Steve Porter, who contributed 'The 50-Percent Theory of Life' to NPR's 'This I Believe' series, lives in Missouri on a farm that his family has owned since the 1840s. He also coaches baseball and works in community relations.
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Variety entertainment dominated the popular recording industry's acoustic era (pre -1925), from its beginnings in the 1890s, when records were made on wax cylinders, right up to the beginning of the jazz age in the mid-1920s. From slapstick vaudeville rou... SEE MORE