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Grace Note: Lucinda Williams Covers Hank & Bob

Published September 12th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

I admire singers who take other people’s songs and make them their own. Most lack the empathy to express the emotion in the words they may sing very well. In…

Country & Western Music Folk & Acoustic Music Johnny Cash Music New York City Rock - 50s thru 70s Sixties History

Highway 23 Revisited I: Right to Counsel

Published September 7th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

N.B.: This series of short pieces commemorates the dull 90-mile run between Marion and Toledo, Ohio, on US Rte. 23. It became no more interesting, but unforgettable, when the farmers…

American Character Ethics & Morality Judges & Legal Scholars Law - Criminal US Criminal Law War on Terror

Air Pollution, Coal and Charles Dickens

Published September 4th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

I’ve found few people credit my descriptions of the air pollution accepted as normal in the late 1940s and 1950s. But Charles Dickens had described them in the aptly named…

Appalachians & Plateau Coal Energy Environment Fifties History Industrial Revolution Ohio Social Change UK US History Writing

The Thalidomide Apology: A Study in Corporate Accountability

Published September 2nd, 2012 by Peter Kinder

‘German drug firm makes 1st apology for thalidomide’ So reads the headline of an August 31 Associated Press story by Frank Jordans and Maria Cheng.[1] Gruenenthal Group‘s…

Business Community & Society Corporate Social Responsibility Drug Policy Families Law - Civil Modern Life Social Change Transnational Corporations

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Kudos (Many), Kvetches (Few)

Published August 31st, 2012 by Peter Kinder

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame proves one thing: Danny & the Juniors were right: Rock ‘n roll is here to stay, it will never die. It…

American Character Architecture Cleveland, OH Drug Policy Johnny Cash Media Music Pre-1960 Radio Rock - 50s thru 70s Sixties History Social Change Television 50s - 70s Vices Vietnam War

‘Youth and Beauty’ and the Cleveland Museum of Art

Published August 30th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

‘Youth and beauty’: That’s how we think of the American writers and artists of the 1920s. The Fitzgeralds and Hemingway, the Flappers and Paris…. An exhibit running…

Architecture Art Cleveland, OH US History

Zoar, Ohio, and an Army Corps Levee: ‘TheyBuilt it; They Should Fix it.’

Published August 28th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

So said Zoar, Ohio, B&B owner Joe Potelicki of the Army Corps of Engineers levee whose failure threatens to wipe out his village. As Hurricane Isaac threatens…

Agriculture American Character Communities Future History Modern Life Ohio Social Change Sustainability

The Obama Justice Department & Guantanamo: Combining Odysseus with the Cyclops

Published August 23rd, 2012 by Peter Kinder

I want to support Barrack Obama’s re-election. He has done more for the environment with less tools than any of his predecessors. In the face of agency…

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Fracking, Strip Mining & the Amish

Published August 12th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

We’ve been driving byways for the past 16 days. This is another report from the road. *** Energy’s past and present we’ve seen in signs: from upstate…

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