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Musical ramblings from the manager

FTV: No Shows

       For the record, I hate ‘no shows’.  You know, when a band decides to cancel a show for some reason.  I have no problem if it happens because someone falls ill or is having a family emergency.  Canceling a show due to a hangnail or slow ticket sales is another thing altogether.  While a […]

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FTV: The Space Race

   Back in 2021, I shared the story of the Chief Designer of the Soviet Union’s Manned Rocket program, Sergei Korolev, also known as ‘The King’. (FTV:  The King, Part 1 (7-14-21) & Part 2 (7-21-21)).  Korolev’s name was so top secret that there were very few people even in Russia who even knew about his […]

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AstroCal – May 2025

       Okay, if April showers bring May flowers, what do April snow showers bring?  Enough – let spring begin in earnest!!  A quick note of ‘thanks’ to those intrepid photographers who have been posting aurora photos on the ‘You Know You Are From Ontonagon’ Facebook page.  Though I am not a Facebook subscriber, I do […]

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FTV: Bill Wyman

       Quick, when you think of the Rolling Stones, whose name(s) come to mind?   Mick Jagger and Keith Richard(s), aka Mick and Keef or the Glimmer Twins,  of course.  The second ‘(s)’ is present for Keith because early on, Keef was just plain ‘Keith Richard’.  Along the way, the adoring press and/or fans added […]

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FTV: Is It Necessary?

       In the final run up to the first manned Moon landing in 1969, NASA was still working on the final configuration of the Apollo spacecraft.  The orbiting Command Module (CM) was in fine shape but there were things that needed to be tweaked on the Lunar Module (LM) that would land on the surface.  […]

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FTV: Chuck Yeager

       Brigadier General Chuck Yeager (born 2-13-1923, died 12-7-2020) is probably best remembered for his historic flight piloting the Bell X-1 rocket plane.  Flying as a test pilot for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA – the precursor to NASA), he became the first human to travel faster than the speed of sound on […]

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