Alex Garland’s incendiary “Civil War” is now in theaters, and it’s sure to get people talking. The film imagines a near-future where America is engaged in another Civil War, this time with multiple ...
“To care for him who shall have borne the battle.” When Nancy Klimek, recreation manager at the Grand Island Veterans Home, gave that quote from President Abraham Lincoln, she tied the past and ...
Civil War heroine Arabella Barlow, born in Somerville in 1824, a great-granddaughter of the Wallace family of Wallace House who hosted George Washington’s winter headquarters and Hardenbergh family of ...
ROCHESTER — The Rochester Area Historical Society will sponsor the program, “Songs of the Civil War,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in the Rochester Municipal Building, 300 W. Spring St. Doors open at ...
Tennessee Ernie Ford, baritone, with instrumentalists. chorus, and orchestra conducted by Jack Fascinato; Capitol T-1539 and T-1540. or ST-1539 and ST-1540 (stereo) ...
The Preservation Society of Newport County will present “Songs from Newport,” a historical musical program spanning from the Civil War era through the Gilded Age, on Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. in the ballroom ...
Wartime songs, or "ditties" (an old-fashioned term for poems with catchy tunes), create camaraderie among troops yearning for places, people, and things they've left behind. These tunes live long ...
Horton said music was especially important during the Civil War when other forms of entertainment that offered relief from the battle were not available. “Music historians have estimated that about ...
What men sing as they march forth to war is a continual vexation to serious musicians. In the Civil War, Stonewall Jackson’s “foot cavalry” were fond of a song praising goober peas (“Goodness, how ...
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