"Ninety Years Ago Tonight" by Neil Baldwin
Neil Baldwin, the cultural historian and critic, is the author of biographies of William Carlos Williams, Man Ray, and Thomas Edison. "Ninety Years Ago Tonight" is excerpted from his book in progress, "Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern", to be published by Alfred A. Knopf.
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