I wish I knew the exact date so I could have posted something about it then, but last month a major anniversary passed by unnoticed. Twenty years ago this June Patty and I both graduated from Northport High School. Twenty years. Two decades. And last night the Northport High School Class of 1990 held their [...]
Aug 012010
Jun 142010
I’ve never owned a VHS-C camcorder before but for years I’ve had one VHS-C video tape in my collection. I don’t remember exactly how I obtained a tape in this format I but the label says “Maegan’s 2nd B-Day”. This tape should be the earliest video we have of Maegan, but since we never owned [...]
At work today, one of my coworkers came back from a shoot with footage of students watching a play at the Children’s Theater of Charlotte called “Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel”. None of my coworkers had ever heard of Mike Muligan and his Steam Shovel, and they all thought I was nuts for being [...]
Nov 212009
Twice in the past week I found out just how small the world really is. A week ago Maegan came home from school and told us about a story that her teacher told in class about a boy she had gone to school with a long time ago. The tragic story sounded way too familiar [...]
I was recently watching this show online from the History Channel, entitled “MonsterQuest: America’s Loch Ness Monster” . It’s an entire show (6 parts) dedicated to Champ (a.k.a. Champy), the infamous lake monster living in Lake Champlain, which lies between Vermont and northeastern New York. I thought I knew the legend of Champ fairly well [...]
Jul 082008
I was searching through some old photos and stumbled upon this old 8″ x 10″ photo of the Class of 1984 from 5th Avenue Elementary School in East Nothport, NY. Can you find me? I could still name a couple of dozen kids in this photo but I won’t embarrass them. I know one is [...]
Jan 102008
I can’t stand social networking websites but I reluctantly joined Facebook last month. I really didn’t want to and since I have my own website, I didn’t need to either. But I signed up because I just couldn’t ignore the benefit of making it easier for old friends to find me. My Facebook page has [...]
Aug 272006
Patty found an old slide of her and Lore with their mother, Sharon, circa 1973 or 1974. Now which one is Patty?
