This past weekend [March 8-10] celebrated the 100th year anniversary of the passing of Harriet Tubman. Wreath @ Harriet Tubman's Grave Site, Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, NY Wreath laying ceremony, March 9, 2013 Harriet Tubman Grave Site Lisa Brennan, aaduna visual arts editor, aaduna poet, Cyd Charisse Fulton, and bill berry, aaduna Inc. CEO/aaduna Publisher The Gathering on Saturday, March 9th 2013, Harriet Tubman's Grave Site Original Site, Thompson Memorial AME Zion Church aaduna elected to offer its contribution to the centennial festivities by premiering original poems inspired by Tubman, and written and read by Cyd Charisse Fulton at Thompson Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Auburn, NY on March 10th at 3 PM.  Tubman passed on March 10, 1913 and the public viewed her body a few days later starting at 3 PM at the original site of Thompson Memorial, Parker Street, Auburn, NY.   The Fulton reading attracted close to...

In 1977, with a year's sabbatical leave from the State University of New York at Stony Brook tucked in my briefcase, I decided to live in Toronto, Canada and resided at 77 Wellesley Street off of Yonge Street.  While in that city, I decided to start a greeting card company that would offer offbeat sayings versus the standard dribble that permeated greeting cards with the exception of a company called "Blue Mountain Arts."  I spent my mornings and evenings writing and editing, writing and deleting, writing and getting words and ideas to flow the way that I wanted.  When I returned to the States, the strucure of the company was set up and verses copyrighted.  I eventually sought out and then depended on a graphic artist who never delivered.  Needless to say, I did not publish one card.  I still have the verses.  Interestingly, time has not necessarily eroded the impact of what I perceived to be th...