Showing posts with label Gettysburg Address. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gettysburg Address. Show all posts
Thursday, December 27, 2018
Students Raising Money For Lincoln's Original Gettysburg Address in 1943
From the November 28, 2018, MidWeek "Looking Back."
1943, 75 Years Ago.
"Mrs. Marjorie B. Leinauer, county superintendent of schools reports that a total of $128.99 has been contributed so far by the school students of the county for the fund to be used by the state to purchase the original manuscript of Lincoln's Gettysburg address, which will be placed in the state historical library."
--CootAbe
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Ten Most Famous Cemeteries in the U.S.-- Part 2: Hollywood Forever Cemetery
6. HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY Los Angeles. Over 115 years old. In the shadow of the famous Hollywood sign. Among notables buried here: Rudolph Valentino and Mel Blanc.
5. BOOT HILL Tombstone, Arizona. They died with their boots on. Up to 300 buried here. One gravestone reads: "Here lies Lester Moore / Four slugs / from a 44 / No less / No more." Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury, victims of the OK Corral buried here.
4. ST. LOUIS CEMETERY NO. 1 New Orleans. Oldest of the city's three Catholic cemeteries, opened in 1789. Built up because of low-lying land, vault on top of vault. Marie Laveau buried here.
3. FOREST LAWN MEMORIAL PARK Glendale, California. Final resting place of 250,000. Among them: Gracie Allen, author L. Frank Baum "Wizard of Oz," Nat King Cole, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and Walt Disney.
2. GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The aftermath of the great battle and the famous speech.
1. ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Arlington, Virginia. The cemetery built to "get" Robert E. Lee on his land. Obviously, a real lot of famous people buried here.
5. BOOT HILL Tombstone, Arizona. They died with their boots on. Up to 300 buried here. One gravestone reads: "Here lies Lester Moore / Four slugs / from a 44 / No less / No more." Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury, victims of the OK Corral buried here.
4. ST. LOUIS CEMETERY NO. 1 New Orleans. Oldest of the city's three Catholic cemeteries, opened in 1789. Built up because of low-lying land, vault on top of vault. Marie Laveau buried here.
3. FOREST LAWN MEMORIAL PARK Glendale, California. Final resting place of 250,000. Among them: Gracie Allen, author L. Frank Baum "Wizard of Oz," Nat King Cole, W.C. Fields, Errol Flynn, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable and Walt Disney.
2. GETTYSBURG NATIONAL CEMETERY Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The aftermath of the great battle and the famous speech.
1. ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY Arlington, Virginia. The cemetery built to "get" Robert E. Lee on his land. Obviously, a real lot of famous people buried here.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Comparing Lincoln to King on the 50th of "I Have a Dream"
From the August 28, 2013, USA Today. USA Snapshots "'Dream' speeched echoed Lincoln"
"Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, delivered 50 years ago today-- came 100 years after President Lincoln's famous speech (at Gettysburg). Here's how they compare. Gettysburg first, Dream second:
SPEAKER: Lincoln /// King
YEAR: 1863 /// 1963
NUMBER OF WORDS: 272 /// 1652
TIME: 3 minutes /// 17 minutes
OPENING LINE: "Four score and seven years ago...." /// "Five score years ago, a great American signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
--Cooter
Friday, July 6, 2012
John Philip Sousa's 4th of July Connection
From the June 6th Chicago Tribune "Made in America: A century later, John Philip Sousa's marches still quickn the pulse" by Howard Reich.
As we get ready for the second weekend of this nine-day 4th of July celebration, it is only fitting that we salute a man who could very-well be called Mr. Fourth of July, and that would be Mr. Sousa.
"What Scott Joplin did for ragtime and Jelly Roll Morton for jazz, John Philip Sousa achieved for another expression of the American spirit-- the march."
However, the first two created indigenous American genres whereas Sousa took on a European form and re-energized and took it to new heights.
His great grandson, John Philip Sousa IV, is co-author of the new book "John Philp Sousa's America: The Patriot's Life in Images and Words" written with Loras John Schissel.
Actually, besides marches, Sousa composed 17 light operas, plus books, concert pieces and songs. But it is the 136 marches that distinguish him.
His love of marches came from childhood as he heard them everywhere growing up in Washington, DC during the Civil War where his father was trombonist in the Marine Band and played on many occasions, including Abraham Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
In 1880,at the age of 25, he became the youngest leader of the Marine Band and that is when his marching career took off. The band began touring and eventually Sousa led an estimated 14,000 concerts during his lifetime. In 1892, he left the Marine Band to form his own ensamble and was launched at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
In 1900, he took his 60-piece band to Europe on the first of three European tours. On March 6, 1932, he led a rehearsal then went up to his room and died.
Got Me Humming "The Stars and Stripes Forever" Now. Thanks Sousa. --Cooter
As we get ready for the second weekend of this nine-day 4th of July celebration, it is only fitting that we salute a man who could very-well be called Mr. Fourth of July, and that would be Mr. Sousa.
"What Scott Joplin did for ragtime and Jelly Roll Morton for jazz, John Philip Sousa achieved for another expression of the American spirit-- the march."
However, the first two created indigenous American genres whereas Sousa took on a European form and re-energized and took it to new heights.
His great grandson, John Philip Sousa IV, is co-author of the new book "John Philp Sousa's America: The Patriot's Life in Images and Words" written with Loras John Schissel.
Actually, besides marches, Sousa composed 17 light operas, plus books, concert pieces and songs. But it is the 136 marches that distinguish him.
His love of marches came from childhood as he heard them everywhere growing up in Washington, DC during the Civil War where his father was trombonist in the Marine Band and played on many occasions, including Abraham Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
In 1880,at the age of 25, he became the youngest leader of the Marine Band and that is when his marching career took off. The band began touring and eventually Sousa led an estimated 14,000 concerts during his lifetime. In 1892, he left the Marine Band to form his own ensamble and was launched at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
In 1900, he took his 60-piece band to Europe on the first of three European tours. On March 6, 1932, he led a rehearsal then went up to his room and died.
Got Me Humming "The Stars and Stripes Forever" Now. Thanks Sousa. --Cooter
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