UPDATE NO. 1 – AS OF MARCH 20, 2023, OUR FUND RAISING EFFORT FOR A NEW TRANSMITTER IS IN FULL SWING – WHILE I AM HAPPY TO REPORT WE ARE 1/3 OF THE WAY TO OUR GOAL OF $2,850, WE HAVE A WAYS TO GO. ANY AMOUNT YOU CAN COMMIT TO HELPING US UPGRADE IN […]
Mark your calendars if you are planning to celebrate the Vernal (or Spring) Equinox. One of the two days of the year when all points on the globe receive 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness, this year’s event happens on March 20 at 5:24 p.m. EDT. What happens at this precise […]
There was an 18 month stretch beginning in 1976 when Peter Frampton could do no wrong. He released the iconic Frampton Comes Alive album and was sky rocketed to heights his career had never known. Frampton credits the emotional chemistry he had with Bob Mayo (keyboards and guitar), Stanly Sheldon (bass), and John Siomos […]
Yes, go ahead and finish the lyric begun above; “are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do, one day these boots are going to walk all over you.” Some may hear Nancy Sinatra’s voice singing her No 1 hit from 1966. It was written and produced by Lee Hazlewood and entered the […]
Hold the phone! February begins as January ended with the exciting opportunity to see a deep space comet that last passed our neighborhood some 50,000 years ago. There are already copious numbers of photos plastered all over the internet of what is being called ‘The Green Comet’ due to its greenish hue. Comet C/2022 […]
Above from upper left – clockwise – The 2022-23 core group who will run the 8th version of the S4SD – DbD8 program with the $1100 grant WOAS recently received – upper right – Some of the DbD7 crew with the State Police Community Service Officer who brought the driving simulator to the Ontonagon Area […]
The working title of this FTV started out as a take on Agent Maxwell Smart’s iconic line, “Missed it by that much” from the espionage comedy Get Smart. Upon further inspection, it just didn’t seem to feel quite right. The working premise here is close calls astronauts had before, during, and after their training. […]
Surfing music sites as I do on occasion, I ran into a series of interviews done by ‘The Professor of Rock’. PoR’s site (real name Adam Reader) has quite a back catalog and judging by the five and six digit number of views accumulated by many of his clips, he has been at it […]
When the new Marquette Senior High School opened for the 1964-65 school year, people were still asking, “Why do they need a planetarium?” The popular rumor at the time was the school board ran out of funds and modified the building plans as the structure began to take shape. When the available money was […]
One of the dirtiest tricks in the music business evolved when record label owners and publishers began routinely adding their names to the credit line on songs. Most artists went along with it because they were anxious to get a record out, not that they were exactly given a choice. Many times they were […]