peter.cook
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In reply to: Corey Harbaugh posted an update @peter-cook Hey, Peter. Hope you’re enjoying your time in NYC with the folks at HEN. I have thought about you a couple of times, but have been running my Michigan Holocaust seminar, […] ViewHello friend!
Corey, you have been talked about here by many! Thinking of you – and thanks! Epic experience! More to follow-
Warm regards-Peter Cook
P.S. Ran the Death Wish steps in Riverside Park yesterday, and could feel the awesome presence of Charles Bronson
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peter.cook commented on the post, Five Chimneys – Optional 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 10 months ago
Perhaps even more resonant than “Night,” in the author’s almost documentary style delivery. After such ghastly experiences, I was astonished how the author was able, in the last three pages, to leave the reader […]
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peter.cook commented on the post, 2013 Summer Seminar–Participant Introductions 10 years, 10 months ago
Hi Michelle-
Can’t wait to catch up with you. Also, a great Michelle Clark article is in the latest issue of Past-forward! Have you seen it?
Best
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peter.cook commented on the post, 2013 Summer Seminar–Participant Introductions 10 years, 10 months ago
Hi Norma-
So looking forward to meeting you. Did you do in services at the high school or the feeder schools?
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peter.cook commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 10 months ago
I wanted to leave a quick clarification regarding my post below. I’ve been steeped in an academic study of humor – in relationship to stressful situations – in large part around soldiers in combat – looking at how […]
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peter.cook commented on the post, After Such Knowledge – 2013 Summer Seminar Responses 10 years, 10 months ago
Eva Hoffman describes survivors who were forced to literally be buried in a farmer’s field – and remain motionless during daylight hours – in order to survive – day in and day out – for the course of the war. I […]
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peter.cook commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 10 months ago
Hi Zack
I appreciated your reference to Rushdie. Though Sondra’s book, of course, has gravitas inherent in subtext involving Jewish identity in a once hostile land,both her writing and your comment about […] -
peter.cook commented on the post, On Austrian Soil – Summer Seminar 2013 Responses 10 years, 10 months ago
Hi Zack
I appreciated your reference to Rushdie. Though Sondra’s book, of course, has gravitas inherent in subtext involving Jewish identity in a once hostile land,both her writing and your comment about […] -
peter.cook commented on the post, 2013 Summer Seminar–Participant Introductions 10 years, 11 months ago
In 1980, I was stationed in Port au Prince as a U.S. Marine. Haiti was a crushingly beautiful and profoundly sad place long before the recent quake. Even as unschooled Marines, we realized, after basketball games […]
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peter.cook posted an update 10 years, 11 months ago
In 1980, I was stationed in Port au Prince as a U.S. Marine. Haiti was a crushingly beautiful and profoundly sad place long before the recent quake. Even as unschooled Marines, we realized, after basketball games with shoeless orphans in the poorest sections of Cite Simone, that there was something dead wrong about the social inequities made…[Read more]
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