At the conclusion of Part 1, we left Richy Starkey just as he hit the big time in the Liverpool music scene. No, he wasn’t in The Beatles yet. He was a member of Rory Storm and …
Can an 82 year-old take on 23 concert dates consisting of two and three night stands with a couple of days off in between? After witnessing Ringo’s All Starr Band hit the stage in…
Over a period of thirty years, I was an avid reader of Sports Illustrated. When they became yet another publication that slimmed down from a weekly to a monthly format, their featur…
The most visible planet in the western sky, Venus, will take a dramatic plunge during the month of July. It will begin July 25 degrees above the horizon and will set 2.3 hours after the Su…
When photos were posted of eight year-old Nante Niemi being piggybacked out of the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park on Eli Talsma’s back this past spring, a combined sigh o…
The recent floods that sometimes plague Ewen and Chassell are a reminder that we are not immune to weather related problems here in the Upper Peninsula. Annual flooding of the South…