Greetings – just wanted to let everyone know that we are broadcasting on a limited schedule because a) I am here cleaning and sanitizing, looking to the future, and b) it gives us a chance to advertise the school district food distribution program – at present, they school staff is serving over 200 families on […]
David Brinkley’s 1995 Memoir (Knopf Books) is on one hand a fascinating story of his life. Born in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1920, he grew up in the same era as my father. Contrasting Brinkley’s tales of growing up in the post-WWI south with my dad’s stories of his early years in Wakefield, Michigan, I […]
It was on one of those TV shows that tried to be ‘really hip’ back in the 1970s, yet some how still seemed like a typical TV musical variety show, just aimed at a younger audience. This show would do little vignettes of comedy between popular music acts of the day. The guest host was […]
Mark Lavon Helm (1940 – 2012) was an Arkansas country boy raised in the cotton picking culture that surrounded his boyhood home of Turkey Scratch. As soon as school let out for the summer, the back breaking work of cotton farming consumed his summers. When I learned that Helm started his farming career as a […]
During my job interview with Elementary-Jr. High Principal Jim Ollila, we took a quick tour of the old Ontonagon High School building. At that time, I didn’t know the history of the district. I wasn’t aware that it had only been eight years since the opening of the new high school building on Parker Avenue. […]
Greetings – We had an idea we could do some limited broadcasting and advertise the school district food distribution program – then Gov. Whitmer asked for a longer period of physical separation. We are taking this seriously so we are probably off the air until at least April 14, 2020. If it is possible to […]
Dan Aykroyd’s movies averaged $50 million at the box office in 1983. Unfortunately, one of his films, Doctor Detroit, was a stinker that only accounted for $8 million, thus lowering the overall average just a bit. Doctor Detroit cost $10 million to make and was Aykroyd’s second flop in a row. The pundits were already […]
Too often, quotes we remember for some reason spring from our lips even though their origins may be vague. Many memorable quotes come from the world of sports and we tend to remember the malapropisms and mixed metaphors (from the likes of Yogi Berra) longer than others. Berra’s unintentional mangling of the English language made […]
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 […]