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Herm Card is the City Eagle's roving street reporter and photographer as well as the Eagle's Poetry Editor.

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He is an English teacher, poet, educational consultant, and motivational speaker. He has been a college baseball player and coach, military officer, tournament squash player and NCAA baseball umpire. He is also a Museum Educator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and co-editor of the academic journal, "The English Record."

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Submit your poetry to Herm at eaglepoetry@aol.com

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When I taught my eighth grade English classes about the poetry of Bob Dylan’s lyrics, I always included a cultural literacy unit on the 1960s. Someone always asked if I had been at Woodstock. When I told them I had not, and they asked why, I told them the story.

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At 7:00 AM on Saturday August 16, 1969, I pulled into the parking lot of the West End Armory in Binghamton, NY. A private in the New York Army National Guard, I was in Binghamton for my monthly Active Duty for Training weekend...

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