A book that was assigned reading in high school was “Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s,” by Frederick Lewis Allen. I enjoyed it so much that I read it again ten years later.
Last week on Ian Whitcomb’s Luxuria Music radio show, he played a lot of wonderful old tunes. But it was this 90-year-old toe-tapper in particular that gave me the idea of pulling out “Only Yesterday” for another read-through.