When he was ten years old, William Blake (who was born on November 28th in 1757) saw an angel in a tree outside his family’s…
That’s the late, great, beat poet, Allen Ginsberg with friends singing a part of their 1969, slightly off-key version of one of William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”–the “Echoing Green.”
America didn’t have lasting child labor laws until the 1930s, when the Great Depression made work so scarce that adults were taking the jobs that…