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Songbirds Guitar Museum in Chattanooga Has World’s Largest Collection of its Kind

Songbirds Guitar Museum — opened in 2017 in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee — has more than 1,700 fretted instruments in its collection, touted as the world’s largest private one specifically of rare and vintage guitars. The collection’s value: more than $200 [...]

August 20, 2019 History, Music & Arts, Photo

Bob Gasche, Vet of Iwo Jima Well-Known for Military and Community Involvement, Dies at 94

Bob Gasche, a Marine corporal who served in World War II, including in the Battle of Iwo Jima, and later in the Korean War, died July 30 at age 94. He was a private in the 5th Marine Division when [...]

August 11, 2019 History, Journalism/Communications, Reflections

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes: 15 Pastoral Excerpts from ‘The Yearling’

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ 1938 classic “The Yearling” tells of the small Baxter family living off land and animal in rural, forested Florida, long before today’s development, comforts, or conveniences. Around them are (mostly) amiable neighbors, the elements, a country doctor, [...]

July 31, 2019 History, Journalism/Communications, Nature & Wildlife

‘Things Are Just Crazy Here’: 20 Revealing Excerpts from Woodward’s ‘Fear: Trump in the White House’

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward used hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources and an abundance of documents in his research for his latest book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” a thorough, critical, often-embarrassing look into the lead up to [...]

July 15, 2019 Journalism/Communications

25 Offbeat Words for Your Vocabulary, Courtesy the Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead composed many dozens of original songs over their 30-year career, from “The Golden Road,” the first track on their self-titled debut album in the mid-’60s, to a few in the early to mid-’90s that didn’t make it onto an album [...]

May 21, 2019 Journalism/Communications, Music & Arts, Reflections

John Steinbeck Quotes: 10 Trudging Excerpts from ‘The Grapes of Wrath’

John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” centers on the Joads, a family of poor farmers suffering in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s who are lured to California by hopes of a better life and a handbill advertising work there. [...]

February 15, 2019 History, Journalism/Communications, Music & Arts