Swing Dancing: Back to Basics
Some people have been passing around via email a video of a young couple dancing swing. It’s good…but how about taking things up a notch? …
Art
“Solitude” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow it’s mirth, But has trouble enough …
The Alamo: The Texas Thermopylae
On the Website of the Alamo, they say: On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna’s army outside San Antonio …
Lorenzo’s Oil
The Myelin Project says: Lorenzo’s Oil is a combination of a 4:1 mix of erucic acid and oleic acid, extracted from rapeseed oil and olive …
“The Westerner” by Badger Clark, 1947
My fathers sleep on the sunrise plains, And each one sleeps alone. Their trails may dim to the grass and rains, For I choose to …
On The Radio
I’m now listening to Radiola on Live365.com. The station owner, “Andy Senior,” says his station plays: 1920s and 1930s Jazz and Pop guaranteed to wake …
Lindy Fest!
On the Houston Swing Dance Society‘s Website they say: Lindyfest is an amazing lindy hop weekend workshop jammed packed with classes for all dance levels, …
On the Radio
Dixieland Gumbo on Live365.com is good. All the station says in their description is: Dixieland Gumbo. The place to hear today’s Traditional Jazz Bands.
“Sunrise” by Victor Hugo
Foul times there are when nations spiritless Throw honour away For tinsel glory, to base happiness A mournful prey. Then from the nations, fain of …
“AMERICA FOR ME” by Henry Van Dyke
‘TIS fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, To admire the crumbly castles …