A Burden of Inheritance

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Education in Early East Tennessee." M.A. thesis, East Tennessee State College, 1952. "Questionable Funding," Johnson City Press, 1 Feb. 1996: 4. Rice, Grantland. Only the Brave and Other Poems. A. S. Barnes, 1941. Roosevelt, Theodore. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. National ed. 20 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1926. Smith, Ronald A. Sports and Freedom: The Rise ofBig-Time College Athletics . New York: Oxford UP, 1988. Sperber, Murray. Shake Down the Thunder: The Creation of Notre Dame Football. New York: Henry Holt, 1993. "West Virginia High School Nicknames," WV Senior High Magazine Survey. Fall, 1995, 4-6. Willis, Joe D., and Richard G. Wettan. "Religion and Sport in America: The Case for the Sports Bay in the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine," Journal ofSport History 4, no. 2 (Summer 1977): 189207 . A Burden of Inheritance Grass ripens The fields move like water. If this fine, tall hearth did not hold pieces of our bodies if our moving parts were not joined by escapement to grandpa's ticking hands we could sway to the wind's tide. The floor of this room aches to give our feet to God. Here, we pace wishing it were grass or water, wishing God were water. —Mary E. O'Dell 39 ...