steps, but denied shooting at Treasurer J. B. Marshall.[39] He also said he went to Blankenship's Livery Stable after the incident, where he met other family members and left Hillsville with Claud Allen, Wesley Edwards, and Sidna Edwards.[39] They returned to their homes by traveling cross-country through the farm fields rather than public roads.[39] Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards then left Virginia, eventually reaching Des Moines, Iowa.
Floyd Allen was tried for the first-degree murder of Commonwealth's Attorney Foster. On May 18, 1912, the jury found Floyd Allen guilty. His stoic exterior gone, Floyd Allen wept freely as the verdict was read.[40] In July 1912, after three separate trials, Claud Allen was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of Commonwealth's Attorney Foster, and for second-degree murder for the killing of Judge Massie.[41]
For their roles in the shooting, Floyd and Claude Allen were sentenced to death by electrocution.[42] Allen's death sentence was deeply unpopular with Allen supporters in the county, but many other residents were unsympathetic, surprised by the deaths of so many people over Floyd Allen's refusal to serve a year in prison. Governor Mann, who had received death threats in the same handwriting as the threats previously delivered to the trial judge, had to cut short a trip to Pennsylvania after learning his Lieutenant Governor, James Taylor Ellyson (1847–1919), had attempted to commute the Allens' sentences in his absence, instigating a brief constitutional power struggle between the two men.[7] Governor Mann refused a request to commute the death sentences to life imprisonment, and Floyd Allen was electrocuted on March 28, 1913 at 1:20PM. Eleven minutes later, his son Claud followed Allen to his death in the electric chair.[7]
Sidna Allen pleaded guilty and received a total of 35 years in prison for the voluntary manslaughter of Commonwealth's Attorney Foster, and for second-degree murder of Judge Massie. He also pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for the shooting of Sheriff Webb, and was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment. Wesley Edwards drew nine years for each count of murder for the slaying of Foster, Massie, and Webb for a total of 27 years' imprisonment. Sidna Edwards pleaded guilty in August 1912 to second-degree murder, and was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. Friel Allen was tried in August 1912 and after confessing to shooting prosecutor Foster, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Democratic Governor Elbert Lee Trinkle pardoned Friel Allen and Sidna Edwards in 1922. Governor Harry Flood Byrd in April, 1926 pardoned Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards.[43]
Victor Allen and Barnett Allen were acquitted. Burden "Byrd" Marion, a cousin and neighbor, had all charges against him dropped. Accounts differ as to whether this was for a lack of evidence, or because Marion became a state's witness and admitted his role in aiding the Allens.[44][45] Shortly after the Allen trials, law enforcement officers found a still in an old house on Burden Marion's farm, and he was arrested for making illegal liquor. He was tried in federal court, found guilty, and sentenced to a year in federal prison at Moundsville, West Virginia. He began his sentence in August 1913, and died of pneumonia in prison on November 25, 1913.[46]
The Carroll County prosecutor placed liens on all property owned by Floyd and Sidna Allen for the heirs of the victims.[26] After three wrongful death lawsuits by the victims' estates and survivors, that property was confiscated and sold at auction, forcing Sidna Allen's wife and two small daughters to live in rented quarters and work at menial jobs until Sidna's eventual pardon. Floyd Allen's son, Victor, bought his father's house so that his mother would not have to move. In 1921, however, he moved his family to Tabernacle Township, New Jersey.
Floyd Allen's brother Jasper (Jack) Allen lost his job as constable as a result of the Hillsville shooting, and soon his life. On March 17, 1916, Jack Allen had stopped for the night in a roadhouse near Mt. Airy, North Carolina where he encountered Will McGraw, a moonshine hauler.[15][44][47][48] A dispute arose between McGraw and Jack Allen about the Hillsville tragedy; during the confrontation McGraw drew a gun and shot Allen twice, killing him on the spot.[44][48] Jack Allen was buried near his home in Carroll County, in the presence of a thousand mourners.[48]
List of the dead and wounded[edit]
Cultural impact[edit]
Both Claud and Sidna Allen were the subject of ballads for their actions; Sidna's name was pronounced "Sidney".[49] Virginia State Senator Joseph T. Fitzpatrick reportedly once wrote the screenplay for a film based on the case.
