January 22, 1959
Atlanta city buses were integrated.
March 23, 2012
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Heard this on WMLB this a.m.! Thanks, dj Larry L. and… countryandwestern:
Tammy Wynette - Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad
The song is just OK - too rushed and the killer bass line is buried, but you have to watch the last half where Ralph Emery interviews George and Tammy together, after their divorce. Awkwaaaard!
January 22, 2012
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January 22, 2012
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tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?
Fiddle and banjo in rhythmic motion…
December 17, 2011
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“ It is now the month of December, when the greatest part of the city is in a bustle. Loose reins are given to public dissipation; everywhere you may hear the sound of great preparations, as if there were some real difference between the days devoted to Saturn and those for transacting business… Were you here, I would willingly confer with you as to the plan of our conduct; whether we should eve in our usual way, or, to avoid singularity, both take a better supper and throw off the toga. ”
Seneca The Younger, from a letter referencing Saturnalia (via wwnorton) and courtesy of Lapham’s Quarterly
(via laphamsquarterly)
June 9, 2011
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Happy AskArchivists Day (for them that tweets)…
Today is #AskArchivists Day!
Today on Twitter is #AskArchivists Day. Check it out and ask all those archives-related questions you’ve got.
This photo is an Archivist having fun with Acetate Foil.
June 9, 2011
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No comment; The Wren’s Nest, house museum home of Joel Chandler Harris, has this item at their blog; check the Wren’s Nest at http://www.wrensnestonline.com/ and
The Dobbs House was an Uncle Remus themed restaurant at the Atlanta Municipal Airport in the 1940s. “Uncle Remus,” an employee of the restaurant, would sit on cotton bales out front.
Before checking in, visitors would drop their children off with this stranger who’d regale them with Brer Rabbit stories.
I really like this shot of the ticketing lobby from LIFE Magazine. It was then the world’s longest. The Dobbs House is at the top of the photo. Oh, and here’s another good one.
May 3, 2011
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W. W. Norton: "Where I Live," by Maxine Kumin
is vertical:
garden, pond, uphill
pasture, run-in shed.
Through pines, Pumpkin Ridge.
Two switchbacks down
church spire, spit of town.
Where I climb I inspect
the peas, cadets erect
in lime-capped rows,
hear hammer blows
as pileateds peck
the rot of shagbark hickories
enlarging last
year’s…
May 3, 2011
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“ I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure. ”
Mark Twain. The NYT obituary for Osama Bin Laden is seven pages long. (via @pwmorris)
(Source: laphamsquarterly)
A Night at the Opry.
