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thudfactor on
July 15, 2006
Let’s talk about a different kind of perfect storm, shall we? From funk to folk.
Last week, my wife picked up the “Anthology of American Folk Music”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001DJU/celticknotwor-20 the Smithsonian’s historic collection of old tunes sung by old voices through a near constant scratch and hiss of low-tech recording. Difficult listening if you’re just bopping around town, but [...]
Posted in Art and Writing
| Tagged American Folk Music, Bruce Springsteen, HTML, Pete Seeger, Smithsonian, Steve Earle, Yahoo!
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By
thudfactor on
December 20, 2004
Man, things have gotten slow around here, haven’t they?
The last time I went to Bristol, Virginia Sarah and I walked around a bit downtown. Downtown Bristol is much more lively now than it was when I was growing up there, but it wouldn’t have taken much to accomplish _that_.
One of the stranger additions to downtown I [...]
Posted in Diary
| Tagged Army memorial, Edsel, Smithsonian, Virginia Sarah
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By
thudfactor on
September 22, 2004
Hey, does anyone know there’s “a new Smithsonian museum on the National Mall”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39949-2004Sep21.html?
The “National Museum of the American Indian”:http://www.nmai.si.edu/ opened yesterday. It’s located next to the old Air & Space Museum. There are four main galleries.
The first, “Our Universes,” is dedicated to cosmologies and traditions of various tribes. These are presented in a series of small [...]
Posted in Diary
| Tagged Allan Houser, Americas, George Morrison, Gustav Heye Center, Mohawk, National Mall, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian, Smithsonian museum, Space Museum, World Trade Center
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By
thudfactor on
December 15, 2003
In other news, “the Udvar-Hazy center”:http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarhazy/ — expansion to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum — opens today in Chantilly, Virginia. The Mall museum may have the Wright Flyer, an Apollo Lunar Module, and the actual Star Trek Enterprise prop. But the Udvar-Hazy center has the Enola Gay, an SR-71, and the _actual_ Enterprise space shuttle. I’m very eager [...]
Posted in Archived Unsorted
| Tagged Apollo Lunar Module, Chantilly, Mall museum, Smithsonian, Space Museum, Virginia
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