{"id":2423,"date":"2012-05-10T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2013-12-18T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:54:08","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-august-21-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-august-21-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: August 21, 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, August 21, 1983, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830821-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, August 21, 1983, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830821-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, August 21, 1983, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830821-002-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, August 21, 1983, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19830821-002-unh.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[Click image to view]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: white; padding-left: 30px;\">August 21, 1983<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>If in this period of your crazy activity you get<br \/>\na moment free, will you please take a look at the enclosed<br \/>\nand tell me what you think?<\/p>\n<p>We look forward mightily to your play.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/p>\n<p>REMEMBERING APRONS<\/p>\n<p>Who recalls the darkness<br \/>\nof your other life,<br \/>\nsewn shut<\/p>\n<p>around feed grain,<br \/>\nor remembers your release<br \/>\nto join your sisters,<\/p>\n<p>the dishcloths, now<br \/>\nampleness and holes? Not<br \/>\nthe absent hands<\/p>\n<p>that tied you<br \/>\nbehind the back,<br \/>\nalready forgetting. Old<\/p>\n<p>stove-gloves,<br \/>\nsoft baskets<br \/>\nfor tomatoes,<\/p>\n<p>how thoughtlessly<br \/>\nthey used you, and yet<br \/>\nhow wonderful<\/p>\n<p>in being left out<br \/>\nwas your inclusion! Oh<br \/>\ntough dresses<\/p>\n<p>without closets,<br \/>\nlovely petticoats<br \/>\nthat flashed<\/p>\n<p>beneath the frayed<br \/>\nhemlines of barncoats<br \/>\nall over Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Wesley McNair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Editorial note about this letter:<\/em><\/span><\/strong> In the days after sending Hall his first version of &#8220;Remembering Aprons,&#8221; McNair revised the order of his third sentence, creating this final draft:<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/remembering-aprons\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Remembering Aprons <\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">(published version)<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2423\" data-postid=\"2423\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2423 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] August 21, 1983 Dear Don, If in this period of your crazy activity you get a moment free, will you please take a look at the enclosed and tell me what you think? We look forward mightily to your play. Love, Wes REMEMBERING APRONS Who recalls the darkness of your other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35322,35504,42982,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11395,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/11395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}