Early American Authors Quiz Game Showing 6,051-6,100 of 14,459

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Meg wrote: "I will tell you all tomorrow. I've got to get to bed too and I can't even think how to word the answer right now! 🤣"

*sigh* Okay. Goodnight all then! 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[Ruth]

Meg wrote: "Ruth wrote: "So just to be clear, it isn't :
Poe & Longfellow nor
Poe & Hawthorne."

Nope. 😋"

Meg vs the group

[Joanna]

Goodnight! 🤗🤗🤗🤗

[Ruth]

Goodnight all.🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

All right, I just asked my dad, and he says Longfellow and Twain, because Twain insulted him. And no he's not being sarcastic.

[Pamela]

I bet your dad is right! I learned long ago that dad's are always right. I also learned that it is best to let them believe they are always right...even when they are not! 🤫🙂🤫
Pammy Jo
P.S. It goes without saying that mom IS always right, no matter what! ☺

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Pamela wrote: "I bet your dad is right! I learned long ago that dad's are always right. I also learned that it is best to let them believe they are always right...even when they are not! 🤫🙂🤫
Pammy Jo
P.S. It goe..."

LOL!! That is so true, Pamela!! 😂😂

[Joanna]

Emma wrote: "All right, I just asked my dad, and he says Longfellow and Twain, because Twain insulted him. And no he's not being sarcastic."

Nope. 😋

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "All right, I just asked my dad, and he says Longfellow and Twain, because Twain insulted him. And no he's not being sarcastic."

Nope. 😋"

Well, I guess we all give up then.

[Joanna]

And the answer is...James Russell Lowell and Henry David Thoreau! While Lowell was not a Transcendentalist, he did have a great admiration for Emerson, but viewed Thoreau as a poor imitation. This is from his Fable for Critics…

Here comes ——, for instance; to see him’s rare sport,
Tread in Emerson’s tracks with legs painfully short;
How he jumps, how he strains, and gets red in the face,
To keep step with the mystagogue’s natural pace!
He follows as close as a stick to a rocket,
His fingers exploring the prophet’s each pocket.
Fie, for shame, brother bard; with good fruit of your own,
Can’t you let neighbor Emerson’s orchards alone?

However, when Lowell was editor of the Atlantic Monthly he invited Thoreau to contribute his account of his 1853 trip to the Maine Woods. After it was published, Thoreau noticed that Lowell had left out a sentence in which he had said of the Pine tree, "It is as immortal as I am". Thoreau was angry that he hadn't at least been consulted in the matter and wrote to Lowell, "I am not willing to be associated in any way, unnecessarily, with parties who will confess themselves so bigoted & timid as this implies. I could excuse a man who was afraid of an uplifted fist, but if one habitually manifests fear at the utterance of a sincere thought, I must think that his life is a kind of nightmare continued into broad daylight." Thoreau refused to submit any more of his writings to the Atlantic while Lowell was the editor. And Lowell continued to criticize Thoreau even years after Thoreau's death.

[Pamela]

I'll be offline until Tuesday. Much to do to get ready for the gas utility work in the morning....IF they show up! If not, I'll be back in touch tomorrow.🙏
Pammy Jo

[Lily Rose]

Pamela wrote: "I'll be offline until Tuesday. Much to do to get ready for the gas utility work in the morning....IF they show up! If not, I'll be back in touch tomorrow.🙏
Pammy Jo"

Prayers!

[Allyson]

Hey all! I have a quiz for y'all! How many New England authors had mustaches?

[Lily Rose]

Cutie Patootie!!!!

[Allyson]

Dorothy wrote: "Cutie Patootie!!!!"

👋

[Lily Rose]

Oh boy! You come back with a tough one, don't you! I'm just going to say 4, but I'm probably missing some.

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Dorothy wrote: "Oh boy! You come back with a tough one, don't you! I'm just going to say 4, but I'm probably missing some."

No, no, Dorry!! There's 8!!!

[Lily Rose]

Emma wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Oh boy! You come back with a tough one, don't you! I'm just going to say 4, but I'm probably missing some."

No, no, Dorry!! There's 8!!!"

You're giving me the answer?!

[Emma | meadowroselibrary]

Dorothy wrote: "Emma wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Oh boy! You come back with a tough one, don't you! I'm just going to say 4, but I'm probably missing some."

No, no, Dorry!! There's 8!!!"

You're giving me the answer?!"

I'm giving you MY answer!!

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "Hey all! I have a quiz for y'all! How many New England authors had mustaches?"

Yay, you're back!!! 🤗🤗🤗 Hmmm, do you mean mustache only or do those that had a beard count too? 😂

[Joanna]

Pamela wrote: "I'll be offline until Tuesday. Much to do to get ready for the gas utility work in the morning....IF they show up! If not, I'll be back in touch tomorrow.🙏
Pammy Jo"

We'll be thinking about you Pammy Jo and praying that all goes well! 🤗🙏

[Allyson]

Meg wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Hey all! I have a quiz for y'all! How many New England authors had mustaches?"

Yay, you're back!!! 🤗🤗🤗 Hmmm, do you mean mustache only or do those that had a beard count too? 😂"

Just a mustache. 😊

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "Meg wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Hey all! I have a quiz for y'all! How many New England authors had mustaches?"

