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Jim Shepard
No full textJim Shepard is the author of seven novels, including most recently The Book of Aron, which won the Sophie Brody Medal for Achievement in Jewish Literature from the American Library Association and the PEN/New England Award for fiction, and five story collections, including his new collection, The World To Come. Five of his short stories have been chosen for the Best American Short Stories, two for the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, and one for a Pushcart Prize. He teaches at Williams College. The free, public program begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Ole Miss-Oxford Depot.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_vis/1000/thumbnail.jp
Figs. 3–4. 3 in Microparnus Shepard (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Dryopidae), a New Genus from French Guiana
No full textFigs. 3–4. 3) The author in Crique à l'Est, looking upstream; 4) Doug Post and Cheryl Barr collecting in CriquePublished as part of Shepard, William D., 2019, Microparnus Shepard (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea: Dryopidae), a New Genus from French Guiana, pp. 62-66 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 73 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-73.1.62, http://zenodo.org/record/483689
Mary Shepard: the artist who brought Mary Poppins to life
No full textThe success of Disney’s 1964 movie Mary Poppins has often obscured the fact the popular series of books describing the experiences of the enigmatic nanny were in fact written by the Australian born author P.L. Travers.
Travers’ own sense of ownership of her creation in turn obscured the contribution made by the illustrator Mary Shepard. Despite a 54 year collaboration, Shepard is regularly ignored in discussions of the books: the 2013 movie Saving Mr Banks, which detailed the genesis of the film, did not even mention Shepard or the pivotal role she played in the books’ success.
'The Conversation' articles provides important insights into Mary Shepard's contribution to the Mary Poppins series of books
2 prospectors the letters of Sam Shepard & Johnny Dark
No full text"Pulitzer Prize-winning author of plays such as True West, Fool For Love, and Buried Child, and Academy Award-nominated actor in many films, including The Right Stuff, Sam Shepard is arguably America's finest working dramatist. He has said many times that he will never write a memoir. But he has written intensively about his inner life and creative work to his former father-in-law and housemate, Johnny Dark. This book gathers nearly 40 years of their correspondence, which provides the most honest and complete record of Shepard's professional and personal lives that he is ever likely to publish. The book is illustrated with Dark's candid, revealing photographs of Shepard and their mutual family across many years, as well as facsimiles of numerous letters. It makes a perfect companion to Treva Wurmfeld's recent film, Shepard & Dark"-
Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr 2014, sp. n.
No full textNeoeubria inbionis sp. n. Figs. 1–4, 25–27 Type material. Holotype (male): COSTA RICA: Guanacaste Prov., Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja, Las Pailas Trail, 14-VI-2001, William D. Shepard, leg. // reared from pupa collected on wood in seep basin // HOLOTYPE Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr [red label]. Deposited in INBC. Allotype (female): locality data same as holotype // ALLOTYPE Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr [red label]. Deposited in INBC. Paratypes (2 M & 5 F): ECUADOR: Napo Prov., Huahua Sumaco, Km 44 on Hollin-Loreto Rd., XII-15-1989, Malaise Trap, MS/ JS Wasbauer, H. Real // CALIFORNIA STATE COLLN AGRICULTURE // PARATYPE Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr [yellow label] (1 M) (EMEC); data same, except XII-16-1989 (1 F) (CSCA); data same, except XII-18-1989 (1 M) (CSCA); data same, except XII-19-1989 (1 F) (CSCA); data same, except XII-21-1989 (2 FF) (CSCA, EMEC); data same, except XII-22-1989 (1 F) (CSCA). Adult Description. Body oval; males (Fig. 3) smaller than females (Figs. 1–2, 4); males 4.6–5.0 mm long and 2.75 mm wide, females 5.0– 5.6 mm long and 2.8–3.5 mm wide. Integument color medium brown, shiny where setae sparse; covered dorsally with a combination of different kinds of setae: widely-spaced, long, erect blond and dark brown setae; sparse, shorter, pale brown setae; and very dense, recumbent, pale blond setae forming a pattern of broad bands and large spots. Venter uniformly clothed in medium-length pale blond setae. Aedeagus of trilobed type (Fig. 25) and lightly sclerotized. Basal piece long, reduced to ventral plate basally with lateral flanges that clasp the base of parameres. Parameres long, widest at apical three-fourths of aedeagus; tips narrow, curved laterally; dorsally conjoined just anterior to midlength. Penis lanceolate; shorter than parameres; tip slightly curved ventrally and laterally compressed; base deeply cleft. 