Recommended reading - Star Trek: The Making of the TV Series

Star Trek: The Making of the TV Series

by Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry.

Published by Titan Books Ltd.
Published 1991.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 1852863633
ISBN-13: 978-1852863630
 
Description:

The behind-the-scenes story of the most popular science fiction show ever made!

Did you know … that Captain Kirk was originally Captain April? That Mr. Spock was nearly dropped as a character? That Dr. McCoy’s medical instruments were salt shakers? Why all buttons were banned? How the ‘beam down’ effect was achieved? What happens at Warp Factor Eight? All this, and much, much more, is revealed in this book that tells the complete behind-the-scenes story of the production of the science fiction series that became a phenomenon – Star Trek!

On this day in music history - The album Arctic Sunrise, by Kerani (2014)

Arctic Sunrise

by Kerani

was released on March 1, 2014.

Track list:

Arctic Sunrise; Ice Kingdom; Far Away from Home; Norway; Drifting Ice; Aurora Sky; Discovery; Spirit of the Last Wilderness.

On this day in music history - The album Altered States: Music for the Journey Within, by Uma Silbey (2016)

Altered States: Music for the Journey Within

by Uma Silbey

was released on March 1, 2016.

Track list:

Voices from the Deep; Morning Embrace; Mountain; Streaming; Cloudscapes; Levitation; Remembering; Moonscape; Tide Travel; Destination Infinity; Lightfield; Heartfelt.

On this day in music history - Story of Ghosts, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2018)

Story of Ghosts

by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

was released on March 1, 2018.

Track list:

Song For Dunnie; Story of Angels; Contemplating (Solo); Blue Dream (Solo); The Solo Tango; The White Light; Story of Ghosts; Twilight; Story of Insanity; Before The Light.

On this day in music history - American VI: Ain’t No Grave (2010)

 

American VI: Ain’t No Grave

Album by Johnny Cash,

released February 23, 2010.

 

Track list:

Ain't No Grave; Redemption Day; For the Good Times; I Corinthians 15:55; Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound; Satisfied Mind; I Don't Hurt Anymore; Cool Water; Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream; Aloha Oe.

On this day in music history - Radiant Sky, by Scott August (2010)

Radiant Sky

by Scott August 

was released on February 16, 2010.

Track list:

Calling the Sun; New Horizons; Arc of Dreams; Rivier of Stars; Santa Fe; Since the Stars Fell; Rising from the Plateau; Journey of Solace; A Pale Radiance; Searching Beyond.

Dogwood Blossoms Poem by George Marion McClellan.

Dogwood Blossoms

Poem by George Marion McClellan.
 
To dreamy languors and the violet mist
Of early Spring, the deep sequestered vale
Gives first her paling-blue Miamimist,
Where blithely pours the cuckoo’s annual tale
Of Summer promises and tender green,
Of a new life and beauty yet unseen.
The forest trees have yet a sighing mouth,
Where dying winds of March their branches swing,
While upward from the dreamy, sunny South,
A hand invisible leads on the Spring.
His rounds from bloom to bloom the bee begins
With flying song, and cowslip wine he sups,
Where to the warm and passing southern winds,
Azaleas gently swing their yellow cups.
Soon everywhere, with glory through and through,
The fields will spread with every brilliant hue.
But high o’er all the early floral train,
Where softness all the arching sky resumes,
The dogwood dancing to the winds’ refrain,
In stainless glory spreads its snowy blooms.
 

Recommended reading:
Poems by George Marion McClellan.
Video by Jack Kost.
2025.
 
Dogwood Blossom photographs by Jack Kost.
Sound effect credit:
Forest wind and birds
by freesound_community
from Pixabay.