The Sidna Allen House still stands in Fancy Gap, Virginia; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
American football coach Frank Beamer is a grandson of Barnett Allen.[50]
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- ^ a b c d e f Meloney, William B., The Man From Down Yonder, Everybody's Magazine, Vol. 26, January-June 1912, pp. 783-784
- ^ Caudill, Harry M., Slender Is The Thread: Tales From A Country Law Office, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press (1987), ISBN 978-0-8131-1611-2, 081310811X, pp. 78-79: Attorney W.A. Daugherty remembered Floyd Allen as a man of sterling character in the matter of personal honesty, but who could not abide a personal affront: [Floyd] "would kill you in a second over some little matter most people wouldn't remember two minutes."
- ^ Hall, Randall, A Courtroom Massacre: Politics And Public Sentiment In Progressive-era Virginia, Journal of Southern History 70, 1 May 2004, pp. 249-–252
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Hall, Randall, pp. 249–252
- ^ Hall, Ron. "The Carroll County Courthouse Tragedy". The Carroll County Historical Society. Retrieved 2006-08-24.
- ^ a b c Allens Executed; Respite Plan Failed, The New York Times, 29 March 1913
- ^ Caudill, Harry M., Slender Is The Thread: Tales From A Country Law Office, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press (1987), ISBN 978-0-8131-1611-2, 081310811X, p. 74
- ^ Communication From The Governor Of Virginia: List Of Pardons, Commutations, Respites, And Remissions Of Fines, And Reasons Therefor, Senate Document No. V, Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Richmond, VA 12 January 1910, p. 66
- ^ a b Communication From The Governor Of Virginia, p. 66
- ^ a b c d e f g Meloney, William B., The Man From Down Yonder, p. 783-784
- ^ Caudill, Harry M., Slender Is The Thread, p. 74
- ^ Hines, Emilee, It Happened In Virginia, Globe Pequot Press (2001), ISBN 978-0-7627-1166-6, p. 84
- ^ Last Of Allen Clan Is Killed, The New York Times, 19 March 1916
- ^ a b c d Hall, Randall, A Courtroom Massacre: Politics and Public Sentiment in Progressive-Era Virginia, Journal of Southern History 70 (May 2004), pp. 249–292
- ^ Meloney, William B., The Man From Down Yonder, p. 783-784
- ^ Meloney, William B., The Man From Down Yonder, Everybody's Magazine, Vol. 26, January–June 1912, p. 783-784: In the aftermath of the race, Floyd Allen claimed it had been told to him that Foster had said the whole Allen clan "ought to be killed", an allegation Foster denied. Allen told Foster he couldn't prove Foster made the statement, "but if it could, I'd blow your brains out where you stand."
- ^ a b Meloney, William B., The Man From Down Yonder, Everybody's Magazine, Vol. 26, January–June 1912, p. 788
- ^ Allen Boys Tell Of Shooting, The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 11 May 1912
- ^ Wiley, Edwin. The Allens of Fancy Gap. Lulu Press, 2011, p. 228.
- ^ a b "Judge T.L. Massie and Two Court Officers Murdered By Allen Gang at Hillsville", The Roanoke Times, 15 March 1912
- ^ "One Caught; Allen Gang Will Give Up", The New York Times, 23 March 1912: In contrast to Attorney Bolen's version of Floyd's reaction to the sentence, Sidna Edwards stated that his uncle Floyd "jumped up" after hearing the sentence, and appeared considerably agitated.
- ^ "Floyd Allen Defense Gets Well Into Case", Bluefield, W. Va.: The Bluefield Telegraph, 9 May 1912: Solomon Ayers, a cousin of Elizabeth Ayers, testified that Elizabeth was shot through the back above the waistline and the bullet ranged upward and exited her right breast.
