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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 […]
Having recently read You Can Run But You Can’t Hide (by Duane “Dog” Chapman with Laura Morton – 2007 Hyperion), I couldn’t help but notice the things that Dog Chapman and I have in common. We are both male and were born in 1953. That is it. When his Dog the Bounty Hunter show […]
On the eve of the 50th Anniversary of the first manned Moon landing, last week’s FTV looked at some of the political wranglings that were taking place leading up to President Kennedy’s deadline to land men on the Moon and return them by the end of the 1960s. The United States had only fifteen […]
On Sunday July 13, 1969, the Russian space program launched a robotic craft toward the Moon called Luna 15. It was not a coincidence that this craft would be in orbit two days ahead of NASA’s first attempt at a manned lunar landing with the Apollo 11 mission. Clearly, the Russians were going to attempt […]
When we last heard from Jack Spann, he had just released his second album Beautiful Man from Mars (2017 – Big Boo Music – ASCAP), we noted his penchant for writing story songs propelled by piano hooks. Fans and new listeners alike will find his new CD, Propaganda Man another step forward for Spann […]
We always heard bass player Mike arrive at our Sledgehammer rehearsals before we saw him. Our basement on Summit Street was exposed on the east side of our one story home making that side of our house two stories. The driveway dipped down from the street to the garage on the lower level that […]
Are there unexplained things in the Universe? The short answer to this question would no doubt be, “Ummm, yeah!” and judging by the number of “Unexplained this” and “Paranormal that” programs that dot the airwaves, the unknown is doing a healthy business. Toss in books, magazines, movies, and a zillion web pages devoted to […]