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Barcan took up the baton after the death of local firefighter Ken Woollard, who would organise the early festivals from a public phone box outside Cambridge Fire Station.

From Reuters • Jul. 31, 2014

In February the festival's contribution to folk music was recognised with a BBC Radio 2 Good Tradition Award, collected by Barcan and Joan Woollard, Ken's widow, at a ceremony in the Royal Albert Hall.

From Reuters • Jul. 31, 2014

Professor Marcus’s system, first published under her maiden name, included what came to be known as the Barcan formula.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2012

Her father was a typesetter at The Jewish Daily Forward; a bust of the Barcan household saint, the labor leader Eugene V. Debs, presided over the living room.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2012

Take the wings Of morning, pierce the Barcan wilderness, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings,—yet the dead are there!

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss