Crystal Gale - 9-17

Brenda Gail Webb is nineteen years younger than her sister Loretta.  When Loretta married Oliver Lynn, she took on his name and became Loretta Lynn.  When Brenda decided to pursue her own career in music, she was encouraged change her name to avoid confusion with her contemporary, Brenda Lee.  Inspired by a Krystal hamburger store, she became Crystal Gayle, and eventually accumulated twenty number one hits on the country music charts, during the 1970s and 1980s, recording twenty-two studio albums and eleven compilation albums.  Two of the albums adorning the walls of the American Treasure Tour are:

We Must Believe In Magic was released in 1977, including her hit single "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue," and went platinum.

Miss the Mississippi came out two years later and contained three hits for Gayle:  "Half the Way," "It's Like We Never Said Goodbye," and "The Blue Side."

Gayle married her high school sweetheart, with whom she is still together, living in Nashville while touring for her fans.

Question:

What Native American tribe awarded Gayle with a Medal of Honor at a ceremony in Tahlequah, Oklahoma in the year 2000?

a)  Sioux

b)  Cherokee

c)  Arapaho

d)  Crow

e)  Lenni Lenape

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Today in History

September 17th, 1776, the colony of New Spain began the fortification of a space in Alta California in the effort to establish a claim to the land.  This fort became known as the Presidio, and was located in the San Francisco Bay.  Mexico claimed the land when they became independent from Spain, and the United States took it over in 1848 when Mexico ceded it after the Mexican-American War.  Shortly thereafter, gold was discovered in the mountains east of San Francisco, compelling the region to become extremely important to gold rushers and America in general.  California received statehood in 1850, only two years later.

The Battle of Antietam was fought between General George B. McClellan's Union forces and the Confederates under Robert E. Lee.  The bloodiest day in the American Civil War, 22,717 men were deemed missing, wounded, or dead.

Births

Born in Scotland in the year 1854, David Dunbar Buick migrated to the United States at the age of two, and they settled in Detroit.  

A natural tinkerer, Buick started his career in the plumbing field, then invented a lawn sprinkler, and methods to effectively coat cast iron with enamel that became a popular cover for bathtubs.  At the age of forty-five, Buick began his first company associated with the production of automobiles in a company that used his name.  Buick's fortunes rose and fell, and by the time of his death at age seventy-four from colon cancer, he was in poverty.

Sharing a birthday with David Dunbar Buick is Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger.  Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota the son of a traveling salesman, Burger received his law degree magna cum laude in 1931 and became a distinguished lawyer in Minnesota, prior to his appointment by President Richard M. Nixon in 1969 as Chief Justice, following Earl Warren in the position.  Considered a critic of Warren's court, Burger surprised many by upholding decisions made by his predecessor.  He resigned his post in 1986, and passed away nine years later.

Quote:

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.  -- Warren Burger

Answer:  b)

Loretta Lynn 8-28

When she was forty-eight years old, Loretta Lynn's autobiography was released in theaters in the guise of the movie Coal Miner's Daughter, starring Sissy Spacek in the title role, with Tommy Lee Jones playing her husband, Mooney Lynn.  The poster for this film adorns the wall in the ATT Music Room above one of our very favorite nickelodeons, the Wurlitzer PianOrchestra with the peacock proudly dominating it:

Michael Apted, famous for his "UP" film series, directed this 1980 movie, with Loretta Lynn's involvement.  In fact, Lynn herself selected Sissy Spacek to play her.  Spacek was reluctant to do so until she received what she perceived to be a sign when she was in her car and Lynn's song, "Coal Miner's Daughter" came on the radio. Later, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.

Question:

In which of the following songs did Loretta Lynn sing a duet with Conway Twitty:

a)  "Don't Come Home a-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)"

b)  "Lead Me On"

c)  "You Ain't Woman Enough"

d)  "Fist City"

e)  "One's On the Way"

Today's History

It was 1609 on this very day that Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay for the Dutch East India Company (although the Lenni Lenape might have argued that they preferred it undiscovered).  Hudson would continue making discoveries in North America until, two year later, his crew mutinied and abandoned Hudson, his son, and seven others adrift in the Canadian bay named after him.  None of them were ever seen again.

This was a day of tragedy in 1955, when African-American 14 year-old Emmett Till was found murdered during a visit to the town of Money, Mississippi after he supposedly flirted with a Caucasian woman.  His murder, trial and funeral triggered national outrage and proved a pivotal impetus for the American Civil Rights Movement.

Births

Luis Guzman is a Puerto Rican character actor with a distinctive face who has been in numerous films since his debut in 1977 until now, most recently in the comedy We're the Millers with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis.  He will be 57 years old.

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Answer:  b)