‘This Land is Your Land’ is certainly Woody Guthrie’s best known lyric. Lyric, not song, for the melody is one copyrighted by the legendary A.P. Carter in 1930,…
Today marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States from 1923 to 1929. As befits the memory of this modest…
Some years ago, I read The Alexiad by the Byzantine Princess Anna Comnena (1081-1151). Her history of her father’s reign, including the uninvited visit to Constantinople by the…
Few casual visitors to the Twin Cities will find their way to Litchfield, Minnesota, 65 miles to the northwest. But this lovely town on the prairie’s edge preserves…
Late this afternoon, a sudden outburst of cawing took my eyes to the back of the field behind our house. A half dozen crows were flying and squawking agitatedly…
I was going to observe John Cheever’s centenary with a brief post. Then, I saw in The Writer’s Almanac that Rachel Carson, too, was born on May 27, but in…
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