for those of you who read it, the Huffington Post has also picked up  
one of the stories and has it on today. Sometimes it can take the  
mainstream media days to pick up on things. Except silly things,  
which they seem to run within minutes.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On May 6, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Jurretta Heckscher wrote:

> There is both an obituary, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ 
> content/article/2008/05/05/AR2008050502439.html, and a poignant  
> tribute to Mrs. Loving, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ 
> content/article/2008/05/05/AR2008050502669.html, in today's  
> Washington Post.
>
> And the New York Times has an article at http://www.nytimes.com/ 
> 2008/05/06/us/06loving.html that differs in some particulars from  
> the Post's account.
>
> A widow since 1975, Mrs. Loving was adamantly protective of her  
> privacy.  One hopes, however, that with her passing some skilled  
> historian can now write her and her husband's biography against the  
> full history of the momentous transformation they catalyzed.  They  
> wanted only the most ordinary human happiness, but in pursuing it  
> they earned the lasting gratitude of all Americans. May Mrs.  
> Loving, with her husband, rest in peace.
>
> --Jurretta Heckscher
>
> P.S.  I apologize to the list insofar as I may have contributed to  
> the explosion of heat rather than light on the Jefferson-Hemings  
> matter--which perhaps erupts seasonally, like tree pollen?  I join  
> in the call to turn to other topics, provided an exception be made  
> for Mr. Corneliussen's science-based review of the statistical  
> analysis already on the scholarly record.  That I requested, and  
> that I expect will be worth the attention of anyone not hopelessly  
> fed up with the subject.  Thereafter, surely, we can let the matter  
> drop--at least until the arrival of new scholarly contributions  
> such as Henry Wiencek's book on TJ and his slaves and Annette  
> Gordon-Reed's biography of the Hemings family, due out this fall.
>
>
>
>

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