IN THE SPOTLIGHT – DAVID BALL The first time I saw David Ball in concert was when he opened for Alan Jackson in the mid-1990s at the US Air Arena in Maryland, east of Washington DC. I lived in Virginia and had to drive halfway around the beltway, into unfamiliar territory, to get to his […]
CONCERT REVIEW – DOUG STONE My sister, Kayo Paver, went with me recently to Sisseton, South Dakota, to see Doug Stone at the Sisseton Performing Arts Center. We talked to him briefly before the show. I told him my favorite song of his is “Fourteen Minutes Old.” He and his wife, Jade, had just driven […]
By S. C. Gwynne C. Gwynne tells the story of the final year of the American Civil War in Hymns of the Republic. From the first chapter, “The End Begins,” which puts the reader in the nation’s capital city at the beginning of 1864, he allows the reader to feel and understand events as they […]