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Eagle Pkwy. "The Eagle" is a short poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and was first published in 1851. The entire poem is as follows: He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Earl St. James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences by James Earl Jones and Penelope Niven is his autobiography.

East Shore Dr.

Eaton St. The Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy, formerly known as the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Utopian Literature, is housed at the University of California at Riverside and is  "the largest publicly accessible collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror and utopian and dystopian literature in the world." (from wikipedia)

Ebertz Ct.

Echo Ave. Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 –1894) was an English poet. Her poem “Echo” begins: Come to me in the silence of the night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream; Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright As sunlight on a stream; Come back in tears, O memory, hope, love of finished years. The street, itself, was named for Echo Johnson, the wife of a Saint Paul realtor in 1946. (thanks to Donald Empson and his book, The Street Where You Live, for this information)

Edgar Ave. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 –1849) was an American author and poet and was considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

Edgcumbe Rd. Edgcumbe Avenue is in the Sugar Hill neighborhood in Harlem, New York City. It was the street where many African American artists, writers, and musicians lived in the early part of the 20th century. Thurgood Marshall, W. E. B. DuBois, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Lena Horne and others lived on Edgecumbe Avenue. The poet, Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967), in his 1940 autobiography, The Big Sea, relates the following: "In those days, 409 Edgecombe, Harlem’s tallest and most exclusive apartment house, was quite a party center. The Walter Whites and the Aaron Douglases, among others, lived and entertained there. Walter White was a jovial and cultured host, with a sprightly mind. . . (and) the most beautiful wife in Harlem, and they were always hospitable to hungry literati like me…"

Edgebrook Ave.

Edgemont St. Exploring the Black Hills & Badlands by Hiram Rogers is a 1999 travel book and includes a chapter on Edgemont, South Dakota.

Edgerton St. Don Empson’s book tells us that the street is named for Erastus Edgerton  (1816-1893). This author can find little about him except that the town of Franklin, New York, has a monument to someone of the same name. More importantly, Franklin, New York, has a community known as Bartlett Hollow. This author should offer to autograph that hollow. For younger readers, their concern may be to David R. Edgerton (born  1927) who  is the co-founder of the Burger King Corporation. The diner may find this book to be interesting: Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food by Andrew Smith and published in 2006.

Edgewater Blvd. The Edgewater Hotel is on the waterfront in Seattle, Washington. Rock music fans will want to try to get the same rooms that housed The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and others.

Edmund   Ave. Edmund or Edmond is a fictional character and the main antagonist in William Shakespeare's King Lear. He is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester, and the younger brother of Edgar, the Earl's legitimate son.

Eichenwald St. The Informant: A True Story is a 2000 book by New York Times investigative reporter, Kurt Eichenwald. It was made into a movie starring Matt Damon.

Eighth St. The Eighth Day, is a 1967 novel by Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), awarded the National Book Award.

Eleanor Ave. Eleanor Farjeon (1881 –1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire.

Eleventh St. Doris Lessing (1919-2013) was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. James Oppenheim (1882–1932), was an American poet, novelist, and editor. He is most well-known for writing the poem, “Bread and Roses,” which later became a famous labor and women’s rights anthem. The poem has often been associated with a textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts during January–March 1912. However, Oppenheim published the poem in the magazine, American Poetry in December, 1911, which means he did not write it for the Lawrence strike. What may have happened is that he wrote it thinking of an earlier labor strike in Chicago.  The strikers in Lawrence had reportedly carried signs saying Bread and Roses but that may have come from a speech by Rose Schneiderman (1882 –1972) who  was a prominent labor union leader.  Oppenheim possibly saw the opportunity to get his poem some more publicity after the Lawrence strike and had it republished in various magazines. Sadly, some people have taken what this author considers to be a kneejerk offense to  the word “race” in the last stanza and have changed it to “us all.” This author feels that censorship is still censorship and that the censors simply lack energy and creativity in writing their own poem. Oppenheim grew up on Eleventh St. in Saint Paul. Here is the original text of the poem: As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day, A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses, For the people hear us singing: "Bread and roses! Bread and roses!" As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men, For they are women's children, and we mother them again. Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses! As we come marching, marching, unnumbered women dead Go crying through our singing their ancient cry for bread. Small art and love and beauty their drudging spirits knew. Yes, it is bread we fight for—but we fight for roses, too! As we come marching, marching, we bring the greater days. The rising of the women means the rising of the race. No more the drudge and idler—ten that toil where one reposes, But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and roses! Bread and roses!

