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Music

• Jobs, Winter Memory, and Slow Flood by Dark Dark Dark
• Carla et Roger aux sports l’hiver from the score to Le bel age by Georges Delareau
• Mt Baker by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
• All Creatures will Drink Joy by American Cream Band
• Every High (Piano Solo) by Kyson
• Vals Efter Lasse I Lyby by Lofoten Cello Duo

Notes

• You can read The President’s Daughter here. 

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• Waveland by Noam Pikelny.

Notes

• I relied a lot on the extensive articles on the Monticello historic home’s site maintained by the University of Virginia.
• As well as Dining at Monticello: In Good Taste and Abundance by Damon Lee Fowler.

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• We start with Facing the Obstacles, from Robert Simonson’s score to The Final Member.
• Nice Breeze Isn’t It? by Simon Rackham
• The Things Left Unsaid, by Caleb Burhans.
• View from a Balcony by Isorinne.
• 1979 by Deru.
• The Julianna Barwick remix of This Will Destroy You’s The Puritan.

Notes

• I found this article by Chelsea Lenhart particularly useful.
• As I did this one by Edward Lawler, Jr.
• And this one by Kathryn Gehred.
• As well as W.E.B. DuBois’ The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study.
• Fritz Herschfield’s George Washington and Slavery, A Documentary Study. 

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• We start and end with Daniel Berenboim playing Lizt’s 6 Consolations, S. 172: No. 3 in D flat minor.
• We hit up Yes But, from Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriens’ score to Christine.
• We return to the official Memory Palace love theme of William Henry Harrison, The Gentle Softness, Lalo Schiffrin’s score to The Last Dragon
• We cruise on the U.S.S. Princeton to Dispute by Yann Tiersen.
• Twist comes to Missing Pieces from the Broken City score.

Notes

• I read quite a bit about the Tylers, but really, one needs only to read “and Tyler Too,” by Robert Seager II.

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• We start with (and later return to) And Grace by David Darling.
• Robert Farnon and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra play Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. Suite II: The Wind which turns into Niggun for Solo Bassoon by Philippe Hersant.
• Then we hit Neon Lights by Kraftwerk from The Man Machine.
• And The Gentle Softness, the love theme to Enter The Dragon from Lalo Schifrin’s score.
• And hit up our friends Lullatone at the end with Origami Tulips.

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The Hoover Dam is rad. The sculpture is rad. The star map is super rad. And super ridiculous. Go see it. If it’s been awhile since you’ve gone to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s website, here’s an article about the sculpture.

This piece was premiered (if you will) as a live reading at Issue 2 of Pop Up Magazine in San Francisco. It was very fun.

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I’ve read about the Booths in several places (you kind of can’t avoid them), but I think I fell for Edwin’s story during the visit Sarah Vowell takes to see his statue in Gramercy Park in “Assassination Vacation.”

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I first read about the sad, sad Pierces in a book of Presidential profiles I got at a used bookstore. The book, upon further research, got a key detail wrong. I SO wish it were right, though: the way I first learned the story, Benny Pierce gets killed on the way to the inaugural. So, they’re on their way from New Hampshire; Jane is convinced that they are tempting the wrath of God; the train stops in Baltimore and Benny dies, proving it; she gets off the train; Franklin has to keep going because he’s about to be inaugurated as President of the United States. An epic, if apocryphal, story. Damn facts…

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