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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Covid Clowning (October 2021)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Memories of circuses and clowns.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[October 2021]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kingston, RI]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Mirror House (November 2021)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Novella about Allen Moore’s 19th century Long Island mansion and the development of Plainedge and Bethpage Long Island at the turn of the 20th century.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[November 2021]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kingston, RI]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Winter Solstice (December 2021)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[“Mary’s Lord of Misrule”— tale in verse about John Thorogood, a 16th-century musician in the Courts of Henry VIII and Mary Tudor.<br />
“Late Reflections”—poem]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[December 2021]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kingston, RI]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Walking Kingston Hill (April 2020)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[“Topography of Kingston Hill”—essay on Potter Wood and Biscuit City Preserves. <br />
“Tefft Hill Pilgrimage”—essay on the Tefft Hill stone circle and Old Mountain Field.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[April 2020<br />
]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kingston, RI]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Recrudescence Overview]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[Deciding to write a pandemic journal with monthly issues featuring essays, short stories, and poems. Describing the background and motivation which led me to embark on this project.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2020-2021]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kingston, RI]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Land and Sea Escape (January 2022)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[&quot;Introduction&quot; (a rather disorganized assessment of where we are these days)<br />
&quot;Visiting Trustom Pond&quot; (going further afield with a fellow music lover)<br />
 &quot;Trustom Frolics&quot; (a little epic poem about simple things)<br />
&quot;Nature’s Wedding Dress&quot; (a poem about the joys of Winter)<br />
&quot;Chickening Out at Long Pond&quot; (accepting one’s own limitations)<br />
&quot;Why?&quot; (an evaluation as to why so many people refuse to be vaccinated or wear masks)<br />
]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[January 2022]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kingston, RI]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Ella Sarrow (February 2022)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A reconstruction of a tragic novella in verse by Alonzo Gibbs]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[February 2022]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kingston, RI<br />
<br />
]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Go West, Christina (March 2022)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[A novella based on a true family story from the 19th century.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[March 2022]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kingston, RI]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[War Issue (April 2022)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This issue is devoted to war, not only in foreign lands but war against our own citizens by depriving them of civil rights and particularly the vote, their most precious possession. Strange that war arrives just as winter is ending and spring is on the way. There is a terrible sadness to this because as the planet wakes up, there should be rejoicing. But that is not to be in 2022. One would have thought that a third year of a pandemic was enough for us to deal with. In most respects we can forgive Gaia for natural disasters, but there is no way to excuse human beings who turn away from what is good, in order to pursue evil aims. It is nothing new—but one might have hoped that by this time, with all our cultural and scientific advances, that we could exhibit more of what was best in us. In advance I apologize if in any way it appears that I am trivialize the current calamity which faces millions of people. I can only write about what I know or at least perceive. And if I appear to be too opinionated, it is just a rashness brought on by current events.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[April 2022]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kingston, RI]]></dcterms:coverage>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Playthings of God (May 2022)]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:description><![CDATA[This issue of my pandemic journal is a continuation of my exploration of 19th-century American expansion westward. In March 2022 I covered my great-grandmother Christina Miller’s adventure in frontier Nebraska. This month I turn to my great-uncle Louis Crowell and his experiences as a soldier in the Dakota territories of the 1870s (there is a question mark about the authenticity of this story). The terrible exploitation and cruelty toward Native Americans was not all that different from the treatment of countless Europeans who fled deplorable conditions of poverty and subjugation to come to America, forsaking their homelands and cultures. Someone was profiting from all this misery? Even the industrial revolution of the 19th century proved to be a disaster for many people as they were forced to work in extraordinarily inhumane conditions with little concessions to the safety and wellbeing of workers.]]></dcterms:description>
    <dcterms:creator><![CDATA[Geoffrey Gibbs]]></dcterms:creator>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[May 2022]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:language><![CDATA[English]]></dcterms:language>
    <dcterms:coverage><![CDATA[Kingston, RI]]></dcterms:coverage>
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