- ^ "Two More Dead in Allen Feud", The New York Times, 16 March 1912
- ^ a b c "One Caught; Allen Gang Will Give Up", The New York Times, 23 March 1912
- ^ a b c d "Posse On Night Ride To Surround Allens", The New York Times, 20 March 1912
- ^ "Accuses Dexter Goad Of Shooting Betty Ayers", The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia: 20 November 1912
- ^ "Claude Allen First To Fire At Hillsville", The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia, 3 May 1912
- ^ "Saw Allen In Act Of Firing", The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia, 28 May 1912
- ^ Caudill, Harry M., Slender Is The Thread: Tales From A Country Law Office, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press (1987), ISBN 978-0-8131-1611-2, 081310811X, p. 78
- ^ a b c d e f "Prosecution Tries To Show A Conspiracy", The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia, 4 May 1912
- ^ "Accuses Dexter Goad Of Shooting Betty Ayers", The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia, 20 November 1912
- ^ "Sheriff Fired First, Says Floyd Allen", The New York Times, 12 May 1912
- ^ a b c d "Floyd Allen Defense Gets Well Into Case", Bluefield, West Virginia: The Bluefield Telegraph, 9 May 1912
- ^ "Defense Continues Efforts To Disprove Conspiracy", The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia, 10 May 1912
- ^ "Saw Claude Allen Fire First At Judge Massie", The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia, 4 July 1912
- ^ a b c "Allen Boys Tell Of Shooting", Bluefield, West Virginia: The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 11 May 1912
- ^ "One Caught; Allen Gang Will Give Up", The New York Times, 23 March 1912: Edward's uncle, Jasper (Jack) Allen, insisted that Sidna Edwards was afraid of guns.
- ^ a b c d e f "State Closes Case In Sidna Allen Trial", The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia, 7 December 1912
- ^ "Floyd Allen Must Die", Beckley, W. Va: The Raleigh Herald, 24 May 1912
- ^ "Claude Allen Convicted: He Is Found Guilty of Murdering Commonwealth's Attorney Foster", The New York Times, 28 July 1912
- ^ "Floyd Allen Must Pay Death Penalty", The New York Times, 18 May 1912
- ^ Conley, Jerry. "The Carroll County Courthouse Tragedy". Archived from the original on October 26, 2009. Retrieved 2006-08-24.
- ^ a b c '"Last Of Allen Clan Is Killed", The New York Times, 19 March 1916
- ^ Colby, Frank M. (ed.), North Carolina: Politics and Government, The New International Yearbook, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. (1917), p. 495
- ^ Some sources claim that Burden Marion was found beaten to death in his cell.
- ^ Information Annual 1916, New York: Cumulative Digest Corp. (1917), p. 6
- ^ a b c Little Creek: Local News, Clinch Valley News, 24 March 1916
- ^ "Allen Family Songs". Blue Ridge Institute & Museum. Retrieved 2006-08-24.
- ^ "Tempered Steel: How Frank Beamer Got That Way - TheRoanoker.com". theroanoker.com. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
- Biography in John T. Kneebone et al., eds., Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 1998- ), 1:78-82. ISBN 978-0-88490-189-1
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- Allen Trial: 1912 - Virginia Tries Floyd Allen For Murder
- "Mug Shot Monday Special Edition: Floyd and Claude Allen", at Out of the Box: Notes from the Archives at the Library of Virginia
- "100 Years Ago - Law and Disorder", at Fit to Print: Dispatches from the Virginia Newspaper Project at the Library of Virginia
- The Washington Times March 17, 1912
- Reward poster for the Allens 1912
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How To Survive The Tough Times
What do you do when you find yourself over your depth in tough times? When something is going completely wrong, and you simply can't see an end to it? My simplest answer for how to survive those tough times is to remember the saying "This Too Shall Pass!". It is a very simple, yet very powerful proverb that has a number of meanings wrapped up 4 short words.
This Too Shall Pass – So where did it come from?
"If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same"
The saying was also used in 1852, in a retelling of the fable, entitled "Solomon's Seal", by the English poet Edward Fitzgerald. In it, a sultan requests of King Solomon a sentence that would always be true in good times or bad; Solomon responds, "This too will pass away".
