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Special collections | |
Millican and MacKenzie | Sgt. Leonard Millican (left) and Cpl. Kenneth MacKenzie (right) both died in
World War I in France in 1917. They were the only two casualties among the WWI veterans from
Burlington, Massachusetts. The following portraits are displayed in the main hall at the American Legion Post named in their honor, Millican MacKenzie Post 273, 162 Winn Street, Burlington, MA. |
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Baptism Portraits | |
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"I have called you by name" In Tyler's family it is a tradition to remember all baptisms with a portrait of the child along with Isaiah's words of love. |
Irish Poets |
| The following drawings are the portraits of three Irish Nobel
Prize winners in
Literature: William Butler Yeats (1923), George Bernard Shaw (1925) and Seamus Heaney (1995). |
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William Butler Yeats "For his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." |
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George Bernard Shaw "For his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty." |
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Seamus Heaney "For works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." |