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Behold the Glass Armonica, the Unbelievably Fragile Instrument Invented by Benjamin Franklin

December 5, 2021 Chuck Metz Leave a comment

Ethereal…

https://www.openculture.com/2021/12/behold-the-glass-armonica-the-unbelievably-fragile-instrument-invented-by-benjamin-franklin.html

Music, Poetry, Worldviews

A Different Kind of Progress: The Poetry and Philosophy of Rilke, Rumi, Mary Oliver, and Tagore, Set to Song

September 17, 2021 Chuck Metz Leave a comment

A beautiful musical homage to the eternal dance of life and death…

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/12/17/shannon-hawley-a-different-kind-of-progress/

Art, Music

Watch Classical Music Come to Life in Artfully Animated Scores

June 9, 2021 Chuck Metz Leave a comment

https://www.openculture.com/2017/11/watch-classical-music-come-to-life-in-artfully-animated-scores.html

PUBLICATIONS AND PROJECTS

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Three Mile Island and Beyond

During the fear-filled days of the Three Mile Island accident, Harold Denton’s voice was one of reassuring and convincing comfort to the American people. Three Mile Island and Beyond interweaves Denton’s retelling of the accident with chapters conveying his career-long message of safety being the paramount factor in the use of nuclear technology.

Three Mile Island and Beyond: Memories of a Life in Nuclear Safety — ANS / ANS Store / Special Publications

Jul21NN Metz QA Feature Reprint, Metz on Harold Denton: Memories of a Life in Nuclear Safety, Nuclear News, July 2021

Metz on Harold Denton: Memories of a Life in Nuclear Safety, Nuclear News, July 2021

A nuclear crisis and the man who met it: Book recounts Harold Denton’s 1979 role – Knoxville News Sentinel, August 27, 2021

This Community of Companions

100 years of That Beautiful Bean Co.’s history in a 368 page coffee table companion book to the Bush’s Story Museum; ISBN 9780615511122

Available from the Bush’s® Visitor Center

Contact BUSH’S® Beans (bushbeans.com)

The Bush’s Story Museum

Housed in the Bush’s® Visitor Center, this interactive museum highlights over 100 years of That Beautiful Bean Co.’s history through video, interpretive text, models, artifacts and more.

Visit it and the visitor center’s other attractions at:

Bush’s® Visitor Center
3901 US-411
Dandridge, TN 37725

Visitor Center | BUSH’S® Beans