Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’s stop motion animation was released 60 years ago. It feels like one of the few things left in popular culture that’s still older than me. Not by much, mind you. But still.
Recently, I learned that John Philip Sousa is the composer of The Liberty Bell. Many of us know this as the theme music for Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
He has a tie to my Mid-Western region of the …