Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Note! This is a different fellow from radio, television, and film actor John Larkin (1912-1965), who was associated with Perry Mason and The Edge of Night. That’s a larkin for another sunr…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:12PMToday’s new Travalanche posts for November 25, 2025 are about Evacuation Day, three new screen projects with a Rhode Island connection, and stage and screen actor John Larkin. Earlier Trav…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:12PMYour correspondent is never more provincial than when attention is paid to his tiny home state. It’s reached the point that not only is there an entire Rhode Island section on Travalanche,…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:06PMHappy Evacuation Day! You may be surprised to learn that its has nothing to do with promoting colon health. November 25, 1783 was the day that the British finally departed from New York City…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AMMonday, November 24, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche post for November 24, 2025 is about that unlikely television star William F. Buckley, who was born 100 years ago today. Earlier Travalanche posts for November 24 (i…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:18PMAuthor, editor, and television presenter William F. Buckley (1925-2008) was born 100 years ago today. Having now done posts on Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, and Truman Capote, of…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:06AMSunday, November 23, 2025
This concludes our multi-part series on my 60th birthday road trip to visit dead relatives. As you see from this photo, only one of them rose up to greet us. Below is an organized re-cap of …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:24PMToday’s new Travalanche posts for November 23, 2025 are David Rappaport (Time Bandits), the final installment of my Southern travel series, and a recap of the entire series. Earlier Traval…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:24PMThe few stalwarts still reading this series on my sexagenarian southern sojourn will be relieved to know that we’re sewing the whole thing up today. Just a few straggling memories of our l…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:18PMLike most Americans, I’ll wager, I first encountered little person/ actor David Rappaport (1951-1990) in his role as Randall in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits (1981). As leader of the grou…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:06AMSaturday, November 22, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 22, 2025 are a review of Ken Burns’ The American Revolution and (in a related post) a visit to the site of The Battle of Kings Mountain. Earlie…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:54PMAs promised in my earlier post, a few thoughts on The American Revolution docu-series by Ken Burns and his collaborators Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt. On the whole I would say the untram…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:54AMThe Battle of Kings Mountain (1780), South Carolina, looms large in my family history, as several of my ancestors, relations, and their neighbors were among the so-called Overmountain Men wh…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:42AMFriday, November 21, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 21, 2025 are plugs for Universoul Circus at Coney Island, Paragon Ragtime in Oak Ridge, and an account to my recent trip to Asheville. Earlier Tr…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:12PMIf ye don’t know who Jimmie Rodgers is, God help us all. . As you are an astute and careful reader, you know that this post on my recent stop in Asheville is part 11 in a series of 14, wit…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:12PMHaving just been in Knoxville a few days ago, the news that my friends of the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra were to be playing Oak Ridge, about a half hour outside that city, couldn’t do other…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:32AMHeads up, New Yorkers! This is just to let you know that the Universoul Circus has pitched its tent at Coney Island and will be playing there through the rest of the month! I love it when ci…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:32AMThursday, November 20, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 20, 2025 are about Norman Greenbaum (singer of “Spirit in the Sky”), and the Eastern Band of Cherokee. Also it’s World Children’s Day: yo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:36PMSon Cashel gets very high marks indeed for the next stop on our travel itinerary, the Eastern Band of Cherokee’s Qualla Boundary, which was definitely on my Bucket List, though I hadn’t …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:36PMNovember 20 is the birthday of that great purveyor of Americana…Norman Greenbaum (b. 1942). I wish I’d remembered his earlier work in time to include him in the radio show I did with Wil…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:24AMWednesday, November 19, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 19, 2025 are about Death By Lightning (the new show about the assassination of James Garfield), character actor George Barbier, Great Smoky Mount…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:18PMThis entry in our ongoing series will perhaps more like a family vacation slideshow than any of us would like, but I will try to avoid boring you as much as possible. I have culled ten times…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:06PMBy a wonderful confluence of circumstances, we find ourself at the birthday of photographer and educator W.S. Lively (William Spence Lively, Sr. 1855-1944) in the wake of just having visited…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:54PMNovember 19 was the date of birth of our short-lived President James A. Garfield (1831-1881). I often like to boast (and in all truth as far as I can tell) that I am related to all the Presi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:42PMNovember 19 was the birthday of Hollywood character actor George Barbier (1864-1945). What an interesting predicament. Barbier came to Hollywood movies at a time when his namesake, the Frenc…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:32AMTuesday, November 18, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 18, 2025 are about musician and comedian Wilbur “Willie” Hall, and Dollywood/ Pigeon Forge. Earlier Travalanche posts for November 18 (in no …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:54PMAt this point in this ongoing series I take the unusual step of giving a shout-out to an area of Tennessee my sons and I blew past in a rush to get somewhere else. This will thus be an odd p…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:18PMFellow show buffs surely know the brightest moment in the career of Wilbur Hall (1894-1983), sometimes billed as Willy Hall. He’s in Paul Whiteman’s movie King of Jazz (1930). Hall is th…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:54AMMonday, November 17, 2025
Today’s new Travalanche posts for November 17, 2025 are about Rock Hudson, who would be 100 years old today, and a Trav-a-log look at the culture of Knoxville, Tennessee. Thus, a little Ro…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:36PMThanks be to son Cashel for building Knoxville (which I hadn’t thought of) into our trip, for I loved what I saw of the town as we blasted through it, and I hope to go back sometime. And a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:18PMHappy I am for this occasion to do a dedicated post on Rock Hudson (Roy Scherer, 1925-1985). The closest I have come previously were ones on McMillan & Wife and a couple of his movies. I…
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