Archives in Category: Special Events

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Pancake Breakfast

Posted on April 21, 2024

I’m not a breakfast person, but once a year I get up at 7 AM and go to the Sodus Fire Department’s annual pancake affair.

It’s one of those events where the whole community – infants, teens, families, seniors –

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Baseball

Posted on April 20, 2024

Today Earl and I flew the “W” as the Cubs beat the Marlins on home ground.

Believe me, it’s an emotional experience that will most likely be grist for various blogs through the summer. Still, I know readers might not

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The Day After

Posted on April 16, 2024

There are many different ways to experience Boston on Marathon Weekend. Some people come from all over the world to soak in the local culture, enjoy fantastic seafood, attend a Boston Red Sox game. And then run the race on

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Bombing

Posted on April 15, 2024

April 2013 –  Boston Marathon bombing. Lives interrupted, race stopped, city on edge.

April 2014 – I am at the eight mile marker waiting for last year’s survivors: those with new limbs and those with impaired eyesight; the runners who

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More Migrants

Posted on April 13, 2024

Kevin and I are not alone in our migration to Boston. This year, there are 32,000 runners with probably as many family members providing support along the course. This doesn’t match the number of arctic terns or monarch butterflies who

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Boston Bound

Posted on April 11, 2024

The arctic tern holds the record for the longest annual migration recorded by any animal as it moves between Greenland and Antarctica in a zig-zag route that covers 44,000 miles a year.

In another  part of the globe, around 1.3 million

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Total Eclipse of the Sun (With apologies to Bonnie Tyler)

Posted on April 8, 2024

It’s Total Eclipse Day for much of the United States. Where I live in southwest Michigan it was just a 95 total percent eclipse opportunity. Still, we were invested.

The day was seventy-degree warm, cloudless (which is good for eclipse

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Richard Hunt

Posted on April 7, 2024

Yesterday I attended a special memorial honoring the life of American sculptor Richard Hunt, who passed away last December. I didn’t know much about Hunt, other than having walked past his local installations uncountable times.

My favorite is a work

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Brooklyn Bridge

Posted on March 26, 2024

It happened in the middle of the night, little more than 12 hours ago, that a cargo ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending cars and people on the bridge into the icy water below.

Because I

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Because I’m Irish . . .

Posted on March 17, 2024

And this is St. Patrick’s Day, I wish every reader “Erin go bragh,” which means “Ireland forever.”

Actually we’ve been celebrating with corned beef and various vegetable accessories for a couple days.  You know them: boiled cabbage, potatoes, and carrots.

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