Tam Gray
An American Ballroom Companion
The ballroom was the perfect setting for men and women to demonstrate their dancing abilities, to show their awareness of the latest fashions, and to display their mastery of polite behavior - qualities required for acceptance in society more »
Gourmet's Adventures With Ruth
The first episode takes Ms. Reichl to Blackberry Farm in Tennessee, the "cradle of American food." Making cheese, preserving jam and vegetables, spending time with the butcher and fishing for trout with Frances McDormand (the star of Fargo)are ingredients of the segment. more »
Academic Earth, Civil War and Alcott's Hospital Sketches
"He lay on a bed, with one leg gone, and the right arm soshattered that it must evidently follow: yet the little Sergeant was asmerry as if his afflictions were not worth lamenting over; and when adrop or two of salt water mingled with my suds at the sight of thisstrong young body, so marred and maimed, the boy looked up, with abrave smile the boy looked up, with a brave smile, though there was a little quiver of the lips ... " more »
The States of Marriage and Divorce
"The proportion of Americans who are currently married has been diminishing for decades and is lower than it has been in at least half a century." more »
