Blowing Off The Dust

While blowing off the dust this morning, an old newspaper clipping fell out of a scrapbook and it took me back to Sedalia, Missouri in

One of my fondest memories (and there were many) of last summer’s Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia is of meeting Kyle Stark and his

In the month supposedly reserved for New Year resolutions, I prefer to look back forty years to an as yet unrealized resolution from the 1970s.

I’ve been reminded again recently that archival work isn’t all about shuffling old papers and blowing the dust off of old artifacts to conserve them.

I can’t believe that I ever functioned without Internet email, social media, and especially without the benefit of search engines and databases. As someone who

In December it is customary to review the major events of the year but I’m far too off-put by this year’s chaos so I decided

As I was writing last month about the excellent newspapers and newsletters in the fields of jazz and ragtime, I was also reminded of the

I have been reflecting recently with an old friend by email, about all the sources of information we have regarding Ragtime, from learned authorities to