1. Ectopria is omitted from the key because it is probable that the Neotropical species belong in other genera. Ovipositor (Fig. 26) with bacula long, 1.4 times as long as coxites, thin, gently curved; only partially sclerotized. Coxites 0.7 times as long as bacula; joined medially in basal half, divergent medially in apical half; laterally gently sinuate. Styli short, one-segmented. Long, thin accessory sclerite dorsally in basal third of membrane between coxites. Immature specimens examined. COSTA RICA: Alajuela, Alta Masis, 9 VI 2000, Río San Lorenzo [WDS- A-1302] // William D. Shepard, leg. (1 larva); Guanacaste Prov., Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja, Las Pailas Trail, 18-I-2000, William D. Shepard & Cheryl B. Barr, collected on wood in seep basin [WDS-A-1283](24 larvae, 1 pupa); data same, except 14-VI-2001, William D. Shepard, leg. [WDS-A-1386] (3 larvae, 3 pupae); data same, except 15-VI-2003, William D. Shepard & Cheryl B. Barr [WDS-A-1541] (11 larvae); data same, except Quebrada Pailas below Catarata, 14-VI-2001, William D. Shepard, leg. [WDS-A-1387] (1 larva). NICARAGUA: Río San Juan, Refugio Bartola, 10 VIII 2002, riffle 3, Río Bartola, William D. Shepard, leg. [WDS-A-1492] (1 larva). PANAMA: Chiriquí, Fortuna Forest Res., March 2004, Checo Colón-Gaud, leg. (1 larva). All immature specimens are deposited in EMEC. Etymology. Named in honor of INBio, the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad in Costa Rica. The case is genitive. Distribution. Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador, based on adult and larval specimens. Habitat. The type locality in Parque Nacional Rincón de la Vieja at an 780 m is a series of seeps in a small basin connected by a spring run to a narrow, slow-flowing forest stream which is a tributary of the Río Colorado. The entire area around the seeps and both streams is heavily forested and generally heavily shaded. In the seep basin the water is only about 2–3 cm deep over a substrate composed of a thick deposit of silt and fine detritus on which lie sticks and larger pieces of rotting, waterlogged wood (Fig. 27). In the basin the water is extremely slowmoving but in a couple of meters it begins to flow downhill in a narrow spring run which is crossed by the Las Pailas Trail between Stops 3 and 4. Larvae and pupae of N. inbionis were collected on pieces of decomposing wood found in the seep basin. Larvae were positioned below the water’s surface and pupae were above. The water is likely hypoxic because of the fine organic detritus substrate, coupled with the lack of sunlight for aquatic photosynthesizers due to the heavily-shaded nature of the site. Possession of a plastron facilitates larval survival in this water. Neoeubria was the only psephenid present in the seep area, and the only other co-occurring aquatic byrrhoid Coleoptera was an unidentified ptilodactylid larva. Other arthropods present in the seep area included aquatic Hemiptera, Belostoma (Belostomatidae) and Ambrysus (Naucoridae), and the crustacean Hyallela (Amphipoda). No specimens were collected from the spring run formed by the seeps. A single larva was collected in a second, larger stream, Quebrada Pailas, a tributary of the Río Colorado, which is also located along the Las Pailas Trail. The other sites at which larvae were collected by the senior author are also forest streams, although with rocky substrates and faster flow. Although the particular microhabitat of the larvae at these sites is unknown, at all of them submerged wood was common. Neoeubria inbionis has been collected at elevations ranging from as low as 40+ m in Nicaragua, to as high as 780 m in Costa Rica. The Ecuadorian adults were all taken in Malaise traps which were set in a forested area to catch flies. Although we could obtain no further information beyond the label data, collection of adults via Malaise traps indicates that N. inbionis adults behave like other eubriine adults and fly near the aquatic habitat in which the larvae occur. Phylogeny. In the recent phylogeny of the Psephenidae by Lee et al. (2007), Neoeubria is included as “Genus A.” In the most parsimonious tree Neoeubria is placed in a basal trichotomy within the subfamily Eubriinae. The trichotomy positions Neoeubria in one branch, Sclerocyphon + Tychepsephus in another branch, and the remainder of the eubriine genera in a third branch.Published as part of Shepard, William D. & Barr, Cheryl B., 2014, Neoeubria inbionis Shepard & Barr, a new genus and new species of Neotropical water penny beetle (Coleoptera: Psephenidae: Eubriinae), with a key to the adult Eubriinae of the Neotropic Zone, pp. 553-568 in Zootaxa 3811 (4) on pages 564-567, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/491902
