Here… • Is New Year’s Day a “Christian holiday“? Ecclesiastes, Christian Piatt, and others helped me on this one… • I know I’m living in the past, but hey, I’m a historian: the blogging year in review for 2013. • Looking to the rapidly nearing future: a preview of some themes from the new World … More That Was The Week That Was
So far in this alphabetic tour of my music collection, I’ve discussed a blues-rock album with a great folk-rock track released in 1965 and a folk-rock concert with clear blues influences recorded in 1966. We’re stuck in the mid-Sixties for one more week, but at least we take a break from the roots-music family… The … More Albums A to Z: A Charlie Brown Christmas
One of my favorite blogs is Past Imperfect, produced by the Smithsonian Magazine and featuring terrifically well-written stories about a fascinating array of historical subjects. (A piece on female pirates won one of the last Cliopatria awards for historical blogging before Cliopatria closed down.) Well-researched but accessible, I’ve taken to recommending several of its best posts … More Nazi Jazz
The Pietist Schoolman 