Robert Leeson News Today

(EDITOR’S NOTE - This is the second in a series of articles that will appear in the Times News on Thursdays during the summer, highlighting former area coaches and athletes as they reflect on their ca...

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Two hundred years ago, on July 8, 1822, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned. He was less than a month short of thirty. Friedrich Engels’s enthusiasm for Shelley lasted a lifetime.