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Maximize Your Time for Success Wednesday, February 24, 2021 @ 12:11 PM Ewing was born in 1916, near Garden City, Missouri. When he was a child his father was blinded in one eye in a farming accident and was forced to give up farming and move the family to Kansas City, Missouri where he became an insurance salesman. When Ewing was eleven, he became seriously ill and one of his heart valves was damaged. A doctor prescribed one year in bed so the heart valve could properly heal. At first, young Ew...

“Fetch aft the rum, Darby!” - The original title of this poem was Derelict and written by a Kentucky poet in 1891. Young E. Allison (1853-1932), of Louisville published his long and gory impression of a rhyme from a popular novel of the day in the Louisville Courier-Journal. He promoted Derelict as "a reminiscence of Treasure Island" the adventure novel penned by Robert Louis Stevenson. As the authors original title points out, the verse is about a ship found adrift at sea. The crew hav...