WRBH Volunteer and Resident Wordsmith Pat Ammon brings us a featured word of the day each Wednesday. Today’s word is…
Vicissitudes
noun:
1. a change or variation.
2. one of the sudden or unexpected changes or shifts often encountered in one’s life.
Featured Non-Fiction: ““Beautifully written . . . A tour de force.”—Chronicle of Higher Education” Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other Slavery, it was practiced for centuries as an open secret. There was no abolitionist movement to protect the
