JC the Americana Guy

This is my All-Things-Americana twitter. The Arts make life worth living, tho I’m partial to Western Civilization myself. Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

Happy Birthday to the late Louis L'Amour, born Louis Dearborn LaMoore 118 years ago today

"I think of myself in the oral tradition--as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of a campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered--as a storyteller.” —Louis L’Amour

Edge of Nashville, Spring. c1910. (Gustave Baumann, Indianapolis Museum of Art)

YES! Finally. Ralph Stanley, and The Stanley Brothers have just been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. savingcountrymusic.com/ralph-stanley-…

Call-for-Papers: Northern Great Plains History Conference ngphconference.org/call-for-papers

Videos of the Midwestern studies conference hosted by the Lost Region Recovery Project can be viewed here youtube.com/watch?v=xLWvQj…

The first Girl Scouts troop was founded #OTD in 1912 in Georgia. 🍪 By the 1920s, the group was already known for its cookies, as evidenced by these images from the Library’s Prints and Photographs Division and historic newspaper archive, of First Lady Grace Coolidge sampling them at the White House.

Remind your state and federal lawmakers that permanent DST makes sunrise dangerously late—permanent Standard Time is the safer way to ditch the switch! savestandardtime.com/action/

"Books only have two smells. The smell of a new book, which is good, and the smell of an old book, which is even better." Ray Bradbury Good night

Townes Van Zandt was born on this day in 1944 and the world was never the same.

Townes Van Zandt would have been 82 today. Revisit our review of what was to be the cult singer-songwriter’s seventh album, a record tinged with deathly mystique that captures the heart and soul of the Texan troubadour pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

Townes Van Zandt would have been 82 years old today. Revisit our ranking of his greatest songs ⬇️ pastemagazine.com/music/townes-v…

Happy birthday to Townes Van Zandt, born on this day in 1944!

National Trust President and CEO Carol Quillen has released the following statement in response to today’s National Capital Planning Commission meeting: ow.ly/Nl4C50YpWAX

Maria’s Bookshop in Durango was served with a police warrant seeking information about customers. “It is not a crime to read a book,” First Amendment lawyer says. durangoherald.com/articles/maria…

“America’s Best Idea” began 154 years ago when Yellowstone was protected as the world’s first national park.

I was today years old listening to the Friday Night @opry on WSM I learned Mark Wills sang 19-Somethin’. Huh. #MusicIsLife en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_Someth…

The city of Durango said it will not enforce a warrant seeking customer records from Maria’s Bookshop, acknowledging “mistakes were made.” durangoherald.com/articles/city-…

The original Nancy Drew novels, ghost written by Hawkeye Mildred Benson, enter the public domain this year. She was the first person to earn a master's degree in journalism from Iowa. 🔎

Have you ever wanted to travel back in time? Now you can with Route 66 Rewind, an experiment from Google Arts & Culture! This project is one example of how technology can support preservation efforts: ow.ly/S2jl50Y8e8o