When my wife and I were still in dating mode, we used to commute on alternate weekends  (she was working in Marquette and I was in Ontonagon).  My habit of borrowing albums to transfer on to cas…

       In August of 1964, the kids who worked as volunteer crossing guards for the Marquette Area Public Schools were rewarded with a trip to the Upper Peninsula State Fair in Escanaba.  We…

       A while back, we covered how the ups and downs of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (FTV:  1974 – 12-25-19) led to the normalization of huge venue concerts.  These mega-events …

       On October 19, 2018, my wife and I were on the way to Houghton in the late afternoon when we happened to notice one of the cars from the Lake Superior Performance Rally (LSPR) traveli…

Thanks to our old friend Barry Seymour for sending along the cool clip posted in the top piece.  Nice to have friends to call up when one gets stir crazy and want to make music . . .

  After reading Cormac O’Brien’s book, Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents – What your teachers never told you about the men of the White House (Quirk Books – 2009), I thought it mig…