This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
With what a heavy and retarding weight does expectation load the wing of time.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
My life closed twice before its close; it yet remains to see if Immortality unveil a third event to me, so huge, so hopeless to conceive, as these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.