<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post8613751124515225393..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2295020845551536720</id><published>2010-05-07T23:07:19.104-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-07T23:07:19.104-04:00</updated><title type='text'>William Bartram was a great friend to and influenc...</title><summary type='text'>William Bartram was a great friend to and influence on Alexander Wilson. Wilson named a sandpiper after him: the &amp;quot;Bartramian Sandpiper,&amp;quot; which today carries the common name Upland Sandpiper. J. J. Audubon got in a lot of trouble with the Philadelphia scientific community--which at the time pretty much meant the entire American scientific community--for criticizing Wilson&amp;#39;s work </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/2295020845551536720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/2295020845551536720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html?showComment=1273288039104#c2295020845551536720' title=''/><author><name>MjB</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01691068118383957656</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fwRt-KxAq5s/Snube4KpgcI/AAAAAAAAAHI/PDwiKh2cKzg/S220/2009+Jul+28_0009+50+million+year+old+dragonfly+Field+Museum_detail.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8613751124515225393' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8613751124515225393' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1150203493"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-658481862224690116</id><published>2010-05-07T15:48:29.818-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-07T15:48:29.818-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Apparently Audubon was also looking for a lead min...</title><summary type='text'>Apparently Audubon was also looking for a lead mine when he lived in Mill Grove, which is also in that area.  Here&amp;#39;s a bit about one of the historical markers in the area:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Audubon was not the first Pennsylvanian to interest himself in birds. William Bartram (1739-1823), whose father John Bartram, had begun British North America&amp;#39;s first botanical garden, which still stands</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/658481862224690116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/658481862224690116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html?showComment=1273261709818#c658481862224690116' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8613751124515225393' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8613751124515225393' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7856904293311432107</id><published>2010-05-07T11:30:40.628-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-07T11:30:40.628-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,&#xa;&#xa;The Bartram family easily could have known...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bartram family easily could have known Audubon, as the lead mine that he operated 1803-1806 for his family (how he got his start in America) was maybe 25 miles west of there, at a time when the population of the area was not so great.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/7856904293311432107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/7856904293311432107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html?showComment=1273246240628#c7856904293311432107' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8613751124515225393' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8613751124515225393' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-689454728134313156</id><published>2010-05-07T09:22:15.458-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-07T09:22:15.458-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bartrams is a trippy old place - last Sunday I was...</title><summary type='text'>Bartrams is a trippy old place - last Sunday I was there for a bog tour and info session led by Lord Whimsy and my 2 yr old daughter tripped and fell into the murky old pond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, I like the cover of ND&amp;#39;s An Ear in Bartram&amp;#39;s Tree.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/689454728134313156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/689454728134313156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html?showComment=1273238535458#c689454728134313156' title=''/><author><name>Eddie Watkins</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02790296000891288612</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b4iqDGjZkH4/S97o5fDlx1I/AAAAAAAAAAM/wqdwvo6rGPI/S220/traylor2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8613751124515225393' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8613751124515225393' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-566737940"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1612899541071031801</id><published>2010-05-07T08:55:18.187-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-07T08:55:18.187-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The stately Bartram&amp;#39;s with its sycamore trees ...</title><summary type='text'>The stately Bartram&amp;#39;s with its sycamore trees surrounded by miles and miles (seemingly) of brick row-houses (are they projects?), make a weird contrast.  Did you lean against one of the broad sycamores?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Franklin was already on to the notion of scientific farming, I suppose.  Did Bartram know Audubon? I have some recollection that they knew one another.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/1612899541071031801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/1612899541071031801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html?showComment=1273236918187#c1612899541071031801' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8613751124515225393' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8613751124515225393' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 07, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4199615232449976815</id><published>2010-05-06T15:14:58.547-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-06T15:14:58.547-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I like you bringing a book someplace specific to r...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt;I like you bringing a book someplace specific to read. And a trippy ol&amp;#39; place like the Gardens too!  Bravo!  Could be a whoel thing -- pair particular poem-books with particular places (probably been done, maybe?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, I can&amp;#39;t believe Slyvester is two decades gone.  Better, I think, to link to the -- &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG2ixYJ79iE&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;6 </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/4199615232449976815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/4199615232449976815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html?showComment=1273173298547#c4199615232449976815' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8613751124515225393' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8613751124515225393' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5388875286247775437</id><published>2010-05-06T14:34:51.755-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-06T14:34:51.755-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Amazing how I&amp;#39;ll enjoy reading about writer&amp;#3...</title><summary type='text'>Amazing how I&amp;#39;ll enjoy reading about writer&amp;#39;s I&amp;#39;ve never read, discussing things that I don&amp;#39;t relate to. Coming here is a bit like having a dryer Stephen Fry handy for the advanced stuff (when it is...). If I ever get rich (I think you mentioned poets who cry about their pockets in this one - well, I&amp;#39;m one!) - I&amp;#39;ll join you in this constant perusal of other&amp;#39;s words and</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/5388875286247775437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/5388875286247775437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html?showComment=1273170891755#c5388875286247775437' title=''/><author><name>Old 333</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17806372860467057912</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J3TAxT5vmhg/S34aLinYP7I/AAAAAAAAC4Y/k82j2EYWgBA/S220/lucky.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8613751124515225393' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8613751124515225393' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1941817897"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4565330475363083927</id><published>2010-05-06T09:53:18.889-04:00</published><updated>2010-05-06T09:53:18.889-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry, but that would be&#xa;&#xa;An Ear in Bartram&amp;#39;s ...</title><summary type='text'>Sorry, but that would be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Ear in Bartram&amp;#39;s Tree [not &amp;quot;Garden&amp;quot;], by Jonathan Williams, Chapel HIll, NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1969.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/4565330475363083927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8613751124515225393/comments/default/4565330475363083927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html?showComment=1273153998889#c4565330475363083927' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/05/i-brought-city-real-imagined-by.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8613751124515225393' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8613751124515225393' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="May 06, 2010"/></entry></feed>