"I seek only to blow a flute accompaniment in the national concert, and leave others to play the fiddle & frenchhorn," Washington Irving said in an 1819 letter. While his flute music for a time was a dominant strain, it still remains discernible in t...
Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with The Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...
Washington Irving was America's first successful professional man of letters, a gifted teller of tales, especially as a native humorist, a romantic historian, and an influential prose stylist. As a writer by profession, with the Sketch Book (1819-1820) i...
SOMETIMES those old stamp designs are the best designs. That's what the Postal Service may have had in mind this week with the release of this year's Christmas stamps. They feature four Christmas wreaths, essentially the same design element used in 1962 on the...
You're invited to dress up for the holidays in this historic South Georgia town. For a couple of evenings each December, Thomasville, Georgia, looks back to another time. Just after sundown in this charming village, Broad Street empties of modern vehicles and gives...
A Christmas card that bore a three-cent stamp on its first trip through the mail is still going strong, thanks to a little tape and a lasting friendship.The card has been exchanged by Dick Rewalt and his friend from the Navy, Roy Stern, since 1953."We...
LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - British public broadcaster BBC's Radio 1 programme has cut out the word "faggot" from an old Christmas hit in a move the mother of the song's late performer branded "ridiculous". In "Fairytale of New York", released 20 years ago...
