As of 9-14-20, our transmitter is repaired and we are waiting for it to return for re installation. The good folks at BEXT gave us a great deal on the bench charges and went out of their way to keep us informed. That is the good news. The bad news? Shipping came to $100 x […]
While the live music industry has been in a COVID-19 induced coma, artists have gone to great lengths to fill up their empty calendars. Some have spent the time pumping out socially distanced events on various media platforms while others have hit the studio. Whether these have been low tech phone affairs or higher tech […]
In Part 1, we looked at how Ferdinand Magellan (born Fernao de Magalhaes in Portugal) was able to convince King Charles I of Spain to appoint him the Captain General of an expedition to the Spice Islands. Magellan was convinced one could sail west, find a strait that would deposit his ships at the […]
Tennis Court Work Bee On Thursday, August 20, 2020, a group of volunteers gathered at the Ontonagon Area Schools / village tennis courts on Parker Avenue to prepare them for new nets. The cost of the three nets and three new tensioning cranks came from four donations to the school district. Ken and Chris […]
In the normal flow of our broadcast year, WOAS-FM 88.5 would be easing into the new school year by broadcasting music by artists with some connection to the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival. After our July maintenance hiatus, it is always fun to test the station’s equipment by featuring PMMF artists ahead of the festival. […]
The date: September 6, 1522. Location: Sanlucar de Barrameda, Spain. “As the ship came closer, those who gathered onshore noticed that her tattered sails flailed in the breeze, her rigging had rotted away, the sun had bleached her colors, and storms had gouged her sides. A small pilot boat was dispatched to lead the […]
When my wife and I were still in dating mode, we used to commute on alternate weekends (she was working in Marquette and I was in Ontonagon). My habit of borrowing albums to transfer on to cassette tapes provided me with my road music. My vehicle’s radio was strictly AM, so my stash of cassettes […]
In August of 1964, the kids who worked as volunteer crossing guards for the Marquette Area Public Schools were rewarded with a trip to the Upper Peninsula State Fair in Escanaba. We were told to wear our iconic Safety Patrol belts to gain free entry to the fair, but it seemed unnecessary as we […]
On October 19, 2018, my wife and I were on the way to Houghton in the late afternoon when we happened to notice one of the cars from the Lake Superior Performance Rally (LSPR) traveling in the other direction. They were headed toward the Friday evening starting point of their weekend rally. Just for […]
After reading Cormac O’Brien’s book, Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents – What your teachers never told you about the men of the White House (Quirk Books – 2009), I thought it might be interesting to examine some of the ‘one and done’ U.S. Presidents. We ended Part 1 with the death of #11 (James […]