Carnegie Hall achieved its stature through architectural beauty; its warm, revealing acoustics; and a growing heritage of magnificent performances.
I meet Brown at a 65-acre farm four miles from his downtown kitchen, where the produce obsessive grows heritage vegetables, keeps bees and raises cattle.
Gadds, Kent and The Foundry are three of 20 Kent breweries who have joined together to make at least one beer for the Kent Green Hop Fortnight, calling it "beerjolais" in a playful send-up of wine's beaujolais nouveau and highlighting the county's hop growing heritage.
Medieval living history events were first held during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the period has inspired a considerable community of historical re-enactors, part of England's growing heritage industry.
Liao Guozhen can trace back his family's rice-growing heritage here for at least 700 years.
Already, a favourite is Gilchester Organic, from two miles North of Hadrian's Wall, which grows many heritage wheat grains with distinctive flavours: rye, spelt and older cereals such as Einkorn, too.
The couple began raising turkey breeds that were too heavy to fly, but demand grew for heritage turkeys which are flightly, and the birds started escaping from their portable electric fencing into other farmers' vegetables fields.
Ross's journey into knowledge takes in more Bostrom-inspired philosophy about the nature of existence and ethical considerations about our growing digital heritage, not to mention a few good swipes at corporate greed and predator capitalism.
The success of the Wealthy apple, introduced in 1861 and still grown in heritage orchards around the country, was the inspiration for the university's apple-breeding program, in 1878, which was followed by the founding of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, where Bedford works.
But, he admits that "... you will never be able to grow enough of the heritage varieties to meet the supermarket demand for apples".
