Henry Blackburn

Wednesday Night, July 2nd, 1947 I returned to the Chicago loop via fast electric coach from the University of Chicago on the South Side and

“Muggsy Spanier and his Ragtime Band,” a short piece in the Red Hot Jazz Archive (now hosted on syncopatedtimes.com), recalls a dramatic event in the

Summer of ’41, before senior year in high school, I worked as bellboy at a resort hotel in Lake Junaluska, NC, a Methodist Chatauqua some