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Aiken Standard

Location

Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Jun 20, 2004

Page

23

River Music Experience honors Mississippi River roots in American song

Davenport Iowa debuts the River Music Experience museum tracing the river's influence on jazz, blues, country, and rock through 1929 Jimmie Rogers clips, Delta blues Johnson recordings, Dylan images, and artifacts. The 31000 square foot exhibit space in The Redstone Building highlights Davenport as a historic river music crossroads with links to Louis Armstrong Beiderbecke and the Blues Highway.

Davenport Iowa Jimmie Rogers Robert Johnson Bob Dylan Twin Cities America New Orleans Memphis Tenn Louis Armstrong Davy Dodds Johnny St. Cyr Bix Beiderbecke Redstone Cleveland Nashville Experience Music Project Seattle Gibbons AME Mississippi River

General Slocum Fire marks a forgotten New York tragedy

The 1904 General Slocum steamer fire killed over 1,000 on a Lutheran church picnic in the East River, eclipsed by later disasters. The NY Historical Society marks the centennial with an exhibit of artifacts, photos, and survivor stories. The event devastated New Yorks German community known as Klein Deutschland and reshaped its demographics.

New York East River New York City World Trade Center Manhattan Lower East Side Werner Schmidt Klein- Deutschland New-York Historical Society Anna Liebenow New York Aquarium Locust Grove Long Island Northport Hell Gate Long Island Sound William Henry van Schaick North Brother Island Bronx Kathleen Hulser Historical Society General Slocum

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