A Visit to the Daffodil Convention
I've just returned from the convention of The American Daffodil Society which was held in Asheville, NC. It was a busy week which included the national daffodil show, lots of interesting speakers, and a tour to Biltmore House and Gardens and the ... [... more]
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Swing
 From Amazon.com: All of the Manhattan Transfer's albums are laden with nostalgia, but few work as well as a time machine as Swing. This disc collects 13 classics from the swing era, from "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" to "Skyliner." All recall [... more]
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Fortune's Children
Vanderbilt Voyeurism: "Fortune's Children" is an enormously fun read. Arthur Vanderbilt relates how his ancestors accumulated and then depleted an almost unimaginable fortune. In the process they created a lot of majestic homes and even more [... more]
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1921-1934 Recordings Of
From Amazon.co.uk: Paul Whiteman: Recordings of 1921-34 is an exceptionally good collection of Whiteman's work. Few people have had the impact on American musical taste that Whiteman did in the 1920s, a direct result of his own energy and remarkably open [... more]
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The Private Eyes (1981)
From Amazon.com: Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way [... more]
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The Prince of Homburg (Broadway Theatre Archive)
From Amazon.com: In its heyday, New York's adventurous Chelsea Theatre Center was a renowned purveyor of all things experimental on the stage. This included not just new works, but classics from other cultures that remained unknown in the United States. [... more]
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Biltmore Oswald
Author: J. Thorne Smith Jr Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781598188509 ISBN: 159818850X Number Of Pages: 108 Publication Date: 2006-07 [... more]
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Biltmore Estate
Author: Ellen Erwin Rickman Author: Ellen Erwin Rickman Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 975.688 EAN: 9780738517490 ISBN: 0738517496 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2005-05 [... more]
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Under the Biltmore Clock
Sean Young *is* the Fitzgerald Girl: Sean Young is perfectly cast as an F. Scott Fitgerald heroine in this good PBS adaptation of one of his short stories. She captures the brittle charm, beauty, and underlying vulnerability of the Jazz Age girls he [... more]
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Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Became an American Icon
Author: Howard E. Jr. Covington Author: The Biltmore Company Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 975.688 EAN: 9780471758181 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0471758183 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: 2006-02-22 [... more]
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Christmas at the Biltmore Estate
From Amazon.com: The big folk scare of the '60s produced one of the genre's clearest voices in Judy Collins, who popularized Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now and went on to become something of a mainstream diva. Truth be told, Collins was never a true tie- [... more]
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Bert Lown's Biltmore Hotel Orchestra
snappy 30's dance music: Great collection of dance numbers mostly from 1930 - 32. Excellent sound quality and very good liner notes. Musicianship is solid, and there are plenty of very tastey licks from Adrian Rollini's bass sax. All but one of the tunes [... more]
CDN$18.99
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