On September 30, 1859, Abraham Lincoln told a similar story:
In the end the proverb simply means that all material conditions, whether good or bad, are transient. It is meant to give us the realisation that both the 'best and worst of times' will soon pass. It challenges us to accept that ultimately change is the one constant in the universe and as Rudyard Kipling said in his poem "If";
"If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same"
So there is an incredibly important flip-side to this saying – "This Too Shall Pass", whatever is going right will not last forever. This is the funny thing about human nature – it doesn't seam to matter whether we are in good times or bad, we become extremely short sighted. We may feel the bad times will never end, but then when the good times roll around (and they will) we act like they too will never end.
One of the best examples I know are weddings! If you ask a married couple about their wedding day the answers I'm sure will surprise you. They will mostly range from "wow, I can't really remember, it went by like a blur", to remembering Aunt Sally's bad behaviour! How can this be? One of the most important days of our adult lives and we don't remember that moment of saying to our loved one, I want to be with you forever? We have simply not understood – this too shall pass.
A mentor of mine once said you must always celebrate the successes, no matter how small. And yet do you know how hard that is to implement? I see this in business all the time. We set our wonderful Vision and Mission statements and from them some amazing goals to strive for. We rally the troops and do whatever it takes to make certain we achieve our goals and live our Vision. But then we simply move from task to task, and goal to goal, and never stop to acknowledge what has actually been achieved.
Just imagine how many times you have achieved a goal or a big win, only to move straight onto the next thing. You allowed whatever negative element catching your attention to overshadow the hard work and achievement.
This Too Shall Pass – Making it work for you
Break The Cycle
Focus On The Good – Knowing The End Is In Sight
How Do You Want Things To Be?
Celebrate The Wins
Don't get Carried Away With the Good Times
Live in the Moment
Keep A Journal
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Hayley Whyte on January 13, 2019 at 12:51 pm
Your words are powerful. If only I had read them when I was younger.
Chris on January 13, 2019 at 8:48 pm
Yes you are so correct if only we knew what we should have known 30 years ago we would have all done things differently but we only learn by making mistakes and learning from them, it takes people to understand that we are not all perfect and forgiveness is a big player in the process, love has a big part in it all and we need to communicate with one another in the correct way , yes mate your words are very healing and I think you have great things to share
Jennie Edmondson on January 30, 2019 at 5:55 pm
Love this blog Steve, so much to be gained from such a simple thought process. Life is pretty challenging at the mo, so I'm holding on to this 🙂 . x
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Lie on your side with your knees bent to 90 degrees. Keep your thighs in line with your body.
Place your top hand at the back of your top buttock. This is important, as you'll use your hand to stop any movement of your pelvis.
Gently pull in the lower stomach muscle (inner core) the smallest amount you can.
Raise your top knee off the lower knee. Use your hand on the back of your buttock to push and keep your pelvis still.
Any backward movement of the pelvis/buttock means that the gluteus medius (Marvelous muscle) isn't working and, believe me, your body will try its best to get other muscles involved!
Try to raise the knee as much as possible whilst keeping the pelvis forwards.
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Liverpool welcome former boss Roy Hodgson back to Anfield when they take on West Brom on Sunday afternoon.
The Reds will be looking to climb back above Mersey rivals Everton, who drew 4-4 with Man Utd at Old Trafford in the early Sunday kick off.
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02 February 2017
Fiona Dyball loves to hear the 1400 boys at Marcellin College belt out the school's song, Sub Tuum, the oldest known song to Mary, with enthusiasm and camaraderie. The image of a school full of adolescent boys lifting the roof singing a song about Mary is a little counter-cultural. But Fiona says the students 'get it' and that's what matters. Without faith and prayer life, none of the trimmings matter.
The Marist commitment to live Catholic values is what attracted Fiona Dyball to become the Director of Music at Marcellin . She had previously studied a Masters of Theological Studies at Boston College, majoring in liturgy, for two years. That dynamic, formative experience and has further fuelled her desire to support young people in their faith journey.
'A lot of schools do great mission outreach work, but at Marcellin it is about faith, and the mission and action flow from that grounding in prayer', says Fiona, who this year went on secondment to the Marist National Formation Team.
'Mass here on Thursday is the heart of the week.'
Fiona believes young people are 'thirsty' for a spiritual life, one connected to God. They may not express it in the way their parents or grandparents did, but their yearning is just as real. The challenge is how to create nourishing spaces and opportunities for young people to work out what they believe. Fiona believes schools can offer deeper meaning to students through prayer: a gift that will hold them throughout their lives. That's how it all started for Fiona, in a family where music, prayer and living justly were 'seamless'.
