The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes - 3

The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes - A series of poetic puzzles - 3

Clues - Mysteries  Plays  Musicals  Poetry  Matriculation  Property  Museums  Philosophy    

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1.

From Polemics to Pygmalion

From Portobello to London

From outcast to salvation

From Barbara Undershaft

From critic of the craft

to one’s craft well done

He spun many a playful act

With the least of tact.

Extra clues - Fabian Society, Charlotte Payne-Townshend

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2.

From Coxhoe to Florence

From The Battle of Marathon to Aurora Leigh

From the Portuguese to the Greeks

From Slavery’s abhorrence

to Child Labor’s illegality

and Women’s Rights that she would seek

she fought her bodily woes

but lost to death’s shadows.

Extra clues - Pen, John Kenyon

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3.

From Malden to Temecula

From student to fighter

From the Velvet Claws to the Postponed Murder, in ‘73

From the T.V. to the watercooler

From lawyer to writer

From a rocky start to profitable masonry

He founded The Court of Last Resort

Freely helping those who’s Justice fell short.

Extra clues - Della Street, Cool and Lam

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From Joseph, to Jesus, to Jeeves

From The Likes of Us To a Lost Shoe

From Peron to Daae

Ah, the stories he weaves, the glory he receives

From London to Sydmonton, he’s not through

From Cricket to Love Never Dies

From Variations to Symphonic Suites

He filled the seats and reaped the receipts.

Extra clues - Lon Chaney, Gaston Leroux

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5.

From Burlington to Cooperstown

From Bumppo to Chingachgook

From Precaution to The Ways of the Hour

From Indian lore to Upside Down

From The History of the Navy of the United States of America, a long book

To Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief, a short book

He wrote of Leatherstockings and sea power.

His Deerslayer and Pathfinder are close to Hall of Fame.

Extra clues - The Brig, Somers, Otsego Hall

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Choose from here if you must: 

Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Paul Jones, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Earle Stanley Gardner, Arthur Conan Doyle, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Penn Warren, Oliver Wendall Holmes, Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Graham Bell, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Carlos Williams, William Henry Harrison, Robert Louis Stevenson, Martin Luther King, James Fenimore Cooper, William Howard Taft, Edgar Lee Masters, Francis Scott Key, George Bernard Shaw, John Jacob Astor.