Archives for May 20, 2020

Buddy Rich and his big band play Bill Potts’ “Big Swing Face” at Holland’s Northsea Jazz Festival in 1979:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.”

George Washington, letter to Phlip Schuyler, July 15, 1777, after the loss of Fort Ticonderoga