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Becky Buller was born in St. James, Minnesota. At the age of 10, she enrolled in some ...
Comedian Steve Martin had the opportunity on Tuesday night (11/10) to demonstrate to a British audience that he is a serious musician, and according to Wednesday’s review of his performance in the Guardian national newspaper he succeeded.
Martin was on ...
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Louisa Branscomb is an acclaimed songwriter and pioneer in bluegrass music, having been ...
This June, in Ricci v. DeStefano, the Supreme Court held that the city of New Haven discriminated against white firefighters when it rejected the results of a promotion exam that eliminated almost all of the minority candidates. Frank Ricci and other ...
From RICHARD THOMPSON FORD,
Slate,
23 Oct 2009
Working Girl Blues: The Life And Music Of Hazel Dickens by Hazel Dickens and Bill Malone, has been named the winner of a Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound ...
More than a few naive souls hoped that the election of Barack Obama signaled a new era of racial harmony. Instead, alas, American race relations have entered a bizarre new phase in which tension is ubiquitous and almost anyone can claim to be the ...
From RICHARD THOMPSON FORD,
Slate,
30 Sep 2009
News at the speed of Bluegrass!
Gene Lowinger, a New Jersey boy by birth, was the first northerner to play the fiddle for Bill Monroe. He first played with Monroe in 1964, filling in on shows in the northeast. In June 1965 he was hired as a regular ...
Far too often in our nation’s policy-making process, we allow ourselves to get caught up in the divisive aspects of issues rather than focusing on how we can work together to achieve a historic, bipartisan result. Nowhere has this been more evident ...
From RICHARD GEPHARDT AND TOMMY THOMPSON,
Lawrence Journal World,
8 Sep 2009
choices.
First, a bipartisan White House summit focused on measurable, action-oriented ideas. Providing high-quality, affordable health-care to every American is inherently a non-partisan issue. So is the need to increase insurance coverage, prevent ...
From RICHARD GEPHARDT AND TOMMY THOMPSON,
TwinCities.com,
4 Sep 2009
The Andover Historical Society has a collection of thousands of artifacts ranging from old photographs and period clothing to a manuscript collection that includes letters, documents, and local property deeds dating back almost a century.
Most of the ...
From RICHARD THOMPSON,
Boston Globe,
2 Sep 2009
