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AstroCal – May 2022

       Before we get into the May sky watching events, I would like to introduce you to the American Meteor Society, or AMS for short (www.amsmeteors.org).  This non-profit scientific organization was formed in 1911 to “inform, encourage, and support research activities of both amateur and professional astronomers who are directly interested in meteoric astronomy.”  A […]

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FTV: Cover Me

     Reading Bill DeMain’s excellent introduction to Classic Rock Magazine’s feature on Rock’s Greatest Cover Versions (CRM # 298 – March 2022), it dawned on me that 95 percent of musicians get their start playing cover versions of other people’s music.  The other 5 percent (and that may actually be an overly generous slice of the […]

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From the Vaults: American Roads

From the Vaults:  American Roads        Among the many topics covered by Simon Winchester in his book The Men Who United the States (2013, Harper-Perennial Books), one that fascinated me a lot was the history of American roads.  Winchester notes that at the turn of the nineteenth century, 96 percent of travel in America was […]

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MSP Driving Simulator comes to OASD

Michigan State Police Community Service Officer Geno Basanese of the Wakefield MSP Post (center) does a test run with the driving simulator with (l-r) Isaiah Beck, Branden Betcher and Ryan Preiss.  Trooper Basanese spent most of Friday March 11, 2021 guiding small groups of Ontonagon Area Schools students through the simulator’s programs that demonstrate the hazards of […]

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