Every year in early December, French schoolchildren act out the gruesome tale of St. Nicolas and the butcher. At least it has a happy ending, according to commentator Nancy Coons.
John Cephas and Phil Wiggins were modern ambassadors of a fingerpicking regional acoustic blues style developed mainly in Virginia and the Carolinas: the Piedmont blues.
Crews are still working on President Trump’s controversial renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, coating the basin in what he calls “American flag blue.”