Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Poetic Obituaries: When Dick Ramsdell was 78, he offered

his seven grandchildren laptop computers if they would agree to take a 10-week summer course in poetry, taught by him.

He taught them rhyme and meter and how to analyze poetry. He taught them to write.

"They wrote beautiful poetry. He should have been a teacher," said Mary Baban-Ramsdell, his second wife.

"He was a teacher He just wasn't in a school building."

from The Janesville Gazette: Long life of passion, principle ends at 78

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