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Aunt Molly Jackson & T-Bone Slim:
At the Crossroads of Art & Research

Part 3: Recording “Crossbones Scully” Then & Now
FEATURING A NEW IN STUDIO VIDEO RELEASE!

My role as a musician, independent researcher, and relative of T-Bone Slim…

Aunt Molly Jackson & T-Bone Slim:
At the Crossroads of Art & Research

Part 2: Who Is Aunt Molly Jackson?

(This blogpost was originally published May 31st, 2023 on the T-Bone Slim and the transnational poetics of the migrant left…

Aunt Molly Jackson & T-Bone Slim:
At the Crossroads of Art & Research

Part 1: The Mystery of “Crossbones Scully”

(This blogpost was originally published May 31st, 2023 on the T-Bone Slim and the transnational poetics of the migrant left…

Creosote Boxcars

(This blogpost was originally published September 21st, 2022 on the T-Bone Slim and the transnational poetics of the migrant left research project website)

Since December 2017, when I first discovered that T-Bone Slim is my great granduncle…

Finding My Finnish Roots

(This blogpost was originally published August 17th, 2022 on the T-bone Slim and the transnational poetics of the migrant left research project website) 

My great great grandparents—Matti and Brita Johanna Huhta—left Kälviä Finland in 1879…

Research Trip to Minnesota, Ohio, & Pennsylvania

(This blog post was originally published August 3rd, 2022 on the T-Bone Slim and the transnational poetics of the migrant left in North America research project’s website)

In late February and early…

“Weary Years”: A Retrospective 101 Years Later

(This blog post was originally published June 11th, 2022 on the T-Bone Slim and the transnational poetics of the migrant left in North America research project’s website)

On June 11th, 1921, exactly…