Today I’ve driven all over the state of Connecticut, and I’ll be honest, I look at the woods and see the ghosts of the Pequot who conceded this land to English settlers. I also think of Benedict Arnold, a native son of Connecticut, betraying his own neighbors in battle after he defected. These woods could…
Up early, reading some Robert Frost poetry I don’t remember reading before. I’m mesmerized by a line and read on. I get like this. Millions of songs on iTunes, and I’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s out there despite a lifetime focus on music. I’ve spent huge chunks of my time exploring new music,…
I’ve seen the challenges, the ten albums that have influenced me. Such things frustrate me because I don’t want to commit that much of my time to posting daily to social media, yet intrigue me because music is a good chunk of who I am. So in my typical stubborn fashion, I’ll just run with…
If you like live music, Nashville is your place. If you believe right now mitigation and social distancing are in order, well, it’s not optimal. Every honky-tonk bar you walk by has the back of a drummer facing you and music playing. It must be a madhouse during a normal SEC tournament (cancelled this year),…
Captain John Smith is usually associated with Jamestown and Pocahontas. And he’s most famous for his relationship with the Native American tribes in Virginia. Smith was proactively aggressive with hostile tribes, but proactively friendly with peaceful tribes. There are plenty of examples in colonial history where hostile and peaceful tribes weren’t distinguished when it came…
“Now is the time to visit all the celebrated places in the country, and fill our heads with what we have seen, so that when we become old and bald we will have something to talk about over the teacups.” – Jippensha Ikku Credit to Smithsonian Magazine for the Ikku quote, for it made me…
