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The Rags-a-line Man and Other Sounds from Taylor Street

The New York Times Bestseller, Guns, Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond, reconfigures how various peoples evolved as they had.  How it was that the Inca emperor was slain by soldiers sent across the ocean by the King of Spain and not the other way around?

While the Taylor Street Archives is galaxies short of Jared Diamond’s revelation on the Fates of Societies and how various peoples and their particular circumstances had evolved, the sounds reflecting the games we played and the things we did in the legendary Taylor Street’s Little Italy shed some light on how and to what our culture evolved.  Read more…

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