Vanishing Names: So long, Susan; Bye bye, Barbara
Dec 22, 2024
One of my favorite poems, for reasons that will soon be obvious, is called “Mourning the Dying American Female Names,” by Hunt Hawkins. You can read the whole poem here, but I’ll give you a few choice lines: Many names are almost gone: Gertrude, Myrtle, Agnes, Bernice, Hortense, Edna, Doris,...