by Piper Bayard | May 16, 2017 | Guest Posts, History
Memorial Day–New Zealand Style By Matthew Wright Guest Post at Bayard & Holmes In one of the quirks of history, both New Zealand and Australia remember their war dead on 25 April – which isn’t when any war ended. It’s the day in 1915 when both...
by Piper Bayard | May 25, 2014 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard America is not a location. America is an ideal. It is the dream of a country where the government answers to the people, and not the other way around. Because America is an ideal, Americans are not born. Rather, America, itself, is born anew with each...
by Piper Bayard | May 26, 2012 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard My family will gather at the graves today. As I think on The Ones Who Have Gone Before, echos of laughter, adages, card games, and dipped chocolates bring them to life from the mists of my memory. Each of them played a part in making me who I am. Of...
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