The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring. Burl Ives Burl Ives was an actor in over almost 60 movies, recorded more than 100 albums, performed on radio throughout the 1940s and 1950s, acted on the stage from the 1930s to the 1960s, worked in television from the 1950s to the 1980s. Burl Ives won an Oscar for The Big Country. But really, most of us…