'My parents were remarkable when I think about how they lived and raised us. They were faithful, prayerful, joyful, and practical. We were always cooking for someone who was sick and praying for them at night. And in the midst of this we were surrounded by beautiful music and vibrant community', she says of her childhood in Albury.
As a musician, she understands the tension between a quality performance and a community gathering to praise God through song. She selects music with young people that resonates with them and that also invites communal singing, such as the chants from the Taizé community in France.
Another music and faith focus for Fiona is her work with the Youth Engagement Project, involving young people from several schools and parishes in Melbourne's east. It involves monthly youth-led Masses and outreach work. It ticks the boxes for Fiona because it allows the young people to plan the liturgy after reflecting on the scriptures of the day.
'This creates a great space for young people to be mentored into planning liturgy that is meaningful to them, while also remaining faithful to the liturgy', Fiona says. 'It brings liturgy to life.'
One of the many highlights of Fiona's time in the US was a Summer School subject at St John's University, Minnesota with renowned theologian, Dr Don Saliers. Don is also the father of Emily Saliers, member of the 1980s band, The Indigo Girls, and this certainly enhanced the experience. But even more important was Don's attitude to music in the liturgy. Don told his students that a person's favourite hymn shows their picture of God. He also said that 'music weaves a garland around the voice of the assembly'.
It's an image that inspires Fiona, as does the knowledge that music is a deep, lasting memory within us, drawing forth the sacred in people of all ages, both young and old.
*Correction: An earlier version of this article stated that Fiona finished up at Marcellin College last year. She is in fact on secondment for two years to the Marist Formation Team, and is due to return to the school in 2019.
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Before the event, Iron sharpens Iron, I want to do small biographies of different pastors so that you can know them a little better before the conference.
Today I want to present Hector Hermosillo (although I assume most people already know him). Hector is currently the Pastor of a church in Anaheim called Seed Eastside and he also leads club driver 700 bond. He is also the founder of Mustard Seed movement and has been a dear friend for many years.
The awesome thing about Hector is the faith that God has given him. The Mustard Seed started in Mexico City and Cuernavaca, and after being there 7 years and already having two strong and well-established churches, God called him to Chicago to start a Hispanic church in Willow Creek. After being there seven years God called him to California to start a congregation again from scratch. What blesses me so much about Pastor Hector is that anyone could choose to stay on the safe side, but he decided to follow the steps of Paul and start churches and establish leaders in these churches so that he can go to other places to start more churches. And the results have been wonderful, God has raised up pastors such as Jaime Foote and Fermin IV by Hector taking steps of faith.
Hector will be sharing his testimony and leading worship on Friday afternoon and on Saturday morning he will deliver a lecture entitled redefining masculinity. See you August 29th and 30th!
Jonathan Domingo
I want you to imagine living in the United States 40 years ago as a Hispanic, 18 years living in the Hippie California culture. The masses would go to this place to experiment with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Interestingly, at the same time there was a revival that became known as the Jesus movement that was led by Chuck Smith. There was an extraordinary expansion among Caucasian Americans in California through the Calvary Chapel movement, people like Raul Ries, Pancho Juarez, Fausto Pflucker were used by God to reach the Hispanic culture. And the first person who started a Hispanic Calvary Chapel was Fausto Pflucker and this was about 35 years ago.
Besides pastoring a Hispanic church in California, he travels extensively to support pastors across Latin America and has been a family friend for 35 years and personally is a very close friend (He gave me premarital counseling before marrying Evelyn and he was the master of ceremonies at my wedding). Fausto has already come to Horizonte several times and is always a HUGE blessing. He will be teaching about the importance of loving the church.
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Chris Martinez is a pastor and missionary who has been working in Tijuana for about 20 years. He started a church in a colony called Pedregales and more recently began another in Zona Rio (Near the border crossing). In the past we have invited him to various mens events for two reasons;
the first, he is an excellent teacher of the word, he has a natural ability to teach the Bible, not like a classroom, but as a friend you are talking with regarding something he's passionate about.
