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Moving beyond both canonical and empirical portrayals

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going on to describe his family's move to Eugene

where their education will prepare them to take advantage of the same opportunities everyone else here enjoys

Commanding Old Ironsides Larry Bennett Moving beyond both canonical andSilas Talbot's life illuminates his time not with greater brightness than the lives of his more famous contemporaries, but with perhaps broader range and greater insight into the experiences and circumstances of a plain citizen of the new republic a citizen whose bravery and energy helped to create it. Silas Talbot was a farmer's son who went to sea, learned the building trades, saved and invested his money wisely, married well several times, fought