Broad Oak Magazine

Born and raised in an Italian-American neighborhood in South Philadelphia, Guiseppe [Joe] Venuti (1903-1978) met guitarist Eddie Lang when h...

A version of the post below also appears on The Conservative Woman today: https://conservativewoman.co.uk/8-14am-august-16-1945-the-bomb-th...

This government has made great play about building houses to fill a need for people desperate to get a home. Various schemes, Home Start and...

UPDATE (April 2021) : All charges dropped, no retrial. At last, at long, long last: https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/crime/article...

It was once said that ‘clothes make the man,’ a quote attributed to many including Mark Twain, one of the more recent, who himself was a s...

Music this week comes from Alison Krauss, one of Bluegrass music's finest ambassadors. But she does not confine herself to Bluegrass as ...

Some years ago on a sister blog to Broad Oak I wrote several posts noting how problematic was the rise in erratic forms of electricity gener...