EDITORIAL: Don’t forget the true meaning of Memorial Day

Source: The Oakland Press

Today, many people are participating in parades and events that mark Memorial Day. But more people are probably simply taking advantage of the holiday by enjoying it with family and friends or just relaxing, ...
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From main drag to memory lane

Source: Ottawa Citizen

A couple of weeks ago now I took a stroll along the western half of the Promenade du Portage, as far as the sadly vacant St. James Church, where I sat down and recalled the many nights me and my homies walke ...
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Eureka Springs music fest salutes Camden bluesman

Source: Arkansas Online

The Eureka Springs Blues Weekend will include a Friday tribute to the late Arkansas bluesman Michael Burks. LITTLE ROCK The Eureka Springs Blues Weekend will include a tribute to the late bluesman Michael Burks, wh ...
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With Spotify and its ilk, there's no 'my' in music anymore

Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal

LOS ANGELES -- I am sitting on a couch facing two turntables, a DJ mixer, a dual-drive CD player/recorder, a cassette deck and a wireless 2-terrabyte hard drive half full of music -- all in one way or another plugged into my sound system. The variou ...
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For Dan Ellsey, conducting, composing express irrepressible love of music

Source: The Eagle-Tribune | North Andover, MA

METHUEN — Students at Tenney Grammar School raised their instruments, poised to rehearse "Amazing Grace," eyes on their conductor. They were not looking at band director Brian Fulks, wand at the ready, however. The conductor they were watching was in a ...
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Duke University Historical Digital Collections

Source: Bella Online

Libraries big and small have various collections of historical and cultural materials. Special collections are often behind closed doors, rules and time limits are often enforced and the materials can never leave the room. If you love history, i ...
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Mexico's Michel Franco wins Cannes sidebar prize

Source: Hanford Sentinel

SAN FRANCISCO — In 1958, the Gallup Poll asked Americans whether they approved or disapproved of marriage between blacks and whites. The respo… DECATUR — Local branches of the National Association for the Advancement o ...
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From Decoration Day to Memorial Day

Source: Bay Ridge Journal

The Village of Waterloo in Seneca County is recognized as the birthplace of the Memorial Day holiday. In May of 1866, pharmacist Henry Welles organized a "Decoration Day" in Waterloo to honor the town's Civil War dead. The town decora ...
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The Doc Corner at Cannes and a Pick-Up

Source: Indie Wire

The Cannes Marche du Film has a new initiative, the Doc Corner, which allows buyers and programmers priority access to a digital video library including all documentaries presented in Cannes. Furthermore, th ...
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