by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s Note. To get into the right and proper mood for this article, search any search engine for Sir William Walton’s resounding “Crown Imperial.” This was the music Their Royal Highnesses heard as they walked the Westminster Abbey red carpet to their future subjects, the cynosure of every eye. Walton was …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s note: To get in the mood for this article, search any search engine for the “I Love Lucy” theme song (written by Eliot Daniel). Make sure you get the version with the lyrics! How many laughs has “I Love Lucy” given you over the years? More than you can even …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant President Harry Truman once remarked that there is nothing new under the sun except the history you haven’t learned yet. How right he was, and nothing proves the point so well as this appreciation for the life of World War II aviation pioneer, Violet Crowden and all the other 1,078 Women …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Author’s program note. To get into the right frame of mind for this article, search any search engine for the music and lyrics to “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines” (released 1965, music by Ron Goodwin). Prepare to be aroused as one of the great stories of our lives soars… …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant Every person reading this article; indeed, most every person on this planet has experienced the phenomenon of The Boss. This is the designated person within your organization who gives the orders and runs the show. He or she is the person you talk about the most and strive to do your …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant What can you say about the quintessential non-event that has over 2 billion viewers showing up to watch with unfeigned interest? Plenty, if you’re Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham, “God save me from the Queen,” she wrote on April 24, as if her pen were filled with acid reflux. “And especially …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant It is today Easter Sunday. Easter came late this year, April 24. And it came into a world that was dismayed by our elusive springtime; temperatures low, hints of snow and even some late flakes, and the bone chilling winds that convince you January has never left, though in fact it …
Something wonderful, unprecedented, and magnificent is happening as I write (April 23, 2011) off the holiday beaches of Provincetown and Truro, Massachusetts. It’s a convention… no, not a political convention (though this story has a political aspect). And it’s not strictly business either, though business will most surely be generated. No, it’s a story about …
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant I’m going to tell you right up front: I like Gary Johnson. He’s an ultra-personable, plain-talking, gets-things-done kind of guy. But he’s got a fever — Potomac fever — that’s going to upend his life for the next year and more until the next Republican National Convention in 2012. You see, …
Royal historian and author, Dr. Jeffrey Lant will be appearing LIVE on New England Cable News at 6 pm eastern today (April 21, 2011). The recording of this program will be available at 7 pm eastern at necn.com. Please tune in and see what royal expert Dr. Lant has to say about “the wedding of …