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Monthly Archives: June 2017
BETTS: A MOTHER’S MEMOIR, 1923-1964, Part V: Trying to Make It in Postwar America
[Note: This segment of Betts’ memoir carries her family’s story from the late 1940s through the mid-1960s. For earlier installments, go here, here, here, and here.] * * * * * Shortly after our second son, Rick, was born, on November … Continue reading
Posted in American History, family history, genealogy, Historical Reflection, History, memoir, Popular Culture, Research, Retirement, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged Baltimore (Maryland), Newark (Delaware), Post World War II United States, Post-World War II American family life, soap operas, television
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Chasing the Delta Blues: The Mississippi Blues Trail, Part 2 (Blues Stories, 25)
[This is the second and concluding post about the trip the Willowy Bride (AKA, the WB) and I took along the Delta portion of the Mississippi Blues Trail in May 2013. For Part 1, go here.] * * * * … Continue reading
Posted in "Charley Patton", Age of Jim Crow, Alan Lomax, B.B. King, Big Bill Broonzy, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Delta Blues, History, History of Rock and Roll, Howlin' Wolf, Interdisciplinary Work, John Lee Hooker, Leadbelly, Mississippi John Hurt, Muddy Waters, Popular Culture, Research, Retirement, Robert Johnson, Son House, Southern History, The Blues, Uncategorized, WP Long Read
Tagged Delta Blues Museum (Clarksdale, Ground Zero Blues Club, Helena Arkansas, Henry Townsend, Mound Bayou Mississippi, Ms.), Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Rock 'n' Roll and Blues Heritage Museum (Clarksdale, Son House, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Tunica (Mississippi) Museum
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Retired But Not Shy 