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A Message to Garcia ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Elbert Hubbard |
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By: Kevin Yancy & K. Anderson Yancy |
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A Message to Garcia is an inspirational essay on excelling at tasks and in the work place. In the essay, during the Spanish American War, U.S. Army Major Rowan dispatched to Cuba to find the Cuban general Garcia fighting against the Spanish asked no questions, made no objections, requested no help, and accomplished the mission.
A Message to Garcia, written by Elbert Hubbard, has been made into two motion pictures. It was originally published as a filler without a title in the March, 1899 issue of the Philistine magazine which he edited, but was quickly reprinted as a pamphlet and a book. It was wildly popular, selling over 40 million copies, and translated into 37 languages by the time of the Manchurian Campaign, Russo Japanese War February 10, 1904 – September 5, 1905. It also became a well-known allusion in American popular and business culture until the middle of the twentieth century.
The essay celebrates the initiative of a soldier, Major Andrew Summers Rowan, a West Point graduate of 1881 who was assigned and accomplished a daunting mission to find General Garcia, the leader of Cuban insurgents fighting for independence against Spanish rule when the Spanish American War began in April and ended August 1898, over the issues of the liberation of Cuba. The war began after American demand for the resolution of the Cuban fight for independence was rejected by Spain. Strong expansionist sentiment in the United States motivated the government to develop a plan for annexation of Spain's remaining overseas territories including Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
The revolution in Havana prompted the United States to send in the battleship USS Maine to indicate high national interest. Tension among the American people was raised because of an explosion on board the USS Maine and its sinking on February 15, 1898 when her forward gunpowder magazines exploded. Nearly three-quarters of the battleship's crew died as a result of the explosion.
While the cause of this great tragedy is still unsettled, whether the explosion was internal and a result of the Americans or Spanish forces shelled the warship, contemporary American popular opinion blamed Spain, and war followed, propelling the United States into battle with Spain.
At onset of the Spanish-American War, as the American army prepared to invade the Spanish colony of Cuba, they wished to contact the leader of the Cuban insurgents who controlled the plains of the Cauto to coordinate or at least prevent conflicting strategies. This was Calixto García e Iñiguez, who had been fighting the Spanish for Cuban independence since the Ten Years' War of 1868–78, and sought the help of the United States. He was then residing in the city of Bayamo.
In the essay, Major Rowan dispatched to Cuba to find general Garcia asked no questions, made no objections, requested no help, and accomplished the mission. The essay exhorts the reader to apply this attitude to his own life as an avenue to success. Its wide popularity reflected the general appeal of self-reliance and energetic problem solving in American culture. Its "don't ask questions, get the job done" message was often used by business leaders as a motivational message to their employees.
It was given to every U.S. Navy enlistee and U.S. Marine in both world wars, and often memorized by schoolchildren. It is studied by plebes, first year students, at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, and U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. A copy of it is often given to Marine Non-Commissioned Officers upon their promotion. It is estimated to be one of the highest-selling books in history, essentially due to American employers purchasing copies in bulk to distribute to their employees.
This "enlightened, inspirational" interpretation prevails today, despite the fact Rowan was hidden by Cuban rebels in Jamaica before being taken to Cuba; was met by 200 cavalry and delivered to Garcia; was held by the British quarantine in the Bahamas for ten days; and the sole immediate recognition he received was to be given combat command of a company of U.S. Army "Immunes," who were African American/Black troops assumed to be immune to jungle diseases. However, the Immunes died as quickly as any troops once infected, in a brief war that killed more U.S. personnel by malaria than by bullets.
But the reality is despite all this, Major Rowan took responsibility for his task and accomplished it.
In fact, "A Message to Garcia" may have been intended to embarrass Hubbard's son, Bert, into more responsible action at the Philistine magazine and other elements of Hubbard's egalitarian gathering of artists and craftsmen in East Aurora, New York.
