The Writer's Almanac from Tuesday, February 27, 2007
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The Writer's Almanac from Tuesday, February 27, 2007 "Snow-Flakes" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ORIGINAL TEXT - 2007 ORIGINAL AUDIO - 2007 It's the birthday of novelist and humorist Peter De Vries, born in Chicago, Illinois (1910). His parents were immigrants from Holland, and he grew up in a Dutch section of Chicago. His parents wouldn't let him go to the movies, dance, play cards, attend regular public schools, or do anything else they considered secular. He once said, "My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too."
The Writer's Almanac from Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The Writer's Almanac from Tuesday, February…
The Writer's Almanac from Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The Writer's Almanac from Tuesday, February 27, 2007 "Snow-Flakes" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ORIGINAL TEXT - 2007 ORIGINAL AUDIO - 2007 It's the birthday of novelist and humorist Peter De Vries, born in Chicago, Illinois (1910). His parents were immigrants from Holland, and he grew up in a Dutch section of Chicago. His parents wouldn't let him go to the movies, dance, play cards, attend regular public schools, or do anything else they considered secular. He once said, "My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too."