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maintaining a fifty-seven year tradition of commenting on things that interest me...

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/28/13 to 11/3/13

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Rome's dry weather (the city and the county hadn't had any measurable rainfall since September 29th) was creating a severe fire haza...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Album Side of the Evening: Led Zeppelin Side 1

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Often, when I'm working on bookkeeping, I pull a favorite album, place it on the turntable, and enjoy some memorable music. The idea, ...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/21/63 to 10/27/63

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Rome's economic prospects continued to look up: General Electric announced that it was closing a plant in Massachusetts and moving the j...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/14/63 to 10/20/63

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West Rome students enjoyed a five-day "weekend" thanks to teacher in-service days; studnets got to sleep late beginning on Wednesd...
Saturday, October 05, 2013

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 10/7/63 to 10/13/63

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The first possible location for a new Rome post office was announced on October 7th--but it wasn't the location that we all know as the ...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 9/30/63 to 10/6/63

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What a different society it was a half-century ago: two black students from Floyd County, Charles E. Johnson and Martha Robinson Lattimer, f...
Friday, September 27, 2013

Dad's at the Mall

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Back in the days before Mom's health deteriorated significantly, Mom and Dad loved to go to the mall. In the 60s, it was Greenbriar Mall...
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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Centipede is on the Fritz!

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Good news from Jerad Walters of Centipede Press in today's email: they have the rights to produce illustrated hardcover of Fritz Leiber...
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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 9/23/63 to 9/29/63

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The new television season rolled out in mid-September; the networks continued to hold on to black and white technology, with only about 25% ...
Friday, September 20, 2013

IOS 7: Not a Lucky Number...

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I've set up IOS 7 on one of my devices, and I've used it for a few days. I find myself going back to the IOS 6 phone every chance ...
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