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Banjo
Reading for The Banjo From Well Of Souls, Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History by Kristina R. Gaddy (New York: W.W. Norton & Sons 2022) p. 171 Interlude Now, when I look at the watercolor from South Carolina, I see a lineage of traditions extending backwards and forward in time. I imagine Mr. Baptiste, William, Lincoln and George, King Charles and Jackey Quackenboss Hendrina de Parra and all the named and unnamed musicians I’ve come across in my research I hear choruses of v
5 days ago
Outrage, Left and Right
No matter what the president calls it, the U.S. is at war. People on both sides are being killed by U.S. military equipment. There is a good argument that this war is illegal, but it is a war. And I think it could fairly have been called a war several months ago when the U.S. military was just killing fishermen in the Carribbean and along the Pacific coast of South America. I am speaking on outrage this morning because outrage is what I feel and perhaps it’s what you feel too
Mar 16
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement
February is Black History Month, and each year I try to explore a subject that will give us some insight into racial justice as of particular times and places. This year, in the Sunday seminar, we have read a book called the 1619 Project, which describes the history of slavery in the United States starting on that date, and continuing through the abolitionist movement, emancipation and the events following emancipation up to the present. Today’s sermon is at once concerned wi
Mar 11
UU 101 Outline
Unitarians and Universalists were separate denominations which merged together in 1961. The Unitarians had a movement in Central Europe which coalesced at the time of the Protestant Reformation, the Universalists started in England in
Mar 11
Still We Rise: Pioneer Nineteenth Century Female U and U Ministers
Antoinette Brown came of New England stock, sturdy and long-lived pioneers in Connecticut. Her grandfather, Joseph Brown of Thompson, Connecticut, served in the army all through the Revolutionary War and her father, another Joseph Brown, was in the War of 1812. Antoinette was a typical daughter of the line, energetic, resourceful and thrifty, with a keen sense of humor and a capacity to shoulder responsibility.
Mar 11
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