Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Monday, September 07, 2020

Fire in the Hole.

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Just a wee bit of clarity, then some music, and finally a benediction. The content herewith is derived from past posts. Labor Day is M...
Monday, July 06, 2020

ON THE AVENUES took a week off. Here's what I've been writing while on holiday.

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There also was a house-painting project. Having made it through six months of weekly ON THE AVENUES columns without a single rerun, I d...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Memorial Day 2020 (4 of 4): History matters, especially on Memorial Day.

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There are long, long trails a-winding ... ... through places like France. Aisne-Marne American Cemetery With headstones lying i...

Memorial Day 2020 (3 of 4): "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream."

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I've forgotten the context, but thanks to RG for the idea; in essence, the best way to honor the departed is to live in peace, even i...

Memorial Day 2020 (2 of 4): Charles Ives, from Decoration Day to Memorial Day.

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All traditions must begin somewhere. May 30, 1868: Civil War dead honored on Decoration Day  ( History ) By proclamation of General ...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

Today was Rudolf Maister Day in Slovenia, because he was a Slavic Badass.

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Another historical footnote of which I was unaware. It's only 119 miles (as the crow flies) from Vienna to Maribor , which lies in Sl...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Labor Day 2019: It SHOULD be honored on May 1. Today is a boss's holiday, but we'll celebrate with songs about working people, and thoughts by Dan Canon.

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Just a wee bit of clarity, then some music, and finally a benediction. The content herewith is derived from past posts. Labor Day is M...
Sunday, August 04, 2019

Yet again gripped with nostalgia, we remember Gahan's hilarious Great Street Piano Meltdown of 2015.

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You'll recall the Board of Public Works and Safety as an entity twisted these past eight years to primarily administer Jeff Gahan...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Memorial Day 2019 (4 of 4): History matters, especially on Memorial Day.

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There are long, long trails a-winding ... ... through places like France. Aisne-Marne American Cemetery With headstones lying i...

Memorial Day 2019 (3 of 4): "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream."

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I've forgotten the context, but thanks to RG for the idea; in essence, the best way to honor the departed is to live in peace, even i...

Memorial Day 2019 (2 of 4): Charles Ives, from Decoration Day to Memorial Day.

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All traditions must begin somewhere. May 30, 1868: Civil War dead honored on Decoration Day  ( History ) By proclamation of General ...
Monday, September 03, 2018

Labor Day should be May 1. Today is a boss's holiday, but we'll celebrate with songs about working people, and thoughts by Dan Canon.

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Just a wee bit of clarity, then some music, and finally a benediction. The content herewith is derived from past posts. Labor Day is ...
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Tuesday, September 05, 2017

ASK THE BORED: Gripped with nostalgia, we remember the Great Street Piano Meltdown of 2015.

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Came the reminder: two years ago today was the belated (to put it mildly) dedication ceremony for the street piano that produced so much ...
Monday, September 04, 2017

The workers' holiday? That'd be May 1 -- and American workers did that.

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Just as long as we're clear about the fact of the matter, I'm down with today. Labor Day is May 1 , by Jonah Walters ( Jacobin...
Monday, May 29, 2017

Memorial Day 2017 (3 of 3): History matters, especially on Memorial Day.

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There are long, long trails a-winding through places like France. Aisne-Marne American Cemetery With headstones lying in a sweeping ...

Memorial Day 2017 (2 of 3): "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream."

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I've forgotten the context, but thanks to RG for the idea; in essence, the best way to honor the departed is to live in peace, even i...

Memorial Day 2017 (1 of 3): Charles Ives, from Decoration Day to Memorial Day.

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All traditions must begin somewhere. May 30, 1868: Civil War dead honored on Decoration Day  ( History ) By proclamation of General ...