Story of Writing August 31, 2026

Union troops - under Gen. William T. Sherman - attacked the city of Atlanta, Zeppelin got the patent for a "navigable balloon," the U.S. Congress passed its first neutrality act, and the Nazis mounted a false flag attack within Germany to establish a reason to invade Poland. The birthday club includes Roger Dean, Van Morrison, and Itzhak Perlman - with a reading from Willa Cather's "The Song of the Lark."