I’ve had the opportunity to see many live musical performances. Of all the ones I’ve seen, there are several that I’ve probably enjoyed the most. There was an old rock and roll revival band called Sha Na Na, which I enjoyed seeing. They really livened up the stage! They had quite a few […]
Category: Life Stories
The strongest storms, make the best sailors. ~Israelmore Ayivor Today’s guest writer is Steve Tindall. Steve spent ten years in the U.S. Navy, is a member of Navy Club Ship 40 and American Legion Post 21 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Steve has a published book, Underway, which is a nicely […]
Back in the day, our cape cod home on the south side of Kenosha, was heated by a coal furnace. My dad, being rather frugal, was one of the last holdouts in the area to convert to oil or natural gas heating. (When […]
There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both on a bicycle! ― Mehmet Murat ildan When I was a kid in Kenosha, Wisconsin, our bicycles were our life lines to the world. From the age of eight, and on into high school we depended on […]
My last article, “The Pigeon Guru” got quite a response, so I thought I’d put together another article about our feathered friends while I’m on a roll. This next article will deal with an issue that’s been vexing me for quite some time; that is just who is in charge of naming these dang […]
One of the fads in our old neighborhood back in the day, was raising pigeons. At least seven kids on our block in Kenosha, Wisconsin raised homing pigeons, some for several years. I got into the craze early, purchasing a small pigeon coop and two Tumbler pigeons. Tumblers were pigeons that would fly […]
When the old dream, the young return ~Joe Most kids who grew up on the southside of Kenosha back in the day, were familiar with a wooded area just south of 22nd Avenue, where it curves west to Springbrook Road. (Just past St. Theresa’s […]
Reports of recent gas shortages and images of filling station lines remind me of a time in the seventies, when gas shortages occurred on a regular basis, thanks to OPEC strangleholds. One of the popular devices of the time, helped us locate gas, on occasion. We also had a lot of fun with it. […]
In the next month or two I’ll have another book out titled On War, Fishing & Philosophy. In another collaborative effort with Red Engine Press, we’ve put together what we consider to be a “cocktail table book.” The book contains some of my most popular blog articles, including many relating to war and […]
Of all the events we’ve lost as a result of the Covid pandemic, I believe I miss those classic car shows the most. Normally, every spring through fall, memorable old buggies of one kind or another show up in numbers in many of our city and county parks. Chevy […]