Musical ramblings from the manager
Like most of the tales told by Simon Winchester in his book The Men Who United The States – America’s Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible (2013 – HarperCollins), the story of American railroads does not begin with trains. One has to go back a little further in […]
By the time you read this, we will only be five days from the Total Lunar Eclipse that will happen during the Full Moon of November 8. You will need to be an early riser to see this one as totality is scheduled to being at 5:16 a.m. and will last until 6:42 a.m. […]
Photo: (l-r) Halley Floyd, Austin Razmus, Mason Totzke, Will Immonen, and Matt Immonen make up the day shirt at WOAS-FM for the 2022-23 school year. When WOAS-FM 88.5 went on the air in December of 1978, there was a good size pool of student volunteers lined up to act as DJs. Students who had […]
There is gold in them there books! I stumbled upon a clip of Desi Arnaz on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson while surfing the internet. I didn’t catch the year, but a couple of things stood out. First, Johnny wore a hip white coat with a sparkly embroidered design on either side of […]
At the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2017, members of Journey had a weird family reunion of sorts. First there was the Gregg Rolle thing. The HOF wasn’t keen to invite the band’s original keyboard player and vocalist, so just two days before the big night, guitarist and band leader Neal Schon […]
What do you call it? Deja vu? Clairvoyance? Luck? Intuition? No doubt you have heard tales of mysterious events that defy simple, rational explanation. It is a pretty safe bet that many of you may have experienced these kinds of things. Whether one chooses to tell other people about these happenings is a rather […]
It would have made a great answer on Jeopardy. For all we know, maybe it was: “I will take MAP WORDS for $200, Alex.” “An instrument used for measuring curved lines on a map.” “Buzz – What is an ‘opisometer’, Alex” “Correct!” According to Merriam-Webster (defining words since 1828!), the pronunciation is rendered as ‘op-i-som-e-ter’ […]
When my folks finally moved from their last home at the age 93 and 89, they had owned three different homes in Marquette over a fifty year span. They had toyed with the idea of downsizing to an apartment when both were in their late seventies, but we pointed out, a) they were doing fine […]
Let us start this month’s AstroCal with a lesser known object visible in the evening sky one hour after sunset. The constellation it is found in is an easily recognized Sign of the Zodiac, Pisces, the Fish. Pisces forms a rather large ‘V’ shape that is tilted somewhat to the right. At the end […]
When I read the front page article in what was to prove to be the last daily issue of the Ironwood Globe (August 31, 2022), it hit me like a line-drive to the forehead. The sudden turn of events took what their publisher described as a ‘thriving, profitable business’ and changed their business model […]