Daily Archives: May 6, 2013

Nous Somme Trahis

In his work on Winston Churchill’s lonely time of political exile in the dark decade of the 1930’s, historian William Manchester includes a moving peroration to one of Churchill’s many speeches during this time, and a message whose substance applies … Continue reading

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Simple Gifts

As a child of the Appalachians who grew up in exile from my native hills and valleys, I was very moved from the first time I heard Aaron Copeland’s Appalachain Suite, which is based on the enigmatic Shaker hymn “Simple … Continue reading

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