Especially the older generations of Southerners can picture this come summer/springtime. Outside of town, a large tent that has been erected in an empty field
Category: Travel
Sean Flynn: Hollywood to Vietnam
A previous blog discussed in detail the life of Errol Flynn, but I did not touch on his family. Flynn married French-American actress Lili Damita
The History and a Song: Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Sixteen Tons”
People have been coming to America, for some reason or another, for a very long time. Some sought freedom of religion. Some yearned for economic
The History and a Song: Arlo Guthrie’s “The City of New Orleans”
Many years ago, a railway was defined as a “track for steam carriages.” This is an extremely inadequate definition with our modern standards. The modern
The History and a Song: Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
I was born in the early 1980s when the popularity of Canadian born folk-rock/folk-pop singer Gordon Lightfoot was still high. He had many hits in
A Lost Language: Argh! Pirates
We rewatch the Pirates of the Caribbean movies a lot at my house. And since I am one of those annoying people who walk around
