Ed Kee

Ed Kee graduated from William Penn High School in 1969, the University of Delaware with a B.S.

In 1996, he completed the requirements for a Master of Arts-Liberal Studies at the University of Delaware.

His thesis project was the 1954 School Integration Crisis in Milford. This work was published in Delaware History, the publication of The Delaware Historical Society.

He has authored or co-authored more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. These include articles published in the fields of horticulture, vegetable science, agricultural engineering, agricultural economics, history and civil rights.

He and his wife Debbie have two grown daughters, who live in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Titles

The Milford Eleven: integration fears robbed hope from eleven black students

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A book is like a man-clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
John Steinbeck

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

There are books...which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there-that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Henry Miller

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing

O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presagers of my speaking breast.
William Shakespeare

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler

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