fall*ing in love
When borders are closed and you can’t travel to the one you love no more, memories hurt and the longing aches. To heal the pain, journeylism contributed six new stories to the fall 2020 edition of AmericA Magazine: Phil Spector goes off the wall (of sound) in American Songbook. We took the Look of Mormon […] more…
when the saints
New Orleans’ beat has been composed with the blood, sweat and tears of generations. Its notes move over a gamut of hope and fear. ‘When The Saints Go Marching in’ is the city’s soul. A sounds straight out of the Big Easy heart of one of its favorite sons: Louis Armstrongs hart…click here for the […] more…
close encounters
The soundtrack of Generation X was aired by MTV. The videoclip shot by Steven Spielberg. In a 7-year timespan, the director delivered three iconic movies. ‘Jaws’, ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ and ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’ were huge blockbusters between 1975 and ’82. And like with Richard Dreyfuss in ‘Close Encounters’, the spell of Devils […] more…
luctor et emergo
According to the site Geotargit the US is home to 24 towns called Holland, 10 Amsterdams en 1 Rotterdam. The States also harbor two hamlets named Nederland, one in Texas and one in Colorado. The latter was founded in 1874 gesticht and has a silver mine to thank for its name…click here for the full […] more…
war of the worlds
It’s the start of February. The trees stand bare and tall. Sunlight dances with the early morning’s mist. The past ripples the grayish surface of the Grover’s Mill Pond. The spot where the Marshians landed over 80 years ago, rests under a blanket of silence…click here for the full article published in AmericA Magazine’s summer […] more…
jewel of the ozarks
Not Clinton but Walmart is perhaps the most famous name Arkansas has given America. And we have to thank the daughter of the superstore’s founder for the fact one of the poorest US states was enriched with a world class museum on 11-11-2011. As of that day, an architectural gem in the cradle of the […] more…
here comes the sum(mer)
Summer is here and so is the second 2020 edition of AmericA Magazine with 5 journeylism.nl articles. In New Orleans, Louisiana we listened to the sound of Louis Armstrong. We crossed Crystal Bridges to be embraced by 400 years of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas. In Nederland, Colorado they celebrate Frozen Dead Guy each year […] more…
the bubble top king
At a stone’s throw from the mother road, Darryl Starbird still works on new cars from a nostalgic past. The Bubble Top King is his nickname and when you turn off Route 66 in Afton, Oklahoma and follow the smell of oil and gas, you’ll arrive at the National Rod & Custom Hall of Fame…click here […] more…
the day the music died
December 8, 1980 in front of the Dakota Building in New York City is when and where the music died. ‘Five bullets of fame’ were fired by a man who earlier in the day had a chat with John Lennon. Hours after their friendly exchange, Lennon was murdered. His killer then picked up a copy […] more…
back to the future
Urban legend tells that the streets around the Jasper County Courthouse were the inspiration for the town square in Back to the Future. The rumor has been surfing the internet for years and……could be true. Standing on Main Street in Carthage, Missouri, it does not take a Doc and a DeLorean to travel back to […] more…
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