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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Deep South USA
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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Hiking the Appalachian Trail in Virginia
What better way to work off Virginia’s food and cultural excesses than on the Appalachian Trail – a 2,175-mile footpath along the ridge-crests and valleys of theAppalachian Mountains traversing 14 states from Maine to Georgia.
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The Rise and Fall of the Rust Belt: Ep 2: Boom to Bust
America’s Great Lakes, with an abundance of coal, iron ore, and lots of water, fuelled an unparalleled industrial revolution. The
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