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Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label America. Show all posts
Thursday, September 04, 2025

Bill Bryson’s “One Summer, America 1927,” when “America First” came to call

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As I read Bill Bryson’s “One Summer: America 1927,” I realized that our history is comprised of an amazing number of knuckleheads and heroes...
Wednesday, August 13, 2025

On Aug. 14, you can hear a rewrite of "This Land" on "Woody at Home"

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From a July 14  New York Times article by pop music critic Jon Pareles comes some of the "This Land is Your Land" lyrics from the...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

"This Land is Your Land" -- almost all the lyrics

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This is from the official Woody Guthrie web site. I wanted the whole thing due to an ignorance in some quarters as to what the song is about...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Word Back: In America, We're All Bozos on This Red-White-And-Blue Bus

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Part 2 of Word Back: America I explore word choice in "Make America Great Again." What was America like in my youth? Was it all fu...
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