Fiddler Magazine
Ingredients of Fiddle Tunes
After several years of teaching and playing at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend, Washington, Marc Savoy, accordion maker and player, said he did not want to return.
6 min |
Fall 2022
Fiddler Magazine
Tunesmiths
A Favorite Tune and its Mysterious Title
7 min |
Fall 2022
Fiddler Magazine
Instrument Maker James Morris: Where History and Creativity Meet
I first came upon James (Jim) Morris' musical creations on the Facebook group Fiddle Tune Video Library.
3 min |
Fall 2022
Fiddler Magazine
Murray Kuun: Non-traditional Violin Maker
Murray Kuun is a woodworker and luthier living in South Africa, where he builds violins and other instruments. In a recent interview, he told us about his path to becoming a maker of instruments with innovative designs.
2 min |
Fall 2022
Fiddler Magazine
The Intrepid Fiddler
Busking in the Digital Age
5 min |
Fall 2022
Fiddler Magazine
Jody's Column
"Broken Down Gambler" as played by The Skillet Lickers
3 min |
Fall 2022
Fiddler Magazine
Violin Maker's Corner
Fundamental Friction Facts for Fiddler Folks
5 min |
Fall 2022
Fiddler Magazine
On Improvisation
In this On Improvisation column, we'll be discussing Mr. (or Ms.) Pinky, as he (or she) is known to his (or her) friends.
4 min |
Fall 2022
Fiddler Magazine
John Preston: Making Living Trees into Singing Instruments
Every great chef knows the excellence of their dish depends on the quality of their ingredients. The same is true for the builder of instruments.
5 min |
Fall 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek US
Tracking Periods Without Being Tracked
The group behind the nonprofit app Drip says it offers greater privacy than commercial rivals
3 min |
September 05 - 12, 2022 (Double Issue)
Techlife News
‘I Didn't Really Learn Anything': Covid Grads Face College
Angel Hope looked at the math test and felt lost. He had just graduated near the top of his high school class, winning scholarships from prestigious colleges. But on this test — a University of Wisconsin exam that measures what new students learned in high school — all he could do was guess.
5 min |
August 13, 2022
Reason magazine
You Can't Stop Pirate Libraries
Where there's demand for books, the Internet will supply them.
7 min |
August - September 2022
Reason magazine
The Dangerous Lesson of Book Bans in Public School Libraries
An obscure Supreme Court case provides a roadmap through the curricular culture war.
10+ min |
August - September 2022
Mother Jones
Debtors' Vision
How a group of Occupiers pushed Biden to embrace student debt relief
6 min |
July/August 2022
Reason magazine
Kids Can Learn Without Instruction
Don’t show this to your kids, because they might cry. But guess how much time children in “traditional societies”— indigenous groups pretty much off the grid—spend in direct instruction, the way American kids do in school?
3 min |
July 2022
Good House Keeping - US
The Magic of Children's Gardens
Exposure to nature helps kids learn important lessons they'll carry with them as they grow.
4 min |
May 2022
Esquire
Cold War Kids
For two weeks in 1962, at recess, we would all look up at the sky. We're looking at the sky again.
5 min |
April - May 2022
PC Magazine
10 Common Career Tips That Might Be Wrong for You
Advice about the working world can seem helpful, but following it may not help your career flourish.!
6 min |
April 2022
True West
The End of an Era
Texans drove their last great herds north in the 1880s.
3 min |
April 2022
PC Magazine
Wondrium: Wide Variety of Education Videos
Couch-side edutainment for the curious
8 min |
February 2022
True West
Ask the Marshall — Saloons, Paniolos and Telegraphs
Was the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas, an integrated saloon during 1876 to 1886, the height of the cattle drive era? This rare interior photo of Chalk Beeson's famous Front Street bar shows bartender Lo Warren (front, right), a Black bartender and cowboys sitting at the rear of the saloon.
3 min |
February - March 2022
True West
Native History Celebrated Large
Only months old, the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma City is dedicated to truth-telling.
3 min |
February - March 2022
Bloomberg Businessweek
The lost girls of covid
For 25 years, girls in developing countries have been on a remarkable trajectory of progress. The pandemic is reversing it
10+ min |
January 10, 2022
American Outdoor Guide
Good Bugs
These creative critters offer help to humans in a variety of ways.
10 min |
February 2022
New York magazine
“My Dad Wasn't Just A Nobody”
Fifteen people at Rikers died in 2021. These are their stories.
10+ min |
January 3-16, 2022
Mother Jones
The Purity Trap
These women went to Bible college to deepen their faith. Then they were assaulted— and blamed for it.
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
THE ROOTS OF VIOLENCE
In the early 1960s, archaeologists from around the world descended on the Upper Nile Valley.
3 min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
Under the Holy City
A long-running excavation in Jerusalem unearths evidence for two of the city’s least-known eras
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
TURNING SALT INTO GOLD
In the Austrian Alps, generations of miners toiled to extract the ancient world’s most valuable resource
10+ min |
January/February 2022
Archaeology
OFF THE GRID
OPLONTIS, ITALY
2 min |