Thursday, October 25, 2007

Flags of our (Great-Grand) Fathers

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I try not to blog about my political opinions here -- there are other venues where I let off that kind of steam. I find it jarring when hi...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

iTunes U

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Even though I did not own an iPod or other MP3 player until just recently, I have amassed a vast library of free podcasts — mainly of vari...
Friday, October 12, 2007

Buster Kilrain in Song...

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Steve Earle sings "Dixieland": a long introduction, but it's worth it, as Steve explains what the war was really about, and ho...
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"The Road to Appomattox"

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...one more Appomattox-related entry for now: Andrew McKnight sings "The Road to Appomattox," WUWF radiolive television concert, r...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

"Sholbit" = "the end"

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In August of 2006 I posted a blog entry with passing reference to the " Battle of Bloody Island ," in which Captain Nathaniel Lyo...
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I have never consciously avoided opera

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but somehow it took until 2007 for me to attend my first performance, at least a final dress rehearsal. Even then, incentives were required...
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Thursday, October 04, 2007

"I reciprocate your desire to avoid useless effusion of blood. . ."

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Way back at the end of January I posted a short blog entry on the forthcoming Philip Glass opera Appomattox , scheduled to open in San Fran...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Once upon a time he commanded a fearsome army against the armies of the United States

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sending thousands of U. S. soldiers to their graves in a series of punishing battles. He led hostile forces within striking distance of W...
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Friday, September 14, 2007

"a superior bastard. . ."

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Following up on my two Jesse James entries (and not yet prepared to critique the two biographies mentioned earlier), here's a little not...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

“The Centennial is worth celebratingbut there is a ghost at the feast.”

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—Walker Percy on the Civil War centennial As promised , a few more comments and quotes from Walker Percy. The two essays of his that I’ve...
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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Walking away from a mountain. . .

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"The truth of it is, I think, that the whole country, South included, is just beginning to see the Civil War whole and entire for t...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Who needs a boat, if skillets float?

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I only drop in occasionally on the U.S.S. Monitor Center Blog , to see what’s new, and it’s usually rewarding. The August 8 th entry show...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007

One more post on my new Jesse James fixation

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— a long-dormant interest brought to the fore again by a recent road trip through Missouri. The fact that there is some fairly recent schola...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Late on the afternoon of July 11, after two weeks revisiting some familiar and familial locales in Northern Arkansas and Southern Missiouri . . .

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I was transporting my brood northward in a rented Pontiac Torrent en route to Kansas City, there to catch a flight to San Jose. We had a li...
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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Ghost Writers Keep it all in the Family

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I don't mean ghost writer in the sense of someone hired to write a celebrity's memoirs. I mean the supernatural kind of ghost, the k...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

"a wicked scramble that could have passed for a goal line stand or the attack on Little Round Top."

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So said reporters at SFGate.com tonight, the online venue for the San Francisco Chronicle, describing people in the centerfield bleachers...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Not your father's Civil War. . .

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A columnist I enjoy reading in the San Francisco Chronicle , Jon Carroll, had a piece published on July 31st talking about culling his burge...
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Bill Walsh, 1931-2007 : "The Genius"

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“Here’s my game plan.” This is what Bill Walsh reportedly told a friend of his upon giving him a copy of Carl von Clausewitz’s, On War . Ac...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

North versus South

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I went to the ballgame on Friday the 13 th . The Dodgers were in town to, unfortunately, sweep the Giants again (the woman in this photo was...
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