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Music: Aaron Copland
Though certainly not the first American composer whose music captured the national mood, Aaron Copland created ballets, popular works, and...
Read MoreActress: Bette Davis
Bette Davis still scares me. I can go back and watch movies from her early career, when she was young and beautiful, and I think,...
Read MoreTV Show: The West Wing
I’ll start by saying that I love the work of Aaron Sorkin, The West Wing’s creator and principal writer. He wrote one of my...
Read MoreKid Stuff: Rocky and Bullwinkle
Actually, there were two series that ran one after the other: Rocky and His Friends (1959-1961) and The Bullwinkle Show (1961-1964). Both...
Read MoreSinger: Buddy Holly
He died at the way-too-young age of 23. He’d only been recognized on the music scene for a year and a half. And yet he managed...
Read MoreArchitecture: Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful bridges not just in America, but in the world. No wonder it placed number five in the...
Read MoreFood: Maryland Crab Cakes
I might have called these “Chesapeake Bay” crab cakes instead. But if you trace them to their true home, you come back to...
Read MoreSong: "Let's Stay Together"
We’re going to call him Rev. Al Green, because that’s who he is today. He was still just Al in 1972, when he recorded...
Read MoreAmericana: 7-Eleven
As with other Great American Things posted here, this post honors the convenience store 7-Eleven in its past, when it was ubiquitous in...
Read MoreTravel: Grand Teton National Park
In this roughly 40-mile long range of the Rockies, you’ll see nine peaks over 12,000 feet high, the highest being (no surprise)...
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