Breakfast And A Drive After grabbing bagels and coffee we headed out on the highway to Highland, IN. This city is just across the border into Indiana and is the site of the Visitors Center along the highway. It is a futuristic building that is interesting to see from a distance. It is reminiscent of [...]
LL Bean Was Closed We grabbed some breakfast and headed over to LL Bean to return some clothing that Connie had purchased. But the place was closed today and that was a bit of a disappointment. Our next stop was the Lincoln Park REI store. It’s one of the fancier ones in the Chicagoland area [...]
A Breakfast Drive We drove to breakfast after considering the lateness of the hour. It was close to 11 AM and I knew that I wanted to eat earlier than noon, so we drove for bagels and OJ. We sat eating the bagels in the parking lot and enjoying the all too rare sunshine this [...]
Riding Over Graf Park is the scene of the 3rd Annual “Go Fly A Kite” Day Extravaganza. There are nearly a thousand visitors and participants on the grounds and kites in the air. It is a colorful site that you really should attend next year if at all possible. Kids are the recipients of a [...]
Another almost wintry Spring day! Some if what is coming down just now is snow mixed with rain! Current temperature is 37 degrees F and wind gusts are strong. Guess it was premature to consider the Spring season here at last. Whole Foods bike drop-off for Working Bikes Cooperative may not have taken place today. [...]
By ROY FURCHGOTT NYTimes When I solicited photographers for their top tips, I was reminded of how important the fundamentals are to strong shots and how often they go overlooked. Take, for instance the note from Jung Wi of Allure West Studios, who teaches photography seminars as well as specializing in wedding photography. His tip was, [...]
Breakfast, a Coat and a Calendar The first order of business on a weekend is to get some breakfast. So we headed out to take Connie’s winter coat in for its end of season cleaning. Afterwards we head over to the local Post Office to ship off two calendars I have made for my nephew [...]
by MELISSA BLOCK NPR April 8, 2011 On April 12, 1861, the first shots of the Civil War rang out in South Carolina. Confederate forces, firing on the Union garrison at Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, helped launch a four-year war that would kill more than 620,000 soldiers. It’s been nearly 150 years since the [...]
by ALLISON KEYES NPR April 7, 2011 Fifty years ago this May, 13 people boarded a bus in Washington, D.C. The Freedom Riders, as they are called, challenged segregation on buses and in waiting rooms throughout the South. Some of those riders are using their experiences to motivate students today — to show them that [...]
Robert Creamer Political organizer, strategist and author huffingtonpost.com On the evening of April 4, 1968, I was studying in my dorm room at Duke University. I was a political science major, and the Assistant Housemaster of a freshman dormitory. In mid-evening a freshman raced down the hall to my room, in tears. He blurted out [...]
Clarence B. Jones Scholar in Residence, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University huffingtonpost.com April 4 is the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, Tenn. This anniversary occurs against the background of other memorable past and current events: Last week’s 40th anniversary of the founding [...]
Benjamin Todd Jealous President and Chief Executive Officer of the NAACP huffingtonpost.com Seventeen years ago, I was an organizer in Mississippi. And I was scared. We were planning a march to stop the governor from turning a public, historically black university, Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, into a prison. Byron De La Beckwith had [...]
A black businessman was burned to death in tiny Ferriday, La., in 1964. Justice may finally be served, thanks to the reporting of Stanley Nelson of the weekly Concordia Sentinel. By James Rainey April 1, 2011 LA Times The Mississippi fairly glides through this old cotton country, nothing if not strong and serene. But look [...]
Listen to the story… April 1, 2011 NPR Forty-three years ago, on April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. took the stage at Mason Temple, a black church in Memphis, Tenn., to deliver what was to be his final speech. His “Mountaintop” speech, which touched on his own mortality and how the civil rights movement [...]
Following Up On An Alert While visiting with Hal Honeyman at his store yesterday he mentioned an indoor ride that was going to serve as a fundraiser for a young man who had contracted Hodgkins Lymphoma after having placed 8th World Wide in a cycling event of recent days. The Kane County Chronicle published an [...]
Beginning Our day began with a quick trip to Einstein Brothers Bagels for of all things bagels with peanut butter, OJ and a fruit cup. I guess if you have been following for a while you sense a theme here. I love peanut butter so much that it is frightening. I just wish it was [...]
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