Predominance
This is how Arcola Mississippi stacks up against my hometown in Saskatchewan.
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166 Years Ago
Bear and I were the only residents of Belmont on Friday. We reclined in splendid rooms appointed with period art and furniture.
Click on the mansion and join us in the ballroom.
Or Do We?
We don’t have familial links in this part of the world.
Or do we?
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What the Heck!
Sam Hill had a reputation of being blasphemous and obscene.
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Getting a Divorce
I have castrated a pig and milked cows by hand regularly. I have also negotiated contracts with investment bankers in Toronto, Minneapolis, and New York. The perspectives of both Jed Clampett and Milburn Drysdale are familiar to me.
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Blue Moon
I know it’s nerdy, but I am going to spend the evening of August 30th watching the blue moon and listening to 25 different versions of the song by the same name.
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On the B-Side
“The Doors’ mildly profane and drug-tinged lyrics would rattle out of the tinny speaker over and over, until Dad stomped on the floor and told me to “Go To Bed!”
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Mandolin Wind
Driving a car once owned by Rod Stewart is about as close to stardom as I will ever get.
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Paperclips
This Towering Cumulus cloud was an armed fortress obstructing my flight into Carlyle.
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At the Bottom of the Atlantic (revised)
The red dot on this map is where the S/S Danmark sank in 1889. My Danish great-grandfather was aboard that ship. Fred Bekker survived the ordeal and spent time on the Azores Islands... Read more
