* 1923 – James Dickey, American poet and author ( d. 1997 )

A darker image of the hillbilly is found in the film Deliverance ( 1972 ), based on a novel by James Dickey, which depicted the hillbilly as genetically deficient and murderous.

Directed by John Boorman, from a script that poet James Dickey had helped to adapt from his novel of the same name, it tells the story of a canoe trip gone awry in a feral, backwoods America.

* January 19 – James Dickey, American poet and novelist ( b. 1923 )

** James Dickey, American poet and author ( Deliverance ) ( d. 1997 )

The film is based on a 1970 novel of the same name by American author James Dickey, who has a small role in the film as the Sheriff.

* James Dickey as Sheriff Bullard

During the filming of the canoe scene, James Dickey engaged in a bitter argument with Boorman.

James Dickey's son, Christopher Dickey, in his book, Summer of Deliverance, said that it was one of the crewmen who suggested that Ned Beatty's character, Bobby, " squeal like a pig " — to add some backwoods horror to the scene and to make it more shocking.

* Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay – James Dickey

James Dickey & The Making of Deliverance

* The school board ordered books considered obscene including Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Deliverance by James Dickey assigned to the sophomore English class be confiscated and burned in 1973.

James Lafayette Dickey ( February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997 ) was an American poet and novelist.

James Dickey was born to lawyer Eugene Dickey and Maibelle Swift in Atlanta, Georgia where he attended North Fulton High School in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood.

James Dickey died on January 19, 1997, six days after his last class at the University of South Carolina, where from 1968 he taught as poet-in-residence.

* The Achievement of James Dickey: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems ( 1968 )

* James Dickey bibliography

* James Dickey Newsletter & Society

* The James Dickey Page

* CNN Audio Clips with James Dickey

* The James Dickey Library at the University of South Carolina

* The James Dickey Papers at Washington University in St. Louis

* Clark Powell Harbinger Column, " James Dickey: A Personal Memory "

* David Martin, " To My Cousin on James Dickey "

Carnegie's education and passion for reading was given a great boost by Colonel James Anderson, who opened his personal library of 400 volumes to working boys each Saturday night.

Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.

A successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip opened on Broadway at the St. James Theater on November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances, followed by a nationwide tour.

Connick is starring in the Broadway revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, which opened at the St. James Theatre in November 2011 in previews.

She starred in Whose Life Is It Anyway with James Naughton, which opened on Broadway at the Royale Theatre on February 24, 1980, and ran for 96 performances, and in Sweet Sue, which opened at the Music Box Theatre ( transferred to the Royale Theatre ) on Jan. 8, 1988, and ran for 164 performances.

Largely due to the support of psychologist William James, the American Society for Psychical Research ( ASPR ) opened its doors in New York City in 1885.

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 compelled him to take refuge in London where, under the sanction of King James II, he opened a church for the French exiles.

In 1956 the dead ends at St. James and Wynyard were joined and Circular Quay was opened.

Chief James Vann opened a tavern, inn and ferry across the Chattahoochee and built a cotton-plantation on a spur of the road from Athens, Georgia to Nashville.

The library was opened in 2011: the ceremony was attended by James Callaghan's son Michael and grandson Joe, the latter being a student at the college.

As early as 1985, " the Smiths had spawned a rash of soundalike bands, including James, who opened for the group on their spring 1985 tour ".

At roughly the same time as Kroc was conceiving what eventually became McDonald's Corporation, two Miami, Florida businessmen, James McLamore and David Edgerton, opened a franchise of the predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King.

Poster for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | Lincoln Center production by James McMullanArcadia first opened at the Royal National Theatre in London on 13 April 1993 in a production directed by Trevor Nunn and featuring Rufus Sewell as Septimus Hodge, Felicity Kendal as Hannah Jarvis, Bill Nighy as Bernard Nightingale, Emma Fielding as Thomasina Coverly, Alan Mitchell as Jellaby, Derek Hutchinson as Ezra Chater, Sidney Livingston as Richard Noakes, Harriet Walter as Lady Croom, Graham Sinclair as Captain Brice, Harriet Harrison as Chloe Coverly, Timothy Matthews as Augustus Coverly and Gus Coverly and Samuel West as Valentine Coverly.

Following six months of study at the office of Judge James Trimble, Houston passed the bar examination in Nashville, after which he opened a legal practice in Lebanon, Tennessee.

James Wheble sold the rest of his portion of the abbey site to Reading Corporation to create the Forbury Gardens, which were opened in 1861.

The Nathalie P. and Alan M. Voorhees Archaearium museum onsite opened just prior to the 400th anniversary and displays objects that belonged to Jamestown colonists 400 years ago, unearthed from the long lost James Fort site in a 7, 500 sq.

Henry and others were also building institutions: in early November 1775 he and the young attorney James Madison were elected as founding trustees of Hampden-Sydney College, which opened for classes on November 10.

In Grass Valley the historic Holbrooke Hotel opened in 1851 and housed Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and four U. S. presidents ( U. S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and James A. Garfield ).

First opened in 1957, it was the world's first bridge-tunnel, crossing the mouth of the James River, which serves as the gateway to the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean from the eastern United States ' largest ice-free harbor and its tributary rivers.

In 1840, the James River and Kanawha Canal was constructed adjacent to the north bank of the James River and opened to traffic.

James River High School in Buchanan also opened in 1959.

* Battersea Park, an 83 hectare green space laid out by Sir James Pennethorne between 1846 and 1864 and opened in 1858, and home to a zoo and the London Peace Pagoda.

His decision did not halt the production of the James H. Clark Center which opened in 2003.