The first week of August falls halfway between the June 20 Solstice and the September 21 Equinox. While our daylight hours have been growing slightly shorter, we will still be seeing about 14.5 hours of sunshine (hopefully) ahead of the 12 hour split between light and dark that gives the September Equinox its name […]
By the end of the 1970s, Triumph (aka – The Rock and Roll Machine) were one of the biggest exports from the Great White North. There were better known bands at the time (see: The Guess Who and Rush) but for the record, Triumph were similar to, yet vastly different, than their Canadian compatriots. […]
Let us first clarify who Craig Frost isn’t. He is not related to Jack Frost. He also wasn’t a member of the Michigan band The Frost or the Swiss metal band from Zurich called Celtic Frost. At one juncture of his career, Craig Frost was a journeyman keyboard player on the Flint, Michigan bar […]
It was 1915 when tire manufacturer Harvey Firestone first coined the name ‘The Vagabonds’ for their little troupe of travelers. It was during that golden age when people were just beginning to see cross country travel by automobile as a new form of recreation. The nation’s roads were still a long way from the […]
The employee recreation building at the Huron Mountain Club wasn’t extravagant by any imagination. A couch, a chair or two, a TV with no reception, a small stereo system of unknown age, a fireplace no one ever built a fire in, and a ping pong table. The turntable on the stereo was not going to […]