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Jeff’s Playlist: East/West
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Adra and I saw Bill Frisell perform in Louisville around the same time this was recorded. The show was good, and this live performance album released in 2005 is good too. Two weeks ago, Jeff’s Playlist featured Frisell in The Ginger Baker Trio. Frisell has played and recorded with a vast array of ensembles and…
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Reel Classics: Five Easy Pieces
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In a previous Reel Classics review of the film Easy Rider, we talked of how Jack Nicholson's role in that film revived his acting career. It led to the starring role in this edition of Reel Classics—Five Easy Pieces. We see him as Robert Eroica Dupea, a troubled soul trying to find out who he…
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Marine training: Women Marines, and more
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Women Marines are also trained at Parris Island. They were sufficiently separated from the males undergoing training that we never, to my recollection, saw any of them except perhaps at Sunday religious services. I don’t remember being in a position to even talk with a woman Marine recruit until our last full day on the…
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Nancy Gift: “My Dad and David, too”
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Nancy Gift is a former Winchester resident and professor of sustainability at Berea College. She is married to Jim Trimble, a mom to Emily and Hazel, and a stepmom to Riley. She’s the author of “A Weed by Any Other Name” and “Good Weed, Bad Weed,” as well as a textbook. Nancy and Jim recently…
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If someone says women were given the vote, just slap ‘em
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In a letter dated March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John (who was meeting with the Continental Congress at the time and who would become the second president in 1797) encouraging him on behalf of the women of America. She wrote: “I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And,…
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Into the For Rest, or The Four Hills of Life
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The Native American Medicine Wheel, sometimes called the Sacred Hoop, has been used by generations of indigenous First Peoples tribes for health and healing. One meaning reflects the so-called Four Hills of Life. Each hill characterizes a life stage. The hills one climbs along the way are the challenges we face and the responsibilities we must learn to accept. Spring…
