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Abe Meeropol was a school teacher in the Bronx.  After seeing one of these pictures he put pen to paper and wrote the disturbing and undeniable poem Strange Fruit. He convinced jazz singer Billy Holiday to lend her distinct voice to the haunting tale.  When she performed it in concert people didn’t know how to…

My love…You are beyond description.  As it was sung at our wedding, "If you find a love that’s tender, if you find a love that’s true, then thank the Lord, He’s been doubly good to you." Barbara, you are proof of God’s goodness, mercy, grace and providence in my life.  When I said, "I do"…

Jazz:  On the Cusp of a Golden Age?

Strange Fruit used to hang from trees in America. Col. Charles Lynch was a Justice of the Peace with his own kind of justice in the late 1700’s.  He would hold illegal trials and upon convictions, would tie the suspect to a tree and whip them.  By the late 1800’s "Lynch Mob" was a part…
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