My mother has always loved to sing and even at age 93, she is unhappy when her Troubadour singing group fails to meet. The Troubadours are a group at her residence (Brookridge Heights in Marquette) that gather on Sundays to sing and on the occasions when they don’t meet, she is always disappointed. It […]
How does a Beatle stay undercover in New York City? Paul McCartney grew a beard, dressed down in a GI coat and jeans looking every bit “like just another junkie.” He and Linda had decamped from London to escape the legal wranglings and vitriol that resulted from his suit against his bandmates in order to […]
“I hit the bottle,” he admits. “I hit the substances.” He was eaten up with anger – at himself, at the outside world. He could describe it only as a barrelling, empty feeling rolling across his soul. The excerpt above could be applied to any number of people down on their luck. Paul McCartney […]
Incidentally, yours truly won the trivia contest on the PLANETARY SOCIETY WEB SITE by correctly answering the question ‘Who was the first human to fly into space twice’ – and of course, the answer was Gordon ‘Gordo’ Cooper who flew on both the Mercury and Gemini projects. The PS extended my subscription and membership for […]