How to Understand America, According to My Father
My father believed a simple mental picture of history could make anyone a lifelong learner. So, he developed a three-century “Time Map.” The education establishment wasn’t interested.
Doug Cumming
On the Rails of the Mystery Train
He’s almost 90, and he teaches music in a little school in Georgia. He’s also an unsung giant of American folk music who played with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Meet Frank Hamilton.
By Doug Cumming /
The Saw and the Sawdust
He restored an old mountain cabin, wrote a sonnet to an old man and fell asleep, missing the sounds of the whippoorwill.
By Doug Cumming /
To Reckon With Robert E. Lee
As he drove back home, the Confederate monument on Stone Mountain loomed above him and forced him to reckon anew with the myths surrounding the Confederate general.
By Doug Cumming /
A Carnival Verse About Pralines*
*With a stanza on pronunciations. **And a recipe!