The Ohio home of the man who composed the song "Dixie" over 150 years ago burned Monday in a possible case of arson, authorities said.Mount Vernon, Ohio, fire officials told The Columbus Dispatch that ...
Probably few Bakersfield historians realize that the southern battle song "Dixie" was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett, a music composer from the North. When I was a little boy, my dad, Luke Parker — ...