Today, in 1752, Benjamin Franklin allegedly did his famous “kite flying in a storm” experiment. A little spark showed him the relationship between lightning and “electrical fluid,” as electricity was then called. Ben Franklin is one of my heroes. Besides inventing the...
I was raised in a family that loved to fish. Most weekends of my childhood, April through September, we hooked up our trailer and headed out to some obscure little pond or pothole to drop a line in the water and hope we’d catch our dinner. Over at Evergreen...
The year was 1972. I had received enough money in my “Congratulations Graduate” cards for a decent road trip, and I wanted to do something “wild and crazy” to dip my toes in the waters of adulthood. My mother had other plans. “If you’re going to be driving any...
I don’t have to resort to Internet sites to know what happened 40 years ago today. On June 6, 1972, I walked across the Meadowdale High School stage in Lynnwood, Washington, and received my diploma. Forty freakin’ years ago! So naturally, some of the “In Crowd” are...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tom Hallman, Jr., will be the featured reader at this year’s “Authors at the Playhouse” fundraising event, taking place this Sunday, June 3, at the River City Playhouse in Ilwaco, beginning at 7 p.m. Hallman is considered one of the...
