<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving, so of course Rob, John, and Dan drink and discuss &#8220;The Wreck of the Hesperus&#8221; by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1842).</p>
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<p>John McCoy   with Rob McCoy and Dan McCoy</p>

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      <h4><a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/topics/post-661/" class="link">The Wreck of the Hesperus</a></h4>
      
     
    
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     <h4><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44654/the-wreck-of-the-hesperus" class="link" target="_blank">The Wreck of the Hesperus</a></h4>
     <p>Link to full poem.</p>

    
     <h4><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1925/05/25/archives/schooner-hesperus-was-never-wrecked-vessel-made-famous-by.html" class="link" target="_blank">SCHOONER HESPERUS WAS NEVER WRECKED</a></h4>
     <p>The New York Times gets pedantic.</p>

    
     <h4><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Main" class="link" target="_blank">What is the Spanish Main?</a></h4>
     <p>Spoiler: none of us got it right.</p>

    
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136: Stuart Little

John McCoy and a guest host read books you might have been assigned in high school, or college, or other stuff you might have read when you were a kid. The theming is loose!