A handwritten letter thanking Hannah Gould for her "beautiful ode" along with the cloth banner printed with her poem., Letter: 26 x 41 cm
Banner: 27 x 18 cm
Part of a series of interviews documenting the unique immigrant experience of Asian Indians in northeast Ohio and explore issues of professional, family, and religious life. During the interview Mr. Khandelwal talks a lot about how his love of poetry and his career as a poet was integral to how he lived his life. This passion is concretely demonstrated by actual recitations of poem in English during the interview. He is a famous contemporary Hindi Poet from India that has also written a significant amount of poetry in English after coming to live in the United States. Overall his love for poetry seems to have fostered a particularly high consciousness of maintaining his Indian “cultural identity” while at the same time being open to other cultural influences and interacting with non-Asian Indian people of Cleveland. This is the first of two videos depicting this interview.
Part of a series of interviews documenting the unique immigrant experience of Asian Indians in northeast Ohio and explore issues of professional, family, and religious life. During the interview Mr. Khandelwal talks a lot about how his love of poetry and his career as a poet was integral to how he lived his life. This passion is concretely demonstrated by actual recitations of poem in English during the interview. He is a famous contemporary Hindi Poet from India that has also written a significant amount of poetry in English after coming to live in the United States. Overall his love for poetry seems to have fostered a particularly high consciousness of maintaining his Indian “cultural identity” while at the same time being open to other cultural influences and interacting with non-Asian Indian people of Cleveland. This is the second of two videos depicting this interview.
The Shakers were a religious communal society founded and originally led by Mother Ann Lee, who came to America from England in 1774. By 1826 communities were established throughout New England and the Midwest, as well as in Georgia and Florida. In 1911 Wallace H. Cathcart, Director of the Western Reserve Historical Society, began collecting Shaker memorabilia. The collection consists of covenants, laws, legal records, land records, financial records, membership records, correspondence, diaries, journals, testimonies, biographies, addresses, sermons, essays, inspired writings and drawings (also known as spirit drawings), other writings, music, poetry, recipes, prescriptions, school books, instructional texts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to 20 Shaker communities located in 10 eastern States.
Clare Benedict was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of George Stone Benedict and Clara Woolson Benedict. She was the niece of author Constance Fenimore Woolson. Benedict was an author in her own right, writing books that dealt with family history, biography of Woolson, and general topics. Constance Fenimore Woolson was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, the daughter of Charles Jarvis Woolson and Hannah Pomeroy. She was a niece of James Fenimore Cooper. Woolson and her family moved to Cleveland in 1840. Woolson attended the Cleveland Female Seminary and was a graduate of Madame Chegaray's finishing school in New York City. She later lived in Florida, and then spent the rest of her life in Europe. Woolson published many works of fiction during her lifetime. The collection consists of books, letters, letter fragments, notes, notebooks, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, bound magazines, poems, essays, genealogies, invitations, programs, a memorial book, tickets, postcards, lithographs, sketches, watercolors, brochures, press notices, reviews, birth records, receipts, a military commission, signatures, a constitution, and a nail. In many cases, authors of books contained in the collection wrote inscriptions to either Clare Benedict or Constance Fenimore Woolson. Included are two books inscribed by Henry James, along with a letter written by him to Benedict. Excerpts of letters, notes, postcards, photographs, and other manuscript material concerning either the author or the subject of a book were placed into each volume, most likely by Clare Benedict. Some of the books and manuscript materials appear to have originally belonged to Constance Fenimore Woolson, and include letters, notes, letter fragments, poems, a poetry notebook, and other items.