A few weeks ago, Neil Rumney of Rhinelander, Wisconsin sent an email to the Ontonagon Area Schools asking if the email address he had found for me (Ken Raisanen) was still active.  Soon after I…

       I am no world traveler, but ever since I graduated from high school, I have managed to visit both coasts of our fair country and a handful of places in between.  My first trip by air…

           When I taught my students about the evolution of NASA’s Manned Flight Program, I would mention a project called Dyna-Soar.  I had read snippets about it but never knew many of …

     Though they span decades and many genres, there is a connecting thread between the following list of guitar players:  Jeff Beck, Lindsey Buckingham, Ritchie Kotzen, Robbie Krieger, Albert C…

            After frequently using and citing references from Guitar World magazine, I was asked why a drummer would subscribe to a guitar magazine.  It was a valid question and my ton…

       In Part One, we looked at the tale of the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens up to and shortly after this cataclysmic event.  The Monday after the Sunday fireworks, fellow Geo…