It was 1915 when tire manufacturer Harvey Firestone first coined the name ‘The Vagabonds’ for their little troupe of travelers. It was during that golden age when people were ju…
The employee recreation building at the Huron Mountain Club wasn’t extravagant by any imagination. A couch, a chair or two, a TV with no reception, a small stereo system of unknown age, …
Okay, I now have further proof that 1967 was a long time ago. When Doug Ingle passed away on May 25, 2024, I told one of the kids at school I was going to do an Iron Butterfly tribu…
There has been a suggestion that I spend too much of my time ‘living in the past’. If one considers last week’s article about the Marquette band Walrus, then the verdict would…
Just to recap a little of what has been going on in the realm of Meteorology in the Upper Peninsula, suffice to say we had a winter with the lowest snowfall totals since the early 1…
In several past From the Vaults I have talked about what a cool music town Marquette was to grow up in. Featured prominently in those memories was the band Walrus. I will come back to th…