Retonio Allysa Nhor M.
History 11 – BEED1A
POST OFFICES HOLD SPECIAL PLACE IN SHAPING OF MODERN FLORIDA
Internal Criticism
1. These II hardly souls traversed 56
miles in small boats and 80 miles
on foot, often on a sloping beach- a
trip that took three days each way,
historian Eliot Kleinberg has noted.
Their story inspired the well-known
1943 novel by Theodore Pratt, as
well as a state historical marker, a
statue and a commemorative hike
by Boy scouts.
2. The post – office paintings that tell
the true story are the work of
Connecticut artist Steven Dohanos
(1907-1994), who created the art
for many Saturday evening post
covers and U.S. postage stamps.
Commissioned in 1939 as a New
deal project, they began as a six-
part mural that for 44 years graced
west palm Beaches downtown post
office. In 1984, it’s canvas panels
summit boulevard facility.
3. The First Arrival, John R.A. Tucker,
raised cattle and hogs and tired his
hand at growing citrus during times
when the only means of travel was
by ox cart or on horseback, and
soon the Tucker home became a
kind of stopping-off place, which
led to a post office.
External Criticism
1.The U.S Postal Service has been much
in the news lately- a reminder, on labor
day weekend, of the key role that post
offices and mail carriers have played in
United States and Florida History.
2.Joy Dickson is one of American’s
greatest and most original poets of all
time. She took definition as her province
and challenged the existing definitions of
poetry and the poet’s work.
3. Few events in American literary history
have been more curious than the sudden
rise of Emily Dickinson into a posthumous
fame only more accentuated by the utterly
recluse character of her life and by her
aversion to even a literary publicity. The
lines which form a prelude to the
published volume of her poems are the
only ones that have come to light
indicating even a temporary desire to
come in contact with the great world of
readers; she seems to have had no
reference, in all the rest, to anything but
her own thought and a few friends. But for
her only sister it is very doubtful if her
poems would ever have been printed at
all; and when published, they were
launched quietly and without any
expectation of a wide audience; yet the
outcome of it is that six editions of the
volume have been sold within six months,
a suddenness of success almost without a
parallel in American literature. One result
of this glare of publicity has been a
constant and earnest demand by her
readers for further information in regard to
her; and I have decided with much
reluctance to give some extracts from her
early correspondence with one whom she
always persisted in regarding—with very
little ground for it—as a literary counselor
and confidant.

It seems to be the opinion of those who

have examined her accessible
correspondence most widely, that no
other letters bring us quite so intimately
near to the peculiar quality and aroma of
her nature; and it has been urged upon
me very strongly that her readers have
the right to know something more of this
gifted and most interesting woman.