Kenedy, Shepard
No full textSee entry in Dale County volume 1, page 34: https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voter/id/87
John Guinn Memoir (1857), transcription, 1941
No full textTypewritten copy of a memoir by John Guinn entitled "Mormon and Indian Wars: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and other Tragedies and Transactions Incident to the Mormon Rebellion of 1857, Together with the Personal Recollections of A Civilian who Witnessed Many of the Thrilling Scenes Described". This copy was excerpted by Charles Kelly from the original, which was acquired from the late Richard B. Shepard of the Shepard\u27s Book Store in Salt Lake City. This copy was made from Charles Kelly\u27s original copy by Dale L. Morgan in September, 1941
Creating Mary Poppins: Exploring the Dynamics of the Artistic Collaboration between the Illustrator Mary Shepard and the Writer P.L. Travers
No full textWriting about a fifty-four year collaboration between two people from different backgrounds and possessing remarkably different temperaments is a complicated undertaking. Richard Holmes described biographical writing of this sort as a "kind of pursuit, a tracking of the physical trail of someone's path through the past, a following of footsteps." Our pursuit of the relationship between the author P.L. Travers (1899-1996) and the illustrator Mary Shepard (1909-2000) was made possible by the generosity of a Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Grant rather than the accessibility of our subjects. Travers and Shepard are elusive quarry: both, to varying degrees, sought to cover their tracks. The former created her own personal mythology as a means of obscuring rather than illuminating her past, while the latter preferred the comfort of family and domesticity to the life of a public figure. Both were, as Holmes warned, fleeting figures who had done all in their powers to thwart pursuers. What remains is their literary and artistic output. Between them they created Mary Poppins, one of the most beloved and enduring characters in children's literature. It is that collaboration which interests us here
Sam Shepard: Buried Child
No full textOne of the reasons for writing this thesis was to help readers and theatregoers better understand Shepard's plays and to let them see, at least partly, his intentions. Yet, to ask for a straightforward explanation or an unambiguous ending would mean to completely misunderstand the author. Samuel Shepard the playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, poet and musician as well as a cowboy and shaman - "a New World shaman" - is anything but a piece of cake. To know this much might be enough unless you plan to translate or direct one of his plays. And for these very purposes, I have decided to prepare a roadmap for understanding Samuel Shepard Rogers III. My goal was to show three main influences that helped to form Shepard's style. First, we will travel with young Sam eastwards all the way to New York in order to discover a brave new world. Only fifteen years later, we will set the sails in the same direction again, this time to accompany an unheard-off success - an Off-Off- Broadway show moving from San Francisco to New York to be eventually awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Unfortunately, this child prodigy we came with is dying; indeed, it is already a Buried Child. After twenty more years, Shepard will revise the text and claim that "it's now a better play". That is where our analysis starts. First, we will..
Byzantinorussica
No full textREB 33 1975 France p. 211-225
J. Shepard, Byzantinorussica. — The author examines two points of textual interpretation in the Chronicles of Scylitzes and Attaleiates : I. Three Russian archontes (the identity and office of Nesisthlabos, Hierosthlabos and Zinisthlabos, mentioned by Scylitzes under the year 1036); II. Russians at Manzikert (1071) and the problem of to allagion.</jats:p
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