ROCHESTER — The Rochester Area Historical Society will sponsor the program, “Songs of the Civil War,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in the Rochester Municipal Building, 300 W. Spring St. Doors open at ...

“To care for him who shall have borne the battle.” When Nancy Klimek, recreation manager at the Grand Island Veterans Home, gave that quote from President Abraham Lincoln, she tied the past and ...

Civil war songs; sung by Frank Warner, with Jeff and Gerret Warner. Table of contents Old Abe Lincoln -- Battle of Bull Run -- Battle cry of freedom -- The twenty-third -- Marching along -- Bonnie ...

GLEN —Join Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna Travellers in a lively program of songs and tunes from Civil War times, as well as newer compositions in the folk tradition on Sunday, at 7:30 p.m. at the ...

Wartime songs, or "ditties" (an old-fashioned term for poems with catchy tunes), create camaraderie among troops yearning for places, people, and things they've left behind. These tunes live long ...

In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther Jr. delivered the opening address to the Berlin Jazz Festival. "Jazz speaks for life," King said. "The blues tell the story of life's difficulties — and, if you think for a ...