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Albert Ollie Poe (8 July 1931 — 18 May 2019)
photo: Douglas Lees. Albert was the younger brother of the great Melvin Poe and nearly as famous a huntsman. He had a renowned career as Huntsman with the Piedmont Fox Hounds, the Fairfax Hunt, and...
View ArticleLeon Redbone Passed Away
Variety: Singer-songwriter Leon Redbone, who specialized in old-school vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley-style music, died earlier today, his family confirmed. He was 69 — although, in characteristically...
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Norman Stone, 8 March 1941 –19 June 2019
Richard J. Evans, in The Guardian, really unloaded on the conservative historian Norman Stone in an obituary. was character assassination. As a judge of the Fraenkel prize in contemporary history some...
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Remembering Françoise Sagan, 1935-2004, III
Sagan received an appropriately admiring obituary in the Telegraph. Françoise Sagan, who died yesterday aged 69, exploded on to the French literary scene in 1954 with her first novel, Bonjour...
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Harold Bloom, 11 July 1930 — 14 October 2019
Harold Bloom, Yale Sterling Professor of English, author of 40 books, and defender of the Western canon died yesterday at age 89. Some Twitter comments on his death: Michael Kimmerman: Armed with a...
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Nathaniel Holmes Morison III, Virginia Gentleman, d. October 10th, 2019
Nat Morison, heir to Welbourne and uncrowned king of Northern Virginia Horse Country, passed away October 10th, aetatis 83. He was a proud graduate of the University of Virginia who looked...
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Sir Roger Scruton, born February 27 1944, died January 12 2020
I thought the Telegraph did not really do him justice. Sir Roger Scruton, who has died aged 75, was a philosopher and academic variously identified as “one of the nearest things Britain has to a...
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The Legendary Peter Beard
A particularly famous photograph by Peter Beard (characteristically individualized) shows Beard writing in his journal from inside the jaws (of a freshly deceased) crocodile. Apparently, there was a...
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Remembering Peter Beard
Everyone is doing Peter Beard obituaries. Here is a good one by Elsa Cau from Les Grandes Ducs. (translated from the French.) Socialite and partygoer, artist, photographer, friend of all, ladyâ€s man,...
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Jean Raspail, 5 July 1926 — 13 June 2020
Jean Raspail is best known in the United States for The Camp of the Saints (1973), a dystopian novel predicting Europe being overwhelmed by massive Third World immigration. He was philosophically a...
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A Recent Casualty of the Culture Wars
Mike Adams, 1964-2020. Mark Steyn write a tribute to Mike Adams, an apparent recent suicide after being driven from his teaching job at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington by the Woke...
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Elliott Brause 1937-2020
Quality Wine, just to the left of Cutler’s. 1970s or 1980s photo with Broadway under construction. A Yale friend forwarded today the New Haven Independent obituary for Elliot Brause, the genial owner...
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Sir Peregrine Worsthorne (22 December 1923 – 4 October 2020)
For once the Times outdoes the Telegraph in its obituary of a colorful British figure. If you have to die, it’s nice to have so as to be memorialized like Peregrine Worsthorne. It was said of Sir...
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Chuck Yaeger, 1923-2020
Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yaeger, WWII Ace and the pioneering test pilot who became the first man to break the sound barrier passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 97. Yeager was chosen for...
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Rush Limbaugh, 12 January 1951 — 17 February 2021
Melania Trump presented Rush with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Back in 2004, when Ronald Reagan died, his casket was carried in the hearse up the winding Simi Valley roads to his presidential...
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“Adios, Gringo!”— A John McAfee Tribute
From Stephen L. Miller in The Spectator: Underneath the paranoia and craziness of his last years, beneath a persona that took on what felt like a bit of a forced Hank Scorpio world supervillain act,...
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Ari’t Hart 20 October 1934 — 16 July 2021
Ari T. Hart fly reel, 1990, Museum of Modern Art, New York. I have yet to find a published obituary but it was reported that Ari T. Hart, the renowned Dutch designer of modernist fly reels and fly...
View ArticleCharlie Watts 2 June 1941 –- 24 August 2021
Stones drummer Charlie Watts passed away yesterday. Christopher Stanford eulogized him in “An Ode to Charlie Watts, the Politest Man in Rock Music.” (Use Outline.com to get around the paywall.) The...
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Okefenokee Joe ?-2021
MSN: Okefenokee Joe, an 11-and-a-half-foot alligator who is believed to have lived in a Georgia swamp since World War II, has died, officials said. The alligator passed away from old age, the...
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Unknown Alligator ? — 2021
WGNO: NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— Earlier this week the “dumpster gator” became a sensation in Uptown New Orleans on Perrier Street and Upperline Street. The “dumpster gator” shocked neighbors who wondered...
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Angelo Codevilla 25 May 1943– ? September 2021
Angelo Codevilla has apparently been killed in a traffic accident of some kind. Titus Techera published a fitting tribute. One of the great fighting men of American politics has died, Angelo...
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Remembering Harry Reid
A FB Friend’s analysis of career politician HARRY REID’s wealth: “He went to into politics at a young age, did not come from wealth, worked for the government his entire working life and amassed a...
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P.J. O’Rourke 14 November 1947 — 15 February 2022
The great P.J. O’Rourke died yesterday of lung cancer. He was 74. I’m 73. Imagine how I feel. You can read his biography in any of the MSM obituaries. Here is the NYT’s. I suggest reading a few...
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Mark Princi, Yale ’67
The young Mark Princi. Why go to Yale? It’s true that there are in residence a significant representation of grade-grubbing conformists, but that lumpen student body is also leavened by the presence...
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Andrew Sullivan on Queen Elizabeth
Apart from the gratuitous (and blindly partisan) dumping on Trump, Andrew was in his best form, doing a fine job of eulogizing Queen Elizabeth that even we rebellious colonials can appreciate....
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Molliter Ossa Cubent
photo: Karen L. Myers. Hard-riding long-time Thornton Hill huntsman Billy Dodson passed away December 2nd. He showed great sport. Obituary.
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Un Type Pas Ordinaire
Nous sommes des dégourdis, Nous sommes des lascars Des types pas ordinaires. Nous avons souvent notre cafard, Nous sommes des légionnaires. From the Yale Alumni Mag 1974 Class Notes: I have been...
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Remembering Drunken Uncle Mac
Ron Hart penned a terrific obituary. Since my looming family reunion will be the first one without our beloved Druncle Mac, I thought it would be nice to remember him. He died two years ago. It turns...
View ArticleClarence “Frogman” Henry Dead at Age 87
AP: NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Clarence “Frogman” Henry, who was one of New Orleans’ best known old-time R&B singers and scored a hit at age 19 with “Ain’t Got No Home,” has died. He was 87. Henry died...
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