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FTV: How Did That Happen?

Growing up, we had dogs for more years than we did not. The first one I remember was a purebred Black Lab named Duke. I learned later that ‘Duke’ was a shortened version of his full name that sounded more like a loyal English subject of high ranking, but neither my mother or father could […]

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FTV: Selling Mags

  Once upon a time, not that long ago, I was introduced to the art of selling magazines.  Having never been in love with fundraising (particularly the kind done to fund school projects), I was a little dismayed when a colleague of mine dropped a box of paperwork on my desk and said, “Here, it is […]

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FTV: Mythical Beasts

     No, I am not thinking about the Wykon or the Hodag.  If you are wondering, the first is the school mascot for the West Iron County (Michigan) school district and the latter is a tourist attraction who roams the forests somewhere in the northern counties of Wisconsin.  No, what I have in mind are the […]

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FTV: Playgrounds in My Mind

       When I was a wee lad of maybe four, we visited my cousin Wally and his wife somewhere in Wisconsin or Minnesota.  Being on the young side and a few years ahead of developing my fixation on maps and geography, the details are a bit fuzzy.  The one thing that comes to mind with […]

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FTV: Cha Cha Changes – Part 2

       In Part 1 of Cha Cha Changes (again, my apologies to David Bowie for borrowing his song title), we began running down what Ontonagon was like in 1975 when I first arrived as the new Junior High Geography/Earth Science teacher in the Ontonagon Area Schools.  This article was begun as a presentation made at […]

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FTV: Cha Cha Changes . . .

       When recently asked to present ‘something about how things have changed around here’ for the Ontonagon County Historical Society,  I said, “Let me think about it before I say ‘yes’ or ‘no’.”  There are already many volumes available about the history of the area (see:  Knox Jamison, Earl Doyle, and Bruce Johanson for starters), […]

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