Topic: Culture & Society

We oldtimers gotta love it. You younger folks might not even know who the Byrds were, given the fact that they seem to get absolutely no airplay these days - in spite of the fact that their work still holds up. If you don't know, the Byrds were perhaps the most important American group in the mid to late sixties.

In a musical first, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Roger McGuinn has recorded a unique video from the inside of a private berth on a train headed from Florida to New York. The Roger Rocks on Rails video, recorded exclusively for GrowingBolder.com features McGuinn taking viewers on a musical journey through the history of rock and roll.

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An analysis of textile fragments excavated from a 5th century Mayan tomb in Honduras, some of the few surviving textiles from the Mayan civilization, revealed high quality fabrics produced by highly skilled spinners and weavers.

Very few textiles from the Mayan culture have survived, so the treasure trove of fabrics excavated from a tomb at the Copán ruins in Honduras since the 1990s has generated considerable excitement.

Organization celebrates their 90th by handing a fat $10,000 check to the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society to provide urban students an opportunity to experience redwoods first-hand.

Save-the-Redwoods League, the only non-profit organization dedicated to protecting ancient redwood forests throughout their natural range, celebrates 90 years of work to ensure that all generations can experience the majesty of the world's tallest and largest trees. At its 90th anniversary celebration, the League announced a $10,000 grant to the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society to fund educational redwood walks for urban youth in Golden Gate Park.

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Herbert Hoover camping among the redwoods in 1928.

Breaking the "Silents" - how generational factors could help America elect a 72-year-old president.

If elected, Senator Clinton would be the first woman President of the United States; if elected, Senator Obama would be the first African-American President; and if elected, Senator McCain would not only be the first President from his generation - the Silent Generation - he would represent the new face of how America is redefining age.

Saith the people behind this move: "Each member of the Canadian Parliament has been provided with a copy of the full length feature film documentary 'Fastwalkers Congressional Update' DVD, labeled 'Top Secret.' For the first time in Canadian history, elected officials will be able to personally view documented evidence that, when investigated by Parliament, will pave the way for a serious examination of the UFO matter.

Exopolitics Toronto announces that in cooperation with Executive Producer/Writer Robert D. Miles, the full length feature film documentary Fastwalkers Congressional Update DVD, labeled "Top Secret" has been delivered to all 308 members of the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Canada.

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UFO over urban apartment building.

Campaign will support tree planting efforts in the Atlantic forest of Brazil.

On Friday The Nature Conservancy launched the "Plant a Billion Trees Campaign" at www.plantabillion.org to restore and plant one billion trees by 2015 in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, one of the greatest repositories of biodiversity on Earth.

"Miles to Go" by Laurel-Rain Snow is the story of two women whose friendship helped them survive one of the most radical decades in American history.

Laurel-Rain Snow's page-turning Miles to Go is an intensely moving novel about love, loss and sisterhood, written by an author who lived through it all.

This book would seem to have it all, a British trance channeler, the Akashic records and royalty. What more could you want?

The Queen’s oldest grandson, Peter Phillips, will marry at Windsor Castle on May 17, 2008 in what will be the first British royal wedding in nearly ten years. Prince William will be best man. Charles and Camilla will no doubt be in attendance - possibly even Kate Middleton.

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Back in the 1960s, we all felt that groups like The Beatles, Spirit and King Crimson were channeling their material from a mystical realm. Writer Brian Joseph agrees, and offers evidence that these artists thought so too.

In his Apology to the Athenians Socrates tells of coming upon a group of poets who do not understand the meaning of their own poems. In his Republic, Plato said that all good poets were inspired and possessed when they created. Plato also said that "it is God Himself who addresses us through them" and that God takes away the minds of these poets and uses them as his ministers. Some of the Sufi speak of poetry and prose that comes to them while in an ecstatic state and refer to it as shathiyat. Joseph Campbell spoke of poetry that comes from a transcendent source and how poets can be unaware of what they are talking about.

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Cover of Beatles album Abbey Road.

"The Adventures of Nick the Ecologist and his Robot O-Zone: The Mystery of the Missing Trees" is an illustrated children's book for readers ages 7 to 11.

The Adventures of Nick the Ecologist and his Robot O-Zone: The Mystery of the Missing Trees, an illustrated, educational book teaches children about ecology and astronomy.

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