“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 10/2/13:
“Behind a great band, there was a great woman,” says the tag line on the promotion for the documentary film “Good Ol’ Freda.”
“Freda Kelly was just a shy Liverpudlian teenager when she was asked to work for a local band hoping to make it big. Though she had no concept of how far they would go, Freda had faith in The Beatles from the beginning, and The Beatles had faith in her.”
Learn more about the film here.
“An estimated two million Americans age 60 and older are in debt from unpaid student loans, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Its August ‘Household Debt and Credit Report’ said the number of aging Americans with outstanding student loans had almost tripled from about 700,000 in 2005, whether from long-ago loans for their own educations or more recent borrowing to pay for college degrees for family members.” Read more 
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“He is one of America’s greatest songwriters, a hero from Texas to San Francisco, a hippie’s hippie and a redneck’s redneck. But does anyone really know Willie Nelson?” Read more 
Graciela Iturbide was born in 1942 in Mexico City. Her career as a photographer includes documenting the lives of the Seri Indians, a group of fisherman living a nomadic lifestyle in the Sonora desert in the north west of Mexico, along the border with Arizona, and photographing the Juchitán people who form part of the Zapotec culture native to Oaxaca in southern Mexico. Between 1980 and 2000, Iturbide was invited to work in Cuba, East Germany, India, Madagascar, Hungary, Paris and the US, producing a number of important bodies of work. Read more about her on 
Currently circulating online is a post from Buzzfeed: 
novels. Illustrations are by Mark Burgess, an English writer and illustrator of many children’s books, who retained the style of the originals by E. H. Shepard. ~ More 
Elmer’s Bottletree Ranch is literally a forest of bottle trees (large metal pipes with bottles hanging from them), located along the Mother Road, Route 66, right in the heart of the California desert.
