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By Steve Thornton In 1899, the John Farris Music store in Hartford received an unusual request. It was a letter, relayed from Australia, asking for information on Hosea Easton, a Hartford man who had recently died in Sydney. A notice was placed in the Hartford Courant requesting information from local residents. No one could identify… Continue reading Early Civil Rights and Cultural Pioneers:The Easton Family — Now! Newington

And now for something a little obscure… Before being asked to record this piece I could probably have only named two songs by The Mamas & The Papas, though this one wasn’t amongst them. And judging by how deeply this song was buried in the band’s catalog, there are probably many other people who had […]… Continue reading The Mamas & The Papas – Dancing Bear — Gary Badger’s Trumpet Transcriptions

I got two impeccable bloggers nominating me for ‘my favourite feelings tag’ and I feel real honoured by their kind gesture. via TEN OF MY FAVOURITE FEELINGS TAG — ericotrips

I listen to a lot of music. Always have done. When I was a kid it was vinyl and sometimes cassettes. I even managed to take in eight track cassettes via my parents’ collection. MTV then brought an abundance of these new things called music videos and around this time I started going to gigs […]… Continue reading I have some questions about music… — Middle Age Fanclub

Happy Father’s Day! I hope everyone has a great day. I do miss my dad…this is Christmas 1975…yea I’m the dork beside him. James Brown = The MAN James Brown recorded this song in one take…the released version was supposed to be a run-through, but sounded so good it was kept anyway. Brown, who still […]… Continue reading James Brown – Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag — PowerPop… An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture

Juneteenth, John Legend and Alicia Keys performed in the latest installment of Verzuz, an Instagram series for hip hop and R&B stars to square off. Both piano players since childhood (Keys since she was 7, Legend since he was 5), their two-and-a-half hour Friday event showcased skill, heart, and major talent.” data-reactid=”23″ type=”text”>On Juneteenth, John… via… Continue reading Alicia Keys and John Legend’s Juneteenth piano battle was packed with inspirational musical moments — Welcome to The gorge

What happened to Asha Degree? via 27 Unresolved Mysteries That Are Worth Getting Sucked Into — Thought Catalog

Here are ten monstrous flying machines that had they voices would have probably rasped, “master, why did you create me?” 9. Bartini Beriev VVA-14 (1972) ‘Millenium Balkan’ Robert ‘Ludvigovich’ Bartini was an aristocratic Italian aircraft designer. The Italian Communist Party sent him to the USSR following the Fascist take-over of Italy. It was the intention […]… Continue reading 9 gloriously weird aircraft (and one utterly weird British interplanetary spacecraft) — Hush-Kit

Here are ten monstrous flying machines that had they voices would have probably rasped, “master, why did you create me?” 9. Bartini Beriev VVA-14 (1972) ‘Millenium Balkan’ Robert ‘Ludvigovich’ Bartini was an aristocratic Italian aircraft designer. The Italian Communist Party sent him to the USSR following the Fascist take-over of Italy. It was the intention […]… Continue reading 9 gloriously weird aircraft (and one utterly weird British interplanetary spacecraft) — Hush-Kit

Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation… ‘While I was sitting one night with a poet friend watching a great opera performed in a tent under arc lights, the poet took my arm and pointed silently. Far up, blundering out of the night, a huge Cecropia moth swept past from light […]… Continue reading “A New Theory of the Universe” by Robert Lanza from The American Scholar 2017 — The Extraterrestrial Highway