Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy, has died. She was 96. Her grandson, former Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III, confirmed her death in a tribute on social media. He wrote in part, 'She was a devout Catholic and a daily communicant, and we are c
Scott Joplin (1868-1919) was the most influential and famous composer of the ragtime era, and one of the most daring pioneers in the history of American music. He was known as the Father of Ragtime. At first, the musical establishment absolutely refused to acknowledge ragtime as a worthy me...
[Thanks to Teddy Harvia, Mike Kennedy, Andrew Porter, Joe Siclari, John King Tarpinian, Chris Barkley, Cat Eldridge, SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie, Steven French, and Kathy Sullivan for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Daniel Dern.] ...
Michael and Shirley split their time between Canada, Los Angeles and Alamogordo, New Mexico, their adopted home-away-from-home and production hub of many of their recent documentary projects. The rest of the time they live with a couple of rambunctious dogs in deep-woodsy splendor about two h...
Cat Eldridge, SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie, Kathy Sullivan, Daniel Dern, Walter J. Wiese, David Goldfarb, Jeffrey Smith, Steven French, Mike Kennedy, Andrew Porter, and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Daniel ...
Why? I've been on my musical journey, which in the last 36 years has included periods where I didn't follow music at all; I was fine just listening to what came out of my radio speakers, and at times where I didn't so much care about the music I liked, but what hits my radio...
Melody L. Boyd, Jason Martin and Kathryn Edin, “Pathways to Participation: Youth Civic Engagement in Philadelphia,” unpublished manuscript (Harvard Kennedy School, 2012). Danah Boyd,It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014). ...
7Mrs. Hunter states the property was on the northeast corner, which is incorrect. It was the northwest corner of the intersection of Jackson and Marion, or the southeast corner of the BLOCK bound by Jackson, Marion, Monroe (Florida Ave.) and Lafayette (Kennedy Blvd.) See Sanborn maps below...
Robert A. Taft was a Republican leader in the U.S. Senate for 14 years (1939–53) whose espousal of traditional conservatism won him the sobriquet “Mr. Republican”. His failure to receive the presidential nomination in 1948 and 1952 was indicative of t