Elfelt St.

Elizabeth St. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861) was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era.

Elk St. Heȟáka Sápa (Black Elk) (1863– 1950) was a famous wičháša wakȟáŋ (medicine man and holy man) of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). He was Heyoka and a second cousin of Crazy Horse. (from wikipedia)

Elliott Pl. The Elliott’s are the main character family in Jane Austen’s 1816 novel, Persuasion. The father, Sir Walter Elliott, has the nobility title of Baronet which is officially abbreviated as Bart and which is noteworthy since it happens to be the name by which the author of this book is known. He will gladly accept all salutations addressed to Sir Bart.

Ellis Ave. The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South (2007) by Osha Gray Davidson (born 1954) is an account of the friendship formed by C.P. Ellis, a Ku Klux Klan member, and Ann Atwater, a poor, African-American mother. The two met at a school meeting in 1971 in Durham, North Carolina, and worked together to improve conditions for everyone. Ellis renounced his Klan membership and spent the rest of his life working for equal rights for all people.

Elm St. Edgar Lee Masters (1868 – 1950) was an American poet. He is most well-known as the author of Spoon River Anthology. He is sometimes known by his initials, E.L.M.

Elmwood Elsie Ln.

Elway St.

Emerald Ln. The Emerald City is the capital city of the fictional Land of Oz in L. Frank Baum's (1856–1919) Oz books, first described in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900). Baum wrote the book as an attempt to counter what he felt was a trend towards immoral subjects in literature. He was connected to controversy when, as an editor of a newspaper in Aberdeen, South Dakota, he wrote several editorials about the Wounded Knee massacre. The editorials appeared to show support for the massacre. In 2006, two of Baum’s descendants apologized for the editorials. There are some writers who claim Baum wrote the editorials as satire and that he was really in support of the native American cause. Another apology occurred in 2009 in regard to the 1920 lynchings of three African-American men in Duluth, Minnesota. The grandson of one of the lynchers made an apology and wrote a book about his experience growing up with his grandfather’s legacy: The Lyncher In Me by Warren Read, published in 2009. It is available on Kindle.

Emerald St.

Emma St. Emma, by Jane Austen (1775 –1817), is a novel first published in 1815.

Empire Dr. "The Natural and Social History of a Family under the Second Empire" is the subtitle to the novel, Nana, by Emile Zola (1840-1902). Zola was a French author and a major figure in the  exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus. Dreyfus was Jewish and had been accused of treason. Zola took up his cause and eventually was able to have Dreyfus found innocent.

Endicott St. Don Empson’s book tells us that the street is named for John Endecott (born before 1601 – 1664/5, also spelled Endicott) who  was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He apparently had strong opinions. The following quotation is from Endicott’s entry in wikipedia and reminds this author of tonsorial responses to his hairstyle in the ‘60s. Endicott is issuing the directive: "Forasmuch as the wearing of long haire after the manner of Ruffians and barbarous Indians, hath begun to invade new England contrary to the rule of gods word ... Wee the Magistrates who have subscribed [signed] this paper ... doe declare and manifest our dislike and detestation against the wearing of such long haire." Endicott did have a fruity side and is known to have planted a pear tree which is still with us and is considered the oldest living cultivated tree in North America. However, no pear is superior to the Bartlett pear. So be it. James Wright (1927 – 1980) was a poet well-known in Minnesota. He may have had Endicott’s pear tree in mind when he wrote this poem: To A Blossoming Pear Tree Beautiful natural blossoms, Pure delicate body, You stand without trembling. Little mist of fallen starlight, Perfect, beyond my reach, How I envy you. For if you could only listen, I would tell you something, Something human. An old man Appeared to me once In the unendurable snow. He had a singe of white Beard on his face. He paused on a street in Minneapolis And stroked my face. Give it to me, he begged. I'll pay you anything. I flinched. Both terrified, We slunk away, Each in his own way dodging The cruel darts of the cold. Beautiful natural blossoms, How could you possibly Worry or bother or care About the ashamed, hopeless Old man? He was so near death He was willing to take Any love he could get, Even at the risk Of some mocking policeman Or some cute young wiseacre Smashing his dentures, Perhaps leading him on To a dark place and there Kicking him in his dead groin Just for the fun of it. Young tree, unburdened By anything but your beautiful natural blossoms And dew, the dark Blood in my body drags me Down with my brother.