And second, I think we as men pay little attention to the outward appearance but it is not so, it is normal for a man to compare himself to another man and in terms of size, strength, or something of that nature. Chris Martinez is physically imposing, and that helps us as men to realize that Christianity is not something for those who are not very masculine, but even the most masculine man needs to humble himself and follow Jesus Christ.
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Finance: Stock market quotes, news, currency conversions & more Washington Post - 19 hours ago BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Walmart's newest tactic in its fight against online giant Amazon: enlisting its employees to deliver online orders on their way home from work. Forbes - 2 hours ago If you want to understand human nature at work, start with a doughnut.
Roman economy Total GDP around 1 AD for various regions of the Roman Empire[1] The history of the Roman economy covers the period of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Recent research has led to a positive reevaluation of the size and sophistication of the Roman economy. [2] Gross domestic product[edit] All cited economic historians stress the point that any estimate can only be regarded as a rough approximation to the realities of the ancient economy, given the general paucity of surviving pertinent data. Raymond W. Goldsmith Raymond W. Goldsmith (1904 – July 12, 1988, Hamden, Connecticut) was an American economist specialising in historical data on national income, saving, financial intermediation, and financial assets and liabilities. Goldsmith was born in Germany to a family of Jewish ancestry, and grew up in Frankfurt. After finishing secondary school, he worked in a bank for a yeear that include the German hyperinflation of 1923.
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Weird Harold was a vampire who lived on Earth from some time before the 1900s to 1997.
At some time before 1906, he buried himself beneath San Francisco to enter a healing trance. When he awoke, he found himself trapped, as a building had been built on top of him. Over time, he went mad from hunger. He was only able to escape in 1906 when an earthquake rocked San Francisco.
When Sam Jones and the Eighth Doctor were in San Francisco in 1997, he attacked Sam, feeding on her and practically chewing into her neck. Sam later killed Harold with a syringe of vampire repellent. (PROSE: Vampire Science)
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Purple Tuesday - How the Uk's First Accessible Shopping Day Strived to Make an Everlasting Change
Purple Tuesday took place this month, on the 13th of November. It was the UK's first accessible shopping day but aimed to be a year-round initiative.
Nearly one in every five people in the UK has a disability or impairment, and early this year, a report estimated their collective spending power - the Purple Pound - to be a staggering £249 billion a year! However, this potential is not being fully explored and there are still many barriers that make it difficult for disabled people to spend money online and in store.
Purple Tuesday aimed to make retailers aware of the importance and needs of consumers with disabilities and to promote inclusive shopping.
The initiative provided organisations that signed up with a training kit to help their staff feel confident in assisting disabled consumers, and was backed by 700 businesses and organisations, including major players such as Asda, Barclays, Argos, Marks & Spencer and The Crown Estate.
As well as supporting and promoting Purple Tuesday, every organisation that signed up had to make at least one long-term commitment to improve the experience for disabled shoppers.
The day brought together businesses, organisations, staff and disabled people for a common cause - to increase the accessibility of the retail sector, which is sure to benefit disabled people and retailers alike.
If you didn't join Purple Tuesday but are now thinking of how you can adapt your retail business to improve the experience of disabled shoppers, here are five measures you can take today:
- Consider all types of disabilities - Disabilities come in all shapes and forms, and what helps with some will not help with others. It's important to take into consideration different types of disabilities and to respond in the best way possible to each individual's needs.
- Adjust lighting and noise - Fluorescent lighting, booming music and crows can be tough if you have a condition such as autism. Creating quiet zones and softening lights could make a huge difference.
- Add seats - Shopping can be notoriously exhausting if you have a chronic illness. Extra seating and chairs in changing rooms can help tremendously with this.
- Make sure you're wheelchair-friendly - Simple things such as making sure all shoppers can enter and navigate the shop and it has accessible changing rooms would make a significant difference.
- Offer real-time assistance - Shopping can be stressful for disabled people, but stores can easily remove some of the stress by being helpful and eager to answer to the needs of disabled shoppers in real time.


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Sunday teaching
On Sunday afternoons I minister/share from within at an online church called: Awakening together: This link will give you information about it.
