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How Speck Mellencamp Is Channeling His Artistic Heritage As the new executive director of the Southern Indiana Center for the Arts, the famous rockers son keeps his family’s creative tradition alive. April 22, 2021 Early in his life, John Mellencamp would pause to watch as his mother, Marilyn, painted at her easel. He was the only one of her five children who stopped to look. When the Hoosier singer-songwriter left his hometown of Seymour for New York in the 1970s, he went there thinking he w...

My last column touched a nerve with some readers, one of whom denounced me as a “ … woke, bitter little man.” Bitter, OK, I do have teenagers at home, but wielding the word “woke” as a cudgel reveals more about the author than it does about me. More Headlines

Three generations one birthday Three generations one birthday (Source: WAFB) By Rick Portier | April 16, 2021 at 12:12 PM CDT - Updated April 16 at 12:12 PM BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - You’ve got a better chance of being struck by lightning -- 11 times -- than accomplishing what little Phoenix Atticus Harris has in his very short life. Phoenix bounded into this world on April 10, a perfect bundle of joy for his mom, Esther and dad, Tyler. The Prairieville, La couple learned they were ...

Robert Middlekauff, professor emeritus of American history, dies at age 91 Terry Carroll/Courtesy Robert Middlekauff, an American history scholar who spent about 38 years at UC Berkeley, died at age 91. Middlekauff was well-respected, and he authored multiple publications, including a book called “The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728.” Robert Middlekauff, well-respected scholar and UC Berkeley professor emeritus of American history, died March 10 at the age of ...

February 27th may not much mean to you, but for a Canyon County family, it's a big day, times three.

Buck v. Bell was Carrie Elizabeth Buck. Some Buildings at the Virginia Colony for Feeble-Minded and Epileptics.Born on July 2, 1906, in Charlottesville, she was raised by foster parents John and Alice Dobbs from the age of three. In 1920, the authorities deemed Buck’s biological mother, Emma Adeline Harlowe Buck, a “low grade moron” and promiscuous for having a child out of wedlock. They committed her to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded in Madison Heights, near...

This fresh Radio Book Club is full of the latest literary delights grabbing the attention of our hosts from the Grand County Public Library and Back of Beyond Books. Jessie, Shari, and Andy not only host a wide-ranging conversation about books during this episode, but also books about books! Plus, lots of reads about public lands and Bears Ears. It’s another delightful show that will certainly send you deep into the pages of their recommended reads. Tune in.  Shari’s Reviews + Mentions Th...

2 pm ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester presents Gilbert conducts Prokofiev. Daniil Trifonov joins Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto under the leadership of Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert who also leads the orchestra in an account of the composer’s Classical Symphony. View here. 2 pm ET: The Royal Opera House presents Puccini’s Il Trittico. Il Tabarro, set aboard a barge on the Seine, stars Lucio Gallo as Michele, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Giorge...

Brandywine Creek meanders through one of the most beautiful landscapes in the country. Flowing past the rural town of Chadds Ford, 25 miles west of Philadelphia, the stream curves through woods, meadows, hills and farms, impossibly green in summer and blindingly white in winter. This land is also chock-a-block with American history. It was the home of the Lenni Lenape for centuries until they were pushed out by colonists. In 1777, during the Revolutionary War, insurgent Americans lost the B...

Utsaah organizes virtual event to promote concept of Drabble in India ANI | Updated: Jan 21, 2021 13:14 IST Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 21 (ANI/NewsVoir): A book on Our World: A Symphony of Drabbles by Three Generations is a compilation of eighty-six drabbles from a family of three generations - the grandfather, the mother and the daughter. A live chat on Facebook on Utsaah #SpreadingHapiness a channel promoted by Durga Jasraj, Founder of Art and ...