The Ford Administration marked the Bicentennial on July 4 with an event at Independence Hall. Attendance was ~100,000. The day opened with Black opera singer Marian Anderson, the daughter of working class parents, reading Jefferson's Declaration of Independence. commerce.veritone.com/search/asset...
Beautiful longread for your Monday evening. An antidote to ponder...
The League of Women Voters is going to need paramilitary training.
Hmm in retelling the beetle story I’m realizing maybe his “revising” some family letters was not entirely out of nowhere…
Screenplay about two queer women who pose as a matchmaker and a tradwife so they can take some man for all he’s worth. Have it on my desk Monday
Hey Iowans. You really ought to watch this.
Proofing the footnotes for my forthcoming book on women's clubs and music. This is my favorite headline: in 1921, Anne Oberndorfer was on a rampage, campaigning against jazz.
Going through the copy edits of a forthcoming article. This is my favorite sentence: "Hearing a work by a woman was a routine event, and thousands of clubwomen were deeply familiar with music by women composers."
Musicologist, writer, half of Red Vespa, author of The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word and the forthcoming Clubwomen Activists and the Making of American Music. Posts in no way associated with my employer.
