We live in an age where electronics, weather services, and GPS systems inform us of all our meteorological needs. Our temperature, our speed, our heat index, our low and high pressure systems, our wind speeds. All of these indexes are determined by people with state of the art electronic contrivance. Step back two hundred years …
My interest in all things stone came about at an early age. I marveled at the workmanship of arrowheads that I had found in the outlying fields and later in life I was in need of a fireplace that included a brick surround. It was one on my first masonry projects and it turned out …
From an early age I read with clarity the Boys Life Magazine. There in was advertised the “Ithaca Saddle Rifle. It was the object of my absolute interest. It had a very western look, it had a lever action, it had the “Rifleman” look to it. Alas, my father knew a bit about rifles and …
DON’T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT YOU THINK-THE CREATION OF A VIEW POINT By Bill Keitel. A curious beginning, I had just finished apprenticing at a local shoe repair shop, I specialized in creating prescription orthopedic buildups for a Podiatry School that was located in my community. I elected to strike out on my own and …
David Behrens started his life with a pencil in hand, drawing was an integral part of his childhood and it followed into his adult life. He has always had the ability to put on paper what he has pictured in his minds eye. Drawing life’s images is a talent that he does not take lightly. …
RoadNotes Summer 2018-The Dakota’s As we travel throughout the nation we often visit communities at the same time each year. Over the course of a couple of decades this gives us a glimpse into the phenology of a community. A curious event occurred in Brookings South Dakota about a decade ago, it was the mass …
BUFFALO BILLFOLD COMPANY-ROADNOTES-STARDATE 9-11-18 Most people spend a day or two at festivals or art fairs each year. We spend between three and four months each year on the road. That equates to 90 days of festivals each year. I suspect we are nearing our twentieth year on the road. Each day we meet perhaps 1,000 …
The summer road trip ticked off the weekends all over the Western U.S. Edina, MN. Stone Arch, Mpls, MN. Des Moines, IA. Milwaukee,Brookings,SD. Fargo,ND.SweetPea Bozeman,MT. LONGMIRE DAYS! Buffalo,WY.Duluth,MN Bayfront Park, and this week we’re in Sioux Falls, SD. (the closest art festival to our home) . Attending these juried art festivals require thousands of miles …
WHEN I TURNED SIXTY I EARNED MY JUNIOR PHILOSOPHERS BADGE! I am honored by friend requests and yet I am tormented. I make many friends far and wide and I suspect they don’t know my political persuasions. Most of my friends hold fast in spite of political differences. I respect them for that. I started …