Eulogy on Our Martyred Chief Magistrate James A. Garfield Respectfully Dedicated to His Family 1888 city_olympia its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered with

its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered with the solemnity of a guild that knew its labor moved the republic's freight before the republic knew it needed moving

freshly conjured from Leverrier's mathematics

the date itself is a kind of elegy

and the Belle Isle bridge — postcards mailed from the Motor City when assembly lines were new and the Detroit River carried freighters down from the Lakes in steady

Cape Canaveral Iron Sentinel the Keepers Spiral Ascent traces the cast-iron plate tower that has watched the Florida surf since 1868

Eulogy on Our Martyred Chief Magistrate James A. Garfield Respectfully Dedicated to His Family 1888 city_olympia its rope-and-anchor heraldry rendered withEulogy on Our Martyred Chief Magistrate James A. Garfield Respectfully Dedicated to His Family 1888 printed seven years after Guiteau's bullet found the twentieth president at the Baltimore and Potomac depot, this memorial tract carries the long mourning cadence of a republic still rehearsing how to bury its leaders. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,