River Vices

Wednesday, March 05, 2014

The 1937 Portsmouth Flood: A Narrative of Redemption or of Racism?

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Photo by Lisa Pasquinelli Rickey of Mural by Robert Dafford In the video  River Voices (2002), senior Portsmouth residents who had li...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Valentine for Our New City Manager

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Hey sitty man ’ger, p al o ’ mine ! Won’t you be my valentine? We never new which day was pickup. It was unpredicable as a hic...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Top Ten Posts: 2004-2014

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“If I only had a brain.” Below are the ten River Vices posts, in order of frequency,  that received the most hits in the last ten y...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Bird of Paradise

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Professor Smith glanced out the window of his second floor study, staring at the bleak and icy landscape,  where birds, usually  sma...
Wednesday, November 06, 2013

The Beautiful Cover-up: Black Fridays and Dreamland

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“Needless to say the Wade-Ins are not depicted on the Floodwall, which excludes unflattering events in the city’s history as strictly...

Kevin W. Johnson: The Crooked Conductor

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The crooked conductor on the Twentieth Century Ltd.  As the January 2014 transition deadline approaches for the change in city gov...
Friday, November 01, 2013

Financial Black Mold

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       “We have all been wondering what the heck to do with this building.” KWJ At a meeting of the City Building Committee (20 Nov...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

The First Commandment

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Because councilmen Kevin W. Johnson and Rich Saddler are reportedly trying to get the city to convert the Marting building into a city hal...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Snuffy's Sugjestonions for New Sitty Seal

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                 Official Portsmouth City Seal      which our officious First Ward councilman             Kevin W. Johnson wants to c...
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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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