I have been doing this since approximately 2007.
I speak on Sundays from 3pm to 4pm Pacific time — 6 pm eastern time. Currently I am speaking on the Brain Tumor Chronicles. Usually post something about this
On FB homepage on Sunday mornings.
If you cannot make it on Sundays, all sessions are recorded and then posted as free audios under the "audio library" section.
I can be listened to through radio or through joining the pal talk room
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Don't get me wrong, I am very satisfied about my WP7 device. But the first time connecting it via WMDC (Windows Mobile Device Center) was a bit disappointing:
Just wanted to install WP7 updates … Plug&Pray …
See also:
- https://hfrmobile.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/first-steps-with-a-real-windows-phone-7/
- http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/winphone/forum/wp7-sync/windows-seven-phone-not-recognized-as-a-phone-by/8c3f1391-604c-4e16-843b-af03d3740157
- Windows Mobile <—> WMDC
- Windows Phone <—> Zune (syncing of contacts, calendar, e-mail etc. only via cloud, Zune only syncs media content like Images and Videos)
Installing Zune
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Readers, one of the requirements of Goddard's program is to read at least 45 books, and then write three-page annotations over them. During the final semester, the student picks fifteen or twenty of the books that had the most impact on the student's work or perception and completes an annotated bibliography (separate from the general bibliography, which contains all books the student has read during the program, but does not have any expansion or description). When I was working on mine, I Googled those of other students to find examples. I thought I'd add mine to the mix in case any future students do the same thing. You can also take anything on my annotated bibliography to be recommended reading. Enjoy!
Finney, Nikky. Head Off & Split: Poems. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2011.
Nikky Finney's poetry contains socially-centered content that ranges from an examination of the treatment of Hurricane Katrina victims to a description of the speaker's experience of eating fish that was chewed and then fed to her by her mother. This book showed me that poetry can be "activist" without being preachy. I also enjoyed seeing how one concept or word could be woven throughout a poem to sew it together, and I began experimenting along similar lines in my own work. Hearing Nikky describe her "paleontology" of poetry construction at the residency and then seeing her strategy actually applied in this book has been helpful in keeping me from "writing the same poem twice."
Hillman, Brenda. Death Tractates. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 1992.
Hillman begins this book struggling to accept her friend's absence. She eventually comes to believe that her friend can see into her world even if she cannot see into that of her friend, and thus they are not truly that separated. Her bright, clear writing style, hopeful in the darkest places and full of nuance, is something toward which I strive consciously in my manuscript, particularly in the nature poems. Hillman's work makes clear the way that tone can be set through the connotations of words. She demonstrates the importance of specificity.
Hirsch, Edward. Wild Gratitude. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2003.
Wild Gratitude is divided into four sections that tie together into a complete, comprehensive manuscript that follows a definite arc from despair to hope. Analyzing this arc, because it is so subtly crafted, allowed me to better refine the organization of my creative thesis after I had already organized it roughly along the lines of the Maginnes book I also annotated. It was also a good example for me of metaphor and subtext, and I understood that subtext has to work throughout an entire poem to be pleasing and authentic.
Hugo, Richard. Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo. New York: Norton, 1991.
Making Certain it Goes On moves from early, relatively general musings upon ocean landscapes and seabirds to Hugo's experiences during the war and beyond, ultimately exploring his hometown, his actions, and his relationships intimately and honestly. Because my manuscript deals largely with where I'm from, I found his treatment of place to be especially helpful. It showed me how to deal with the subject of "home" in a way that is balanced, acknowledging the good and the bad.
Maginnes, Al. Inventing Constellations. Cincinnati, OH: Cherry Grove, 2012.
In Inventing Constellations, Al Maginnes takes the reader on a journey from the inexperience and beauty of youth to the irrevocability and resolution of death. Besides providing a good example of the narrative, conversational, personal, yet accessible style toward which I strive, I found the organization of this book to be a helpful example of how I am seeking to arrange my own thesis.
Neruda, Pablo, Ferris Cook, and Kenneth Krabbenhoft. Odes to Common Things. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.
