Teachers and Guns in High School
posted over 4 years ago, updated 6 months later | 2 comments
Recently in one of the political discussion groups I'm a member of began a thread about arming teachers in schools in order to protect themselves from violence from their students. In less than 24 hours the incident at the Cleveland city high...
Columbus Day
posted over 4 years ago, updated 4 months later | 0 comments
Columbus Day(not the Federal holiday)…or should it be?
October 12th as the poem has it Columbus 'sailed the ocean blue' and on that date he landed on what was a new world. Well, he had hope that it would be the back end of the old world but it...
October 12th as the poem has it Columbus 'sailed the ocean blue' and on that date he landed on what was a new world. Well, he had hope that it would be the back end of the old world but it...
Iwo Jima
posted over 4 years ago, updated 22 days later | 0 comments
Strange how this name has come up lately on EONs.
In the last few days a couple of things has happened; one, is the showing of Ken Burn's The War on PBS on the battle which happened between February
19th to March 26th, 1945, and the second is a...
In the last few days a couple of things has happened; one, is the showing of Ken Burn's The War on PBS on the battle which happened between February
19th to March 26th, 1945, and the second is a...
Sputnik I
posted over 4 years ago, updated 24 days later | 0 comments
Sputnik I, October 4th 1957
This is the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union's launch and orbiting of the first artificial earth satellite.
I remember it well. Though the launch was on the 4th the feat was announced the next day after the...
This is the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union's launch and orbiting of the first artificial earth satellite.
I remember it well. Though the launch was on the 4th the feat was announced the next day after the...
Aging of Aquarius
posted over 4 years ago, updated 5 months later | 0 comments
[This is a copy of my entry in the forum "Pot Pourprii of Roots"]
The 'Aging of Aquarius' was a tag line used in today's New York Times in an article by Charles Isherwood.
His article is about the coming restaging of the musicale Hair by the...
The 'Aging of Aquarius' was a tag line used in today's New York Times in an article by Charles Isherwood.
His article is about the coming restaging of the musicale Hair by the...
Cyber-friends
posted over 4 years ago, updated 8 months later | 1 comment
The use of the word 'friends' is interesting in that it isn't really that descriptive and probably never can be.
Certainly there are categories of friends like; good, old, new and close, girl and boy are some.
But do they defined what a friend...
Certainly there are categories of friends like; good, old, new and close, girl and boy are some.
But do they defined what a friend...
I put out my flag on 9/11
posted over 4 years ago, updated 5 months later | 0 comments
I was outside working on the yard. It was a beautiful day, pleasantly cool, the brightest blue sky with the early autumn sun shining. A quiet, nice day that made you sad and thoughtful about the coming autumn and eventual winter.
My son called...
My son called...
Another Fairmount Story...
posted over 4 years ago, updated 8 months later | 1 comment
In the previous post, I reposted a blog I had created for another venue but I thought would be interesting to EONs members in that well, it was about the old days. In this case about also 130 years ago old days.
As I said, the past has always...
As I said, the past has always...
Fairmount Happenings...Part I
posted over 4 years ago, updated 9 months later | 0 comments
In another setting I blog a summary of my great-grandparents courtship.
My intent in creating the blog entry was to put something down in chronological order what was published in the local newspaper at the time the events occurred.
Now as to...
My intent in creating the blog entry was to put something down in chronological order what was published in the local newspaper at the time the events occurred.
Now as to...
I went through my brother's wallet today.
posted over 4 years ago, updated 6 months later | 1 comment
Today I went through my brother's wallet.
It had pictures in it and some membership cards and some IDs. There wasn't any money it, if there was it was long gone. Most of his wallet's pictures were of his classmates, the small school class ones. ...
It had pictures in it and some membership cards and some IDs. There wasn't any money it, if there was it was long gone. Most of his wallet's pictures were of his classmates, the small school class ones. ...