Elbert Hubbard died with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915, by a German U-boat, en route with his wife to England and Berlin on a mission to encourage an end of war. He was optimistic in this endeavor, despite a notice in the New York Times warning that vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, could be sunk.
Major Andrew Rowan died obscurely in the Presidio of San Francisco. It was 22 years before the Army decorated him for this mission.
Time Length: 20 minutes 46 Seconds (20:46) |
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How He Saved St. Michael's ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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| Written
By: Mary A. P. Stansbury |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy
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The thrilling true-life story of how the famous Charleston, SC, church of St. Michael’s was saved from fire by the daring act of a slave.
"How He Saved St. Michael's" is a very old tale and the church which the negro slave saved from destruction is said to have been St. Philip's instead of St. Michael's, but the deed was so brave, that the story has lived for over a century, and will continue to live on.
A great fire was raging furiously in the city of Charleston, South Carolina. Building after building had been destroyed, and gale winds carried sparks far and wide, spreading the destruction. The lofty spire of St. Philip's Episcopal Church caught fire almost two hundred feet above the ground, in an apparently inaccessible place, and the people in the streets below saw with dismay that one of their city's dearest possessions seemed about to be lost to them.
Risking his life a slave managed to save the church; as a reward was promptly given his freedom; and in his free life, he took the name Will Philip Lining.
Time Length: 13 minutes 19 Seconds (13:19) |
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If ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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| Written
By: Rudyard Kipling |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy |
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A father shares a series of hard-learned life lessons with his young son, as he guides him towards manhood.
Time Length: 4 minutes 49 Seconds (4:49)
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Invictus ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: William Ernest Henley |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy |
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Learn how we create our own destinies.
Time Length: 3 minutes 26 Seconds (3:26) |
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Requiem ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Robert Louis Stevenson |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy |
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In his final moments, a man reflects on his life.
Time Length: 2 minutes 31 Seconds (2:31)
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So That’s Who I Remind Me Of ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Ogden Nash |
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By: Mike Klicman, Gene Siegel & K. Anderson Yancy |
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Three men discover they have the all the vices of history’s greatest authors, but unfortunately not their talent.
Time Length: 3 minutes 40 Seconds (03:40) |
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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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| Written
By: Robert Frost |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy |
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A man leaves behind the beauty of a snowy field for the obligations of life.
Time Length: 4 minutes 30 Seconds (4:30)
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The Charge Of The Light Brigade ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Lord, Alfred Tennyson |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy |
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"The Charge of The Light Brigade" written in 1854, by one of the great representative figures of the Victorian Age, Lord Alfred Tennyson, celebrates the Heroism of a British cavalry unit mistakenly ordered to attack a vastly superior Russian stronghold amidst the Battle of Balaklava during Crimean War (1853-1856), a military conflict between Russia and a coalition of Great Britain, France, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire.
Time Length: 8 minutes 23 Seconds (8:23)
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The Enchanted Shirt ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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| Written
By: John Hay |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy |
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A vast search throughout the realm for an enchanted shirt needed to cure the sick king ends with surprising results.
Time Length: 5 minutes 17 Seconds (5:17)
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The Owl Critic ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: James Thomas Fields |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy |
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A self-proclaimed owl expert launches into a criticism of his friend's stuffed owl, only to find that he doesn't know nearly as much as he thinks he does.
Time Length: 5 minutes 52 Seconds (5:52)
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The Road Not Taken ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Robert Frost |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy |
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A man choosing between two paths in the woods reflects, on the nature of competing choices in shaping our lives.
Time Length: 3 minutes 51 Seconds (3:51)
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When I Heard The Learn 'd Astronomer ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Walt Whitman |
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By: Astronaut Neil Armstrong, Astronaut Frank Borman & K. Anderson Yancy
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A man, tiring of an astronomy lecture, takes a walk in the mystical night air to renew his sense of purpose.
Time Length: 4 minutes 52 Seconds (4:52)
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