Johnny Mercer is one of those song writers who wrote so many familiar lyrics, that people tend to say, “Wow, he wrote that, too?” He won...
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It was quite a shock on October 25, 2009 when the plaster ceiling collapsed in the parlor of the Emily Dickinson’s Homestead in Amherst,...
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Guy Fawkes Night, or Bonfire Night, has been celebrated in England and much of the British Commonwealth since 1605, but it is not observed in the...
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The lives of the African Americans in Virginia during Colonial times are getting increased attention from Colonial Williamsburg, which is offering a...
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The White House of the Confederacy was the family home of the Davis family with their energetic children, but it has been designated a National...
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By the time the world was dealing with the influenza pandemic of 1957, new medicines to treat the symptoms and complication had been developed, as had...
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Stories of the people who suffered from the flu pandemic of 1918 and the flu of 1957 were gathered into a Flu Storybook by the Center for Disease...
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Halloween, scary stories, and black cats naturally bring a reader to Edgar Allan Poe. The small but active Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia manages to...
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Harper’s Ferry in West Virginia is commemorating the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid in1859. John Brown was a staunch abolitionist...
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