"I was really interested in mental health and mental illness and the suffering that is underneath these terms [and] the questions of 'How do we live? How do we live decently and well in the face of suffering that has no apparent cause and no easy cure?' I was looking for a deep subject or a great story that would help me engage with those questions."
—Joshua Wolf Shenk, new Director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House, on how he came to write Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness, interviewed on "The Signal," WYPR FM 88.1, Baltimore, September 15, 2006
"Thanks to math professor Gene Hamilton, Washington College waterskiers have been elevated to new heights. Think monkey rolls, whirly birds, and hoochie front-flips.
"'In wakeboarding, imagine snowboarding on water—the name of the game is jumping, getting a lot of lift,' says Hamilton, 58, a lifelong water sports enthusiast who introduced the daredevil pursuit to the Eastern Shore school in 2002."
—Professor Gene Hamilton, WC wakeboarding mathematician, profiled in "Dr. Daredevil," Maryland Life magazine, July/August 2006
"'After all, people have been in the Chesapeake for over 13,000 years, arriving at a time when sea levels were much lower and the Chesapeake Bay didn't even exist. Many of the earliest American sites were located on what is now the Continental Shelf or in the Susquehanna Valley—areas that have now been drowned by rising sea level.'"
—John Seidel, archaeologist and associate professor of anthropology and environmental studies, quoted in "Marine Archaeology Has Students Hunting for Sunken Treasures," The Baltimore Sun, July 9, 2006
"It's a badly kept secret among scholars of American history that nothing much really happened on Thursday, July 4, 1776. Although this date is emblazoned on the Declaration, the Colonies had actually voted for independence two days earlier; the document wasn't signed until a month later."
—Adam Goodheart, Director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, on "Celebrating July 2: Ten Days That Changed History," The New York Times, July 2, 2006
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