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Twenty years ago, WOAS-FM was actively hunting for some sort of public service project to join. The old adage ‘seek and ye shall find’ truly came into play because less than a month after the search began, the paperwork for a recycling project from an organization called The Funding Factory landed in the mailbox. The […]
My sister had one of those cloth covered boxes with a hinged lid (the lid was red and the bottom was off white) that served as her record player. It had a lever so you could switch between 33 ? and 45 RPM records. The tone arm and needle weighed enough that it probably […]
As sometimes happens with these From The Vaults pieces, I like to go back and revisit a topic when there is something new to add to a story. If we didn’t already need to be reminded that ‘time flies when you are having fun’, I went back to find the first volume of FTV: Lake […]
Prior to the 40th Annual JH Student Council Halloween Carnival, this space ran a history of how the whole affair began in the fall of 1979 (FTV – Halloween Carnival 10-31-18). While previewing the 2018 edition of the carnival, I realized that there were a lot of games that did not get mentioned in that […]
Ten years ago, my wife and son got me one of those birth year cards entitled, “1953 – Remember When . . . A Nostalgic Look Back in Time”. I rediscovered it in the summer of 2018 while rifling through miscellaneous files of cards and things that had been waiting for me to sort out […]
Who is Burton Guibord and why haven’t we heard more about him? It turns out that he is a Native American musician with roots in northern Wisconsin. When our good friend Gary Tanin at Daystorm Records in Milwaukee sent us a preview of Guibord’s record, Are We Free?, I was eager to learn more about […]
My first two wheeler bike was a small green hand me down with training wheels. After a very short time watching me wobble along on the gravel street in front of our house, my dad pulled the old, “Let’s take off the training wheels and I will hold on to the seat until you […]
Elvin Bishop and Kenny Wayne Shepherd both play guitar, but they took wildly different paths to forge a career in music. Both were recently profiled in Blues Music Magazine (Issue 21, April 2019) and it struck me that becoming a professional musician doesn’t happen overnight, nor is there a simple A+ B = C […]
It was great to see the Ontonagon/ETC football cooperative claw their way to a spot in the 8-man football playoffs in 2017. The 2018 season was a little rockier, but Coach Ben Mayer’s charges still played some good football. Scoring in 8-man football can come in bunches, but there were enough golden moments to […]
Here is the abbreviated description of Duane Lee “Dog” Chapman’s life before he became a reality TV star known as Dog the Bounty Hunter: Street rat, Devil’s Disciple motorcycle gang member, vacuum cleaner salesman, manual laborer, convict, ex-con, truck driver, vacuum salesman (part two), successful business owner (bail bondsman and bounty hunter), a […]