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RUBE GOLDBERG -- MASTER OF CRAZY CONTRAPTIONS
RUBE GOLDBERG -- MASTER OF CRAZY CONTRAPTIONS

Inventive, clever, funny, cartoonist Rube Goldberg captured our love/hate affair with machines.

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WITSThe AtticFebruary 3, 2018Rube Goldberg, Technology, Cartooning Comments
ELIZABETH COTTEN -- THE WOMAN WHO PLAYED UPSIDE DOWN
ELIZABETH COTTEN -- THE WOMAN WHO PLAYED UPSIDE DOWN

Elizabeth Cotten charmed audiences with her "Freight Train" and her unique picking.

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FOLKIESThe AtticFebruary 2, 2018Elizabeth Cotten, Folk Music, Fingerpicking guitar Comment
THOMAS PAINE -- BEYOND "COMMON SENSE"
THOMAS PAINE -- BEYOND "COMMON SENSE"

In these "times that try men's souls," Thomas Paine offers a remedy -- believe in people, not institutions.

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REBELS, BOOK-ISH, DEMOCRACYThe AtticJanuary 18, 2018Thomas Paine, Common Sense, American Revolution, Rights of Man Comments
DINNER WITH JUDY CHICAGO
DINNER WITH JUDY CHICAGO

How an idea at a dinner party turned into an art masterpiece.  The table is set.

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ART-ISHThe AtticJanuary 2, 2018Feminism, Women, Arts Comments
THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTMAS
THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTMAS

A “War on Christmas?” Nothing new. In fact, the modern holiday emerged from a battle against seasonal revelry. Ho ho ho.

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WONDERSThe AtticDecember 22, 2017Battle for Christmas, Christmas Comments
THE LITTLE GALLERY THAT CAUGHT THE LIGHT
THE LITTLE GALLERY THAT CAUGHT THE LIGHT

Photography was not art until Alfred Stieglitz and his little gallery insisted that it was.

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ART-ISHThe AtticDecember 13, 2017Arts, Modern art Comments
IN LOVE WITH AMERICA'S NAMES
IN LOVE WITH AMERICA'S NAMES

Intercourse, Hell, Boring, What Cheer...

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SPEAKING AMERICAN, American PlacesThe AtticAugust 9, 2017Humor, American names, Intercourse, Intercourse pa Comments
GASHOUSE
GASHOUSE

They were Dizzy, Daffy, and Ducky. They clowned, brawled, and romped through the Great Depression.

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WITSThe AtticAugust 1, 2017Baseball lore, American Originals, History Comments
AN AUCTION IN BRICK CITY
AN AUCTION IN BRICK CITY

Hebron bricks were “what America is made of.” But the bricklayer’s house went for a song.

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BUILDERSThe AtticJuly 19, 2017North Dakota, American heartland, American Labor Comment
THE GRAND COULEE DAM -- "BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE"
THE GRAND COULEE DAM -- "BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE"

Fifty stories high and a mile wide. The Attic visits the great Grand Coulee Dam.

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American Places, Who Built America?, BUILDERSThe AtticJune 29, 2017Grand Coulee Dam, Washington State, Woody Guthrie, Dams, Pacific Northwest Comment
SATCHEL -- THE OLD MAN AND THE GAME
SATCHEL -- THE OLD MAN AND THE GAME

The starting pitcher was 59-years-old.  "Don't look back, something might be gaining on you."

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HEROESThe AtticApril 15, 2017Baseball lore, 1960s, People of Color, Satchel Paige Comments
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