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Continue reading →: A Journey Through Austria’s Historic Salt MinesIntroduction During my time in Austria this past fall, I visited not one but two historic salt mines whose contributions to the development of the city and region of Salzburg over millennia cannot be overstated. The very name Salzburg comes from the German Salz (salt) and Burg (fortress). This post…
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Continue reading →: The Battle of Lepanto: A Narrative Poem by G. K. Chesterton
Lepanto is an epic narrative poem by the English writer George Keith (“G. K.”) Chesterton, published in 1911. Click play below to hear my performance of this piece. Lepanto is structured mainly in four-line stanzas called quatrains with an AABBCC rhyming scheme. As a narrative poem, its content is meant…
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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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