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The songfinder: a reader-assisted song search service - why the singers for 'I'll Fly Away' are different in the movie 'O Brother Where Art Thou' and the
FLYING AWAY Last issue, sounding like a frontier yarn spinner, I boasted that Songfinder had gotten so speedy, a question had arrived in my mailbox ......(Continue Reading) The allegiance that I can't quite pledge: Benjamin Markovits, once described by a schoolmate as half-American, half-English and half-German, grew up under
Every morning at the beginning of school, we stood up and said the Pledge of Allegiance. I lived then in Austin, Texas, where I turned the corner of ......(Continue Reading)Caregivers find capacity for spirituality lingers: Alzheimer's, dementia patients respond to songs, prayers, religious symbols
An hour before her Aunt Amelia died in September, Gisela Webb stood at her bedside, rubbing her arm and singing "Tantum Ergo." Webb's cousin, ......(Continue Reading)The secret to my success: you want those speakers for your iPod, but where will you get the money? Or maybe you wanna stash some cash for college or a
TIME TO TAKE THE DONUTS The Donut Delivery Service was supposed to be a short-term school project. Amber, 12, and her four buds dreamed it up as an ......(Continue Reading)"And I wrote my happy songs, every child may joy to hear": The poetry of William Blake in the middle school classroom
Miss Stretchberry wanted her students to love poetry (Creech 2001). She read to them daily both from the works of acknowledged masters and contemporary ......(Continue Reading)
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