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September 26, 2021
Where can I buy a Welsh crossbow and take some lessons?
Posted by JD Hull at 09:25 AM | Comments (0)
September 22, 2021
Equinox
PIETER BRUEGHEL THE ELDER
LANDSCAPE WITH THE FALL OF ICARUS
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September 19, 2021
Ozark
Dade County, MO courthouse in 1947. Judge Wm Penn.
“An Ozark reaction is something to see. Don’t do none, won’t be none.”
—Holden Oliver McQuitty Hull, my dog, 2019
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September 18, 2021
Today
Please stay away from DC and Capitol Hill today,
Ok?
Or I’ll come to your house.
And soon.
I mean it.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:28 PM | Comments (0)
September 09, 2021
Human Gargoyles, 1908
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WBAW
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September 08, 2021
Women We Love: Catherine Deneuve
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September 06, 2021
Miami July 1 1950
Happy Labor Day, Big John.
“Best day’s work I ever did was marry your Mom.”
Posted by JD Hull at 11:43 PM | Comments (0)
September 02, 2021
Est.1878
The Cosmos Club
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September 01, 2021
Ozarks Boy Makes Good.
John Daniel Hull, II (1900 - 1988).
Always an honor to write about the Hulls. There is so much to tell. Dad’s four still-living first cousins—after P&G’s Big John D. Hull III died in December 2012— gave me wonderful written records about 9 American generations of German Lutheran Hulls/Holls in Virginia and later Missouri since 1750. To Philly via Rotterdam. I even have the name of the ship and its captain.
Hulls. I know all their names. I have most of their stories. Many inspiring. Some heartbreaking. Some human. I keep writing snippets. Wish sometimes my beloved law practice wasn’t so taxing. I’ve barely started.
Dr. J. Dan Hull was my grandfather. And damn he’s missed.
I spent most of his last 15 or so Thanksgivings southern Missouri with him and my grandmother Alene, who died at 101 in 1998. Dan Hull. Soft spoken. Poised. Elegant. Amazingly accomplished. Author, educator, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations mainstay. DC’s Cosmos Club. Ozark boy who wanted to go to Yale and much more. Degrees from Universities of Chicago and Michigan, too. First American Hull/Holl to my knowledge to attend college.
He could even sing. He dressed elegantly. Spoke slowly. Alene said after he died that he had “the prettiest hands.” He taught me things no one else could teach. Like “beware of the Lilly White, Dan.”
He did it all.
I have his books.
I have his melancholy.
I miss him every day.
More to come on Grandpop.
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