River Vices

Saturday, September 23, 2006

Portsmouth and Chillicothe: Twin Cities?

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     Portsmouth and Chillicothe have a number of similarities. Both are medium-sized cities with about the same populations (in 2000, P...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Political Puppets of Portsmouth

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Portsmouth Political Puppets, 1980: Not much has changed. Though I am still involved with another web project, I want to take a break and...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Au Revoir, River Vices

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July 29th , 2006, marks the second anniversary of River Vices . When I began River Vices , I committed myself to a two-year hitch. Now t...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

Tips for Private Tussie

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What tips, if any, about Portsmouth's problems can be derived from Jesse Stuart's Taps for Private Tussie, a novel about Kentuc...
Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Hoggville: A Fable

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Superhero Pig Iron Harrison Hogg, a Kentuckian who had moved to Cincinnati, was given a thousand acres by the government after the Revolutio...
Sunday, July 02, 2006

Unrepresentative Government

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U.S. Constitution For several pressing reasons, citizens of Portsmouth recently proposed that the terms for city council members be reduced ...
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Robert Forrey
Retired now, I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, hold B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from Wesleyan U. (Conn.) and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale, where I was a Research Associate at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and a coordinator of a committee that organized international American Studies conferences during the American Bicentennial. From 1989-2006, I taught English at Shawnee State U., in Portsmouth, Ohio, where I was active in the faculty union, the Shawnee Education Association, serving four terms as president. I also served as faculty advisor to the student gay and lesbian group. I have served also as president of the Concerned Citizens of Portmouth and Scioto County, a community action group. My scholarly interests have focused on the American Dream: the Myth and the Realities. I can be reached at rforr1@roadrunner.com A selection of my poems can be found at http://xpalidosis.blogspot.com The original contents of all blogs on this site are copyrighted @.
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