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But before he returns to ringmaster duties, Thomas, 53, will release his sixth solo album, “All Night Days,” this summer and follow it with a 25-date tour from Aug. 1 in Atlanta through Sept ...
James "Jim" M. Neilson, age 86, born on October 21, 2025 passed away peacefully at The Plaza by Vivie in Anoka on Sunday, March 16, 2025. He was preceded in death two months prior by his wife of 65 ...
Hi, Jay, . . . My father, Dr. Jude P. Dougherty, was an acquaintance of both Professor Van Doren and Thomas Merton. Dad was then on the philosophy faculty at Bellarmine College.
From the early 1940s through Merton’s untimely and accidental death in 1968 at age 53, the two men exchanged more than 700 letters. Laughlin’s correspondence often originated from the Alta ...
Merton’s wife died of stomach cancer in 1921. Months later, he travelled to Bermuda with Thomas. John Paul, the artist’s younger son, stayed in New York with his maternal grandparents.
The monk Thomas Merton became internationally renowned in the mid-20th-century for his writings about spirituality, but his love of jazz remains little known even today. On this edition of Night ...
She died on October 21, 1921. That same year, 1921, Owen Merton, along with his six-year-old son, Thomas, travelled to Bermuda to paint.
GARDINER – Merton “Larry” Larrabee of Gardiner, passed away peacefully on Feb. 24, 2024. He was the son of Llewellyn Larrabee and Mary Dunville Larrabee Patenaude.
Editor's note: This article originally appeared in America on Oct. 22, 1988, as "Editing The Seven Storey Mountain." Thomas Merton’s autobiography was published in October 1948, but he had begun ...