Here are a few seconds of this game. Noah scored 4 goals and an assist in this 8-7 victory on 4/15/15 at Randalls Island.
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Thanksgiving at Ed & Meredith’s Joint in Berkeley Heights
This annual event was punctuated by the usual tomfoolery. Turkey brining on back deck; Maggie stretching out cats; visits to the horse.
Owning Your Own Tools – the slowly dissappearing age of the crafts in industry
NYTimes 7/31/2014
A New York Times article on July 31st about the looming labor stoppage on Broadway included a picture of workers ceremoniously carrying a chest of their tools out of a theater. I was reminded of my days as a machinist. Continue reading
Recital – Fall 1964 / Research Project – Winter 1965 -Taft School
Mark Orton playing French horn 1964
In my senior year at Taft I was one of the first students to participate in a novel venture for such a traditionalist institution, the Independent Studies Program (ISP). Here is a contemporary description from the school’s website: Continue reading
Men Landed on the Moon – I’m Depressed – another leg falls away from my world
This morning I was scanning through Zite and found this article claiming that some guy had definitively crushed the “hoax” that men landing on the moon in 1969 was shot on the back lots of Hollywood.
Now most of you will think this is very old history. Another bit of 60s’ paranoia. Who shot JFK, MLK…….? If you want to brush up your conspiracy theories for the rest of this jeremiad, here is a Wikipedia article, Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories
But, wait, there is more to my mental weirdness around this moon landing. Continue reading