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Dave Barry’s Year Review of 2019 by Dave Barry
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Dave Barry’s Year Review of 2019 by Dave Barry

By Tim McCarthy

January 29, 2020

Editor’s note:   A month late but still incredibly funny, here is satirist Barry’s view of a very crazy year.  It’s a long read but for fans of sarcasm and...
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The First Conspiracy
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The First Conspiracy

By Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch

January 29, 2020

Editor’s Note:  With an admitted uncertainty about detail and Meltzer’s unconfessed sprinkling of cheap fiction chapter endings, this is an outstanding non-fiction read.  It’s also pretty certainly true and supportable...
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Rhode Island is Famous For You
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Rhode Island is Famous For You

By Blossom Dearie

December 31, 2019

by Jack Haley and Estelle Loring | Performed by Blossom Dearie Editor’s comment:  Thanks to Jim Sullivan for this song, performed by the late jazz pianist, Blossom Dearie.  This song...
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December song AND joke:  “Death By Polka”, The Chardon Polka Band & Lake Erie Video
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December song AND joke:  “Death By Polka”, The Chardon Polka Band & Lake Erie Video

By The Chardon Polka Band

November 27, 2019

Editor’s Note:  This month I’m combining these my favorite song and favorite joke because it works for both!  My dear almost-life-long friend, Chris Grau, and his brother, Jeff, created this...
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Bill
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Bill

By Tin Hat Trio

October 18, 2019

Editor's Note: Tin Hat/Tin Hat Trio, in my opinion, writes some of the most beautiful and creative music while referencing many genres of music, including jazz, southern blues, bluegrass, neoclassical,...
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The Wright Brothers
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The Wright Brothers

By David McCullough

October 18, 2019

Editor’s note: If you like history, spiced up by great writing, this is a can’t miss. It reads like a novel and yet I learned very interesting detail about man’s...
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I Can't Quit You Baby
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I Can't Quit You Baby

By Led Zeppelin

October 18, 2019

Lyric: I can't quit you babe, so I'm gonna put you down for a while
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Puff, the Magic Dragon
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Puff, the Magic Dragon

By Peter, Paul and Mary

October 18, 2019

Editor’s Comment:  This popped up (as so many of my monthly favorites do) on my ITunes while running and it took me way back.  I recalled the rumor that this...
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November Cartoon
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November Cartoon

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

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January Cartoon
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January Cartoon

By Tim McCarthy

October 18, 2019

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The Walk
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The Walk

By Mayer Hawthorne

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: Sometimes I just like to laugh. This song takes an old theme (“beauty is only skin deep”) and an old sound (doo wop) and combines into something catchy...
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Yellow Moon
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Yellow Moon

By Neville Brothers

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: This is one of those songs that just makes you tap your feet, especially as it’s performed live at Farm Aid concert almost twenty years ago. Favorite lyric:...
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“Uncle John’s Band”
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“Uncle John’s Band”

By Grateful Dead

October 15, 2019

Editor’s Note: I never “got” the Grateful Dead as so many of my friends did. But since the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is opening a new exhibit to...
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The Warmth of Other Suns
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The Warmth of Other Suns

By Isabel Wilkerson

October 15, 2019

by Isabel Wilkerson Book Link Editor’s Note: Wilkerson is a first time book writer but a Pulitzer Prize winning feature writer for the New York Times. This epic non-fiction work...
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Have Fun Today
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Have Fun Today

By Mike Perkins

October 15, 2019

Favorite lyric:  “Stop trading your life for pay” Editor’s Note:  Many  songs I like have deep meaning.  Others are just good campfire material.  This Mike Perkins tune is loved for...
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Into The Mystic
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Into The Mystic

By Van Morrison

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Just a song I love for the rhythm and the feeling of the music itself. No great lyrics this time, though the feeling they give me...
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Chelsea Morning
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Chelsea Morning

By Judy Collins

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Seems like a perfect song to accompany my book-of-the-month "Simple Prosperity." My sisters loved this song and would blast it early in the morning from the...
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Murder in the City
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Murder in the City

By The Avett Brothers

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: It's a strange title and as with other Avett Brothers music this one uses humor to get your attention then delivers a message. Here, it is...
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Somewhere over the Rainbow
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Somewhere over the Rainbow

By Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

October 15, 2019

Note: This medley version of Judy Garland and Louis Armstrong's most famous hits are done by a Hawaiian artist who died very young in 1997. The artist became famous by...
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Everybody's Had the Blues
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Everybody's Had the Blues

By B.B. King, Joe Louis Walker

October 15, 2019

Essence of the music/lyrics: Blues became interesting to me when friend John Zingg turned me onto BB King in college thirty-some years ago. This song is written by one of...
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Churchill by Himself
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Churchill by Himself

By Richard Langworth

October 15, 2019

Editor’s note: I’ve often wondered how Winston Churchill could be so often quoted, and now I know. He wrote over 15,000,000 million published words – books, speeches, articles, letters and...
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