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Posted by: Neely Tucker
Kermit the Frog stops in to chat with Librarian Carla Hayden about his induction into the 2020 class of the National Recording Registry with his banjo-strumming ballad, "The Rainbow Connection" from 1979's "The Muppet Movie."
Posted in: Kids, Music, National Recording Registry, Performing Arts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The 2020 class of the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress incudes hits from Janet Jackson, Nas, Jackson Browne, Flaco Jimenez, Jimmy Cliff, newscast recordings and one of the first recordings of an American voice, by Thomas Edison, in 1878,
Posted in: Music, National Recording Registry, Performing Arts
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Author and journalist Michelle Farrell researched her latest work at the Library -- the Bermuda experiences of W.W. Denslow, the original illustrator of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Denslow bought a small island there in the early 1900s using royalties from his works.
Posted in: Performing Arts, Researcher Stories, Theater