In December 2010, a mysterious banjo tune popped up on a website devoted to early recordings. Even by that definition, this song stood out. It dated back to when Grover Cleveland occupied the White ...
DIM WERE the stage lights of New York in early 1843. With the country trying to shake off a nagging recession at the midpoint of the John Tyler administration, economic unease had trickled down to the ...
My 25th wedding anniversary was approaching. My husband, Bruce, a 50-year piano student who takes a lesson every two weeks, asked me if I might like an instrument for an anniversary present. I love ...