Energy Dr.

Englewood Ave. Anne Spencer Morrow (1906-2001) was born in Englewood, New Jersey. She was married to the aviator, Charles Lindbergh, and was the author of Gift From the Sea, published in in 1955. This book helped to rebuild her reputation after she had published articles in support of her husband’s pro-fascist views.

English St. Oddly, the street was named for a person, William English (1822-1896), who was the Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1880. English literature is generally considered to have begun with  Beowulf  which  is the conventional title of an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines and set in Scandinavia. It is the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and thus commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also arguably the earliest vernacular English literature. Written in England, its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. (from wikipedia)

Erie St. Marc Tolon Brown (born 1946) is an American author and illustrator of children's books. Brown writes as well as illustrates the Arthur book series. He grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania. His birth name was spelled Mark but he was such a great admirer of the artist, Marc Chagall, that he changed the spelling of his name. Journey on a Cloud: A Children's Book Inspired by Marc Chagall is a 2011 children’s book  by Veronique Massenot and illustrated by Elise Mansot.

Escanaba Ave. Mona E. Simpson (born 1957) is an American author. She won the Whiting Prize for her first novel, Anywhere but Here (1986). She is the biological sister of Steve Jobs. The mother in the TV show, “The Simpsons” is named after her. She was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin.  The Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad runs from Ontonagon, Michigan, to Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Estabrook Dr. The street is not named for him but Prince Estabrook was a black slave and Minutemen Private who fought and was wounded at the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. An undated broadside from the time identified him as "a Negro Man", spelled his name Easterbrooks, and listed him among the wounded from Lexington, MA. Born around 1741, he was a slave belonging to the family of Benjamin Estabrook from whom he most likely took his name. (from wikipedia) His story is told in the 2001 children’s book, Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier, by Alice Hinkle.

Etna St. Empedocles on Etna  is the second volume of poems by the English poet, Matthew Arnold (1822-1888). He was considered the third great Victorian poet after Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning.

Euclid St. The street is not named for the city but Sharon Creech (born 1945) was born in South Euclid, Ohio. She is an American writer of children's novels. She was the first American winner of the Carnegie Medal for British children's books and the first person to win both the American Newbery Medal and the British Carnegie Medal.

Eustis St. Dorothy Eustis (1886 – 1946) was an American dog breeder and philanthropist, who founded The Seeing Eye, the first guide-dog school for the blind in the United States. (from wikipedia) Her efforts are mentioned in Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #24: Dog Heroes: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #46: Dogs in the Dead of Night a 2011 book by Mary Pope Osborne. The Magic Tree House Books are very popular and a good introduction into chapter books for second-third graders.

Eva St. Eva Beatrice Dykes (1893-1986) was the first African-American woman to fulfill the requirements for a doctoral degree, and the third to be awarded a doctorate of philosophy. She wrote The Negro in English Romantic Thought: Or a Study in Sympathy for the Oppressed, published in 1942.

Everett Ct. Some of the Days of Everett Anderson  begins a series of children’s books written in verse about an African-American boy and his experiences in growing up. Written  by poet Lucille Clifton (1936-2010).

Exchange St. The Exchange: Poetry  by Sophie Cabot Black was published by Graywolf Press of Minneapolis in 2013. Here is a sample of one of her poems: I took care of myself. I took care Of myself, thinking much too often I took care of someone else. Everything feels like payment. --from "Pay Attention"

Exeter Pl. The Exeter Book is an original manuscript and one of the most important documents in Anglo-Saxon literature. It is kept in the vaults of the Exeter Cathedral in Exeter, England. The Exeter Book dates back to the 10th century and is one of four manuscripts that between them contain virtually all the surviving poetry in Old English.