Month: May 2011

WISCONSIN'S IRON BRIGADE AT ANTIETAM CORNFIELD THE IRON BRIGADE BLACK HAT, WISCONSIN IRON BRIGADE

Memorial Day and the Iron Brigade

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           At one of the dioramas at the Wisconsin’s Veteran’s Museum in Madison, Wisconsin,  stoic, tensed young men in black hats await orders to resist another surge of massed, charging Confederate soldiers in the hellish chaos of battle later referred to as The Cornfield at Antietam in 1862.  They are young men comprised primarily […]... Read More
PARIS CAFE 1920's nat'l geographic PARIS MONTMARTRE 1920's YOUNG HEMINGWAY IN PARIS 1920s PARIS VINTAGE 1920's PARIS CAFE 1920's nat'l geographic

A Moveable Feast

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                As part of a recent wonderful dinner with family and friends, the topic of Woody Allen’s new movie Midnight in Paris came up.  As an aside, I appreciate greatly the conversations that revolve around my family dinners.  They have always been the birthplace of wonderful memories and unique conversations that abound out […]... Read More

The Baton Is Passed

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     Michael White of the London Telegraph noted a momentous occasion this week as one of the scions of classical music finally stepped down after fifty years and turned his magnificent creation formally over to a new generation.  Though ensemble and chamber orchestra certainly pre-dated him, Sir Neville Marriner has become inexorably linked with the […]... Read More
PELOPONNESIAN WAR JOAN OF ARC AT ORLEANS 1429 GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS - VICTORY AT BREITENFELD- THIRTY YEARS WAR

Perpetual War

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      We are coming upon the tenth anniversary of the conflict loosely described as the War on Terror.  In October, 2001, in response to the atrocity of 9/11 and its identification as the most spectacular component of an ongoing organized war by radical Islamic organizations on to the shores of America, the United States initiated combat […]... Read More

The American Song Machine

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     May 11th marks the birthday of the man who was born in Siberia but became the American Song Machine.   Irving Berlin would be 123 years old today.  It seems somewhat silly to consider a 123rd birthday, but Mr. Berlin ,as it is, lived to 101 and was prodigious to the very end.    His story […]... Read More

The Defining Moment

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     The past ten years have brought this world an unbending line of overtly serious and at times tragic moments.  America, the last country on earth where it was okay to poke fun at our leaders and ourselves, seemed to have fallen into a world wide morose habit of whispering our thoughts to avoid potential […]... Read More
714 - the Lands of the Franks at the time of Charles Martel CHARLES MARTEL - BATTLE OF TOURS (POITIERS) October 10th, 732 CHARLES MARTEL

Charles The Hammer

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     The recent permanent removal by the United States of one of the leading voices in the world for radical Islam, and his desire to “restore” the Islamic Caliphate under shari’a law, has brought up similar instances in history when similar aggressive impulses have been smartly put down by western fortitude.  Of particular note are […]... Read More