The Turtles almost didn’t happen.  Call it fate or kismet or whatever, but one of the top selling bands of the late 1960s were DOA and then they weren’t (more on this in a bit).Â…

       As explained in last week’s FTV, the saber rattling over Greenland sent us back into our archives to 2018 when we shared the story of the last invasion of that landmass.  The loud …

       With all the kerfuffle about Greenland (the one associated with Denmark, not the one next to Mass City, Michigan), I decided to dig back in the FTV archives for a historical piece abo…

       Let me set the record straight once and for all.  Jethro Tull was a real person.  He was an 18th Century agriculturist known for inventing the seed drill.  Tull’s name was sugges…

     Over the decades it has existed, January has been a hard month for NASA (followed closely by February).  Sadly, the loss of the Apollo 1 crew during a training session on January 27, 1967 m…

     I have an admission to make:  I have always been and continue to be addicted to reading newspapers.  It began innocently enough when I would grab the Marquette Mining Journal that the pape…