Monday. Today, while not overly dramatic in the grand sense, proved to be a pretty substantial one overall in my life. And one that anyone from the region would remember and talk about for decades to come. I write this post when I am forty one and sitting in an office in Phoenix, Arizona, that …
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October 15, 1989: Amazing Winds in Ithaca
Today was the last day, I believe as I write this eighteen years later, of a long weekend “camping” trip to Cayuga Lake with the Brick Presbyterian youth group from Perry, New York. After all of these years I remember very little about this day in particular although I do still remember the camping trip …
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February 25, 1986: I Turn Double Digits
Note: This historical post was first written in December, 2018. Today I turned ten years old. This would turn out to be a pretty important and influential year in my life. Age ten was pretty big for me. At this age, I was very interested in airplanes and space travel. One of my birthday gifts, …
February 27, 1985: Honor Roll
I found this article in 2013 and decided to fill in a little gap in my history. Today I make the honor roll at Pavilion Baptist School and it was printed in the Warsaw local newspaper. I’m sure that that newspaper has been gone now for a very long time. I am, at this time, …
January 26, 1982: I Repeat, This Is Not A Test
Growing up south of Rochester, New York, one of my regular childhood memories is of the tests of the Emergency Broadcast System. I would hear these on a very regular basis over the radio as well as on television. Today, for the only time during my childhood, the Emergency Broadcast System sounded with “This is …
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