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This excerpt from Tom Sawyer, coming in the book’s second chapter shows Tom at his cunning, conniving best.
November 6, 2024On today’s episode we’re talking electronic music…and the importance of a thorough resume.
October 16, 2024The Fisk Jubilee Singers with Band of Gideon, a cylinder recording from 1927
October 4, 2024It was L. Frank Baum’s mother-in-law who encouraged him to write down the fanciful stories he told his kids. Seems he put a bit of himself into the tales, too.
September 28, 2024Why did Governor Dewitt Clinton build a giant ditch across New York state? To get to the other side.
August 17, 2024The American B-24 Bomber departed a Libyan Air Base on a bombing raid in April 1943.
August 8, 2024You’re listening to Marian Anderson with “Heav’n, Heav’n”, a Masterpiece 78 from 1943, and You’re on the Sound Beat. When Marian Anderson performed at Princeton University in 1937, she was one of the most famous singers in the world. None other than Arturo Toscanini, once told her she had a voice “heard once in a hundred years”. ...
July 25, 2024