This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"You don't go to heaven in a carriage." - Italian Proverbs
"Any corner of that county (however fair or squalid) is in an indefinable way 'home' to me, as no other part of the world is. There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien