Kind of Blue in the Mississippi Delta
The Mississippi Delta is the home of the sound that was once known as ‘the devil’s music’, the blues. Robert Johnson (b. 1911) was a master and seminal developer of its early form
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Wednesday, January 21, 2026
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Historic Walks: New York – Skyscraper City
Built in 1902, resembling an Italian Renaissance Palazzo it was originally called the Fuller Building and its more familiar name derives from the public fondness to nickname it after a common household iron.
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Monticello – Jefferson’s essay in architecture
Monticello, two miles southeast of Charlottesville in Virginia, is the home of Thomas Jefferson – third President of the United States of America and one of the nation’s founding fathers.
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Civil War; The Battle of Stanardsville
Virginia oozes history – every town has associations with the Revolution or the Civil War and no more so than Richmond, the once capital of the confederacy and now the capital of the state.
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South East USA: Destinations
Virginians are descendants of the settlers who came from as far away as England, Ireland, and Germany to the unexplored parts of the South East USA in search of land, opportunity, and a better life.
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