Editor's note: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was featured in The Eagle's 2011 series, compiled and written by the late Brian Sullivan, that featured notable Pittsfield residents. This capsule is ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) was an American man of letters, physician, and one of the Fireside Poets—which included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, William Cullen Bryant, ...

Have you heard the one about the lawyer who writes poetry? The folks at the Daily Journal have -- and to them, poetry is no joke. The legal newspaper is to California lawyers as Variety is to studio ...

I got a chuckle from the citation – by Jeremy Benson, Poet Laureate of Napa County – of a verse added to our national anthem by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in 1861 ("Can we celebrate freedom at this ...

The words of a man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook. “Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water ...

Supreme Court justices are not known to be EGOTs (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winners). And only a few plays have ever highlighted black-robed justices, and even fewer feature justices twice. But ...

Links between apparently unrelated phenomena constantly surprise us. Take, for example, three famous men named Holmes. No one would confuse Sherlock Holmes with either Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. or his ...

If you ever have a few minutes of spare time, read about the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Although he didn’t grow beyond 63 inches (you can do the math) and suffered from asthma as a child, ...

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