Meeting Jeff Smith

This evening, I met author/activist/archivist Jeff Smith, who spoke at Out on the Lakeshore about his latest book, A People's History of Grand Rapids.

Quote of the Day

It was always the music that explained things.  What it is that takes you out of being just a kid and thinking it's all adventure, and you find there's a lesson underneath all that adventure.  You come into life alone and you go out of it alone, and you're gonna be alone a lot of the times when you're on this earth, and what tells it all?  It's the music.

-- Sidney Bechet