TIM MAGUIRE

Les Paul records with wife Mary Ford in his home studio
in the 1950s.

Les Paul  (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009)

Les Paul, was a jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter,
and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body
electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as
inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul.

Paul is credited with many recording innovations. His early
experiments with overdubbing (also known as sound on
sound), delay effects such as tape delay, phasing, and
multitrack recording.

George Orwell’s novel of a dystopian future, 1984, was
published on June 8, 1949. The novel’s all-seeing leader,
known as “Big Brother,” becomes a universal symbol
for intrusive government and oppressive bureaucracy.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)

Singer, actress, film producer and author Nancy Sandra
Sinatra the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and is known
for her 1965 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin’".

Nancy Sinatra began her career as a singer in November 1957
with an appearance on her father’s ABC television variety
series The Frank Sinatra Show. She is 85 years young today.

Frank and Nancy Sinatra.

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
(June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000)

The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry,
Brooks used her work to explore the urban African American
experience.

Thirteen years after American settlers founded the city
named for him, Chief Seattle died in a nearby village of
his people.

Born sometime around 1790, Seattle (Seathl) was a chief
of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes who lived around
the Pacific Coast bay that is today called Puget Sound.

Jesuit missionaries introduced Chief Seattle to Catholicism,
and he became a devout believer. He died in 1866 at the
approximate age of 77.

James Wehn’s Chief Sealth statue near the Space Needle.