Essays by David R. Beasley

From time to time, David will publish Essays and other documents which you may download here free of charge. Simply choose one of the Essays in the table below to begin your download. A description of the files can be found below the table.

Name	Size	Last Mod.
Beasley_and_Lundy_Lane.pdf	235 Kb	2022-04-26
Bloody_Beginings_Sources.pdf	94 Kb	2022-04-26
Brock at Burlington Heights.pdf	477 Kb	2022-04-26
Duchamp_as_a_critic.pdf	125 Kb	2022-04-26
RankinsRoles.doc	370 Kb	2022-04-26
RankinsRoles.pdf	212 Kb	2022-04-26
Rankins_Endnotes.pdf	178 Kb	2022-04-26
RB, photos for the essay.pdf	1431 Kb	2022-04-26
Richard Beasley.pdf	51 Kb	2022-04-26
Taking_Sides.pdf	2034 Kb	2022-04-26
The Undermining of the Crusader Myth and the Awakening of the Sexual Woman.pdf	64 Kb	2022-04-26
Fenian Invasions.pdf	122 Kb	2022-05-03

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From Bloody Beginnings - Sources for the book

McKee Rankin and the Heyday of the American Theatre
A FREE document listing all of Rankin's performances and the role played is available here in PDF or MicroSoft Word format. "Rankin's Roles" comprises every role Rankin played with play and theatre from 1860 to 1914.

Taking Sides
Political and social divisions in the Niagara area from 1780 to 1845.
The following essay was intended to be given as a talk with emphasis on slide illustrations at the Niagara Falls (Canada) Public Library in June 2011 as part of The Making of Niagara lecture series. Since the lectures previous to mine were poorly attended, the organizer cancelled mine a couple of days before I was to give it. Thus I present it here in recompense.

BROCK AT BURLINGTON HEIGHTS

Representing my ancestor Richard Beasley, Colonel of the 2nd York Regiment of Militia, I greeted General Isaac Brock on August 7, 2012 on Burlington Heights as he gathered volunteers to take with him to Amherstburg to defend the western country against an American invasion from Fort Detroit. I gave the talk with illustrations at the Coach House of Dundurn Castle.

 DISSENSION AND THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE

 A close look at the battle in which Richard Beasley from the 2nd York and others from the 5th Lincoln were charged with cowardice for political reasons and the dissection of such charges to illustrate their improbability.

INDICES TO  EPISODES AND VIGNETTES, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

 

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Here are the pictures from a Hamilton Newspaper, probably from the 1920s, when Sir John Gibson reads the inscription on the monument at Dundurn, Burlington Heights, about the Loyalists and Richard Beasley, which I refer to in my blog “Creative nonfiction and our history” entered on Oct 4, 2014. Some of Richard Beasley’s descendants are present, according to the newspaper. Click image to enlarge

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