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‘The Poet of Childhood’: Remembering Eugene Field

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‘The Poet of Childhood’: Remembering Eugene Field
Statue of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod in Washington Park, Denver, here with only two figures shown. The statue was inspired by Eugene Field’s poem for children by that name. Keri S. Hathaway/CC BY-SA 2.5
Jeff Minick
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Most journalism is ephemeral.

The news reports, opinion columns, and commentaries on sports, fashion, health, and dining are brushed aside by tomorrow’s headlines and shifting interests. Here today and gone tomorrow are the usual watchwords in the Fourth Estate.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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