I’ve driven on the state highways through the withering small towns on Kansas and Oklahoma. Small towns of one to six thousand struggle to maintain schools, main streets and basic infrastructure. One town boasts of having a citizen that discovered the Planet Pluto. Those same towns now are losing the last of their children to …
We start a new year heading out on the trail. Exhibiting at juried art festivals started as a lark about 23 years ago. Today it is an integral part of our business platform. For us to continue to be in business and pursue our trade, we travel. We travel at least 3 or 4 months …
It was early summer the purple martins had fully fledged and were testing their skills on the windward shore of Lake Okabena on Sailboard Beach. Being new to the air they would flutter off the freshening breeze that was building on the shoreline. They were catching the breeze that mounted above tree top level. It …
I was recently walking down a favorite street in London. To get there I I took the Holburn tube stop to Nodding Hill Gate and emerge close to Portobello Road. It is a street that is shut down on weekends and is only open to foot traffic. It is known for having lots of antique …
We are headed back from New Mexico and decide to get off the interstate highways and bear Northeast ward toward home. Our journey takes us diagonally through Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. They are wide expansive prairie states. The towns we pass through seem haunting. Many are one to three thousand people in population and they …
The last big hit was Laurence Welk and he passed through this region a decade or two before. I was given the one hundred and thirty five dollars cash and directed to drive my bosses 1959 Desoto to Chandler Minnesota. I drove forty miles to only bank in South West Minnesota that would write out …
Prior to 1820 most everybody in Europe professed or believed the world was 7 thousand years old (aprox) Everyone was clucking about and making little sense of anything. A man by the name of William Smith was a surveyor and was employed to create canals throughout Great Britain. His mission was to create canals that …
Today was the British equivalent of the U.S. Veterans /Memorial Day. It is called Remembrance Day. In the crowded Heathrow Airport packed with tens of thousands of people the din was as loud as a London subway headed to Piccadilly Circus and then all fell silent, A young girl came over the sound system and …
Some years ago I purchased a book called “Traditional Shops of London-STILL OPEN” by Black Dog Press. It was a book that created a photo essay and story of the stores and shops that are over one hundred and twenty five years old in continuous operation. The credits went to the author and to the …
If I work doggedly and remain financially responsible I can spend a week in London once every two years. I can explore and indulge my interests in everything London. After ten or fifteen years it has become a continuing saga. Tonight the moon is at half phase so it is extra dark, almost foggy and …