Yay, you're back!!! 🤗🤗🤗 Hmmm, do you mean mustache only or do those that had a beard coun..."

Well at the moment I can only think of two...Nathaniel Hawthorne and Mark Twain!

[Allyson]

I don't mind if you do research.

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "I don't mind if you do research."

In other words there are more? 😂

[Joanna]

Hmm, well I just thought of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain...

[Allyson]

Meg wrote: "Allyson wrote: "I don't mind if you do research."

In other words there are more? 😂"

... No comment...

[Joanna]

Allyson wrote: "Meg wrote: "Allyson wrote: "I don't mind if you do research."

In other words there are more? 😂"

... No comment..."

You're a lot of help... 🥺😂

[Allyson]

Meg wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Meg wrote: "Allyson wrote: "I don't mind if you do research."

In other words there are more? 😂"

... No comment..."

You're a lot of help... 🥺😂"

😂😋

[Ruth]

Allyson wrote: "Hey all! I have a quiz for y'all! How many New England authors had mustaches?"

🎉🎉🎉🎉Allyson🎉🎉🎉🎉
🎉🎉I'm so happy you're back!!!🎉🎉
🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[Ruth]

Pamela wrote: "I'll be offline until Tuesday. Much to do to get ready for the gas utility work in the morning....IF they show up! If not, I'll be back in touch tomorrow.🙏
Pammy Jo"

Hi Pammy,
I pray everything goes well.
Take care.🤗❤

[Ruth]

Dorothy wrote: "Cutie Patootie!!!!"

That is my special name for Allyson,
I'll thank you to find your own.

[Allyson]

Ruth wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Hey all! I have a quiz for y'all! How many New England authors had mustaches?"

🎉🎉🎉🎉Allyson🎉🎉🎉🎉
🎉🎉I'm so happy you're back!!!🎉🎉
🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗"

Thanks, Ruth!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[Ruth]

Meg wrote: "And the answer is...James Russell Lowell and Henry David Thoreau! While Lowell was not a Transcendentalist, he did have a great admiration for Emerson, but viewed Thoreau as a poor imitation. This ..."

Goodness, Meg.
Thoreau, was very astute, he didn't
allow much, if any to slip by him.

[Joanna]

Ruth wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Cutie Patootie!!!!"

That is my special name for Allyson,
I'll thank you to find your own."

Tell her, Ruth! 🤣

[Ruth]

Hi Meg,
I'm surprised you don't know this
one.

[Joanna]

Ruth wrote: "Meg wrote: "And the answer is...James Russell Lowell and Henry David Thoreau! While Lowell was not a Transcendentalist, he did have a great admiration for Emerson, but viewed Thoreau as a poor imit..."

That's for sure! 😂

[Ruth]

Goodness, Allyson!
You just arrived and already
we're stumped.
😶- moustache, how many?

Mark Twain had the biggest one
(not that it makes a lick of difference)
Hawthorne 😶

[Joanna]

Ruth wrote: "Hi Meg,
I'm surprised you don't know this
one."

For the life of me I can't think of more than the three I've mentioned!

[Allyson]

Ruth wrote: "Goodness, Allyson!
You just arrived and already
we're stumped.
😶- moustache, how many?

Mark Twain had the biggest one
(not that it makes a lick of difference)
Hawthorne 😶"

😊

[Joanna]

Well we've never really talked about him on here, but Julian Hawthorne had a mustache.

[Ruth]

You know, Meg, it would be fun to
take a group photo imitating the
Fireside Poets with moustaches-
of course, you would be sitting in
Hawthorne's place

[Ruth]

Allyson wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Goodness, Allyson!
You just arrived and already
we're stumped.
😶- moustache, how many?

Mark Twain had the biggest one
(not that it makes a lick of difference)
Hawthorne 😶"

😊"

Is it less than ten?

[Joanna]

Ruth wrote: "You know, Meg, it would be fun to
take a group photo imitating the
Fireside Poets with moustaches-
of course, you would be sitting in
Hawthorne's place"

That would be interesting...🤣

[Allyson]

Ruth wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Goodness, Allyson!
You just arrived and already
we're stumped.
😶- moustache, how many?

Mark Twain had the biggest one
(not that it makes a lick of difference)
Hawth..."

... No comment...😊😉

[Ruth]

Allyson wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Goodness, Allyson!
You just arrived and already
we're stumped.
😶- moustache, how many?

Mark Twain had the biggest one
(not that it makes a lick of diff..."

How did you find this question?

[Lily Rose]

Ruth wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Cutie Patootie!!!!"

That is my special name for Allyson,
I'll thank you to find your own."

😲

[Allyson]

Ruth wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Goodness, Allyson!
You just arrived and already
we're stumped.
😶- moustache, how many?

Mark Twain had the biggest one
(not that it make..."

I just thought of it.

[Lily Rose]

Allyson wrote: "I just thought of it."

So, do you know the answer?

[Ruth]

Allyson wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Allyson wrote: "Ruth wrote: "Goodness, Allyson!
You just arrived and already
we're stumped.
😶- moustache, how many?

Mark Twain had the biggest one
(not..."

It's funny how the simple things
stump us.