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In 1911, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was fired from his own company. The Canadian born, largely self-educated scientist had finally exhausted the patience of his Pittsburgh based investors who had bankrolled his experiments in radiotelephony. The National Electrical Signalling Company (NESCO) had succeeded in demonstrating the concept of wireless radio broadcasting in December of 1906, […]
Incidentally, yours truly won the trivia contest on the PLANETARY SOCIETY WEB SITE by correctly answering the question ‘Who was the first human to fly into space twice’ – and of course, the answer was Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper who flew on both the Mercury and Gemini projects. The PS extended my subscription and membership for […]
Time is a tricky subject and there are so many musical tie-ins that pop to mind, coming up with a catchy title got a little tricky. A title based on Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is (Chicago), Time is Tight (Booker T and the MGs), Time is on My Side (Rolling Stones), Time […]
I managed to make it through a whole year of teaching before the field trip bug hit me. I had fond memories of visiting Marquette hotspots like the Burt Pioneer cabin and the Bunny Bread factory in elementary school, so I guess it was inevitable that I would end up looking into taking my students […]
The full title of this FTV should actually be “They told me to sing loud!” It was the answer I to the question my dad had asked me right after I had made my sixth grade stage debut in the annual Whitman Elementary School Christmas play: “Why were you the only one we could […]
How do you get to play a gig in Big Bay, MI? Easy: just volunteer. I often repeat one of my dad’s favorite sayings: “the best jobs you get to do in life are not always the ones you get paid for.” This was probably in the back of my mind when I asked my […]
Those of you who follow the ramblings of From the Vaults probably already know that the West Coast Bureau consisting of Elizabeth, Todd, Don Juan and Emma relocated from Los Angeles to Eugene, OR in May of 2015. Even though they now live in the central valley of Oregon some 70 miles from the coast, […]
I was a little torn as to what to call this edition of FTV. ‘Mountain Climbing’ is a little misleading because it sounds like it will be about Leslie West and his band called Mountain. That will be a topic for another day. I almost called it ‘Climb Every Mountain’ but that made me think […]
Having heard the Ontonagon High School school song enough times, I absolutely can not remember the school song from my days at Marquette Senior High. I do remember that it wasn’t just a converted college anthem reworked for our school but it had actually been written by my first high school band […]
E-Mail? Sure. It is pretty much a necessity in my main job and my side gig as the manager of WOAS-FM. Twitter? Nope. I don’t Twitter. As for (feel free to insert any social media outlet of your choice here), I don’t do that (or them) either. I do get sucked into watching […]