Neruda's Odes to Common Things discovers and expresses the significance and human-like characteristics that everyday household objects possess, lending then beauty and importance. It showed me that nothing is wrong with describing ordinary items— from apples to spiders— in a way that emphasizes their significance and "personalities," no matter how trivial they seem. Studying Neruda's knack of personification without "cuteness" helped me see how to balance a whimsical idea with plain speech.
Olds, Sharon. The Wellspring. New York: Knopf, 1996.
Within The Wellspring, Sharon Olds discusses many of the most transformative phases of the life cycle—from birth, to adolescence, to adulthood and parenthood—with a deep, sometimes humorous, sometimes aching love. The honest, unafraid, and meaningful exploration of the closest human relationships caused me to consider how to treat my relationships in my work, particularly the family relationships.
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel. New York: Perennial Classics, 1999.
The work in Plath's final manuscript has a raw, insistent quality that is nonetheless beautiful as it explores the darkness inherent even in relationships and familiar landscapes. Her fearlessness astounded me, and the intensity of her work is what I began to strive for early in my Goddard experience. Her use of archetypes also caused me to consider the archetypes appearing in my own poetry, and why I use them.
Plath, Sylvia. Crossing the Water. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
The book appropriately forms a bridge between the earlier, less personal work in Colossus and the sharper, more tragic poetry of Ariel. The poetry as such displays the strengthening use of Plath's imagery and methodology, clearly showing her maturing style. Seeing the difference between this book and Ariel encouraged me to strive to crystallize my work to the same extent.
Rankine, Claudia. Don't Let Me Be Lonely. Saint Paul, MN.: Graywolf Press, 2004.
Rankine's book calls itself "an American lyric." It is the author's exploration of world events, politics, technology, sickness, and science. Her refreshingly unapologetic voice aptly describes modern life in the United States. I hadn't been exposed to this sort of writing before and I found its expansiveness and use of visuals widened the room I had to explore in my poetry, so I felt my boundaries loosen, even though I did not use the format myself. I also started to consider the speaker in my work more closely, and how that speaker presents herself.
Rexroth, K., and L. Zhong. Women Poets of China: Orchid Boat. New York: W. W. Norton Limited, 1972.
Despite being written throughout a wide timeframe in many situations, the poetry in this book almost always regards love in some way. The speakers in the poems seem both strongly grounded with nature and exceptionally tied to the men in their lives. The quiet strength of the voices demonstrated to me that simplicity could sometimes be used to striking advantage. And that there is no shame in speaking unabashedly of one's realities.
Spahr, Juliana. This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
This book is Juliana Spahr's response to the political and social situations which occurred after the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. I had not realized something so controversial could be treated with such love. I realized that I could tie my poetry to specific events through which I had lived. This book also made me realize the importance of white space and line endings— how a poem's structure has even a physical effect on the reader, influencing breath.
Szymborska, Wislawa, Stanislaw Baralczak, and Clare Cavanagh. View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems. New York: Harcourt Brace and Co, 1995.
The work of Wislawa Szymborska dances with wit, irony, and surprising conclusions that
somehow also manage to be relatable to readers from many backgrounds. I was exposed to this book early in my Goddard career and feel it may be the first contemporary poetry book I read in which the material was completely accessible but still wholly intelligent. This is another book which I hold up as a model for what I have hoped to achieve, particularly its sort of confidence and awareness.
Turner, Brian. Here, Bullet. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2005.
The calmly stated details of what happens before, during, and after violent events make Turner's poetry believable, despite sections that would likely seem heavy-handed if they came from another writer. This book showed me that sometimes maturity of style may be acceptably sacrificed for authenticity of voice— that sometimes rawness actually adds to a poem's power, and can be used as a tool.
Young, Dean. Fall Higher. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2012.
Young's work, while it often seems random in its imagery and conclusions, nonetheless possesses an energy and a confidence that come across as a sort of exaltation of existence, an embrace of the good, the bad, and the circumstantial. I strive to attain a similar vivacity in my manuscript— like Young, making the work sensory, with an artistic quality akin to that in paintings, to add to its impact on my reader.


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Strained budgets due to higher prices for basic commodities are driving people back into their homes: 72 percent spend a good deal of time at home.
Houston, TX (PRWEB) March 12, 2009
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