Bennington, Vermont: Old First Church. 4/3/11 Updated: Jan. 11, 2012. What do Jack Benny, John D. Rockefeller and Robert Frost have in common? Each achieved greatness in a fiercely competitive…
In ‘Why I Write’ (1946), George Orwell begins: From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be…
John Lincoln Wright, who died on December 4 at 64, could jolt a bar to life. A country singer-songwriter and band leader, his distinctive bass voice – backed by a…
In September 1961, ‘Joan Baez Vol. 2‘ appeared. Five months later, on a dark mid-February afternoon, a friend played it and ‘Joan Baez‘ (1960) for me. Then we played…