Archive For August 7, 2014

R. Kipling – American Notes – Chicago (part 1)

R. Kipling – American Notes – Chicago (part 1)

  Written in 1891 by Rudyard Kipling about his travels in the United States. I enjoy reading these kinds of first hand accounts. It occurred to me to get some vocal practice and share them with you.       “I know thy cunning and thy greed, Thy hard high lust and wilful deed, And…

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Miami Is Drowning

Miami Is Drowning

    Just south of the Herald’s former building is a lazy cut of water 1,000 feet long and 300 feet wide called the FEC boat slip. It separates the American Airlines Arena, home to the Miami Heat, from Museum Park, a recently opened and attractive green space on which the new Pérez Art Museum…

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