Musical ramblings from the manager
When one is young, it is sometimes hard to fathom why your parents work so hard. We always had a perfectly good coal or oil furnace in the houses we lived in, yet my father was obsessed with cutting firewood. Of course, one needed a fireplace or a wood stove of some sort to warrant […]
In Part 1 of Time and Tide, we examined some of the ways humans have managed to foul up Mother Nature’s handiwork. Specifically, we looked at the mess humans caused by adjusting natural beach patterns in Bayocean, Oregon, Grand Marais, Michigan, and the Lakeshore Boulevard beach front in Marquette, Michigan. In this segment, we will […]
Of course, the full statement teased in the title is, “Time and tide wait for no one,” but even the shorter version will suffice for our purposes here. Having recently finished the second hiking book provided to me by the WOAS West Coast Bureau in Eugene (William Sullivan’s Hiking Oregon’s History – Navillus Press […]
Steve Gorman looked into the bathroom mirror and conversed with his reflection: “Just do what your gut tells you.” His gut replied, “Do NOT join this band, they’re (expletive deleted) crazy.” With that settled, he resolved to stay with Mary My Hope, the band he had joined soon after relocating from his native Kentucky […]
The aptly named “Money Pit” on a little two lobed island off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada was purportedly discovered in 1795. In a mere seventy years after the discovery, numerous groups of treasurer seekers from near and far had landed on Oak Island. Their explorations saw at least ten shafts and an […]
What ever happened to nicknames? When I was a kid, I heard enough cool nicknames on TV and in the movies, it just seemed like everyone should have one. In my neighborhood, the only nickname I remember anyone having one was the kid everyone called ‘Porky’. He wasn’t an overly large individual, but one day […]
Early Sunday afternoon, several hours before the start of Super Bowl LIII, my wife and I were running a few errands after church. As we crossed the Parker Avenue / Greenland Road intersection on the way to downtown Ontonagon, an object moving on the side street to our right caught our eye. To me, […]
How could anyone sing on more than 20,000 songs and yet not be recognized? Such was the hand that fate dealt to a trio of young singers from Detroit called The Andantes. Unless you have jumped into a time machine and escaped to the distant past before radio was invented, I am willing to bet […]
A Born Loser cartoon from some time ago showed Brutus Thornapple (aka: The Born Loser) walking waist deep along a snowlined sidewalk. He was recounting how the snow had been deeper and the snow banks higher when he was a kid. Trailing behind is his son Wilberforce, but of course, all you can see of […]
Another new year begins. Does anybody really want another reminder that time marches on? The Friday before last Thanksgiving, my phone rang early in the morning with the kind of news that reminds us all that we aren’t getting any younger. My old guitar playing buddy from Sledgehammer, Barry Seymour, called from L.A. to […]