The archives of pioneering American Black singer Ethel Waters, a stage, movie and TV star, have been acquired by the Ransom Center at the University of Texas. Ethel Waters (Oct. 31, 1896-Sept.

Henry David Thoreau spent a couple of years in one near Walden Pond. Ethel Waters, on Broadway and in film, sang longingly about a cabin parked high in the sky. Little wonder that Patrick ...