3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30:: DAY 4 :: LAURA HENRIKSEN on HELEN ADAM (1909-1993)
[Editor's note: I've loved Helen Adam ever since I heard an excerpt of the above, her "Cheerless Junkie's Song," podcast back in 2007. I was happy to find this rare video footage of her singing the song on the
NEW SERIES ANNOUCEMENT :: [RE:CON]VERSATIONS
reconnaissance (n.) 1810, from French reconnaissance "act of surveying," literally "recognition," from Old French reconoissance (see recognizance). U.S. military abbreviation recon is attested from 1918. conversation (n.) mid-14c., "living together, having dealings with others," also "manner of conducting oneself in the world;" from Old French conversation, from Latin conversationem(nominative conversatio) "act of living
