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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!
(our first Commander-in-Chief from The Aloha State)
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Click collage to enlarge Gulf Call to Sacred Action encourages and structures a positive conscious approach to assistance, including financial, for effects of the BP Gulf of Mexico well gusher on residents and ecosystem
Horizon Relief
I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
Video'd flight June 21, 2010 over Gulf of Mexico waters |
Legendary Emmylou Harris presents Music Saves Mountainsan ongoing performance effort by famed country musicians to preserve our Mountain Empire habitat and heritage
"Was it all a dream? That's what I keep wondering about NRDC's Music Saves Mountains benefit councert last week, the biggest gathering of singers and songwriters to raise awareness of -- and to fight against -- mountaintop removal coal mining.... All in all, this historic concert defies description. For those of us lucky enough to bear witness, it was a moving event. It's worth noting that Emmylou Harris has pledged to hold this concert with us every year until we win the campaign to save the Appalachians by stopping mountaintop removal.... All of the proceeds of the event were donated to the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, but the real cause behind the benefit was to create awareness of the problem...." -- Rob Perks in Concert Recap, Photos and More
"Topless Mountains are Obscene" -- MSM bumper sticker |
"... In communities all across Tennessee, it is inspiring to see how local, state and federal officials are working together and how Tennesseans are giving of themselves to make sure their neighbors are taken care of. FEMA officials have remarked repeatedly to me and my staff that it is amazing to see the way Tennesseans are helping each other.... The community spirit was present at a Grand Ole Opry performance at the War Memorial Auditorium the night of our visit. Even though the Opry stage and much of our state lay inundated by water, crowds still arrived, and the show went on, demonstrating the strong spirit of Tennesseans.... Times of crisis have a way of reminding all of us about what we value most. They also remind those of us in public service of the tremendous responsibility we have to respond quickly when urgent help is needed...." -- TN Senator Bob Corker, 5/27/10
Some of country music's best and best-loved stars performed for
MUSIC CITY KEEP ON PLAYING
The Country Music Association donation of fifty percent of proceeds from their Nashville Festival June 10-13 to CFMT Flood Relief added to performing musicians' generous
Keep The Music Playing donation for public school Music Education
God is great אלוקים נהדר Alef-Lamed-Vav-Heh-Yud-MemSofit |
"Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress who reviled the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, slowing her rise to Broadway superstardom, died Sunday. She was 92....
Horne, whose striking beauty and magnetic sex appeal often overshadowed her sultry voice, was remarkably candid about the underlying reason for her success. '... It was because of the way I looked.'... But Horne was perpetually frustrated with the public humiliation of racism.... Later she embraced activism, breaking loose as a voice for civil rights and as an artist. In the last decades of her life, she rode a new wave of popularity as a revered icon of American popular music. Her 1981 one-woman Broadway show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, won a special Tony Award.... Lena Mary Calhoun Horne, the great-granddaughter of a freed slave, was born in Brooklyn June 30, 1917, to a leading family in the black bourgeoisie.... But she avoided activism until 1945 when she was entertaining at an Army base and saw German prisoners of war sitting up front while black American soldiers were consigned to the rear. That pivotal moment channeled her anger into something useful.... 'I wouldn't trade my life for anything,' she said, 'because being black made me understand.'" -- Lena Horne 1917-2010, NPR, 5/10/10
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"...'She was adored by audiences, and although she embarked on a medical treatment as previews began, she never missed a show and gave magnificent performances eight times a week,' said Lynne Meadow, artistic director of MTC.
'We admired her strength, her talent, her courage and her enormous good heart. There wasn't a stage hand, a press rep, a box office person who didn't worship Lynn. She was true theatre royalty.'..." -- Actress Lynn Redgrave Dies at 67 following a seven-year struggle with breast cancer |
I'm bored. Is there anything fun to do here?
YES! Scroll to the bottom of this page
or of the TOC, Site Scene or (for a real visual adventure because all the colors and the whole design change each time) Acrylics and Our Music pages. Find the little chick pecking on the ground there and hit the "Press Me" button on its left to watch background colors change right before your very eyes and as many times as you feel like pressing the button and watching that. (If you're still bored, you could go to the TOC page and check out 'Country Talk' or even 'Backwoods Recipes'.)
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-- America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee) by Samuel F. Smith, 1808-1895
-- Marcel du Champ "Here appears definitely the goal toward which the different arts are tending, the place where they will meet perhaps: the future city of the spiritual life, to be built by them [the Impressionsists], of which poetry, as the state of the soul, would be the commanding gesture, music the atmosphere and painting the marvellous decoration." -- Achille Delaroche, "Concerning the Painter Paul Gauguin from an Aesthetic Point of View," as quoted in Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, translated by Van Wyck Brooks "...for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor." -- Micah 4:12 "L'Chaim!" -- traditional Jewish toast meaning "To Life!"  from Index of Acrylics by Jeannette Harris New York's Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France who'd provided formidable assistance during our 1776-1781 War of Independence to free ourselves from British colonial rule, is a 151-foot statue of a woman holding a book and a torch on-high -- "One of the colossal sculptures of world history, the Statue of Liberty has greeted millions from other lands who crossed the ocean in search of freedom, opportunity, and is a symbol to the world of those ideals of liberty upon which our nation and form of government were founded." Video above: French National Anthem, La Marseillaise, in celebration of rugby win for France at games played in Africa November 13, 2009
The Internet Site ofAppalachian Life and Art "A jewel on the web" since April 1996
or Click gold ACR, Inc. banner below for full-screen version
UPDATED FOR SPRING-SUMMER 2010
"You see, in many ways, Appalachia isn't what it used to be. We have lost more than 1 million acres of land, along with 1000+ of miles of our once pristine streams, and 90% of our traditional coal jobs to mountaintop removal mining. This barbaric practice has reduced much of our home to rubble, and further damaged our perennially struggling local economies. The jobs are gone. The people are leaving. The water is toxic. And they are blowing up the mountains themselves. "But the face of Appalachian resistance to 'Big Coal' is changing. Not only are we seeing unprecedented national and international media like NPR, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal run with stories about the Appalachian people's struggle to end mountaintop removal, but we are seeing 100s of online activists and bloggers participate in helping us spread the word through the iLoveMountains Bloggers Challenge. "Each week there will be featured blogs, activists, videos, facts, photos and more...." -- Appalachian Voices "... On phosphorous wings the phoenix floated/ The fires froze and the sea was hushed/ And when I tried to speak, the sun imploded/ And the war will wage in my guts/ Till the Devil bites the dust,/ I never saw him losin' a race, but I think he must/ ..." |
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rag n. 1. old, worn clothes 2. a newspaper 3. a composition in ragtime -- chew the rag [Slang] to chat |
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Exotic Listings Jenny's made of earth and sky and she knows more than she knows. She's a butterfly in a flowered thong, a song that washes passing boats with the husks of swaying straw, a fiddle bending to her tune and a dance that slithers wide. She's a renaissance that rises on the wild fields of your mind, a chord that sweet seduces from the mystery of her laughing woman-child. (1997)
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Cenantua There's a rush, a rumbling in the wind as we stumble on this old trail. Greening branches thicken over us. They crosshatch our path. In leafy folds, winged creatures watch. Through pools of moss, snakes writhe. When tumbling rocks crash like our dreams, we'll pick up a shard and fashion a brazier for warmth and rest. The air is cool and gentle at the crest and the land cascades in startled wonder from the sky. (1983)
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