by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. In 1962 one of the grandest American musicals hit the cinemas of the Great Republic. It was Meredith Wilson’s “The Music Man”… and we got up and marched as we heard its effervescent score. No high fallutin’ Eye-talian music you had to scratch your head about, understanding hardly …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Here is the most important four-letter word in the entire English language: home. It conjures up and is connected to every element of the well-lived life: spouse, family, peace, comfort, security. Nothing can match its importance, nothing can duplicate its significance. Nothing is more powerful than our memories …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Are you one of the billion or so people worldwide who’s been blaming the recession for all your woes, including that pimple on your back you popped… but should have left alone? Then this article is for YOU… and not a moment too soon either. In it, we’re …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note: September 21, 1897, the editor of the New York Sun ran an unsigned editorial in the form of a letter to the editor and that editor’s response. The title of this article was “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”, and it long ago became the world’s most …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Winston Churchill who left the world so many memorable lines, said this one, too: “No young man should ever take no for an answer.” Allowing for the fact that these days “young man” would need to be changed to “young person”, what he said is as relevant today …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Winston Churchill who left the world so many memorable lines, said this one, too: “No young man should ever take no for an answer.” Allowing for the fact that these days “young man” would need to be changed to “young person”, what he said is as relevant today …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. From time to time, I dip into my collection of significant artifacts, pictures, silver, furniture, rugs, signed photographs and more, to tell you the tale of a particular artifact; to show you how even the least significant and most mundane is a superb aperture into a world once …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. Quick can you name your favorite Thanksgiving song? Unless it’s “Over the river and through the woods” (1844), you probably don’t have one. But I do. It’s called “Turkey in the straw”, and it is a traditional American folk song from the 1820s. And though strictly speaking it …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. When was the last time you spent some time staring into the eyes of your beloved… and rekindling, remembering, romancing, resurrecting without a single interruption permitted of any kind whatsoever? Having trouble recalling that moment? That’s why I’m writing this article… because this degree of unqualified intimacy is …
By Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. When was the last time you spent some time staring into the eyes of your beloved… and rekindling, remembering, romancing, resurrecting without a single interruption permitted of any kind whatsoever? Having trouble recalling that moment? That’s why I’m writing this article… because this degree of unqualified intimacy is …