Happy Birthday, America!

Happy Birthday, you great country you! To celebrate your 2013th birthday, here’s an old recording of America the Beautiful, as done by the Shannon Quartet.

And as a tip of the hat to the wondrous and varied people that live in this diverse nation of ours, a few links:

American Juggalo: Documentary on “The Gathering of the Juggalos”

Ted Kooser and the “American Life in Poetry” Project

Huey Lewis’s Old, Weird America

America’s First Legal, Male Prostitute, the Great Happiness Space, and the Art of Male Companionship

God Bless America.