December 22, 2024 11:13 pm

ON THE RUN, INSIDE THE KANSAS

It is easy to locate the best places to dine, shop and spend the night – no matter where your travels take you. You long for a relaxing trip along a scenic route, or an action-packed adventure? You can plan your Kansas getaway. This outdoor treat turns out to be an unexpected beauty for those who have never made the …

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LIGHTNING A KANSAS CITY / THE RISE OF CHARLIE PARKER – A book by Stanley Crouch

Lightning in Kansas City is the first chapter in the biography that Stanley Crouch dedicated to Charlie Parker, the greatest saxophonist of all time. This book reconstructs the life of ‘Bird’ in the years from birth in 1920 until 1940 (his childhood in Kansas City dominated from the underworld; the relationship with an overprotective mother; the marriage at sixteen and …

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KANSAS POEMS

HOME – Poetry by Karen Cerio Flat lands, oceans of wheat, harvest hands, fields all neat friendly folks, warm smiles, country jokes, at home style, family fun, 4th of July, summer sun, stars in the sky, county fair, carnival lights, first place mare, dances at night, drive-in features, friends for life, old teachers, help in strife, tornado warnings, siren blasts. …

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EXTRAVAGAMT MASKS AND FANTASTICAL DRAMAS – The surrealistic world of Eleonor Fini

ELEONOR FINI 1/3 – She is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century. Her career, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy in the local morgue, and absorbing technique through books and visits to museums. In 1907 she born in Buenos Aires, in a August day, …

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FOUR SHADES OF POLISH MUSIC

Polish folkloric music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_GqbIPP-g8 New Polish Sounds / My Darling Angel Waltz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzVeJ2LCkg Myslovitz / Sound Of Solitude https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdmbuDD2hEE Warsaw Village Band / In the forest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQxlQyr0210

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THE PEASANTS – Romance by Władysław Reymont

He was a Polish novelist (and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature). His best-known work, is the award-winning four-volume novel The Peasants. He was born in the village of Kobiele Wielkie, near Radomsko. His mother, had a talent for story-telling. Władysław Reymont spent his childhood near Łódź, to which his father had moved in order to work …

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SELECTED POLISH POEMS

ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO – Poetry by Wislawa Szymborska Life, you’re beautiful (I say), you just couldn’t get more fecund, more befrogged or nightingaily, more anthillful or sproutspouting. I’m trying to court life’s favor, to get into its good graces, to anticipate its whims. I’m always the first to bow, always there where it can see me, with my humble, …

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