Bill Millin, 88 - Piper Played on D-Day - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

Another part of history passing, but a good memory of the kind of men that made WWII veterans so special and really so young when they took that beach. Bill Millin, 88 - Piper Played on D-Day - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

YouTube - Edgar Allan Poe : Annabel Lee (narrated by Marianne Faithfull)

Moonlite Sonata behind the reading of Poe's famous romantic poem with his goth touch. Poe is also a major influence on the detective story. YouTube - Edgar Allan Poe : Annabel Lee (narrated by Marianne Faithfull)

YouTube - Marianne Faithfull reads Edgar Allan Poe's "Alone"

A very interesting mix of the poem and visuals to get an effect. Poetry can also be visual in the imagination. YouTube - Marianne Faithfull reads Edgar Allan Poe's "Alone"

YouTube - Robert Frost "Mending Wall" Poem Animation Movie

Our Great Books Discussion group covered this poem recently. This is in Frost's own voice. YouTube - Robert Frost "Mending Wall" Poem Animation Movie

YouTube - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking" Poem Animation Movie

This is in Frost's own voice reading his poem with rural vision and everyday life. It is one of the reasons I like Frost's work so well. YouTube - Robert Frost "After Apple-Picking" Poem Animation Movie

YouTube - Charles Dickens "Autumn Leaves" Poem Animation Movie

Charles Dicken's famous poem ready by Charles Bryant. YouTube - Charles Dickens "Autumn Leaves" Poem Animation Movie

YouTube - George Bernard Shaw "Spoken English & the Gramophone" Literary discussion animation

George Bernard Shaw's own use of Edison's invention to leave a recording of his actual voice. YouTube - George Bernard Shaw "Spoken English & the Gramophone" Literary discussion animation

YouTube - Walt Whitman "O Captain, My Captain" Poem animation

A well done reading of a famous poem written, rewritten, and rewritten by a creative genius. YouTube - Walt Whitman "O Captain, My Captain" Poem animation

YouTube - The Rat Pack Live (1965) - Birth Of The Blues (HD)

These guys were having way too much fun. Fred Claus emailed me this link to enjoy. YouTube - The Rat Pack Live (1965) - Birth Of The Blues (HD)

YouTube - "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats (poetry reading)

I remember this from my high school days. This is read more melodically than my reading in the book. I always loved the artifact since I have a minor in anthropology and like archaeology. YouTube - "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats (poetry reading)

YouTube - "To A Cat" by Hartley Coleridge (poetry reading)

This is a poem that attracts me since I have a cat written by a son of Samuel Coleridge who could never quite match the genius of someone who could write Kubla Khan.YouTube - "To A Cat" by Hartley Coleridge (poetry reading)

YouTube - "The Tyger" by William Blake (poetry reading)

One of my favorite childhood poems. YouTube - "The Tyger" by William Blake (poetry reading)

YouTube - "Gunga Din" by Rudyard Kipling (poetry)

One of the great poems of Kipling read aloud. YouTube - "Gunga Din" by Rudyard Kipling (poetry)

YouTube - Rudyard Kipling "if" Poem Animation

The best poem in Kipling's own voice for anyone that is a First Responder, a Fireman, a Policeman, or Environmental Response Team member, a Fire Marshall, or a an EMT then this is your poem. YouTube - Rudyard Kipling "if" Poem Animation

YouTube - George Bernard Shaw "Spoken English & the Gramophone" Literary discussion animation

Technology issues are nothing new. This is George Bernard Shaw in his own voice talking about how to play a record at the right speed. YouTube - George Bernard Shaw "Spoken English & the Gramophone" Literary discussion animation

Geocaching in Kentucky

The sport of Geocaching I found by teaching some kids Clifty Creek water sampling. Upstream on the creek in a tree root area was a park geocache. The game is kind of a GPS hide and go seek with treasures that mutate with finders and notes left for the next player. Its a kind of group activity. My Great Books Discussion Group and I talked about it last time and based on Mrs. Hardy's recommendation I have bought Sarah's Key a book about French police ordered to send Jews under the Vichy government to Germany which is how many ended in concentration camps. On my friend at a laboratory's recommendation I also got from Amazon the series The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo etc. to start reading for the first time. One good thing about loving reading is to find new authors. Geocaching in Kentucky