At 851 pages, including more than 160 pages of footnotes, Neal Gabler's "Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination" is a big book. And while it is well written and generally well researched ...

One residence even had a miniature railroad track in the backyard.

THE DISNEY VERSION by Richard Schickel. 384 pages. Simon & Schuster. $6.50. Walt Disney died on Dec. 15, 1966, at the age of 65; yet it is difficult to think of him as being dead. Much of this has to ...

“If you were a child growing up in Central Florida in the 1950s and 1960s, you were either on the ‘Uncle Walt’ television show or knew someone who had been,” writes Rick Sickles of Orlando about his ...

In his beautifully-written liner notes to a newly-released compilation of vintage recordings by Uncle Walt’s Band, writer and musician Peter Cooper described the seminal trio’s 1974 debut album as “a ...

A few months ago country music singer David Ball invited the young fiddler Warren Hood to join him on stage at a house concert in Austin. They'd known each other for ages: A decade before Hood was ...

David Ball brings up sound time and again when talking about Uncle Walt’s Band, the beloved South Carolina trio he played in for much of the ‘70s. The group was a roots music anomaly at the time, ...