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Category: Stories, Music and Film
Melancholy, a Ten-Minute Indulgence
Just to shut you down for about ten minutes, remind you of your place… …and our place. Both from Ken Burns films: Lewis and Clark Ashokan Farewell, Civil War Ashokan Farewell-Sullivan Ballou Letter
Maria Georgieva Tracheva, an Art Friend in Bulgaria
…could use your business. I’ve known her as Mimi since I first visited the Sofia Flea Market in the center of the city in 1994. I last visited her in 2008, and in those years, at least once annually since…
Comparing 20-year old music tastes in 1965 and 2022
Culturally this is no small matter. Moreover, natural laws of cultural survival are at stake as well. It’s not that bunch of old farts simply think their music tastes were more civilized. You should make a study of every generation…
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
One of the first history books I ever read was Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker. He was America’s “Ace of Aces” in World War I, flying French bi-planes (since we hadn’t made any in time for the war).…