The Blue Ridge, poem by Harriet Monroe:

The Blue Ridge

Poem by Harriet Monroe.

Still and calm,
In purple robes of kings,
The low-lying mountains sleep at the edge of the world.
The forests cover them like mantles;
Day and night
Rise and fall over them like the wash of waves.
Asleep, they reign.
Silent, they say all.
Hush me, O slumbering mountains –
Send me dreams.

Harriet Monroe

December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936

Video by Jack Kost
2025

Blue Ridge Mountains (2019)
Photographs by Jack Kost.

Sound effect credit:
Forest wind and birds
by freesound_community
from Pixabay.

On this day in movie history - The Movie Man (2024):

The Movie Man

documentary directed by Matt Finlin,

was released at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in the United States on February 12, 2024.

Music by Kevin Drew.

Cast:

Keith Stata.

On this day in movie history - Land (2021):

Land

directed by Robin Wright,

written by Jesse Chatham and Erin Dignam,

was released in the United States on February 12, 2021.
Music by Ben Sollee and Time for Three.

Cast:

Robin Wright, Demián Bichir, Sarah Dawn Pledge, Kim Dickens, Warren Christie, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, Brad Leland, Jordan Bullchild, Dave Trimble, Rikki-Lynn Ward, Mia McDonald, Barb Mitchell, Dennis Corrie, Valerie Planche, Laura Yenga, Randolph West, Darin Grisdale, Darren Poirier, Thomas Komarniski, Shawn Loo, Edmund Gee, Maureen Bronner, Matthew Godden, Jordan Gooden, Vattanak Khun, Bud Klasky, Faith Louissaint, Travis Gordon Phillips, Mike Richards, Jill Maria Robinson, Daniel D'Angelo Sparks, Steve Tsang, Travis Willier.

On this day in television history - Justified (2013):

Justified

Season 4. Episode 6.

Episode entitled: Foot Chase.

Released February 12, 2013.

Directed by Peter Werner.

Written by Graham Yost, Dave Andron, Ingrid Escajeda, Ingrid Escajeda, VJ Boyd, Leonard Chang.

Based on the short story Fire in the Hole by Elmore Leonard.

Music by Steve Porcaro.

Cast:

Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts, Erica Tazel, Walton Goggins, Jim Beaver, Ron Eldard, Brian Howe, Gerald McRaney, David Meunier, Romy Rosemont, Lew Temple, Salvator Xuereb, Casey Brown, Ian Reed Kesler, Alexandra Kyle, Michael Stoyanov, Hope Allen, Cathy Baron, Joseph Barone, Dakota Black, Kevin Brief, B.J. Clinkscales, Billy Finnigan, William Gregory Lee, Kevin McNamara, Rob Welsh, Adam Zastrow.

On this day in movie history - The Wall (2012):

The Wall

original title: Die Wand,

directed and written by Julian Roman Pölsler,

based on the novel by Marlen Haushofer,

was released at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany on February 12, 2012.
Music by Bernd Jungmair.

Cast:

Martina Gedeck, Luchs von Kyffhäuserbach, Karl Heinz Hackl, Ulrike Beimpold, Julia Gschnitzer, Hans-Michael Rehberg, Wolfgang Maria Bauer.

On this day in movie history - Shoot to Kill aka Deadly Pursuit (1988):

Shoot to Kill

aka Deadly Pursuit,

directed by Roger Spottiswoode,

written by Harv Zimmel, Michael Burton and Daniel Petrie Jr.,

based on a story by Harv Zimmel,

was released in the United States on February 12, 1988.
Music by John Scott.

Cast:

Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown, Richard Masur, Andrew Robinson, Kevin Scannell, Frederick Coffin, Michael MacRae, Robert Lesser, Milton Selzer, Les Lannom, Walter Marsh, Frank C. Turner, Sam Hiona, Michael Chapman, Janet Rotblatt, Ken Camroux-Taylor, Howard Storey, Fred Henderson, Robyn Gildemeester, Jerry Wasserman, Gloria Lee, Freda Perry, Kevin McNulty, William S. Taylor, Ric Reid, Claire Vardiel, Blu Mankuma, Gary Hetherington, Allan Lysell, Michele Goodger, Beatrice Boepple, Darcelle Chan, Marynna Danguy, Craig Saunders, Carole Henshall, Andrew Rhodes, Bill Croft, Noah Beggs, John Douglas, John Molnar, John Ryan, Jim van Dijk.

On this day in music history - Victoria And Her Blues, by Victoria Spivey (1962):

Victoria And Her Blues

Album by Victoria Spivey,

recorded February 12, 1962.

Track list:

Grant Spivey; When I Was Seven; Talk About Moanin'; Mr. Daddy; So Long Buddy; From Broadway to 7th Ave.; Brooklyn Bridge; Thirteen Years; Cool Papa; New York Moan; New York Tombs; Buddy Tate.