If you ever find yourself in Connecticut, I highly recommend your itinerary include a visit to a particular National Historic Landmark—the once home of prolific American writer Mark Twain.
There is a growing sense of confidence in China, bordering on hubris. Nowhere does this confidence find more outlet than in the commonly used expression “there is only one China.”
In this video and text, I pay tribute to Fraser Park by taking the viewer through a cycle of seasons beginning Summer 2021 and ending Spring 2022.
Robert Selfe immigrated from south-west England to the nascent colony of Virginia. On May 20, 1665 he was granted 300 acres in the Northern Neck.
J.W.F. Werumeus Buning was a writer and poet, born in Velp, Netherlands on May 4, 1891. In this post I share my version of an English translation for the poem Een oud vers, An old verse.
The South-Central Georgia Folklife Project was produced as a joint effort between the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress and the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia. The vast collection contains nearly 25,000 items. One of these items recently captured my attention: an oral history with my great-grandfather conducted on Tuesday, July 26th, 1977.