Woody Guthrie family and friends, a short story by John Haughton.This is the story of Woody Guthrie, who for me is one of the most important people that ever lived on this earth. His story is truly awesome and unique in many respects, and in a sense I worship at his feet. Life threw the most horrific tragedies in his path and he succeeded in managing them until he was a victim of the dreaded Huntington's disease, which was responsible for his mother's death also. Members of his family were victims of fire tragedies, car accidents and of course Huntington's disease, which took some of Woody's...

Woodstock Music and Art Fair, was a three-day Aquarian exposition at White Lake, Bethel, Sullivan County, New York, August 15-18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm.Pete Fornatale in his book 'Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock' wrote: "Woodstock was without question the high watermark of the 60s youth revolution musically, politically and socially. A gathering of half a million young people gathered to flex their cultural muscle and celebrate their life altering music, sending shock waves from upstate New York to the rest of the country. This legendary tribal gathering put Woodstock...

J.Moriarty in his book 'Dreamtime' explains that although it's thought of as an Australian aboriginal phenomenon, there is a European/ Christian/ Irish Dreamtime as much cultural as geophysical. John in his book seeks to enact a diagnosis & a healing of contemporary Western culture, much as a shaman would do in the middle of his inheritance, so that from a healed past and present, future may grow.

Before we begin the story of the Ute people, the writer invites the reader into the contrasting worlds of the first nations of North America and the European conquerors. The writer starts this short story in a fitting way with the first track taken from a CD by XIT entitled 'The Plight of the Redman'. It contrasts, in song/ chant, the mentality of the native first nations and what they held sacred with the 'Whitemans' opposite understanding and materialistic value systems. It is a good way to start as it epitomises the difference between the Native American first nations, of which there were...

I thought for some time as to the best title that I could give this short story. In the Greenwood Tulsa communities, there were very many white people not involved in the massacre. This became clear from a little study of the history of the events. So obvious titles like Greenwood or Tulsa or Oklahoma massacre might appear to tar all white citizens with the same racist brush. My search for a suitable title brought me back many years in fact to the year 1877 and to a book completed in that year by Anna Sewell with the title 'Black Beauty'.

Walter Macken hat eine Vielzahl von Werken verfasst, die ein breites Spektrum an Themen, Ursachen, historischen Aufzeichnungen und zwischenmenschlichen Dialogen abdecken und Tabuthemen behandeln, seien sie ethischer, politischer, religiöser oder philosophischer Natur. Es ist nicht möglich, in einer Kurzgeschichte der Vielfalt der Werke und Themen gerecht zu werden, die dieser große und wunderbare irische Schriftsteller behandelt. Der Verfasser dieser Kurzgeschichte hat vierzehn Bände von Walter Mackens Werk auf seinem Schreibtisch liegen sowie die Biographie seines Sohnes Ultan Macken,...

When I was a boy, my father had a canary in a cage. The canary sang every morning to wake us up, and its song was out of this world and brought me onto a higher plane. But apart from the canary, there are a whole range of birds that make so many different sounds/songs. They are all part of the 'choir' that is life, and they can be experienced in the 'dawn chorus' every early morning before/at sunrise, at this time of year.

Tina turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on the morning of the 26 November 1939 at Brownsville's Memorial Hospital and lived at Nut Bush on Highway 19. Her father was Floyd Richard Bullock resident overseer on the Poindexter farm. Richard was a deacon of the Woodlawn Baptist Church. Tina as a child witnessed constant conflict between Richard and his wife Zelma Bullock. In her autobiography 'I Tina', Tina wrote that Richard and Zelma's fights,' real wall rattlers' were the dominant feature of the domestic landscape. At the time of Tina's birth her sister Alline with whom she formed a lifelong...

Walter Macken a produit une vaste gamme d'oeuvres couvrant l'éventail le plus large possible de questions, de causes, de documents historiques, de dialogues interpersonnels, traitant de sujets tabous, qu'ils soient éthiques, politiques, religieux ou philosophiques. Il n'est pas possible, dans une nouvelle, de rendre justice à la diversité des oeuvres et des sujets traités par ce grand et merveilleux écrivain irlandais. L'auteur de cette nouvelle a sur son bureau quatorze volumes de l'oeuvre de Walter Macken ainsi que la biographie de son fils Ultan Macken, "Walter Macken Dreams on...