An excerpt from the book Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America by Elliott J. Gorn: Her contemporaries marveled at her. “She is a wonder,” the poet Carl Sandburg wrote of Mother Jones during World War I. “Close to 88 years old and her voice a singing voice; nobody else could give me a [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones (August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930)
Posted in Historical Information, how we live, photographs, tagged 1902, historic photograph, labor movement, labor unions, Mother Jones on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jazz for a Sunday afternoon
Posted in music, Videos, tagged Count Basie, jazz, music video, Oscar Peterson on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Jack and the Bean Stalk”
Posted in art, childhood memories, Historical Information, shopping, tagged Aida McKenzie, Federal Art Project, library of congress, new york, poster art, Works Progress Administration, WPA on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Remembering John Lennon (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980)
Posted in music, Videos, tagged blues, John Lennon, music video on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Red House
Posted in music, Videos, tagged Jimi Hendrix, music video on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)
A Thanksgiving Prayer
Posted in Literature, tagged Don Swaim, interview, prayer, thanksgiving, video, William S. Burroughs on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By William S. Burroughs For John Dillinger In hope he is still alive Thanks for the wild turkey and the Passenger Pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts Thanks for a Continent to despoil and poison Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger Thanks for vast herds of [...]
Remembering Thanksgiving Past
Posted in holiday music, music, Videos, tagged Alice's Restaurant Massacre, Arlo Guthrie, music video, thanksgiving on November 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Correct way to bake turkey.”
Posted in photographs, Something to Eat, tagged 1937, food photography, historical photographs, turkeys on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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