Wednesday night at the Red Sox game in Boston, the team and city paid tribute to Senator Edward Kennedy. There was a Heartland connection. After a video retrospective, Olathe’s own Quincy Garner, trumpeter with the United States Air Force Band of Liberty, stepped up to the plate and played Taps. It was a stirring and evocative musical moment.
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Archive for August, 2009
Young Man With A Horn
August 27, 2009
Stuffed English Sausage
August 26, 2009
Perhaps you’ve read, as I have, that, over the years, we’ve been getting taller and heavier. For example, if you visit a Civil War Museum where they display original uniforms, you notice how small those soldiers really were. One place I checked said that the average height of a male in the 1800s was around [...]
Getting Flaky
August 24, 2009
Today is Monday AUGUST 24, 2009. AUGUST. But, there is snow in the forecast for tomorrow. Sure, it’s warming up to around 90 for Tuesday but I’m still predicting a bit of the white stuff. Now, admittedly, the coverage area will be rather limited. Maybe just a few square feet around Union Station…but, still, I’m [...]
Oddments
August 20, 2009
As the hot dog said to the mustard, “Time to play a little ketchup!” I don’t know what that means. I just wanted to say “ketchup.” This blog-bog will really be a farrago…a gallimaufry…a melange. Okay, a hodge-podge…a mish-mash…a combo…a jumble…a pastiche. Miscellany mania!
**For A Great Claus! It is only August but let’s talk Santa. Today, [...]
Thanks!
August 19, 2009
Just a quick thank you to the middle schools that let us pay a call the last three mornings.
Monday: Mother Nature was electrical which made it impossible to broadcast live from Prairie Star Middle in the Blue Valley School District. Still, photojournalist Tim Twyman and I sure appreciated the custodian who was in so very [...]
