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ernest hemingway locations

Posted on July 16, 2013 by peter bell

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, IL on July 21, 1899.  The son of a physician (Clarence Edmonds Hemingway) and a musician (Grace Hall-Hemingway), Ernest spent the summers of his youth in northern Michigan where he learned to hunt and fish, as he began to develop a habit for writing stories.  Later in […]

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elvis presley locations in tupelo

Posted on April 18, 2013 by peter bell

Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8, 1935 to Vernon and Gladys Presley.  Elvis’ twin brother, Jesse Garon, died in stillbirth that same day.  The home where Elvis was born is now a museum open to the public in Tupelo.  The Presleys lived in and near Tupelo until Vernon moved the family to Memphis.  […]

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Johnny Cash locations

Posted on June 12, 2012 by peter bell

Trying to tell the story of Johnny Cash’s life is like trying to shoehorn a tall-tale into a prefabricated narrative- you may get some of it into a tidy story, but the rest of it spills over and off the page (see the affably bland film, Walk the Line, as an exercise in sanitized myth […]

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Bob Marley locations

Posted on April 12, 2012 by peter bell

Robert Nesta “Bob” Marley was born February 6, 1945 in the village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica.  In the 36 years of his relatively short life, Marley became the figurehead of a musical (reggae) and spiritual (Rastafarianism) movement.  So whether you see him as a transformative social figure, or as the inspiration […]

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