Among the many hats my father wore during his 40 plus year tenure as an employee of the State of Michigan, one was that of a detective. If one ponders the skills that make a good detective, it doesn’t take too much imagination to understand why I never found it in my best interests […]
Contrary to an urban musical myth I am about to burst, not all rock drummers hailing from across the pond are named Mick. Listening to Jeff Beck’s Truth recently (with that relatively unknown vocalist named Rod Stewart out front), I noted the exceptional drumming done by Mick Waller. This got me to […]
{The following talk was presented at the monthly Ontonagon County Historical Society membership meeting held at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Mass City, MI on March 16, 2017 (St. Urho’s Day for you Finns out there). The talk was a prelude to the screening of Bill Mason’s 1968 film The Rise and Fall of the Great […]
My mother has always loved to sing and even at age 93, she is unhappy when her Troubadour singing group fails to meet. The Troubadours are a group at her residence (Brookridge Heights in Marquette) that gather on Sundays to sing and on the occasions when they don’t meet, she is always disappointed. It […]
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 […]
First up I have to apologize for getting caught in a time warp. The events in Part 1 of this tale took place in 2015, not 2014 as listed. Einstein may have been right about the relativity of time, but a year is a pretty large faux pas in the fabric of time and space. […]
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 […]