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How Sweet the Sound
For the Chicago review click here. Where: Fed Ex Field (DC/MD/VA) Set List: Breathe, Magnificent, Get on Your Boots, Mysterious Ways, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For/Stand By Me (snippet),...
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Closing it Out (and a bit about Nashville Food)
I know it has been a few weeks since the end of the National Preservation Conference, but I wanted to make sure to provide a closing post. On Friday after dispatching the last of the field sessions...
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The Lies That History Tells Us
Wicked Logo I finally did something last week that I have been looking forward to doing for months. I saw the musical Wicked. Based on the book by Gregory Maguire the story essentially inverts the...
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Songs of the Preservationist
Latest post from PreservationNation.org, based on a discussion from the email list I help run. They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don’t...
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Roots. Roots. Roots. (And Lord Ganesha)
For those of you who don’t know me, I am a first generation Indian-American. My parents came to this country in the 1970s (my dad for graduate school, my mother after marriage). I’ve been back to their...
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A Mountain Retreat (with Sari shopping, a Movie and a Play)
One of the great things about India is that it is a place you have to experience. I can describe how we get from one place to another—squeezing into a rickshaw in damp heat, or the terror I have in...
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Life is Bigger
I am sure many of you have heard the news. REM is over. After 31 years of working together Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills have decided to move on. I’ve taken so long to write this post, one...
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Twenty-Eleven/Twenty-Twelve
It has been a long, strange, year. On one hand it felt like it disappeared without a fuss, slipping away, month by month, day by day. Winter became Spring, Summer then Fall in a blink of an eye, but so...
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Welcome Back Howard Theatre
The Marquee of the Howard TheatreCredit: Priya Chhaya Just a quick post to share some pictures I took at the Howard Theatre (link to info on the restoration) re-opening this week. If you want to read a...
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The Revolution in 1865
A common image of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s Assassin. From the Library of Congress collection. For a long time I have devoted my energies, my time and money, to the accomplishment of a certain end....
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Life is Bigger
I am sure many of you have heard the news. REM is over. After 31 years of working together Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills have decided to move on. I’ve taken so long to write this post, one...
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What Would Dolly Do? Public History in Music City
Gate at the Hatch Show Print shop and workspace. | Credit: Priya Chhaya This past April I was in a small exhibit space at the Country Music Hall of Fame learning the history of country music through...
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