EPISODE ONE:

THE DREAM SHALL NEVER DIE

On August 25, 2009, Edward M. Kennedy, the youngest sibling to brothers President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, died after a year-long battle with brain cancer.

Ted Kennedy was first elected to the United States Senate on November 7, 1962. Since that day nearly half-century ago, he tirelessly served the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and of the United States of America. As the third-longest serving Senator in this nation’s history, he could lay claim to having represented its people in more than one out of every five days that have passed since the nation’s founding.

Sen. Kennedy, like the man whose name and spirit I have borrowed for this new project, believed in the equality of man. Like him, he believed that religious duties “consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.”

I didn’t know the Senator personally, and if the stories these past few days are to be believed, I may be the only Bay Stater to not have been directly helped by Teddy at some point in my life. Nevertheless, I quickly discovered that his passing had affected me personally, the first time in my life the death of a celebrity or politician had hit me on anything more than a superficial level.

As is so often the case, the search to understand the meaning of what I was feeling took me into my music. This project is the result of that search. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it.

For more information about me, check out my main web site, where you’ll find my political blog, my electronic music podcast, and my travel writings from my days chasing the echoes around the globe.

And if you have a second or two to spare, drop me a line and let me know what you think.